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Thinking Made Visible
New York
It has been an exciting spring in this city for lovers of drawing, thanks to a pair of overlapping exhibitions—one a group of treasures from an out-of-town institution, "The Impressionist Line From Degas to Toulouse-Lautrec: Drawings and Prints From the Clark," at the Frick Collection, and the other a celebration of local riches, "Fine Lines: American Drawings From the Brooklyn Museum." Both shows are about the hand. Both cause us to be fascinated by nuances of line and tone, and by the way charcoal or graphite responds to changes of pressure; both make us care deeply about the expressive differences between a suave, controlled, slowly executed sweep and a cluster of urgent, rapid, colliding scribbles. And both do so by permitting us to see works that are seldom exhibited by their home institutions.
The Impressionist Line
From Degas
To Toulouse-Lautrec:
Drawings and Prints
From the Clark
The Frick Collection
Through June 16
Fine Lines:
American Drawings
From the Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn Museum
Through May 26
Though very differently conceived, the two exhibitions dovetail. "The Impressionist Line," at the Frick, is relatively small—50-plus works—and concentrated. "Fine Lines," in Brooklyn—100-plus works—aims at being wide-ranging and fairly comprehensive. Together, the two combine to provide an engaging, slightly erratic crash course in just about everything from academic, traditional life drawing to modernist innovations, on paper, in the U.S. and Europe, from the 18th to the 20th centuries—with, at the Frick, special emphasis on the shift from naturalism to formal invention that began in France about 1850.
That emphasis results from the tight focus of the selections from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Mass., which amount to a survey of the history of adventurous 19th-century art in Paris. In addition to stellar works by the two master draftsmen of the title, Edgar Degas and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, there are fine examples by Gustave Courbet, Honoré Daumier, Paul Gauguin, Edouard Manet, Berthe Morisot, and more.
The Brooklyn Museum's show is broader in scope, spanning the 18th to the 20th century in the U.S. with works by such notables as William Merritt Chase, Marsden Hartley, Edward Hopper, Georgia O'Keeffe and Elihu Vedder, along with accomplished artists who are largely unfamiliar, even to specialists.
Both shows are revealing examinations of how drawing, perhaps the most intimate of disciplines, makes thinking visible. Many of the works on view make us feel that we're looking over the artist's shoulder.
At the Frick, thanks mainly to Sterling Clark's perspicacity in buying in some depth from the auctions of Degas's work held soon after his death—Clark apparently wished he'd bought more—we can follow this enigmatic artist's evolution. We see him first as an eager young student, in the 1850s, drawing from the nude, copying classical sculpture, or turning a bearded model into a Renaissance nobleman; and we see the mature master, in the 1890s, translating bathers and dancers into assured, evocative, vigorous strokes of charcoal and pastel. In between, we see him studying horses in motion, recording the limp paws and coppery fur of a dead fox, and capturing the slump of a tired violinist accompanying a ballet class, all in preparation for paintings.
Equally informative (but not as vivid) are the Brooklyn Museum's facsimiles of unbound sketchbooks by artists from several periods, including Degas's more conservative near-contemporary Chase as he drew portraits of his friends and colleagues. The facsimile sketchbooks are displayed in their entirety, making us privy to everything from preliminary notations to developing and sometimes fully developed ideas.
Both exhibitions have a lot to teach us about an array of materials used on paper, from pencil and charcoal to pastel and watercolor, while the examples from the Clark are also instructive about diverse print techniques, from woodcut to lithography—a hot new medium for late 19th-century artists. At the Frick, there's a remarkably complete survey of Manet as a printmaker, reinventing broadly handled paintings as etchings and lithographs. Toulouse-Lautrec is represented by a striking group of color lithographs inspired by everything from brothels to popular entertainers to the circus.
Most of the drawings and prints in "The Impressionist Line" claim our attention because of their excellence and their being characteristic of their authors; "Fine Lines" offers different pleasures. There's the delight of variety and of discovering rarely exhibited works. There are such high points as a voluptuous Gaston Lachaise nude, a tough-minded Cubist Max Weber, a raucous William Glackens, a lovely two-sided sheet of Thomas Sully watercolor sketches. And there are surprises: Winslow Homer's tender, pastoral drawings, from his early years; Louise Nevelson's bulgy female nude; Marguerite Zorach's delicate line portrait of a lean, elegant Marianne Moore; and more, including some by virtually unknown artists, such as Blanche Lazzell's Cubist-inspired abstract buildings and Stefan Hirsch's lithe Siamese cat. The works on view in Brooklyn begin with a pair of sensitively rendered early 19th-century portraits and end in the 1940s. It makes you hope for a second installment of more recent efforts.
The subtext of both shows is the history of the collections themselves. If we pay attention to the labels, we can learn, for example, which works were bought by Sterling Clark and his wife and which were acquired by Clark Institute curators, after the collection was made public. In Brooklyn, discovering that many drawings were "gift of the artist" makes us notice that works by Chaim Gross, Isamu Noguchi, Weber, those early Homers and an illustration for a book about African-Americans were purchased. Such considerations, of course, bring us to the history of taste. That's a subject for another exhibition or two.
Ms. Wilkin is a critic and independent curator.


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Join the world of New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman's Tess Monaghan in the Shamus and Anthony Award-winning fourth book in the acclaimed series
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Tess Monaghan has learned the hard way how to survive on the streets of Baltimore—first as a fearless investigative reporter and lately as a PI. But a new case is about to take her way out of her element.
What begins with a tantalizing shard of a newspaper headline—"In Big Trouble"—above a photograph of an old boyfriend will end far away in another world, where people dress and talk differently . . . and rich people's games can have lethal consequences. Here where the sun is merciless—and curiosity can kill faster than a rattler's bite—Tess is going to have to confront her past and, hopefully, live to tell about it. For the answers she seeks about a man she thought she knew may be somehow linked to a murderer who two-steps to a very deadly drummer.
About the Author
Laura Lippman is the author of eleven novels featuring Baltimore private detective Tess Monaghan, seven stand-alone novels, and a short story collection. Her six most recent books have all been New York Times bestsellers. Lippman has won numerous literary prizes for her work, including the Edgar®, Anthony, Nero Wolfe, Agatha, Gumshoe, Barry, and Macavity Awards. A recent recipient of the first-ever Mayor's Prize, she lives in Baltimore, Maryland, with her husband, David Simon; their daughter; and her stepson.

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16 Apr 2012 10:02 PM #31
CoverFlow extension for views
<b>CoverFlow extension for views</b>
Is it possible to place views(view-Page contains fields like text box and buttons) instead images?
I want to implement the same using multiple views. Any idea?
Please advice.
4 Jul 2012 4:35 AM #32
disable cover flow drag
Hi ,
Am using this cover flow in my app. When the first or last item is selected cover flow drag should be disabled. Any idea how to implement this.
5 Jul 2012 3:19 AM #33
You sir, deserve a statue!
Magnificent! thanks!
8 Oct 2012 2:29 AM #34
I have a question to your extension
Is it possible to add the "bulletpoint" at the bottom like in the Carousel Component?
Thx for your help
30 Oct 2012 5:32 AM #35
itemTap android 2.3
Hey guys
Do you have any idea why the itemTap event on android 2.3 is not firing?
I tried already a lot of stuff but nothing changed :-(
Thanks a lot for your help
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I am using this plugin it works fine but I want also to show video and audios how can I do it please.
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Issue while running the app on Android device
Hi Elmasses,
I have checked you demo its working fine on iOS device and good job.
But when i tested on android device it's fail to run as expected behavior.
Please suggest if there is any solution.
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please share few steps to implement
I liked the plugin, as i am new to sencha couldn't able to understand how to use it in my view.
please let me know steps on, placing the files in proper folder and how to call it in my view file.
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Minky Monday: Take 20% off 1+ Yards of Minky fabric through 11:59 p.m. EDT July 25th.
I have been making digital designs for several years; now I'm ready to see what they look like on fabric. As of Dec 25, 2012 the store is now open! Well, the door is just opened a crack and a few items placed on bins on the sidewalk.....I have a backlog
Under the Sea (One-Yard Wonders)
We've partnered with Storey Publishing to hold a nautically inspired fabric design contest. Rebecca Yaker, one of the authors of the One-Yard Wonders series, is providing a downloadable pattern for a t-shirt. Download her file, add your own design to the pattern, then upload the pattern with your design on it to Spoonflower to enter it in the contest. The winner will have her or his design featured in the newest in Storey's bestselling One-Yard Wonders series: the upcoming 101 Little One-Yard Wonders. Deadline for entry is November 27, 2012. Find out more.Voting has ended. See results
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as told in the title I need to plot a lattice on the plane (not the standard one with basis (1,0), (0,1) ) and I'd like to show up how to build a torus starting from its topological square... If anyone could help it would be really appreciated!
As a topologist, I can attest to the necessity of drawing tori frequently, and also the steps in their construction. So I think that this will be a useful resource. Having said that, the actual tori in the following are a little "hackish" and have been merely adjusted to look okay rather than being perfect renderings.
Here's the code. As I commented, the lattice is easy enough. The first stages of the torus are also fairly straightforward. The only tricky bit is getting the partial torus and the torus to look reasonable. They could probably be improved. The code could also be condensed a little by using styles for the arrowed lines.
(I've just spotted that in the second stage, the right-hand edge is drawn the wrong way around so the arrows point in the wrong direction. This is easily corrected.)


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Spirit of Islay wrote:Others i've got lined up seeing i don't have a 10yo is ....
The FOTCM 10yo
SMWS 14.12 15yo
And a OMC "Laudable" 1985 15yo
Spirit of Islay wrote:£37.20 at LFW Musky
les taylor wrote:Hi I'm here don't know if I've got the hang of this.
Mr Fjeld wrote:We're in the same boat Les - I cannot make the code work propperly? I'd be surprised if I did as I can just about turn on the coffee machine......
Matt Page wrote:Mr Fjeld wrote:We're in the same boat Les - I cannot make the code work propperly? I'd be surprised if I did as I can just about turn on the coffee machine......
Ah, you need to complete the full tasting notes, if it doesnt see all the NOSE= PALATE= etc then it doesn;t like it. Also you can delete the { and }... Don't worry the cleaners will tidy it up later
Spirit of Islay wrote:
Talisker "Friends of the classic Malts" bottling
Nose : The full peat / smoke / pepper experience at CS . Not as sweet as the 18yo , slightly nasal hair tingling .
Palate : This is the 10yo supercharged , Peppery as the fires of hell , straight from the lava of the Cuillins . very dry .
Finish : Very , very , long and Warming , smoky .
Comment : Why aren't all Tali's released at CS ? Incredible ! Fantastic Mouthfeel and finish .
Had a disaster the corks fell to bits ....
Spirit of Islay wrote:Sorry Christian , just been running round trying to find a replacement cork , no luck , Diageo must be a rogue size .
Yes it was available thru the FOTCM but i picked this one up at Glenkinchie where for some reason it was up for sale
Spirit of Islay wrote:
Talisker 25yo (59.9%)
Nose : Sweet , Sherry , still bags of smoke . quite tingly on the nose .
Palate : Very Mellow next to the previous two , definitely a strong sherried presence , the pepper doesn't appear till later along with a lot of spices and a slight christmas cake mix ..
Finish : Long , warming , glace cherries , white pepper .
Comment : Still got a lot of the Talisker kick , better than the older versions of Lagavulin but not up to the 25yo Caol Ila.


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In the summer, the last thing I want to do is to apply any sort of sticky or gooey product to my lips. I am a lip gloss fanatic, but even the lightest gloss is too much product for me when it's sweltering. I will usually just opt for lip balm and add a water-based stain if I want a bit of color, preferring to keep my lips as natural as possible.
Since I tend to forego lip colors for the most part during summer, I like to ensure that my lips look and feel their absolute best without having to layer on the products. La Fresh hello Lip Treat has become the lip product that I can rely on to soothe and moisturize my lips with ingredients like shea butter and cocoa butter. This La Fresh Hello Lip Treat also contains collagen-producing oligopeptides and a blend of of sweet almond, jojoba, peppermint & cinnamon oils to smooth fine lines and shape lip contours. Read more


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GRANBY- April is the Month of the Young Child, an annual celebration. The purpose is to focus public attention on the needs of young children and their families and to recognize the early childhood programs and services that meet those needs. As a parent, one is a child's first and most important teacher. There are many ways parents can support children's learning at home. For example, collect items that go together at home like a glove and hat, bucket and shovel, toothbrush and toothpaste. Or, create a pattern of movement like jump-hop-step, jump-hop-step. Perhaps let your child look at the pictures in a book and guess what the book is about then read the story. Then next time let your child tell the story by looking at the pictures.Remember that all children are unique and each child will grow and learn at their own pace. In celebration of April as the Month of the Young Child, Grand Beginnings invites all to attend the 12th annual Children's Fair, which takes place from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Friday, April 26, at the Base Lodge of Granby Ranch. This free and fun event for families with children ages 0 to 8 boasts endless activities such as crafts, music, face painting, parenting resources, bouncy house, snacks, car seat checks, photo booth, and much more. Comedy Shows featuring the hilarious Jackman Brothers are scheduled for 10:30 a.m. and noon, with songs, silliness and endless family fun. All of this is made possible because of the generosity of our community. Over 20 plus organizations donate their time and supplies to reach out to children and families and share information and resources about their services and supports. Many entities have helped to sponsor this year's event, such as Grand County Government, Town of Fraser and Winter Park, Granby Dental, Fraser Valley Lion's Club, Granby Ranch, and Ear to Ear Photobooths.
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Here is a screenshot of my usage today on an idle unfinished cms drupal site with a maximum of 14 added modules besides core and no activity or users.
As you can see I am at my limit which is crazy so I need to limit memory usage of apache and mysql and php because my VPS is smallest one which should suit my current needs.
My system file my.cnf does not have a list of parameters as I've seen posted elsewhere but this is the file which apparently will lessen usage of memory amongst other things I've read like memory leaks and apache MPM workers vs apache prefork which seems to be what I have.
So how can I significantly reduce memory usage without removing apache or php5?
I am using mysql version 5.1.66 and looks like innodb and show variable yabbit.net/mysql.txt


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A better word for testicles, balls, gonads, jewels, ect.
I kicked that guy right in his sugar lumps.
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A common New Zealand euphemism for testicles, popularized in America by Jemaine Clement of the show and band, Flight of the Conchords.
All the ladies are just checking out my sugar lumps.
by Colin January 26, 2009
A mans testicles
Sugarlumps : Something Lisa M. always has in her throat
by timmy2013 January 30, 2009
an term of endearment for a female.
Hey, could you get me a beer sugarlump?
by Nikki TMK. July 09, 2010
A playful term with which some older(mid-to-late forties) African-American females(cougars) have chosen to affectionately label younger(mid-to-late twenties) Caucasian males.
Cougar: Would you mind helping me carry my groceries inside, sugar lump?
Young Man: (*goddammit*)
Young Man: (*goddammit*)
by javabeans August 20, 2008
A humorous nickname for a pair of testicles, usually associated with a white man.
"Wow, all of the women in this Yacht Club are checking out my sugar lumps."
by DarrBizzare March 06, 2010
Currency mainly used in Uganda. Many histoians speculate that the Falklands war was due to a sugar lump.
Hairy Native: Hoo much da Donkey?
Hairier Native: 12 Sugar lumps, and soom fudge from ya daughter.
Hairier Native: 12 Sugar lumps, and soom fudge from ya daughter.
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If there a group G acting on a variety V. The action is algebraic. What is the definition of algebro-geometric quotient of this action?
I hope you can give a very basic explanation.
If there a group G acting on a variety V. The action is algebraic. What is the definition of algebro-geometric quotient of this action?
I hope you can give a very basic explanation.
It is certainly possible to give the definition of a quotient of a variety by an algebraic group without mentioning algebraic stacks or spaces.
There are two distinctly different situations here, depending on whether the group is finite (and discrete) or a general algebraic group.
In the finite case things are a lot easier. Then you could take as your definition of a quotient that on an affine scheme given as the spectrum of a ring R, the quotient is the spectrum of the ring of invariants $R^G$. (This is not a good definition, but you could.) For general schemes you can try to glue together open affines to define a quotient globally, but this will not always produce a scheme (roughly speaking, you might have to identify too many points). When the original scheme is quasiprojective, this gluing procedure will give you a scheme (folklore), and in general it will always produce an algebraic space (Deligne).
In the more general case of algebraic groups one needs to be more careful and start distinguishing between different definitions of quotients, and start keeping track of whether your group is geometrically reductive or linearly reductive or neither. The quotient definition given by James Borger is called the categorical quotient. It is unfortunately not well behaved in the category of schemes. (Example: let $\mathbb{C}^\ast$ act on $\mathbb{C}^2$ by scaling. Then a categorical quotient exists in the category of schemes (!), however it is a single point.) The basic problem is that most properties that one wants from a quotient, like "the preimage of a point in X/G is a single G-orbit in X" will not hold unless one imposes extra conditions on top of the categorical one.
More well behaved notions are in particular good quotient and geometric quotient, but beware that there is here a morass of different definitions of quotients which can be more or less nice (there are things called weak quotients and semi-geometric quotients and probably more that I don't know, and these can be modified by adjectives like "uniform" or "universal" or "categorical", and there are nontrivial combinations of these properties like "good geometric" so these notions of quotients are not linearly ordered). There are also some differences in the literature between how these properties are defined. The point that makes finite groups so much easier is that for a finite group all these types of quotient will coincide anyway.
Just as an example let me give the definition of a geometric quotient $\pi : X \to X/G$:
(Quoted from GIT)
The most important work in this area is the slightly intimidating GIT (Geometric Invariant Theory) by David Mumford. The main construction of the book shows that when the group is reductive and acts linearly on a projective variety $X$, there are canonically defined open dense subsets traditionally denotes $X^s$ and $X^{ss}$ such that the $X^s$ has a geometric quotient and $X^{ss}$ has a good quotient which is projective. When X is not projective one has to work with so called L-linear actions where L is a line bundle on X. This reduces to the case X projective by taking $L = O(1)$. GIT is written like a textbook so in principle you can start reading on page one, but there are friendlier introductions out there. I like Dolgachev's Lectures on Invariant Theory.
The are several possible meanings. Which one it is would surely depend on the context.
The straight-up meaning is the one that works in any category. If $G$ acts on $X$ then a quotient is a universal object $X/G$ with a $G$-equivariant map $X\to X/G$, where $X/G$ has the trivial $G$ action. Here, 'universal' means that if $Y$ is any other such object, then there is a unique map $X/G\to Y$ commuting with the two maps from $X$. Then $X/G$ is unique up to unique isomorphism.
Unfortunately, if you're working in the category of schemes, such quotients sometimes don't exist. If you work in the slightly larger category of algebraic spaces (IMHO 'schemes done right'), they are more likely to exist, and there are even nice theorems (M Artin) to this effect. (There are also some not-so-nice theorems about scheme quotients in SGA 3.) You can also work in some big ambient topos, such as the category of sheaves of sets on the category of affine schemes, equipped with your favorite Grothendieck topology. In this big category, quotients always exist, and they have all the nice formal properties you could ask for (i.e. they are universal and effective, in the language of category theory).
As Steven Landsburg points out, you can also ask for the quotient in the stack-theoretic sense.
There are also various kinds of quotients that come up in geometric invariant theory, which are important if you're interested in projective algebraic geometry, but I'm embarrassed to admit that I never got to the bottom of what's going on there.
Finally, there might even be a theory of quotients in Weil's foundations for algebraic geometry, which I hear that some people working in algebraic groups still use.
You are looking for the theory of stacks. The Wikipedia article will get you started. Or see the article by Tomas, which is quite readable (if you have the right background). See especially example 2.33 in that paper.


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5 Psychology Studies Every Awkward Teenager Should Read
We've demonstrated before that, even according to science, being a teenager sucks. So one could logically assume that if being a normal teenager sucks, then being a shy teenager must be even worse. But if we ever got the chance to go back in time to visit our lonely teenage selves ... well, first off we'd deal them an epic backhanded mouthslap (butterfly effect be damned). But once they recovered, we'd tell them to keep their chin up, because ...
Adolescence is the period in everyone's life where the idea of sex metamorphoses from a mysterious concept to an uncomfortable and alarming reality to a baited hook perpetually hanging above your head. And high school thrives on that shit. If high school's social ladder were representative of the real world, every world leader would be required to submit a detailed banging history in order to cement his qualification for the job.
"Franklin Kimble: Right in the asshole."
In such a hypersexualized environment, it's easy to get depressed when your crushes are less than receptive to your charms (or, in the case of your average shy teenager, your lack thereof). It feels like you're failing some crucial self-defining test, every single day. But if you look at the long term, you're passing with flying colors -- because as it turns out, having sex later than most people might in fact be better for you.
A study done by the University of Texas found that people who lost their virginity late (defined in the study as older than 19) tended to attain a higher level of education, a higher income, and, yes, a greater level of relationship satisfaction during adulthood than those who lost their virginity at an average (15 to 19) or early (before 15) age.
"I waited until I was 30. Now, my executive position allows me to fuck entire communities."
Possible explanations include more selective partner choices, avoiding negative adolescent relationship experiences, and our personal favorite: "Individuals who first navigate intimate relationships in young adulthood, after they have accrued cognitive and emotional maturity, may learn more effective relationship skills than individuals who first learn scripts for intimate relationships while they are still teenagers."
In other words, while the other kids are learning how to fumble their way into each other's pants around the same time they're under the impression that "showing respect" is a synonym for "aggressive posturing," you get to learn about all that sex stuff later -- when you're actually emotionally competent enough to handle it.
"I'm gonna give you a big push so you can go on your own for a bit. I have to rub one out real quick."
And if your problem is that you're too shy, we need to clear something up ...
#4. Shyness Has No Influence on Whether or Not You're Single (But Does Make Your Brain Work Better)
Shyness is the curse of every teenager wishing to have anything like a normal social life. That unfounded anxiety when talking to people, the debilitating reluctance to speak up -- if minds were rock stars, shyness turns yours into the uncredited bass player, while everyone else's is friggin' Jim Morrison, man. And the worst part is there's no upside -- in no way will being shy ever be of benefit to you. After all, it's not like being popular stops counting once you enter the workplace, or that a fear of human contact is ever going to suddenly become attractive to sex partners.
"That is so hot. Shut the door and just yell at me through the keyhole, baby."
Well, we have good news: A study in 2007 had subjects provide information pertaining to shyness, love attitudes, and their current relationship status, and analysis showed that a person's level of shyness had no bearing on whether or not he or she was romantically involved. If someone's shy, there's always someone else who's more than willing to make the first move.
One thing to note, however, is that shyness was correlated with two types of romantic styles: "storge" (affectionate love that develops from friendship) and mania (the obsessive, possessive kind of love that creepy people express by secretly collecting hair samples). So just keep in mind that if you fall into the shy camp and one day you happen to find yourself branding your betrothed's name onto your neck, it may be time to start reconsidering your views on love. In the meantime, there's another benefit to shyness: a little thing called sensory processing sensitivity.
It is the means by which you shall exact your terrible revenge upon them all.
Never heard of it? Well, it's a personality trait characterized by sensitivity to stimuli of any kind, including social and emotional cues. If you're shy, there's a good chance you have it, and SPS is fucking awesome. Individuals with SPS report having richer, more complex inner lives than others, and are better equipped to notice subtleties in their environment. Studies have found that SPS and the personality traits closely linked to it (which are, for the record, shyness, behavioral inhibition, and introversion) are correlated with a whole laundry list of effects that sound increasingly like the definition of spider-sense as you check them off: greater awareness of subtle stimuli, more attentional vigilance, and greater sensory reactivity.
More importantly, scientists decided to chuck some heads into an fMRI machine while their owners performed visual- and attention-based tests. Results: The brains belonging to people with SPS showed far greater activity than anyone else's in a whole bunch of areas involved with high-order visual processing. Add it all up, and you have to wonder why there aren't bald guys starting up Schools for Shy Youngsters while senators busily pen the Shy People Registration Act.
"Ma'am, we've been informed that there may be shy people in the building. We must evacuate immediately."
And if you're still envious of those popular girls who are constantly surrounded by a dozen chattering BFFs, you should know that ...
#3. Talking Is Overrated: Girls Talking Can Lead to Depression
Let's say you're a teenage girl. And, while all the other girls are busy complaining about which guy absolutely failed to notice their new haircut or whose parents can go eat the biggest bag of dicks, you prefer to keep your complaints to yourself. After all, they're your problems, why should you be expected to share them with everyone else? While this line of reasoning seems sound to you, the other girls probably treat you in ways that would have been edited out of Mean Girls for being too over the top.
"I threw a jar of live pubic lice at her in the gym showers. Now she has crabs. What a whore."
Well, it turns out that science is right there on your (shy) side. Back in 2011, some researchers at the University of Missouri decided to find out how "co-rumination" -- talking with friends about each others' problems -- was viewed by adolescent girls and boys, and how much of an impact it had on their well-being. First and foremost, they discovered that guys generally viewed the activity as a waste of time, a tidbit that we've swept straight into the "well duh" bucket.
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In the book "A Really Short History Of Nearly Everything", I read that the larger the star is, the faster it burns itself. Whys that? Wouldn't there be more energy to burn if it's larger, and just be brighter? Our sun can burn for billions of years, but a planet bigger than our sun will only burn for millions of years. Why is that?
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Nuclear fusion rates in the core of a star have very non-linear and strong dependences on temperature, pressure and density (for temperature it's like T^40 for some processes - http://www.astro.soton.ac.uk/~pac/PH112/notes/notes/node117.html). So, as the star gets bigger, denser and hotter at the centre, the rates of fusion rise much faster and the star loses energy quicker, hence living a shorter life.
Note that the star tries to balance itself to maintain stability, so the actual dependence is not that high, and ends up being related to the mass luminosity relationship, where the dependence is not that steep.
The mass luminosity relation is non-linear (L = M^3.5 for the main sequence) so more massive stars burn at a much faster rate. This is a non-linear relationship because the fusion is caused by pressure in the core from the star trying to gravitationally collapse on itself.
It's easy: the biggest the star is the more matter it has to burn but also:
We could compare a big star to a small one like a Formula 1 car to a simple car: the F1 is faster, but it runs out of fuel earlier.
The easiest way to think of it is terms of the cube square law coming into play.
The speed at which a star can radiate heat is mostly dependent on its surface area. but it's ability to generate heat is dependent on its volume. Surface area increases with the square of the increase in radius but volume increases with cube of the radius. As a star grows in a diameter it's inside grows faster than its outside.
Even if all other factors stayed the same, the star would grow hotter because it has less surface area to radiate from.
Since gravity is dependent on volume, the gravitational compression (simplistically) scales with the cube as well. So, a larger star compresses its interior more per unit of mass than does a smaller star.
As Joan.bdm pointed out, stars have an interior volume, the burning zone down towards the core in which the pressures are high enough for fusion to take place. Probably should call it the burning volume
The burning volume is the volume in which fusion can occur. Fusion occurs once a specific threshold of heat and pressure have been reached. Below that threshold, fuel consumption is zero.
The cube square law means that the relative size of the burning volume to total volume increases faster than the diameter. E.g If a small star has ten percent of its mass inside the burning zone, a star with twice the diameter will have 20% of its total volume inside the burning zone. (actual ratios invented for demonstration purposes.)
A higher percentage of the larger star's total mass is inside the burning zone compared to a smaller star so a higher percentage of the star's mass is subject to fusion at any given time, so a higher percentage of the star's total "fuel" is being "burned" at any one time than in a smaller star.
The addition of more fusible isotopes also does not scale linearly. Fusing heavier elements does not release as much energy per unit of mass as lighter ones and they require higher temperatures to start i.e. heavier elements are a poorer fuel. The heavier elements are also produced by fusing lighter ones so the star has to burn fuel to make fuel. Since heavier elements require higher temperatures to fuse, the burning volume for them is smaller than that for lighter elements. Stars usually can't burn more than small percentage of the elements isotopes they produce so the notional increase in fuel supply doesn't compensate for the higher burn rate of lighter elements.
It's like the bard said, "The candle that burns twice as bright, burns half as long."


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I have been doing MMA for about 7 weeks and have generally only been using a rear naked choke for a submission and a triangle leg lock. What are other easy to do submissions that are effective and relatively low risk?
There are lots of other chokes applicable to MMA, but for now I'd focus your attentions on the two you've been taught. They are high-percentage techniques that you should be proficient in.
If you'd like to gain understanding of other possible techniques, keep in mind that you shouldn't try to learn techniques from books or over the internet. Just watch some MMA matches. If you want to understand submissions in MMA, I recommend watching Big Nog's fights from PRIDE, or early fights from Jake Shields or Royce Gracie, or any MMA matches from Roger Gracie, Rickson Gracie, Jacare, or Demian Maia. For the triangle choke in particular, Anderson Silva versus Chael Sonnen 1 is a great demonstration.
But to answer your question directly: there's the arm triangle and guillotine, but those are easier for a new student to do poorly than a triangle or rear naked choke. I'd focus on the two you already know.
Learn submission grappling from an instructor, not from the internet. You say you've been training for 7 weeks. If you are training at a school, just keep going, you will learn more and more chokes. Maybe with the time you have free to practice at home, you can go to the gym extra and practice there? Text and video is not enough when it comes to grappling; you need the proper feeling as well. When trying some move out from the internet, you will always have questions about some little detail, how to get things right. Without an instructor or someone more experienced to show you, you will not learn anything properly and will end up crappling instead of grappling.
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I have flat, wide feet, and tae kwon do classes are starting to hurt. I'm thinking to try wearing shoes with my running orthotics. Are there specialty martial arts or wrestling shoes that are wide and structured in a way that would accommodate an orthotic? What should I look for in these type of shoes?
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You could give Vibram FiveFingers a shot... I would't recommend anything with a thick sole, as that will probably lead to injury down the line.
Or you could try tabi, which are used in some dojos in Japan. They are sort of a crossover between socks and shoes. You can get them with or without a rubber sole.
I dont think they sell shoes by width. if you really want the perfect width, then you'll probably have to get some shoes custom made, which will probably be expensive. however, you should probably check out http://www.karatedepot.com/martialartsshoes.html first if you havent already. they have good stuff.
I've been in a similar situation for most of my life, very wide feet and orthotics. I train in a school that wears shoes to train, so I've seen a lot of solutions.
You might try looking at indoor soccer shoes (might work, but not made in my size). I ended up with New Balance walking shoes, which are orthotic friendly and aren't very aggressive in the tread.
It could be that your feet will just get used to it, too. I've trained barefoot as well, and it wasn't a big deal after a while.


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An investigation involving adding and subtracting sets of consecutive numbers. Lots to find out, lots to explore.
What is the smallest number with exactly 14 divisors?
Many numbers can be expressed as the sum of two or more consecutive integers. For example, 15=7+8 and 10=1+2+3+4. Can you say which numbers can be expressed in this way?
Gar the Magician wrote each of the numbers from $1$ to $7$, one on each of seven cards, and placed them in his hat. He offered the hat to two other magicians, Kan and Roo. Kan took, at random, $3$ cards from the hat and Roo took $2$ cards (so that there were $2$ cards left in the hat). Kan told Roo: "I can deduce that the sum of the numbers of your cards is even". What was the sum of the
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Battlefield Rehabilitation Continues on Gettysburg's Cemetery Ridge
NPS, January 28, 2014 – Preparations are now underway for C.E. Williams, a contractor for the nonprofit Gettysburg Foundation, to remove the old Visitor Center parking lot on North Cemetery Ridge in Gettysburg National Military Park. Once the asphalt has been removed, the contractor will regrade the area to its historic profile in 1863, and plant meadow grasses. Historic fencing on the site will be built during the Gettysburg Foundation's "Friends of Gettysburg" annual volunteer day in June.
Since 2009 Gettysburg NMP and the Gettysburg Foundation have been returning key portions of the center of the Union battle line on North Cemetery Ridge to their appearance at the time of the Battle of Gettysburg, 1863. Completed phases include the demolition of the old visitor center in 2009; planting 41 apple trees to reestablish the Frey orchard (North) in 2010; and demolition of the Cyclorama building in 2013.
"These rehabilitation projects allow us to place more and more puzzle pieces together on the battlefield. They improve integrity of the battlefield landscapes and improve our visitors' understating of what happened at Gettysburg and why it's so important," said Zach Bolitho Acting Superintendent, Gettysburg NMP.
Through the generosity of donors, the Gettysburg Foundation is funding this phase of the project by covering the cost of general contracting, construction management and design costs which total approximately $400,000. The Foundation also funded the cost of last year's demolition of the Cyclorama building which was $750,000.
Joanne M. Hanley, Gettysburg Foundation President, states, "The Cemetery Hill and Cemetery Ridge areas are central in Gettysburg National Military Park's and the Gettysburg Foundation's efforts to educate millions of visitors about the battle of Gettysburg, the causes and consequences of the American Civil War, and the lasting significance of this critical time in our nation's history. Preservation of this site will forever enhance the interpretive value of this critical portion of the Gettysburg battlefield."
The current phase of the project will begin in February and take approximately two to three months for completion depending on the weather.
The National Cemetery South parking lot, which used to be known as the Cyclorama parking lot will be retained for visitor use. Some modifications to this lot are planned in a future phase of this project.
Additional future phases of the rehabilitation of Cemetery Ridge include reconstructing a commemorative era pathway and moving five monuments to their historic locations. These features were altered during the construction of the Cyclorama building in the early 1960s.
New Superintendent Named at Gettysburg National Military Park and Eisenhower National Historic Site
NPS, January 2, 2014 – Ed W. Clark has been selected as the new Superintendent of Gettysburg National Military Park and Eisenhower National Historic Site, both in Gettysburg, PA. Clark has served most recently as Superintendent of Manassas National Battlefield Park.
"Ed's deep understanding of park operations and tremendous partnership skills – as well as deep connections to the Civil War community - make him the ideal candidate to lead one of the most significant battlefields in the nation, if not the world ," noted National Park Service (NPS) Northeast Regional Director Dennis Reidenbach. "Ed's network and skill-set will serve the park staff, community and visitors well." While at Manassas, Clark has been a Service-wide leader for the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War and the broader Civil War to Civil Rights commemorative effort. Clark has also successfully managed Manassas through some challenging projects including bringing the park's General Management Plan to conclusion and he has also worked to create a new sustainable organization during complicated political and financial times. He served as the acting Associate Regional Director for Operations for the National Capital Region of the National Park Service and the acting National Coordinator for National Heritage Areas for the Service. Prior to Manassas, he served as the Deputy Chief Ranger at Shenandoah National Park, and Supervisory Park Ranger at the Blue Ridge Parkway - among other posts. He is currently enrolled in the Senior Executive Service's Candidate Development Program, identifying him as one of the Service's most promising senior leaders.
"I am thrilled to have been chosen as the new Superintendent of Gettysburg and Eisenhower," noted Clark. "These landscapes are some of the most iconic in our nation's history. I'm very proud to be joining the excellent staff and volunteers of these sites and look forward to continuing to work with the many exceptional partners, while becoming involved in the local community."
Clark is a native of Roanoke, Virginia and holds degrees from Radford University and Ferrum College. Clark is married to wife Heidi, and they have two children, Ben and Reid. Clark replaces Superintendent Bob Kirby, who retires on January 3rd. Ed Clark will begin his new position in early February.


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Flames are seen after a blast on the top floor of the family home of an alleged abductor in the West Bank City of Hebron. The bodies of three missing Israeli teenagers were found in the occupied West Bank and Israel vowed to punish Hamas, the Palestinian group it accuses of kidnapping and killing them.
An Argentina fan cheers prior to a Round of 16 football match between Argentina and Switzerland at Corinthians Arena in Sao Paulo, Brazil, during the 2014 FIFA World Cup.
Hair artist and master barber Rob Ferrel (L), known as "Rob the Original", cuts the likeness of Argentine soccer player Lionel Messi on the head of customer Vincent Hernandez, at his barbershop in San Antonio, Texas, USA, June 30, 2014.
Some members of the newly elected Iraqi parliament point fingers at each other after an argument broke out at the parliament headquarters in Baghdad.
A bolt of lightening strikes near the top of the Willis tower in downtown Chicago, Illinois, June 30, 2014.
Hindu priests sit in cauldrons of water and rose petals as they perform the "Parjanya Varun Yagam", a special prayer for rain, in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad.
Young American pilot Matt Guthmiller, from Aberdeen, South Dakota, flashes a thumbs-up sign from his single-engine Beechcraft Bonanza A36 plane after landing at the Manila International Airport at suburban Pasay city, Philippilippines. Guthmiller, 17, is attempting to be the youngest pilot to fly solo around the world. He has eight more legs to complete his feat with Darwin, Australia, as his next stop.
Residents marched through the streets of downtown Hong Kong to push for greater democracy.
A man dries strands of vermicelli at a factory in the northern Indian city of Allahabad.
Hugo, a 63-year-old Gaalapagos Tortoise, is enticed out of his enclosure with a carrot by a keeper before his annual weighing at the Australian Reptile Park in Somersby near Sydney, Australia. At 166 kilograms (366 lbs), he weighs one kilogram more than last year. The life expectancy of a Galapagos Tortoise is up to 180 years.
Sri Lankan policemen stand next to their new motorcycles at a ceremony in Colombo marking the official distribution of 279 high-powered units to traffic constables across the country.


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"Waste not want not" expresses our culture's aversion to waste. "I could have gotten the same thing for less" is a sentiment that can diminish pleasure in a transaction. We study people's willingness to "pay" to avoid this spoiler. In one scenario, participants imagined they were looking for a rental apartment, and had bought a subscription to an apartment listing. If a cheaper subscription had been declined, respondents preferred not to discover post hoc that it would have sufficed. Specifically, they preferred ending their quest for the ideal apartment after seeing more, rather than fewer, apartments, so that the length of the search exceeds that available within the cheaper subscription. Other scenarios produced similar results. We conclude that people may sometimes prefer to be wasteful in order to avoid feeling wasteful.
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Often for configuration settings we have minimum and maximum numeric values. An error message might report that one has exceeded the maximum value. But it seems very wrong to report that one exceeded the minimum value. Is there an equivalent to exceeded that means went below?
What would be an appropriate opposite of "exceed"? is related, but the answers did not seem to apply well to numeric values.


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Report: Zoltan Mesko joining Steelers
Posted by Mike Wilkening on September 2, 2013, 4:29 PM EDT
APCould the Steelers be making a change at punter?
According to Mike Garofolo of Fox Sports, the Steelerswill be adding ex-Patriots punter Zoltan Mesko on Monday.
The Patriots waived Mesko, their punter for the previous three seasons, on Saturday, keeping rookieRyan Allen instead.
A left-footed punter, the 27-year-old Mesko posted gross and net averages of 43.1 and 37.9 yards, respectively, in 2012. For his career, Mesko has recorded a 44.2-yard gross average and a 39.5-yard net average, with 101-of-175 punts going unreturned by the opposition.
Meskos signing could well mean the Steelers will be replacing Drew Butler, who handled the punting duties in 2012 and beat out veteran Brian Moorman this summer. Butler posted a gross average of 43.8 yards and a net average of 37.8 yards a season ago.


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Lowering Your C-Reactive Protein
Medical Author: Siamak Nabili, MD, MPH
Medical Editor: William C. Shiel, Jr., MD, FACP, FACR
The treatment of an elevated CRP in the context of cardiovascular disease, in and of itself, may be meaningless. Instead, appropriate treatment and prevention of the underlying risks and conditions need to be the primary focus of cardiovascular risk reduction.
The most effective and reliable ways to reduce many cardiac factors are regular exercise, balanced diet, and cigarette smoking cessation. In individuals with elevated cholesterol levels who do not reach their target cholesterol level with diet modification and proper exercise, cholesterol lowering medication may be advised by their treating physicians. Statin drugs (simvastatin [Zocor], atorvastatin [Lipitor], etc.) are in the forefront of the recommended cholesterol lowering agents. Lowering of CRP may be seen with the use of statin drugs even without significant improvement of the cholesterol profile.


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When the doctor pulls out the prescription pad, most Americans assume the medication has been approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for this particular condition. However, that may not be the case. The doctor may be prescribing it for what is called off-label use.
Off-label drug use can mean prescribing a drug:
"Consumers should be told when they are receiving a drug for off-label use and make an informed decision if they want to accept the risk," says pharmacist Larry Sasich.
When seeking approval for a new drug, manufacturers submit results from a series of clinical studies, indicating a specific use for the drug in a specific group of people, such as women or people with
. The agency only approves a drug to treat conditions specified in the research.
Although the FDA reviews the scientific data very carefully, some side effects will not show up until very large numbers of patients start taking the medication after it is approved. This is far more people than could ever be studied prior to approval.
After a drug has been on the market for awhile and new uses become identified, the drug company can conduct scientific research to confirm the safety and effectiveness of the new use and apply for a supplemental approval.
Often long before this happens, however, doctors begin to use some medications for other purposes that seem logical, often based on analogies to similar drugs. For example, if one antidepressant is approved as a treatment for
obsessive-compulsive disorder
, doctors may try other antidepressants for the same purposes, even if they have not been approved for that use. This type of informal use may eventually lead to formal research.
Off-label use of drugs is usually done when the accepted drug is not effective and nothing else is available. This is also true for using different dosing and duration of use.
For example, in pediatrics the most common reason for off-label use occurs when an effective drug approved for children does not exist and the patient needs treatment. A lot of pediatric drugs
were initially used in this way. You also have to bear in mind that most of the time, as noted in the example above, the other drug is tried only after
and nothing else is available.
This is an accepted practice. However, it has some significant problems. One of the most significant is that doctors may incorrectly come to believe that a drug is effective for a given condition. Both physicians and patients may incorrectly attribute benefits to a drug simply out of enthusiasm. The net effect is that the patient is placed at risk for side effects without real chance for benefit. This kind of information gets identified in randomized trials. Randomized trials are controlled studies that can distinguish between expectation and the power of suggestion.
Sometimes off-label use is the best possible treatment for a patient. For instance, a chemotherapy drug approved to fight one type of cancer may be given to someone with a different cancer. In this life-threatening situation, waiting for the additional research is not in the patient's best interest, and the potential benefits outweigh the risks.
While off-label prescribing is generally considered safe when done by competent doctors, it has also contributed to some well-publicized harms. For example, fenfluramine and dexfenfluramine, two popular and effective anti-obesity
drugs, were withdrawn from the market after reports suggested that the drugs could lead to heart valve disease. While off-label prescribing was not the only issue, this example illustrates how the FDA approval process does not guarantee protection from serious adverse events.
Here are some tips for the next time your doctor prescribes a medication:
American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy
Food and Drug Administration
Canada Safety Council
Public Health Agency of Canada
Center for Drug Evaluation and Research 2007 update. US Food and Drug Administration website. Available at:
http://www.fda.gov/downloads/AboutFDA/CentersOffices/OfficeofMedicalProductsandTobacco/CDER/WhatWeDo/UCM121704.pdf. Accessed June 18, 2013.
Coombes R. FDA tightens its grip on drug regulation.
. 2007;334(7588):290-291.
McClellan M. Drug safety reform at the FDA--pendulum swing or systematic improvement?
N Engl J Med
. 2007;356(17):1700-1702.
Off-label drug use. American Cancer Society website. Available at:
http://www.cancer.org/Treatment/TreatmentsandSideEffects/TreatmentTypes/Chemotherapy/off-label-drug-use. Updated April 3, 2013. Accessed June 18, 2013.
"Off-label" drug use. Consumer Reports website. Available at:
http://www.consumerreports.org/health/resources/pdf/best-buy-drugs/money-saving-guides/english/Off-Label-FINAL.pdf. Published 2007. Accessed June 18, 2013.
Wood A. The safety of new medicines: the importance of asking the right questions.
Last reviewed June 2013 by Michael Woods, MD
Please be aware that this information is provided to supplement the care provided by your physician. It is neither intended nor implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice. CALL YOUR HEALTHCARE PROVIDER IMMEDIATELY IF YOU THINK YOU MAY HAVE A MEDICAL EMERGENCY. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider prior to starting any new treatment or with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.
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I have KDE installed in my archLinux with kdm to login. But it always shows a notification dialog with "authentication failed" about every 2 minutes.
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Is there an alternative to bits as the smallest unit of data? Something that won't be only 0 or 1, but actually hold many possible states in between? Wouldn't it be more natural to store floats like that?
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Of course it is possible, both theoretically and practically.
Theoretically, there are two classes of alternatives: digital number systems with a base other than 2 (in fact, the decimal system as we know it is one such system); and non-digital number systems. Mathematically speaking, we're talking about discrete vs. continuous domains.
In practice, both options have been explored. Some of the early digital computers (e.g. ENIAC) employed decimal encodings rather than the now ubiquitous binary encoding; other bases, e.g. ternary, should be just as feasible (or infeasible). The esoteric programming language Malbolge is based on a theoretical ternary computer; while mostly satirical, there is no technical reason why it shouldn't work. Continuous-domain storage and processing was historically done on analog computers, where you could encode quantities as frequencies and / or amplitudes of oscillating signals, and you would then perform computations by applying all sorts of modulations to these signals. Today, quantum computing makes the theory behind continuous storage cells interesting again.
Either way, the bit as a theoretical smallest unit of information still stands, as any alternative can encode more information than a single yes/no, and nobody has yet come up with a smaller theoretical unit (and I don't expect it to happen anytime soon).
You're basically describing an analog signal, which are used in sensors, but rarely for internal computations. The problem is noise degrades the quality, you need very precise calibration of a reference point that is difficult to communicate, and transmission is a problem because it loses strength the farther it travels.
If you're interested in exploring analog computing, most undergrad "intro to electronics" classes have you build things like op-amp integrators. They're easy enough to build even without formal instruction.
You can also store multiple digital states on the same node. For example, instead of 0-2.5 volts being a zero and 2.5-5.0 volts being a one, you can add a third state in between. It adds a lot of complexity, though, and significantly increases your susceptibility to noise.
Those are called qubits, and are used in quantum computers. You'll find more information about them on the wikipedia entry. Research is being done to make such computers that are stable and economically feasible.
A matter of accuracy
One reason we use bits is that it helps us store and retrieve information accurately.
The real world is analog, therefore all the information computers pass or store is ultimately analog. For example, a current of a specific voltage on a wire, or magnetic charge of a specific strength on a disk, or a pit of a specific depth on a laser disc.
The question is: how accurately can you measure that analog information? Imagine that a current on a wire could be interpreted as any decimal number, as follows:
Etc. This system would let us pass a lot of data in a few pulses of current, right? But there's a problem: we have to be very sure what the voltage is. If temperature or magnets or cosmic rays or whatever cause some fluctuation, we may read the wrong number. And the more finely we intend to measure, the greater that risk is. Imagine if a 1-millivolt difference was significant!
Instead, we typically use a digital interpretation. Everything over some threshold is true, and everything under is false. So we can ask questions like "Is there any current at all?" instead of "Exactly how much current is there?"
Each individual bit can be measured with confidence, because we only have to be "in the right ballpark". And by using lots of bits, we can still get a lot of information.
There are also ternary computers instead of binary ones. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ternary_computer
It might well be more natural to us but there are specific reasons why binary was chosen for digital circuitry and thereby for programming languages. If you have two states you only need to distinguish between two volt settings say 0V and 5V. For each additional increase to the radix (base) you'd need to further divide that range thus getting values that are indistinct from one another. You could increase the voltage range but that has this nasty habit of melting circuitry.
If you want to change the hardware type from digital circuitry your options are more varied. Decimals used to be used in mechanical computers since gears have much more heat tolerance and are much more distinct than electron charges. Quantum computers as stated elsewhere have other ways of dealing with things. Optical computers might also be able to do things we've not dealt with before and magnetic computers are a possibility as well.
I think you could nowadays built items that could hold any amount of states or even work with analog data. Though building a whole system and getting all the logical components running to get a full featured and programmable architecture would be a lot of work and a financial risk for any company to undertake this task.
I think ENIAC was the last architecture to use ten-position ring counters to store digits. Though I could be wrong about this and I'm not sure, how much this influenced the other parts of the machine.
Storage can be thought as transmission to the future, all of the transmission problems with continuous(analogue) media will apply.
Storing those states could be trivial (a three way switch or some sort of grid) and physically storing these states is one issue that many answers cover, much better than I could.
My primary concern is how this stored state is encoded and it seem that there's a high posibility that this task is a fools errand, since bits are sufficient for representation of practical continuous data, depending the accuracy you need, keep adding more bits.
Truly continuous data is impossible to store in this way, but equations to calculate them e.g.
can be stored.
A clue and an inkling are smaller pieces of information than a bit. Several clues are usually required to establish the definite value of a bit. Inklings are worse: no matter how many you add up, you still can't know the value of the resulting bit for certain.
More seriously, there are multi-valued logics where the fundamental unit can have one of n states, where n > 2. You could consider these units to carry less information than a bit in the sense of the preceding paragraph, but from an information theory point of view you'd have to say they carry more. For example, you'd need two bits to represent the same amount of information that a single value in a four-valued logic could carry.
The optimal numerical base is e, but since the simplest way to represent a number in digital electronic is with two states (high voltage=1, low voltage=0), the binary number representation was chosen.
I can't a find a definitive English reference, but as far as I remember from Information Theory Class the bit is fundamental unit of information. A bit of information is the information you receive after tossing a fair coin (50% probability for each side). Everything else can be reduced to this.
Even if you use a device that has multiple states, it can always be reduced to bits.
If you define natural by being close to how mother nature works, the most natural way of information encoding are DNA-like combinations of adenine, cytosine, guanine, and thymine.


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Recently I have been using using dropbox's public url feature to share my files over email. I'm looking for some information on if it's the best thing to do.
Attachments over email
1. Searching the attachments over email is easier and you get it in seconds. 2. You can forward the same mail with attachments to other recipient in jiffy
1. Unnecessary blocking of memory because of heavy files 2. Variants of files sent to and fro without versioning over email.
Using public URL for files.
1. No unnecessary bloating of mail server 2. Files can be downloaded separately when required.
1. Searching for a particular file (and also searching for the content inside the file) which was related to specific mail is difficult and not possible. 2. In few of organization access to mail port are open but not to many of internet site, ie. access to dropbox etc. might be closed.
Are these real advantages/disadvantages and have I missed any?