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I just got my new GPlug-Display
February 13, 2011, 09:13:07 AM »
I just got my new GPlug-Display and am a bit confused!!!
When I received it on Friday afternoon I lit it off from the console and it ran just fine. I changed the password and took a quick look around the file system. Since I didn't have a HDMI cable I only ran it from the console. Saturday night I picked up a HDMI cable and plugged it into the unit and a monitor. The plug failed to boot and terminated in the following lines of code (these are only the lines from where it diverged from a normal boot).:
mmc0: new high speed SDHC card at address b368
mmcblk0: mmc0:b368 USD 3.75 GiB
mmcblk0: p1 p2
mmc1: new high speed SDHC card at address 0001
mmcblk1: mmc1:0001 00000 7.60 GiB
mmcblk1: p1
usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using pxau2h-ehci and address 2
usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 1-1:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-1:1.0: 4 ports detected
// This is the last normal line!!!
pxa-sdh pxa-sdh.0: DATA Line Error(status: 0x0010)!
mmcblk0: retrying using single block read
pxa-sdh pxa-sdh.0: DATA Line Error(status: 0x0010)!
mmcblk0: error -5 transferring data, sector 2046218, nr 24, card status 0x900
end_request: I/O error, dev mmcblk0, sector 2046234
Buffer I/O error on device mmcblk0p2, logical block 229623
lost page write due to I/O error on mmcblk0p2
JBD: recovery failed
EXT3-fs: error loading journal.
EXT2-fs: mmcblk0p2: couldn't mount because of unsupported optional features (4).
List of all partitions:
b300 3941376 mmcblk0 driver: mmcblk
b301 104594 mmcblk0p1
b302 3836250 mmcblk0p2
b308 7974912 mmcblk1 driver: mmcblk
b309 7970816 mmcblk1p1
No filesystem could mount root, tried: ext3 ext2 cramfs vfat
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(179,2)
The big question I have is, is this a failure of the plug or simply a corruption of the fs on the sd card? Also, does anyone know what the procedure is to send the unit back for warranty?
Thanks in advance!
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February 13, 2011, 02:12:20 PM »
Ok, so here's an update. I took the sd card out of the GPlug-D and put it into a Ubuntu system. The Ubuntu system showed the kernel partition but not the fs partition. So I told Ubuntu to remove the drive safely and it did. When I plugged the card back into the Ubuntu system after the safe removal, both partitions showed up. I shut the card down a second time and placed it back into the GPlug-D. the GPlug-D booted up perfectly normally after that. BTW - the names of the partitions do not match the docs as per building a bootable SD card.
So, now that it's working again. Here are some first impressions. It's not a speed demon by any stretch. It takes about 50 seconds or so to boot up into X11. There is almost no apps of any kind on the GUI (not even a method of changing screen resolution). Iceweasle is the browser and it works, but it takes about 5 seconds from the time you click the mouse until anything actually happens. Scrolling the screen is relatively fast but changing to another web page sends you back to the 5 second wait.
There is a MP4 file on the device called "The American". Attempting to play it causes a media player to open and the video starts but the whole screen garbles and then the whole system crashes and you have to reboot to get the system back up. Doing an apt-get install of anything produces a pretty much continuous stream of IO error messages saying that the ext3 fs has encountered another bad block.
With Internet, HDMI and the console running I'd say the temperature of the device is about the same as what I see on my GuruPlug Server Standard.
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Why does Google, Paypal, Ebay and Amazon restrict advertisement of firearms?
As a sporting goods retailer we are seeing a growing trend amongst large companies that provide important services, like online advertising, credit card processing, auction and marketplace management away from offering these services to merchants that engage in legitimate sales of firearms and accessories. Recently, Google suspended our Google Adwords account (pay per click ads) on the grounds that our website contains descriptions of firearms. They cited that this was against their policy.
When asked why they were still displaying ads from Cabelas and BassPro - Google representative said: "let me see how I can answer this.." And when pressed with a question -"Is it a matter of money spent with Google?" responded with "... that's a good guess." So while Google tells you that its policies are based on the principle "Do No Evil" - they are willing to bend the rules apparently if you pay them enough.
Is there a legitimate reason behind banning ads on firearms and firearm accessories?
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Just guessing but here are a couple ideas:
1. It's highly political.
2. Different laws in different states and hard to keep up with it all.
3. eBay sales would be difficult to determine if they are going through the proper background checks.
Added to @cengland0 's point, another issue is that all of these sites offer international shipping. Not only are there different laws in different states that may hinder the sale of firearms online, it is extremely risky (and sometimes illegal) to even have your listing VISIBLE to people in other countries. On a side note, I happen to believe that many firearms/weapons retailers are not that interested in online sales because of all of this rigmarole. It's honestly just not worth the money/time/risk.
Plus it's potentially a PR nightmare. If a spree killer's gun comes from Joe's Gun Shop, that's not news. But if they buy it through EBay or Amazon, that's news. We've already heard some national reports of abuses on Craigslist. None of these businesses want that kind of PR.
@dows: @cengland0: The shipment of firearms is easily taken care of by by having the firearm shipped to a licensed dealer in your area. Pretty much every company selling firearms online does this no matter where the firearm is headed. If the firearm isn't allowed inthat state then the dealer won't accept shipment. That dealer is also the one who does the background check. The online sale of firearms is highly regulated. I also do not understand why the simple advertising of such is a problem.
My guess is politics, guns are a dicey issue and if they agree to advertise them then maybe they feel like it would be seen as picking a side, which could loose business. That's just a guess.
@moondrake: He's not talking about Amazon selling the gun, just advertising it.
@nmchapma: You're absolutely right. I think the companies selling firearms online might not think the cost of advertising is worth it measured up against the potential flack they may receive. Advertising online (especially with google adwords and amazon) is expensive enough as it is, and most people that buy firearms frequently (and know what they're doing) are more likely to be buying from private FFLs, and companies like Bud's. Amazon/eBay/Google just simply aren't very intriguing marketplaces for people serious about buying firearms. It'd be like going to buy something that you need to be able to depend your life on at a dollar store that also sells plastic silverware.
I don't know about banning ads from legitimate FFL dealers, but I'm sure ebay and craigslist ban them to avoid any liability from personal sales. That's messed up that there's a double standard with Bass Pro, but I guess when you're that big you can afford to influence a company's policy. Actually, I just looked at your site for the first time and I'm guessing you don't even have an FFL since you're only selling ammo and accessories? Did you ask google what exactly constituted "descriptions of firearms?"
Edit: I mean the ads on these sites might not actually be very beneficial for the sellers or the people interested in buying.
@k3nd0: we do have an FFL and we do robust local business, but we really want to take it to the next level. We have the capabilities to be like Bud's. We just did not expect to get suspended by Google for having the guns on our site.
What is interesting is that we told them that we can exclude our firearms from ads that we run on Google, and that was not good enough. They said as long as the customer can find guns on your site even if they came looking for a tent - we violated their policy.
We could even live with that if they applied it universally to everyone and not just smaller companies that do not have the ad budgets of Cabelas or BassPro. It's the double standard/hypocrisy that bugs us even more than their unwillingness to do it.
Guns are bad, m'kay? And if you use guns, well that's bad. m'kay?
@cengland0: I think you are right, but it's:
1) hypocritical to let Cabelas and Bass Pro advertise, while telling smaller companies that they are in violation
2) advertising is akin to free speech, to the extent that it is not that different from buying blog space and posting your opinion/offer there
3) It is not Google's responsibility to keep up with state specific regulations - it is up to end user
In the end, as in most cases, it's all about the money. They perceive that it would cost them more to deal with legal challenges and potential fall out than the revenue they would be getting from business that are in the firearm industry.
I just wish they would not try to hide behind "Do No Evil" principle, because obviously they do not live it, by picking and choosing which companies they allow to advertise and which ones they suspend.
Almost certainly the liability. Just like it's almost impossible to sell used software on eBay. They're not going to check your FFL - they wouldn't know how and it's too much work. The amount of fraud and illegal activity that goes under that category is probably higher than you'd guess. It sounds like a lousy business to be in, since you have to rely on special providers for just about everything. But I'm also not surprised. Cabela's and Bass Pro get a pass because they've heard of them. It's completely wrong of them to give them an exception, but I'm sure the money's good.
@webyshops: What am I missing here? I can't find any links on webyshops.com to any firearms at all. I tried shopping by brand and picked Springfield Armory and the only thing that came up was a magazine.
I believe the potentially bad PR reason, but I also believe that all it takes is 1 shooting and everyone from the manufacturer to the end user could be sued, and worse, possibly prosecuted in some areas by remarkably overzealous DAs misinterpreting badly written laws.
@k3nd0: we took the firearms off during the appeal process, but Google said it did not matter. Even magazines disqualified us from being able to use Adwords.
We are in the process of reworking the whole site and firearms will be back on. At this juncture - we are moving forward with or without Google. :-)
God Bless America!!!
@webyshops: Wow. Neither Bass Pro nor Cabelas sell firearms online but they both sell ammo and mags. I would be inclined to sue but then I would remember that google has much deeper pockets than I do. I might also try separating the outdoor equipment from the firearms with different DBAs and then applying for adwords with the "new" company. In any case, good luck man. I noticed you guys are in Arlington so I may have to pay you a visit.
@bsmith1: Guns are inert ummm'k. On the other hand, criminals with guns are something to worry about.
Do you want this kind of press?
@caffeine_dude: Not really sure how that applies. Buying a gun from him requires a background check.
@caffeine_dude: That was a complete piece of trash. You cannot legally buy any firearm off armslist (or gunbroker, or any other place) without the transaction going through a Federal Firearms License (FFL) holder. Period. No discussion. All background checks and all other legal niceties in BOTH states (shipping and receiving) must be met.
@webyshops: There are other more directed ways to advertise and get the word out. There are some active subreddits which welcome deals on firearms and ammo. Send me a PM and I'll point you in the right direction. I won't even require $50 off my first order ;-)
@k3nd0: Appreciate the sympathy. Check us out when you get a chance. We have a lot of good deals and foot traffic has been growing rapidly.
A lot of discussion around gun sales centers on private buyers selling to people who can't pass background checks. I get that and safeguards should be in place to cover this.
But I also believe that law abiding and tax paying businesses that are registered with ATF and have an FFL and who maintain strict controls on all firearm sales should be able to advertise to citizens that are willing to go through the proper steps and acquire firearms legally.
To prevent us from advertising is akin to taking away our free speech rights.
God Bless America!!!
@webyshops: No one is taking away your rights to advertise, They're just refusing to do it for you.
No doubt the double standard sucks, but no one is infringing on your right to do anything.
@wilfbrim: @nmchapma:
My understanding is a person to person deal is does not require the background check. (This may not be true in every state).
I watched a 'sting' where a gun shop owner was selling guns on a 'craigslist for guns' to help his customer avoid the background checks and wait periods.
His side of the story: He claimed he had every right to sell guns on the site as a citizen.
The counter his side of his story he had many guns for sale on the site.
To be fair, a few bad apples can ruin the bunch, but you know what will end up on the TV and what will not.
That was my point for the link, sorry I did not spell it out.
I do not remember the program but it was on one of the major networks.
@caffeine_dude: You are correct that the private sell of a firearm does not always require a background check and in fact there is often no way to transfer ownership of the gun (most of the time a notorized letter works though). BUT in order to ship a gun it must be received by an FFL dealer who WILL perform a background check.
OP is a lisenced dealer following all necessary rules and regulations. It's kinda insulting to ask him if thats how he wants to end up. All he's trying to do is fix a double standard and is trying to understand why a company won't advertise (NOT sell) his product. He's made no mention of selling around federal regulations or selling anything without the proper background checks.
I just don't see the relationship between whats happening there and this thread.
@wilfbrim: True, but this doesn't stop people from meeting up in the parking lot outside of the FFL to do a "private trade."
@dows: Of course not. and that kind of thing is pretty impossible to stop, it's also not all bad. forcing private sells to happen through dealers will do nothing. but that's not what OP is trying to do, OP runs a legit business selling and shipping legal products to legal reciepients. None of this really has anything to do with the question. (not that ever stay on topic around here anyway)
@nmchapma: Agreed. Just was making a snarky comment. Hope you'll forgive me!
@dows: Never! I need the occasional AtC disagreement. It's like my coffee. Otherwise, I'd have no reason to go to work :-)
an article from the National Shoting Sports Foundation (NSSF). Remember they have a dog in this race as a shooting organization but i think that they still make a fair point.
@nmchapma: I did not intend to insult the OP. (his situation is obvious) and he is right google is wrong (or at least wrong for now, maybe Google is in the processes of change). The OP is a sporting goods shop first.
I was responding to something I read not to the OP.
My apologies to the OP if I hurt his\her feelings.
But after thinking about this for a minute. To the OP what was the content of the advertisement vs the content of the other sporting goods store, perhaps we are getting half the story, and mayhaps this is not as obvious as I first thought.
(think when the giant ad for lingerie that was NSFW on deals.) If your ad had a lingerie clad woman carrying a glock that would be NSFW and school. Come to think of it, a giant gun alone would be NSFW and school.
Google is making a play for the classroom.
My apologies to the OP if I hurt her\his feelings again.
edit That is right I used the word mayhaps in my question, so give me some double word score action. 7 left.
@wilfbrim: I do not know how to PM trough Woot. :-) You can send me an email to firstname.lastname@example.com
@nmchapma: Who is OP? I am lost... :-)
@webyshops: OP refers to the Original Poster, in this case that would be you.
@webyshops: You are the Original Poster.
@caffeine_dude: The "sting" that you brought up probably has something to do with regulations regarding an FFL holder selling guns as a PPT. An FFL can sell his personal firearms in a PPT but he must have had them in his "personal book" for over a year. Otherwise, the firearm must be transferred through an FFL, either the seller or a third party. I imagine the guy was buying stuff from his own inventory and then selling it through PPT at a markup, which is illegal if you are an FFL. Ironically, if you don't have an FFL it's perfectly legal to purchase a gun from an FFL and sell it for a markup through a PPT. The only way they can bust you for that is if you know the person you're selling to cannot pass a background check.
@wilfbrim: You absolutely can buy a gun off of armslist through a PPT with no FFL, no paperwork, no background check. There is nothing on the site that says you have to do a transaction through an FFL. They only advise you to contact your local sheriff or BATF office to determine your legal responsibilities. PPTs outside an FFL are perfectly legal in many states. The article he linked gave clear sources of actual cases involving PPT transactions on armslist where people wouldn't have been able to purchase through an FFL. I'm always amazed at people on either side of a political argument who are willing to completely overlook documented facts that don't promote their viewpoint while making their own patently false claims and calling it gospel.
@webyshops: When ever I read OP I always think Original Poster Person or OPP, yeah you know them
It's a sickness really.


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Elk Mountains > Pyramid Peak > Climber's Log
Pyramid Peak Climber's Log
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|Pyramid Peak
Date Climbed: Jun 30, 2012
|June 29
The plan was to get a late afternoon start to hike up to Crater Lake, but Kim got stuck at work late and we (Kimberly, Shaylee, Kessler and I) didn't leave the trailhead until after 8 pm. We hurried to the lake with our backpacks and arrived in a pretty quick 45 minutes. It took a while to find an empty campsite and we set up camp in the dark.
We me Kevin, his 15 year old son Tristen and his 13 year old Chance who was camped next to us. He knew Kessler and expressed his interest in joining us, so we agreed to do a joint climb of Pyramid in the morning.
June 30
Kim and Shaylee stayed behind at the lake, while Kessler and I headed from Crater Lake shortly after 6:30 AM. Once we started up the steep slope we saw the others below and waited for them to catch up. Kessler and Chance were the speedy climbers of the bunch and they had to wait for the rest of us several times. After crossing a few snowfields, we we climbed up to the saddle where I told Kessler to wait for us (they beat us by 25 minutes).
Kessler, Chance and I made the rest of the climb to Pyramid. We were ahead while Tristan and Kevin took up the rear. The route up to Pyramid had some fun exposed scrambles, but was easier than expected, especially the route-finding part. We got off route a little once, but other than that the route was pretty obvious and easy to find.
We found ourselves at the top in just under 4.5 hours of climbing. After a long lunch to wait for the others we headed back down. At the saddle, Kessler and Chance went on ahead and beat us to the lake by 45 minutes. We then bid farewell to the others before packing up camp and heading back down to the trailhead.
It was a great climb and with perfect weather.
|Posted Nov 19, 2015 1:42 pm
|Stepping my game up!
Date Climbed: Aug 10, 2015
|Hardest one I've done. Turned into an interesting day. Summit after being away 26hrs. Gonna make a trip report
|Posted Aug 11, 2015 1:31 am
|Winter Attempt
Date Climbed: Jan 22, 2015
|Made a winter attempt on this yesterday with Derek via the NW ridge. Burly ski approach followed by relentless slog up to the start of the ridge. Class 4 step was interesting with snow + 35 mph cold winds. Made it to 150 ft of summit, but turned back due to sketch Avy slopes that would have to have been crossed. Alas, like most summits, not worth dying for. But still a great and burly outing, clocking in at about 17 hours car-to-car from the Lazy T ranch winter closer on Maroon Road.
|Posted Jan 23, 2015 1:19 pm
Date Climbed: Sep 8, 2012
|Great climb!
|Posted Nov 1, 2014 10:56 am
|Aspen Gold and Goat Kings
Date Climbed: Sep 20, 2014
|Yeah this is a steep one... I'd put it at class 3+ though. Rotten rock, but most exposure can be avoided with some solid routefinding. Another long boulder field - I'm not a fan of these.. BIG storm moved in right when I reached the truck. Many lightnings.. Hiked later than most, and had the summit to myself (well, except for the two stoic mountain goats, who were obviously in charge.) Wow, it's hard to beat the Elks in fall for that magical beauty. Some of the most beautiful fall foliage on Earth, no doubt. Well worth the 7.5 hour round trip from Boulder!
|Posted Sep 21, 2014 3:03 pm
|Twice from standard route
|Posted Nov 1, 2013 10:37 pm
|Quick Scramble
Date Climbed: Jun 4, 2013
|I enjoyed the quick scramble up Pyramid's regular route this past June while training for China.
|Posted Sep 22, 2013 3:46 pm
|Best day
Date Climbed: Sep 7, 2013
|Phenomenal... That's all.
|Posted Sep 7, 2013 10:34 pm
|mountain goats!
Date Climbed: Jul 22, 2013
|Spectacular views on summit....great climb with a whole colony of curious mountain goats including babies taking residence on the peak. One of them even made it up to the summit! Nice toaster with plug in on the summit...
|Posted Jul 29, 2013 4:38 pm
|Second Attempt.
Date Climbed: Jul 1, 2013
|Finally took this one down. Pretty loose, but you can keep it to 3rd class if you do good route finding. Find the green rock, stay in the cleanest rock and go up.
|Posted Jul 15, 2013 4:14 pm
|What a beautiful peak
Date Climbed: Sep 7, 2010
|First climb with Sarah. Love the green band.
|Posted Jul 6, 2013 9:39 pm
Date Climbed: Aug 4, 2012
|Another class 4, very nice ledges, spicy exposure and I met with new people that become my friends and climbing partners.
|Posted Oct 21, 2012 5:44 pm
|First Elk 14er
Date Climbed: Aug 18, 2012
|Camped at Crater Lake with a friend and summited around 10:30am. For me going up was worse than coming down above 13,000. Loathed the clmb out of and back into the Amphitheater. Almost hit by a baseball sized missile of a rock.
|Posted Aug 19, 2012 12:41 pm
|That Cairn!
Date Climbed: Aug 4, 2012
|That GIANT cairn is easier to miss than you think when you are hiking in the dark. Over all not as difficult as I had imagined it would be. There is still quite a bit of lose rock to be found in the Green gully, one of our group took a baseball sized rock to the head. Thank God for helmets!
|Posted Aug 15, 2012 3:51 pm
Date Climbed: Jun 30, 2012
|Posted Aug 1, 2012 9:10 am
|Fun climb, great view
Date Climbed: Jul 6, 2012
|Fairly quick and painless climb. Once at the saddle things get a little more interesting. Climbed the short C5 section at the broken tower then walked the ridge to the NE Ridge route, returned by the standard bypass.
Amazing views of the Maroons, Snowmass, and Capitol- couldn't see Conundrum or Castle due to the clouds. Rained halfway down, but felt great.
|Posted Jul 6, 2012 9:08 pm
|Hardest yet
Date Climbed: Jun 22, 2012
|For someone with minimal experience on rugged mountains such as this one, I'd say that Pyramid Peak was the hardest yet.
|Posted Jun 27, 2012 4:20 pm
|2nd Hardest?
Date Climbed: Jun 23, 2012
|14ers.com calls this the 2nd hardest 14er...I thought it was pretty easy.
|Posted Jun 25, 2012 9:02 am
|Matt Lemke
|Great climb!
Date Climbed: Jun 9, 2012
|Climbed the entire Green gully
|Posted Jun 13, 2012 6:39 pm
|West Face
Date Climbed: Jan 1, 2012
|New Years Day summit with impeccable weather. Felt more like April really. Climbed with John Prater, Dominic & Sarah Meiser and Dwight. One awesome day!
|Posted Jan 2, 2012 12:32 pm


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17 Apr 2012 5:31 PM #1
Unanswered: A more complete ListStoreEditor example
Can anyone point me to a complete ListStoreEditor example?
I want to do editing of a grid within a form and the only example I can find is in 'Binding | List Property Binding'. Unfortunately it is not complete as the resulting object graph is never 'flushed' and displayed.
I tried it myself but it isn't working properly. Specifically, when I am editing a table cell and I click 'Close' on the dialog (implicit save) the modifications from the active cell are not applied to the object graph until a short time later. Using ListStore.setAutoCommit(true) does not help and I am definitely doing an Editor.flush().
I suspect the cell's "lost focus" event that triggers the commit is processed after the dialog's BeforeHideEvent. Is this a bug?
Any suggestions or examples would be appreciated.
[UPDATE] Turns out 3.0.0-rc2 fixes my problem. Also, the link above only points to a single file in my GWT learning project. The containing folder for learning forms may be more useful.
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Unfortunatly, it doesn't appear there is enough code in your sample to allow me to test it. I would suggest building a simple example that implements EntryPoint to make it easy for others to look at it and make suggestions.
I made a quick change to the List Property Binding example - try this yourself, and see if you get the same issue:
public class ListPropertyBindingExample implements EntryPoint, IsWidget { interface Driver extends SimpleBeanEditorDriver<Person, PersonEditor> {} private Driver driver = GWT.create(Driver.class); @Override public Widget asWidget() { FramedPanel panel = new FramedPanel(); panel.setHeadingText("Model with List Property"); panel.setBodyBorder(false); panel.setWidth(400); panel.addStyleName("margin-10"); PersonEditor personEditor = new PersonEditor(); driver.initialize(personEditor); panel.setWidget(personEditor); panel.addButton(new TextButton("Save", new SelectHandler() { @Override public void onSelect(SelectEvent event) { Person p = driver.flush(); Window.alert(p.getKids().get(0).getName() + " " + p.getKids().get(0).getAge()); } })); Person person = new Person("Darrell Meyer", "Sencha Inc", "Ext GWT", "Washington, DC", 9.99); List<Kid> kids = new ArrayList<Kid>(); kids.add(new Kid("Alec", 4, new DateWrapper(2004, 1, 1).asDate())); kids.add(new Kid("Lia", 2, new DateWrapper(2005, 1, 1).asDate())); kids.add(new Kid("Andrew", 1, new DateWrapper(2007, 1, 1).asDate())); person.setKids(kids); driver.edit(person); return panel; } @Override public void onModuleLoad() { RootPanel.get().add(this); } }
18 Apr 2012 3:42 PM #3
Thank you Colin. You helped but more indirectly.
I upgraded from rc to rc2 and it fixed the problem. Sorry for not pointing out I was using rc[1].
I'll update my post to highlight more of my example. Specifically:
- Entire GWT/GXT learning project
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Let us suppose that $X$, with a 2-form $\omega$. Suppose $J$ is an element of $su(2)$ such that $J^2=-e$ for $e$ the identity. Is there a necessary and sufficient condition on $\omega$ which will give the existence of $E\rightarrow X$ a $SU(2)$ bundle with a connection whose curvature is $J\omega$?
An obvious necessary local condition is that $d\omega=0$. On the open set $U\subset X$ on which $\omega^2\not=0$, one has the further condition that the only ${\frak su}(2)$-valued connection that could have curvature $J\omega$ is one that is locally of the form $J\alpha$, where $\omega = d\alpha$. This may mean (I haven't checked the mod 2 conditions) that any such $E$ would have to restrict to $U$ to be of the form $E = L \oplus \overline L$, where $L$ is a complex line bundle with curvature $\omega$.
Here is the reasoning behind the above statements: Recall that ${\frak su}(2)$ can be regarded as the space of imaginary quaternions, with standard basis ${\bf i},{\bf j},{\bf k}$. Our curvature form can then be written as $\Omega = \omega {\bf i}$, and a potential connection form would be $\alpha = \alpha_1 \textbf{i} + \alpha_2\textbf{j} + \alpha_3 \textbf{k}$ for some (at the moment, only locally defined) $1$-forms $\alpha_i$. Now, the curvature equation $d\Omega = d\alpha + \alpha \wedge \alpha$ implies the Bianchi identity $d\Omega = \Omega \wedge \alpha - \alpha \wedge\Omega$, which unravels to the three equations $$ d\omega = 0\quad\text{and}\quad \omega\wedge\alpha_2 = \omega \wedge\alpha_3 = 0. $$ Thus, $\omega$ must be closed. Moreover, if $\omega^2\not=0$, the second and third equations imply that $\alpha_2 = \alpha_3 =0$, so that one must have $\omega = d\alpha_1$, and the connection must keep the splitting of $E$ into the sum of two (conjugate) line bundles invariant under parallel translation.
There is unlikely to be a simple sufficient condition without making some constant rank assumptions on $\omega$, there are just too many possibilities.
I'll add some remarks about the case when $\omega^2=0$ but $\omega\not=0$ when I have time.
The case $\omega^2=0$ holds always when $M$ is a surface, and I want to restrict to the case of compact oriented surfaces of genus $g\geq2.$ Lets say you have a flat $SL(2,\mathbb C)$-connection $\nabla$ on a topological trivial bundle $V\to M$ whose underlying holomorphic structure $$\bar{\partial}=\frac{1}{2}(\nabla+i*\nabla)$$ is stable ($\star$ is the Riemann surface $\star,$ i.e. it is given on $1$ forms by $\star dz=idz,\star d\bar z=-id\bar z).$ Stability implies that there are no non-trivial holomorphic endomorphisms, i.e. $$H^0(M;End(V,\bar\partial)=\mathbb C Id.$$ This case occurs for example when $\nabla$ is an irreducible flat $SU(2,\mathbb C)$ connection by a Weitzenboeck argument. By Serre duality and with $End_0(V)=(End_0(V))^*$ via trace $$H^1(M,KEnd_0(V))=H^0(M,End_0(V))=\{0\}$$ which means that every $2-$form with values in the trace free endomorphisms is in the image of $\bar\partial.$ This implies there exists $\alpha\in\Gamma(M, KEnd_0(V))$ with $$F^{\nabla+\alpha}=F^\nabla+d^\nabla\alpha=0+\bar\partial\alpha=J\omega$$ as $J\omega$ is trace free.


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I am attempting to utilize Google App Engine as an Authentication Server for a mobile application that runs on android natively. User names and passwords will be stored in GAE and my goal is to be able to both store and verify credentials from the mobile application using GAE. Is this possible? I've looked into OAuth and JSON, but I don't think I have the proper setup for that.
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I have a lens with a small but significant looking scratch near the center. But I don't see any difference in the photos. Where does the imperfection show up? How important is it to get the piece of glass replaced? (It's a Panasonic 14-45mm micro 4/3 lens).
Most of the time, the scratch will show up as a small and perhaps even unnoticeable amount of softening in the image. (It will largely be "outvoted" by the vast majority of the light, which is being focused properly.) In high contrast situations, though, or when the light is striking the lens directly, there may be a significant mount of flare washing out the image and reducing overall contrast.
The scratch will probably also make the lens element more fragile, so it will likely to be easier to crack that lens element if the lens is dropped or given a good bump -- that depends on the type of glass.
Fixing it isn't a critical emergency unless it interferes with the kinds of pictures you want to take, but if you plan to keep the lens for a long time, it would be a good idea to get it repaired at some point.
Not as much as you'd think:
Depends on the damage, and the aperture. That's the reason I stopped using UV filters; I'd rather get the best IQ possible and risk damage which can be ignored or fixed if required. Damage to your lens might affect the resale value; by the same token, as a buyer you could pick up a bargain.
Lens work surprisingly well with dirty or scratched front element. Here is a very good article about it, someone deliberately ruined a lens to test this effect.
Probably you'll see problems with lens flare, but the biggest disadvantage is the resale value, it will be more difficult to sell a scratched lens.
One point that hasn't been made is that it's pretty inexpensive to fix the front element of a lens, usually in the realm of $200. It's not a huge concern in general, but it if you are serious, it's worth getting fixed.
A lens can take a surprisingly large amount of damage to it before it will greatly degrade an image. In the event that a favorite irreplaceable filter has gotten a small conchoidal fracture at the edge or a scratch in it, blacken that area with a fine-pointed sharpie pen, removing (rubbing away) any excess ink outside of the scratch or fracture, and this will minimize any contrast-loss that you might get from when it is illuminated by bright light. I always keep a fine-pointed sharpie and a larger black magic-marker in my camera bag. The latter for blackening cyclone-fence wiring or other metal-grids that I might have to shoot through. Blacking any small section of fence or enclosure wire that I have to shoot around/through makes it nearly completely disappear.


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November 26, 2012
Top five day-to-night spots in Cape Town
The long, lazy days of summer are upon us, which means endless hours of sun-worshipping on any one of Cape Town's top beaches.
Luckily, there are a number of great beachside spots where days can easily melt into balmy evenings – with the added bonus of not requiring you to change out of your beach gear
The Grand
Located on a private stretch of beach near the V&A Waterfront, The Grand Café and Beach is one of Cape Town's trendiest spots to see and be seen. Lounge on comfy chairs with your toes in the sand as you sip on a refreshing drink from the beach bar or nibble on tasty fusion dishes from the bistro-style menu.
Location: Granger Bay Road, Granger Bay
Contact: +27 (0)21 425 0551
Website: www.grandafrica.com
Café Caprice
Overlooking Camps Bay's wide stretch of sandy beach, Café Caprice is a popular spot amongst locals and visitors alike. Stroll across the main road after a day on the beach for an icy cocktail while the DJs keep the beats coming well into the night.
Location: 37 Victoria Road, Camps Bay
Contact: +27 (0)21 438 8315
Website: www.cafecaprice.co.za
Brass Bell
In keeping with Kalk Bay's laid back style, the Brass Bell's fantastic views and various chilled out seating areas make it an instant winner. After working up a hunger in the ocean, head to the Brass Bell for wood-fired pizzas, fresh seafood and live entertainment – all with the waves crashing so close, you can feel the spray.
Location: Main Road, Kalk Bay
Contact: +27 (0)21 788 5455
Website: www.brassbell.co.za
The Bungalow
Formerly La Med, The Bungalow is a casual yet stylish spot located in Clifton. Offering exceptional views over the ocean and featuring sophisticated décor and an extensive drinks menu, the Bungalow is the perfect place to kick back with a cocktail in the company of good friends.
Location: 3 Victoria Road, Clifton
Contact: +27 (0)21 438 2018
Website: www.thebungalow.co.za
The Blue Peter Hotel
For postcard-perfect views of Table Mountain, Blue Peter can't be topped. Lazy days spent on Blouberg Beach, or on the grassy banks in front of the Lower Deck Bistro at Blue Peter, easily translate into sundowners and dinner in a casual setting.
Location: 7 Popham Street, Blouberg
Contact: +27 (0)21 554 1956
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SHERMAN, TX -- Whether you've been bullied or regretful for being a bully in the past, the subject has become a hot topic in recent years.
For this Mom's Everyday Money segment, we look at how bullying can not only affect us emotionally, but economically as well.
Nine year old Ashlyn is an elementary school student at Henry W. Sory in Sherman who has a message about bullying.
'I feel like I can stand up to bullies, that I can say that I don't want to be bullied and that bullying is wrong and you shouldn't do it," she says. "And if you do get bullied I think you should stand up to yourself and tell them stop hurting me.'
Her mother and PTA president Stephanie Hammett took measures to protect Ashlyn against bullying early on.
"Ashlyn attends a local martial arts school and gets a lot of instruction there on how to stand up for herself and how to speak up and talk to adults and that's helpful too," said Stephanie.
According to experts like Marie Newman, co-author of "When Your Child is Being Bullied: Real Solutions", bullying is now, not just a huge social-emotional issue, it's also becoming an academic performance issue, a factor in criminal behavior and is driving economic issues at the community and school level.
Principal of Henry W. Sory Elementary, Steven Traw says, "it's actually state law, everyone in the district including every staff member, every child is educated on what bullying is and measures they can take to prevent it from happening."
That's why anti-bullying expert Marie Newman is taking a stand. "There are 13 million kids that are getting bullied every year which is really 13 million too many which is why Sears got involved to help families and communities," said Newman. "They have developed 'Team Up to Stop Bullying' which is an organization of 55 anti-bullying nonprofits and solution providers that are all housed in one trusted place at sears.com back slash team up."
Newman says this website will help put solutions and services directly into the hands of educators like Traw and parents and children like Stephanie and Ashlyn dealing with the bullying problem.
'While there are literally hundreds of solutions on the site, if a child is being bullied, they can come to the site and learn how to protect themselves from cyber-bullying," Newman said. "They can also learn how to develop effective responses for bullying situations. Parents can go there and really download some great tools and action plans to help them work with the schools and end their child's torment. And then finally, schools have a wide variety of solutions and solution providers they can choose."
Newman says there are lots of great tips online but if you find solutions anywhere, take it like Stephanie did for her daughter.
"Find something that your child is confident about," Stephanie says. "Children who are confident are much less likely to be a victim of bullying."
For more information on Team Up to Stop Bullying, go to http://www.sears.com/teamup. For tips on solutions, Marie Newman also co-authored a book called "When Your Child Is Being Bullied: Real Solutions" with J.E. Dimarco. You can see stories like this and more at http://www.momseveryday.com/texoma.


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(AP)-- If you want a glimpse of some of the worst of global warming, scientists suggest taking a look at U.S. weather in recent weeks.
Horrendous wildfires. Oppressive heat waves. Devastating droughts. Flooding from giant deluges. And a powerful freak wind storm called a derecho.
These are the kinds of extremes climate scientists have predicted will come with climate change, although it's far too early to say that is the cause. Nor will they say global warming is the reason 3,215 daily high temperature records were set in the month of June.
Scientifically linking individual weather events to climate change takes intensive study, complicated mathematics, computer models and lots of time. Sometimes it isn't caused by global warming. Weather is always variable; freak things happen.
And this weather has been local. Europe, Asia and Africa aren't having similar disasters now, although they've had their own extreme events in recent years.
But since at least 1988, climate scientists have warned that climate change would bring, in general, increased heat waves, more droughts, more sudden downpours, more widespread wildfires and worsening storms. In the United States, those extremes are happening here and now.
So far this year, more than 2.1 million acres have burned in wildfires, more than 113 million people in the U.S. were in areas under extreme heat advisories last Friday, two-thirds of the country is experiencing drought, and earlier in June, deluges flooded Minnesota and Florida.
"This is what global warming looks like at the regional or personal level," said Jonathan Overpeck, professor of geosciences and atmospheric sciences at the University of Arizona. "The extra heat increases the odds of worse heat waves, droughts, storms and wildfire. This is certainly what I and many other climate scientists have been warning about."


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WAKE FOREST — A billboard battle over Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson is bringing national attention to a road-side ad on Capital Boulevard near Wake Forest.
On Wednesday, the debate first appeared on a digital billboard near the intersection of Rolling Acres Road and Capital Boulevard. For 8 seconds at a time, the board read, "Proud to call you one of our own, Russel!" (sic), next to a picture of a badger, the University of Wisconsin's mascot, and the Twitter hashtag "GoBadgers."
The quickly infamous "Russel" billboard, however, was cleverly engineered with a false typo in order to go viral, according to a representative of Fairway Advertising.
By Thursday, the same billboard had another Wilson-themed variation, and another typo: "Hey, Wizconsin, Our State, Our Russell #GoPack."
Paul Hickman, general manager in North Carolina for Fairway Advertising, declined to identify who paid for the ads but he confirmed that his company's doing business with two sides of a feud.
"All I can tell you is we're enjoying being paid for this entertainment," Hickman said. "We're under a confidentiality agreement. Nobody wants anybody knowing who's doing what."
Hickman wouldn't let on much more about the source of the ads. Many N.C. State fans suspect the billboard might actually be the work of rival North Carolina and not Wisconsin.
Hickman said he believed the "Russel" misspelling was intentional.
"My opinion was they were wanting to draw attention, but they never realized how much attention it would draw," Hickman said. "FOX Sports, the NFL (web site) — I was like, 'My God, it's gone global, over a spelling thing.' "
The story has its roots in the conflict over which college gets to "claim" Wilson, who played for both Wisconsin and N.C. State before getting picked by the Seahawks in the 2012 NFL draft.
Wilson started for three seasons for the Wolfpack but graduated and finished his college career with the Badgers in 2011. He has publicly claimed his affinity for both schools, even going as far as saying he was from "a whole Pack of Badgers" on a Sunday Night Football telecast last season.
The debate is not confined to the billboard. Jennifer Broerman, who's with the Wisconsin Triangle Alumni Chapter, said every time she wears a Wisconsin sweatshirt, an N.C. State fan will tell her to "give us back our quarterback."
Broerman hadn't heard about the "Russel" billboard until Thursday but didn't think a Wisconsin fan would intentionally misspell Wilson's first name.
"I think everyone wants to be recognized for their part in his story," said Broerman, 34, who lives in Raleigh. "He's so likeable, it's hard not to want to claim him."
The first, pro-Wisconsin billboard went up on Wednesday, and quickly picked up steam on Twitter and caught the attention of national sports media outlets such as Sports Illustrated, Fox Sports and NFL.com.
The counterpoint came on Thursday. There's also "speculation," Hickman said, that the war of words could spread to the Wisconsin market.
"You've got to do something fun like this occasionally," Hickman said. "They're laughing. At the end of the day, there's a lot of laughing going on."


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Let $R$ be the ring of Dirichlet series with integer coefficients. I'd often wondered about whether $R$ was a UFD; this post cleared that up, because it turns out that $R\simeq\mathbb{Z}[[x_1,x_2,\cdots]]$ (the $x_i$ correspond to primes, apparently, but I'm not sure what the explicit isomorphism is).
My first (slightly mundane) question is: what is the group of units $U(R)$? I know that $f\in R$ is a unit iff $f(0)$ is a unit (which in this case means $f(0)=\pm1$); similarly, $f\in\mathbb{Z}[[x_1,x_2,\cdots]]$ is a unit iff $f$'s constant term is $\pm1$, and part D of this link would seem to help a bit (using $\mathbb{Z}[[x_1,x_2,\cdots]]\simeq \mathbb{Z}[[x_2,\cdots]][[x_1]]$), but I couldn't get very far figuring out what $U(R)$ actually is.
Now, my main question: Can we take arbitrary $n$th roots (and hence, arbitrary fractional powers) of Dirichlet series which are units in $R$? I believe this is equivalent to asking whether the group of units is divisible, but I'm not sure.
A motivating example / special case of my question
$\mu$ and 1 (where $\mu$ is the Mobius function, $1$ is the constant 1 function) are units in $R$. In fact, $\mu\cdot 1=\epsilon$ (where $\epsilon(0)=1$, $\epsilon(n)=0$ for $n>0$ is the identity). Expressing this using the actual series,
$\displaystyle\left(\sum_{n=1}^\infty \frac{\mu(n)}{n^s}\right)\left(\sum_{n=1}^\infty\frac{1}{n^s}\right)=\sum_{n=1}^\infty \frac{\epsilon(n)}{n^s} = 1$
and hence $\displaystyle\sum_{n=1}^\infty \frac{\mu(n)}{n^s} = \frac{1}{\zeta(s)}$. Indeed, we can find the Dirichlet series for $\zeta(s)^k$ for any $k\in \mathbb{Z}$ by looking at the corresponding element $1^k\in R$ (note that $1^{-k}=\mu^k$). However, I would like to know what Dirichlet sequence corresponds to $\displaystyle\zeta(s)^{\frac{a}{b}}$ for $\frac{a}{b}\in\mathbb{Q}$.


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I have heard that algebraic spaces have better formal properties than schemes. What are these benefits? Also, is there a natural way to go straight from affine schemes to algebraic spaces bypassing the locally ringed space construction?
The better formal property is that algebraic spaces are closed under taking quotients of etale equivalence relations (in practice typically coming from group actions), while schemes are not.
One can define then directly from affines as done in http://www.math.univ-toulouse.fr/~toen/m2.html , Cours N° 2 (this source gives also a nice impression of the difference/similarity of schemes and alg. spaces and shows how they are exactly designed to support more quotients)
Here is one intuitive way to think about it:
One way to make this precise: a scheme is the coequalizer of a Zariski-open equivalence relation, whereas an algebraic space is the coequalizer of an etale equivalence relation.
Another way is to say that, as a functor on rings, a scheme has a Zariski-open covering by affine functors, whereas an algebraic space has an etale covering by affine functors (thus bypassing reference to locally ringed spaces, regarding your second question).
Why do we care? A priori, if you want to work in the etale topology anyway, why not fix the definition of scheme to say "etale-locally affine" instead of "Zariski-locally affine". This is just one motivation for studying algebraic spaces, which you can read more about in Champs algébriques.
(Edit: For "a fortiori" reasons to study algebraic spaces, I'll just say read the other answers :)
One of them was answered in response to question 1558 on when quotients of schemes by free group actions exist. When the group is finite, they exist as algebraic spaces. But, there are examples where they do not exist as schemes. So, being closed under quotients by free finite group actions is certainly nice.
I know the second part of your question is explained in the first couple of sections of Champs algebriques. They define a space as a covariant functor from algebras to sets that satisfies descent. Then, an algebraic space is such a functor that has an etale cover by the functors associated to some affine schemes. I don't really remember the details here.
In addition to being closed under taking quotients by etale equivalence relations, algebraic spaces are also closed under taking quotients by arbitrary finite group actions (need not be free, so the induced relation need not be etale). I only realized this recently, but I think the following argument is correct.
Suppose G is a finite group acting on an algebraic space X. Then the stack quotient [X/G] is a Deligne-Mumford stack (it has an etale cover by X). By the Keel-Mori theorem, DM stacks have coarse spaces. Let [X/G]→Y be the coarse space of [X/G]. Then Y is an algebraic space and the map [X/G]→Y is universal for maps from [X/G] to algebraic spaces. This means that Y is a categorical quotient of X by G. In fact, I think Y might actually be a geometric quotient (or at least a good quotient) of X by G, but I haven't unraveled all the definitions yet.


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How can I resize such items without changing the curvature at edges? You know, I don't want the half-circles at the extremes to become half-elipses.
How can I resize such items without changing the curvature at edges? You know, I don't want the half-circles at the extremes to become half-elipses.
Hold down the shift key while dragging a corner handle.
Or, the more accurate and flexible method is directly selecting all the vector point anchors for one side (2 corners) and dragging that over, then selecting the other half to drag another side in another direction to achieve the desired dimensions.
diagram to show how to resize by directly selecting anchor points
You can only do that with the "Direct Selection Tool" which is the second, white, "pointer" button in the Illustrator tools palette. It selects points of a shape instead of the whole shape.
Holding Shift while resizing will constrain proportions and keep the ends as semicircles. If your resized shape is too wide, use
If you need the edges aligned with other objects, the easiest way is to duplicate your resized object and combine the 2 shapes using overlapping areas.
Step 1: The Initial Resize (to get the correct height without distorting your ends)
Step 2 (Option A): Adjust Width Using Direct Selection (move some anchors)
Step 2 (Option B): Adjust Width Using Compount Shapes (good for aligning with other objects)
I don't know which version of Illustrator you're using, and I also don't recall which version of Illustrator this first arrived in (CS3, maybe?), but the exact answer to your question is: turn on 9-slice scaling for your object.
The instructions for turning this on in CS5 are here in the Illustrator help, but maybe it will help to explain what the heck 9-slice scaling is and why somebody invented it in the first place.
"Why" is easy: it was to solve the exact problem you are running into, where the designer needs to scale an object without affecting the corner radius. 9-Slice Scaling divides the object into three, horizontally and vertically, then protects he four corners while allowing the center and edges to scale up and down. I can't improve on the Fireworks help page that shows all this very clearly.
How did you create this shape?
If you started drawing it as a rectangle, then Effects->Convert to Shape->Rounded Rectangle and defined a corner radius value there, then it shouldn't change the curvature as you resize the rectangle later.
The is the simplest algorithm to do that in CC:
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I ordered SteriPEN before I started my India trip but unfortunately it didn't arrive in time. I'm only drinking bottled water here but am interested whether tap water in train stations and some monuments is safe to drink or is the board which says
Drinking water just put there as a decoration or is that water really safe.
I ordered SteriPEN before I started my India trip but unfortunately it didn't arrive in time. I'm only drinking bottled water here but am interested whether tap water in train stations and some monuments is safe to drink or is the board which says
I was advised by both locals and colleagues who'd travelled to India to even be careful which bottled water you drink, as some (such as refilled glass bottles provided in hotel rooms) are filled from tap water.
The rule of thumb I was given was to stick to brewery brands, as most have related bottled water brands. These have filtration and other sterilising processes as their beer counterparts.
I would think the 'drinking water' taps are there for locals who are used to the bacteria which is in the water. An 'initiation ceremony' I've heard of, for people who have permanently relocated to India is to be handed a glass of tap water and told to spend the next week at home ill... once you've been ill you're good to go, but if you're only there for a few weeks it really wouldn't be good to be out of action for a week.
No, tap water is usually not safe to drink in India. Households commonly buy large, office cooler type bottles of drinking water or have in-house filtration systems. So if it's a normal tap, then don't drink from it.
The exception is if the tap has a cooling or a filtration unit next to it. (I can't find a free image for this to include here.) These could be a small single unit with tubes leading to the tap, or for larger multi-tap units then the cooling compressor should be obvious to notice.
I just spent 7 weeks in India and while I did not drink the normal tap water, I did drink the water from the
Of course there is always a risk, but most people I spoke to who got sick in India did not drink the 'public water'.
Drinking tap water in India is not always safe, especially at railway stations. However the tap water available at most of the monuments is safe to drink. I advise you to drink bottled water in trains. At many places there is an arrangement for filtered tap water by Indian government. You can trust that water.
I'd advise not to drink tapped water from public places. Water at railway stations/bus stations needs to be avoided. Coming to museums and places with monuments, it depends on the hygienic conditions at that place.
Thus, bottled water is advisable. In India we have places where you can get Rs.5000 worth shoes by Nike for Rs.500 by name nikee. Duplicate brands or parts of almost everything, can be found in India. Same applies to bottled water too. Watch out for duplicates or local made's like 'Aqaufeena'(Aqaufina-->Trustworthy brand),'Besleri'(Bisleri--->Trustworthy brand).
Drinking unfiltered water in India is the number one cause of illness for foreign (and local) travelers. Consumption of tap water in India, unfortunately, carries the risk of water borne diseases such as Dysentery and Typhoid. Even with bottled water, ensure that you purchase from a reputable outlet, and not from a street hawker, to avoid the risk of contamination. On the other hand, if the water is heated to a boiling point (as in the preparation of tea/coffee), it will be potable.
PS>> I haven't heard much about the SteriPEN, but even if you had it, I wouldn't trust implicitly.


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Is it possible to visualize/edit a big matrix as a table ? I often end up exporting/copying big tables to Excel for seeing them, but I would prefer to stay in Mathematica and have a similar view as in Excel. Note that I'm looking for a non commercial solution. Thanks
Based on the approach of F'x this is a version aimed rather at large arrays. It should perform reasonably well independent of the array size and lets one edit the given variable directly. Performance suffers only from the maximal number of rows and columns to be shown, which can be controlled with the second argument. I did choose to use the "usual" syntax for controllers with a
You can test it with, e.g.:
This will confirm that
In order to provide a user-friendly way to edit a matrix, I usually do the following:
And taking into account all comments below (with thanks to celtschk, Heike and tkott), I wrote the following function:
Now rows and columns are numbered Excel-style, and it has scrollbars:
Maybe the undocumented TableView is helpful:
See this post.
Or, as suggested in the comments, perhaps
Here's a slight variation of Albert's answer in order to
The perspective of not needing Excel anymore for just viewing big tables is really appealing ...
So I would second the suggestion to use
by selecting its cell bracket and copying it. Then start a new cell by typing
and paste the last output into it. Now you have the data in an input cell but still in the form of a grid. The cells can be edited by placing the cursor in them. The display is very bare-bones, but you can customize it to some extent with the
I am not keen on manually editing in big arrays, but if you just want to view one, perhaps this function grid is useful. It takes all options of Grid, and produces an adequately sized output cell that is easily scrolled:


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Game Design Major Needs Guidance
(Edited due to vagueness on my part. I explain my situation better in my first reply.)
Hey people,
I am currently a Junior attending the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD).
My major - Interactive Design and Game Development
My first concern is that even though I respect this school; I feel that after now becoming a junior I should know more about game design. I know that I have these last 2 school years left to learn more, but it feels like I haven't learned enough up to this point.
I have been reading a lot of the articles from Gamasutra and Gamecareerguide on how to prepare for the industry but some of what they say is easier said than done in my opinion. I am not a fanboy of movies, tv shows, or even video games which I think puts me far behind.
I have just started self-teaching C# with the Head First C# book, but I am looking for other ways of self-teaching to help me get a leg up in school. I don't want to just graduate with a degree. I want to have enough under my belt to get a job.
I really just need advice from people who have self-taught aspects of game design successfully so I can get an idea of where to go from here.
Thanks for reading!
Last edited by joshmakesart : 07-10-2012 at 02:50 PM.
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Re: Game Design Major Needs Guidance
Be warned - there's a lot of tough talk in this reply. But my intent is to show you a different way of thinking, a better way of getting the information you really need. I am writing this reply to be helpful, but in a way that some people find disagreeable. If you can't take tough talk, Josh, stop reading now.
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2. You haven't. Very few students who've just finished the sophomore year have learned enough. Look up the term "sophomoric." I just looked it up, and found two definitions:
Pretentious or juvenile.
Conceited and overconfident of knowledge but poorly informed and immature.
Let's assume you are not pretentious, conceited, and overconfident. But, yeah, as a sophomore, you have definitely not learned enough yet. Or perhaps we need to agree on what "enough" means. What is your definition of "enough"?
3. Only some? Try again. ALL OF IT is easier said than done. EVERYTHING is easier said than done, except breathing and having a pulse (and even those have exceptions).
4. Really. Movies and TV don't matter, but you don't like video games? Then why are you going into game development, and especially why do you want to learn more about game design?
5. Behind other sophomores, you mean? Because they are the only competition you need to compare yourself with.
6. Really. Well, I don't deny that some knowledge of programming is useful for a game designer, but... I'm thinking we may be talking at cross purposes. Does your definition of "game design" include programming as an absolute requirement? Or are you learning it out of an insatiable curiosity to know more about how games are made?
7. I have an article that might be useful for that quest: http://sloperama.com/advice/lesson12.htm
8. That's good. In the next 2 years as you finish your degree, you can work on your portfolio in your spare time. But even if you do, you still probably won't have "enough" to get a job straight out of school, depending on what kind of job you plan to go for. I don't know what kind of job you plan to go for, since I'm getting mixed signals from you: you say you want to know more about "game design," and you're learning about programming this summer, and your moniker is "joshmakesart," so I have no idea what kind of job you plan to go for after graduation.
Tom Sloper
Sloperama Productions
Making games fun and getting them done. www.sloperama.com
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Re: Game Design Major Needs Guidance
That reply is exactly what I needed. I'm ex-military so when people give it to me straight, I appreciate it.
Also I am horrible at expressing what's on my mind and apologize for the vague explanation of my concerns. I will now try to explain things better and will reply to you in the format you used.
1. I misspoke. I meant Game Development. At my school it is the slang term that we use sometimes as a fast way of communicating. It shouldn't have been used in my post. I apologize. And the knowledge I have of Game Development includes the basic foundation stuff; system dynamics, mechanics, prototyping, rules, interface design, etc..)
2. What I meant is that even though I have taken the basic classes for Game Development I still don't feel that the knowledge I currently have makes me the least bit valuable or confident. It's more of a worried feeling in my stomach that I'm running out of time to learn enough while in college. I'm probably wrong but the feeling is there nonetheless.
3. You are totally right. I know it's not an easy process. My point in saying that was to get guidance on good tactics for learning a decent amount of information in limited time. For example, in one thread it said that I need to play all kinds of games good and bad, they even mention GameFly. But while in school it is nearly impossible to have time to play video games. I do what I can in that area, but it doesn't seem good enough.
4. I never said I didn't like video games. I think it was miscommunication on my part. Where I currently live/study, fanboy is a term for someone who has vast knowledge over a form of entertainment. Like someone who has a film obsession knows all actors, directors, and narrative within most movies in existence. I have been told countless times by professors that being a fanboy of video games is good, but not necessary. All I wanted really was a second opinion on the matter I suppose. I have played and loved video games since I was a child. But not knowing all the games out there just adds to the "worried feeling."
5. "Other sophomores" is exactly what I meant.
6. As it stands, I know little programming. I want to self teach programming for three reasons. One, to be able to communicate with programmers when working on future games. Two, to have the power to give life to my art in order to express my game ideas to my team. Three, to be ahead of schedule once I start programming courses.
7. Thanks.
8. I am well aware that it's not easy getting a great job right after graduating. That's one of the first things we are taught in this major. But it is possible to be more qualified than other students. My goal is to go above and beyond the class assignments, and have more going for me than just a degree when I graduate. Also, I do not yet know what path I will take in my career. And lastly, I just use "joshmakesart" for most user names because of my website, joshmakesart.com. I threw together the site and put some work on it a while back for a better chance at getting internships or whatever it may be needed for. It is still a work in progress.
I hope this has explained things a little better. I may have been in too much of a rush to get these concerns off my chest in the first post.
Once again, I apologize for the confusion and thank you for your reply.
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Re: Game Design Major Needs Guidance
2. You are living in Star Wars land. You think "feel the force" is real. It's not. I'm surprised that an ex-military guy is still using the word "feel" like a twenty-year old. I assume you are older than the other sophomores in your class, but you don't sound like it.
3. You can't hurry learning. You have 2 more years. Focus on your schoolwork, do your studies well. Also, know that nobody can learn everything in college that he needs to know afterwards. You have to supplement your education by doing independent study. If you can't cram it all in before graduation, cram it in after graduation.
4. Yes, of course.
5. I have worked in games since before you were born, and I do not know all the games out there. Please don't take this in the wrong way. You might want to consider discussing your anxiety with your doctor. You say you were in the military; I don't know if that involved combat, or if you have any post-traumatic conditions; if so, then the VA probably has some support groups you might want to join.
6. Yes, of course. Anything is possible (except time travel to the past, and the Star Trek holodeck).
7. In moderation. If your desire and attempt to go above and beyond increases your anxiety above acceptable levels, then you should scale back -- lower your sights.
8. I think we already discussed this point in our previous go-around, did we not?
9. You might want to focus your efforts now on figuring that out. Read about the different job types in games, picture yourself doing those jobs. Try learning programming (as you said before) so you can find out if you like it. Since "art" is in your online persona already, see if you can make some masterpieces. Try writing, too.
After you've tried things some more, and read about those careers, make a decision grid.
It's okay if the decision you make now differs from the decision you'll make five years from now. That's the way it goes. The decision you make now does not have to be the end-all and be-all -- you are not cementing yourself into the sidewalk of life with this decision. But make a decision soon. You're older than the other sophomores, and you want to take courses applicable to the career path you need to decide.
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Re: Game Design Major Needs Guidance
Josh I can relate to you quite well because I actually felt the exact same way during my senior year. Yeah, it's not a good feeling. Let me tell you right now that there is no way you are going to learn game development from going to classes, turning in assignments, or reading books. Sure, those these give you a great place to start, but in my experience you are only going to learn game development if you jump in and get your feet wet by making games.
Things actually took a bit of an unexpected turn for me. I already had plans to move to an area with a lot of game companies and had even started researching the companies by playing their games and learning the same tools that they use. Then, during my last year, I was contacted by a former classmate who had joined a small startup. He wanted me to join the team as writer and designer. So I did.
Now, unfortunately, this meant that instead of jumping into a high paying job, I am sticking with my day job until something happens here, but that's not really my point.
My point is this: absolutely nothing that I ever did in any class could have prepared me for what it's like to actually be a part of a team trying to build a game. We have three artists (including our team leader), two programmers, and one designer (that's me). On one hand, it is incredibly rewarding, especially seeing that we are actually in the prototyping stage where our programmers are starting to put things into motion. On the other hand, it is a huge reality check. Suddenly vague descriptions don't work because our programmers don't think that way.
One of the absolute best things we did as a team happened this past April. We decided to take part in the Ludum Dare 23 game jam. (www.ludumdare.com)
It was an eye-opening experience for all of us as we each had our assigned tasks and we tried to keep in communication with each other. Ultimately, we did not complete a game, but we DID learn a lot, and I can't stress enough...A LOT. We learned a lot about the development process, more than books or classes or assignments had ever taught us.
So do this: make a game, ideally as part of a team. A classmate of mine once said that if you get through your education without actually making any games, THAT is when you are behind.
So yes, go above and beyond on your assignments. Read everything you can get your hands on about game development. But seriously? Go make games. Make them solo. Make them with other people. Listen to everything Mr. Sloper has told you. And find a group in your college to make a game. Don't worry about 'knowing enough' to be part of a team. I'm willing to be that most of the students around you don't actually 'know enough' either, but that shouldn't stop anyone. You may have to start small, but that's okay. I am convinced that nothing will replace the experience (or at least practice) you will get from doing this. Oh, and you'll feel a lot better about yourself too. Trust me, I have been there, go out and get yourself involved in a group or two NOW, do it BEFORE you hit your senior year and you still don't have anything to show for it.
Shane Hendrickson
Writer and Lead Designer at Bladed Cyber Technologies
Junior Member
Re: Game Design Major Needs Guidance
I'd like to say to do whatever you do in terms of college, learning, or life for YOU, not for a potential career.
You can't get a job in the creative industry unless it is connected to some part of your soul. No amount of "Doing X" will just return a job in the industry. If you enjoy making games, your first goal is to find out which part to play. If you are already in a specific area, you can dabble in others, but stop after you give it a go for a while if you think it isn't fun.
Let your interests guide you until you really know your place. Then, the motivation to learn more will come from inside instead of arbitrary career goals. If you aren't motivated enough to use everything you know to make small board games or something else really simple than you'll never enjoy a life in, or be able to get a life in the game industry.
Miles Aurbeck
Gamicature - Life As A Game
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