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I understand the difference between the two architectures is the separation of instructions from data in the Harvard architecture. But how do I know which type of system I'm on? Is it possible to write a program such that the program determines whether the system is von Neumann or Harvard? Could there be another architecture or are these architectures the only ones known?
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Your computer is a von Neumann machine. All general purpose computers are. The only exceptions are specialized co-processors like GPUs. It's not that you can't have a Harvard machine (or any other architecture). It's just that nobody builds them, especially not for sale (modulo co-processors, of course).
Most current general purpose CPUs use Modified Harvard Architecture. The CPU cores can access program and data independently in their separate L1 caches. At the outside, there are no separate program and data memories (nor the other cache levels are separated).
All the other architectures are rather restricted in their use. Because of the extreme complexity and costs associated with processor development, I don't think anybody would try it seriously again.
However, while modern CPUs are basically von Neumann, they incorporate a lot of ideas like Dataflow Architecture internally.
Harvard Architecture is typically only used in embedded microprocessors where the program is stored in on-board eeprom memory. The only one you are likely to see is an Atmel AVR as used in the Arduino
Both Von Neumann and Harvard architectures belong to the Control flow paradigm.
There is another paradigm, which is Data flow.
A common example of dataflow computing, though implemented on control flow computers, is the spreadsheet (from Visicalc and Multiplan to Excel).
Neural networks also belong to this category.
FPGA are another example of dataflow architecture. They are programmed with hardware description languages such as VHDL.
When you program it: Modify a memory region and then jump there and execute it.
If it is Havard you can not do it.


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Hi Tim, i'm getting a 503 (service unavailable) error when trying to use the service...Can you confirm that the migration process is completed and everything is up and running?
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You're right and I found some servers were generating errors. I have rerouted traffic back to the old infrastructure while I examine further and will resolve the problem.
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hey Jeff - thanks for the feedback!
You can always use our /debug API to find our more about the image processing used based on the device making the request, for example:
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For people who are tired of having neon colored plastic air-soft beads in their gutters, flowerbeds, grass, and well everywhere really.
Decent review on the kit: http://www.thereviewcrew.com/reviews/review-ubisofts-battletag/
Does this toy stop working whenever they work on their servers?
*Requires constant internet connection.
Another one of those things I have absolutely no use for, but just HAVE to have! Thanks Woot!, for feeding my addiction of collecting useless, yet intriguing, crap.
New DRM, deadly response mechanism. You are going to have to sign a bunch of legal waivers.
Another glowing review: http://urbantaggers.blogspot.com/2011/05/ubisoft-forums-battle-tag-in-depth.html
Dammit... I'd have to be in for 2 to make this worth it... so hard to resist...
@wormburnr: That's why I buy biodegradable.
Pretty cool. I remember when laser tag was just becoming popular :)
Anyone know where you can get extra gun sets for this? I can't find anything online anywhere. I'm wondering if they are closing out this product.
I would love to have this.. but I would never convince my friends to purchase it, and sadly, 2 people is not enough for an epic game of battle tag.
There is a T-Blaster expansion pack, but, sadly, I can not find where to purchase. Dell has it on there website, but no price or way to put it in your cart.
here is the t blaster....
You can buy the t blaster on the ubi soft site under shop..129.99
@ouijan: Best bet is to purchase extra sets from the same link. Ubisoft's own website only sells the kit, and on ebay everything is more expensive than this deal. If nothing else, you can keep the base stations as backup.
@docterz: didn't find it on the Ubisoft website. Just the starter pack.
@williamt1980: I agree. Everywhere else is more expensive. Buy more of this one if you want more guns.
I am way too tempted to buy this. I somehow don't think that would be a wise use of my money though.
Reasons why purchasing laser gear is better than paintball:
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2) You can play anywhere. Yes your own houses and yards. But also gyms, campuses, public parks, woods, city spaces, parking lots, vacant buildings, etc. Basically, unless you're very stupid about it, the worst consequence is that someone will politely ask you to leave.
3) Because you control the rules, the equipment, and the place-- you determine the pace and strategic elements of the game. So you don't have to worry about there not being enough speed/stealth/running/flanking/aiming
4) Because it's more casual, the game is less ruled by obsessive jerks. Girls might even play with you.
@crinttae: Chances are, if you own these, you don't know any girls.
In for three.
I just bought 2 of these for my sons 9 birthday. He is gonna love it and me as well. Fun times ahead!! If I had the money I would get three, but we can at least team up against the neighbor kids :)


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"feckless unmen and trashy unwomen"
Bishop Williamson really doesn't think that women should receive a higher education. Heaven forbid, they might take a course in Jewish Studies--and learn about the Holocaust!
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Oh my - really what else can be said. Oh my.Signed, Wearing Trousers and Matriculated
This letter of 2001 is a true "space odyssey." Anyone, including the Pope, who would justify the resinstatement of this man to episcopal status has got to be completely out of touch with the world. Come to think of it....
The most alarming thing about this is that other people -- admirers of Williamson -- posted it on the internet for all to see!On the other hand, it's hard to feel threatened by the movement when you see such intellectual and theological rigor in action:"Here is a pointer in the direction of normalcy: any Catholic with the least respect for Tradition recognizes that women should not be priests - can he deny that if few women went to university, almost none would wish to be priests?"Edit: Cathy, I trust you are taking this to heart: "Did this lawyeress check her hair-do just before coming into court? If she did, she is one distracted lawyer. If she did not, she is one distorted woman."
Now I'm having trouble looking away from this wreck. A mother lode of other letters by Williamson, including his October 2001 statement on the 9/11 tragedy -- just one in a long list of conspiracies (from the sinking of the Maine through Pearl Harbor and the JFK assassination).
Politically, behind the Arab terrorists are most likely the would-be architects of the New World Order, who have long been using the United States as an instrument to achieve their control of the world. Long ago they planned three World Wars to achieve their aim. It is they who provoked the sinking of the Lusitania and the attack on Pearl Harbor to bring the USA into the first two. Now they seem to be using the Arabs also. Humanly, they are clever. They are even diabolically clever. But little do they realize that they are in turn mere instruments of God who uses them for the salvation of souls.
Who does he mean, I wonder?
It really is too bad that we don't have that notorious trouser-wearing "unwoman" Elizabeth Anscombe with us anymore - - she would know exactly what to say that would put Bishop Williamson in his place.
My bet is that Williamson is not alone in SSPX with these wacko ideas. Anyone would need fascist tendencies to join that group.We see he has problems with Jews women, and also with the US intellegence agencies =CIA & NSA because 'they initiated the 9/11 attack to justitfy the Afghanistan war.'Can we expect any moment that the Catholic bishops of No. Virginia and Maryland will come to the defence of the thousands of Catholic employees of these agencies, members of their 'flocks'???........ NOT
Yes, the anti-Semitism and 9/11" Truthiness" are disturbing. But the man's views on "The Sound of Music," as elaborated in this 1997 Christmas letter, must count for something on the positive side of the ledger, no? "Soul-rotting slush"? "All the elements of pornography"? Julie Andrews as "one rolling canine female"? Perhaps we must give Benedict the benefit of the doubt...http://www.sspx.ca/Documents/Bishop-Williamson/November7-1997.htm
Dear friends, please excuse this long excursion into the audio-visual scenery of an average modern Christmas, but no less maybe necessary to rub noses in the falsity of this soul-rotting slush. Clean family edification? Nothing of the kind!As for cleanness, many films may be worse than the Sound of Music, but stop and think - are youth, physical attractiveness and being in love the essence of marriage? Can you imagine this Julie Andrews staying with the Captain if "the romance went out of their marriage"? Would she not divorce him and grab his children from him to be her toys? Such romance is not actually pornographic but it is virtually so, in other words all the elements of pornography are there, just waiting to break out. One remembers the media sensation when a few years later Julie Andrews appeared topless in another film. That was no sensation, just a natural development for one rolling canine female.
"Hair-do"-- Hand me a bottle of Alberto V05 hairspray.
Wow - if the Sound of Music is pornographic, I'm hard-pressed to come up with a family-friendly movie. Even Barnie the Purple Dinosaur cavorts naked.
I did actually take a course in the Holocaust as an undergrad. Reviewing the material for finals was a 5 hankie affair. The visiting professor was very good but rather obviously wanting me to come to the conclusion that Christianity was intrinsically anti-semitic. Having been raised in the pro-Israeli end of the evangelical world, I felt completely confident that it was not true,I knew next to nothing of Catholicism at that point in my life, much less anything about the anti-semitic traditionalism of the French Catholic far right. Just as well.
The tendency to zoom in on outrageous comments from Williamson strikes me as understandable, esp. from Catholics that are not sympathetic to traditionalists. As an academic, however, I am curious to have the attention focused on the forest than its trees. Continue on Williamson the person, if you must. But can someone start a link on the movement? I thought of this question when reading a comment from a theologian in Rome by the name of (ironically) Thomas Williams in the NRO blog. "The lifting of the excommunication," says the blog, "has more to do with the 600,000 members of this splinter group than it does with these four individuals." Over at the Atlantic, Ross Douthat has also put in his two cents.http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NWYzNThhOGUxYjI0ZmUxOTkxMDU5ODE...
Sorry, meant to say, "But can someone start a thread to discuss the movement?"
Fr. Thomas Williams, dean of theology at Regina Apostolorum University in Rome, comments to NRO: The atrocities of the Third Reich are not a matter of theological opinion but of historical record. A bishop has no special competence to opine on these matters....
Historyman,My question is this: What would happen to a bishop who had never been excommunicated and was in every way in good standing within the Catholic Church if he expressed the opinions expressed by Bishop Williamson? Would Rome express strong disagreement but say bishops have no special competence to opine in these matters? Or would such a bishop be disciplined or commanded to remain silent about his offensive opinions? Is Williamson being given special treatment in being brought back into the Church and merely having his opinions condemned? I really don't know, but strongly suspect he is. And if he is, I really don't understand why someone who is being brought back into the Church should be treated more gently than someone who has never left.
"Survey the waste on any "university" campus today - feckless unmen and trashy unwomen whose noblest activity is throwing frisbees at one another!"Guilty as charged. On warm days, I joined in on this activity as an undergrad at Saint Michael's. I even occassionally played frisbee while (gasp!) studying for MA in theology at Catholic University. Sadly, my professors never assigned any of Bishop Williamson's writings. I may have avoided such ghastly sins. (Of course! If not for my frisbee playing, I might not have needed two tries for my comprehensives)
When Ted Hesburgh's mother was pressed to send her son to the minor seminary lest he lose his vocation, she, refused, and responded by saying if he has a true vocation he will still have it when he graduates high school. That is a Catholic showing clergy what the boundaries are. Catholics have to continually resist the clergy on women and sex. In general they are woefully ignorant of both.http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/blog/?p=254
Why is this group given the appellation of traditionalist? To me, this term connotes a group having a rather benign, easily mended, disagreement with the Magisterium over minor points of doctrine, when in fact, this group sanctions the most vile forms of anti-semitism.Without much trouble, I extracted the following from a screed on the SSPX web site (http://www.sspx.org/against_the_sound_bites/mystery_of_the_jews.htm)Christendom and Jewry are destined inevitably to meet everywhere without reconciliation or mixing. It represents in history the eternal struggle of Lucifer against God, of darkness against the Light, of the flesh against the spirit. It represents in time the spiritual accomplishing and the fleshly accomplishing of the Scriptures. The Letter must be everywhere to be the servant of the Spirit. It is with this understanding St. Thomas Aquinas teaches us that the Jewish people is the servant of the Church.It is a terrible enmity, because it is theological. There is a mystery of iniquity in the Jewish people, as we are taught by St. Jerome and St. Justin, echoing Jesus Christ and the preaching of the Apostles. Jesus Christ anathematized them, calling them hypocrites and liars because the Pharisees practiced enmity under pretense of doing good. They only perpetuate what they did once to Christ.Is that what traditionalism means?
Yup (maybe).Sigh.
Antonio-Given that the Lefebvrists agree with many if not most of the Popes and heavyweight theologians in the long history of theCatholic Church, and given that they know that fact very well, it seems to me they have a right to call themselves Traditionalists". What they don'r have a right to do is claim that the Church's major doctrines never change, that some Traditional doctrines cannot be ditched.The question then becomes: which doctrines are really unditchablle? How do we know them when we find them? Itxslso seems to me that to answer those two question we need a theological epistemology-- a set of principles which can guide discussion of such epistemological cquestiins. But I've never heard of such a subject being dwveloped.
Antonio,The SSPX claims to be curators of "the Tradition", and so they use that term repeatedly and get called 'traditionalists'. Unfortunately, they have a deficient idea of our living Tradition, holding that it is what they say it is rather than the traditional Catholic view that it is what the Pope and/or a council of bishops says it is. This is simply arrogance imo, and is the one point they need to address in order to progress toward full communion.
Did you catch the part where he referred to Adam and Eve as being only 5 millenia before St. Thomas? Apparently he's a young earth / biblical literalist as well.
SPPX may be entitled to the mantle of traditionalism in some technical sense, but in common parlance, traditionalism is uncritically held to be a good thing. Hence, it becomes a euphemism that masks the reactionary and repellent aspects of the organization. What's more, characterizing the group in that manner, as the following NCR article does, is to legitimize their assertion of an orthodoxy superior to the Magisterium.http://ncronline3.org/drupal/?q=node/3180
Real traditionalists center in the word of Paul in "the freedom of the children of God." Paul insisted that the Just person did not need the law. That is preeminently true of Canon Law. Canon Law is one of the most corrupt areas of the church. I guess it helped to prevent some unfortunates from being guillotined in times of dictatorship. The history of Canon Law is plagued with forgeries and fraud. Except in countries where the Vatican has concordats, nobody pays attention. So let's banish Canon Law and write a new mandate which starts with the Sermon on the Mount.Canon law is really contrary to Galatians 1-19. What to do? It is really the wrong messge, the wrong evangel. Excommunicate Canon Law. Let it be anathema!
"Why is this group given the appellation of traditionalist? To me, this term connotes a group having a rather benign, easily mended, disagreement with the Magisterium over minor points of doctrine, when in fact, this group sanctions the most vile forms of anti-semitism.""SPPX may be entitled to the mantle of traditionalism in some technical sense, but in common parlance, traditionalism is uncritically held to be a good thing. "To the extent that I understand traditionalists (and I admit they often perplex me), I think it's important to not let the SSPX copyright the term. There are many people who are traditionalists who are fully in communion with the church. It is for them that the Holy See has directed that the "extraordinary form" of the mass be given wider availability.If we are to welcome SSPX members back into the fold, these faithful traditionalists will be very important - they're the bridge to welcome home those who have left.Just my opinion.
Ask yourself this: Are you offended by this man's extreme and cartoonish conclusions, or are you offended by his mode of analysis -- which is to locate an "ideal" of male and female within scripture and tradition (Aquinas) and try to interpret it in light of modern conditions regardless of whether it is "right" or "accpetable" to individual circumstance. The latter methodology is, in my view, always objectionable even when it is being used by reasonable people, and has the additional weakness of being highly susceptible to extremist and alarming attempts to subjugate people, especially women, in light of preconceived and unyielding views of what they "should be." It is the basis for oppression of women the world over, even when its conclusions are not nearly so extreme.
I think Ann Olivier has a point and raises an excellent question. The SSPXers, If I may use that expresson, are true to ideas widely held in the Church during the first half of the 20th century and then thought to be traditional. However the SSPXers have a blinkered view of the past. They have no real sesen of history. I wonder if they realize that the Donation of Constantine, a documents which some Popes have cited as authentic, is a forgery. I wonder if they know that in the early days of the church a bishop who moved from one diocese to another was considered to be guilty of spiritual adultery. Tradition is multifaceted. As to her question, I think the short answer is that what has been revealed to us and what we believe by divine faith is not "ditchable". There are also, as I understand it, matters closely connected with revelation that can be infallibly taught. But there are also things that have been in some sense taught in the past and some that still are being taught that fit in neither of these categories. The thing to know is what falls in what category. The Catechism of the Catholic Church is not much help in this.
Alas, the bishop's grasp of philosophy is rather shaky. There is, of course, a dubious inference from a passage in the Summa about women teaching in the church to broad conclusions about women teaching in general. And then he appeals to the lack of women participating in Plato's dialogues as support for his position. Apparently he has not read the Republic, where Plato argues that women should be permitted into the highly educated guardian class, the members of which rule the city-state. In fact, if the bishop ever decides to actually read it, he might realize that Plato decisively rejects the idea that there are differences in the natures of men and women relevant to either education or leadership.
"The sexes can never be on an equality as regards studies pursued at a university."Catholic EncyclopediaBarbara,Regarding the point you make, it is interesting to read the entry on Woman from the online Catholic Encyclopedia, published in about 1912. (An excerpt is below.) Bishop Williamson's opinions are not all that different from those expressed in the article. We have to ask ourselves whether the Church's position on women today will sound as curious and quaint (or outrageous, maybe) in a hundred years as the Catholic Encyclopedia of 1912 does to us today.
The second branch of the woman question, which of necessity follows directly after that of gaining a livelihood, is that of a suitable education. The Catholic Church places here no barriers that have not already been established by nature. Fnelon expresses this necessary limitation thus: "The learning of women like that of men must be limited to the study of those things which belong to their calling; The difference in their activities must also give a different direction to their studies." The entrance of women as students in the universities, which has of late years spread in all countries, is to be judged according to these principles. Far from obstructing such a course in itself, Catholics encourage it. This has led in Germany to the founding of the "Hildegardisverein" for the aid of Catholic women students of higher branches of learning. Moreover, nature also shows here her undeniable regulating power. There is no need to fear the overcrowding of the academic professions by women.In the medical calling, which next to teaching is the first to be considered in discussing the professions of women, there are at the present time in Germany about 100 women to 30,000 men. For the studious woman as for others who earn a livelihood the academic calling is only a temporary position. The sexes can never be on an equality as regards studies pursued at a university.
Funny you should mention the 1912 Encyclopedia.http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/article.php3?id_article=2175I think this is a challenge for the "new feminists.'
Hello All,I'm taking Bishop Williamson's letter as an especially good test of a philosopher's principle of charity. I realized recently that if one accepts the chastity argument that the philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe and the late Pope John Paul II gave in defense of a norm prohibiting contraception, then one will most likely also favor a norm prohibiting co-educational institutions of higher learning. Williamson does not mention contraception in this letter but I think I'm safe in assuming he supports a norm prohibiting contraception. So perhaps he's just being consistent, although one would really have to stretch the principle of charity here because he is arguing not for "separate but equal" universities but for a male-only norm as a necessary condition for "true" universities. (I have no idea if Anscombe realized what her own views suggest regarding higher education, but so far as I know she did nothing to discourage women from seeking higher education as she did.)I have to add a disclaimer for all my friends who agree with the teaching of Humanae Vitae and related documents: I'm not disagreeing with this teaching. I'm just suggesting that this particular argument in favor of the teaching (which is not the Humanae Vitae argument) is not a good argument.And of course, Bishop Williamson would recommend that all participants here ignore everything I say because I received my graduate training in philosophy from a secular "university" (his sneer quotes).
Please review this link - http://matt1618.freeyellow.com/treatise2.htmlThe whole document is long but using the SSPX statements, the author does an excellent job of making a distinction between Tradition (correctly understood) and Traditionalism (which, simplistically, takes a specific period of history and makes it permanent ignoring prior historical periods, expressions, etc.)Quote: "There is a formula current in Christian teaching (and the formula is borrowed from St. Paul himself) that traditional truth was confided to the Church as a deposit which it would guard and faithfully transmit as it had received it without adding to it or taking anything away. This formula expresses very well one of the aspects of tradition and one of the principal roles of the living magisterium. But this idea of a deposit should not make us lose sight of the true manner in which traditional truth lives and is transmitted in the Church. This deposit in fact is not an inanimate thing passed from hand to hand; it is not, properly speaking, an assemblage of doctrines and institutions consigned to books or other monuments. Books and monuments of every kind are a means, an organ of transmission, they are not, properly speaking, the tradition itself. To better understand the latter it must be represented as a current of life and truth coming from God through Christ and through the Apostles to the last of the faithful who repeats his creed and learns his catechism. This conception of tradition is not always clear to all at the first glance. It must be reached, however, if we wish to form a clear and exact idea. We can endeavour to explain it to ourselves in the following manner: We are all conscious of an assemblage of ideas or opinions living in our mind and forming part of the very life of our mind, sometimes they find their clear expression, again we find ourselves without the exact formula wherewith to express them to ourselves or to others an idea is in search as it were of its expression, sometimes it even acts in us and leads us to actions without our having as yet the reflective consciousness of it. Something similar may be said of the ideas or opinions which live, as it were, and stir the social sentiment of a people, a family, or any other well-characterized group to form what is called the spirit of the day, the spirit of a family, or the spirit of a people. [2]Tradition in short is not a static deposit but instead is a living entity which grows and develops within the Church throughout the centuries (Mark 4:26-33; John 16:12-15)."Most reasonably informed Catholics recognize the distinction between doctrines and disciplines but often there is a problem understanding what constitutes authentic Tradition from mere ecclesiastical traditions. This distinction and the inability of self-styled 'traditionalists' to differentiate between the two is a serious problem. To put it as bluntly as possible: no Apostolic Traditions were abolished by Vatican II. There were some ecclesiastical traditions that were modified but this is not something that is uncommon throughout history.
Cathy, the spirit of that 1912 Catholic Encyclopedia article lives on in the lower Hudson Valley. As witness, last Sunday a flyer in the local Parish Bulletin advertised a First Thursdays Marriage Program, run by a Legion of Christ priest in these terms: WOMEN, this series will give you the tools to grow in admiration and respect for your husband. MEN, this series will help you become the leader and guide you want to be. The syllabus proposes to explore the hard-wired differences between men and women and promises participants will learn why the Christian faith embraces these differences as good and what it teaches us about them. The presenter is not as obviously off-the wall as Williamson, but seems an amiable fellow, quite plausible, if you don't look or listen too carefully. Still, that very plausibility is in itself a problem. It may be that we are lucky that the four SSPX "Bishops" with whom the Pope is dealing are so outspoken and, let's face it, eccentric. The faithful are getting a really good look at them, and perhaps will take due warning.
Historyman:It's a "movement," alright. It's the kind of movement that you toilet-train your kids to avoid in the wrong places, too.
Well, fortunately (if you read his extraordinary piece to the end) Bp. Williamson only forbids girls from attending public universities. Presumably it's OK for them to go to private universities. Not Cal or Michigan or Ol'Miss or the Sorbonne, but Harvard, Yale, Oxbridge, all OK. Do you suppose that's what he meant? What about those of us who have had women students, public or private? are we guilty too for teaching them to have ideas above their stations or natures?In any case, there's an interesting article in the new Tablet on Mary Ward (1585-1645), working at great risk at the time of Elizabeth I's Catholic persecutions, making her way to Rome, trying to get authorization for the founding of a self-governing women's congregation along Jesuit lines, only to be tossed in jail after Pope Urban VIII zapped her in Pastoralis Romani Pontifici (1630). Finally, long after her death, in 1749 the congregation was authorized, but ony on the condition that Ward herself was not claimed as founder of the order (how nice to be able to rewrite history by fiat !!! -- not all Fiats are built in Turin, it seems; some come from the factory in Rome). Now she appears to be headed for canonisation, and presumably Pope Urban's bull should now to be considered just that. But Williamson, it seems, keeps the Old Flame burning
By the way, 57 percent of college students today are women. If this keeps up, it will be like Surf City. (Let's see if anybody gets that 1960s reference.)
"feckless unmen and trashy unwomen"I praise Bp Williamson for his mastery of English, and his wit -- which is alas not put to good use except when assaulting the meretricious "Sound of Music".If only we had more churchmen who knew how to turn a phrase.
My question is this: What would happen to a bishop who had never been excommunicated and was in every way in good standing within the Catholic Church if he expressed the opinions expressed by Bishop Williamson? Would Rome express strong disagreement but say bishops have no special competence to opine in these matters? Or would such a bishop be disciplined or commanded to remain silent about his offensive opinions? Is Williamson being given special treatment in being brought back into the Church and merely having his opinions condemned? I really dont know, but strongly suspect he is. And if he is, I really dont understand why someone who is being brought back into the Church should be treated more gently than someone who has never left.-----David Nickol,Sorry I haven't got back dotCommonweal for the last couple of days... Good questions you have, but I don't really know the answers. Have there been bishops in good standing voicing anti-semitic opinions? I can only think of the Polish prelate - what's his name? - in the 1980s who said something pretty controversial about one of the extermination camps. Was he ever rebuked by the Vatican?Anyway, my point is that it is very tempting to focus largely on a person than the larger group, on the leader than the movement. Easy to focus on Hitler than the German people, for example. Or, to use a different example, easy to focus on William Jennings Bryan at the Scopes Trial than fundamentalists of his time. After Scopes, everyone thought the fundamentalists were gone for good. But they only went "underground", building colleges and seminaries and institutions, and emerged to help form the Religious Right a few decades later. In many ways, the dismissive attitude of the "mainstream" Protestant churches in the 1920s towards fundamentalists came back to bite them in the 1980s.Williamson's comments are bound to raise eyebrows and ire. But it is much more fruitful to discuss the larger entity that is SPPX. In any event, I see that there've been several new threads on the topic since I last logged in.


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I am trying to convert minute based volatility into annualized volatility in such a way that both are comparable. $Vol_{min} * \sqrt(t)$ does not seam to get them into the same scale if I annualize using daily data of minute data. What are the adjustments I can do to make volatility calculated using intra-day data more comparable to volatility calculated using daily data.
Let allow me to split your question in parts:
Intraday seasonality is a major factor in comparing volatility at different times of day. Most time series display significantly higher volatility in the morning EST than mid-day. For US exchange-traded products, volatility picks up again just before 4:00 PM EST. This is known as the u-shaped volatility pattern for exchange-traded products. A proper annualization, which puts minutely volatility at one time of day on the same scale as volatility at another time, would require that you take into account all the systematic variation in volatility as a function of time.
This effect is very well known and has been thoroughly researched and described in An Introduction to High Frequency Finance, an excellent textbook written by the Olsen group, which also sells analytics based on the research described in their book. Their chapters 5 and 6 deal explicitly with an approach to your issue.
FYI, this question is tangentially related to some previous questions, How to update an exponential moving average with missing values? and How to generate synthetic FX data for backtesting? This book is also on my favorite list of books to understand the math in quantitative finance.


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BENWOOD - When Dr. Emil Nardone and attorney Teresa Toriseva went to the Health Plan office last year, they hoped to reach a resolution to the $450,000 billing dispute between the local chiropractor and the health maintenance organization.
However, Toriseva said the meeting turned out to be a "taped interrogation" that she quickly advised Nardone to end. Now, Nardone is suing the health care provider in Marshall County Circuit Court for allegedly breaching the provider contract he signed with the company in 2001.
"They never told him this was going to be any kind of an interrogation. It was a very hostile situation," Toriseva said regarding her experience with the Health Plan in February 2012.
This is the second lawsuit filed against the Health Plan within the last few weeks, as RG Steel has a federal case pending against the health care provider seeking $1.45 million for the alleged mismanagement of funds.
Nardone no longer has an active contract to provide service for the Health Plan. He alleges the HMO's actions have cost him 25 percent to 30 percent of the business he once had.
"HMOs have demonstrated themselves to be concerned more and more with making profits than they are with enabling individuals to get the health care they want and need. Time and again, chiropractic patients have been denied the opportunity to obtain treatment through their HMOs ..." Toriseva's complaint states.
An official with the Health Plan said the company does not comment on pending litigation. Toriseva said the HMO has the remainder of February to respond to the complaint.
According to Toriseva, Nardone entered a provider agreement with the Health Plan on Sept. 30, 2001, for chiropractic and related services to members. Nardone claims in early 2011, the defendant began withholding payments.
During this time period, Nardone said he hired an independent consultant and medical auditor, Dr. Tom Necela, to audit the chiropractic business and medical practice. The complaint alleges that Necela reported that Nardone's practices were all up to or above professional standards for the chiropractic industry.
In an effort to discuss the dispute, Nardone and Toriseva went to the Health Plan office in St. Clairsville in February 2012. He and Toriseva allege that upon arriving at the office, they were taken to a conference room. The HMO's medical director, head nurse, fraud investigator, general counsel and several claims reviewers were convened, while a voice recorder was in place. Toriseva and Nardone then left the meeting.
A mailing on the Health Plan's letterhead allegedly sent to one of Nardone's patients on Oct. 17 notifies the patient that Nardone is "no longer a participating provider."


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My interpretation of what's said in the article is that he was going to call it off because it was getting late and Filin hadn't come out yet. Just as he was going to call it off, Filin appeared, and so, instead of calling it off, he told Zarutsky that Filin just came out of the theater and was probably going to drive home. So I don't see much contradiction.
I misunderstood -- I thought he meant he was calling to call off the attack altogether, not to give up for the night. That, too, contradicts the earlier statement attributed to him that when the beating didn't happen right away he forgot, and confirms one of the early reports that he confirmed when Filin was heading home.
If a fellow dancer witnessed the stakeout, even if had no idea what Dmitrichenko was planning, he would have overheard Dmitrichenko's end of the conversation and was a witness to his friend's plotting. It would also counter the assertions that there was no way Dmitrichenko could be involved. No wonder he was a reluctant witness and resigned.


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It is known that the minimum solution of Pell's equation $x^2-dy^2=\pm1$ can be found from the continued fraction expansion of $\sqrt d$. Are there other methods for finding the minimum (or any other) solutions?
The basic and classical methods, apart from brute force, are
For a detailed algorithmic description see Jacobson & Williams (Solving the Pell Equation) or Buchmann & Vollmer (Binary Quadratic Forms).
In addition, you can compute a power of the fundamental unit from the class number formulas, which essentially consists in taking norms of suitable cyclotomic units. Kronecker has shown how to solve the Pell equation using elliptic and modular functions, and Girstmair (Kronecker's solution of the Pell equation on a computer {Kroneckers Lösung der Pellschen Gleichung auf dem Computer], Math. Semesterber. 53, 45-64 (2006)) has shown that it can be made to work in practice.
You can also imitate the theory of descent on elliptic curves; I have sketched connections with classical tricks in some preprints on higher descent on Pell conics.
Another nice reference on this problem (and non-CF methods to solve it) is Lenstra's 2002 notices survey, "Solving the Pell Equation".
Any algorithm for computing fundamental units of a real quadratic number field $\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt{D})$ can be used for solving Pell's equation. (You might have to do a bit of work to convert the result, but that can be done in polynomial time...)
See for example M. Jacobson, H. Williams: Solving the Pell Equation. Springer, 2009.
It is really the same method, but see my answer at
Upper bound of period length of continued fraction representation of very composite number square root
The one thing I would add here is that, if the main concern is the length of the period, the continued fraction digits are the absolute values of my $\delta$'s, so sometimes the continued fraction period is half the cycle length.
Just to add another method to the collection: Let $\Delta = \sigma + 4 m$, be the fundamental discriminant of a quadratic field, where $\sigma \in \{ 0, 1 \}$. Let $(x / z , y / z)$ be a rational solution of the Pell conic $x^2 + \sigma x y - m y^2 = 1$, with $\text{gcd}(x, y) = 1$, and let $\beta \equiv x \cdot y^{-1} \pmod{z}$. Assume that $q_1 = (t_1, u_1)$, $q_2 = (t_2, u_2)$ satisfy $z t^2 + (2 \beta + \sigma ) t u + \frac{\beta^2 + \sigma \beta - m}{z} u^2 = 1$ in rational integers, then $\nu (q_2 , q_1 ) = $ I am trying to write a matrix times a vector: $(z t_1 + (\beta + \sigma ) u_1, \beta t_1 + \frac{\beta^2 + \sigma \beta - m}{z} u_1,- u_1,t_1 ) (t_2, u_2)$ satisfies the Pell conic in rational integers. I learned about the map $\nu$ from Franz Lemmermeyer, his articles and book `Binary quadratic forms'. There is a bijection between the integer points $(t, u)$ and the primitive integer points $(T, U)$ of $z T^2 + (2 x + \sigma y) T U + z U^2 = y^2 $. Given a primitive integer point $(T, U)$, we also have a primitive integer point $(U, T)$. Using this bijection, given an integer point $(t_1, u_1)$, we obtain another point $(t_2, u_2) = (\kappa t_1 + \kappa' u_1, y t_1 - \kappa u_1)$, where $\kappa = \frac{x - \beta y}{z} $, and $\kappa' = \frac{(2 \beta + \sigma ) x - (\beta^2 + m ) y}{z^2}$. The points $(t_1, u_1), (t_2, u_2) $ are used with $\nu$ to obtain an integer point of the Pell conic. In particular, letting $\gamma = \frac{\beta^2 + \sigma \beta - m}{z}$, $( x t^2 + (z \kappa' + \sigma \kappa + y \gamma ) t u + ((\beta + \sigma ) \kappa' - \kappa \gamma ) u^2, y t^2 - 2 \kappa t u - \kappa' u^2 )$. One must check that $T \not= U$, equivalently that $y t \not= (\kappa + 1) u$, for otherwise this method will not work. This follows from "Arithmetic of Pell surfaces", Acta Arith., 146, (2011), no. 1, 1--12.
A quantum algorithm for solving Pell's equation exists, the algorithm is gives superpolynomial speedup. Given an equation, $x^2 - dy^2 = 1$, the goal to find integer solution to the equation. This problem can be solved by a Quantum Algorithm in which the algorithm for solving Pell's equation efficiently approximates the period of a periodic function with an irrational period. The quantum algorithm works by finding a regulator $R = ln(x_{1} + y_{1}\sqrt{d})$, and is closely related to finding the principal ideal.
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On June 25, 2012, Maroon 5 released its latest music video. Frontman Adam Levine stars in the video, portraying a boxer with a seemingly happy family life. But discontent lurks beneath the surface, as hinted at early on in the video by Minka Kelly's, the protagonist's girlfriend's troubled frown. Scenes of Levine, Kelly, and their baby daughter contrasts cuts of Levine's hands being wrapped and training in a boxing ring.
When Levine leaves for a boxing match, Kelly starts packing her bags. Cheers erupt as she packs, and Levine wins the fight. But when he returns home, triumphant, he finds her gone. When she left, she took not only herself but their child as well. All that remains for him are trifles, trophies and pictures, a jump rope and a single goldfish.
All his training and hard work paid off in his career; he became the boxer he wanted to be. But he lost everything he loved, all that he held dear. The video ends with a sorry picture, of a lonely man in an empty apartment, a solitary goldfish in a fishbowl.
"One More Night" may be a metaphor for Levine's own life. Celebrities often have a very hard time balancing their professional lives with their personal lives. Usually they neglect one in favor of the other. This can be their undoing.
The song "One More Night" and its music video pose difficult questions, ones that celebrities are reluctant to ponder. Is fame and fortune worth giving up your personal life? Can there be a balance between professional and personal lives? With Levine left sitting alone in a sad, empty house, the band's answer is sorrowfully clear.


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My own private crash-n-burn farm: using kernel zones for speedy testing
By jmcp-Oracle on Apr 29, 2014
I've spent most of the last two years working on a complete rewrite of the ON consolidation build system for Solaris 12. (We called it 'Project Lullaby' because we were putting nightly to sleep). This was a massive effort for our team of 5, and when I pushed the changes at the end of February we wound up with about 121k lines of change over close to 6000 files. Most of those were Makefiles (so you can understand why I'm now scarred!).
We had to do an incredible amount of testing for this project. Introducing new patterns and paradigms for the complete Makefile hierarchy meant that we had to be very careful to ensure that we didn't break the OS. To accomplish this we used (and overloaded) the resources of the DIY test group and also made use of a feature which is now available in 11.2 - kernel zones.
Kernel zones are a type-2 hypervisor, so you can run a separate kernel in them. If you've used non-global zones (ngz) on Solaris in the past, you'll recall the niggle of having to have those ngz in sync with the global when it comes to SRUs and releases.
Using kernel zones offered several advantages to us: I could run tests whenever I wanted on my desktop system (a newish quad-core Intel Core i5 system with 32gb ram), I could quickly test updates of the newly built bits, I could keep the zone at the same revision while booting the global zone with a new build, and (this is my favourite) I could suspend the zone while rebooting the global zone.
Our testing of Lullaby in kernel zones had two components: #1 does it actually boot? and #2 assuming I can boot the kz with Lullaby-built bits, can I then build the workspace in the kz and then boot those new bits in that same kernel zone?
Creating a kernel zone is very, very easy:
limoncello: # zonecfg -z crashs12 create -t SYSsolaris-kz
limoncello: # zoneadm -z crashs12 install -x install-size=40g
limoncello: # zoneadm -z crashs12 boot
I could have used one of the example templates (eg /usr/share/auto_install/sc_profiles/sc_sample.xml) but for this use-case I just logged in and created the necessary users, groups, automount entries and installed compilers by hand. (Meaning pkg install rather than tar xf).
To start with, I ensured that crashs12 was running the same development build as my global zone, but I removed the various hardware drivers I had no need for.
The very first test I ran in crashs12 was a test of libc and the linker subsystem. Building libc is rather tricky from a make(1s) point of view, due to having several generated (rather than source-controlled) files as part of the base. The linker is even more complex - there's a reason that we refer to Rod and Ali as the 'linker aliens'! Once I had my fresh kz configured appropriately, I created a new BE, mounted it, then blatted the linker and libc bits onto it and rebooted. I was really, really happy to see the kz come up and give me a login prompt.
Several weeks after that we got to the point of successful full builds, so I installed the Lullaby-built bits and rebooted:
root@crashs12:~# pkg publisher
nightly origin online F file:///net/limoncello/space/builds/jmcp/lul-jmcp/packages/i386/nightly-nd//repo.osnet/
extra (non-sticky, disabled) origin online F file:///space/builds/jmcp/test-lul-lul/packages/i386/nightly/repo.osnet-internal/
solaris (non-sticky) origin online T http://internal/repo
root@crashs12:~# pkg update --be-name lul-test-1
root@crashs12:~# reboot
This booted, too, but I couldn't get any network-related tests to work. Couldn't ssh in or out. Couldn't for the life of me work out what I'd done wrong in the build, so I asked the linker aliens and Roger for help - they were quick to realise that in my changes to the libsocket Makefiles, I'd missed the filter option. Once I fixed that, things were back on track.
Now that Lullaby is in the gate and I'm working on my next project, I'm still using crashs12 for spinning up a quick test "system" and I'm migrating my 11.1 Virtualbox environment to an 11.2 kernel zone. The 11.2 zone, incidentally, was configured and installed in about 4 minutes using an example AI profile (see above) and a unified archive.
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The 1962 and 1967 graduates of Toronto High School stepped back in history on Aug. 18. After months of planning by a committee composed of members from both classes, a joint reunion was held in the high school building that opened 86 years ago. The first class graduated in 1925. Toronto High School maintains class pictures from that first year through the class of 2012, minus a few that have been lost or destroyed. All these pictures will be rehung in the new Toronto Junior/Senior High scheduled to open in August.
Classmates and guests from both classes mingled and shared memories. Several class members had not returned to Toronto High School in the 45 or 50 years since their graduation.
Classmates were encouraged to dress as they did in the 1960s. One former majorette entered the gym with a baton and accompanying music. Both classes posed for pictures. Extra pictures, such as classmates who started grade school together at St. Francis, were taken.
After opening remarks, the classes joined together in the beautifully decorated cafeteria that everyone remembered as being much bigger. In fact, people remembered higher ceilings, bigger classrooms, a longer gym and wider hallways.
No, their memories were not accurate representations. They were memories of 14-18 -year-old students. The disc jockey played music of the late 1950s to the early 1960s. An aura of the past was present.
Throughout the evening, there were group tours of the school, and "students" remembered when they were in a room or had a certain teacher. They looked at wall photos again of graduates such as Bob Urich. Individuals shot pictures, and memories were rekindled. At 10 p.m. people said, "Do we have to leave?"
People noted at the end of the evening how lucky students of today will be to attend a new building.
The two classes held separate mixers and separate picnics. The event re-established many friendships and many fond memories and discussions of "back then."
A time of the past ended as these will be the last class reunions held at the current building. Toronto High School is scheduled to be razed after the 2012-13 school year. A park and a parking lot for the new school will take its place. Memories will live on, but new ones will be created by new classes. The final reunion was a walk into the past - comments appearing on social media sites indicated what a great time was had by 112 people.
History stopped and memories flowed as the two classes reminisced of their teen years. "To Toronto High, a song we sing." Yes, we sang the alma mater. The Class of 1967 is already planning for its 50th to be held in 2017 in an air conditioned facility for the "golden oldies."
Times pass, people who died were honored, but memories of being back at Toronto High School again will last a lifetime. Red Knights of the classes of 1962 and 1967 will remember a "Knight" of the past.
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Dorothy Adelaide (Durr) Sullivan, 79, died Dec. 11, 2012 at Bryan Medical Center in Lincoln. She was born on Aug. 3, 1933 at rural Nebraska City near Paul. She was the daughter of Hubert and Bertha (Volkmer) Durr.
She graduated from St. Bernard's Academy (Lourdes Central Catholic) in Nebraska City.
Dorothy was a nursing assistant for many years. She was a member of St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Lincoln. She moved to Lincoln from Nebraska City in 1982.
She was a loving and devoted mother.
She is survived by her five children: Timothy Sullivan and wife Yorleny Diaz-Sullivan of Lincoln, Patrick Sullivan of Lincoln, Kevin Sullivan of Shenandoah, Va., Colleen Young and husband Andrew of Canby, Ore., and Joan Sullivan of Lincoln; seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren; sister Mary Kaiser and husband Leonard of Nebraska City; brother James Durr and wife Patsy of Jefferson, N.C.; sister-in-law Joan Durr of Omaha; numerous nieces and nephews, other family and friends.
She was preceded by brother Kermit Durr.
Funeral services were Dec. 14 at St. Joseph's Catholic Church southwest of Nebraska City. Fr. Thomas Bush and Fr. Brenden Kelley were celebrants for the Mass. Burial was in the St. Joseph Cemetery.
A rosary vigil was held Thursday led by Fr. Thomas Bush.
Memorials are suggested to St. Bernard's/ Lourdes Alumni Bus Fund.
Gude Mortuary, Nebraska City, was in charge of the funeral arrangements.
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So, I'm hoping to volunteer at GDC San Fransisco in march and would love some critique on my application. Tips for both grammar and content are welcome, anything and everything is useful. :3 Show no mercy.
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Im a 20 year old swede currently studying project management in game design. I have however taken courses in English and visited the United States on several occasions meaning that I wont be socially hopeless when dealing with conference attendees or other CAs. I very much enjoy studying group dynamics, both in theory and practice which is the main reason for me wanting to volunteer as a CA.
My program is project oriented meaning that I have participated in multiple game projects and that I can quickly adapt my attitude to the group Im working with. I view the volunteer work as a chance to improve my skills as a member of a professional project crew and will do my best to motivate my co-workers, both to learn from the experience and to improve the work results. I also have past experiences of organizing and recording lectures and Ill gladly apply those skills to my tasks during the conference.
The GDC itself presents an excellent opportunity for me to visit lectures and meet people with industry experience, letting me further improve my understanding of social interactions in game development teams and making me available to possible employers. Ill have no problem acting professional when aiding people from the industry and hopefully Ill make for decent company as well. While on the CA team I will do my very best to provide and maintain an enjoyable experience both for attendees and my working group.
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I plan to use my canon 7d and Samyang (Rokinon) 8mm lens for occasional pano/hdr work, and considering either a new NN3 starter kit or a used NN SPH-2. I think the older model would probably be sufficient for my needs due to how infrequently I'd actually use it, but not sure about how it would handle the weight and size of my camera & lens combo compared to the NN3 MKII. From what I've read the NN3is stronger and has longer rails.
I can get the used SPH-2 for less than half of new NN3 price, but don't want to waste time and money on something that won't work. Any advice appreciated.


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7 "Eccentric" Geniuses Who Were Clearly Just Insane
Is it possible to be too smart? Maybe. History is full of insane geniuses, humans who mentally put the pedal to the metal--and sometimes through the floor.
Here are seven brilliant men who seemingly over-revved the neurological engine, who watched as the gearbox and chassis of their brains flew off onto the roadside...and kept on accelerating.
#7. Pythagoras, Greek Mathematician, around 575 -500 B.C.
The Genius:
Yes, this is the guy who came up with the Pythagorean theorem we all learned in school ("The square of the hypotenuse of a right triangle is equal to the sum of the square of the other two sides").
Apart from this pillar of trigonometry, Pythagoras was the first high-profile academic to insist that natural phenomena could be explained mathematically (paving the way for the study of Physics) and was even a major inspiration for Plato's theories of democracy. So, yeah, we can thank him for, like, half of the good things ever invented.
The Insanity:
Much like L. Ron Hubbard and David Koresh, Pythagoras founded his own religion. Much like L. Ron Hubbard and David Koresh, Pythagoreanism was totally insane. How insane? To put it concisely, the square of the insanity of Pythagoreanism is equal to the sum of the square of the insanity of other religions.
Pythagoras' religion had two primary tenets: souls are reincarnated, and beans are evil. Not metaphorical beans, or metaphysical beans, but just plain, edible beans.
Amongst other absurdities, Pythagoreanism's greatest commandments include:
-Do not, under any circumstances, eat beans
-Smooth out all bodily indents on pillows and/or beds
-Do not step over a crossbar
-Do not sit on a quart
-Do not walk on highways
-Do not leave the pot's impression in the ashes after removing it from the fire
-Do not stir a fire without iron
-Do not let swallows nest under the roof
Pythagoras' sect had more understandable rules, such as vegetarianism and pacifism, but he tended to break those. The vegetarianism rules were bent when, upon discovering his famous theorem, he celebrated by slaughtering an ox. His message of pacifism suffered greatly from his dying in a fight.
#6. Lord Byron, English Poet, 1788-1824
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Widely considered second only to Shakespeare in English poetry, Lord Byron published his first poetic work at 14, an age when our most profound thought was that girls might possibly be more awesome than video games. Renowned for his wit and versatility, Byron's Don Juan remains one of the few poems most of us can name when trying to seduce drunk English majors.
The Insanity:
It began when Byron arrived at Cambridge, where he was ordered to send his dog back home as keeping one was against school rules. Desperate for a pet, Byron scoured college policies for an animal not expressly forbidden. He found no reference to bears.
The bear stayed with Byron in his dorm room. Being a responsible pet owner, Byron took it on regular leashed walks through the university, terrifying fellow students and lecturers. When asked by administration what purpose the bear served on campus, the poet tried in vain to get his beast a fellowship.
Above: Lord Byron and his bear on their 4X4 ATV.
And where most people mellow out after they leave school, Byron decided to take his crazy to a whole new level. We'll let this quote from one of his friends tell the story:
"Lord B's establishment consists, besides servants, of ten horses, eight enormous dogs, three monkeys, five cats, an eagle, a crow, and a falcon; and all of these, except the horses, walk about the house, which every now and then resounds with their unarbitrated quarrels, as if they were the masters of it."
"...I find that my enumeration of the animals in this Circean Palace was defective, and that in a material point. I have just met on the grand staircase five peacocks, two guinea hens, and an Egyptian Crane"
That's from Percy Shelley (a fellow poet and husband of Frankenstein author Mary Shelley). If you're not seeing the problem with turning your house into Noah's Ark, then you're not imagining the sheer amount of shit these animals produce.
Later on in life, Byron's tendencies for playing zoo keeper switched to tendencies for playing war admiral. He constructed two small stone forts on the edge of his lake and launched a fleet of toy ships, which he would spend whole days directing while crouched in his fort. At Byron's insistence his servant, Joe Murray, would lie prone on a small boat in the lake and "command the ships" which we're guessing consisted of pushing them around and making cannon noises with his mouth.
Records concerning how much Joe Murray was paid to put up with this sort of shit are unavailable.
#5. Tycho Brahe, Danish Astronomer, 1546-1601
The Genius:
Tycho Brahe is renowned for the magnificent precision of his astronomical measurements. At a time when telescopic astronomy was young and crude, Tycho assembled an array of data whose accuracy facilitated numerous discoveries, including the laws of planetary motion by his assistant, Johannes Kepler.
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The Insanity:
Let's suppose you were high up in social circles and often compelled to give dinner parties. Let's also say you wanted to impress your high-profile friends and reassure them that their good faith and finances were in safe hands. What would you do?
How about hiring a dwarf, dressing him up as a clown, and without any explanation having him sit silently underneath the dining table for the duration of the dinner? Tycho Brahe did it, and he was a lot richer than you.
In order to protect journalistic integrity, it's worth explaining that the above may misrepresent Tycho. "Hiring" can suggest a casual, occasional employment. Tycho's dwarf was full-time. His tasks included sitting underneath the table when Tycho (and sometimes friends) ate, and just hanging around the house.
Tycho was renowned as a heavy drinker, so maybe he hired the dwarf in a drunken stupor and just never had the heart to tell him to leave once he sobered up. Otherwise it's safe to say the man was a few planets short of a solar system.
#4. Michelangelo, Italian Renaissance Painter, 1475-1564
The Genius:
In all of art history, only four artists have ever warranted a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle. Michelangelo was one of them. His painting of God Creates Adam on the Sistine Chapel remains the most celebrated wallpaper of all time. Despite his place among the historical elite of painters, he had little respect for paint as a medium and branched to other arts including sculpture (The Statue of David) and architecture (St Peter's Basilica).
The Insanity:
Michelangelo ignored even the most basic tasks of self-maintenance. Not only did he bathe "very rarely" (by 15th century Italian standards, no less), he rarely even changed clothes, sleeping in full regalia--shoes included. His assistant once complained that, "He has sometimes gone so long without taking (his shoes) off that then the skin came away, like a snake's, with the boots."
That sort of thing has caused some to speculate that he suffered from autism. He showed all of the signs, including struggling with social interactions (though it probably didn't help that he was covered in filth all the time). He would rarely speak to others, hated doing so, and had a tendency to end encounters by walking away mid-conversation. When his brother died, Michelangelo skipped the funeral.
The artist who made this smelled like poop.
If true, it was also his autism that let him focus on his work obsessively, to the sacrifice of absolutely everything else in his life. So it was the kind of autism that allowed him to become world famous in his field. As mental illnesses go, you could do worse.


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Vegetarian women tend to have much lower levels of DHA than nonvegetarians, and may have more pregnancy complications because of this deficiency. Women who are deficient in EPA and DHA have a sixfold greater risk of developing serious mental disorders such as depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder, and this risk remains higher for two years after giving birth. Vegetarian mothers can get DHA from some of the algae-based products designed with them in mind.
Babies and toddlers score higher on tests of intelligence and visual acuity if their mothers ate fish a few times weekly during pregnancy. Breastfed babies, who get a lot more DHA from mother's milk than their bottle-fed counterparts get from formula, also do better on intelligence and vision tests, and they are less vulnerable to attention deficit disorders and other behavioral and learning problems.
If you eat the typical Western diet, you were probably already depleted of DHA and EPA when you became pregnant. Your baby's body drew on your omega-3 stores to build its brain, nervous system, and cell membranes, and left you even more depleted. There is good scientific evidence that a lack of omega-3 fats passes from generation to generation; if your mother did not pass much on to you, your body has fewer stores to draw from during your own pregnancy, and if you have a daughter, her body could have even less of these essential fats to fortify her own offspring. It is therefore essential to replenish your omega-3 reserves.
Fish is the best natural source of DHA. Not all fish are good sources of this fatty acid and EPA. Fish that live in deep, cold waters, such as salmon, cod, sardines, anchovies, albacore tuna, herring, and mackerel, are your best sources of these essential fats. Because fish, like every other creature on the planet, contain toxins that come from the foods they eat, limit fish consumption to three times a week. Avoid swordfish, shark, and tilefish entirely when you are pregnant or nursing, because these species tend to retain higher levels of toxins in their flesh. Some nutritionists recommend farmed fish over wild fish to avoid toxins, but farmed fish are generally fed foods high in unsaturated oils such as soy and corn, so their DHA levels are lower. The best answer is probably to try to vary the type of fish you eat, alternating between farm-raised and wild-caught fish.
We recommend eating high-DHA omega-3 eggs. These eggs are laid by chickens fed a vegetarian, DHA-rich diet with algae added to their food. They are a great source of this essential fat, especially for women who don't like fish. (Although we are not aware of any studies on the intelligence and visual acuity of the chickens that lay omega-3 eggs, it is likely that they and their offspring are sharper than the average clucker!) Omega-3 eggs also contain six times more of the antioxidant vitamin E than other eggs.
We also recommend taking EFA supplements throughout pregnancy, nursing, and beyond.
Flaxseed oil, which is high in another omega-3 fatty acid, alpha-linolenic acid (ALA), is widely touted as an ideal omega-3 supplement for those who would rather not eat fish. ALA is indeed similar in structure to DHA and EPA, but the ALA molecule is slightly shorter in length causing it to be termed a short-chain omega-3 than these other two long-chain omega-3s. Thus, in order for ALA to be made into "good" prostaglandins or to build nervous-system tissues and cell membranes that function optimally, it must be transformed into EPA or DHA. Some research shows that this transformation can fulfill the body's EPA and DHA needs adequately, while other research casts doubt upon the body's ability to transform enough ALA to meet its needs.
The scientific jury is still out on this one, but after looking at hundreds of blood tests for fatty acid levels, we feel the best way to ensure that your DHA and EPA levels are sufficient is to eat foods that contain DHA and EPA. If you want a vegetarian supplement of these oils, seek out the ones made from algae. That is where the fish get their long-chain omega-3s. ALA can be a valuable addition to the diet, helping to balance out skewed omega-3 to omega-6 ratios.
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Let's say you have created a programming language, maybe because there was a problem which was unfeasible to try to solve using existing languages, what would you do to market it (and so on) in order to make it gain attention in the software engineering (or academic etc. depending on the purpose of the language) industry?
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Use it.
Use it as your primary development tool. When you run into its failings, address them, because you can afford to change basically whatever you want about it before it becomes popular. The language will improve and solidify over time. As you produce more and more great applications written in your language, people will take notice of it and begin to take it seriously as a tool, and they might start using it. That's step one.
Step two is to keep using it, and make it as easy as possible for the people who might want to use it. That means top-notch documentation and examples, actively promoting the language to everyone you can, and getting your users to actively promote it by making it good enough to use as a primary tool.
But it all starts with using it yourself for real tasks. If you never get to that point, neither will anyone else.
Unfortunately there's not a whole lot you can do to MAKE something popular. Take for example the popular game for the apple platform Angry Birds. The company that made that game had created many many games prior that were only marginally used in comparison. Then there was just something about Angry Birds that just struck with people... then they told their friends who told their friends to the point that it seems like almost everyone owns/has played/knows about it. The same thing is true of programming languages. You make it... then its either a success in time or its not. The only real things you can do is try to promote it with friends, colleagues, etc. Certain things will influence its success such as speed, ease of use, functionality, versatility, etc. Its these areas that are most worth your time and effort.
EDIT: Well I actually just thought of something... volume might be with in your control. If you're extremely creative you could just start pumping out hundreds of different programming languages... eventually the odds would get very good that one of them would become popular...
Flip this around and ask yourself why someone would want to use your new language?
If the answer to many of these questions is "err ... no", then it is too soon to market your language.
make it fun to use. Besides that have really great documentation! That is always the first thing I look at when trying to evaluate something new.
Actually the thing a new language needs to get picked up by a lot of people is going to be a Book, By O'Reilly or the Prags
The same as any other thing you've invented, create lots of examples of useful stuff you've built using it.
Why would you create another programming language? Unless you want to learn some fundamental CS concepts to improve your day to day programming writing a programming language in order to make it popular seems like a waste of time. Then again if you're really set on creating a popular programming language then targeting the JVM or the CLR or LLVM is probably the way to go.
That and assuming the this problem that people have affect enough people. I know Ruby got really popular cause of the MVC framework rails. They also had a huge marketing team. Microsoft C# is very popular because they would try to push it on everything. XNA framework uses C# and to do games on their platform (PC, ZUNE, 360, what have you), you got this neat XNA framework that uses C#.
So yeah, it seems like you have to be proactive and push for it or have something so significant that you don't have to do marketing (scala for example). Google Go language for example isn't taking off. I think only time will tell.


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The House of Representatives passed legislation Thursday that avoids a federal shutdown and keeps the government open through the end of the 2013 fiscal year, which winds up Sept. 30. The Senate approved the same measure Wednesday, so the bill now goes to the president for his signature.
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I've had problems from my cell phone for quite awhile, and had the option (with a little work) to get it replaced about 6 months ago. My little cracked iPhone 4 records very few phone calls missed or otherwise, cannot take new pictures (except through instagram), does not allow me to use the majority of my apps (but Facebook and Twitter live), often goes black except for a little white circle that spins until it dies (which can take hours), and, very importantly, DOES NOT receive or send texts except on the rare occasion.
Well that sucks, you're thinking. Why the hell would you not get it replaced? Let me detail it for you below.
#1 I get less invites to do things.
Believe me, this is not because I don't want to do things with friends. Also, I did announce on Facebook my phone does not text. I don't think people understand though. I have been able to do MUCH MUCH MUCH less with friends since August than I would like to. A part of me knew six months ago I would feel better if I didn't even see the texts than if I did and had to constantly be confronted with invites to do things I wouldn't end up doing. I think that part of me was right, because it hasn't been fun. But it would be a lot less fun with texting capabilities. This is the most important reason.
#2 I have had enough text flirting for a lifetime.
Texting is lazy and I have no desire for it in a relationship. It is an easier form of communication I do not prefer. My man will call me and text only on occasion (whenever whoever he is shows up that is.) So I guess this filters anyone who would just be texting me. Not that filtration has been an issue. My filter is clogged.
#3 I don't want to talk to you.
There is only one person in particular I am very grateful I do not know whether or not they have been texting me the last six months. Before my texting absolutely died, I was getting some strange ones from them. This person was a negative impact on my life for too long. Out of sight, out of mind, truly.
#4 I have an issue with putting things off.
When I think of my flaws, this one is a biggie. I put things off often. Simple procrastination, sure. But also things I don't want to confront. Even if I can I just choose not to, because I want to see how far I can let it go. I often feel like I don't have much control or say in my life so I think this behavior is an attempt to exert some control. (Look at me analyzing myself.) Perhaps also I am afraid to give my best. Because if you don't know what your best is you can't be too disappointed with your abilities. I suppose putting off getting a new cell falls under simple procrastination though.
#5 My cell phone service provider changed my upgrade date.
I was supposed to get one in December, but SOME ENTITY changed its mind. Boo. So I have about another month to go. But I think I'll survive.
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Is there a way I can perform a search in GMail which will return all emails where I have been listed as one of many email addresses in either the To: or CC: fields?
Basically emails where I am not the sole person being emailed.
Your best bet is probably to download them via IMAP and use a mail client's more powerful search capabilities if you value your time.
If you're intent on using the browser, in Gmail settings, turn on personal level indicators and set your maximum page size to 100 conversations/page. Then do a search for 'cc:me OR to:me'. Then do a find in page for the character › (which will highlight messages that are sent to you+others. This might take a while, but is way quicker than sorting through them all.
The Gmail search field let's you put to: and cc: operators. However I'm not sure how you could get only those ssn to you but where there are other recipients. Maybe try to see if you can add boolean operators (to:youraddres AND cc:*).
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Wordrix Rocks!
Some nice Apps there. So...Wordrix is the new Wordament is it? oh man, as if one wasn't addictive enough!
Finally got into the word puzzle games thanks to Laura's advertisement of Wordrix.
So far I really like it but I hope to be able to avoid addiction.
Speaking of addiction, what do you guys think about my colleague's game Occupied?
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I Wrote a little game for WP7 once [CarrierOps] But its rubish, and everyone else seems to think so too. But at least its in 3D. Waiting for an improved Garbage collector in Mango, so I can do decent 3D Terrains.
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