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Does the sentence:
I am renting an apartment in New York.
imply that I am the landlord or the tenant?
How can I unequivocally communicate that I am the tenant (or the landlord)?
To "unequivocally communicate that I am the tenant (or the landlord)", among other things you could say one of the following.
As previously noted by choster, adding out to original sentence works for landlord sense:
You can state a not-landlord case, and perhaps imply tenancy, via
As a renter I usually think of the tenant as renting, but the dictionaries seem to disagree with me as to primary use.
If you are the landlord, you could say
Rent is indeed ambiguous that way.
However, the two senses have different syntactic affordances.
And there's lots of other ways to disambiguate them; in context, one is rarely confused.
Tenant: I'm living in a rental apartment in New York.
Landlord: I'm renting out an apartment in New York.
Unfortunately, the MW Dictionary entry for rent as a verb shows two entries:
So the word officially can mean either.
I know that I personally would assume that if you "rent an apartment", then you are a tennant, but due to the ambiguity there's always room for doubt. But when in doubt, just add a clarification to your sentence.
One example:
If you use the word rent for both a landlord and a tenant then, that sentence is unclear.
By use of the word let. As can be seen from the link here http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/let_3, the word let unequivocally refers to a landlord. The word rent, normally refers to a tenant.
As a tenant, you can say "I am renting an apartment/flat (depending on which form of English you are speaking) in New York."
As a landlord, you can say "I am letting an apartment/flat (depending on which form of English you are speaking) in New York."
This would be the best way because, it is simple and unequivocal.
would imply that you are the landlord, or at least the letting agent. But certainly not the tenant.
When I first read your question title, I had trouble figuring out the ambiguity -- I thought it had to do with whether your sought apartment is to be in New York, or whether you are in New York, looking for an apartment somewhere else. :)
I found it quite unambiguous, since I always thought landlords lease property, whereas tenants rent property.
I didn't think renting was ambiguous, in part because if someone were the landlord, he/she would probably write lease instead (e.g. leasing office).
The word is definitely ambiguous by itself. To be more explicit, I would expand the phrase:
For the owner, use "renting out", and be definite ("my apartment"):
For the tenant, use "renting", and be indefinite ("an apartment):
With the slightest bit of context, I think these would be understood unambiguously.
Changing the verb to a phrase with context to owner also works.
I need an apt. "for rent" in NYC.
I have an apt. "for rent" in NYC.
I have an apt. "for sublet" in NYC that you may "rent".
... are unambiguous examples. edited apt. for appt.
"I am staying at a rented apartment" shows you are a tenant and "I have an apartment to let" shows you are the landlord.
In UK English one would say:
If you are a tenant, you would be "renting" an apartment.
If you are a landlord, you would be "letting" an apartment.
Sometimes landlords will use the word "rent." In this case, they need to say that they are renting OUT an apartment. For emphasis, a landlord could say that s/he was "letting out" the apartment.
A tenant could say that s/he was "letting in" an apartment, or letting an apartment from [the landlord]. That's not common.
Because a tenant is renting IN an apartment. That is what is commonly understood by the word "rent."
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To experience the nautical history of the New World visit this small, easy to digest waterfront museum in Halifax. In the oldest museum of its kind in Canada, children will enjoy the Days of Sail Gallery, where reconstructions and small replicas of sailing vessels are on display. Other popular exhibits include the Age of Steam Gallery and the eerie Shipwreck Treasures of Nova Scotia. A favorite is the museum's Titanic exhibit which features an extensive collection of artifacts from the doomed ocean liner, including the only intact deck chair that came ashore at this site.
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5 Everyday Things That Go Totally Nuts in Zero Gravity
Humanity has a strange tendency to think of physics in terms of how it operates on Earth, despite the fact that our little ball of mud amounts to little more than a speck of roach poop in the grand scheme of things. If you really want to see how physics works, you need to go zero gravity, man.
Zero-G environments are totally a part of our physical universe, and an overwhelmingly dominating part at that. This means ye olde laws of physics are totally at work in there, too. They just like to operate like a goddamn maniac.
#5. Fire Turns into Floating Spheres of Glowing Energy
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Before reading further, take a moment to go light something in your house on fire. That flame looks like that due to gravity, specifically the fact that hot air rises. The flame is fueled by oxygen, letting the excrement of carbon dioxide and water vapor heat up and lower in density. Eventually, they float away, only to be replaced with fresh, cool oxygen to be murder-burned. However, take that shit to zero gravity, and things will get weird. Fireball weird.
Via hckrwolf
Yep, that there is a space flame. In zero gravity, puny Earth things like buoyancy and convection don't exist. So when you light a match, the carbon dioxide goes nowhere. It just gathers around the flame like hobos around a barrel fire. Meanwhile, the flame keeps happily engorging itself with oxygen until the hobo CO2 all around it snuffs it out.
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Left: Normal flame. Right: Awesome ball of space fire.
That flame shape you're used to can only happen because the fire forces hot air to rise upward. Since none of that really happens in zero gravity, the flame just expands in all directions in a desperate search for random oxygen particles. Essentially, this means fires in zero gravity are lower in temperature, consume less oxygen, are dimmer in terms of brightness ... and totally float around like fireballs if you, say, ignite a floating drop of gasoline.
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How astronauts resist the temptation to start mage duels the second their spacecraft leaves the atmosphere, we'll never know.
By the way, you get the exact same effect if you boil water.
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Since your house is engulfed in flame by now, you'll notice that any standing liquids have probably begun to boil. Your average water boiling session on Earth produces lots of tiny bubbles that float up to the top, but in space, that pesky lack of buoyancy and convection strikes again. The bubbles just sort of sit in the middle of the scalding hot liquid, refusing to move until they eventually form one giant, floating Voltron bubble:
Don't you just want to stick your hand in there? We guess it's the ability to resist such temptations that qualifies people to be astronauts.
#4. Liquid Surface Tension Becomes Hardcore
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Here's a fun experiment for your next 30-minute shower crying session: Clench your fist, dunk it in the water, and try to capture a film of water in the circle formed by your thumb and index finger. Chances are that whatever tiny amount of water you can capture almost immediately bursts away as surface tension loses the fight with gravity. Awesome, yes?
No. Of course it isn't. But once you remove gravity from the equation, shit gets real.
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We think he's saying something about being a "space god."
In zero gravity, surface tension holds strong, and that same small puddle of water would be a sticky pool with the apparent consistency of jelly.
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There's no way he's not making a "bloop bloop" noise when he does that.
This is because gravity on Earth causes the liquid to fall into the multiple nooks and crannies of your misshapen mitt, until the fickle film of water bursts. In zero gravity, surface tension has no forces keeping it down; the water just maintains its cohesiveness and doesn't budge unless you specifically shake it off. That is, if you can; these zero-gravity water films are like little sheets of clingy rubber, and even vigorous shaking may not be enough to remove them.
And if you want to get really freaky, you can just use colored liquids:
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Now all we need is a black light and some club music.
Tell us that doesn't look like a little color themed X-Man two seconds away from seriously ruining someone's day.
#3. Sound Gets Physical
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When gravity goes missing, other forces step up to the plate, allowing scientists to study them in ways they never thought possible. Sound is no exception.
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Um ... Don, what do you have there? You're frightening us.
The man above is veteran NASA astronaut and ISS chemical engineer Donald Pettit handily engineering a vacuum cleaner into a didgeridoo in order to demonstrate sound waves hitting spheres of water. The man below is veteran NASA astronaut and ISS chemical engineer Donald Pettit getting carried away.
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Um ... DON?!
Now deeply entrenched in native mode, Pettit uses his electric didgeridoo thing to blast some spheres of water into ... WHAT THE SHIT IS HAPPENING?
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"It's attacking! Run!"
Man, that water is pissed. The overpowering oscillations of sound easily break that nasty, rubbery surface tension of the weightless liquid, making tiny droplets spout off in all directions. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. Varying frequencies of sound waves in zero gravity can (and totally will) create anything from subtle rippling to total insanity.
Via Physics Central
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Here, let's witness the birth of the dubstep golem, brought to you by some corn starch and hard, hard bass:
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5 Real MacGyvers Who Won Battles With Improvised Weapons
War never changes.
That's why you have to switch it up whenever possible. Keep it interesting! Toss those spears and bombs away, have yourself a sit-down and really think: Can I win a battle with my bodily waste, fire reptiles instead of bullets or defeat an invading army with rock 'n' roll? Hell yes, you can! The historical precedents are already there:
#5. The British and Opium-Laced Cigarettes
Most of the fighting in WWI was taking place in Europe, but the Middle East, where British and Ottoman soldiers clashed, saw its fair share of the action as well. By1917, the British had the Ottomans on the run, and they were hoping to get to Jerusalem by Christmas. You know: Really honor the birth of Christ and all that by sacking the Holy Shit out of the Holy City. Elsewhere, an intelligence officer named Meinertzhagen was enacting a propaganda operation that involved dropping cigarettes and leaflets to Ottoman soldiers, hoping to convince them to surrender. The Ottomans, much like downtown homeless punks at an all are welcome church pancake breakfast, simply took all the free crap and paid no attention to the proselytizing.
Addicts don't stop for propaganda.
The Weirdness:
Later in the campaign, the Ottomans were making their last stand against the British, holed up in the city of Sheria. The British bombarded the Ottoman positions day and night, but they would not budge. It seemed the only way to take the city was a costly and brutal attack. Then in comes Meinertzhagen: He hopped into his plane and dropped thousands of cigarettes on the Ottomans, just like usual. They didn't even fire at his vehicle: The Weird White Guy Free Cigarette Express was always welcome in Ottoman Town.
Proof that, sometimes, smoking can be good for your health.
This time, however, Meinertzhagen's cigarettes also contained large doses of opium, so when the Ottomans lit up, they got a nice, unintended high with their nicotine. When the British attacked afterward, the Ottomans were too bombed to mount a successful defense. The British successfully took Sheria, and soon after Jerusalem.
And that's why the DARE. chapter in Sheria is so goddamn militant to this day.
DARE to keep Gaza out of British hands.
#4. Hannibal's Snake Catapults
Hannibal was kind of a bad motherfucker, but the Romans were kind of a lot of bad motherfuckers, and they eventually sent the great military commander into defeat. He traveled around the Mediterranean, searching for allies to protect him, and he eventually he came to live in Bithynia (in modern-day Turkey) under the protection of King Prusias I. Prusias was having some problems with King Eumenes of the Pergamenes and needed Hannibal's help defeating him.
When King Eumenes and the Pergamenes sailed for Bithynia to provoke a sea battle, Hannibal allowed it because, even though he had fewer ships, he had something better: A plan.
His favorite part is when it comes together.
The Weirdness:
Hannibal ordered his men to gather as many poisonous snakes as possible, and put them into pots. He then sent a message to King Eumenes and tracked the messenger to find out which ship he was stationed on. Hannibal ordered all of his forces to attack that ship when the Pergamenes fleet was within range, and then launched his pots against the enemy.
Elephants were so last war.
When they saw dishes being hurled at them instead of literally anything else -- burning material, boulders, vicious insults -- the Pergamenes thought it was the desperate last-ditch effort of a depleted enemy, and they laughed. When the pots broke, they stopped laughing: Thousands of snakes slithered throughout their ships, some venomous, some biting, but all terrifyingly unexpected. The Pergamenes went into panic mode, and don't you dare judge them for it: Everybody has a snake phobia when they're being launched at you from god damn catapults. Some of the sailors retreated back to the coast to slap at their clothes and cry, while others tried to fight the snakes and Hannibal's men simultaneously, and lost. Badly.
Their shins were weak.
Probably after slipping in all the puddles of fear urine.
#3. The Canadians' Piss
Less than a year of fighting into WWI, the Western front was at a stalemate. The armies of France, the British Empire and Germany were unable to break through one another's trench defenses. The Germans, not a people exactly fond of "calling it a tie," decided to use a new weapon of war to break the standoff: Chlorine gas. They deployed the gas on the French territorial troops, and "the line quickly broke." Well, that's how the Germans phrased it, anyway.
Jolly-fun-time Germans, not scary Buchenwald Germans.
A more accurate way to put it would be to say that 6,000 soldiers died in the first 10 minutes of the battle from asphyxiation, many more were blinded and a four-mile gap of destruction was carved into the Allied lines. The only downside to this tactic was that the Germans had to wait to advance into that gap, seeing as how Chapter 1 of The Art of War is "Don't Run Into Your Own Poison, Fellas."
Chapter 2 is "Owe Your Artillerymen Money."
The Weirdness:
While the Germans waited for the gas to disperse, Canadian forces were sent in to fill the gap. A medical officer (there is some debate as to which one, exactly) saw the greenish cloud approaching and identified the weapon. Then, thinking quickly, he spread word to the troops, advising them to urinate in cloths and hold them up to their faces.
"Dulce et decorum est, eh buddy?"
Whoever he was, we feel we can unequivocally state at this point that the medical officer in question was either the most beloved man on the battlefield or the most feared, because the troops quickly obeyed and basically pissed all over their own faces at just his say-so. And that's what saved all of their lives: The urea in urine reacted with the chlorine, effectively neutralizing the deadly gas. The Canadians were able to hold the Germans back until British reinforcements arrived. And though they suffered nearly 50 percent casualties defending Ypres, they successfully held the Germans off with the power of pee.
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Suppose that there are $n$ vertices, we want to construct a regular graph with degree $p$, which, of course, is less than $n$. My question is how many possible such graphs can we get?
McKay and Wormald conjectured that the number of simple $d$-regular graphs of order $n$ is asymptotically $$\sqrt 2 e^{1/4} (\lambda^\lambda(1-\lambda)^{1-\lambda})^{\binom n2}\binom{n-1}{d}^n,$$ where $\lambda=d/(n-1)$ and $d=d(n)$ is any integer function of $n$ with $1\le d\le n-2$ and $dn$ even.
Bender and Canfield, and independently Wormald, proved this for bounded $d$ in 1978, and Bollobás extended this to $d=O(\sqrt{\log n})$ in 1980.
McKay and Wormald proved the conjecture in 1990-1991 for $\min\{d,n-d\}=o(n^{1/2})$ [1], and $\min\{d,n-d\}>cn/\log n$ for constant $c>2/3$ [2]. These remain the best results.
The gap between these ranges remains unproved, though the computer says the conjecture is surely true there too. The formula apart from the $\sqrt2e^{1/4}$ has a simple combinatorial interpretation, and the universality of the constant $\sqrt2e^{1/4}$ is an enigma crying out for an explanation.
Incidentally this conjecture is for labelled regular graphs. For isomorphism classes, divide by $n!$ for $3\le d\le n-4$, since in that range almost all regular graphs have trivial automorphism groups (references on request). For $d=0,1,2,n-3,n-2,n-1$, this isn't true.
[1] Combinatorica, 11 (1991) 369-382. http://cs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/papers/nickcount.pdf
[2] European J. Combin., 11 (1990) 565-580. http://cs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/papers/highdeg.pdf
There is no closed formula (that anyone knows of), but there are asymptotic results, due to Bollobas, see A probabilistic proof of an asymptotic formula for the number of labelled regular graphs (1980) by B Bollobás (European Journal of Combinatorics) or Random Graphs (by the selfsame Bollobas).
Looking up OEIS, some related sequences are A005176 for the number of non-isomorphic regular graphs on $n$ vertices, and A005177 for the number non-isomorphic connected regular graphs on $n$ vertices.
And 'of course', if you really want those graphs you might have a look at genreg by Markus Meringer: http://www.mathe2.uni-bayreuth.de/markus/reggraphs.html


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So does the Polish First Division and Portuguese BWIN Liga (First Division)
So does the Polish First Division and Portuguese BWIN Liga (First Division)
Cheers, guys, very helpful.
Completely forgot about League 1 and 2 in England!
Like the Polish idea though, cheers corinthiano.
However isn't there something wrong with the European Qualification in Poland, idk if it will have an effect on your game but thought I might put it out there
I dont know about the european qualification as I havent got FM09 yet, but I d also like to point out that Poland has very loose foreigner regulations, something like 15 foreigners are allowed. Just in case you needed this onfo
The problems with Poland should be sorted out in the next patch though hopefully!
The 1000 Appearence Challenge
This is a challenge to get one of your players to make 1000 appearences in their careers for any team.
Appearences for other teams will count.
Shlomi Ben Shimon plays 420 appearences for you(Man City) before you selling him to Inter Milan. He then makes 280 appearences for Inter Milan before you buying him back. He then finishes off the achievement by making 300 appearences for you. This would count as 1000 appearences.
Total Appearences : 1000
Man City - 420
Inter Milan - 280
Man City - 300
What does everyone think?
Any suggestions or improvements?
Plus, I have only seen this happening twice on my games and they were both on CM01/02.
One was with Ryan Giggs and the other was with Alen Shearer, who made something like 1182 appearences and is still playing.
WHich reminds me I will have to go on that ame later
Do you mean 1000 games under your control? Good idea, it would fit in well with other challenges too.
I'm not sure whether I should have it as 1000 games under your control or something like a minimum of 500 games under your control.
I think I will have it as 1000 games under your control but any suggestions are welcome.
I will try and get the challenge up tomorrow.
THe problem with this is that this could be done with any player as you just have to pick him. Whereas, with the goal challenge you need a good player and the right attributes and conditions ot score 1000 goals for your team
Agree with Robert (296), not sure how you could implement a rule against just playing players for the sake of it, but as long as the player is signed as a youngster, or a Youth Project from the club, and has a fairly injury-free career, then it would be easy enough to complete it with any player.
On a side-note, for anyone that doesn't regularly visit the forum social group, then here is a harmless advertisement for the 'CSE FMO Clan'.
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I don't think it would harm anyone and it would encourage people to try out their youths more often but it could maybe have a minimum average rating at the end of the 1000 games?
Get rid of your advertising I demand an instant infraction and the clan to be disbanded until they decide not to do Championship!
I hereby agree.
nah advertising is all good but im not sure what it will be like with a bunch of randomers. As for your challenge robert maybe set it as 1000 games with an aveage rating of at least 7.00 to make it just elite players
An average rating of above 7.00 for a career of over 20 years is going to be extremely hard but I am going to agree with you and post it up later.
What do people think about me starting a FC United of Manchester Challenge where you try and get them up the leagues and eventually rival Manchester United?
It's already being done in Dafuges challenge, you'd get very little interest IMO
Believe me mate there are loads of people doing FC United on the challenge.
No problem
Hi Guys,
I was due to launch my FM09 sign up today, but due to last minute problems surrounding when international teams can play friendly matches it means that my sign up may have to be either:
a) altered
b) delayed
c) abandoned in its current format
Annoyingly this wasn't an issue in FM07 and FM08
EDIT: Solution found, will post sign up during this afternoon.
Last edited by Walcott\'s Wonderkids; 14-12-2008 at 11:35. Reason: Solution found
Good to hear WW My sign up should be up today. I discussed one idea last week with Mikey and Paul, where instead of having clubs I would divide the country up into 20 counties maybe. And I would like people to give them catchy names like in the cricket IPL such as Delhi Daredevils and Chennai Super Kings. Although I am pretty sure it would either turn people away or people would still pick names such as "multiple scoregasms." I think it would go well with the idea of franchises bidding for players as after people would sign up I would give them a region to pick their name for. Thoughts?
It sounds quite good Robert. I'm really looking forward to participating in some sign-ups!
I've decided to go ahead and start a new sign-up. This will start after I finish my Wallace vs. Roberts turn. Then you can expect a new Apprentice sign-up in March or thereabouts. Unfortunately, my alphabet challenge is pretty much dead. I'll still play my AFC Telford game if I get bored but I don't see too much happening with it tbh.
Lots of signups coming out now Thinking about it, the people that get turned away would probably be the "less regular" people as I don't think people who have participated in lots of signups would be that bothered with thinking of a good name for their team.
cant wait for these "big name" sign ups coming out
Hey everyone, I've got a new idea for a experiment whilst my Signup is on hold. (Serie C bug, waiting for patch so it's sorted)
This is sort of what I was thinking:
My Experiment: The Top Rivalry?
All the time, I hear people saying, "The Man Utd versus Man City game is the best rivalry on earth...", "Barcelona v Real Madrid, El Classico. Clearly the biggest game out there..." or perhaps, "Celtic v Rangers, the only real rivalry with huge amounts of passion these days..." Well, I'm here to end this argument, once and for all. I will go on holiday over a period of 5 years. Every half a season, I'll come off holiday to see how the rivalries went. I'll judge it on 'Amount of bookings and red cards" for the 'Rivalry with Most Passion' award, 'Amount of Goals' for the 'Most exciting Rivarly' Award, 'Average Rating' for the 'Most Quality on offer' Award, and all 3 put together will be the 'Best Rivalry Out There ' Award.
What do you guys think?
If it's only while your waiting, the patch is in 4 days.
I know that Mark, but I reckon I finish that over a couple of weeks, and doing it alongside the Sign Up won't be too hard. And when patch comes out, I'll give an update that day to make up for the wait
It would be alright, but you'd need a good few rivalries.
there are loads out there although its obvious the biggest one is villa birmingham
Well yeah, I'm thinking:
Barcelona v R Madrid
Liverpool V Everton
Liverpool V Man Utd
Arsenal V Tottenham
Arsenal V Chelsea
Man Utd v Man City
Celtic V Rangers
R Madrid V A Madrid
Sunderland V Newcastle
Tottenham V Chelsea
Anyone got any otehrs they would want and expect me to put in?
AC Milan V Inter Milan (How'd I forget That one?)
Ajax V PSV
Boca Juniors v River Plate
Hibernian V Hearts
PSG V Marseille
Olimpiakos v Panathanikos
Roma V Lazio
Cruzeiro v Atletico-MG
Boca V River
America-MEX v Chivas
Flamengo v Fluminense
Do you reckon that would do? Or suld I add Championship Derbies like Derby v Forest, or Cardiff V Swansea or Norwich V Ispwich?
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Whats that South American one that always gets violent? You might want to check out Turkey and Russia too.
In South America there are a few:
Boca v River
Penarol v Nacional
Flamengo v Fluminense
Sao Paulo v Corinthians
Gremio v Internacional
Cruzeiro v Atletico-MG
America-MEX v Chivas (not in South America, but Mexico is pretty close)
Alianza Lima v Universitario
The Milan derby and Roma-Lazio should be included
I think its Boca - River I was thinking of
I was thinking about the inclusion of the gender choice for managers in the game and how no-one quite seems to have nailed how to include it in a sign up. Suffice to say, I think Ive figured it out
It would involve some people needing to get comfortable with switching gender (probably half the sign up, in fact) and co-operating with another forum member. There would be gossip, intrigue and a little bit of keeping up with the Jones. In fact, it may be yet another one that lends itself to a style of tv programme
Anyway, just throwing it out there. I dont want to give too much away right here (but theres always PM). Need more time to develop it, and would probably need some help from someone to set up and/or to run it, if I could even do it at all. Also as Ive said umpteen times, I wont even get my hands on FM09 for a few weeks yet anyway
Adam you forgot Galatasaray vs Fenerbahce
Other derbies:
- Partizan vs Red Star
- Sporting Lisbon vs Benfica
- Juve vs Fiorentina
- Spartak Moscow vs CSKA Moscow
- Slavia Prague vs Sparta Prague
- Flamengo vs Corinthians?
I also tempted to put Beijing vs Rizhiquan but that's unrealistic
I'm getting pretty excited about my sign-up! It's going to be epic .
You know what canvey is like, he keeps it hidden until its released
I sure do . And don't worry, I will post it in the evening for those with work and school commitments.
I will just say that it is similar to the Apprentice: Football Manager Edition but also largely different. But my writing style will be the same.
Whens it out?
look forward to it canvey!!
I just nearly threw my laptop down in disgust. How on earth can you forget the most passionate and demanding derby in the world, let alone the Championship?Do you reckon that would do? Or suld I add Championship Derbies like Derby v Forest, or Cardiff V Swansea or Norwich V Ispwich?
By the way, I'm clearly on about the Sheffield derby - Blades vs. Pigs.
Wrexham - Chester has to be there tbh
They aren't rivals, they do have the two largest supporter groups in the country, but they are similiar (both are traditionally supported by the lower class) and actually have a mutual respect for each other. Its the upper class (insert swearword) of Sao Paulo and Fluminenese that they hate.Flamengo vs Corinthians?
Ok, here's the overall and final list for my Rivalry Experiement:
Ajax V PSV
Boca Juniors v River Plate
Hibernian V Hearts
PSG V Marseille
Olimpiakos v Panathanikos
Roma V Lazio
Cruzeiro v Atletico Mineiro
Boca V River
America-MEX v Chivas
Flamengo v Fluminense
AC Milan V Inter Milan
Barcelona v R Madrid
Liverpool V Everton
Liverpool V Man Utd
Arsenal V Tottenham
Arsenal V Chelsea
Man Utd v Man City
Celtic V Rangers
R Madrid V A Madrid
Sunderland V Newcastle
Tottenham V Chelsea
Galatasaray vs Fenerbahce
Sporting Lisbon vs Benfica
Juve vs Fiorentina
Spartak Moscow vs CSKA Moscow
Slavia Prague vs Sparta Prague
Ok, cheers to eveyone who's helped out with the list
I'll start this over the next few days anda brief reminder of how rivalries will be judged:
- The Passionate Rivalry (Most Red and Yellow Cards)
- The Most Exciting Rivarly (Most Goals in game)
- The Highest Quality on Show Rivalry (Most player with Av. Rating over 7.00)
- The Most Dirty Rivalry (Most Injuries in game)
- The Best Rivalry Out There (Best on average out of all of the above)
- The Most Dull Rivalry (Least Goals)
- The Least Quality on Show Rivalry (Most Average ratings under 7.00)
- The Lack-of-Passion Rivalry (Least amount of Cards)
- The Wort Rivalry Out There (Got the most of the Above)
Anyone got any other ideas? (for how they're judged)
EDIT: Cheers for that mate, Managed to come up with more ideas because of that idea, thanks
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Have had an idea about managing more than one team for a challenge - maybe a four team challenge.
You start by selecting a team from each of the four English divisions - you may select any but need to be aware of the different affects of choosing certain teams. For example, you might go for Manchester City, Sheffield United, Huddersfield Town and Chesterfield. The aim would be to have the teams work together to bring success to each club. The successes would lead to points being scored by each player, i.e. League 2 team promoted to League 1 would score points, more points if they are promoted to the Championship etc ... There could be a super amount of points for having all four teams into the Champions League together! You would make the teams work together using a combination of transfer deals, loan deals and youth players, parent/feeder clubs if you can get your teams linked up etc ...
What does anyone think?
Adam - Hearts v. Hibs?
I have Hibernian V Hearts already
Chester vs Wrexham
Didn't notice
What about 'The most pointless derby' - no goals, cards, not enough good ratings
Thanks JSalter and Mark, managed to add more now, and changed your idea into more ideas a bit Mark, as I need more ways of judging
*grumbles* ignoring the mighty dragons and the 'orrible lions
lol, well I decided not to do lower leagues, if this one is a reasonable success, I'll happily do one for lower league rivalries such as Norwich v Ispwich, Cardiff v Swansea and Chester v Wrexham.
Just a thought Adam - change the least passionate to most disiplined? (sp?)
Because less cards doesn't make it more passionate.
Are there any clubs to use in a challenge where you can only sign players from a certain region?
Such as Basque players for the Cultural Durango challenge in '06.
Are Athletic still only allowed to sign Basque players?
It might be fun trying to bring the top Basque players home, but not sure about the long term playability of going straight for a top flight club. Perhaps a self imposed transfer policy with lower league Basque (or any other region) clubs eligible would add more variety.
As for clubs that impose such a transfer policy, i can only think of Athletic Bilbao. i had a quick look and it might only be Bilbao who have such a policy. the best way i think might be to take a club and implement a policy yourself....
I was thinking of maybe creating a colonial type challenge that was like the India challenge last year. The player would start in England in League 2 or something, then would have to go to the MLS (oh no an MLS Challlenge), A-League, or India, where they would have to set up a link with an English team and would have to start the players that were given to them and would only be able to sign English players and players from within the nation. They would then have to win the league at which point they would cancel the link with the English team and try to get the national team job and overtake the English National Team in the World Rankings and win the World Cup.
Any thoughts on this. It wouldn't go up until January or so, when things start to die down with the other challenges.
Good point, I forgot about the player restrictions, well I will figure something out, as I would have about a month to fine tune it.
I'm thinking of doing a 'CSE Ryder Cup'. Basically, two teams of 12 'Europe' and 'America' including a captain each.
There will be 5 or 6 stages. It will be along the lines of the Ryder Cup Format, each person signing up will complete a season with a certain team in a certain league. Then, points will be allocated on how well they did in that season. Whoever wins that pairing scores a point, and if it is a tie, half a point is awarded, like the Ryder Cup. The format
Day 1 Morning - Fourballs (2 Europeans v 2 Americans) Players complete a season, they are awarded points for how well they competed with that team. The points are combined with their partner. Whichever pair scores the highest combined, gets a point
Day 1 Afternoon - Foursomes (2 Europeans v 2 Americans) Similar to Fourballs, however the best score contributes on who wins the tie.
Day 2 Morning - Fourballs
Day 2 Afternoon - Foursomes
Day 3 - Singles (1 European v 1 American) - Similar in concept with the pairing games, however, whichever player scores the most points get the point.
Each team will have a designated captain and vice captain (in case captain cannot make it), captains jobs are to decide who is paired up with who. Each competitor will be given a week to complete the season.
Thoughts please.
That's a brilliant idea! would love to participate in that
If you check their newgens they'll all have Basque as a second nationality.
If you go on holiday others can be promoted, there's a list of Basque clubs on wikipedia-
It's also possible to manage Bilbao Athletic in Second Division B1, the B team, while another manager is in charge of the main team.
None of the smaller Basque teams seem to have the restriction like they used to on FM 06.
spartans5 - you should be careful about overloading yourself with stuff on this forum, you've already got two demanding sign ups running (Eurovision in particular)
Oh I know, and I am only doing those two sign-ups right now, so my progress in the challenge would be limited and someone else could always put it up, i just had the idea and thought i should put it out there
So, as mentioned previously I came up with another idea. On reflection, there wouldnt be much point in me getting deeply involved, especially as it could be pretty time consuming. But, if someone wanted to develop it, Id be happy to help out. So who knows where this goes, if anywhere?
Anyway, I present to you a proposal CSE: The Soap Opera
With the ability to add female staff, it occurred to me that it makes a couples sign up possible. Most likely this would husband and wife manager and assistant teams.
Step 1 would involve those signing up creating their own profiles and picking the qualities they look for in a partner. At this point, they would also pick the DNA that they would pass on to any players.
Step 2 would involve everyone being matched up into their couples based on compatibility a dating agency service, if you like - plus deciding whos male and female and whos manager and assistant. Im sure some people would love to be female
Step 3 is where it gets interesting the happy couple would have some kids
You could really go anywhere with this, but I thought it would be interesting to have a few different players you could follow. Therefore based on the DNA previously chosen, you kids would share the qualities and flaws from both parents. My initial thoughts are you could have a set of twins one good and one bad, and one other kid who you initially dont know about
So you now have whole families, so I reckoned this is where it starts to resemble a soap opera. Those signing up could be assigned, or decide themselves, on their friendships and rivalries with the other families. So, your couple would be looking to get one over on the ones you dont like and looking for your own players to be as successful as possible.
You therefore have:
Good kid starts at your club, you get points for their performances.
Bad kid another couple has to adopt one bad kid. They would then lose points based on bad on-field discipline, and any trouble making they cause (going awol, requesting transfers, being disliked by other players), but the parents would receive points for causing a disliked neighbour grief
Controvertially, as an added twist, you could throw in another player, whos arisen from a past indiscretion . These players would again be created using the DNA provided, but this time, with a random other male/female (as applicable) in the sign up. Im not sure exactly how this would work, but maybe all their attributes were masked and you can only reveal them by asking relevant questions thus allowing you to guess which player is yours, eventually. Once youve figured it out, youd start scoring points for their performances too.
You have a lot of rivalry and intrigue there. If it was well enough written, it could be pretty entertaining, with plenty of banter for participants down the local...
That sounds so great, bermy! And the users who are couples could get along really well - nice team bonding in CSE!
It also sounds very complicated....
Wow, that is a great idea, if only there were someone who would be able to implement it.
Sounds like a great idea bermybhoy
I've been thinking about running a sign-up, this might be a bit complicated for my first. But I'll have a think about how it could be developed.
I've had an idea of running a 'Premier League Chairman' sign-up, where i'd have say 10-20 people sign-up to be Premier League club chairman. Basically they'd get to do the following -
Sack The Manager - If they don't feel their current manager is doing very well, they have the option to sack him (this can come at anytime during the season). I'm not sure how i'd implement whoever their new manager is, so that could be pot-luck. They'd only be able to sack 1 manager per season.
Finances - The Chairman would at the beginning of each season would set the budgets for both the Transfer and Wage budget, depending on the funds the club has at the end of the season. They'd also pick the 'percentage' of funds raised through transfers of which their manager would have to spend on players.
Upgrades - Also coming out of the clubs funds at the start of the season, the Chairman would have the option of upgrading the clubs: Training Facilities, Youth Facilities, Stadium Size and Reputation of the club. Their would also be an option of reducing these things, in order for the club to raise some more funds to either spend on other upgrades, or to improve the transfer/wage budget.
Other things may be possible when I release the sign-up, dependent on the ever improving magic that is FMRTE.
I have the A1GP sign-up running at the moment so this sign-up will probably have to wait, which I am more than happy to do, was just seeing if there would be any interest in it if it was to be released.
Sounds like a good idea, I would definately be interested in it.
yeah sounds brilliant
Sounds good Paul, it would be fun to have the power to sack the manager.
how would it work if the actual chairman sacked the manager
bermybhoy: I really like the sound of you idea, if you want to discuss it and see if we can't get something of that sort running send me a pm. I'd be up for running it as well as writing it if we get that far
mikeytwigge: There is always going to be that problem, I may be able to keep the manager on by either extending his contract, or boosting the confidence of the board in him?
No worries, I have no intention of starting anything until after the holidays, would also like a long time to actually make sure something of this sort would work would most likely be aiming for mid-january or start of february.
I'm looking at releasing my Survivor: FM Edition over Christmas, this is the one sign up I've thought up (unless you count the Euros asa sign up) that I feel has the potential to be great and I really want this one to take off so without further ado here it is, feel free to make suggestions and I will consider them, the budgeting won't be changed though as it's an integral part of the sign-up and IMo works quite well.
Hello and welcome to Survivor: FM Edition, I'm your host Robert Jones. Tonight sees the beginning of a new era here on Survivor. 12 clubs have been created by Villiam Geets, Bill Gates' Dutch cousin, He has set aside £200 million aside to each club, this money will take stadium, training facilities etc into consideration.
12 of you lucky viewers will decide the futures of their clubs and it all depends on how wise your choices are.
Now it's time to throw some rivalry into the mix, the league will be split into 2 groups: The Bandits and the Pirates. You lot will be the main force behind any success that the clubs have.
At the end of each season Villiam will donate a further £50 Million to each group, the members of the groups will then decide what to do with the money (Put it in the transfer budget, wage budget, expand stadium etc.) and I will then fix it using FMRTE.
The £50m doesn't have to be spread out, if there's one club close to dominating and the group want to push it to the top they may put the majority on to that clubs shoulders and vice versa with struggling clubs.
So will you be the saviour of your chosen group or will you proceed to destroy any good work made by your fellow members? Only time will tell.
RULE CHANGES: last time this was attempted it was, in my opinion, tainted by the fact that so many teams were using up to a full team of wonderkid creations, as a result there will be a limit of TWO made up players, if anyone tries to use more than two it will be ignored and the money spent on that player will NOT be reimbursed to the transfer fund.
I want to keep this running properly this time instead of giving up due to the huge task of the last attempt, therefore this time there will be one task per season rather than one task per month, updates will be at the end of each transfer window and at the start of the season, these two changes should result in updates being more frequent and the sign up lasting to the end as it will be a much more manageable size for me.
Next, co-operation and interacting is a must, this sign-up depends on users interacting together well and having just one member of the group never posting can damage the team as a whole, to try to counter this I will only allow people that I know will post regularly or that posted regualrly in the previous iteration to sign up and if a user doesn't post within 4 days of an update they will be replaced.
Lastly, I would like to apologise to the patient members of the last version for its swift end, it was simply too much work for me at the time trying to maintain a demanding sign up and balance it with other things in my life, it had to take a back burner.
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You want everything in the world right? Wrong. Nothing in this life is free, take what you need and leave it at that. All this will make sense once you've read the post after this so don't go getting in a huff!
1,000: £0
2,000: £10 Million
3,000: £20 million
4,000: £30 million
5,000: £40 million
6,000: £50 million
7,000: £60 million
8,000: £70 million
9,000: £80 million
10,000: £90 million
Stadium Capacity:
5,000: £1 million
10,000: £3 million
15,000: £5 million
20,000: £7 million
25,000: £10 million
30,000: £12 million
35,000: £15 million
45,000: £20 million
55,000: £25 million
65,000: £30 million
75,000: £35 million
Training Facilities: £1 million per digit up to 10, £2 million per digit from 11 up to 20
Youth Facilities: £1 million per digit up to 10, £2 million per digit from 11 up to 20
Youth Academy: £10 million
Assistant Manager: £250,000 per 10 CA Points
£1,000,000 per 20 CA Points up to 100 CA (e.g A player with 100 CA = £5 million)
£2,000,000 per 20 CA Points up to 150 CA (e.g. A player with 140 CA = £9 million)
£3,000,000 per 20 CA Points up to 200 CA (e.g. A player with 200 CA = £17.5 million
The remaining money goes into the transfer budget
Right then now it's time for the fun part, let's design your club, bear in mind that you're on a budget.
Budget: £200 million
Club Name:
Short Name:
Six Letter Name:
Second Nickname(Optional)
Year Founded:
Stadium Name:
Stadium Capacity:
Training Facilities:
Youth Facilities:
Youth Academy?
Home Kit :-
Away Kit :-
Third Kit:-
Assistant Manager:
You may select any players as long as they fit into your budget.
GROUP: (Erase the two you haven't selected) The Bandits. The Pirates.
The Bandits: 6 available
The Pirates: 6 available
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Obviously the introductions to each bit will be changed to make it a bit fresher and this is still in the planning stage so chances are a couple of changes will be made before it is released. I'm willing to take a list of people that want to take part but I want regualr posters.
Yeah looking good mate. I'd be certainly be intersted in participating!
I've just had a MASSIVE idea and a great way to include female managers, teamwork and a long term competition
So, the basic idea is taken from the tv series "So you think you can dance". The general idea is that auditions will be open until the end of january where people will submit one (or more) game that fits the description of one of the dances given. After the auditions we will have (hopefully) 20 players that will take part, at least it will start with an even number of participants.
They will then be divided into two groups, one will be male and the other female.
Every week I will draw pairs at random, this pair will then have a week to each complete the dance they are randomly given. Each dance will have different objectives for the pair to complete. Based on the score they accumulate we will have a bottom 2/3 pairs, they will face a vote from the other members of the board as to who goes home. In effect, the points represent the votes of tv viewers and the vote from the members represent the judges choice.
Each dance will come to represent different challenges, for example:
Samba will be to play the beautiful game in a beautiful way in Brazil, might even be with the national team. Scores will be awarded for (amongst others) keeping a goals scored average of over 2.5 and yellow cards <1
Tango will be to play passionate football in Argentina. It will be high tempo with lots of tackles. Points will be awarded for having more than x tackles per game and.. erm.. something else
Anyone think this would work? And if so, anyone willing to help me in getting this put together for the new year? Would like auditions to open early january so they could be open for approximately a month. (Hope I haven't made a mess of explaining this )
So basically is it that the participants have to play a season in, say, a week, in the country of that 'dance', and fulfil the criteria in as many games as possible to get points from the judges? Or fulfil the criteria (or as close to it as possible) over the whole season?
Sounds good
Was thinking maybe 7-9 days for the completion of the season (or competition if national team) and then voting for a day. What I am trying to figure out now is exactly how to incorporate teamwork within each pair. Whether it ends up being 2 different objectives for each partner or maybe even one partner doing a club and the other a national team or some other solution.
Now, it's not always going to be a different country for each dance, might even be in a country not relating to the dance at all, that is all to be decided. Luckily I have a month and a half to figure that part out What I'd like to get done before the new year is to figure out how each dance will be rated, give those who would be interested a chance to try them out and submit an entry.
EDIT: forgot to answer your question you would play a season (or a competition) and then get points for fulfilling the criteria, no points for not completing the objectives
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For the teamwork between each pair, perhaps each pair could be given 2 dances that they have to do, and they have to decide which one of them would be best suited to each of them. Club team or national team as you suggested might be good, and maybe lower league or top flight management, and other contrasting options.
Might actually make the draw in such a way that each pair gets one dance but if they really don't want to do it they could get another random draw and only score 75% or something along those lines. Might also be a great idea as you say to have one do top flight and the other lower league, or one do club and the other international. Would possibly be getting some ideas now if I wasn't at work and if my head wasn't on the verge of explosion
looks like an interesting idea that Icelander, certainly complicated though. Like the inclusion of the Female managers, and I think that it would definitely work if it was run well and the people that signed up were interested in it.


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While reading blogs about Agile games, I came across this link of Karl Scotland.
Because I always like combining programming with building something that gets across Agile principles (our Battleship game is also a good example) this seemed like a good new project for our Fridays at Zilverline HQ. Bob Forma and me started this and within a few days we came up with this (You can check the source code here)


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How can we integrate Facebook in android?
We started with Q&A. Technical documentation is next, and we need your help.
Whether you're a beginner or an experienced developer, you can contribute.
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download fbconnect first.
check this.....
you have create a account in developer.facebook.com. after that you get a API Key.
you can add this project with your project
right click your project-> properties->Select Projects tab-> Add Project--> both fbconnect-android and fbconnect-sample.
thats it.
Don't integrate Facebook API from mobile.
Instead you should create your own web service and put somewhere on the web where you can update API changes more frequently than rolling out new mobile version of your app for each API changes. So the point here is that you keep API calls on the webserver where you can do immediate changes rather than pushing mobile updates through time consuming Markets approval.
Make that go (1) Android phone -> (2) your webserver file with Facebook API --> (3) Facebook Servers. You can find more examples working with Facebook API such as using PHP.
You're looking for the Facebook API.
Use Social Libraries its very easy method to integrate FB, TWitter and Linked in. Am using the same and successfully able to integrate. check this: here


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Sometimes I get drowned by my imagination. I'll give an example. An hour ago I was reading some stuff about esoteric programming languages. Then my imagination kicked in. After that I was just sitting for an hour and drawing in my head a nonsense visual programming language. Useless stuff, I hate it, I am practical person. Rarely, but sometimes I hook on an idea which has a practical value. Then it is even worse because it is even harder to stop thinking about it. The problem is that I get over-excited during such moments and it is hard to pull away myself from delusions. I think my imagination works counter-productive for me. Any thoughts how to fight the temporary over-excitement?
Don't you control your focus? Perhaps you have to find a way to recognize what you do control and assert that power. For example, if someone tells you, "Don't think about X," then chances are that you will be thinking about X pretty much right away. Is that a bad thing? Probably not but there is some self-control that likely has to get some practice as well as finding various coping techniques as you could use some Cognitive Behavior Therapy if you want a phrase to Google about this. There may also be something to figuring out why you like going on such flights of fancy to have your imagination go to such extremes. Perhaps you see it as a muscle that has to be exercised regularly to maintain its power and strength. Chances are that there is some payoff for you in some way here though you may not like seeing it or admitting it. You could also look at Emotional Intelligence tools for self-awareness and self-management for another idea.
Something to remember is that you will probably end up building a toolbox of many different strategies and techniques where quite often some will fail yet they may work at other times. Building up some tenacity to keep trying things, keep score on what works and doesn't work, and analyze to see what patterns emerge. Mindfulness would be another idea to toss out there, where there are various meditations and other practices you could use here for another way to just be present and not worry about the future or dwell too much on the past.
I found it useful to have a folder of idea documents and put my thoughts into them. As they get committed to paper/file, they leave my head.
Some of those ideas I come back to later from different angles. I then add to those files.
After a couple of years of doing that, I have two potential startup ideas with technology, business and human aspects thought out. Plus another 20 or 30 or random semi-written things. What is interesting to me is that some of the semi-written things other people built startups around. To me, it is validation of my thinking process.
This fits together with GTD with using the capture tools for everything and then finding place for it (filing/someday-maybe in this case). Otherwise, the same thought will keep coming back and wasting your energy.


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It was not until the spring of 1998 that the next step in the total renewal of the heavy-duty Volvo truck programme was presented to Volvo customers. Then, the new 'FM' family of distribution/construction/multi-purpose trucks proved that the renewal of the Volvo truck range had been successfully completed.
More than a successor
The FM vehicles were introduced as successors to their famous low-built predecessors the F86, the F7 and the FL7/FL10/FL12. The FM shared the same characteristics of these trucks such as a low level cab for easy entry and exit together with the same expected reliability and service life (now increased even further thanks to superior design and vast development resources combined, with experience from the production of more than one million Volvo trucks).
But the FM is more than just a successor to its predecessors, thanks to its very close relation to the heavy-duty trucks in the Volvo range, in the first instance the FH trucks.
Maximizing features with sufficient resources
Devotion to ultra-efficiency in the development of the FM trucks had been facilitated by the parallel development of powerful components which are extensively utilized in a wide variety of Volvo trucks, including low-built FM trucks, high-built FH trucks, American Conventional VN trucks and conventional NH trucks.
Utilization of major components for a wide range of vehicles is the only way to guarantee that sufficient resources are available to maximize features such as reliability, service life, economy, safety, ergonomic and environmental characteristics.
Designed for many tasks
The FM is a truck which can perform more transport tasks than any other Volvo truck before it. That is not only because the span of horsepower ratings is very wide (from 250 to 420 bhp in its original executions), but also because the range of cab models had been expanded compared with the cabs available for the previous FL7/FL10/FL12 trucks.
With the new Globetrotter option for the FM, together with the day cab and the 'normal' sleeper cab, there was always a suitable driver workplace available, for long-distance transport operations where two drivers need living space for several days, as a functional workplace for distribution or for construction drivers in normal transport not involving an overnight stay for the driver.
The choice of competent drivers
The wide range of transport applications are also facilitated by the many chassis models available, including two, three and four-axle configurations, manual and automatic gearboxes, etc.
The FM has met wide acceptance, and seems to have become as popular with efficient transport companies and competent drivers as previous low-cab Volvo heavy-duty trucks, such as the F86 and the F7.


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I am trying to plot a solution to the heat equation
$u(x,t) = \sum_1^\infty \frac{8(-1)^(n+1)}{\pi^2 n^2} \sin(n \pi x) \exp(-n^2 \pi^2) $
I am using the following from another answer here on Mathematica. I am trying to plot it from x=[0,1]. I am trying the following, but it does not seem to produce a plot
f[x_, t_, nm_] := SUM[(8 (-1)^(n + 1)/(Pi^2*n^2))*Sin[n* Pi *x]*Exp[-n^2 Pi^2*t], {n, 1, nm}];
Plot[Table[f[x, t, 150], {t, {0, 0.01, 0.1, 0.5, 1, 10}}] // Release, {x, 0, 1, 0.05}]


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AES has several different variants:
But why would someone prefer use one over another?
AES has several different variants:
But why would someone prefer use one over another?
For practical purposes, 128-bit keys are sufficient to ensure security. The larger key sizes exist mostly to satisfy some US military regulations which call for the existence of several distinct "security levels", regardless of whether breaking the lowest level is already far beyond existing technology.
The larger key sizes imply some CPU overhead (+20% for a 192-bit key, +40% for a 256-bit key: internally, the AES is a sequence of "rounds" and the AES standard says that there shall be 10, 12 or 14 rounds, for a 128-bit, 192-bit or 256-bit key, respectively). So there is some rational reason not to use a larger than necessary key.
A larger key size also resists better to large quantum computer attacks: Using Grover's algorithm, a brute-force attack on any k-bit key block cipher would only take $O(2^{k/2})$ steps, so a 256-bit key would still give 128-bit security, while a 128-bit key could be cracked in 2^64 operations, which is doable. But as far as I know, the threat of QC was an ulterior rationalization; also, it does not explain the 192-bit key size. (And quantum computers of this size are not yet in sight for the next some years.)
The actual encryption algorithm is almost the same between all variants of AES. They all take a 128-bit block and apply a sequence of identical "rounds", each of which consists of some linear and non-linear shuffling steps. Between the rounds, a round key is applied (by XOR), also before the first and after the last round.
The differences are:
For AES-128, we need 11 round keys, each of which consisting of 128 bits, i.e. 4 32-bit columns. The original cipher key consists of 128 bits (i.e. 4 columns). Call these $k_0$, $k_1$, $k_2$ and $k_3$. The key expansion algorithm now expands these to $k_0$ to $k_{43}$ (so we get 44 columns in total).
The key expansion works in a way that $k_i$ only depends directly on $k_{i-1}$ and $k_{i -N_k}$ (where $N_k$ is the number of columns in the key, i.e. 4 for AES-128). In most cases it is a simple $\oplus$, but after each $N_k$ key columns, a non-linear function $f_i$ is applied.
The functions $f_i$ are nonlinear functions build from the AES S-box (applied on each byte separately), a rotation by one byte, and an XOR with a round constant depending on $i$ (this is the element of $GF(2^8)$ corresponding to $x^{i-1}$, but there also is a table in the standard).
Then the key selection algorithm simply takes $k_0 \dots k_3$ as the first round key, $k_4\dots k_7$ as the second one, until $k_{40} \dots k_{43}$ as the last one.
AES-192 looks almost the same, but with six columns in parallel. As we need 13 round keys (=52 key columns), this will be done until $k_{51}$ (i.e. 8 full rows and four keys in the ninth row).
For AES-256 (and all variants of Rijndael with more than 192 bits of key), there is an additional non-linear transformation after the fourth column:
$g$ is a simpler variant of $f_i$: simply the application of the AES S-box on every byte of the column in parallel (without the rotation or the round constant, thus without an index).
Here we need 15 round keys, i.e. 60 columns, which means to do seven and a half round of key expansion.
(I now did read the word practical in the question, and my post doesn't really apply here ... but there seems to be no better question to post this as an answer, so I still post it here.)
In my opinion, if AES-128 is broken, then it's highly likely that AES-192 and AES-256 will fall too (because these types of attacks are structural and easily extend to longer key-lengths). In fact, we know a successful attack on AES will not be via exhaustive key search on a conventional computer.
There is, however, some chance that key-size will matter in face of a practical attack: suppose the attack takes about the square-root of the size of the key-space (kind of like a collision-attack on hash functions; in fact, quantum computers will give this kind of speedup on exhaustive key search via Grover's Algorithm). Then the square-root of $2^{128}$ becomes practical whereas the square-root of $2^{256}$ remains out of reach. Nevertheless, I guarantee you if AES-128 falls, people will quickly migrate away from the longer-key variants out of worry that they will fall too.
Attacks don't get worse... they only get better.
The difference is that all known attacks on AES [but see comments] require in the neighborhood of 2length attempts to succeed; that is, there's no better method known than simply trying different keys by brute force.
It follows, then, that a 256 bit key is 2128 times as hard to crack as a 128 bit key.
Of course, computing each encrypted block with 256 bit keys is harder too.
The choice of key length should be based on risk: the damage that will be done if an attack is successful.


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I want to know what is the effective weight of doing push-ups. What would be the weight of the dumbbell/ barbell to do a bench press with the same resistance as a push-up. I understand this depends on the person's weight, maybe the answer can be an estimated percentage of the weight?
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I asked this question on physics.stackexchange.com for you: http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/9129/what-is-the-force-on-the-arms-in-a-pushup . The answer is 50% of your body weight assuming equal distribution of mass vertically and weightless arms and head. It will be more than 50% when you factor in arm and head weight and your exact vertical mass distribution. If you're top heavy, you're pushing more weight. If you're bottom heavy, you're pushing less weight.
You can get a rough measurement by holding pushup position with your hands on a bathroom scale. I suggest doing this with your arms fully extended and locked to prevent yourself from actively pushing against the scale and skewing the reading.
For me, it ended up being about 75% of body weight.
Roughly 55-80% of bodyweight
Dick Moss has this overview on how much weight we are lifting in push-ups, "citing" an unnamed study:
He notes that the difference between the sexes is really just a function of body mass distribution between the upper and lower body:
Changes in resistance through the range of motion
It's also important, when trying this at home, to test both the top and the bottom of the push-up position, since the change in angle of course affects how much resistance is applied. Per Suprak, Dawes, and Stephenson 2011:


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How are the cicadas in your area?
An enormous brood of cicadas that covers parts of 16 states have awaken from their 13-year slumber underground.
I just went to the local mall today outside St louis and I was finding cicadas everywhere. The sound of them in some areas is unbearable and impossible to hear anything else. You flick them off you and they even do a little scream at you. How are the cicadas in your area?
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I hope they devour all agriculture fields in Amurica and a massive famine begins.
Had one on my porch last night but didn't start singing.
@iggz: They'd better get busy, cuz Oct. 21st will be here before you know it!
@loubriccant: is that the new rapture date?
I haven't seen any in Cincinnati, but we're not due for the 17 year locusts again until 2021.
It's quiet outside.
Everytime the door opened at Walgreens, some flew in and a group of girls screamed. It's going to be a long June!
@w00tgurl: Yep, at least until October 22nd.
Fortunately, we don't have the little monsters down here in Florida. Probably an evolutionary survival thing, since I suspect the state's 40-pound palmetto bugs would wipe the circadas out in a single season.
Surprisingly quiet in Michigan right now.
They're so loud in the bayou country, you can walk a gravel road and not hear your own footsteps.
None here yet but we get this bad boy every once and a while.
Don't you just want to pet him?
@magic cave: I live in Florida also - west coast - and we have them, or what people tell me that's what makes the crickety noises. Have not heard many this year.
@caffeine_dude: EEEEEEEYUCK
Meat group!
They show up in NoFL too. Fortunately, right now it's just normal "KatyDid Ops" outside along with the sounds of lawn mowers, sprinklers and neighborhood kids having fun in their pools.
Not bad at all in Maryland, at least not in the northeastern portion.
They are crappy, but I don't hear them yet.
The shells on the trees was kinda entertaining as a kid, though.
They are fine, and they asked about you too.
I live in the land of Biblical plagues...we have Cicadas, Palmetto bugs, Scorpions, Taratulas, Texas red wasps and even Cicada Killer wasps << google those if you want to have nightmares. So far this year the drought is so bad even the June bugs are hardly showing up. I miss the Cicadas and Tree Frogs singing at night. :-(
@jimeezlady: We have cicada killers, too. Fearsome looking, but the males don't sting at all and the females only if you run into them or step on them.
@klozitshoper: No that was not EEEEEEEYUCK that was Clyde.
Good with grape jam.
Tons in Tennessee. They don't bother me too much, but both of my coworkers are about to buy flamethrowers.
Better with ketchup.
There are some around here, but the bees/wasps/hornets are the ones that are bothering me.
A wasp even flew in the car with me. Driving away, I hit or saw about 10 of them. And this was in the local Wal-Mart parking lot.
I am in Missouri, too, and they are absolutely impossible to ignore! I'm in the Ozark Forest and I can hear them indoors with every door and window shut and the air conditioning on. I can't imagine what it was like during the plague in Egypt when Moses asked Pharoah to let the Isrealites go!
@caffeine_dude: I beleive that is a cicada pre tranformation stage? If not, it looks a lot like one of the husks they leave on trees.
I live in Kansas City, and haven't seen or heard a single cicada yet. We typically don't see them until late July/August, I find it odd they're already emerging. Is this just beacause of the big brood?
We live in K.C., MO and the noise from the cicadas this year is deafening! Don't know if this is "Brood 13 or 17" but seems as though we had them just as bad 2-3 years ago. I'll be happy when they disappear!


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Rick Pitino is getting ready to tip off his 12th season as the men's head basketball coach at the University of Louisville. He is 275-106 in his first 11 years, with two trips to the Final Four in 2005 and 2012. Pitino has taken a total of six teams to the Final Four, including one at Providence (1987) and three at Kentucky (1993, 1996 and 1997). UofL is ranked No. 2 in the nation in the preseason USA Today/ESPN Coaches Poll. The Cards will hold a third red-white scrimmage at 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 27, at the KFC Yum! Center. The official season opener is Nov. 11, against Manhattan.
KENT TAYLOR: How much did Rick Pitino need that Final Four? What did it do for you getting back there?
RICK PITINO: That would be the first misconception, because I'm really not in this business anymore for what it can do for me. It's another Final Four, it's another milestone, it's a chance to see the guys celebrate and enjoy it so much along with our fans. For me, it's just another job where you see your team reach its potential and maybe go beyond it.
TAYLOR: Is that part of being a veteran coach – that you enjoy it more for the players, watching them celebrate and experience something that you have experienced before?
PITINO: I don't think you ever take it for granted, but I don't think it means a whole lot to you personally; you're part of a team. It means a lot for the community, it means a lot for the guys, it means a lot for the other coaches. I'm sure that if we had gotten knocked out in the first round, I'm not sure if Richard (Pitino, his son) would have had a great shot at getting a head coaching job. So it means a lot to everybody, and you're just a part of that team.
TAYLOR: This team starts the year No. 2 in the poll. The so-called experts expect you to get back to the Final Four – is that about right?
PITINO: I don't expect to get back. I don't think that it is that type of basketball team. I'm not sure, maybe there is only one team, from what the pro scouts are saying to me, maybe Indiana is the one team because they shoot it so well, they pass it so well, they have a veteran lineup. I don't think (Indiana Head Coach) Tom (Crean) would ever say that, but according to the pro scouts that have come in and talked to me, they're the one team that sticks out better than everybody else.
TAYLOR: You said when Tom Crean came to Indiana and John Calipari came to Kentucky that we were going to have some good basketball around here for years to come. Did you envision (the three of you being ranked) 1, 2, and 3?
PITINO: There's no question when Tom went to IU it was going to take him longer than John, because they were decimated, but I knew he would get them there. I knew John would get them there. Now, we're at the level where it's just awesome for the state and the surrounding states. I've always said that the three states where college basketball is so special, the traditions are so meaningful, are Kentucky, Kansas and Indiana. We're in a football crazed society today, where everybody moves 800 miles for the nearest game just to be in a league. You have to sort of question that type of mentality. Well, we still have sanity in our state, where a small state has the No. 1 attendance, the No. 3 attendance, has the No. 1 revenue producer in college basketball, from a state of 3,000,000 people.
TAYLOR: Did you know that about Kentucky? Was (former UK Athletic Director) C.M. Newton able to convey that in the interview process at Kentucky? Or did you find it out when you got here?
PITINO: I didn't find it out until I coached at Kentucky. Kentucky was a foreign place to me. It's not some place I always thought of, let me see, (Los Angeles), San Francisco, the Bahamas or Kentucky? Where should I go on vacation?
TAYLOR: But the basketball crazed part of it?
PITINO: I really didn't know it. I was more of a professional fan. I was a New York Knick fan. I wasn't a big follower of college basketball, (I was) more of a professional person.
TAYLOR: When did, in your mind, the ship sail on you as a pro coach?
PITINO: I really think with professional basketball, because of the amount of games and the way young people are today, true teachers, guys like myself, the pro game is better suited for someone who wants to be a manager of people, not necessarily a teacher of people. I think in the pros, you're sort of like a CEO. You have to manage all of your (vice presidents), you have to manage the whole thing. You do teach basketball, you certainly do, and you certainly coach basketball, but true teaching of the emotional maturity of a young person, the values, the discipline of a young person, those things don't come into play at the NBA level.
TAYLOR: Peyton Siva struggled with some injuries last season. How much of a different player will fans see this season?
PITINO: He's improved physically as well. He's improved his jump shot, and he knew he had to improve his jump shot. All you have to do is take a look at his shooting percentages and say it's time to change your technique and change your form. I think right now he's a pretty good shooter, not a great one, but a pretty good one.
TAYLOR: Did the meeting with Kentucky in the Final Four sort of diffuse this rivalry a little bit, take some of the heat out of it?
PITINO: I don't know, I can only speak for myself. I really did want them to win the championship, I thought it would be great for the state. I did spend eight great years there. I also, contrary to what some people think, I admire excellence, and he was doing a fabulous job with that basketball team. I admire a guy doing a great job with a basketball team, and he hadn't won a championship, and I'd like to see him win one and he got it. He'll really enjoy his experience a lot more now coaching at Kentucky.
TAYLOR: Every coach, including Coach Calipari, says it doesn't change you. You've done it; how does it change you once you win a national championship?
PITINO: You don't have to answer that question anymore, now you can just really enjoy coaching. Kentucky is a different animal, more than any animal in this game. It's just something that I know from coaching there eight years, and he's the perfect guy to deal with that environment. He does it very well, he likes it very much.


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