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The 6 Craziest Ways Creators Hid Themselves in Video Games
#3. MDK2 -- The Developers Are Hiding in the Stars, Literally (Also They're Insane)
Via Bluesnews.com
MDK2 is an action shooter developed in 2000 by BioWare (a company best known for games like Mass Effect and Dragon Age) where the main characters are a janitor in a space suit, a mad scientist armed with a radioactive toaster and a cigar-chomping robot dog with four arms.
MDK2 also features one of the most intricate, impossible to find and ultimately ridiculous Easter eggs ever made. If you make it to the end of Level 7 and pay attention to the sky as you run around the boss arena (as opposed to paying attention to the huge spaceship dropping enemies on your head and trying to vaporize you), you may notice something peculiar: There appears to be something blocking some of the stars as you move.
Besides the big red circle, that is.
Most people would probably assume that it's just a glitch in the background and move on to fight the aforementioned space enemies. If some OCD-like compulsion drives you to try to reach the mysterious spot, though, you can search for a way to get there ... but good luck finding it, because the only existing path to that place is completely invisible. If you stand in a very specific out-of-the-way spot at the edge of the arena and walk forward, you'll step onto an invisible platform instead of, you know, falling down into the void.
It's basically that scene from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade ... IN SPACE.
Apparently, BioWare expected you to find this invisible path by firing madly into space until you saw the bullets hit something, which incidentally is also the only way to navigate it without falling down. If you manage to make it through to the end, which takes several minutes, eventually you'll reach what looks like some sort of large floating castle in the sky:
Otherwise known as "that thing that was blocking the stars a little while ago."
At no point does the game reference this castle or even hint that it exists. So what's inside? Um, nobody knows, because there's no way to get in. The only reward for your insane perseverance is this bizarre poster at the back of the castle ...
Still more satisfying than the end of Mass Effect 3.
... featuring three members of the development team, one of whom had his head superimposed on the body of Satan from South Park. But there's more: At another point in the game, if you use the sniper visor to zoom in on the sky, you'll see ... stars.
Kind of.
But zoom in even further and ... what the hell?!
Yep, the sky is full of pictures of members of the development team, with names like "Chocolately Shatner" and "Temporary Spastic." Apparently this game was created by the Wu-Tang Clan or something.
#2. Metroid Prime 3: Corruption -- Unlock the Secret Radio Messages from Nintendo's Headquarters
Metroid games don't tend to feature a lot of talking: Usually it's just you in some deserted space labyrinth shooting balls of energy at little monsters crawling on the walls or falling down from the ceiling to murder you. Traditionally, the closest thing our fearless protagonist Samus Aran has to a girlfriend to shoot the shit with is a purple space dragon that wants to kill her.
The game's use of a female protagonist would be slightly more progressive if it had, y'know, made any difference at all.
Recently, however, modern Metroid games have started getting more chatty -- like that time they hid secret messages from Nintendo employees in one of the games.
In Metroid Prime 3 for Nintendo Wii, a futuristic radio thing called the Transmission Console is added to Samus' ship, and it's used to enter security codes and receive messages in the main game. However, you're also free to go in whenever you want and mash random combinations of numbers into the console, if you have nothing better to do.
Like play with the video game that you bought.
Most of the time, all you'll get is gibberish transmissions in an incomprehensible alien language. But it turns out that a handful of these only sound like they're in an incomprehensible alien language: It's actually just Japanese. In fact, they're messages from some of the bigwigs at Nintendo:
For example, if out of all the thousands of possible combinations you punch in 2-7-5-1, you can hear Nintendo president Satoru Iwata complaining that nobody takes him seriously (in a message that he hid in a video game). 8-3-5-4 plays a message from Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto asking if you think Metroid games are fun. OK, we're starting to detect a theme of game developers working really hard to insert hidden messages but not actually having anything to say in them. There are also messages by Yoshio Sakamoto, co-creator of Metroid, Kenji Yamamoto, composer for many of the games, and producer Kensuke Tanabe. None of whom reveal anything earth shattering, like for instance that Samus has both male and female genitalia.
#1. Hyperdimension Neptunia mk.2 -- The Creator's Face Is a Weapon
Keiji Inafune is the guy who designed Mega Man, besides having worked on many other Capcom games during his 23 years in the company, from Street Fighter to Resident Evil. In 2010, Inafune started his own company and launched a series of games called Hyperdimension Neptunia for PlayStation 3, which are basically about young girls in skimpy outfits fighting monsters with magic. They are the most Japanese thing ever.
All that's missing is for them to occasionally fall down into revealing poses and ... wait, nope, never mind.
At one point during Chapter 3 of the second game, a character will ask you a series of questions, and you only have one shot at getting them right. If the teenage girl you control answers "Yes" to everything this stranger asks, he'll grant you something called the "Inafune Brand" skills, which isn't named after Keiji Inafune ... it is Keiji Inafune.
Wait, is she shooting him out of her ass? Because it really looks like she's shooting him out of her ass.
You can literally bash enemies with your very own plaid-shirted, cross-armed Inafune. We understand that the screenshot looks like a bad Photoshop, but we assure you that it's a totally real thing you can get in the game. And if this is still too mundane for you, you can also summon Inafune's giant face to descend from the heavens and nuke the field with a laser that comes out of his mouth.
All this laser vomiting is exactly why he had to stop working at Capcom.
For all we know, Inafune had been pushing for Mega Man to shoot little Inafunes from his Mega-Blaster from the first game. If Inafune had had his way, M. Bison could have been defeated only by a well placed Ha-Do-Inafune from Ryu.
No, seriously, you have to see all of this to get the full effect.
Now that he runs his own company, he's finally able to unleash his insanity into the world.
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I am interested in finding a lower bound of the sum: $$\sum_{i=0}^d \left(\genfrac{}{}{0pt}{}{n}{i}\right) \left(\genfrac{}{}{0pt}{}{m}{k-i}\right)$$ when $d < k$ (and assuming both $n\geq k$, $m\geq k$). When $d=k$ this sum is equal to $$\left(\genfrac{}{}{0pt}{}{n+m}{k}\right) $$ (the Chu--Vandermonde identity). What I would like to know if there is some good and standard lower bound for the first $d$ terms of this sum in terms of the relation between $d$ and $k$. Is there some standard reference book where I can hope to find such a bound?
Carla, I don't think it is a good idea to give a detailed solution here. My point is that this problem is pretty standard: if you look inside N.G. de Bruijn's Asymptotic Methods in Analysis, especially in the 3rd chapter, you will find that your sum (generically) falls into the category c (p. 54, a comparatively small number of terms somewhere in the middle); the method is discussed in full details (Section 3.4) on the example of a very similar binomial sum.

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Summer is in full bloom, luring many people to the cool running waters of our favorite swimming holes. Already, a number of drownings have been reported at the state's many rivers and lakes. In June, the body of a six-year-old was pulled from our own Chetco River.
There's one thing that many of these tragedies have in common – the victims were not wearing life jackets.
Sobering statistics show that whether fishing, boating, waterskiing, sailing, kayaking or swimming in Oregon's many waterways, life jackets save lives.
While approximately 90 percent of Oregon adults buckle up when driving or riding in a vehicle, it is estimated that, following national trends, only 10 percent of Oregonians age 18 and older regularly wear a life jacket when boating, said Ashley Massey, spokeswoman for the Oregon State Marine Board (OSMB).
In an effort to reduce the number of drownings, Massey debunks some of the common myths about life jackets.
•Myth: I can grab a life jacket in an emergency.
Fact: Waiting to put on a life jacket until faced with an emergency is like trying to buckle your seat belt as you are heading into a car crash. Accidents typically occur quickly and unexpectedly, making it nearly impossible to reach for – let alone put on – a life jacket.
•Myth: Wearing a life jacket is hot, bulky and impedes recreational fun.
Fact: The newest generation of life jackets are lightweight and more comfortable than ever to wear, including inflatables that can be worn around the waist and jackets that don't look like jackets at all.
•Myth: Excellent swimmers don't need to wear life jackets.
Fact: An unexpected plunge into cold and often swift Northwest waters can incapacitate even the best swimmers.
Ensuring a safe water experience this summer, and anytime of the year, is easy: Wear a lifejacket and make your children wear one, too.


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What code would you have on your wedding cake? (old URL)
Where has this question gone? It was closed as off-topic, but it was popular so did not get deleted. Since now we have programmers.SE, I flagged it and suggested moving to p.SE. However the next day the page disappeared without information.
Anyway, I also flagged another question, Career advice: I am best at what I hate most, and that SO link now automatically redirects to a p.SE question.
What is going on here? Can we get the wedding cake question back? It's funny and popular as well


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From Buddha's search for truth to Batman's struggle with his dark side, from Wolverine exposing his greatest fears to Hanuman's divine gifts of inspiration, New York Times bestselling author Deepak Chopra with his son Gotham, author and cofounder of Liquid Comics, decode the seven essential laws that govern the realm of superheroes both ancient and modern, cosmic and commercial, and explain their relevance, importance, and perhaps most critically, how to apply them to our daily lives. These seven new transformative laws will help us all uncover greater happiness, courage, balance, creativity, compassion, and purpose in our lives. Each law has the potential to awaken us to our own superpowers and together these laws offer the potential to change our lives and the world around us.
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The social media channels are buzzing today with chatter about Tibco's acquisition of Jaspersoft. As fellow players in the spheres of commercial open source and business analytics, industry watchers are naturally speculating on Pentaho as well so I thought I'd take this opportunity to share how our business strategy differs to Jaspersoft's.
When explaining our commitment to open standards, we tell our customers that one size IT strategy does not fit all – rather, it's 'horses for courses'. Business strategies follow this principle as well and ours is very different from Jaspersoft's.
Our strategic paths started to diverge four years ago when we started building on our open source heritage to focus on big data and advanced analytics capabilities for technologies like Hadoop and NoSQL, and more recently YARN and Storm.
Hell bent on solving big and diverse data challenges with a full data integration and analytics platform, last year we introduced ground-breaking technology like our Adaptive Big Data Layer, which protects enterprises against the risks inherent in a disruptive big data market. Today we have the most comprehensive big data integration capabilities currently on the market.
As a result, Pentaho has seen enormous growth in big data and embedded analytics, with more than 83% growth in these segments. And, significantly, our big data analytics platform has driven a huge increase in large enterprise clients, growing at over 200% from the prior year and now representing 26% of our business.
Jaspersoft took a different route, opting to provide low-cost open source alternatives to traditional BI and reporting, particularly to the SMB market. Larry Dignan for Between the Lines, ZDNet comments, "With Jaspersoft, Tibco can offer low-priced subscriptions and later upsell to its other applications."
Although our total cost of ownership is highly attractive to mid-market and enterprise buyers alike, we're not aiming to be the cheapest. We continue to innovate with R&D so we can continue to break new ground in big data and embedded analytics.
"The TIBCO acquisition of Jaspersoft is additional validation that the business analytics market is continuing to bifurcate — with more traditional departmental BI on the one hand, and big-data analytics on the other. TIBCO has added a low-cost open source reporting capability to its portfolio to address the SMB BI market, a market we view as continuing to commoditize."
"Four years ago, we saw the big data market opportunity. While Jaspersoft turned right, we turned left towards big data analytics and the associated new projects funded in large enterprises," Gallivan continued. "The Pentaho platform is in the pole position to integrate and blend diverse big data sets together to deliver end-to-end big data analytics solutions to large enterprises – a platform that experienced 83% year-over-year growth in big data and embedded analytics in 2013 alone," said Quentin Gallivan, Chairman and CEO of Pentaho.
Pentaho continues to stay focused on our course of big data integration and analytics platform solving for the future of analytics. I encourage you to explore how we are doing this by exploring our Big Data Blueprints or Visualization gallery.
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I know there are quite a few types of audio/music playlists out in the wild. Are there any that are specifically approved as FLOSS? That is, are there are that are particularly encouraged by the FSF, like how .ogg is an encouraged audio container format?
The same community that brought you Ogg, FLAC, Vorbis, and now Opus, created XSPF.
From a practical standpoint, however, there isn't many software out there, that supports it. I still tend to use it for little projects, etc. but aside from RockBox, VLC and I think Foobar, there aren't that many players that can understand
From a design standpoint,
It supports metadata, of course. Adding metadata to the individual tracks might be quite redundant, as that metadata is usually stored in the files themselves, but you might want to put info about streaming media in there, or the playlist itself, possibly. XSPF supports all that.
Personally, I've supported that playlist format on a web radio project of mine. I added it, since I was using Ogg/Vorbis, so I though it would be quite a natural addition, to make the whole thing a bit more complete. But I must say, acceptance by the audience was very minimal, most clicks were out of accident, or out of curiosity. I would suggest not relying on XSPF alone. If you have a project that deals with audio playlists, make sure you support other playlists as well...
Scai seems to have it answered in the comments. A lot of these are just plain text, so there is no proprietary license on them; use whichever you'd like. M3U seems to be a popular choice.
EDIT: polemon pointed out that some plain text formats such as ASX (XML-based) require a license for use. Watch out for things like this.


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While reading a book, I came across the word I'd've, as in:
I'd've argued against it.
While it was obvious what it meant, it left me puzzled. Is I'd've a proper word?
While reading a book, I came across the word I'd've, as in:
While it was obvious what it meant, it left me puzzled. Is I'd've a proper word?
After reading your post, I realised that I say "I'd've" quite a lot in my actual speech. But I have never ever written it down, nor have I seen it written down (or, more accurately, I don't recall having ever seen it written down.)
It's not the kind of thing that I'd feel comfortable putting into a business email, definitely not an essay (unless that was my topic, oh, and I think that will be the topic of my next essay now.)
But it is the sort of thing which would fit nicely in the dialogue inside a novel. And you never know, it could one day be perfectly cromulent to write that, and would perhaps embiggen the written English language.
There are 49 incidences of I'd've in the Corpus of Contemporary American English (search for
It doesn't appear that I'd've has any substantial contemporary usage in nonfiction writing at any level of formality. Of course, people say I'd've all the time, but if they were to write it down, they'd probably write I'd have.
While it has a certain logic to it, I've always found "I'd've" a contraction too far, preferring instead to write "I would have" "I would've" or "I'd have".
Thinking about it, I can't recall seeing "I'd've" used any kind of published text.
I admit that I use "I'd've" in everyday conversation without even thinking about it but have never considered writing it and don't recall ever seeing it written, although it does remind me that in elementary school, we used to sing a song called "If I knew you were coming, I'd've baked a cake....baked a cake....baked a cake..." Wow, that was a blast from the past! :) Putting three words together into one word via contraction just looks weird.
The only place in which I've seen double-apostrophe contractions is in Charles Dickens' work.
That being said, they do have cromulence, and are technically acceptable for formal speech. ;-p
The answer is no for the first question. As others have already mentioned the shortening of the three words is quite common in everyday speech, and this written contraction form mimics the sound we make. It is extremely informal and I would never use it in writing not even under torture! :)
"I'd've" is a contraction of three separate words: I + would / should + have. But before any of us throw our arms up in despair it should be noted that at least the auxiliary used is correct.
Recently, (thanks above all to the Internet), it is becoming increasingly frequent to read and hear:
So I'd hazard a guess that the people who write "I'd've" are aware of its correct full form and are more educated than at first glance.
Perhaps in five year's time we will all be reading: I'd'f or I't've and wondering what the hell it means on EL&U.
This topic just came up on ELL, so I was doing a little research on it this morning, and remembered this question from way back. (You'd've thought I would've already forgotten about it by now.)
Contractions like I'd've, you'd've, and she'd've are uttered often enough in colloquial speech; so, the main question is: How would you spell them in written quotations?
One way is to replace have with of in an attempt to preserve the tone of the colloquial speech. Plenty of respected authors have done just that:
Another way is to bite the bullet and use the double contraction; you can find such double contractions in published works, too:
For what it's worth, a Wiktionary page lists 47 double contractions (although many of those have a leading apostrophe – 'twasn't a surprise there).
I also checked a few Ngrams (such as you'd of thought vs. you'd've thought; Peter Shor alluded to a similar one in his comment above). These don't say much, except that double contractions have been used by writers to try to capture the spoken word for at least a century.
Back to the O.P.'s original question:
Really, the answer would be: "What do you mean by proper word? Your spellchecker may not like it, and most dictionaries probably won't list it. Use it in an eighth-grade essay, and your grammar teacher might either be horrified or else regard you as a creative savant. Still, you won't have any trouble finding them as a syntactic element in published books by established authors.
What makes a word a word? If you'd've established that in your question, we might've been able to provide a more definitive answer.
I would probably write it as "I'd 'ave", similar to the way you might write out how a cockney speaker pronounces "have". Otherwise I think most people read "I'd have" and recognize that most people will swallow the 'h', but I would hazard a guess that I'd've is just bad usage.
I write I'd've fairly frequently. I also use other rarely written contractions, such as should've. And, occasionally, words like wouldn't've, which is another triple contraction.
It's interesting that I'm the only person here to use I'd've. I like that contraction.
I routinely use (and receive) multiply-contracted words in SMS messages as a conveniencing shorthand.
I don't think it should be used in current formal writing of any sort, though the opportunities for multiply-contracted words to promulgate would be interesting to watch.
I think the thing is that "I'd've" sounds almost exactly like "I'd have" when pronounced (as opposed to "I would have"), but it's much more difficult to read.
Really, the difference between "I'd've" and "I'd have" is so small, I wonder if that's why it's never caught on.
I routinely write I'd've in emails, and no one has (so far) commented on its use.
Did have an ebrow raised once at its negative form: I'd'n't've
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Associate Dean Jon Dubin – Guiding the Clinical Program Through Exciting Times, Challenging Times
As his memories of a vacation that took him to Malaysia, Thailand and Singapore fade, Jon Dubin finds himself mostly excited but occasionally uneasy when thinking about the coming academic year.
There will be a new group of clinic students eager to learn practical lawyering skills while helping the poor and under-represented. There will be new clients requiring assistance in navigating an often maze-like legal system and the social service supports to which they're entitled. There will be a new clinic to help develop; decisions to make about existing and prospective litigation, transactional legal services, and community education programs; and a dedicated clinical faculty to support in their scholarship and advocacy.
|Associate Dean Jon Dubin in the extensive clinic area.
That's the exhilarating part of Dubin's job as Associate Dean for Clinical Education. The disconcerting aspect? A public interest lawyer involved in clinical legal education for more than 20 years, Dubin is concerned about potential compromises to the school's service and educational missions raised by recession-related funding pressures and a legal challenge to the confidentiality of clinic clients' files.
One of the oldest and most extensive "live-client" clinical programs in the country, the Rutgers School of Law–Newark program is integral to those missions. During the 2010-2011 academic year, 200 students worked in six in-house, credit-bearing clinics on more than 600 cases and legal projects under the close supervision of 15 faculty experienced in litigation, legislation, mediation or transactional practice. Together they provided an estimated 50,000 to 60,000 hours of free services to indigent and under-served individuals and communities.
The program's forthcoming annual newsletter will spotlight some of the most notable activities, including two precedent-setting decisions by the New Jersey Supreme Court that established the right of siblings in foster care to have contact with one another and a proposal to be submitted to the National Taxpayer Advocate recommending changes in Internal Revenue Service policy and practice as they relate to victims of domestic violence who claim the "innocent spouse" defense in income tax cases.
Dubin has guided the Rutgers–Newark Clinical Program since his appointment as Director in 2002, three years after joining the faculty from St. Mary's University School of Law, where he also held the titles Professor of Law and Director of Clinical Programs and received the faculty award for teaching excellence. A year ago he was appointed the law school's first Associate Dean for Clinical Education. In announcing the appointment, Dean John J. Farmer, Jr. commended Dubin for expanding access to legal assistance for under-represented individuals and communities and enhancing the clinical curriculum.
Besides overseeing the clinics, Dubin teaches clinical and traditional classroom courses. Within the Urban Legal Clinic, he handles social welfare benefits cases, including co-counseling the successful appeal and drafting the principal brief in a social security disability case before the U.S. Supreme Court in Sims v. Apfel (2000) — a case in which the high Court also cited Dubin's Equal Justice Library Award-winning Columbia Law Review article twice in its decision.
He has also supervised clinic work in a multi-decade challenge to the proposed destruction of most of Newark's stock of low-income public housing apartments without adequate replacement in Newark Coalition for Low Income Housing v. NHA & HUD. His classroom courses include Administrative Law, Poverty Law and Civil Rights Law. His most recent article, "The Labor Market Side of Disability Benefits Policy and Law," will be the lead article in a forthcoming issue of the Southern California Review of Law and Social Justice.
In the following Q&A, Dubin discusses the direction of the Clinical Program and his role in overseeing the clinics.
You have been involved with clinical legal education for over 20 years. What major changes have you seen over that time?
The largest wave of clinical education occurred in response to the social justice movements of the 60's and 70's where law schools responded to student demand for more socially relevant educational experiences. Consistent with the times, clinics focused heavily on criminal defense and criminal justice system reform, direct civil legal services to the poor, and civil rights work. When I began law teaching in 1990, this was still largely the case.
Since that time, clinical education has become more varied in subject matter, extending to new areas such as transactional business and non-profit corporate practice, immigration law, international human rights, intellectual property, and alternative dispute resolution. In response to several blue ribbon reports since the early '90s, such as the ABA's MacCrate Report and the Carnegie Foundation's study underscoring deficiencies in the traditional law school curriculum for preparing students for the competent and ethical practice of law, clinical education has also become more focused on the pedagogy of instruction in lawyering skills and core professional values.
But perhaps the most significant changes have been the large-scale, nationwide institutionalization of clinical programs as permanent and valued components of the curriculum and the integration of clinical faculty into the legal academic community through extension of comparable faculty security and governance rights, and support for the production of scholarship relevant to clinical education and lawyering.
Along those lines, the Law School adopted the Clinical Scholar Series (CSS) to promote greater integration of clinical faculty into the law faculty community through tenure-like job security, voting rights, and the support for and the obligation to produce scholarship which can be targeted to clinical educators, lawyers and judges. How would you characterize progress to date under the CSS?
After a somewhat slow start due to initial financial obstacles, I think the CSS has taken off with benefits in all intended areas including greater cross-fertilization of clinical and classroom courses and faculty and some terrific scholarship by clinical faculty as evidenced by the influential work of the first CSS member to receive CSS "clinical tenure" this year, Child Advocacy Clinic Director Randi Mandelbaum. Clinical faculty have developed classroom courses in diverse areas such as juvenile justice, special education law, child welfare and sports and entertainment law, and more doctrinal faculty have expressed interest in or started to develop proposals for clinical collaborations in areas such as environmental justice and health law.
This fall the New Jersey Supreme Court will hear the appeal of the decision which found that the Environmental Law Clinic is subject to the Open Public Records Act ("OPRA"). Please explain the importance of this case to clinical legal education.
A determination that the Rutgers clinical programs' private clients' case files are open public records under OPRA would seriously and uniquely disadvantage our program and its clients. Unlike every other law firm in the State and the clinics at Seton Hall Law School, the Rutgers clinics would be forced to tell their clients that private materials submitted to the clinics that don't fit into the relatively narrow protections of attorney-client or related privileges would be subject to requests for disclosure as public records. This means that anyone who wants to harass the clinics and their clients (such as polluters or developers sued by them or spousal abusers in domestic violence proceedings) could make demands which would divert the clinical faculty from their primary purposes of training students and providing legal services to underrepresented clients to responding to and litigating such requests in court.
In the meantime, clients and others would be threatened with public disclosure of private materials which these clients could submit to any other law office in the state, including the state's public defender's office, secure in the knowledge that they were protected from public scrutiny. Information that could identify clients' potential medical conditions, sexual orientation, financial position or status, or employment performance might be subject to public disclosure for example. These materials could not only be sought by opposing counsel as a "second bite of the apple" in ongoing cases after not successfully obtaining these materials through normal judicial discovery processes; they could also be sought by any member of the public who dislikes one of the clinic's clients, or anyone who is simply nosy or curious about a client's personal facts.
The Supreme Court's upcoming decision in this case is not only critically important to us but also has national implications for clinical education as several states have similar open public records laws which could be applied against other state universities' law clinics and their clients. Accordingly, it is not surprising that several national organizations including the Association of American Law Schools, the Clinical Legal Education Association, and the American Association of University Professors have filed Amicus briefs with the Court in support of our position.
The law school hopes to launch an Immigrant Rights Clinic in the Spring 2012 semester. How did this new clinic come about?
The idea for an Immigrant Rights Clinic has been in the works for several years and was initiated at the highest levels of the University through meetings convened by President McCormick. In addition, Chancellor Diner has repeatedly emphasized the value of the Newark campus' rich diversity and its unusually large immigrant student population and has strongly supported several Newark campus immigrant and migration studies initiatives. We are delighted to have found and hired Anjum Gupta, the former Director of the University of Baltimore Law School's Immigrant Rights Clinic to launch our program this upcoming Spring.
Besides overseeing and managing the Clinical Program, you also teach both clinical and traditional classroom courses, and produce scholarship. Do you find one of these roles more rewarding than another and, if so, why?
I feel very fortunate to have a job with an exhilarating mix of synergistically supportive functions. For example, my classroom courses can examine theoretical issues in administrative law or poverty law with which I am also grappling on a practical, hands-on level in real clients' clinical cases. At the same time, I can then bring both practical and theoretical insights and perspectives to bear on my scholarship in these areas which then provides further synergies for subsequent classroom teaching and clinical teaching and advocacy. I find all of these roles to be rewarding and would not want to lose any of them.


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Automatic Minecart
What does that plugin do :
- Automatic Minecart spawn minecart on a rail, a horse or a boat with the player on it
- Automatic Minecart remove it when the player left this minecart, horse or boat / or quit the game / or die.
- That's all : it's a lightweigt plugin without configuration...
Why do i code this plugin
It was for my server. I was looking for a way to allow visitors that don't have minecarts to visit the world faster by using Minecarts on previouly created railways. It's usefull also for players who build rollercasters.
I add (a white) Horse and Boat recently, to freely visit the world and oceans.
Why i don't use dispensers
Minecarts, and living entities cost a lot of server consumption. I don't want that players create loads of minecarts to use railways. And on an economy server you can't give minecart to player without impact on the economy. Horse is rare. Autohoses diseapers as soon as you live them.
What about crafted Minecart, boat or owned Horses
Crafted Minecart are not destroyed when players left them. So they can be used as usual. Same rule for the horse, and the boat.
How to
Minecart :
Simply click on the rail (or powerred rail)
Horse, Boat and Minecart :
Use the command
/autominecart <horse|boat|minecart> <playername> <velocity_x> <velocity_y> <velocity_z>
Use the command with a command block :
for example : throw the player in the air in a boat in the x direction. If he falls in the water, the player will deal no damage ;-)
/autominecart boat @p 2 2 0
Teleport a player with his vehicle (minecart, horse or boat)
/autominecart tp <playername> <world> <x> <y> <z>
API (plugin developpers)
Test if a player is riding an autominecart
public boolean isAutominecart(Vehicle vehicle)
Tp an autominecart
public boolean tpAutominecart(Vehicle vehicle, Location location)
Test it !
Join my server, rails, horses, and boats are in front of the spawn : BlocksAndGold Minecraft Server
Next Feature
- Destination programmation
A short Video : http:youtu.be/UP86UnIZCcU
here : http:dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/autominecart/files/
Bugs ?
Please report if you find some !
If you want to be notified of the next update or follow my other works on bukkit or MCPE https://twitter.com/BlocksAndGold
thief001 Jul 29, 2014 at 23:31 UTC - 0 likes
hope you find a solution, would be awesome :)
i know its somewhat a special condition im running there, but i appriciate it verry mutch, that you guys try to get every singel one wish done :)
Running a little Swiss/ German Bungee-Home-server @ pia.hopto.org:25566, with Spigot 1.9.2
Want to sniff around?
Be my Guest!
Guest-account enabled, allowing to use Lifts and Carts, so you can get around and look at things.
Would like to hear your thinking in a PM, if you don't mind (Complety Optional)
Never hurts to get some fresh Ideas :)
thief001 Jun 11, 2014 at 23:36 UTC - 0 likes
@SimbaZockt: Go
might be difficult to do,
as i think multiverse put you back in cart after tp, so autominecart hasent anything to do with.
SimbaZockt Jun 10, 2014 at 16:41 UTC - 0 likes
Did you think you can add multiverse support? because the minecraft dont despawn after ride throw a Portal :(
thief001 May 24, 2014 at 07:18 UTC - 0 likes
hi blocksandgold,
tested it trough,
works like a charm, thx alot :)
chris_king Jan 13, 2014 at 15:12 UTC - 0 likes
I can't place dispenser carts anymore or any other type of minecart other than a normal ride able minecart such as a TNT mine cart i can't place that anymore either.
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This week, those smart folks over at IDEO launched a new project they are calling OpenIDEO. If you aren't familiar with IDEO yet, you should be—they are the poster children for design thinking specifically and 21st century innovation more generally.
Earlier this week some colleagues and I attended a fantastic gathering of business and political leaders called the Emerging Issues Forum. The theme of the forum—interestingly enough for a bunch of business folks—was creativity, and speakers included some of my favorite thinkers/authors who analyze... Read more


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How often do you need to have your fork and rear shock fully serviced? My guess is that this depends on how many miles you are riding, so lets say 150 miles/ year.
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Most fork manufacturers will actually suggest service based on Hours on the fork, I know Fox will suggest you breakdown and clean all seals and replace open bath oil systems every 30 hours ridden. Also most sealed gas dampers suggest you send them back to the manufacturer every X number of hours to have them rebuilt by the factory.
Having said all that, just to provide you with an anchor point: for a bike exploited almost solely off-road, year round in continental northern European climate, I would say a typical service interval for shocks/forks would be 2000-4000 km.


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Oh Look! A woot-off! Who's looking forward to it?
Yay! A woot-off! Just what I needed, someplace to spend my excess money...oh right, I don't have that! Still, looking forward to see if there are any goodies out there this time. I already managed to buy a Forever Lazy, and the glow sticks. Here's waiting for the rest of the day.
Anyone hoping for anything special this woot-off? Besides a deal? LOL
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15 minutes late & I missed the glowsticks. I'd been waiting for those to come back. They were great to hand out to trick or treaters at halloween.
I have to confess that I gave in an ordered the Forever Lazy. I have no willpower, but now I have unlocked unlimited shipping so I'll be much easier to persuade that I need to buy something else.
But what's up with the logo?
Haven't bought anything in the last 4-5 woot offs. Not much hope left but still holding out a little that something cheap and tempting will come by.
@belyndag: Logo is for the whole "cubicle fever" theme.
@belyndag: I think the whole woot off is about stuff people have in their cubicles. So, the 8-ball makes sense, I have no idea what's up with the guy, though.
@thumperchick: Clearly a Boba Fett action figure. Doesn't everyone have one on their desk?
Bah, there hasn't been a good wootoff since I was too new to understand the concept of a wootoff...
I missed out on the Sriracha popcorn because I was fumbling through the stupid login BS. I'm probably done.
Speaking of the popcorn, anybody else notice that the specs for consumeables often don't include product weight? WTH is up with that? (Another example: the dog treats featured last night on home.woot.)
@ginawoot: Yep. And it's kept me from making a few purchases, too.
Usually don't bother with wootoffs (no time or $), but a cubicle-creature theme interests me.
Re lack of specs, that and lack of time to search them out elsewhere has kept me from interest in many an item.
I hope this wootoff has a bit more spirit.
Honestly? I probably wouldn't have noticed a woot-off until this evening if not for your question. Good luck in finding a deal.
Haha, I learned about the wootoff today from another site... this might have been the first time that happened...
@wilcononomous: The exact reason I ordered them! We usually don't get too many kids, but I figured the ones we did get would enjoy these. But, I'm sure I could hand them off to just about any kid and have them enjoy them! I've certainly got enough now to be generous!
I'm looking forward to what else can be found. I'd hate to have a Forever Lazy and some Glow Sticks be my only purchases. And here I'm supposed to be saving money and not spending it...lol
@jsimsace: Same here.
I've kind of lost interest in the woot-offs as of late -- too many sites to track, not enough free time.
Same feeling here too. Woot-off's aren't fun anymore. Too predictable and overloaded with stuff we pretty much already have or really DON'T need. I miss all the old good stuff, Todd's Dirt, anything Sanza, Woot Lights, $500 knives, BOC ( which I haven't won in over 2 years) , those frog things that tell you if you have water in your house and that weird maniquin head with that really big mouth.
The only good thing is the all day $5.00 shipping, but you have to buy a few things to make it worth it.
When I used to get up on a Tuesday morning and saw those flashing lights... oh boy... I would get excited! I'd sit here during lunch. I'd not go outside. Productivity would drop like a rock. There'd be interesting, inexpensive, things coming up through the day and much of the time.. if you snoozed, you losed. I had to stay poised... just in case. Sometimes, I'd miss something and kick myself (there are still some salt/pepper grinders I missed and never got!).
And, of course, the anticipation of a BOC. When it didn't come, oh boy oh boy.... another day of Woot Off!!!
Now, more pricey things I don't really want (TVs, monitors.. more TV and more monitors), no anticipation for a BOC that will never come. No excitement. So, no. I'm not looking forward to it. I'll go about my day as usual, and occasionally check in and see if I happen to see something I want to buy.
I haven't bought anything in a long while and honestly probably wont this time either. I'd love to sit around for the woot-off but I'm pretty sure my wallet would spontaneously grow arms and punch me in the face.
@wilcononomous: I was let down that the glow sticks went so early as well. Hopefully they will come back up.
Fingers crossed for a Jeremy Lin B-Ball.
@kmeltzer: My thoughts precisely. Along with, I suspect, a great many wooters.
Love it - picked up a Kelty camping backpack for my son who's a cub scout. Looking for my 2nd pack-up now.


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PeopleSync replaces some NYU systems, including ePASS, providing faculty, students, and employees one simple way to access their HR, payroll, and stipend information. PeopleSync serves as one system of record for all faculty, employee, organizational, and payroll data across NYU.
All faculty, student employees, students receiving stipends, and employees at Washington Square can use PeopleSync. PeopleSync is also live in Abu Dhabi, and will be coming soon to Shanghai.
PeopleSync is powered by software with a comprehensive security program, designed to keep your data safe and protect your information from any security threats or unauthorized access.


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Application based Connection Pool monitoring
By shalini_m on Feb 28, 2011
A brand new feature in the latest GlassFish 3.1 is monitoring a connection pool based on the application name. Earlier, monitoring statistics could be got at the connection pool level like
asadmin get server.resources.jdbc-connection-pool.<POOL_NAME>.\*
With this new feature, it is possible to
- Get the number of connections in use by an application for the specified connection pool.
- Get the number of connections acquired from the connection pool by an application
- Get the number of connections released to the connection pool by an application
When monitoring is set to HIGH, using the command line interface, the above information could be got as follows.
asadmin get server.resources.jdbc-connection-pool.application1.
asadmin get server.resources.jdbc-connection-pool.application1.
asadmin get server.resources.jdbc-connection-pool.application1.
Using AMX (Application Server Management Extenstions), the following program could be used to get the monitoring statistics : numconnfree, numconnacquired and numconnreleased.
public int getValue(String statName) throws Exception {
final String urlStr = "service:jmx:rmi:///jndi/rmi://" +
HOST_NAME + ":" + JMX_PORT + "/jmxrmi";
final JMXServiceURL url = new JMXServiceURL(urlStr);
final JMXConnector jmxConn = JMXConnectorFactory.connect(url);
final MBeanServerConnection connection =
ObjectName objectName =
new ObjectName("amx:pp=/mon/server-mon[server],
javax.management.openmbean.CompositeDataSupport returnValue =
connection.getAttribute(objectName, statName);
return new Integer(returnValue.get("count").toString());
The above method gets the value of a monitoring statistic for a particular jdbc connection pool (testPool in this case) for application1. To retrieve attribute values for a connector connection pool, use the ObjectName given below instead


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Using the NNP points from the website I'm getting a weird smearing at the top of files shot with the Sigma 8mm f3.5 fisheye. This looks like a circle with spikes radiating from it in a virtual tour. I can't seem to get rid of it. I get this with my 16-35L as well though less.
Any suggestions?
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Is it possible for a virus to live symbiotically with its host? Is the human body plagued with viral infections that do negligible harm, or even serve a beneficial role?
It is possible for viruses to live in mutualistic relationships with their hosts, these associations are often overlooked due to the devastating effect that many viruses can have.
To give an example in humans, when HIV-1-infected patients are also infected with hepatitis G virus, progression to AIDS is slowed significantly (Heringlake et al., 1998; Tillmann et al., 2001). Also hepatitis A infection can surpress hepatitis C infection (Deterding et al., 2006).
There are many other notable examples within plants, fungi, insects, and other animals, reviewed by Shen (2009), and Roossinck (2011), in two excellent papers.
The table below, summarises some beneficial viruses across all organisms, and is taken from Roossinck (2011).
As mentioned in this question , Adeno-associated virus is often used for gene therapy. This is due largely to its predictability when injecting genes (1), however it is also used as it is not implicated in any human pathology. As it is a replication deficient/helper dependent virus, natural infection is much less likely.
The human immune system does mount an immune response against wild-type AAV, as Alexander Galkin discusses regarding an engineered AAV here. Despite this, I think that AAV does meet your criteria for a 'harmless virus' , even if it is unlikely to infect without human encouragement.
(1) Kotin RM, Siniscalco M, Samulski RJ, et al. (1 March 1990). "Site-specific integration by adeno-associated virus" . doi:10.1073/pnas.87.6.2211 .


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Associate Professor of Management Sciences
Martha and Dennis Hesse Research Fellow
Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering (Optimization), Georgia Institute of Technology, 2000
B.A. in Computational & Applied Mathematics/Economics, Rice University, 1993
Hearing reports of delays in emergency supplies reaching the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami victims, Ann Campbell thought there must be a better way of getting relief to victims of disasters. Since then, the associate professor of management sciences has been researching relief logistics—how to get supplies to an area before and after disaster strikes. She is one of a few people in transportation logistics to do so.
"I became interested in relief logistics because it was an area that I felt could make an impact on people's lives and which could help those in need," said Campbell.
Relief logistics differs from humanitarian logistics, an area that logisticians recently have became more interested in. Humanitarian logistics focuses on the best way for nonprofits to deal with long-term problems, such as getting vaccines to remote populations, whereas relief logistics looks at how to mitigate disasters.
The latter involves questions like: what supplies need to be stocked before and after a disaster, where would these supplies be located, and how can we take care of people faster after a disaster?
Unlike normal delivery networks, which are profit-driven, the design of a relief-logistic network is motivated by fairness—making sure everyone gets the same supplies at about the same time and at the same speed. It also considers constantly changing conditions—a breakdown in communication networks, for example, or roads that could become impassable.
"If your UPS package is really late, you maybe could complain and get your $12.95 back," said Campbell. "In relief logistics, it's not the same. For one thing, you're not paying for the service. It sort of changes the priority system a little."
This kind of research differs from most of Campbell's other logistics research, which typically looks at ways for businesses to improve delivery times and manage inventory. The parameters she considers in for-profit transportation logistics include the most efficient number of trucks, where hubs should be located, a cost-efficient delivery network that provides timely delivery for all customers, and how to get inventory out the door as quickly as possible.
Over the years, Campbell has interviewed officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the American Red Cross to find out what these agencies do when a disaster strikes. Tim Kidwell, senior director of Emergency Services of the American Red Cross's Greater Houston chapter, believes Campbell's work could prove useful to his organization.
"Sometimes, it's easy to get tunnel vision," said Kidwell. "We don't look at things objectively when we're too close to a situation. Ann's work might provide some insight that we might not have thought of before."
Massive disasters such as the earthquakes in China (2008) and Pakistan (2005) and Hurricane Katrina (2005) are prompting relief agencies to improve their ability to respond to a catastrophe. Campbell's research could help them aid and save more people than they have ever done before.
"It seems like many of the lessons we've learned from disasters that have happened in the last five years are of the same vein: the more plans you have in place, the better, even if things don't happen in exactly the way you think they might," Campbell says.
By Po Li Loo, for the UI Spectator (alumni publication)


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Microsoft on Tuesday unveiled the Xbox One, the newest version of its popular game console.
Don Mattrick, president of Microsoft's interactive entertainment business, said the company wanted to design and build the "ultimate all-in-one home entertainment system."
The Xbox One will be available around the world later this year.
The Xbox One includes games, TV, movies, music, the Web, and apps. It has Skype and live TV capabilities, as well as voice recognition to switch between programs, new gesture recognition, and the ability to operate multiple programs at the same time. And users make group video calls via Skype, said Yusuf Mehdi, corporate vice president of marketing, strategy, and business for Microsoft's interactive entertainment business.
The new Xbox home screen identifies users and logs them in with all their favorite apps and games. It remembers what they were doing the last time they played, and those actions show up on the home screen. A new "trending tab" shows users what's popular with friends and the overall community.
The Xbox One also includes three operating systems in one -- the Xbox operating system, a Windows OS kernel, and software to connect the two operating systems for multitasking. Microsoft also launched a new Xbox Live system for its updated game console Under the hood of the large, sleek, black device are an eight-core processor, 8GB of RAM, Blu-ray, USB 3, HDMI in/out, and a 500GB hard drive..
Microsoft, which is hosting its special next-generation Xbox event at its Redmond, Wash., headquarters, last introduced a new gaming console, the Xbox 360, in 2005. Since that time, the Xbox has become the best-selling game console in the country. In April alone, consumers spent $208 million on hardware, software, and accessories for the Xbox.
However, the new Xbox launch comes as the game console business faces an uncertain future. More and more people are turning to mobile devices and the Web for gaming, which has resulted in weaker console sales. The Nintendo Wii U, which includes a tablet-like game controller that doubles as a second screen, has faced tepid interest since launching late last year. Sony, meanwhile, unveiled its Playstation 4 in February, but the device isn't expected to hit the market until the fall.
The Xbox One is being positioned as a complete home entertainment system.
James Martin/CNET
To help game consoles become more of a living room staple, Microsoft has been incorporating more entertainment capabilities into its Xbox, including media-streaming functionality. Throughout the event Tuesday, Microsoft positioned the Xbox One as an entertainment system, not just a game console.
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We are going a field trip and we are taking our child with us, he is 5. I want to make a contact card for him, which stick on his back, in case (God forbid) he lost so anyone can contact us. Now the problem is that I couldn't find any template or idea to build one.
Can some one suggest any Idea or direct me a link so I can make/get some cards or idea for it.
P.S: This is my first time at this site, so kindly correct me if I am wrong in any regards. As the "children business" is not that easy ;)
Thank you


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STEUBENVILLE - Rich Donnelly is a man who will shout it from the rooftops of the famous cities he visits that "Steubenville is a great town and I am proud it is my hometown."
Yet, the man who boasts about this area is humbled by his selection as the grand marshal for the city's annual Christmas parade, which is scheduled to be held at noon on Dec. 8.
The Eastern Gateway Community College Sights and Sounds of Christmas Parade is sponsored by WTOV-TV, the Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce and Steubenville Visitors Bureau.
"This is a humbling experience, but everyone knows I love my hometown," he said. "I always promote Steubenville and tell everyone it is a great place to live. I take any opportunity to tell people I meet about Steubenville."
Donnelly crisscrosses the nation with his work as a coach in professional baseball.
A 44-year baseball veteran, he is in his 28th year in the big leagues. Currently with the New York Mets, Donnelly is especially remembered for his years with the Pittsburgh Pirates.
"I am living my childhood dream. I have been all over the nation working in baseball, even going to the World Series all because of my hometown," Donnelly said.
"The people in Steubenville my family, my teachers and my coaches taught me to value hard work. They taught me to be competitive and to respect authority. I was brought up as well as I could be. Cities are made by people, not buildings," according to Donnelly.
Donnelly said he is looking forward to being grand marshal, knowing that his family will be watching the parade.
He and his wife, Roberta, are the parents of eight children and have seven grandchildren.
Donnelly will lead the parade of more than 90 units including bands, floats and, of course, Santa Claus.
The parade wil travel along Fourth Street from North Street to South Street. It will be televised live on WTOV-TV and streamed on its website.


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I know this is a slang expression from Central American people. I don't remember the context but it was something like:
Eres un cerote! (from a pretty angry girl)
I'm pretty sure it doesn't mean I'm a big zero, or does it?
I know this is a slang expression from Central American people. I don't remember the context but it was something like:
I'm pretty sure it doesn't mean I'm a big zero, or does it?
The Diccionario del Español de Nicaragua by Francisco Arellano Oviedo of the Academia Nicaragüense de la Lengua defines it as solid excrement, an incapable person, or a person of little social worth:
From the point of view of Mexican Spanish:
"Eres un cerote" does mean you're a big zero, a nothing or worthless.
"Eres un cerrote" means you are a big turd or crap.
Cerote is the definition for a piece of shit, but if you are in Guatemala, for instance, Cerote could be in a friendly way to say that you did something wrong or impolite Ej. "Cerote, esa era mi cerveza" (Man, that was my beer). Also could be used for a greeting in a closer friendship "Que hay cerote??? como vas???" (what's up dude). if you want to denigrate someone "Ese Cerote es bien mula" (that guy is really dumb). Also, can be used to express your admiration to someone "Que Cerote pa' jugar fut" (you are so good in soccer)
But if and Unknown come to you saying that, well, nobody will do that. if they really want to say something mean to you, they will use some other words like "Cerote, hijo de la gran p...." ok that one doesn't need explanation.
I'm Guatemalan, and that word is part of my daily life vocabulary. and BTW we mostly all the time spell it like Serote!
Although not a direct answer to your question, there is a popular mexican expression that includes "cero" in it.
Which means that you are worthless because zeros on the left, such as this example 01 = 1, don't count.
A cerote is a pebble of shit, so only babies shit cerotes.
Cerote es como decir:


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I'm making a game with XNA, what I'm wondering is; what should the dimensions in pixels be of the window? It needs to be a size that will work on the majority of computers. I'm not sure if there's some size that most games use.
On a PC or the Xbox 360, there's no single size that is "best", or that all games tend to use. (The Windows 7 Phone has far fewer choices.)
There's no reason to not use the native window resolution by default.
In XNA, you can do this with code like this in the
Of course, it would be meaningful to provide the user with options to change the size they are using, as ChrisF points out. Many people may not ever use it if you've chosen a good default. Still, though, it's one of those things that makes a big difference for the people who want it, and it doesn't take a whole lot of work.
You can also find a good list of common screen resolutions on Wikipedia.
Your biggest challenge in this area will be writing your game in a way that it can handle a wide variety of resolutions and aspect ratios. This is especially true if you want to run the same game/codebase on the PC, the Xbox 360, and the Windows 7 Phone, all of which, XNA supports. From a technical standpoint, here's a few things you can do to help address this problem:
Why do so many games default to some random low resolution? If you can write a game, surely you can find some code to detect the screen resolution?
So anyway, a normal game should default to fullscreen, and use the full monitor resolution. Alt-TAB should work to pause the game and switch windows without ill-effect. Alt-Enter or F11 should toggle fullscreen / windowed mode. I guess you should also provide settings to change the resolution, although personally I wouldn't use them if the game does the right thing to begin with. It should remember the settings and use them next time you start the game.
If you get all this stuff right you'll be doing better than the majority of games out there, even many AAA titles!
Make it configurable or user selectable, and allow the user to maximise the window.
There's no need in a modern game to restrict the size of the window the user can play the game in.
Use scalable assets when possible, and use the full resolution of the screen. There is no reason to require a user with a large monitor to be stuck with a 1/4 screen window due a limit of 800x600 screen size. I have specifically dropped games, despite promise in their gameplay, if I cannot play them fullscreen and at my native monitor resolution.
A better question might be aspect ratio. This is a harder one, because the majority of screens are now 16:9 or 16:10, but there are still a lot of 4:3 monitors out there. Adjusting the aspect ratio of a game is more difficult than simply scaling the UI, as it requires dealing with anchoring and whitespace. If you cannot make your user interface adjust to multiple aspect ratios, then you should allow the screen to letterbox as needed when the screen ratio does not match your game UI ratio.


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I was wandering around testing various options for my new personal project, ranging from PHP, to node.js, to Haskell. I feel most comfortable with Python, though, so I thought I'd go back to it in the end.
I've taken a second look at frameworks like Django, but given I mostly enjoy SQL and I don't want an ORM, I thought I'd use Pylons (as ORM is optional in Pylons). Now, the problem is there's Pyramid, and it would seem Pylons would be replaced by it soon.
Long story short, is Pyramid ready for prime time? Also, given that Pylons itself was a very successful platform (judging from its high-profile deployments), do you recommend Pyramid as a good replacement? (Obviously, I'm asking people who actually use Pylons and/or Pyramid.)
To clarify, the application will probaby use up to 4 database tables, and will be heavy on AJAX calls. JSONRPC with all-JS frontend is also an option. One of the tables is expected to hold tens of thousands of records consumed by different users at all times. Queries on the large table are not limited to select, as they will most likely come from some form of AJAX data grid.


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Being that Baruch She'amar fell from the sky (as said in the Baeir Heiteiv Orach Chaim 51:1), how is it that the Rambam (seder tefilos kal hashna) has a different version than what we have in our siddur: did multiple versions fall from the sky?
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All prayers were composed by someone, at some point, yet for many of them we have multiple versions. Generally it's because the original version is not known and people have different traditions as to what it was; sometimes it's because the original version is not known and people make different emendations in favor of what they think it must have been. I don't know which of those is true of "Baruch sheamar" (perhaps both are), but I don't see that its having fallen from the sky makes it any less subject to later changes than any other prayer.
Baruch SheAmar was not instituted by the Anshei Knesset HaGedolah, but rather by the Geonim. And it was composed by human beings, rather than falling from the sky.
The source for it falling from the sky and being instituted by the Anshei Knesset HaGedolah is the Or Zaruah, Rabbi Yitzchak ben Moshe of Vienna, in 1260.
Saadia Gaon instituted that Baruch sheAmar be recited on Shabbos, but in France, the custom developed to recite this prayer daily.
The Pri Chadash wonders at how the Geonim could institute a new tefillah. Thus,
Yet others point to early sources for it. Thus,
I've heard that sometimes 'Yerushalmi' is used to refer to midrash. But regardless, just because the Or Zarua says it fell from heaven and was established by the Anshei Knesset Hagedola does not make it absolutely so.
And at the least, Rambam (who predates Or Zarua) did necessarily hear this (later) Or Zarua. If this was not the universally accepted theory, then people would feel free to modify it.
In terms of בפי vs. בפה, see my post in which I show that there is a regular change because "fi" had negative connotations in French. And then kabbalists likely came and bolstered this change with kabbalistic ideas. But the original is the grammatical one, בפי.
Here is a link to a discussion about the various versions of Baruch Sh'amar.
In brief, this link discusses why and how some versions use the word בפי ('in the mouth of...') and some (most, actually) use the word בפה ('in the mouth,' with no grammatical connection to whose mouth it is) even though this represents a later change and is ungrammatical. It seems to be based on a kabbalistic interpretation having to do with gematria. The switch to בפה makes the word add up to same gematria as the number of words in Baruch Sh'amar, which is 87 and equal to פז, paz, refined gold, which, in turn, is symbolic of Hashem's glory.
This discussion also addresses the topic of why the text was allowed to be changed even though it "fell from the sky." Of course, many poskim feel that the text was actually instituted by the Anshei Kenneset ha-Gedolah. The discussion in the link recounts the entire history of these opinions.
As for the differences between the order of the initial praises regarding Divine Speech and Creation, I couldn't find a source for this but I would imagine it has to do with interpretations of the process of Ma'aseh B'reishit. Nusach Ashkenaz begins the process with praising the act of Creation itself, while Nusach S'fard begins with praising the the fact that Hashem speaks and creates. It's a difference in emphasis of the elements of the process of creation.


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A decade ago, John Giacomoni was working as a professional research assistant in the Software Engineering Research Lab at the University of Colorado Boulder when the group took on a problem they couldn't afford to solve.
Giacomoni was working in Professor Alexander L. Wolf's lab and their task was to build a system that could secure the campus from electronic attacks. As the scope of the project expanded, they soon discovered the specialty hardware they needed to continue was a budget buster.
But necessity is the mother of invention, and the team had a need. Unable to buy the expensive hardware, Giacomoni became convinced he could build an affordable software solution for his costly hardware problem.
Convincing others would turn out to be the real problem. "Funding agencies and investors, except for a handful of Boulder angels, universally said, 'No way; no how. You guys are crazy,'" Giacomoni remembered.
Ten years later, Giacomoni has proven he wasn't crazy — quite the contrary. The affordable solution he envisioned as a CU-Boulder research assistant became a reality with the help of former CU-Boulder Assistant Professor Manish Vachharajani.
The pair went on to co-found a company based on the technology, LineRate Systems, which they sold earlier this year to F5 Networks. The acquisition price — nearly $125 million according to filings made with the Securities and Exchange Commission — was the largest exit of an networking infrastructure company in the Boulder area in years.
Doing away with the big metal box
Giacomoni's "aha" moment was the discovery that, by writing carefully structured software programs, anyone could get ubiquitous general-purpose processors, which are relatively cheap, to deliver the same performance as software written for more expensive specialized network processors. Once LineRate was formed, Giacomoni and Vachharajani were able to show not only that the idea worked but that it could be a cost-effective solution for a variety of problems beyond the original impetus: foiling electronic attacks. Companies like LineRate helped drive the revolution in the field now known as software-defined networking.
In the world that existed before software-defined networking, companies with networking needs went out and bought a big, expensive "piece of metal" that contained a hardware-software intertwined package. But once companies outgrew capacity of that big metal box, their only option was to toss out the whole shebang, both software and hardware, and buy a new one.
"By decoupling the software logic from the underlying hardware and moving to a general-purpose platform you get two key benefits compared with buying boxes," Giacomoni said. "In addition to getting centralized command and control over your data center, you can load the software on any server even cloud-based servers and you can upgrade the hardware and software independently unlike in the big-box model where you are forced to upgrade both at the same time."
Trying to catch a break
It took Giacomoni about three years to prove his new vision of network processing could become a reality. By that time, April 2006, Giacomoni was a graduate student and he used his newly created software algorithm, called FastForward, in his thesis.
With his master's in hand, Giacomoni pushed forward with his vision. He enrolled in a computer science doctoral program at CU-Boulder where he teamed up with Vachharajani, an assistant professor in the department at the time, who had experience with similar technologies from his own doctoral work at Princeton.
With Vachharajani serving as Giacomoni's adviser, the pair sought research funding to prove that the FastFoward algorithm was correct and that it could be used for a wide range of networking needs. But traditional science funding agencies shied away from the project — and, later, so did investors — because they were reluctant to believe that it was even possible for general-purpose processors to do the job.
But the pair got two big breaks at the end of 2008. First, the Denver-based online photo-sharing website Photobucket was willing to confirm they needed what Giacomoni and Vachharajani were trying to create, which was critical for luring investment.
Then, CU's Technology Transfer office awarded Giacomoni and Vachharajani a $50,000 proof of concept investment to incorporate, rent space, purchase vital equipment and cover a modest stipend so that Vachharajani could build a functional prototype while Giacomoni continued to pound the pavement looking for both customers and investors.
"The proof of concept grant was really just so critical," said Kate Tallman, senior director of technology transfer for CU-Boulder. "They needed equipment to build and test their software. Without that equipment, they would never have been able to collect crucial data. They also needed independence to attract customers and investors"
Persistence of vision
The work finally began to pay off in late 2009, when LineRate got its first angel investor, a Boulder local, whose interest attracted other angel investors. Ultimately, they raised $575,000 in angel financing for the company, allowing Giacomoni and Vachharajani to hire seasoned networking developer Mark Terrel, create a production-ready product, and recruit experienced startup leader Steve Georgis to serve as chief executive officer, which in turn, attracted a second round of funding totaling $4.75 million.
By the time Giacomoni — who is now finalizing his Ph.D. dissertation for its final submission — and Vachharajani sold LineRate Systems, the company employed more than 20 people. F5 Networks, the company that acquired LineRate, was one of LineRate's largest competitors.
"John and Manish were incredibly persistent in going after their vision," CU-Boulder's Tallman said. "They met with dozens of entrepreneurs and investors across the county who did not believe that their technology would be possible. Because they stuck with it, they were able to recruit this incredibly talented team of entrepreneurs and investors right here in our community who made their vision a reality."


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A Tour of U.S. National Parksby Elizabeth Olson
Photographs by Carol M. Highsmith
The U.S. National Park Service was created on August 25, 1916, by President Woodrow Wilson. In 1872, Yellowstone National Park became the first national park established in the United States and the world. The U.S. National Park System today comprises 379 areas, totaling more than 84 million acres. Follow this slideshow to learn more about some of the National Parks within the United States.
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The National Park Service describes Zion as "sand castles crowning desert canyons." Visitors can walk through narrow canyon walls and among towering sandstone cliffs of brilliant red, pink, and cream. Zion was established on July 31, 1909, by President William Taft. It was the first National Park established in Utah. In 1920, park visitation was 3,692; in 1996 it reached 2.5 million.
Fun Fact: There are over 250 types of birds spotted in Zion National Park each year.
Carol M. Highsmith, a distinguished and widely published American photographer, began donating her work to the Library of Congress in 1992. The Carol M. Highsmith archive at the Library of Congress includes photos from each of the United States and is expected to eventually contain 100,000 photos. Professionally printed and framed prints of these photos are available at PhotographsAmerica.com.
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Significance of adjective placement
In these phrases below, why is the word "buena" in different places?
Are there good things? => ¿Hay cosas buenas?
Are there good beers? => ¿Hay buena cerveza?
In these phrases below, why is the word "buena" in different places?
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You can translate them also like this:
That way, "buena" is on the same place. :)
Note; however, that colors (red, white, etc.) usually go after the noun; for example:
Colors preceding the noun are mostly used in literature (poetry(?)) but it's very uncommon on spoken Spanish:
Also note that depending on whether the adjective preceeds the noun or not, the meaning could be quite different:


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Wherever "let go of your hand" is used, can "let go your hand" be used in its place? Is there any difference at all?
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"Let go your hand" is grammatically correct, but archaic. See Shakespeare's Julius Caesar: "let slip the dogs of war."
No, you shouldn't drop the prepostion of in the expression let go of.
The expression let go is used for ceasing employment, so the result could easily become confusing or misleading.
There is nothing grammatically incorrect in your phrase.
Consider thus:
It is the same, where "your hand" is the direct object of the verb "let". You've simply inverted part of the sentence, which has no bearing on the grammatical soundness thereof.
It does sound a bit odd, all the same, at least, to me (native US English speaker) it does.
In Spanish we say "letting go of hands" or literally "soltarse de las manos". I think in English it would be like "hands off" or "release your hands" but I don't know if it replaces "let go your hand".
If it were "Let go my hand", I would have no hesitation in accepting it as a spoken alternative to "Let go of my hand".
But "Let go your hand" is odd, because "Let go of your hand" is an unlikely thing to say, so I would probably interpret it as "Let go (of something) with your hand".
As other stated - grammatically correct, but bit odd and even ambiguous, unclear.
Therefore the meaning is not the same:
(tonybaldwin's example)
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(which does imply it was held, where the first example does not)


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There are many serious types of health concerns that affect women. None is more serious than heart disease, the nation's leading killer. The American Heart Association says that "nearly one million people die from heart disease yearly." Heart disease is often thought of as a man's disease, but that is a misconception. Even though breast cancer is most often quoted as the number one cause of death in women, nearly six times as many women die from heart disease. In 1996, women's deaths from heart disease outpaced men's by 505,930 to 453,297. The facts tell it all: one in nine women over age forty-five and one in three women over sixty-five have coronary heart disease. Approximately half of all women will eventually develop some form of heart disease.
Up until menopause, estrogen reduces the likelihood of plaque buildup in the arteries and acts as protection from heart disease.
After menopause, a woman's risk steadily increases for developing coronary artery disease, or CAD, a condition where the veins and arteries leading to the heart become narrowed and/or blocked by plaque. Heart attack and stroke are caused by CAD, in most cases.
Essential: Estrogen helps to raise HDL cholesterol (good cholesterol), which helps remove the LDL cholesterol (the bad cholesterol) that contributes to the accumulation of fat deposits called plaque along artery walls.
Women need to concentrate on making heart-healthy choices throughout life, but especially in the years after menopause. It is important to eat a diet that is low in total fat, saturated fat, and cholesterol; eat plenty of grain products, vegetables, and fruits; stay physically active; keep a healthy weight; control stress levels; go easy on sodium; and consult with a doctor about hormone replacement therapy.
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I made an escalivada (eggplant, red pepper and onion in the oven, peel, cool) yesterday, and today I've added gelatin to make a nice presentation.
I used about 5gr of gelatin for 150ml heated 'escalivada juice (lots of olive oil)'.
The result was all right, but the top layer stayed liquid. The rest stayed together.
Any idea as to why the top layer stayed liquid? Does the olive oil affect the gelatin?


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The ever-conscientious Miss Helma Zukas of Bellehaven, Washington, is not one to renege on a promise—even one made hastily . . . and too long ago to possibly remember! So when an anonymous note in the morning mail reminds her of her vow to bring her high school classmates together for a twenty-year reunion, Miss Zukas hops to and begins organizing the perfect celebration . . . despite some vague and mysterious warnings about dire consequences.
But when a secret saboteur disrupts her well-planned reunion—stranding Helma and her old classmates on a fogbound island with a murderer in their midst—the intrepid librarian-sleuth takes charge once again. With a dubious assist from her raffish friend Ruth, Miss Zukas is determined to close the books on crimes both current and overdue for solution . . . before the killer takes the alumni out of circulation permanently.
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Unfortunately flesh-eating bacteria, or necrotizing fasciitis, isn't fiction. Aimee Copeland, a 24-year-old graduate student from Georgia, is fighting for her life in an Augusta hospital after contracting one type known as aeromonas hydrophila during a zip line adventure.
Aeromonas hydrophila is found in most, if not all, freshwater or brackish water environments (water that contains salt but is not saltwater), according to the Food and Drug Administration's "Bad Bug Book."
It is sometimes swallowed by swimmers, causing stomach or intestinal problems such as vomiting and diarrhea. It can also be found in fish and shellfish. The severity of the gastrointestinal infection depends on your immune system's ability to fight it off, according to the Mayo Clinic.
Aeromonas hydrophila can also enter the body through an open wound, as happened in the Copeland case. When that occurs the flesh-eating bacteria quickly reproduces, giving off toxins that destroy skin and soft tissue. Such bacteria is adept at hiding from the body's immune system, according to the National Necrotizing Fasciitis Foundation.
If necrotizing fasciitis is detected early, only skin or fat may need to be removed. But if the infection is detected later, amputation may be necessary to stop the spread of the bacteria.
Dr. William Schaffner, president of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases, says when Aeromonas hydrophila enters through an open wound, early diagnosis is difficult. The bacteria does its damage deep in the tissue and doesn't manifest itself on the skin's surface.
Patients should pay attention to any pain coming from a closed wound, as well as redness or drainage, he told CNN.
The frequency of Aeromonas hydrophilia infections is unknown, the FDA notes, because researchers only recently began trying to collect numbers.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that each year there are about 10,000 U.S. cases of group A streptococcus, a collection of bacteria that includes necrotizing fasciitis. Approximately 20% of the cases of necrotizing fasciitis are fatal, according to the CDC.


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The 5 Most Baffling Spin-Offs in Television History
#2. The Apprentice: Martha Stewart
Spun Off From: The Apprentice
In the same vein as Donald Trump's The Apprentice, Martha Stewart vets an assortment of type-A go-getters in an attempt to find an apprentice to run one of her businesses. The contestants compete in business challenges and are dismissed from the competition if they fail to accurately mimic Stewart's emotionless zeal for homemaking and improvised craft design.
Ridiculous Because:
It's a small wonder that NBC executives were capable of casting multiple seasons of the original Apprentice --a series that rewarded its winners with jobs under a man that has declared bankruptcy as many times as he's been divorced.
One should never underestimate the enthusiasm of newly-minted MBAs for putting their death-grip on someone else's coattails. But Martha Stewart's claim to "business tycoon" status during the show's taping was pretty suspect since she was under house arrest after having been convicted of perjury, conspiracy, and obstruction of justice for her part in the ImClone stock trading scandal.
It's tough to imagine that the contestants being told "Goodbye" each week--Stewart's take on Trump's "You're Fired"--weren't silently thanking their lucky stars for not being tapped as Stewart's shower-room wingman. Job training doesn't usually include learning to file a shank out of an old mop handle.
#1. Knight Rider: 2010
Spun Off From: Knight Rider
Knight Rider 2010 was a made-for-TV movie that takes place in the post-apocalyptic wasteland of a little more than a year from now. The story followed Jake MacQueen, a futuristic smuggler whose lover, Hannah, is killed. However, before death she stored her personality in a crystal computer memory storage, which winds up implanted in a beat-up Ford Mustang.
Ridiculous Because:
You may think it's unfair that we mock the show for failing to accurately predict the world of 2010, but that future was only 16 years away at the time the show was made (1994). That means the writers still thought that society was less than two decades away from: 1) developing personality-storing crystals and 2) devolving into a wasteland of human slavery.
But all of that aside, this has to be the most tangential connection to an original show any spinoff has ever had. It's a complete rebooting that takes place in an entirely different, and far stupider, universe. The "KITT" in this show doesn't even show up until half way through, and when it does, Instead of a cool-ass talking car that fights crime we wind up with a shitty car possessed by the hero's dead girlfriend.
"We never just talk anymore."
The concept didn't survive beyond the one movie, which is too bad because we were sort of hoping it would at least last long enough for the inevitable scene where the hero makes passionate love to the car.
You can read more of Eric's stuff at his satirical dating advice column, Ask Jimmy Suede.
For shows that failed to spin-off even a second episode, check out 6 Shows (Thankfully) Canceled After One Episode. Or read about a fictional character who spun off real-world acts of super-human resourcefulness in The 5 Most Amazing Real Life MacGyver Moments.


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Another child injured in a Carroll County school bus crash has been released from the hospital.
Kosair Children's Hospital spokesman Steve Menaugh told The Courier-Journal the child was released Wednesday. Three children remained hospitalized, including a 3-year-old boy who was listed in good condition and a 4-year-old girl who was in stable condition.
Another small child was in serious condition at the University of Kentucky Medical Center.
An adult bus attendant was in serious condition at University Hospital.
Three other children who were hospitalized after the Monday crash have already been released. Two children died at the scene.
An investigation continues into what caused the Head Start bus overturn and hit a tree.
The Carroll County Sheriff's Department said a second vehicle was not involved.