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Looking for a new tennis racquet. I only play about a dozen times a year, if that. Which brands are good brands to go by?
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Head. Or Slazenger. Wilson comes to mind, as well as any store-bought brand since you're not turning pro. You can't go wrong if you get Head IMHO.
The big three that come to mind are Head, Prince, and Wilson. If you're just starting out, a decent cheap one can be found at Target, Wal-Mart, etc. If you're looking to move up in quality some, going to a sporting goods store (I think I got mine at Dick's when I was playing for my high school team) and spending between $80 and $100 should get you a nice racquet. One thing my coach told me was to make sure it's the right size for your hand (the diameter/circumfrence).
@jsimsace: Heh heh to your last sentence (juvenile moment).
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I'm asked if the ring of formal power series is finitely generated as a $K$-algebra. Intuition says no, but I don't know where to start. Any hint or suggestion?
Let $A$ be a non-trivial commutative ring. Then $A[[x]]$ is not finitely generated as a $A$-algebra.
Indeed, observe that $A$ must have a maximal ideal $\mathfrak{m}$, so we have a field $k = A / \mathfrak{m}$, and if $k[[x]]$ is not finitely-generated as a $k$-algebra, then $A[[x]]$ cannot be finitely-generated as an $A$-algebra. So it suffices to prove that $k[[x]]$ is not finitely generated. Now, it is a straightforward matter to show that the polynomial ring $k[x_1, \ldots, x_n]$ has a countably infinite basis as a $k$-vector space, so any finitely-generated $k$-algebra must have an at most countable basis as a $k$-vector space.
However, $k[[x]]$ has an uncountable basis as a $k$-vector space. Observe that $k[[x]]$ is obviously isomorphic to $k^\mathbb{N}$, the space of all $\mathbb{N}$-indexed sequences of elements of $k$, as $k$-vector spaces. But it is well-known that $k^\mathbb{N}$ is of uncountable dimension: see here, for example.
Finitely generated $k$-algebras are Jacobson, hence finitely generated local $k$-algebras are artinian, hence finitely generated local $k$-domains are fields. Well, $k[[x]]$ is not a field.


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WEIRTON - Weirton Medical Center announced that it is the first hospital in the region to install two Siemens' Dimension Vista 500 Intelligent Lab Systems and to offer in-house vitamin D testing.
The Vista analyzer is a new, advanced class of lab testing equipment that integrates four technologies with on-board automation (robotics) to create a system that revolutionizes the way the hospital's laboratory functions.
David Michetti, BA C(ASCP) MS, division director of ancillary services at Weirton Medical Center said, "The Vista analyzer eliminates many manual tasks so our technologists and technicians are freed up to address critical issues in the laboratory. These analyzers have reduced the testing times for many of our tests so patients in areas such as the emergency department or critical care can be treated more quickly."
Waiting for test results can become critical factors in the treatment of serious medical conditions such as heart attacks. Troponin, a protein that elevates when an individual suffers a heart attack, is routinely checked to confirm a heart attack while the patient is in the emergency department. Michetti said the new Siemens' lab system cuts the testing time to about 20 minutes, which will speed up treatment times for heart attack patients at Weirton Medical Center.
He figures they'll do roughly 600,000 to 700,000 tests performed on these analyzers per year.
"'Twinning' two analyzers further reduces testing times because when one analyzer is busy, the test is automatically sent to the second analyzer rather than waiting for the first analyzer to become available," Michetti explained.
Dr. Joseph P. Endrich, president and chief executive officer of Weirton Medical Center, said he is pleased that Weirton Medical Center now has the new technology. "It is critical that we obtain accurate test results as quickly as possible and get this information into the hands of our physicians so they can make effective decisions about their patients' medical care," he said.
Also new to the laboratory at Weirton Medical Center is vitamin D testing. Vitamin D is essential in the formation and maintenance of strong, healthy bones. Recently, many chronic diseases such as cancer and osteoporosis have been linked to vitamin D deficiency.
"The laboratory at Weirton Medical Center is the first regional laboratory to provide vitamin D testing on-site because of our Siemens' Centaur instrumentation that is in the laboratory," Michetti said. "We sent over 2,300 vitamin D tests to an outside reference lab last year. We will now be able to perform this test in our laboratory and provide more timely results to physicians."


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It's raining.
What is raining? Is it the sky? The clouds? The weather? The rain? What is "it"? Any historical insights on the statement?
Definitions for it in my Webster's 3rd New International Dictionary include:
It is raining or It is two o'clock are examples of 2a.
If it hadn't been for your help, I couldn't have finished in time is an example of 2b.
It is I who have the answer to the question is an example of 3a.
In some languages, a subject is always present in the sentence, even when conceptually there is no subject. English is one of them, as well as French ("il pleut" for "it's raining").
In other languages, like Portuguese for example, you don't use any word for the subject when it doesn't exist. We say "chove" (just the verb) for "it's raining".
Well, the short answer is that it does not matter. The widely accepted explanation is that the "it" in "it is raining" does not refer to anything.
If you are curious, the verb "rain" is sometimes used with a subject such as the sky and clouds. The Oxford English Dictionary (the link requires subscription) gives many examples of this usage from Old English to the twentieth century. One of them is:
(Emphasis added on "cause them to rain.")
Note that I am not implying that the "it" in "it is raining" actually refers to the clouds or the sky.
This is a workaround to plug avalent verbs into the rigid English sentence structure.
It isn't referring to anything specific. It's just a grammatical construct of English, which requires that sentences have a subject. Other languages like Latin or Japanese (known as pro-drop languages) don't require an explicit subject and omit the it. You can, for example, express the same meaning simply with "pluit" (Latin).
"It" doesn't refer to anything here. It's just a stand-in for the subject. "It" is the noun of the sentence, but it is not behaving as a traditional referent.
Standard English syntax requires a subject and a verb in each sentence, but some ideas become bogged down by this. To say for example, "The sky is raining," in English is obvious. However, English has evolved into very simple nouns and verbs (and all the rest). We don't deal in declensions anymore, and as our verb conjugation is comparatively very simple, it does sometimes lead to a few awkward structures.
In Spanish, we'd just say, "Está lloviendo." Verb + Gerund. The verb construction is third person singular and in that context just implies a state of being.
Or, in Latin, it would be "pluit", which can mean, "It rains" (habitual), "It is raining" (current action), or "It does rain" (emphatic). Alas, Latin is both awesome and at the same time terribly, terribly limiting.
Raining reflects a state; the unresolved it – in the absence of another anchor – defaults to referencing our global environment or world state.
Just musing ...
Suppose your child says "My friend Sally's dog died," and you reply, "Yes, it is sad." Who or what is being "sad"? Sally may be sad, but your comment isn't really about Sally. The dog isn't sad -- he's dead. (Or if dogs have immortal souls, maybe he's sad and maybe he isn't, but in either case that's not what you're trying to say.) Really you're saying that the fact that pets die is a thing that causes general sadness for humanity.
Or if a physics teacher asks, "Do you understand why photons cannot penetrate an opaque barrier?", a student might reply, "It is clear." What is "it"? Certainly the opaque barrier is not "clear". :-) Myabe the concept being discussed is clear. Maybe in this case you could say that "it" is "my understanding of the concept being discussed".
One could go on with other examples. My point is that in such sentences, "it" is a very amorphous word, I don't think you could pin down a single thing for it to refer to in any such sentence. Rather, the reader is supposed to intuit it from the context.
In the sentence
In other words, it has no identifiable character in this context.
Here it can refer to a condition that something is happening, i.e. rain.
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To establish the Weil conjectures for $n$-dimensional projective space over a finite field is elementary. Does there exist a simple direct proof of the conjectures for finite field Grassmannians?
The first result on the google search "zeta function of grassmannian" seems to contain quite a direct and not too long derivation of the zeta function for a grassmannian over a finite field:
From the zeta you see that it is rational, of course get the zeros (which are none), but you don't immediately get confirmation of the functional equation. Though, from the very simple combinatoric representation of the zeta function, it might be easy to prove directly, I will try with pen and paper later.
I'm glad I searched this, I didn't know the zeta was so simple in this case as well.
Yes. Both cohomology and number of points are readily determined by looking at the Schubert cells (a cell of dimension k contributes one dimension to $H^k$, and $q^k$ to the point count) and they match.
In fact, it's very easy to check Weil's conjecture directly for any smooth variety which has a decomposition into cells.


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Duck fat is not only an indispensable cooking fat, it's also excellent for baking. It can be substituted 1:1 for lard in any old fashioned recipe, you just need to keep it well-chilled while you work with it. Duck fat adds depth of flavor to baked goods, makes an especially tender pie crust, lofty Viennoiseries, and flaky cookies. Ariane's father, Andre Daguin, made duck fat pepper biscuits in his chef days. He served them with chilled marinated peaches, the recipe of which is in his 1981 cookbook, Le Nouveau Cuisinier Gascon.
A holiday staple in the American Southwest, biscochitos are cookies made from lard and flavored with anise seed and orange zest. Since anise and orange are also common flavors in Southwest France, we thought we'd put our own spin on biscochitos by making them with duck fat. The cookies are delicious and quickly becoming a holiday favorite around the office. Give them a try!
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The strains on labor
capacity in oil and gas construction markets worldwide are
becoming increasingly well known. These strains continue to
affect forecasted project costs, and several large capital
projects have already been delayed or canceled (see
Shells Louisiana gas-to-liquids plant as an example) as a
result of rising costs and questionable long-term profitability
projections. As demand continues to
increase in the face of the liquefied natural gas export gold
rush, construction firms are faced with unprecedented pressures
to retain and grow talent.
To keep up with this extremely dynamic and
competitiveif not unprecedentedbusiness environment, US energy
infrastructure construction firms need to develop a robust
talent pipeline to tackle the industrys many business
challenges in the coming years. In 2008, just 3.8% of the total
construction workforce was engaged in direct oil and gas construction. By 2012,
6.4%nearly double 2008s numberof that
workforce was engaged in direct oil and gas construction.
According to FMIs estimates, by 2017, nearly 10% of the
total US construction workforce will have moved over to this
burgeoning segment of the industry, Tables
1 and 2.
Fierce competition for talent in this sector is already driving
construction companies to think about their human capital needs
and the strategies required to optimize their access
toand retention ofqualified and experienced
The oil and gas construction market remains vibrant,
and many firms are seeking new ways to expand and grow their
market presence, said Scott Duncan, a vice president with
FMI Capital Advisors. As competition for limited
resources intensifies, labor and talent management are quickly
becoming a key differentiator in company performance and
overall company value. Companies seeking to build a presence in
this market need to ensure they have the systems and processes
in place to maximize productivity and retain top
If companies do not figure out how to transfer knowledge
from soon-to-be-retiring employees to younger generations of
workers, decades of industry wisdom and expertise will be lost
forever over the next five to seven years.
Following is a summary of the top-five business fundamentals
pulled from 25 in-depth interviews with executives of energy
infrastructure construction firms and select FMI industry
Develop comprehensive in-house training programs and
build long-term knowledge pipelines. The recent
expansion of the US oil and gas
industry, coupled with the retirement of many experienced
supervisors, is causing overstretched construction firms to
rethink their training and succession plans. Successful
companies are developing comprehensive knowledge transfer
programs, shifting knowledge from senior (and
soon-to-be-retiring) employees to the next generation and
leveraging organizational expertise and best practices across
the business.
Fast-track leadership programs are also becoming critical as
experienced craft workers move into leadership and mentoring
roles, training less-experienced employees in a very short time
frame. As one industry executive explains, With the
limited amount of skilled labor available, we took many of our
companys highly skilled craftsmen and turned them into
supervisors to help manage less-experienced workers. These
skilled craftsmen went from being welders one month to foremen
the next month, which doesnt necessarily mean
theyre good-quality supervisors. Leadership and mentoring
skills are very different from technical expertise.
In the fast-paced oil and gas industry, a purposeful
approach to training and knowledge transfer will not only
significantly increase the readiness and skill sets of the
employees, but it will also attract new talent to the industry
with the compelling story of commitment to the individual
employee. For energy infrastructure construction firms to
succeed, they will have to effectively attract, develop and
retain human resources. Developing a long-term strategy to
address these human talent issues and following through with
diligence and consistency on the execution of that strategy
will become the key competitive differentiators among firms in
the oil and gas sector.
Engage your people. In an industry
that is constantly in flux and characterized by extreme working
conditions, company executives must keep their employees
engaged and devoted on a daily basis. Industry leaders who have
established a good reputation over the years with corporate
cultures focused around safety, education and employee
well-being find themselves at an advantage in the war for
talent. If were talking about retention, then two
things are very important: Employees have to like what they do
and also like the people they work with and for, noted
Rena Lo, human resources manager at AMEC Oil and Gas, Inc.
Motivation, reward management and performance appraisal
largely drive employee retention and satisfaction. Even when
offered higher salaries and/or compensation packages, for
example, the most engaged and trained employees are less likely
to jump ship.
It really must be more than just the dollars,
said Cory Jodoin, president of Jen-Col Construction. Every
single person in my company can find a job elsewhere that will
pay more than what they earn here at Jen-Col. So you need a
culture where people value more than dollars. Thats the
challenge: coming up with a plan for retention, training [and]
development, and making every job meaningful.
Another industry executive added, A key focus for us
is succession, and we try to keep our people engaged at all
times. You have to treat people right, and these days many
companies dont seem to invest enough in their
In addition to the methods mentioned above, the oil and gas
sector is using techniques like e-learning to retain current
employees and recruit new ones. Also playing a key role in both
retention and recruitment are fundamentals like safety culture,
working conditions, supervision, co-workers/interpersonal
relationships, job security and organizational policies.
Integrate HR with other core business
functions. Look at your organizational structure
and reevaluate how all the different departments and business
units are performingboth together and separately. Over
the last few years, CEOs in the construction industry have started
to look for synergies among functional areas, finding ways to
leverage support functions, such as HR, IT and finance, to be
fit for a purpose and ensure that they are more
closely aligned with the overall enterprise strategy.
I see a lot of stand-alone systems work counter to
each other. It can be very inefficient. For example, if you
have a strong HR department, and you are hiring great people
but have no systems in placesuch as a strong career path
or effective incentive-based compensation programthen
youll end up being a prime target for your competitors to
recruit talent, said Jason Baumgarten, FMIs Western
consulting group manager.
In the oil and gas sector, specifically, this could not be
more accurate. Human capital has become a hurdle, and
overcoming that obstacle requires buy-in from technical,
operating and HR leaders. From the board down to the individual
operating company level, new attention is being paid to human
resource functions whose operational objectives must be linked
to the firms overall operating targets. Aligning
different business functions in more integrated ways will help
increase communication across the organization and push
employees to work collaboratively and more effectively toward
common strategic goals.
Understand your risk. According to
the US Bureau of Labor statistics, the domestic oil and gas
industry lost a record number of workers on the job in
2012the same year that industry fatalities increased to
138 from 112 (in 2011). This represents a 23% increase and the
largest number of oil and gas worker fatalities since the
current data series for the BLS Census of Fatal Occupational
Injuries (CFOI) began in 2003.
These numbers echo the rapid pace at which the oil and gas
industry has been expanding in recent months. As energy
infrastructure construction firms scramble for skilled workers
to keep up with demand, companies are more apt to hire
less-experienced workers who lack the necessary safety training
or technical skills. An executive of a large EPC firm stated,
Weve seen brokers recruit people who worked as
fishermen in the past and say they can weld and now
theyre applying for offshore welding jobs. Most of these
people dont have any experience working in safe environments, and its a huge
risk for a company like ours to hire them on our projects.
To circumvent this whole frenzy and scramble for last-minute
bodies, construction firms and end users/owners
must rethink their collaboration efforts. Progressive energy
infrastructure construction firms are already looking into
innovative partnering approaches where the company establishes
relationships with the respective entities years before the
project even starts, including working with local union halls
and talking to them about their labor peaks over time.
In the oil and gas industry, where owners demand rigorous
safety standards and thorough risk management practices,
construction companies cannot afford to make any mistakes. A
competent workforceparticularly skilled
supervisionwill become ever more crucial in managing risk
and productivity on oil and gas construction projects. Mark
Breslin, CEO of United Contractors, added, In five to
seven years, I believe contractors ability to grow will
hinge on their ability to procure competent field supervision.
The boomer retirement curve is going to be painful. It
wont be bonding, capital or the marketbut the
contractors ability to provide qualified foremen
superintendents who can build work in a risk-averse
Work smarter and increase project management
capacity. Oil and gas projects worldwide are
increasing in complexity and scope as more companies discover
new frontiers and invest in nontraditional exploration methods.
Environmental impact, employee
safety, and strict adherence to budgets and schedules top the
list of stakeholder concerns. Successful energy infrastructure
construction companies are investing heavily in building their
project management capacity by innovating in areas such as
prefabrication, technology, knowledge management,
and communication, among other things. In the coming years,
clients will focus on construction companies that can limit
rework orders; optimize labor, equipment and materials
scheduling; and use a modular approach to project management. These tactics
will help improve productivity and manage costs in a tight
labor markettwo key concerns for owners in this
Brian Johnson, executive vice president at Michels
Corporation, stated, Due to the current shortage of
skilled welders as a result of the increased volume of pipeline
work throughout the country, we are taking a harder look at
automated welding systems to offset the needs that our clients
are requiring of usalthough this only helps in the
large-diameter pipe sizes.
The US oil and gas industry is on the brink of its largest
human capital shortfall as it faces one of the most significant
expansion periods in its history.
Successful companies are thinking long term and building new
talent pipelines, developing targeted interventions, assessing
the business impact of skills shortages, and considering the
options available to build competency. While there is no silver
bullet to solve significant skills shortages (the ongoing
nursing shortage is a good example of this), tactical
combinations of programs and new paradigms will become the
standard as the US oil and gas industry labor shortages
exacerbate. Potential implications for the industry might
include higher wage-push inflation, potential decreases in
international competitiveness, and even the erosion of future
domestic oil production capacity.
It is time to tie HR objectives directly to business
objectives and to build continuous feedback loops that will
help improve management techniques and ultimately influence
strategy. Through these and other efforts, oil and gas
infrastructure construction firms will find themselves better
positioned to tackle the labor shortages and move beyond to
ongoing success. Without these proactive moves, the US oil and
gas construction industry will struggle to right itself during
a period of unprecedented labor
shortages. HP
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Doug Land
I'm jumping in on this discussion a little late, but being a Project Management Trainer and Coach for the past 2 decades, I can't help myself! Solid Project Management best practices are not a magic wand that will guarantee to bring every project in on time, on budget and on requirement; however, even a small amount of attention to some basic processes in any type of project will improve the bottom line. There is a direct ROI to money spent on PM training and the data is there to prove it. Fundamentals such as effective communication management; stakeholder management; change management and organizational effectiveness generally, can make a huge difference, not only in project success but in hiring and retaining younger talent.
JIMMY KUMANA, CEO Kumana & Assoc
The idea of a skilled labor shortage is nonsense. There are tesn of thousands of highly experienced engineers twiddling their thumbs (at least in the USA) forced out of the labor market by layoffs and cutbacks by operating firms as well as EPCs. The problem is that most Companies are not willing to pay a fair wage for experience, and the long-term unemployed are not willing to work in a situation where their experience is not respected and they have to report to some freshly graduated punk as the boss..
Eric Marshall
I agree with a lot of what you have said the big trouble is that the HR people do not know what is expected of Piping designers and the job specification is totally stupid to put it mildly. The companies are wanting one man/women to be efficient in the process as well as vessel/tank/pump and then know about structures and project management and all the CAD packages need I go on oh forgot that they have to be a BsC and no more than 25 years old; if it was 25 years of experience it might just be possible yet the person would be the head of engineering so why apply. All the companies are their own worst enemies as they have failed to properly train designers over many years as they are run by bean counters who have know idea of what the job needs to complete it successfully.I served an apprenticeship of 5 years and have 45 years of experience on top, so I have seen the senior management change over the years into computer can do it attitude and you do not need trained people to do the job. I know this for a fact as the amount of work I have had to correct over the years is unbelievable. I rest my case and still looking for work.
Antonio D'Alessio
Until tender will be only EPC turn key (not separate engineering& design contracts and then construction contracts), and the award criteria by Oil%Gas Companies will be evaluated 80% cost, 20% completion time, 0% quality, construction companies have no interest in hiring skilled engineers, and engineering companies will disappear, "eated" by construction companies, in order to eliminate "disturbs" on their job.Disasters will come later, when awarding manager have been promoted (thank to savings obtained in awarding) in higher positions.Also field supervision should be assigned separately to the engineering&design company, and not to the main contractor:there is conflict of interests.
Tyler Harvey
I disagree strongly. If oil and gas engineering paid as well, offered the perks of tech, and the benefits of NOT living in Houston, you'd see a lot more people trying to get a job. Not every young person involved in oil-and-gas wants to live in bright red state.
John Light
We continue to run into folks that still believe that there is a large pool of skilled, experienced talent, just waiting in the curtains, (or clouds) ready to return to work. They are not there.
Construction companies disregard the ability to recruit highly skilled construction workers through building trades union's networking capabilities. When I was a young worker in the 1960's employed on a major project with Bechtel building the Monsanto plant at Chocolate Bayou outside Houston we had a majority of workers called "travelers" recruited from across the United States. These workers were highly skilled with extensive experience and performed exceptionally well. Training of skilled workers needs to continue but "travelers" are still available if union labor is utilized in today's market. Unions can alleviate the projected area shortages of construction workers with "travelers". FMI can assist clients by including union labor availability of "travelers" in their manpower projections.
The shortage of trained labor can only get worse, as today's engineering students are being taught less and less about "first principle" engineering, and more about "real time simulations". Project Management is a shambles - with the introduction of the PMP certification, even inexperienced designers and maintenance engineers are after a 4 day course - suddenly a "Project Manager" - the certification institutes are cashing in on this lucrative market.Experience cannot be bought - only earned, and this is why so many pipelines are not installed technically correct - the PMP certification only concentrates on schedule and cost (and a few other essential PM activities), but there is no technical or engineering content - great if you are in IT or moving offices, but surely not for installing chemical refineries where the lack of technical knowledge WILL kill innocent people.Food for thought!!!
You have perfectly analysed the situation and this should be a wake-up call for the oil & gas industry captains not only in the US but elsewhere too.
Ruslan Zakirov
Do you truly believe in what you are saying here? There is no issue with manpower in real life. People are struggling to find a new job even with years of experience and big number of projects behind their belts. On many projects I have seen that experienced and knowledgeable people are laid off and green-hands are hired instead. There is no logic and no real retention initiatives - only declarations.
Amarjit Bakshi
There is a shortage of talented and experienced and pool but it has been made much more due to the hiring Manager's inadequacy of not being able to hire people;-- Who are highlt talented and experienced and concern about their own job.--- Want to hire a friend and not atalented or experienced person saying one is overqualified--- Leave out the people who are age discriminated who can provide much needed and valued input and better employee then any engineer coming out of the school.--- Go for only Ivy league.--- I can add many more reason's why shortage is there and why hiring managers might be at the wrong place to find the talent and they are there due to contacts which is called networking. Networkings other name is nepotism.Hiring managers have problem not all the argument that there is on shortage of pool
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August 16, 2009, 07:55:35 AM »
I am sorry after attempting to get this device to work and seeing the countless blogs on attempts to patch this sucker I have to say for the most part this product is highly unstable and easy to break. Not a good product for a flag ship for a new way to implement modern server.
Out of the box it is nothing less then a complete overhaul just to get the basic hardware to work. Its interesting that the community here has such dedication to something so ill contrived. Even the documentation is sub par the developers of this item never bother to make documentation describing the development process in an clear or simple to follow manor. The sequence jumps around a lot. The rest of this community can taut this piece of junk as much as they want. I think I might e-bay the dam thing.
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This may not be the consumer device you need. At all. For someone like me who has experience working with ARM based embedded devices, this is an excellent product.
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August 16, 2009, 09:57:15 AM »
I would like to add that by following the direction that are packaged with the device, you will brick your Sheeva Plug most effectively. What a piece of junk. As long as people expect nothing for customer service from this vendor they will get nothing as well. I really wish this product came with a disclaimer that indicated that it will in no way be support, be expected to work or be friendly in anyway possible.
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August 16, 2009, 10:02:32 AM »
The bit where it said you were ordering A DEVELOPMENT KIT should have warned you that it's a product for developers, not idiots.
If you know how to use ebay, I suggest you try and sell it on there.
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August 16, 2009, 12:00:24 PM »
I don't think that SheevaPlug is a lousy product, but I undestand the frustration and I think Marvell is missing a chance here.
The Marvel product philosophy is based on "we launch a development kit for the tech savvy and then we wait for companies to order specialized Sheevaplug-similar retail products in orders of tens of thousands". This is how the world worked 50 years ago, but sorry that is not taking the chances of world-wide distributed smaller communities that will not have their special HW designed because they don't reach that scale for their own.
What I did critize in the "SheevaPlug not ready for prime time" thread was that Marvel makes that unwise separation between a "development kit" and a "end user product". Give the SheevaPlug a way to install a dedicated software that can be downloaded from an app-store (like apple provides for their mobile products) and it is a fine end-user equipment. This does not need to be extremely smart with connection to a portal in the internet where it just needs a klick on a button. It would be completely fine, if one can download an installer image, put this on USB stick, put the stick into the plug, power-on and this installs onto the plug. From a technical point of view I don't mean any apt-get mimic to install an add-on package on top of a running linux. This is far too limited. By installation I mean to put a complete disk image including uboot, uboot environment, kernel, initrd, rootfs, etc onto the SheevaPlug. After that, pull off the USB stick and restart the SheevaPlug and it has become a new dedicated device.
Or take an example: You have written an apllication that changes a SheevaPlug into an network inspection tool and you assume that there will be about 1000 potential customers for that at a world-wide level. How can you bring that solution based on SheevaPlug to your customers? When SheevaPlug would have an easy software installation feature you could sell your Application online and put a 5 step installation instruction to it. Customers will order a stock SheevaPlug from a dealer they like and will be able to install your application easily. At he moment this distribution model will not work, as SheevaPlug is not aimed to provide that way of easy software installation. As an alternative you can order bunches of SheevaPlugs yourself, do the installation and ship that around the world. Cost adders will be enourmous. Or you have specialized SheevaPlug alikes build, which will not make sense for 1000 pieces. As you see, you can't use SheevaPlug for this, which means Marvell is out of this business because of ignoring customer demands.
So my request to Marvel is: Bring a SheevaPlug2 that has an easy to use software installation feature (i.e. as described above) and find some capable world-wide distributors for this single type of unit. The rest will be done by the developers out here.
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August 16, 2009, 01:15:22 PM »
If you "broke" or "bricked" yours through software configuration, sell it on ebay. Supply and demand: should at least get your purchase price back. Through the magic of JTAG, these things are very easy to bring back to life for an old school developer.
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August 17, 2009, 04:54:47 AM »
I wouldn't give up just yet. I agree, Marvell did a sloppy job of putting together a first-time user's guide. However, I've found the Wiki very useful. Something else, I have very little experience with Linux, but a friend at work has years of experience. He's helped field a lot of questions.
Don't let the fanboys and prancing ponies get you down with "...an 'expert' like me could fix this." Well DUH!
Perhaps you've already seen this...
Hang in there. I have found embedded development very challenging but very rewarding. Just try different things, you'll get it.
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August 31, 2009, 04:22:03 AM »
It is a devkit and as such needs to be treated with a bit of care. I digested the wiki over a few days and eventually was confident that I had a plan to get what I needed going. Eventually it was a 10 minute job to totally reflash the unit with a new kernel with additional modules and maybe another hour for my software to work (using apt-get, wget and build-essential).
I am no linux genius and ARM has long been a no go area for ma as I mainly work with boards from PC engines and biffer board. However, as this board runs debian, software install and development is no more awkward than on an x86 board. I have tried boards from atheros (meraki, fon and open mesh) and found the resource constrains to much for my python based system. Ditto using the NSLU2. This is the first ARM product that I feel has the power to be a proper network server.
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July 10, 2010, 11:31:28 AM »
This is an old thread, but since I randomly found it while searching for other information, others may as well, and I'd like to add a bit of useful information. As has been stated above the SheevaPlug is a development platform. For those who may be looking for a ready-to-use consumer device, the TonidoPlug is a product that's been built on the SheevaPlug platform, and includes an app store, etc. I haven't used it myself, but it may fit the requirements some of you are looking for.
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July 12, 2010, 08:34:11 PM »
Maybe this product is not what you really need. Did you even check the specifications and what's the uses / functions of this product?
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July 12, 2010, 10:48:49 PM »
Quote from: statue on August 16, 2009, 09:57:15 AM
I would like to add that by following the direction that are packaged with the device, you will brick your SheevaPlug most effectively. What a piece of junk. As long as people expect nothing for customer service from this vendor they will get nothing as well. I really wish this product came with a disclaimer that indicated that it will in no way be support, be expected to work or be friendly in anyway possible.
I for one have followed the instructions that come with the Sheevaplug and they have worked correctly for me.
It is impossible to brick the SheevaPlug via flashing it. It is always possible to reflash it if you make a mistake.
A:) You are either a troll.
B). You need to take basic reading comprehension and literacy classes before attempting to read instructions more complicated than how to tie shoe laces.
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July 13, 2010, 02:12:43 PM »
My power supplied died and then a week later the board itself is completely dead. I will not buy another one although the Gurus are tempting and maybe the 2nd generation are sturdier... but at the moment I agree with the subject of this thread.
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July 14, 2010, 06:36:39 AM »
I found the plug a whole lot easier to use when I used the Esia installer. A post for which is stuck to the top of this forum
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As others have said, it is a development kit, not a consumer product. You must be willing to tinker with it -- follow directions here and maybe do some mods (because of heat issues). I'm running debian testing on mine for about 2 months, but I've been using linux for some years, and ran an NSLU2 before this. Still several people here are new to linux and seem to be managing well.
That said, Marvell, the chip-maker has not handled the product well. The US distributor, Globalscale is a disaster. I guess they manufacture in China and import, but QC over these products was poor. Heat issues require mods and make longevity questionable. Globalscale is non-responsive in the extreme. Forget about email. If you do get an answer, which seems to be rare, it probably won't be helpful (my experience). They don't have an 800 number, but if you're willing to pay for the call, a human will talk to you. Getting useful information is another thing altogether. After a few questions, you will get put on hold or assured someone will call you back -- that will never happen. Globalscale seems to be in circling the wagons mode. They assume you are not a customer, but a trouble-maker. I say this all from experience... and after having been very patient with them. This reflects very poorly on Marvell.
Personally, I was very hopeful about the Plug concept, but after my experience with Globalscale, and experiencing the heat issues, I'm looking for longer term alternatives.
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I'm quite new to the PlugComputer.org community, and am struggling through all the trials and tribulations, of which there are admittedly many. Even just unbricking is quite a challenge if you're not already an embedded systems person. x86 know-how with install disks and BIOS settings doesn't translate well.
But I'm using it as an opportunity to actually BECOME one of those old-school developers. I find that with the way things are turning, development platforms are convenience built on dependency built on dependency built on dependency. I sense deep competitive advantage in generally knowing how to work with embedded systems like this. It's got to be the future, just as much as virtualization and cloud computing.
I'm documenting my trials and tribulations, trying to forge a path for others like me. Here's my unbricking experience, but there's tons more thinks I encountered buried in this site
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Headed to medical school in the fall, Washburn student Adam Wetzel is getting an early lesson in patient care. He's among the volunteers on the front lines of Stormont-Vail's "Call - Don't Fall" program."
Wetzel says all patients, regardless of factors like age or disability, are considered at risk for fall. The idea of the program is to encourage patients to "call" for help in getting up to lower their risk of "falling."
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Volunteers might also look for any clutter in the rooms that might pose a hazard to a patient in unfamiliar surroundings or dizzy or disoriented due to medications.
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The car, Interceptor, is unlocked after the Deliverator. In all the other cases, the car unlocked after the previous one is better overall or has a max stat that is better than the previous.
However, all of the Interceptor's max stats are either equal or less than the Deliverator's. The Interceptor has 6, 4, 2 max stats in speed, handling and armor respectively, compared to the Deliverator's 6, 5, 4.
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The movie eXistenZ, which stars Jude Law, shares the concept of layered realities with the movie Inception. Was the movie Inception influenced by Existenz's concept at all?
As Mnementh points out, it's probably impossible to say with certainty until he joins the site, but it seems as though he hasn't explicitly made mention of it yet. He has said that:
The Matrix was 1999; Dark City 1998; Thirteenth Floor 1999; Memento 2000, so eXistenZ (1999) falls neatly in that "era of movies" he talks about. It's conceivable that it was an influence along with the ones he mentioned, but him not explicitly bringing it up leads me to believe it was not, or at least not a major one. He hadn't seen Last Year at Marienbad (1961) to which Inception also drew a lot of comparison.
I tend to think that the dream/reality layers idea is not that original or uncommon and that there are plenty of previous works that build on it without necessarily being an influence on those which follow. For instance the Scrooge McDuck comic people said Inception ripped off.
All speculation of course :)
The concept of layered realities does seem very similar. Take for example the following scenes.
In the scene below, the viewers of the movie already think they are within the game (1 layer deep) and are going to boot into a next layer. This can be seen as similar to when Cobb and others were in the van about to jump again. So in both cases, the viewer needs to keep track of where reality in the movie starts and where the new layer of reality begins.
Here we have the first possible jump and once the viewers reach the end they begin to question whether this was indeed the first pod entry. This is similar to questioning whether Cobb was already a layer deep before booting in on the airplane.
Here is where it gets tricky, let's call this the jump into limbo. In Existenz, only one character actually uses the pod. So did that character go one more layer deep or did both characters jump back up a layer? This can be compared to the snow mountains layer to the jump to Fischer's layer and finally to limbo. No one is sure that Cobb did indeed escape limbo for the whole show. That is, Cobb could have been in limbo for the entire show.
The next feature that can be compared is the idea of a kick, where in Existenz it is shown as a pause of game whereas in Inception the user supposed thrown up a level/layer.
The final item is that of the user/gamer imparting their own images/thoughts into the game. That weird gun that was used in the opening is shown in the later layers. So this most likely means that the game uses the thoughts of a person to advance the dynamic play. Thus it shows the same psychotic effect as in Inception because the player will need some sort of "totem" to hold on to what they believe to be reality.
I believe the idea of layering (questioning the present reality) predates both of these films such that both of these movies could have gotten influence from earlier books/scripts/movies. Though the similarity between films is quite remarkable.


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Late First Half Run Leads Lady Blues To Win Over Northwest Missouri
Posted: 11:32 PM Feb 9, 2013
Reporter: WU, posted by Kinch O'Kelley
Washburn Sweeps Northwest Missouri
TOPEKA, Kan. -- A 16-1 run late in the first half for the Lady Blues helped them survive 64 percent shooting in the second half by Northwest Missouri in a 64-53 win over the Bearcats Saturday at Schendel Court at Lee Arena.
No. 9 Washburn won its sixth straight game and improved to 17-3 overall and 11-1 in the MIAA. Northwest Missouri was able to break Washburn's streak of five straight games keeping opponents under 50 points but fell to 11-10 and 5-8 with the loss.
Laura Kinderknecht went 4 of 8 from 3-point range and led Washburn with 14 points. Tiara George came off the bench for 12 points as she was 6 of 9 from the field and Dana Elliott scored nine points. Elliott was 3 of 4 from the field and led Washburn with six assists.
Washburn trailed 13-12 at the 11:43 mark of the first half and then Casyn Buchman hit a layup on a fast break at 10:07 to give the Lady Blues the lead. They kept it for good as they went on a 12-0 run to go up 25-13 with 5:32 to play. Six different Washburn players scored during the run.
The Bearcats broke the streak with a free throw but Lavonda McCall answered with a 3-pointer to end the 16-1 run and give Washburn a 28-14 lead with 3:00 to go. NWMSU hit a 3-pointer at 2:15 and no one scored after that, giving Washbrn a 28-17 halftime lead.
Washburn shot 50 percent (11 of 22) in the first half and the Bearcats were just 6 of 18 (33 percent) from the field.
The Bearcats came out of the locker room to shoot 64 percent (14 of 22) and ended the game shooting right at 50 percent, becoming the first Washburn opponent to shoot 50 percent or better and just the third to top 40 percent.
Despite the hot shooting, Washburn only allowed the Bearcats withing single digits once in the second half. Washburn forced 15 second half turnovers on NWMSU and had a game-high 18-point lead when Elliott hit a 3-pointer with 6:15 to go.
The Lady Blues ended shooting 44 percent and they had a 29-20 advantage on rebounds with 18 turnovers while Northwest Missouri had 24. Washburn blocked six shots to Northwest's one.
Maggie Marnin led the Bearcats with 17 points as she went 8 of 12 from the field. Annie Matthews was 5 of 7 form 12 points.
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Where could I find some custom beamer themes?
All (or at least most) of the default themes are available to view here. If none of these suit, I think the best bet is probably to pick one you almost like and modify it yourself. This has the advantage that you learn more about beamer, and it makes your presentations unique. The beamer manual is pretty complete and all the relevant options are documented...
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Note that first I pick some theme options, then (the final line) I redefine the colour of the itemize item. As long as the command comes after the colortheme option, this gives you an easy way to modify a beamer theme on the fly. [I think I did this because the beaver theme is red, but it doesn't actually redefine the itemize colour, so you get the default blue unless you fix it.]
There are some custom themes available here. But I'm sure you know about this because you obviously googled "custom beamer themes" before you asked a question on here.
Some additions that I did not see in the links provided by Seamus:
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Are there any good players who have uploaded some of their hand-histories somewhere? I am looking for at least a few thousand unfiltered hands including hole-cards. I need this to learn how the best play.
There are many better ways to learn than that. You're unlikely to find hand histories from professional, or highly skilled amateurs, easily available online. Releasing said hand histories would be suicide. The closest your going to get, and easily one of the most productive ways to improve your online poker game, is to watch videos of skilled players playing. They will either explain what they're doing in real time or review their play afterwards. Reading poker books, online poker forums, watching videos, and so on, is definitely more productive than going through hand histories of high stakes pro's. You would have no idea why they're doing what they're doing.
There are generally two types of players a poker regular has to concern himself with. Fish and other regulars. When playing fish all said player has to do is identify the fish's strategy and implement the maximally exploitative response. However, against another regular, said player also has to be concerned about balancing their own strategy as well. Reviewing hand histories between two regulars without knowing any poker theory, or the history between both players, will only teach you extremely bad habits.
Below are some training sites that release high quality instructional videos from professionals. And yes, you have to pay for them.
There are many sites that sell hand histories:
If you're just looking for the way "good" players play, then you should be able to deduce that for yourself. For example, import the purchased hand histories into Holdem Manager or Poker Tracker or whatever you prefer. Filter the data for the kind of players you're looking for (e.g., look for players with large samples and good win rates in the games you want to play in). Then just review those hands.
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If someone has a word that they commonly use, but OS X Lion keeps "correcting" to something in it's dictionary, how does the user add the word to Lion's dictionary?
Right click on the word and choose Spelling and Grammar from the list. Then select Show Spelling and Grammar.
You'll see the option to "learn" the word (see picture).
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I have the following situation:
I'm currently attempting to write a Metro-style application, with the ability to let the user sign in with his Google account, and the app requestion several permissions, as Userinfo.profile and Userinfo.email.
For this I'm currently using OAuthv2, and requesting the details worked out fine (after quite some effort and research).
Url used :
const string url = "https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth?" +
"client_id=" + clientId +
"&redirect_uri=" + "urn:ietf:wg:oauth:2.0:oob" +
"&response_type=code" +
"&scope=https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo.profile+https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo.email" +
Now the problem is, if I want the user to stay authenticated, I'd either have to do it by saving the token at the clientside, by the user, or find some way to log in using Google, keep the session and check if he is authenticated.
Problem is, I don't know how to perform the latter, and have no idea how to use it. At the moment, every time I open the application, the user is redirected to the google authorization page, where the whole procedure starts over and over again at each restart.
What I want to accomplish is that if a user logs in, I have some way of identifying him, and not always put a burden on him by re-requesting permissions for the given details.
I looked into OpenID, but I always get
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xrds:XRDS xmlns:xrds="xri://$xrds" xmlns="xri://$xrd*($v*2.0)">
<Service priority="0">
As a response on this url :
Am I building it wrong ?
If any suggestions, on either how to perform this 'correctly', what I'm trying to accomplish (an integration with google, allowing the user log in using google email, and only if he hasn't authorized the application, ask him to do so, plus finding a way of who he is when logging in for a second+ time), or on how I could do it, please feel free.
Besides, by using the stripped down version of the .Net 4.5 framework, it seems I'm unable to use OpenID libraries as they rely on the full 4.5 .
*Edit* Looking at MSDN this comes up :
To support SSO, the online provider must allow you to register a redirect URI in the form ms-app://appSID, where appSID is the SID for your app.
Does this mean it just isn't possible? Because at google I can only request a key for a domain with
http(s):// ?