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Having come across this term here for the first time, I wonder what it actually decribes. Is it a (pejorative) umbrella term for "conventional" rpgs as opposed to "storytelling"/"narrative-driven" games? That's at least what I've deduced.
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It is indeed a new term used to describe conventional, normal RPGs in the "traditional" tabletop RPG format as opposed to newfangled indie games. It is not pejorative in nature, though it is used a little grudgingly as it mainly exists to distinguish "games that work like most every RPG ever as opposed to whatever crazy new variation you've come up with" in Internet discussions.
A trad game likely has:
D&D, GURPS, Rolemaster, and the vast majority of games published before the year 2000 are trad games. (Notable exception: Amber Diceless Roleplay). There are many new "trad" games too, from Savage Worlds to Eclipse Phase, that bring new genres or systems to gaming but stay within the traditional tabletop RPG format.
There is no clear legalistic differentiation between trad and indie. Most would say that the White Wolf Storyteller system, though it had initial aspirations to being narrative, is in retrospect a completely trad system. However, many new games have some aspects of traditional RPGs but innovate in one or a couple ways - there's no real clear "this crosses the line" criteria, it's more an attribute of self identification by the game's creator(s).
You can identify a "traditional" game by looking at or inferring how its rules were developed. Were they developed by following tried-and-true traditions of RPG design, or were they developed by a different process? This is a way to identify "trad" vs. other games that is complementary with other ways that focus more on the rules features a game has or doesn't have, and looking at the background for why there are different ways of approaching rules development explains some of the fuzziness of the meaning of "trad".
In the beginning…
This method works because it's how the division came about, historically. First, there was the original Dungeons & Dragons. It was wildly successful, and it had many imitators. Some of the imitators were very good. Notably though, for many years most games that came out innovated by changing the details of how you handled something during play without changing what you handled – rolling percentile dice against a chart instead of a d20, adding skill systems instead of using GM judgement for what you could do outside combat, different ways of creating characters, how characters progressed or earned progression, etc.
Traditional games, then, are built using traditions. This is arguably a good thing, as it ensures that the basic structure of play will be familiar to anyone picking up a new game, and their experience with "roleplaying games" will be transitive to this new game. It means that the structure is tried-and-true, that the game will work more or less because it's following a successful design pattern. The innovative details have a good chance of succeeding because the game doesn't mess with the formula of "roleplaying game", giving the new mechanic a chance to shine against a background that's sturdy and solid.
Then people argued over what was good
Eventually, people argued about what games were best and there was much contention. But out of this contention came a vocabulary for describing why people found certain games satisfying and found certain other games unsatisfying, without having to label things as "bad" or "good". (For more reading on early theory, this set of posts on the emergence and content of RFGA theory is excellent.) It was the very beginning of creation a critical theory of roleplaying games (not to be confused with a scientific theory; think more like film or music theory), and it suddenly gave people new tools for understanding the structure of roleplaying games in their play and in their rules. Eventually, people starting using this new understanding – more or less consciously, depending on who it was – while writing new RPGs.
Suddenly, people were crafting rules not to be more realistic when taking damage or to provide a smoother XP curve; now people were crafting rules in order to do things that the traditional design never provided rules or structure for. Things like structuring the game like an action movie (Theatrix) instead of a simulation game, for just one illustrative example of the shift in thinking. Suddenly, there was a divergent evolutionary branch along which roleplaying games design could progress. Meanwhile, traditional games kept going, kept being made by iterating slowly on a proven framework of traditional design elements.
Even more eventually, there were refinements, disagreements, and new schools of RPG theory. Games were made to test, prove, or simply enjoy parts of these theoretical critical frameworks. These games were more or less (usually less) popular, but the people who made and shared them were getting out of them more of what they were looking for. The birth of theory, non-trad games, and the validation of a plethora of playing styles happened all in a tangle together. Of course, there was also a lot of bickering, One True Way–ism, and crowing about which way of playing RPGs was "superior". Those were fortunately the minority; though they were a loud minority, causing a lot of rifts with "traditional" players.
So now we are at today. We have two strong traditions of RPG design, one which is called "traditional" and one which is called nothing unified but for the purpose of this answer I'll call "theory-based", but they can both be thought of as traditions. Theory-based design is often more experimental, but it's had a decade or two to mature, so it has begun to result in games that are much more solidly-built and more widely successful than early games. They're not a unified whole though, hence the lack of a handy name for them: some are storygames, but lots aren't; some are independently published, but not all by far. They're only lumped together because they're such a small part of the pie chart – you know, that tiny slice that always gets the label "other".
These distinctions will change
Though the theory-based type of design was originally in reaction to the one-size-fits-all of trad games, since then there has been significant cross-pollination. D&D 4e's designers have been quoted as saying storygames had a significant impact on its design. You can see this in how focused the game is on doing one thing and doing it really well: where 3rd edition tried to be all things to everybody, accommodating plot-centric stories, character-driven drama, tactical combat, etcetera ad nauseum, 4th edition aimed to be a damned fine tactical combat and character-optimisation engine. Such a laser-tight focus on being a particular kind of game is characteristic of non-trad games, yet the sheer weight of tradition that D&D 4e carries and expresses in its structure makes it still very much a "trad" game.
This cross-pollination is to be expected though, since the bits of theory people have come up with are slowly, osmotically dispersing into the wider community of designers and players. Designers (moreso than players) are like musicians – good musicians don't listen to only their own music, or even only music in their own genre. They listen widely, and incorporate and play with themes and techniques from a diverse section of musical genres. Similarly, good designers don't only play their own games, because that would be stunting the growth of their design skills.
Once, the idea that you could classify motives for making in-play decisions into mixes of game-, drama-, or simulation-centric priorities (GDS theory aka the Threefold Model), or that you could categorise games by the proportions of gamist, narrativist, and simulationist leanings its rules had (a mutation of GNS theory) was weird and fringe thinking. Today these ideas are so pervasive that they're often taken for granted as true. This blending of the two traditions means that what is and isn't "trad" is a moving target as the strong "trad" trunk of RPG design slowly assimilates the most useful things from non-trad games the "trad" designers play.
And of course, there were always non-trad elements in trad games, even before the development of any conscious theories of RPGs. If there hadn't been, there would never have been elements that the early theorist could point to and say, "I like this, while I don't like that." Early games with non-trad elements like Amber Diceless Roleplaying blur the lines and give the lie to a strong distinction. Therefore it's easier to think of games that were designed with different design methodologies than to look at individual features of games – at least, you get a slightly clearer division that way.
Now (or always has been) more of a spectrum
But really, because of those older games with untraditional mutations, and because of the more recent cross-pollination, it will always be more sensible to think of games as scattered across a 2D (maybe 3D, actually) chart, and to recognise that there are clusters rather than distinct categories. D&D 4e is definitely in the trad cluster, though it's nearer the edge of that cloud of games than some others it shares company with. A game like the Burning Wheel is very solidly a non-trad game (and one of the few that are clearly in the "indie" cluster due to how it's published), but it draws so strongly on what the author liked in D&D campaigns that it's nearer to the trad cluster than, say, Microscope is.
And, as you can see, looking at it this way there is no inherent pejorative meaning to "trad", even if it can used as one by the intention of the speaker. Non-trad games arose in contention and dispute – which makes sense, because why invent something new when you're satisfied? – and there will likely always be a hint of discord in how people discuss different games, at least so long as there remains a recognisable gap that defines the "trad" cluster and the clusters of other games.
The way Trad has been used, it generally refers to class-based, class & level, random character generation, dice-driven mechanics, with a single GM with total rules and narrative authority. The only player input is what the characters attempt.
Not Trad
It's much easier to list, however, what makes a game not-trad:
Not definitive to trad nor non-trad
Some traits aren't themselves enough to toss something out of trad by themselves, but in combination, may be enough to do so:


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I just puchased an iPhone5 and want to use my current SIM from my existing phone. Is there a way to convert my existing SIM to nano-SIM?
No. You could cut it to the same dimensions, but the risk to damage the chip is high. Additionally the nano sim is slightly thinner, so it still wouldn't be a good fit.
I suggest you exchange your sim card with your operator. Note that there exist adapters to fit a nano sim in a larger form factor though.
The downsides of converting your SIM are:
The upside is you might skip a trip or a call to your carrier and if you are good at cutting, you can shave down an existing card if you really want that thrill of DIY.
Engadget has a nice picture of the carriers you could use to place a nano-SIM into a phone that expects a micro-SIM or SIM. Here are the micro-SIM and nano-SIM compared to some common coins for a reference to how small scale these are physically.
I've read a number of positive reports on DIY resizes. Apparently Apple allowed enough slack in the nano-SIM slot that the thicknesses is not an issue. It does require careful cutting and if you screw it up you'll need a new SIM. You can find templates and instructions on the Internet. I have not seen any punches yet for nano-SIM's.
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Is is a pension or retirement list? money? security?
1 Timothy 5:8-10 NET
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Early Christian societies kept track of the widows, orphans, and other people in their local area who needed the help of the body. Part of standard Christian action, then as now, was to render assitance to those who had no resources for themselves. Here, Paul is refering to that list.
To answer your question even more directly, in the absence of a state that provides these functions (as is now the case), yes, it was the "pension" list of today.
Paul is suggesting that younger widows not be put on the list, but rather they should remarry so as not to be a long term obligation of the church.


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I didn't even think about the racist meaning of "Troll" when replying to someone who was Trolling my forum. I remember some Shadowrun Glossaries, but I'm trying to come up with some "in period" slander that I could use to describe the current day Internet Troll in the 2060's trix...
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I suspect that trolling would still be around in the 6th world--at least for us old timers.
UGE only started for elves and dwarves in 2011 (this year) and magic wasn't strong enough to change orks and trolls until 2021. So trolling, as an expression has another 10 years to set itself into the collective conscious.
For the younger set I would probably use drekking forums--or see what your PCs come up with. You can use the here and now on the usage of gay for a template.
And it is a completely different "trolling" that is going on--with more do to with fishing than racism.
A quick scan of Unwired doesn't reveal any clues.
I'd suggest that "trolling" would go out of vogue. Meta-hate aside, most slang terms don't tend to last sixty years, and the net is a rapidly-changing miasma of new cultural memes.
Two suggestions:
(It's fun, and sort of themey IMHO, to borrow historical "gangster-era" slang. I think somebody else on rpg.se suggested this to me on a different question. Ex: http://www.paper-dragon.com/1939/slang.html)
(It's always fun to make up your own, too.)
(My brother made this one up, referring to the modern internet.)
I would classify this as "Slotting/Slotting Off" to borrow from the phrase "Slot off, frag face!" from Shadowrun for the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive. This could be used as an accusation like
Griefing is an analogous term from computer gaming slang, I'm sure by whatever time Shadowrun is set, that word could have caught hold for forum abuse as well.
In the world of SR I would think that "Jacking" would be a good slur especially with the undertones and the reference to hijacking a thread, and pun on the datajacks.


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I am looking for time tracking software to use as an individual consulting on multiple projects at once. The projects I work on are billable to different clients. Some clients are billed on an hourly basis while others are billed on a project basis. I also track personal projects that may never produce income. I need to be able to track the time down to the individual task level. I am looking for software that is easy to use, cost effective, easy to invoice out of and has data mining reports.
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I love Allnetic WorkingTimeTracker. Been using it for more than six years.
costs $30 but is totally worth it.
I've tried many softwares and web based solutions (all free) until I choose Grindstone. This is the one that best suited to my purposes: http://www.epiforge.com/Grindstone2/
It looks complex at first, but it's not.
http://www.freshbooks.com/ is great for this.
A couple of years back I needed to do some contracting. Two clients independently recommended that I use it. Freshbooks was easy to set up, trivial to use, and supported a very convenient workflow. It is free for up to 3 clients, and after that the nominal cost is quickly recovered in time saved, and more accurate billing.
I can't recommend it highly enough.
I prefer FogBugz.
It's UI is very easy to work with, specifically because it supports using only the keyboard well. It is primarily task based, and tracks time against tasks. It has evidence-based scheduling, which I think can be particularly helpful for an individual working in a consulting type environment. Over time, FogBugz helps me more accurately translate my work estimates into calendar time until completion.
FogBugz also integrates beautifully with Kiln, a hosted Mercurial system. This lets me kill two birds with one stone, so to speak. Mercurial is my preferred DVCS, and the UI - like FogBugz - is as polished as any.
When you consider the quality of FogCreek's software, and their obvious commitment to building the best of breed developer tools in their market - it is easy to rely on them for such cornerstone's of development as task management and source code control.
And, both FogBugz and Kiln have free accounts for up to two users. This sounds like an advertisement, but honestly I think they are great tools.
If you are emacs user, there is org-mode a great tool which apart from all cool features(Org-mode is for keeping notes, maintaining TODO lists, doing project planning) also support Clocking tasks, have a look into this article.
I installed Kimai on a subdomain of cheap hosted server and have been quite pleased with it. Web-based, free and open source, and has worked great for me for the last couple of months.
We have developed www.yanomo.com exactly for this purpose. We chose to develop it around a simple online calender. Here you can plan tasks and write time from one place. Since we developed it ourselves I will leave rating it to others but feel free to have a look.
It's free for small companies up to 3 users (unlimited projects) and for 6 EUR/user/month you'll get invoicing with it as well.
Good luck with you search.
Which operating system do you use?
Unfortunately I can't offer you first-hand experience; but if you're just looking for suggestions and happen use Mac OS X or an iPhone, I've heard really good things about Billings from Marketcircle.
Have you come across 1DayLater before? It will let you bill on a project or hourly basis...It's also a lot more fun and intuitive to use than most other time tracking / timesheet software as it's designed for freelancers
Hope that's helpful! Paul
I like TSheets. You can clock in and out using your browser, or with an iPhone app, or via a phone call or SMS message. Has lots of reports and features. Costs $10 per month for one user. Free trial.
I particularly like the flexible clock-in/out options, because sometimes I will get to the parking lot and realize I haven't clocked out. Takes just a phone call.
I use Manic Time to track what I'm doing at work. It runs in the background and records the active program and file down to the second. It also tracks websites. I don't know if you'd consider its reporting capabilities as datamining, but you can assign tags to chunks of time, which delineate themselves automatically as you switch programs or files, etc.


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How can I install Google Picasa 3.9 or whatever the latest version is.
I don't want the Wine version, I want the native Linux version.
I'm trying to avoid using programs via Wine because it is very buggy.
How can I install Google Picasa 3.9 or whatever the latest version is.
I don't want the Wine version, I want the native Linux version.
I'm trying to avoid using programs via Wine because it is very buggy.
There is and there never was a native Picasa for Linux version.
What Google always did was to wrap Picasa in a nice package containing Picasa and a custom version of Wine.
If you want to install Picasa in Linux it always has to use Wine, either installed by you or using the packages from Google that contain Wine. In the end its your choice and will lead to the same.
Because the Linux installation is just a Wine wrapper with the Windows binaries, Google has discontinued the support for Linux and the last available package in their repositories is for Ubuntu 11.10, version 3.0.
Google explains that if a Linux user needs to use Picasa he can use the Wine version installed in Ubuntu to run the Windows binaries, making no sense to invest time developing something extra.
Google wrong on their blog on April 20, 2012:
They also explain that maintaining the package for Linux is becoming harder since and that is costing them time compared with Windows releases.
For instruction on how to install Picasa 3.9 in your system please have a look at
There are guides on that post that will help install Picasa 3.9 in your system, either by installing Wine and then Picasa with it, or by updating the Google package from version 3.0 to version 3.9.
This will install picasa 3.0, and not 3.9
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I just tried it on 12.04 64, and it worked fine. it will ask you to install othe libs if you are on 64bit system, just answer yes, and it will install automatically. If not just run this command
and it works fine.
Now using Shotwell. Here we have organization, editing and online integration all in one happy package. If there are three sites people share photos on, it's Facebook, Flickr and Picasa. Happily Shotwell can upload photos to all three. Doing this couldn't be easier: just highlight the photos you want to upload, then click "Publish." You can then sign into any of those accounts and upload the photos. Shotwell in included by default in Ubuntu.
Source: omgubuntu.co.uk
You can use Picassa as a web based application without installing anything, have a look at this link : Picassa Web
If you dont want to install picasa using wine you can always install virtualbox, fire up a windows OS/machine and use picasa - I do this all the time
sudo apt-get install wine winetricks
For older Ubuntu versions (like 10.04) which don't have Winetricks available in the repositories or other Linux distributions, install Winetricks using the following commands:
cd wget http://winetricks.org/winetricks sudo mv winetricks /usr/local/bin/ sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/winetricks
cd && wget http://dl.google.com/picasa/picasa39-setup.exe wine picasa39-setup.exe
winetricks ie6
If you get an error (link not found) and the Internet Explorer 6 setup doesn't start, you can manually download Internet Explorer 6 from HERE (click the "Internet Explorer 6 (full)" link). Then, place the downloaded "ie60.exe" file under the ~/.cache/winetricks/ie6/ folder (".cache" is a hidden folder in your home directory so press CTRL + H to see it). And finally, run:
winetricks ie6
Now the Internet Explorer setup should start:
& this should be helpful http://www.webupd8.org/2012/01/install-picasa-39-in-linux-and-fix.html http://www.webupd8.org/2012/04/google-stops-supporting-picasa-for.html
I think you can't install Picasa 3.9 without wine. I store Picasa 3.8 in my PC. And installed it besides Picasa 3.9 (using Wine).
And I work with Picasa 3.9 by using Wine and it works good.


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Unanswered: Unit Test EXTJS through Jasmine using Non MVC approach
Can you please help me with examples of unit testing ExtJS though Jasmine, not based on MVC model.
I have seen examples in Sencha that are all MVC based,i.e.Controller takes care of initializing the views .I need some non mvc based examples where in there is no controller involved,and I need to initalize views directly in my jasmine test spec.Please provide me with few examples or links to help me with this approach.
Is jasmine the right tool for the non MVC based model ?I m purely looking for unit testing alone,not automation.
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Starting somewhere on an infinite square grid, is it possible to visit every square exactly once, if at move $n$, one must jump $a_n$ steps in one of the directions north,south,east or west, and mark the ending square as visited?
If $a_n=n$ or if $a_n=n^2$?
Allowing diagonal moves as well, is there a general algorithm, given $a_n$, to check if a path exists?
Note: I am asking if given $a_n$, there exists an infinite sequence of directions, $d_n\in(N,S,W,E)$, such that for all $(x,y)\in Z^2$, there exists a finite integer $k(x,y)$, such that starting at the unit square with center $(0.5,0.5)$, marked as visited, we have after moving sequentially $a_i$ steps in direction $d_i$, for $i=1,2,3,...,k$, visited $k+1$ different unit squares, and are situated at $(x+0.5,y+0.5)$.


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I am conducting academic research on the topic of Extreme Programming and whether its practices lead to creating space for more errors and bugs in applications.
From the experiences I gathered from many, I have comments that fall on both sides. Many support it and consider it a daily necessity, with dynamics that can facilitate changing project requirements. Many others argue that it leads to many problems, such as:
Over-involvement with the customer in the process leads to the expression of customer wishes rather than needs
Many products have multiple customers which lead to conflicting needs and opinions, creating unnecessary blockades
Many products don't have any external customers, where the product is made for internal use or to be sold in the future. In these cases, the team itself is playing the user as well as the developer, hence killing the effectiveness of the process.
Not many things exist in formal documentation, this informality leads to vague vision and can create problems where the customer might say that this is not what we asked etc. etc.
The questions is why such conflicting opinions exist regarding XP. Is it a matter of different scenarios? Is there something else? To what extent is the claim (as written in the title) true?
I would like people who are working or have worked with XP here to contribute their learning and real world experiences. It would be ideal if you have any facts or references to support you answer.


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Many metal/rock songs use dropped D tuning. What reasons are there for it?
It also makes it even easier to play power chords - you only need one finger with drop D!
It's a combination of lower-sound and easier play.
While playing power-chords is easier... that opens up more complex playing patterns. You can run down a scale and land on a power-chord, which can sound really cool.
It also adds a lot of opportunity for "open" positions while playing in the key of D, which is also really nice.
I play equally in E standard and Drop-D and tend to prefer Drop-D while playing bluesy stuff. E sounds better to me when playing metal though.
Because it's cool.
It's not only easier to play power chords on the low strings, it's also easier to have drones especially in D and A. And as with any more-or-less-open tuning, you have different pitches for the unfretted strings, which means a fuller tone for different notes.
I think of it as a compromise between standard tuning and DADGAD.
Because it gives a lower, grungier sound.
It's the reason that 7 string guitars have become popular with metal bands, you can get that low down chugging :)
Yes, but one might wonder: Having to use two fingers instead of one to play a power chord is not that difficult, so why switch to a different tuning just for that?
The main advantage for me is that with only one finger needed for a power chord on the low strings, you have more fingers left to layer more complex patterns on top of that power chord.
Dropping to D also has the advantage of dropping, so it's reducing tension on the string.
Tuning down: safer than tuning up. It's also at the extreme low end of what a guitar can play, so you get an extra note, and one finger (or slide) power chords can be desirable.
On acoustic guitar, drop D is popular because you have a bigger range of pitches while using open-string chords. It doesn't quite give you the ethereal, ghostly sound you get with DADGAD but it's close. And, as others have pointed out, retuning one string is pretty quick; I've tuned to drop-D in the middle of a song, if you have bandmates to cover for a measure it works fine.
Dropped D is mostly used for rock music , metal , alternative rock etc. It's basically means that the Low E string which is the 6th string , minus 2 frets away from the standard E . Or you can match it with your 4th string which is also a D but it is the high D . I usually don't use match the high D . Drop D is fun!!! U can do a power chord just by putting 1 finger on any fret! After you dropped D , this is your tuning DADGBE . D-6th A-5th D-4th G-3rd B-2nd E-1st . For those who don't understand , when you drop D you should be able to hear the fierce sound if you play an open string for 6th 5th 4th . Don't drop to low , it's just two frets away ! Or you can go to. Hope I helped !
Playing powerchords with one finger does not satisfy me. On second string all powerchords reamain the same like in standard tuning. I would say that it is easier to play lower powerchords with dropped tuning. Many players are able to play powerchords with two fingers without any pain (even me) using standard tuned guitar.
D5 open-stringed is easy to mix any other powechords in any position on freboard. This is frequently used in any metal bands and IMHO this is the best reason for retuning into dropped tune. Even you would try to play this song
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Personally I don't like sound of dropped tuning because It sounds little dirty but I'm not metal fan actually.
Some guitarists use D-tuner for tremolo or for other guitars. This allows to retune guitar during song :D
as an addition to previous answers, it also makes certain riffs possible at higher speeds that would be extremely difficult without it. A great example of this is BYOB by System of a down, and Beast and the Harlot, by Avenged Sevenfold
It's a trick as old as the hills. There are examples of it at least as early as Led Zeppelin in rock music.
Like other alternate tunings it also changes the relationship between strings. an octave is between the same 2 frets on the 6th and 4th strings. Here's an example from Dream Theater
I think it's because..
Classic example : "Place your hands" by Reef. That first note = dropped D, a little bit crunchy.
Yum ! Annoying if over-used though, like anything.
Drop tuning is totally trendy right now, every new metal band seems to use it, I tried to cover all the reasons why, because I love to use it as well:
Easy to play
Drop Tuning is very easy to play. It does not only provide the possibility to play most chords with only one finger, but also typical progressions in the metal genre are closer to each other because of the "two-steps-down" tuning on the first string. Genres such as Metalcore become ridiculously easy with a bit of practice and you won't have to slide your fingers on your whole guitar neck to play a basic riff.
Powerchords at the speed of light
The ease to play powerchords in drop tuning can also make you extremely fast, which also gave birth to the Grindcore genre (like metalcore, but above 200bpm). It's easy, it's fast, you can play powerchords like a punk, but it sounds like metal, hell yeah!
Deeper Tuning
Metal is mostly about sounding evil and badass. Drop D already gives you the possibility to play slightly deeper tones on the first string, but Drop C is already in another category. Try Drop B, sounds like a cool soundtrack for your next macabre ritual... (Anything deeper would probably require bass guitar strings, don't try this at home)
What do you do when you want to make your sound even cooler? Every Hardcore/Metalcore/Posthardcore/Whatevercore guitarist will use a breakdown, which is easily explained: Same purpose as a guitar solo, make the crowd go crazy. The main difference between a guitar solo and a breakdown is, solos are fast and breakdowns are slow. I suggest you to read this Article to know more about it (don't take it too seriously though). Most breakdowns are played on the lowest string and you might only smash the first two empty strings most of the time:
Breakdowns can, of course be more complex, but it also allows you to play something cool while completely sucking at playing guitar. Great bands using drop tuning exist as well, don't worry!
Drop tuning is a good thing and a bad thing. It totally ruins today's new music and is not "true" anymore, because every moron can pick up a guitar and play a breakdown. On the other hand, it's a blessing. A good guitar player can sound even better and the rhythm guitar can finally sound as cool and fast as the lead guitar, who usually got the most attention before. Just try it out, drop tuning is fun :D
I play in drop C, the tuning is this, starting from the lowest to highest string...CGCFAD. I absolutely Love this tuning and here's why.
In conclusion, you get a nice low sound,faster playing, easier string bending, more unique Major and minor chords,easy drones. It's a great tuning and you can make cool guitar riffs easily if your a beginner, and it gives more advanced players a lot more freedom.
Thicker sound.. also, it changes the way you approach the fretboard, which works for playing differently and coming up with different riffs
You do a full bar and have the power chord ring while you play melody type things on the other strings. The guitarist from Billy Talent does that pretty good.
In classical music you rely heavy on the bass note ringing. So if you drop the E you get an entirely new note that rings and brings a new key to an E centered instrument.
its a cheat, hack or just a easier way to be a guitar player when learning it the right way was to hard... If you want a lower sound then tune down, but if you cant play a standard power chord at the speed of a drop tuned power chord? then give up being a guitarist and learn to play bass. I run into to many so called guitarist that cant play the music I write and cant read the music I write.
Don't get me wrong. drop tuning has its place , but if your just a one trick pony? you're not a musician. You're just a hack. Learn you instrument


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Server software has been 64-bit only for a while now (Since Server 2008 R2 for Windows, even earlier for Exchange and Sharepoint) and even Ubuntu are pushing you away from 32-bit versions for their server OSes.
But is there any good, quantifiable reason to keep a 32-bit desktop operating system maintained? We're preparing our Windows 8 images for the (unfortunate?) few that will be early adopters.
The majority of our desktop computers have 4gb or less of RAM, but I would love to not have to bother supporting a 32-bit flavoured operating system any more.
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How can I have an example of an exponential function defined in the X range 1 - infinity, with values starting at 40 and converging to 1?
It can't be a pure exponential, since a decaying exponential function decays to $0$. But we can look for a function of the kind $1+ke^{-x}$. Then our condition of having value $40$ at $1$ becomes the equation $$1+ke^{-1}=40.$$ Solve. We get $ke^{-1}=39$, so $k=39e$.
Slightly more naturally, we can look for a function of the type $1+ce^{-(x-1)}$. Then we find that $c=39$.
We have freedom in adjusting the rate of decay, by looking for functions of the shape $$1+ce^{-\lambda(x-1)}.$$ Pick any positive $\lambda$ that you like, and let $c=39$.
There is no need to use $e$ as the base. Let $a$ be your favourite base. We can look for a function of shape $1+c a^{-(x-1)}$. Again we will get $c=39$.
I would like to propose an exponential function which would converge to $1$. To do that, we must have the exponent converge to $0$ as $x \to \infty$, say $1/x^2$ would do just fine. So consider now $f(x) = e^{A/x^2}$ for some $A \in \mathbb{R}$. Note that
$\lim_{x \to \infty} f(x) = \lim_{x \to \infty} e^{A/x^2} = 1$
as desired, so it remains to pick $A$ so that $f(1) = 40$. But $f(1) = e^A$, so we can let $A = \ln 40$ to get
$f(x) = e^{\ln(40)/x^2} = 40^{1/x^2}$.
Since this cannot be a pure exponential function, let's try some others.
$1+39k^{x-1}$ is one possibility for any $0 \lt k \lt 1$ and and produces functions $1$ more than an exponential function.
$40 x^{1/x^k}$ for any $k \gt 0$ may have the sort of shape you are looking for, but I think it is not an exponential function.


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9 Absurd Movie Premises That Actually Happened
#6. Tom Hanks' Character From The Terminal
The Ridiculous Premise
Some of you probably know this one only from the ads, which means you know it only as "that movie where Tom Hanks has to live in an airport for some reason."
Probably because of something offbeat and heartwarming.
The premise is that Hanks is a lovable and simple-minded foreigner whose home country's government collapses while he's in the air. Thus the papers he has are no longer valid. Unable to return home or to enter the United States, he's trapped at the airport ... for months. If you've seen the movie, you know it only gets sillier from there, with Hanks playing the stranded foreigner as almost a Forrest Gump-style man-child whose simple, folksy wisdom and rosy outlook on life change everyone he meets for the better.
"Life is like a box of chocolates ... except when it's an abandoned suitcase in baggage collection,
in which case you should get the hell out."
Critics were quick to jump on how silly the whole thing was, saying it "plays like the first few episodes of an expensive, gimmicky sitcom about a guy forced to live in an airport" and that it is a film where "real-life logic and believable people don't exist." Though one review did congratulate the movie on its "quirkily original premise."
The Reality
It was based on a real guy, with one major difference: The real guy was stuck at the airport for much, much longer. To the tune of 18 years.
"Man, I hope my travel insurance covers this."
Mehran Karimi Nasseri was exiled from Iran in 1977 and settled in Belgium. In 1988, he decided to move to England, but his papers were stolen during a layover in Paris. Without his papers, he was unable to enter England and was sent back to France. Unable to return to Belgium without papers, he was stuck in the international terminal of the Paris airport, because he couldn't pass customs.
And there he stayed. He paid for food with donations from other passengers, which he turned into a small business. As his fame grew, he started charging reporters to listen to his story.
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The French government finally gave the guy a visa to enter the country, but Nasseri refused, saying, "There are soldiers there who shoot you dead." Some people think he grew comfortable with the airport; others think he was crazy. One of the airport workers thinks he just didn't want to pay rent.
He was paid $250,000 for the movie rights to his story, making him the richest homeless man in Europe. In 2006, he got his freedom in a roundabout way when he was taken to a hospital in Paris. The reason for his hospitalization is unknown, but we're going to take a wild guess and say it had something to do with eating airport McDonald's twice a day for 18 years. He was released and was last reported living in a homeless shelter in Paris. That's right -- he's still not paying rent.
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Sadly, he has never seen The Terminal, but that's OK, as none of us have either.
#5. Jules From Pulp Fiction
The Ridiculous Premise
Whatever you may love about Quentin Tarantino, "gritty realism" probably isn't high on the list. His characters are quirky, verbose, larger-than-life criminals. No one demonstrates that better than this guy:
Pulp Fiction begins with Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson, duh) as a gangster, hit man and stone-cold badass who quotes made-up Bible verses at his victims before putting bullets in them.
"So verily the Lord sayeth, 'Thou is about to get rolled on.'"
But after surviving a gunfight, he sees the error of his ways and finds God for real. Then, in a twist that's pure Tarantino, Jules winds up in a Mexican standoff with some low-level thugs. Instead of murdering them both, he lets them go, encouraging them to leave their own life of crime in the process. His story ends with him leaving his possessions behind and devoting his life to God.
The Reality
Meet St. Moses the Black.
Via mosesthe black.org
Not the Ten Commandments Moses, but this one did beat someone to death with a stone tablet once.
No, really. That's how he's depicted. Check out the look on his face!
Moses the Black, born in the year 330 as a slave in Egypt, was fired for stealing and being suspected of murder. That's right, fired from being a slave. Somehow managing to avoid capture, he led a group of bandits who terrorized the Nile Valley. He wasn't a Robin Hood-style thief or any other kind of heroic criminal. He was a straight murderer. One day a barking dog ruined a robbery, so he decided to kill the shepherd who owned the dog. Fair? Probably not, but when you're Moses the Black, fair's got nothing to do with it. He swam the Nile with a knife in his teeth to kill the guy, presumably running some killer one-liners about learning to keep that bitch on a leash in his head. Fortunately, the shepherd heard him coming and hid. Unable to find him, Moses said, "Screw it" and killed his sheep.
"Well I'll be damned if I came all this way and didn't make full use of my knifing hand."
The government tried to chase him down, so he fled into the desert and took shelter in a monastery. Feeling he needed a lot of that "forgiveness" thing, he converted to Christianity and became a monk.
And then he had his "standoff in the diner" moment.
Presumably over a lamb chop.
One day, the monastery was attacked by four robbers. They attacked Moses and found out they had horrible taste in targets. Moses beat the holy hell out of them with his bare hands, tied them up and dragged them in front of the other monks, presumably screaming, "Bitch be cool!" the whole time. Moses didn't believe it would be Christian to punish the thieves, so he let them go.
He later became a priest and moved to a hermit colony in the desert to "walk the earth like Kung Fu," disconnecting from civilized life just as Jules pledged to do. And he met the fate that you can guess Jules wound up meeting after the credits rolled in Pulp Fiction: Bandits came to attack, but Moses forbade the hermits to use violence. He told them to run while he stayed behind and take what he knew he had coming. He was killed, sticking by his code right to the end.
Via mosesthe black.org
"I shall turn the other cheek -- will you stop stabbing me!"
#4. The Crime-Solving Mathematician From Numb3rs
The Ridiculous Premise
The cop show Numb3rs was the specific point at which mankind realized it had run out of ideas for cop shows. The "people from unrelated professions using their skills to solve crimes" format is well-worn on TV, which has given us crimes being solved by mystery writers, psychics, a guy who pretends to be a psychic and a guy with obsessive-compulsive disorder. But a goddamned mathematician? And they spell it freaking Numb3rs? What is this, the Internet?
I'M IN YR CLASSROOM, SOLVING sin(ax)sin(bx) - k cos(ax)cos(bx) = -1
In the show, Charlie Eppes is a mathematician who works for the FBI and who somehow turns each case into a mathematical formula. For example, in one episode, Eppes turns each of the known factors of the case into a variable and makes the whole thing an equation, then, using the city as a gridline, applies that equation to see where the criminal is going to hit next.
You know, because you can totally predict how psychotic and/or meth-addicted humans will behave based on an equation. What's next, a crime-solving astronomer, who compares every crime to a major constellation? A crime-solving chef, who turns all of the clues into a "recipe"? A crime-solving serial killer, who somehow catches other serial killers with the powers of sociopathy?
The Reality
In the real world, there are a couple of pioneers in the field of crime-fighting mathematics. Jeffrey Brantingham is a mathematician at UCLA who figured that criminals don't just randomly commit crimes because they think it's funny -- they're fulfilling a need, be it stealing cars, mugging tourists, whatever. And even if you're the Joker, you're going to do your tasks in predictable patterns, just because that's the most convenient way. It's the same as how a mathematician could precisely predict the path you'd take through the grocery store when buying chocolate milk and Grey Goose.
Presumably via the antacids.
In Brantingham's case, he designed a model by watching hunter-gatherers in Tibet. After all, that's the same thing car thieves are doing: hunting and gathering. He figured out how to predict the growth or decline of crime "hot spots" in a city and even how to predict the effect different policing strategies would have on each.
But if you want to use an equation to catch a specific criminal, you want a guy like Kim Rossmo, a Canadian cop with a Ph.D. who worked with Brantingham. He's nailed down an equation that, if you plot the location of multiple serial crimes on a map, can tell you about where the bad guy lives.
In 1998, Rossmo was brought to Lafayette, La., on the case of the South Side Rapist, a masked assailant who had been assaulting women -- and getting away with it -- for more than a decade. Rossmo drew his graph, the cops took DNA from everybody in the "suspect probably lives here" zone, and they eventually got their man -- a sheriff's deputy from a nearby department. Then Kim slowly put on his sunglasses and said something to the effect of, "Guess he found out that crime does not Kimpute."


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1 cup pecans or walnuts *
¼ cup coconut sugar *
¼ cup raisins *
¼ cup Medjool dates *
1/8 teaspoon of sea salt *
½ cup rolled oats *
2 tablespoons agave nectar *
1 ½ tablespoons lemon juice
¼ teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
3 cups apples *
1 cup cashews *
½ cup maple syrup
¼ cup water
half of a vanilla bean
Topping: In a food processor, combine the pecans with the coconut sugar and process until you get a course meal. Add the raisins, dates and salt and process until the mixture sticks together. Be careful not to overprocess, or it will become too oily. In a medium-size bowl combine the topping mixture with the rolled oats.
Filling: In a small bowl, combine the agave nectar, lemon juice, and pumpkin pie spice. In a large mixing bowl, toss in the apples with the agave mixture.
Maple Cream: Process the cashews, maple syrup, water and vanilla bean until very smooth, about 2 mins in a high-power blender. Store in a large squeeze bottle for easy use or in an airtight container.
1. Sprinkle half of the nut mixture in the bottom of a 9-inch round pie dish, or 1-quart baking dish.
2. Layer with the apple filling and then sprinkle with the remaining topping.
3. Warm in the dehydrator at 145deg F (63deg C) for 1 hour and top each serving with maple cream.
Store the apple cobbler and maple cream in the refrigerator. The cobbler will keep for 3 or 4 days, and the maple cream will keep for 2 weeks.
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The gravity in this situation is unrealistic. Very magical
This picture is amazing I like how you gto the backgroud blurred out so then it looks like the deer is going fast.Fantastic picture love it.
Really nice and difficult shot! The blurred background gives some dynamic and makes the deer stand out. But it's the details such as the sunset light and its catch light in the deer's eye that completes this art. Well done Veronika!
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Council hears passionate pleas for facility to remain open
February 27, 2013
STEUBENVILLE — City Council members will continue internal discussions that may lead to the formation of the first charter review commission since 1992, and listened silently as firefighters and......
Mr. Metcalf brought figures to the council stating the city manager makes 137 thousand dollars a year including benefits. A mayor lead government would cost 154 thousand dollars this figures does not include benefits. Wages would be for mayor, treasure, law director, and an auditor. Dies the city nit pay the current law director, finance director. These are wages he should have include with the city managers wages. There substantial savings by returning to a mayor form government. This goes to show that Mr. Metcalf's failure to lead and represent the citizens and blatant disregard for the safey of Steubenville. Once again a councilman protecting his own agenda.
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Fire the City Manager. She definately needs to go. The only thing she wants to do is close down needed services and before long she will give away every piece of property (streets, marina, etc)that belongs to the City of Steubenville. Our city means nothing to her. We are mearly a stepping stone to where ever it is she really wants to go. She'll choke the life out of us on her way to the top. There is "no way" in the world that fire station should be closed down. In a town with as many older and abandoned homes as we have, we need our fire stations.
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I can't believe the things that our "leaders" have and are continuing to get away with. There is a city manager who doesn't care about the place we live. Given the chance I believe she would leave. Especially now since she is under pressure. The finance manager is still working which makes no sense. But I guess if your buddy buddy with a certain council member who oversees the finance operation. Then a $300,000 mistake can be overlooked. Our leaders have contradicted themselves on so many occasions and continue to hide behind "sunshine sessions" to keep the public in the dark. Ironic isn't it! Our council ward representatives are elected to serve our best interests as a whole.....not theirs. If cutting staffing levels is a way to balance this city's budget. I understand. However, council and management should be cut as well. We pay for every service provided to us through our taxes and that service is expected to meet a certain standard that it current
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The Steubenville unions need to realize that they are no longer a city of 37,000 and now have a population of less then 18,000 with many of the major high paying employers now gone. You can't continue that level of service when your tax base has disintegrated. Closing the fire station is right thing to do.
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Tomsays, I said that we need to have the same standard of service AND that standard is to met regardless of how many citizens live here. If your population shrinks so does your workforce but that standard does not does not drop. If closing the fire station is the right thing to do then let's close the Westend station. I would support that. If you read the article one of the firemen state the advantages of closing that station outweigh the benefits of closing the one on the hilltops. I am saying that if cuts are to be made then those cuts need to come from every person who is employed be the city. Whether they be council member, elected official, appointed position, union member or employee. If the city is balancing the budget by cutting the service that I pay for without giving up anything themselves. Then there is a problem.
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Steubenville has known this day would eventially come. For over forty years, the present & past administrations have kicked the can to a dead end, that being the year 2013.
Steubenville has been rated at the bottom of over 300 separate metro areas in America for economic growth & the reputation the dying town has is generational corruption and sleazy one party politics.
The well is dry folks! Had the previous councils and mayors simply have done the proper moves as most cities, like attrition, consolidations, privatizing, ect, we would not be here.
So, we will continue re electing a do nothing drunk driving mayor, special interest council members, and raise taxes and municipal fees on people & businesses. RollRedRoll! Example of failures....
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February 27, 2013 There's got to be a better way. Many of those homes are at least 100 years old. My grandparents built two homes on Pine Street in about 1920...most of those old ones still have the original wiring, etc...many are owned by absentee landlords who slap on some paint & pound in a few nails & that's about all the updating they get...if a home catches fire how long will it take for fire fighters from other stations to get there & set up...people will die & fire fighters' lives will be put at undo risk...those old neighborhoods are like tinder boxes. Wake up folks you'd better make a new plan & do it in a hurry.
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I got shot down on ServerFault recently for suggesting that SSO can be less secure than having different credentials for each service. What are the arguments against SSO?
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Whether you have control over all the machines, or at least the central auth server, you're better off with SSO. One place to hire employees, one place to terminate them, one set of credentials they have to worry about. Individual server compromises shouldn't leak credentials. Users are less likely to get annoyed, forget passwords, and use horrid patterns of passwords especially when the 7 different computers they have to access start hitting their password change periods at staggered points.
In a company environment, you want one point of authentication.
The Wild Internet
Spoofing / phishing is a bigger concern. Privacy becomes a concern. A third party knows everywhere you log in. Compromise of that 3rd party compromises all your accounts. The benefits of one identity, one login have to be weighed against all those. When you get duped into a fake login page from your web forum and it links to your email, and hence your bank, things may get ugly.
For the ServerFault guys, there's no question that they want that on their network. For the world at large, there's a big bit of trade-off to be had.
Edit to address commments
Imho the biggest concern with SSO is the sheer impact of a password breach, simply by factoring up all possible service accesses.
Otoh the younger history has shown that password reuse is more the rule than the exception. And SSO can also be used to enforce e.g. stricter password policies (use one password, but use it in a secure manner) or even enrich it with stronger authentication.
So I guess it all depends on the implementation ...


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Why is it so difficult for some journals to tell the truth? The reason I guess is political bias.
Take, for instance, all the rhetoric and political ads that have come from U.S. Rep. Johnson and some of the politicos in West Virginia concerning the downturn in the coal industry. The press knows the truth and does not reveal it. The problem stems from the fact that electric producers have turned to the cheap and plentiful supply of natural gas and are using their natural gas plants to produce electricity cheaper than with coal and has nothing to do with Obama or the EPA, yet the press, for political reasons, allows this lie to persist.
They should be telling these miners the truth so they can prepare to look for other employment as this will go on for at least the next 20 years, until the shale deposits have been depleted.
The press also has been remiss in giving Obama credit for all that he accomplished in light of the enormity of the problem he inherited from Bush and company.
Also, note the fact that Bush has disappeared from the scene - no mention event at the GOP convention. What does that tell you?
Barack Obama has done a great job and if he would have done what the Republicans in Congress wanted to do, we would be in a total depression now. The Republicans have been itching to gut the Social Security and Medicare programs for years and they have just the man in Romney and that idiot, Ryan.
Also, the press has been reluctant to report improvements in the economy, and if so, it's on the back page.
Journalism is a sacred profession and it is incumbent upon them to report the truth and keep the public informed and to seek out the truth.
We need Obama and a Democratic Congress. Remember this fact: It took 10 years and a war to bring us out of the Great Depression. Obama has done wonders in his four years, and that is true and verifiable, not the half lies being told to you in TV ads, etc.
So vote Obama, Charlie Wilson and Sherrod Brown back into office for a continuation of the progress that has been attained to this point in our history.
As a note of interest, FirstEnergy has shut down the Samis plant at Stratton, even after spending millions to upgrade it. It is as good as it gets in so far as coal fired plants go, so what does that say?
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