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if i did not have a zillion sunglasses already I might bite. Seems like good discounts, and buying from Oakley directly prevents knockoffs...as long as this is from Oakley?
@fit410s: They're legit. I ordered a pair from Oakleyvault.com almost identical to a pair I already owned. With the exception of the color, the fit and finish is all the same.
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Great way to get real Oakley sunglasses for a big discount.
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What am I doing wrong with Eneloop rechargeable batteries, don't hold long charge?
I bought AA and AAA batteries, always charge in pairs, use the charger that came with them. 5 year old digital camera eats the charge up within 30 pics! Any advice appreciated (what, advice on batteries? Yeah, I know, kinda lame, but I bought 8 of each!!) TYVM
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I never liked rechargables in my old digital camera because most of them provide a relatively low voltage. Your eneloop batteries are only putting out 1.2 volts when fully charged. My new camera has a proprietary battery, so I don't get to worry too much about it anymore.
There's an FAQ on these batteries here:
The user reviews on Amazon may give you some additional insight on your batteries.
Like the above poster said read the FAQ on eneloop, generally the charger that comes with batteries is crap.
This is because most chargers are designed to charge batteries quickly (~2-4 hours). These kinds of chargers will ruin your batteries very quickly.
Most people seem to like the Lacross BC-909 found here: http://www.amazon.com/Crosse-Technology-BC-9009-AlphaPower-Battery/dp/B00077AA5Q/
This charger allows you to set how fast you what your batteries charged. (The slower the better for a long lifespan) It also has a recondition function that will try and revive batteries that have lost some of their charge capacity.
I love our eneloops. We've had them for a couple of years now and they are still going strong. Of course, their benefit is that they don't lose their charge as quickly as other rechargeables.
But all batteries are not created equal, that's why they all provide the specs on the package. In this day of high tech gadgetry, different products require different voltages (as mentioned above). Additionally, different batteries provide different mAH (milliamp hours).
It's not just rechargeables that this is true for. I got a mini camcorder (like the flip style) and it came with rechargeable batteries, unfortunately I didn't have time to charge them before I wanted to use the camcorder and so a relative gave me some regular batteries. They were cheap Zinc-carbons that lasted 5 minutes in the device. (Not that zinc-carbons are necessarily bad, they just weren't what the device needed.)
I second @durkzilla and the voltage needs of electronics. Rechargeable batteries, for some unknown reason, are 1.2V, while standard AA and AAA batteries are 1.5V. Older electronics are more geared towards the 1.5V of standard Alkaline batteries, while more modern electronics are geared to run at a larger voltage range, hence, standard alkaline batteries will last longer, as they start at 1.5V, while rechargeable batteries start at 1.2V.
Thanks all. Good info - I knew that these would hold a charge longer (when not in use) but I didn't realize there were voltage differences. Which makes me wonder, in this 5-6 year old camera, why rechargeable batteries were hold with it?! Of course they are long gone - but they were the same brand as the camera - Sony. Will have to check that out...voltage.
@mrmucox: the reason for the voltage difference is due to the chemistry of the batteries. The single-use nickel-zinc batteries actually start out at about 1.6 volts, with the output decreasing as they're used. That means that the devices have to be able to accommodate voltage drops down to 1 volt or less if they're going to get full value out of the cell.
On the other hand, rechargeable batteries, which use other chemistries (Nickel Cadmium, Lithium Cobalt, etc..) have lower initial output (1.2 volts) but maintain that voltage level fairly well until nearly discharged.
@rhmurphy: I understand that there is a chemistry difference, however, a slight difference in formulation, and they could made them 1.5V, as AA are as a standard. Somehow, 1.2V has become the rechargeable battery standard. Looking at some information online, this is usually not a problem, as Alkaline has a linear voltage drop over time, while NiMH has a relatively flat voltage drop until empty, so while an alkaline will drop to 1V, the NiMH will stay at or near the 1.2V until it suddenly drops to 1V. So if the device will operate at 1.2V, then NiMH batteries will work great, but if the device expects more than this, than they might turn on with a fresh charge, but quickly shut off. See this chart for what I mean with the voltage drop:
I've had great luck with nickel-zinc rechargeables in cameras. They put out 1.6 volts instead of 1.2, so the cameras don't turn off with 70% of your charge still there.
Depending on the generation of camera, and the cutoff voltages of various subsystems, high capacity rechargeables might not work in all devices. a good resource on why batteries act the way they do is http://www.powerstream.com/BatteryFAQ.html
It's not an "unknown reason" as you state. It's very well known. Different battery chemistry produces different voltage. You can't arbitrarily change the voltage, without changing everything about the battery.
Carbon-Zinc cells, very popular for flashlights for 50 years, produce about 1.5 volts. Chemists eventually came up with Alkaline chemistry, which also produces about 1.5 volts. Unfortunately, neither of those chemistries is rechargeable.
Lead-acid wet cells (like those used in your car) actually produce about 2.0 volts per cell... your car battery has six cells inside one big case.
The first rechargeable dry cells, Nickel-Cadmium (NiCd -- often called "ni-cad") cells, produce about 1.2 volts. More recently, rechargeable Nickel Metal Hydride (NiMH) cells have been made; they also produce about 1.2 volts.
Nobody has come up with a good 1.5 volt rechargeable cell yet, or you'd see them on sale for sure! Nobody has found the right chemistry yet.
That's a great chart!
However, your statement, "a slight difference in formulation, and they could made them 1.5V" is obviously baloney. Everyone would love to have 1.5 volt rechargeable cells. If the chemists could find "a slight difference" that would make them 1.5 volts, instead of 1.2 volts, you'd see them on sale, for sure!
The fact is, it has to do with the different energy levels in the different electron shells, within the molecules that are used. Nobody has discovered a good chemistry to make 1.5 volt rechargeables yet, or believe me, we'd all have them!
If you think it's easy, please post the chemistry that you'd use to solve the problem, and I'm sure some big battery company will scoop it up and start making them ASAP.
If your camera originally came with rechargeable cells, then the big question is: what was the voltage of those cells?
Most likely they were either NiCd or NiMH, which would have been 1.2 volts per cell.
There's a very slim chance they were Li-ION cells, and some of those can be 3.7 volts per cell. But they are very special, and need a special charger.
Check the camera manual, or google it, to find out for sure what the original cells were.
It's possible that you have some sort of camera malfunction. I happen to have a Canon which I love, but it started apparently "eating batteries" about a year ago. After several sets of different brands of batteries, I realized it had to be the camera.
After some Googling, I found that it's a very common problem with that particular camera. Apparently there is a bad design of the battery spring, which weakens and then doesn't provide good contact pressure. Try some research about your particular make and model.

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How were ancient Roman citizens identified, and how did officials make sure that their identity wasn't fake? I.e., did they maintain some kind of citizens registry, or did they have some kind of identity papers (analog of modern ID card, driver's license, passport, etc.)?
I don't have a good citation for this - the wikipedia article provided by @kubanczyk is relatively decent, and highlights the role of the censor, which is probably the state oriented solution to the question.
I think the question relies on modern assumptions. Roman citizens would never have needed to prove their identity. Set aside for the moment the urban tribes - they're really just a special case. - and let's set aside women, because that is probably a book length answer.
Every other Roman citizen is bound in a fairly strong social context; they're a member of a family, a tribe, and a gens. Furthermore most Romans were a member of some kind of a patron-client relationship.
Remember also that there are sumptuary laws and customs that determine clothing/costume. Also remember that your legal rights and obligations are based on your social class. For anything other than the lowest social ranks, you are effectively required to participate in the state, and your participation is defined by your social class/citizenship status. Anyone with any ambition is on the cursus honorum, which has the effect of creating a reputation throughout society. If the individual is not actively on the cursus honorum, then they're goign to want to ask a favor or provide a favor to someone who is on the cursus honorum.
Roman society is bound together by a web of relationships, and that web serves as such a strong evidence of citizenship that there is no need for any kind of proof. Anyone who had any doubt about an individual could easily ask someone for a report on their reputation. Anyone who didn't have a good reputation would be unable to act politically, economically, socially, etc.
Update: Mr. Goldberg raises another interesting edge case (apart from women and urban tribes). What about Romans travelling abroad? This is a slightly different set of questions. 1) How do Foreign governments determine whether someone is a Roman citizen? 2) How do Romans determine if someone is a Roman citizen.
In truth, I believe that the answer remains the same. Despite the fact that Roman society invented the rule of law, neither Roman society nor any other society of the period practiced the rule of law. The rights of an individual arise first and foremost from their social network and only secondarily from any legal status. If Egypt (or Armenia, or Persia, or whoever) takes action against an individual, that action is legal unless the individual's network imposes consequences. Mr. Goldberg poses the perfect case - Verres execution of a Roman citizen. If Verres had not pursued justice for his lictor, then nothing would have happened. If Verres had not been over the top, he wouldn't have been brought to trial.
Rome had no police force, no agency charged with enforcing the law (There were specific forced devoted to enforcement of laws against arson, and against treason, but that takes us into book length territory; I'm making a concious generalization). The responsibility for enforcing the law fell on the kin, tribe, gens and patron of the offended individual.
Update 2: Voitcus cites the example of St. Paul who asserts that as a Roman citizen he has the right to be tried in a Roman court (by the Caesar). Paul is an interesting case because he was an itenerant preacher, a member of a persecuted minority. In fact, part of the reason why Christians were persecuted is that they didn't fit neatly within the mold. Paul could be simultaneously a Christian, a Roman citizen, and a Jew. (Discussion of what it means to be simultaneously a Jew and a Christian are out of scope for this question). Based on my memory and quick research, we don't have a great deal of facts concerning Paul's alleged crimes, or his accusers. He seems to have offended the local Jewish population. His offenses against Judaism should have been tried in a court in Jerusalem. Paul asserts his right as a Roman citizen and demands a change of venue to a Roman court in Rome, which we may infer would be a less hostile court.
Unfortunately in order to discuss the issues that Voitcus raises, we'd have to know more. We don't know if Paul's claim was challenged. If it was unchallenged, then Paul never needed to prove his claim. (the local authorities may have felt that getting him out of town would resolve the local problem.) I would assume, based on my study of Roman history, that the local authorities had already consulted Paul's relationships and reputation and knew him to be a citizen.
The most common document identifying a person in Ancient Rome was diploma. Diploma identified the powers of magistrates and other office holders, including the consuls.
Regarding the asked question, Roman citizenship of discharged soldiers if they had no citizenship before service was identified by a so-called military diploma
The diploma was a notarially certified copy of the emperor's decree.
An example of the text can be found here:
These diplomas certifying citizenship were issued to ordinary people who earned citizenship as well, according to Suetonius:
According Suetonius, there were important requirements needed for the diploma to be valid, so to combat falsifications. They were imposed by the senatorial decree:
Most probably, if an official wanted to make sure what is the man's name, they asked them. Honest man has no reason to lie in this case.
The list of citizens was maintained, mainly for tax purposes. It was updated during a census, an event when each father of family had to appear in person and provide all the details under an oath and before witnesses. Wikipedia section.
I think that the modern practice would be considered humiliating by Romans. Innocent, honest citizens of today are obliged to prove to the officials their identity, as if their words were insufficient. The burden of proof should be obviously on the officials, since most people are honest and innocent.
Although all the above answers are relevant, there is one facet that has been overlooked concerning the provincial citizens. As Roman citizenship was granted to non-Romans in the provinces, the provincials had to reaffirm their citizenship every five years.This was simply a stating of their name and of the type of citizenship they had. (Rome had several levels of citizenship, with each level having different perks).


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A particle moves along the path $(t,t^2,t^3)$, $0 \leq t \leq 1$, and experiences a constant unit force parallel to vector $(-1,0,1)$. What is the work done by the force?
I am studying for the GRE Mathematics Subject Test, and I don't know any physics. While preparing for the test, I learned how to integrate line integrals over a vector field.
i.e. $ F(x,y) = M dx + N dy$ is a vector field. $r(t) = (x(t),y(t))$ is a parameterized curve where $a \leq t \leq b$. Then, the line integral over vector field F is
$$\int_a^b \! F(x(t),y(t)) \cdot (x'(t),y'(t)) \, \mathrm{d} t$$
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$$\int_0^1 \! F(t,t^2,t^3) \cdot (1,2t,3t^3) \, \mathrm{d} t$$
How do I find the equation for the vector field, $F(x,y,z)$? Or is my approach wrong?


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The Church should not be afraid of a true Educational Market Place
Archbishop Vincent Nichols' lecture on education last week is certainly to be welcomed. It points to a number of disturbing features of education in Britain which we would like to see reversed.
However, it is wrong for the Archbishop to argue, as he did, that these are the trends of an educational marketplace. Specifically, he said: once this [approach to education] really takes hold, then education has truly entered the marketplace and its entire ecological system is threatened with pollution In effect what is happening is that the patterns of the market are flooding over all aspects of life and we are finding ourselves considered as nothing more than consumers and suppliers.
Yet there is no real concept of a market in the British education system. There was something a little closer to a market (especially in Scotland) until 1976 when direct grant schools were abolished and those schools I suspect, were much less utilitarian than todays state controlled schools operating completely outside the market economy.
There is currently much discussion about how schools should be funded and an imprecise use of terms in other contexts could potentially cloud that debate. One aspect of that debate is whether schools could be much freer from state control yet still be state funded and possibly be profit-making (as in Sweden).
Catholic schools could sit very happily in such a marketplace for education in the same was as fair trade products (of which I am sceptical, but that is another matter) sit in the marketplace and friendly societies in the 19th century sat in the marketplace for welfare insurance. The market does not have to be driven by materialistic or narrowly instrumentalist considerations.
The trends in education that the Archbishop rightly criticises are instrumentalist, utilitarian and materialistic. But these values can take hold in a society with no market- the former Soviet Union, for example.
There is a genuine danger that when language is used so imprecisely we will see headlines reading Archbishop attacks market trends in education and so on which then cloud an important debate which could actually lead to the liberation of schools from the utilitarian straitjacket that is being imposed on them by government.
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What is the inner/outer rim width and spoke count on this wheel and can it be adapted to the xx1 cassette with an adapter?
Also is the wheel suitable moderate drops at bike parks (e.g. up to 4-5ft)?
This is a 19mm rim with 28 spokes, I'd use it more as a XC wheel with maybe a little trail. If your light, it might take a 4-5 footer if you take the wrong line but I wouldn't go looking for them. I think you're looking for something more like the X1900. All DT swiss wheels are convertable to XX1 with the XD driver body.
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RUSSIAN BALLET SYMPOSIUMBarnard/Columbia U. Oct. 12 & 13
Posted 31 August 2007 - 05:01 PM
Final plans and full details are still being worked out, and should be known in a few weeks, in the meanwhile, for anyone interested, the following information has been provided by the organziers:
A "Russian Ballet Symposium will take place on October 12-13 at Barnard College and Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. The symposium, which has been organized by Cathy Nepomnyashchy and Lynn Garafola, is sponsored by the University's Harriman Institute, of which Nepomnyashchy is director. The speakers include dance scholars, musicologists, and art historians with an interest in Russian ballet both at home and abroad. The entire event is free and open to the public."
"it begins on Friday, Oct. 12th, at 5 (or thereabouts) and will go the entire following day from 9-6.
as noted, the full schedule and list of participants will be known in a few weeks, at which time i'll post them here.
Posted 31 August 2007 - 05:29 PM
"it begins on Friday, Oct. 12th, at 5 (or thereabouts) and will go the entire following day from 9-6. As noted, the full schedule and list of participants will be known in a few weeks, at which time i'll post them here.
What a wonderful opportunity!..I wish that we could have more of those type of events down here in Miami... It's sad of how behind this city gets in relation with cultural environment development, which we really, desperate need .
Posted 11 October 2007 - 08:33 AM
Posted 11 October 2007 - 08:59 AM
the only changes have involved the venue for the fri. presentations, which are in a different room on the 3rd floor of barnard hall, but there'll no doubt be signs to direct the attendees.
Posted 11 October 2007 - 01:25 PM
the symposium starts tomorrow, friday, oct. 12 and concludes on saturday, oct. 13.
the only changes have involved the venue for the fri. presentations, which are in a different room on the 3rd floor of barnard hall, but there'll no doubt be signs to direct the attendees.
Who was actually invited?
Posted 11 October 2007 - 01:34 PM
if by 'invited' you mean the speakers, if you mean attendees, the event is free and open to the public:
International Symposium of Russian Ballet
P r o g r a m
October 12-13, 2007
Friday (Sulzberger Parlor/Barnard College) [venue changed from Sulzberger to Held auditorium, same floor of Barnard Hall]
Catharine Nepomnyashchy (Barnard College/Harriman Institute)
Lynn Garafola (Barnard College)
Elizabeth Souritz (State Institute for Research in the Arts, Moscow), "Moscow vs. Petersburg: The Petersburg Choreographer Alexei Bogdanov in Moscow"
Round Table
Lynn Garafola (Barnard College)
Tim Scholl (Oberlin College)
Simon Morrison (Princeton University)
Robert Greskovic (Wall Street Journal), "Russian Dancers of Diferent Worlds: Postcards from St. Petersburg and Moscow"
7:05-8:15 Reception
Saturday (1501 International Affairs Building/Columbia University)
Diaghilev, the Diaspora, and Beyond
Chair: Joan Acocella (The New Yorker)
Sjeng Scheijen (Leiden University), "A Place to Dream, A Place to Rest: Diaghilev and Venice"
Jane Sharp (Rutgers University), "Natalia Goncharova and the Post-Orientalist Avant-Garde"
Juliet Bellow (Drew University), "Sonia Delaunay's Cleopatra and "the Light of the Orient'"
Discussant: Elizabeth Valkenier (Columbia University)
Irina Klyagin (Harvard Theatre Collection), "'My precious genius of a friend': George Balanchine's Correspondence with the Russian Emigré Community"
Harlow Robinson (Northeastern University), "Russian Dancers and Their Image in Hollywood Cinema"
Gunhild Oberzaucher-Schüller (Salzburg University), "Bare Facts of a Greater Order: On the Performance Tradition of Petipa Ballets"
Discussant: Nancy Reynolds (The George Balanchine Foundation)
Ballet in the Soviet Era
Stanley J. Rabinowitz (Amherst College), "The Short and Fitful Life of Akim Volynsky's School, 1920-1925"
Elizabeth Kendall (Eugene Lang College, New School), "In Search of Lydia Ivanova"
Tim Scholl (Oberlin College), "Piety or Blasphemy? The Soviet Ballet Debates of the 1920s"
Discussant: Tatiana Smoliarova (Columbia University)
Chair: Rebecca Stanton (Barnard College)
Simon Morrison (Princeton University), "Romeo and Juliet's Happy Ending"
Christina Ezrahi (University College, London), "The Thaw in Soviet Culture and the Return of Symphonic Dance"
Catharine Nepomnyashchy (Barnard College/Harriman Institute), "Ideologies of the Soviet Ballerina"
Discussant: Boris Gasparov (Columbia University)
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Posted 15 October 2007 - 03:18 PM
The talks began with the influence of Venice itself on Serge Diaghilev, from the time he was 18 until his death, using his letters to his step-mother as a source, which gave an interesting insight into the great man as a young man. Two art historians then discussed the influences on two of the women designers used by Diaghilev, Natalia Goncharova and Sonia Delaunay before and after they left Russia/the Soviet Union. The summing up (and some of the discussion) was very detailed and academic (and dealt with things that I knew nothing about) so I got little out of it.
The next session was the most rewarding for me, personally, especially Irina Klyagin's discussion of Balanchine's correspondence with his Russian friends both before and after his arrival in America. We learned that there is nothing, NOTHING in the Harvard Library holdings in Balanchine's own hand other than one prayer. But, though there are no letters in Balanchine's own hand, there are many that begin, "George Balanchine asked me to write to you...." Nancy Reynolds (the discussant) referred to the letters to Serge Grigoriev from Balanchine while he was recuperating in the Alps (she could recite them by heart! I had thought of them during the talk as well.) Later, Ms. Klyagin said that she didn't mention them because they weren't in Balanchine's papers, but Grigoriev's.
She told about the many Russian emigres during and after WWII who were in very dire straights, and appealed to Balanchine for help. One man in particular, who Balanchine did, indeed help to get to the US (it took about 10 years) then literally pestered Mr. B. for years asking for a job, money, food, contacts, and was very ungrateful, and also very, very jealous of Balanchine's giving Danilova a job. Ms. Klyagin referred to Mr. B's sending money and care packages personally and through the Tolstoy Foundation. She also mentioned, a propos of Mr. B. never writing, that there is a letter from his mother saying, basically, "Thank you for the care package, but a letter from you would be more precious."
The final speaker in this session, who talked about the structure of Petipa ballets, was totally incomprehensible to me because of her accent and speed. So I learned nothing about something I would have liked to learn about. Again, Nancy Reynolds in drawing the three talks together (the other one was about Russian Ballet dancers in Hollywood), was priceless.
The last talk that I really appreciated was by Elizabeth Kendall about Lydia Ivanova, the dancer who was supposed to leave Russia/the Soviet Union with Danilova, Balanchine, Geva and Efimov, but mysteriously drowned about 2 weeks prior to their departure. She and Balanchine had been the top 2 students at the Imperial Academy, and she was accepted into the Company as a soloist -- very rare. She was "Dawn" in Copelia. She worked with Balanchine in his Young Ballets, so their artistic relationship was very close. She had very distinct phrasing, a big jump and a high extension among other qualities that Balanchine would use in later years. Her last teacher was Olga Preobajenskaya, who would later teach Vaganova.
Kendall was very, very involved in this talk, referring to Ivanova as "Lyditchka," nearly moved to tears when talking about her death.
I was very sorry to have missed RG's talk and postcards the night before (several people said it was wonderful), but the next day, he was kind enough to identify a "mystery" postcard I showed him.
Posted 15 October 2007 - 03:41 PM
Did anyone else here go?
Posted 15 October 2007 - 04:00 PM
Catharine Nepomnyashchy, a co-organizer (with Lynn Garafola) and a friend since we were both very little, told the gathering that she hoped the papers would be posted on the web. That should help Violin Concerto understand the paper delivered by the Russian-speaking presenter. Better, in this case, than video, but perhaps not so good to enjoy and learn from rg's postcard collection.
Simon Morrison's story of Prokofiev's R&J was full of intrigue, but I did not take notes and hesitate to reconstruct here.
Cathy's presentation about the Soviet Ballerina included a slide of Galina Ulanova dressed in a "mannish" suit with medals on her chest and looking very severe. My immediate reaction: Ninotchka!
Posted 15 October 2007 - 06:32 PM
i suppose if all do so, the full conf. will be given in written form on line; the site, i believe would be one connected to the harriman institute.
the 'diaghilev in venice' presentation by sjeng scheijen (a careful and multi-lingual scholar from netherlands) was esp. good during the sessions early in the day.
if i hear more about the publication on line of the proceedings, i'll post the info.
Posted 15 October 2007 - 07:33 PM
Looking forward to reading the papers on-line, if that's possible... somehow it's easier to be overwhelmed by the wealth of information and find it more difficult to process the accents while trying to remember the names involved.... and even if there is no accent involved, for some of us whose recall isn't brilliant as ViolinConcerto's, it would be lovely to go back and go over the information again. The round table with Garafola, Scholl & Morrison came through with no s/n problem... but I don't suppose that will be available on-line? It was nice of Garafola to take up the cause of the "unknown" dancers...
... I'm not sure how a capital's company can be considered "provinciaL' but I suppose NYers have complained about Washington DC dance that way... why culture grows at gateways/ports/borders more than in capitals where presumably the money & power sit... or maybe money & power tend to settle different areas?
Posted 15 October 2007 - 08:06 PM
wikipedia is a good place to start to get a more in-depth explication, etc. of CDV etc.
Posted 15 October 2007 - 10:02 PM
. and even if there is no accent involved, for some of us whose recall isn't brilliant as ViolinConcerto's, it would be lovely to go back and go over the information again.
Recall? Moi? Not at all, just a trusty notebook and pen. But thanks for thinking that it was real memory!
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I was thinking about this issue from time to time but I didn't know whether it really exists or just an speculation on my side until today when I woke up [!], I saw a very old answer of mine which was correct at that time and had a couple upvotes downvoted (in the meantime I'll leave that answer unedited for the sake of discussion; note that this is just a sample. I'm not asking "how to deal with this specific answer." The question is completely general as it's nearly impossible to keep track of all of your answers to see whether they require updating or not). While the downvoter didn't explain a thing, I suspect the reason is that the answer is no longer applicable (It's one of the new features in iPhone OS 3.0). As we go to celebrate a long sequence of birthdays for Stack Overflow (hopefully!), we're going to see lots of answers become obsolete. How we're going to deal with this issue?
What is meta?
- Any Stack Exchange user can ask a question
- The community provides support, votes on ideas, and reports bugs
- Your voice helps shape the way Stack Exchange operates
If the answer is outdated or no longer relevant either delete it or update it so it is relevant.
If the question is no longer relevant or outdated either edit it to reflect that it was relevant or change it to be relevant or vote to close it as no longer relevant.
Some of this depends on the reason for the change. For example, what's relevant to VB.NET 3.5 now is not necessarily what was relevant to VB.NET 2.0/1.1 or, God forbid, VB6. Those answers however may still be relevant to people who are still developing for those systems (and yes they have my condolences) so rather than delete it or update the question to whatever is current, it might be most appropriate to make sure the question and/or answer reflects that this applied to an old version.
You could say "For version X, it works like this but for version Y this is no longer relevant because of new feature Z".
In the case of iPhone OS, it's probably best to delete things that applied only to iPhone OS 1.x/2.x because they don't stick around in quite the same way that legacy operating systems and frameworks do. You are almost required to upgrade your iPhone OS and you're somewhat foolish if you don't (barring teething problems).
How about an implementation of one of the features found in source control systems - paint the questions and answers different shades of a color to represent their ageing.
For a more proactive approach, implement a feature to allow users to provide version info with an answer. This is something I do with my blog posts because I see the same problem all over the web, especially with technology blogs. However, I'm not sure this will work on a large scale.
The idea of SO was from the beginning to provide updated answers and get rid of these which are out-dated. Joel mentioned several times on the podcast, that he wants to solve the issue, that you cannot recognize easily, that a googled answer is not the appropriate solution to your problem anymore.
For your example answer this means, if the information provided is obsolete, the downvote was correct. If you do not want to spend the time "maintaining" old answers (which is comprehensible), the downvotes ensure that the obsolete stuff is dumped to the bottom. It's the quality assurance of the system. If you do not want to deal with them, just kiss them goodbye.
Speaking of out-of-date answers, now that you can't change your up-vote/down-vote after 5 minutes, only new eyes can add new votes to an answer, until the answer is edited.
So an answer that was correct and got up-votes for it, but is now wrong, will only get down-votes if new viewers notice the problem.
Of course comments can (and in this case should) be added by anyone to (a) notify others the answer is no longer valid, and (b) notify the original answer author to update the answer.
A huge issue that this thread is revealing is that "obsolete" is a subjective thing.
Many of the suggestions here suggest ways of "Correcting" a currently posted question, but if we agree that the corrections themselves are subjective, it's not appropriate in all situations.
As Nagul suggests, I believe that the best solution is to implement a simple visual design system that passively addresses the problem.
Perhaps the simplest way to do this is to provide more emphasis for the Date of each post. It's a critical piece of context that's difficult to see at a glance, that helps someone arrive at their own opinion of how timely or relevant a topic is.
Yes, the date appears on each post, and yes, the sidebar text reading "Active 3 years ago" does help on this front, but I believe that this context is important enough to emphasize more.
Future-proof your answers/questions where you can without making it a nuisance of noise in the now.
Throw about caveats all over the place, drop those version number hints like you've got the fuzz on your tail.
And if you can't be bothered, get the scalpel out and slice that dead answer/question off as no longer relevant.
This also occurs with hyperlinks. Over time these will break or the information change, perhaps becoming less relevant to the original answer/question. This may be a particular issue with quick early answers that are often the ones upvoted or accepted.
Perhaps we should promote an ethos where someone who uses a hyperlink has a (moral?) obligation to check the continuing validity of links and repair them or, with suitable attribution, embed information directly.
I don't believe that any of the existing mechanisms is sufficient. Therefore, I have filed a feature request:


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Fallout: The Backdraft
Welcome to the Capital Wasteland! This is the voice of your lord and master speaking - whoops, that's that other radio station. I hear that more people are coming out of the Vaults dotting our humble wastelands, so this is a special bulletin just for them. Course, couldn't hurt for the rest of you numbskulls to listen if you need a refresher course.
This, my dear Vault Dwellers, is the Capital Wasteland. There's more Wasteland out there, of course, but nobody ventures too far away from here lest they lose my awesome signal. Haha! Kidding. Specifically speaking, this particular slice of heavenly hell on Earth is the ruins of the capital of the United States of America. What is that? I don't know, go ask a Ghoul! Well, not a Feral one, mind you, that's the ones that run after you all slobbery-like and - ewww. Sorry, I'm offending some delicate natures here.
Y'see, so far as I can tell about two hundred years ago a ton of atomic bombs went off and all of a sudden, Washington D.C. was a mess. Collapsed buildings, dead people's shadows burnt into the walls, it was a disaster. Even worse, creatures known today as Super Mutants started attacking everybody left alive, and it wasn't for another hundred years before we got our ***** back in gear.
Time for a little lesson on the types of people and things and whatnot who live around here.
There are people running around known as Raiders and Slavers. Neither of them have any real regard for life; p*ss them off and you're done. The Raiders take no prisoners, unless you've got the balls to prove to them that you're as tough as they are. Fat chance! The Slavers don't usually kill; these guys take prisoners like no tomorrow and sell them as slaves. They don't care what skin color you are, who you are, what you look like, they will take you and sell you to the highest bidder. Here in the Wasteland, the only racism that comes around is whether or not you're a Ghoul or a regular ol' Joe. Or Susie. Or even both. It doesn't matter. Unless you're Chinese, for some reason some of the REALLY old Ghouls hate them. Probably because of the Chinese's siege of Alaska back in 2077... which yeah, was 200 years ago. Old furts.
Ah, the trade caravans; we love them, we hate them, we still buy their stuff because believe it or not, without them we'd have very little to survive on. They and their mercenary bodyguard buddies scavenge the wastes for products we can use - for a price. Oh yeah, forgot to mention this to the newbies in town; our currency is a little thing called bottlecaps. You know, those metal things on the Nuka Cola bottles? Yeah, we use those. Money in the old sense don't mean sh*t.
There are two types of Mercenaries. Well, several but we're starting with the "good" guys. They take on bodyguard duties, guard duties, you name it, they do it. Well, unless it's a little too risque for their taste; those always go toward the Talon Company mercs. If these guys are gunning for you, say your prayers - you probably won't survive the attack.
You didn't hear this juicy tidbit from me, but rumor has it that androids - you heard me right, these are synthetic humanoid robots! - walk among us, having escaped from god knows where; they're treated like slaves, like they have no emotions. These guys are more human than you can imagine. I can't tell fake from real. Well, except that one that had white blood, that was a weird moment...
This just in: An alien spacecraft was found over by the mysterious Oasis Rock. Course, the alien is dead, but nobody's touching him. Pretty interesting to gawk at, if I may add, and it's pimping out a very interesting broadcast of 'blip blip bleeep bloop blap bliiip', if anybody speaks Alien lemme know so I can broadcast it.
And now for our little creatures! Everything can be eaten. Well, except for the robots of course.
Robots - most notably the RoboBrains, the Mister Gutsy, the Protectron, the various butler versions of Mister Gutsy - were partially destroyed, but due to buildings withstanding the atomic forces, they still exist and run on fission batteries that never seem to run out. Most robots out in the Wasteland are hostile and attack everything they see, most common of these being Protectrons - laser-ridden metallic beasts - and the Robobrains, which for some reason have humanoid brains and talk like a pr*stitute looking for a payer. Mister Gutsies can often be programmed to work for you, but I'd back off; they are military-grade bozos and while they may act like they're obeying your every command, they may end up hating your guts. The butler version is much more amiable, but still, be careful; their jokes are terrible!
Dogs. Yes, we've got dogs and weirdly enough, they've been largely unaffected by radiation as far as we can tell. We've got regular dogs and Feral dogs. Enough said. Most dogs are too skinny to even HAVE meat on them. Besides, it just feels wrong to think about it.
Brahmin are cows, two headed cows to be exact. While they too have been exposed to radiation, for some odd reason their milk has been known to quell radiation poisoning and even help cure major rad poisoning. You'd have to talk to Moira Brown up in Megaton for that though; she's a quirky lady! Anyway, we've got some Mad Brahmin running loose 'round Canterbury Commons, so watch your back. Their horns hurt. A lot. Their meat's alright. I guess.
Mirelurks are the most annoying creature. Ever. I'm not even kidding. They love water to death, and while they don't fight each other, it's pretty annoying when the King Mirelurks start ganging up on you. Their meat is wonderful, kinda chewy if you cook it too long but pretty good otherwise.
Yao Guai are descendants of black bears. Big, ugly buggers. Avoid. Their meat is very lean. One of the scavengers near the Super Duper Mart south of Megaton has an affinity to them and even has one as a pet!
Time for bugs:
Giant ants are very common. There's fire ants. They spew fire. Avoid. Meat is alright to eat, fire ant meat however is peculiarly spicy. M-m-mmm, crunchy!
Radscorpions. Very big. Avoid the super huge ones unless you've got the manpower to kill 'em. Do not eat the poison glands.
Bloatflies are giant flies. Duh. They're digusting things. Kill them, their meat's pretty nasty so don't eat it.
Radroaches are c*ckroaches that have become a bit bigger, but they're still the same. They spit and bite. Their meat's crunchy and bitter, tastes like an old gym sock. ... Don't ask how I know that, okay, kids?
Ghouls, Ghouls, Ghouls. There's two big kinds - human Ghouls and Feral Ghouls. Ferals have no minds. They want to eat everything they can get their hands on; these are the zombies. There's regular ones, then you've got the Roamers and the ever so rare Glowing Ones; these are living conduits of radiation. While extremely rare, avoid them. They're pinchy... very pinchy.
Listen for more of my amazing broadcasts, childreeeen! This is Three Dog, hooooowwwwwwwwwwll!
To sum up what Three Dog doesn't want to tell you, there are also guns of various sorts. There's electricity too, though where it's coming from isn't well known; nobody questions it however, as it's a valuable resource.
Megaton is a large town surrounding an unactivated atomic bomb; it was disarmed several months ago by some crazy vigilante from Vault 101 so no worries about it going 'kablooey'. Three Dog runs a radio station called Galaxy News Radio over in the D.C. Ruins out east, they play songs from the 1950s, though honestly it seems like EVERYTHING is from the 1950s; clothing, music, furniture, everything. The world never advanced from that stage of trying to achieve the idyllic lifestyle.
There is a family of "Vampires". They are actually cannibals, but their leader has taught them how to restrain themselves and keep it to blood intake only. While they've been known to harass smaller towns, they keep the VERY small settlement of Arefu safe; rumor has it there's a "blood price" going on. Yep, Arefu pays the Family in blood donations. Cute. Not.
The Super Mutants were not a result of radiation; they were genetically engineered. It's very hard to tell male from female; only Super Mutants can tell, but local rumor has it that a genius Super Mutant female named Fawkes is running around with the crazy vigilante from Vault 101. A very sweet... ah, creature, Fawkes is unusually smart; most Super Mutants grunt and say a minimum of four or five words at a time. They love chaos and destruction, usually; Fawkes enjoys intellectual passtimes.
Oasis Rock is a huge, HUGE rock formation; problem is, if you go in, you tend to never come out. They say there are trees there... trees? What are these? Go look and find out. Just be careful; there are people with guns. Lots of guns...
There is a vague concept of work. People own restaurants, small stores, and bars.
Wikipedia has a ton of info on Fallout, the whole series; I've only covered Fallout 3. There are numerous groups, a couple of which I've mentioned but know jack about because I'm actually kind of stuck. O_o You can also check Youtube for videos as to the layout of the Wasteland; you can also go to Video Game Cheats, Reviews, FAQs, Message Boards, and More - GameFAQs for more information on the game. Just avoid the boards for the games; they're full of stupid people. O_o
Rules and such in the next post. Stupid word limit!
1. No invincible characters, guys. Seriously. Everybody, everything, bleeds. 'cept the robots, and even then they bleed oil.
2. No random killing of NPCs. Specially not Three Dog; he's my homeboy. Heh, kidding, but he's the primary reason everybody knows what's going on in the D.C. Ruins.
3. There are no trees. Except supposedly in Oasis Rock. There's burnt down trees, brush, shrub, etc., but no grass or trees.
4. There is food. Yes. Just radiated.
5. There is a medicine called Radaway, it cures your radiation poisoning.
6. You are not perfect. However, you may have some peculiar side effects of radiation exposure if you grew up outside the Vaults. Example, some people aren't attacked by wild animals for whatever reason and in fact even seem to coexist with them easily, as shown by one of the scavengers near the Super Duper Mart. You know the one, it's the one I mentioned. There are a rare couple of people who can regenerate broken limbs, but only at the cost of being heavily irradiated and they usually need to seek medical help immediately after so they tend to just go for medical help.
7. Everything is irradiated. Specifically water. There is a water purifier in Megaton, and most Mister Handies - the butler version of Mister Gutsy - can purify water as well, but sometimes you just gotta drink the irradiated water out in the Wasteland.
8. Unless you're an RPer I considered experienced, you can't join. They should know who they are already.
9. If you came from a Vault, you may be slightly deluded that you are better than everybody else; in this case, you will be swiftly smacked upside the head by the locals. If you aren't deluded, but are rather naive, stick with Moira Brown in Megaton; she's ditzy, but smart and knows her way around people. Usually.
10. Yes, there are going to be some VERY quirky names. It happens when there's no such thing as embarrassment.
11. There is technology, yes. Computer terminals are abundant and while usually used to store information, many run programs in the old stores and museums dotting the Capital Wasteland. Also, in the Metro tunnels, make sure you have tickets! There are rogue Protectrons who require them, because they will shoot you if you don't have any.
12. The religions are even wackier now. One is explained in the opening post.
13. Megaton has a mayor/sheriff named Lucas Simms. If you've got a problem with somebody, you go to him. In Rivet City - more on that later - there is a council of sorts as well as a security team. If you've got problems with somebody, speak to Harkness; he's usually guarding the bridge.
There is a VERY wide variety of guns and weaponry, including grenades and knives. These are listed at Gamefaqs. I think. I'll edit this post if they're not. You're more likely to find broken weaponry, but you can repair it. There are some rare undamaged books you can use to better your knowledge of various things; my favorite is Lying, Congressional Style for obvious reasons.
Perks (These go under 'other' in the Character Sheet. Are not necessary but are useful. Just one or two per person. Also, there are actually a lot more perks than this in game but these are ones that work with the RP better than say, something that improves your health by 10 points. XD Because that makes no sense here.). Explain the perk a little if you want in how it sorta explains your character. Everybody can have any perk, but I'd prefer it if the only shared ones were Mysterious Stranger or anything involving repair or electronics or something.
Pyromaniac (You love fire. A lot. And know how it works.)
Mysterious Stranger (A man dressed quite akin to a 1950's gangster hitman [trenchcoat, shady hat, .32 cal revolver] has saved your skin more times than you can count, yet he never stays to talk. Hm.)
Animal Friend (Animals, NOT including insects, don't attack you and you may even find some like you.)
Cannibal (Self explanitory, but if you happen upon the Family they can help you control yourself.)
Robotics Expert (Self explanitory, you're a genius with robotics and electronics.)
Adamantium Skeleton (Not the actual metal, but your bones are very strong but unfortunately take a lot of damage because you may overuse it.)
Cyborg (part robot.)
Android? (Are you an android? Tell us! Just don't go screaming it to the world. >_>)
Contract Killer (You kill people for a living. You sick, twisted person you.)
Lawbringer (You kill bad people for a living. Go you.)
Ninja (You are stealthy in the night.)
Barkskin (ONLY IF YOU GO TO OASIS. At any point. This means you are very, very difficult to scratch. Like, really difficult.)
Lady Killer/Black Widow (Dependant upon your gender, but you've got a way with hitting on the opposite gender.)
Character sheet:
Alignment: (Meaning nice or downright immoral, can be neutral)
Former Vault Dweller or Lifetime Wastelander:
Appearance: (Typed is preferred)
Occupation: (if any)
Other: (If you are a Wastelander, what quirks do you have?)
Name: Natho Smith
Age: 19
Alignment: Neutral, leaning toward moral
Former Vault Dweller or Lifetime Wastelander: Lifetime Wastelander
Bio: Natho grew up with a scavenging caravan; his family settled down in Megaton when he was ten. His mother was kidnapped by Slavers when he was seven and he hasn't seen her since. He helps Moriarty at his bar up above the clinic; he's good friends with the Ghoul there, Gob, and if he wasn't about to get his ass kicked out by Colin Moriarty he'd be helping the guy pay his debt back. He doesn't much care about what's going on outside Megaton, but if he can find his mother and save her from the Slavers, he'll do it.
Appearance: Short, floppy black hair with blue tints, blue eyes. Usually wears what's called the "Pre War Springtime Clothes" which is basically an old dirty polo shirt with equally old dirty dress pants. For some reason will never go without his biker goggles; he found them scavving as a kid and never leaves his house without them.
Occupation: Barkeep
Other: "Animal Friend": Animals don't attack him much; this doesn't apply to insects, which annoys him to death really, but there's a runt of a Yao Guai that follows him around outside Megaton.
Natho smacked the 'on/off' button on the radio next to his bed, trying to turn it off; sometimes Three Dog was a little too much to handle first thing in the morning. He stared across the room at the buzzing terminal and groaned; he hated, hated mornings. He could hear Moira Brown yelling down at the Church of Atom near the bomb; she never let go of a chance to tell them how crazy they were. Natho didn't mind them much; okay, their belief system - that humans were all a thousand universes waiting to be created with a white blast of light from a god known as Atom, and the belief that the war of 2077 was a divine act - was a little nuts, but it was no more or less crazy than the other religions he'd heard in his day. Hell, it was actually more sensible; no one really knew what made up anything anymore.
With a yawn, he got dressed and left his ramshackle house, waving bye to the Mister Handy named Wadsworth in the corner; it was trying to clean more rust spots out of the metal. Pointless, but it kept the robot busy.
Natho walked down the rusty metal planks to the small diner near the atomic bomb. "What's on the menu today?" He rubbed his eyes through the biker goggles, yawning, as he sat down at the small bar outside the actual diner.
Name: Rian Emerald
Alignment: Immoral
Former Vault Dweller or Lifetime Wastelander: Lifetime Wastelander.
Bio: Rian grew up in one of the more stricter settlements, where a modicum of self control was practiced, and the leaders of the settlement kept a tight rein on the inhabitants. Whether due to the radiation, or some other reason, Rian soon developed an unhealthy fixation on his mother. His father wasn't around; he'd been killed early on due to tangling with the wrong guy. Rian's mother was happy enough to have an affair with her son; that is, til the settlement leaders got wind of it. In order to prevent herself from being thrown out of the settlement, Rian's mother blamed him for all of it. Rian as a result of this is bitter, and crabby. He's also, due to having been spoiled and cossetted by his mother from an early age, bratty, selfish and extremely immature. His mother was also told to leave the settlement, but due to Rian walking out in a huff before this happened, he's ignorant of the fact.
Appearance: Rian generally dresses in black trousers and t-shirts, and has black hair and green eyes.
Occupation: (if any) None. Rian generally gets by now by stealing off the weaker people he comes accross.
Other: Is a Pyromaniac. Also a Mysterious Stranger seems to appear to save him from anyone who wants to kill him, which is a lot. O.o
Rian moodily kicked a can accross the street as he walked towards the bomb. He kicked the can up against it, hoping it would set it off, but of course nothing happened. Seeing as the bomb had been neutralised a while ago, that wasn't surprising but Rian was in the kind of mood that meant he would prefer complete distruction of everything as opposed to what was happening to himself right now.
He sat down nearby and stared at the ground. Since having to leave the settlement where he'd grown up, Rian had just wandered around aimlessly, not knowing where to go or what to do. He was full of resentment against the settlement leaders for kicking him out, especially since what had happened hadn't been all his fault. He couldn't believe that his mother had sold him down the river just to save herself, either. Cuz of the betrayal, his infatuation was now well and truly spent and Rian was disgusted with himself for the affair. He was sure too that everyone knew about it and was staring at him.
"Hey, you new around here?" Natho turned on the stool he was sitting on a bit. "Never seen you before."
Rian looked up sulkily. "I thought the whole town would know who I am."
"..No." Natho raised an eyebrow. "We know who lives here and who doesn't, and you're a newbie 'round here." He swiveled around on the stool a bit, mostly out of boredom. "What's your name then? I'm Natho. I work up in the bar up there." He pointed above their heads.
"Rian. I don't work anywhere cuz I don't see the point. I don't have anywhere to go, anyway." Rian still looked sulky. "I don't even know if I'm going to stay round here."
"Well, that's up to you. We get people coming in and out all the time. You want anything to eat? Lady who runs the diner here can cook pretty good. Well, as good as possible giving all the radiation around here, but yeah."
"I don't mind," said Rian ungraciously. He was a little put out by the way that Natho was treating him, having been brought up to believe that he was special and therefore deserved nothing but the best from everyone. It came as a shock to be treated as just another normal person.
"Alright." Natho swiveled back around. "Dotty, two orders of mashers and two waters, please."
"Coming up!"
He swiveled back around. "The water's clean, at least."
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WEIRTON - The Tri-State Area has a new place to visit for residents interested in viewing local art, or those looking for a new piece for their home.
Summit Gallery officially opened its doors Thursday, hosting a reception at its new home inside the Top of West Virginia Convention and Visitors Bureau, 3393 Main St.
Summit, described as the first community art gallery in the region, is the result of a cooperative effort between the CVB and the Hancock County Arts Council.
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CVB Executive Director Dan Greathouse and Arts Council Chair Nancy Wright welcomed those in attendance Thursday, discussing the creation of the gallery and their hopes for its future.
"I think there's a lot of artistic talent in this area," Greathouse said, noting Summit Gallery would not be possible without the work of the Arts Council.
The design of the gallery, in space previously occupied by the Weirton Area Museum and Cultural Center, was directed by the arts council with input from Kenneth L. Morgan, chair and professor of fine arts and curator of permanent art collections at Bethany College.
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GRAND OPENING — Several dozen area residents attended the grand opening of the Summit Gallery Thursday. The new regional art gallery, located at the Top of West Virginia Convention and Visitors Bureau, 3393 Main St. in Weirton, features the work of four regional artists as part of its first display. -- Craig Howell
"We worked on this for several months, but it was so worth it," Wright said.
Wright also thanked Greathouse and the CVB staff, in particular Alecia Sirk, for their assistance in opening the gallery.
The inaugural showcase includes works by Diana Holcombe of Smithfield, Ohio; Mary Ann Reese of Weirton; Deb Snelling-Strunk of Follansbee; and Greg Starr of Follansbee.
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The displays will be changed every few months, with each showcase featuring local artists.
Wright explained the artwork also is available for sale.
Summit Gallery is open to the public 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Greathouse explained he hopes the gallery is the first step toward the creation of a regional showcase for artwork and craftsmanship for the Northern Panhandle, similar to the Tamarack in Beckley.
(Howell can be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.com, and followed via Twitter @CHowellWDT)