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I think that each user should have the same user on each of the SO related sites. I'm very active in SO and have some activity in ServerFault and I don't need separate statistics for every site - just a single "meta user".
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
SO / SF reputation scores are measuring different things, because they have different topic focus (programming vs. sysadmin). Super User reputation is also measuring something different.
And so is participation here, technically.
We can see the desire to sync the contents of your profile (website, email, about me, etc), but not the reputation score.
I would really like to have a single place where I can point to, that has the rep points for all of my accounts.
I have attempted adding the flair from ServerFault to my StackOverflow bio page.
Having it on this site would make slightly more sense than on the other sites.
I agree.
Your ID should be global, but your reputation, badges and even bio should be unique to each site. The default would be to have the same bio as the first entered, but you should be allowed to override it for each site.
Personally, I think the reputation for each site should remain separate. However, let it be pointed out that having high rep on Stackoverflow doesn't mean you know a lot about programming in general anyway. You could just be an iPhone programming god, and know nothing about Java, C, .Net, SQL, or many other popular programming topics. They may not have actually answered any programming questions at all, but just got a lot of rep answering fluffy, subjective questions that don't have much merit. You can't really draw any opinions at all about somebody based solely on their reputation. To draw a real opinion, you actually have to look of the answers they have given. All reputation means is that you have spent enough time on the site, and put in information that has been found to be somewhat useful to someone. Remember, you get +10 for an upvote, and -2 for a downvote. So you have to try really hard, or be a real jerk, to actually have a declining score.
I don't mind the differing profiles, so long as I can log into each without having to re-register.
You might thing about putting crosslinks to the other sites on the sidebar... I know it would encourage me to jump over.
I agree with @Brad Gilbert re: a "single place" for rep info - ideally I'd like to see my ServerFault, StackOverflow, Meta and eventually SuperUser "recent activity", badges and rep on 1 screen.
I think that's another site though. Ideally it would take the form of an over-arching "network." Then the individual topic sites would be children to the larger network and cross site activity can be monitored from the parent organization's site.
That would allow new specialized sites owned by Jeff and Joel to be added fairly easily as they come online. I know Jeff was thinking this is only a trilogy, but even Star Wars got prequels.
Nope. If the accounts were shared, I think it would be a bit misleading.
I'm not very good at sys-admin stuff, so my ServerFault reputation should be lower than my programming/StackOverflow rep - and it is! (I seem to be better at "meta" than programming too, I'm currently the second-top user here, for.. some reason oO)
I'm not sure if this is supposed to go in an "answer" or a comment to Jeff's post, but here it goes:
While I see what you are saying and I really don't expect to be given reputation at serverfault for my answers on stackoverflow, as the site deals with a technical aspect I know little about, why shouldn't we get our reputation transferred to this site and to superuser? I don't know, it just seems to me like a logical thing, at the very least for this site.
One thing I would like to see shared is my list of favourites.
Flagging questions because I expect to need that answer in the fairly near future. But with multiple sites I'm likely to end back with attempts to remember the right keywords for search to find it.


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25 Grade A Madagascar Vanilla Beans + 1 oz. Ground Vanilla & $5 Off Next Order for $13.99 + free shipping
Not that we've ever promised anything even remotely close to this, but you absolutely will NOT be receiving a free Lemur with the purchase of these vanilla beans.
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I see the 25 beans for $13.99, but I don't see any mention of the ground vanilla or future discount. Is there a coupon code for this offer?
from the link..
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For the special price please order the 25 count below and you will automatically get 1 ounce of post-extract ground vanilla for free added in your order and a $5 off coupon mailed with your order. The $5 coupon can be used as soon as you get the beans and must be used on an order $20 or higher. Also remember you get reward points for every dollar you spend with us.
@jandwill: Thanks for pointing out my lack of reading comprehension. :-)
Anyone have any experience with this company? This is a very good deal if they do actually get in fresh beans weekly. Seeing as how their website is nearly emplty but appears to be geared toward ASOTV products and electronic doodads, and no spices aside from vanilla; I'm fairly skeptical that they are realistically able to import beans that frequently.
Hey Guys,
Eric from ACCSTOP. We are based in Southern California and we are currently importing our beans on a weekly basis. We just opened our website and are rolling out a soft launch on just Vanilla Beans. We sell a wider variety of products anywhere from Vanilla beans and Shea butter to cell phone batteries and as-seen-on TV product. I hope that answers any questions so far.
Any other questions feel free to ask away.
I bought two of them. If they are good, that's great! If they aren't even that good, that's perfectly fine, too, as I can use them to make extract or vanilla sugar. Vanilla beans are SO expensive, so I'm taking them at this price! fingers crossed!!
Yes it's a good deal but it's hard to trust buying food items from a company that has a special tab for "As Seen On TV", that's like buying Sushi at the gas station!
I just ordered 2 of them and I am hoping you get the free sample and $5 discount coupon with each one. This is a great deal from a new company. Sign up for their newsletter so you can keep track of the additions they are planning. I know I did. When Eric from ACCSTOP comments right here at the WOOT site, then I believe him. If they weren't for real, he would not have taken the time to do that. Gonna be making lots of stuff with my 50 vanilla beans. I cant wait.
@accstop: Welcome: did a little research on your site and was happpy to see you are local (within 10 miles) to me. I always try to purchase from local businesses. After I post this I will be putting in my first order and I will be sure to tell my neighbors and friends about your company.
no lemur = deal breaker
Going to add some great flavor to my homebrewed chocolate vanilla coconut porter
yeah, cause we all know there have never been any unscrupulous companies on Woot that have answered comments here.....
advice to accstop- domain names are cheap as is minimal hosting - if you want to appear legit set up a new website for the spices asap.
25 bean deal now shows "out of stock." Online chat help redirects to sending them an email. Most of the tabs have no products listed, including the ASOTV. They do have a great deal on a 12 pack of fake poop under the electronics section, though.
I picked up their 35 bean deal before Christmas. The seller here is also listed on Amazon where I got mine.
They were vacuum packed and smelled awesome. The vanilla extract I made tastes great and a nice side effect was that my hands smelled like vanilla for almost 2 days after.
3 beans per 8 oz of vodka split lengthwise with a pinch of the powdered vanilla made an extract that was ready to use in a week, After 3 weeks it should get its full flavor.
Grade B beans are more flavorful Grade A beans are prettier. IMHO the order of flavor is Madagascar Mexican then Tahitian. Im not affiliated with this company, I'm just a do it your self kind of guy.
Out of Stock makes me sad.
@accstop: If they go back in stock while this promo is going on, please let me know. I will be happy to order from you.
@carlcampbelljr: I make my own vanilla, too. I like rum as the liquor though, and I let it sit in a dark space for about 60 days.
Amazon still has this deal for just $2 more.
plus if you have prime, you can get it in 2 days.
Thanks for all the orders guys. We have another 200 packs left in stock now. Most of your orders will ship today!
I bought these, and I'm happy with the quality. They even kicked in a free pack of powdered vanilla, which I've been using in all of my baked goods since the holidays, and I've gotten nothing but compliments on the taste.
Thanks for all the good comments. Glad you guys liked your beans!!!
In for one. Was worried about if I could actually use them all before they went "bad" but a little research shows they can be good for upwards of a year if stored properly. Woohoo!
@stevenlee212: Holy cow. Why not toss in some honey and hazelnut as well? You don't lose anything with "all those flavors"? I'm thinking about doing something with the vanilla in a homebrew...but now I want to taste yours first! LOL
@accstop: damn, lol, had to add those just after i order from amazon already
@ninjamurf: I have a nice honey porter (White house brew clone) that has turned out really nice. Wouldn't mind doing a Hazelnut brown ale. From one homebrewer to another i'm always up for doing an exchange!! Cheers !
Wonder how these would do for my home made Kahlua?
Just got one for the wife. I don't like setting up new accts, I have hundreds, and didn't care for the site layout. Wish it took Paypal. And the checbox to sign out of their mailing list is tiny.
Good price for 'dem beans though.
I ordered two packages of the beans, so i will get 50 of them, but io was wondering if i will get two coupons and two of the ground vanilla , i hope so , since i am giving one package as a gift.
@wootfertexas: they do take paypal.
This is for far more beans than I need. Instead, I ordered 10 beans for $7.60 on Amazon. Yeah, not as good of a bean/$ ratio but even 10 beans is more than I need. I'm happy at that price, too! :-)
Yes, I noticed they have Paypal but you are still forced to "login" even as a guest with name, address, email, etc. Also, you must still, as a guest, select a password. I decided to pass for this reason.
@cammiesan: Go order off of Amazon. There's a bit of a premium but it's still a great deal!
Anyone received their order yet?
@teevoo: Been waiting for the postman to deliver everyday now... but is coming from across the country so - lots of waiting & just checked the shipping info
It has finally hit my local post office today & I might get it tomorrow.
@teevoo: Hi, I ordered on the 10th, and haven't received anything yet.
@teevoo: As I thought, I did get mine today.
My postman is always late with anything so I am kinda surprised that I got them... the beans are very fresh. I have had longer beans but not this fresh.
For some reason two packs of the powder was included - sooooo very happy with this purchase!
The coupon does expire on 2/20/13 so I will have to see what else this site has as I am not sure what I will use all these beans for now...
@fjp999: Thanks for the update! You can always go for the old standby of vanilla extract + vanilla sugar. Hope you like baking :P
@cherwingate: Still haven't received my order, and two emails to company about status have gone unanswered. It would have been nice to get an order confirmation or tracking information. They got my $$ from Paypal quickly enough. . . Need to work on their customer service. . .
@cherwingate: Same with me. Did you ever receive your order?
@accstop: I still have not received my order. What is the status?
@zpriss: Finally received order SEVEN WEEKS after ordering! I placed an order on Jan 10th. A couple of emails inquiring about tracking and/or shipment status went unanswered until end of January, when I got an email apologizing for lost package and did I want my order reshipped. I replied that I would, and by Feb 22, still no package,so I found their phone number on website and called. Company rep didn't know why second attempt to ship package failed to materialize, but my vanilla beans finally arrived a week after calling. The beans look very nice, but I am rather amazed that they finally arrived. Company definitely needs to work on follow-through and customer service overall. Website could be more helpful too if it offered tracking info. I have no problem dealing with a fledgling company (my impression), but it would be nice if they had been more responsive. Giving them a call may be your best bet.


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Every time I here it mentioned it is praised in the highest posible terms, and I remember one of my old lecturers saying that it is one of the 3 most important theorems in analysis. Yet the only consequences of it that I have read is that it proves that there are lots of functionals and that separating hyperplanes exist. Are those 2 consequences really that spectacular, or are there other ones that I don't know of?
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I have used it (sometimes with coauthors) several times in the following general context. I have wanted to prove that a function f can be decomposed as a sum g+h, where g has certain properties and h has certain properties. It has been possible to show that the set of acceptable g is convex, as is the set of acceptable h. So I'm trying to show that f belongs to a sum of two convex sets K+L. But a sum of convex sets is convex, so if f cannot be written in such a way, then it can be separated from K+L by a functional. It is often possible to derive a contradiction from this.
The result is that one can prove the existence of the desired decomposition under circumstances where explicitly defining a decomposition would be difficult.
Incidentally, the applications I am alluding to are of the finite-dimensional Hahn-Banach theorem. Some people call it the minimax theorem, and still others would call it duality for linear programming or something like that.
My two cents.
Linear functionals on a Banach space B are used to define the dual space B', and the weak topology on both the space and on its dual. But of course you need sufficiently many functionals to get an interesting object and topology. The theorem of Hahn-Banach implies that the weak topology is Hausdorff, and it definitely seems to be a prerequisite to get something useful. Now the weak topology on B is often more suitable than the norm topology on B in practical applications because it has "more" compact sets . Think of a Hilbert space, or a reflexive Banach space. Its unit ball is compact with respect to the weak topology. This gives rise to many existence theorems in several fields of mathematics. Think also of the space of distribution $D'(R)$. Here again the weak topology seems to be more useful than its intrinsic topology.
Let me give another reason. Linear functionals can be seen as an infinite dimensional equivalent of the coordinates in $R^n$. I think that you will agree that the introduction of coordinates systems to represent points in space was a big leap forward in mathematics, from the historical viewpoint. Here is a problem that illustrates the need for coordinates in functional analysis. Let B a Banach space. You want to give a meaning to the integral of a B-valued function. Certainly, you want linearity, that is $\lambda(\int f d\mu)= \int(\lambda(f)d\mu)$, for all linear functional $\lambda$ on B. That's integration "coordinates by coordinates". It is not always possible to define such an integral, but the Hahn-Banach theorem tells you that there is only one possible value for $\int f d\mu$ if linearity holds.
Here are a few more consequences:
Let me give you a "real life" example of a use of the Hahn-Banach theorem. In one of my papers I needed the classification of the maximal subsemigroups of $\mathbb{Z}^n$. In the paper where the classification was done there was an unproved statement that didn't seem trivial to me. To prove it I needed a version of the Hahn-Banach theorem. So even an algebraist like me had to use it. If a theorem is useful outside its original area, it is probably quite important.
Hahn-Banach is fundamental as a mean to easily obtain existence of objects in functional analysis. Basically, it expresses that any problem of a certain type which has no "obvious obstructions" has a solution. Even in finite dimensions, it is at the heart of the powerful duality in convex optimization (or the properties of the Legendre-Fenchel transformation).
Hahn-Banach is also equivalent to the lower semi-continuity in the weak topology of convex semi-continuous functions, which allows to obtain solutions of many variational problems via minimization, for instance when sublevels of the convex functional are weakly compact. On the other hand, you have to work harder (use other input, e.g. regularity theorems) to state anything above the mere existence of your solution.
Interestingly, from this angle, Jean Dieudonné in his huge treatise on analysis gets away without it (IIRC). He makes part of it into an exercise? The reason being, apparently, that he approaches analysis from the "separable metric space" attitude, which he justifies somewhere. It's an interesting thing, therefore: it is one of the four canonical ideas in functional analysis (as said by F. Riesz?), but if you don't accept that mindset, there may be other ways. You are still going to need some existence principle for linear functionals.
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Let $FM_2=\langle a,b\rangle$ be the free monoid of rank 2. If we add a formal inverse to the word $aba$, we get the free group $F_2$ (because both $a$ and $b$ will have inverses).
Question: For which other words $w=w(a,b)$, adding a formal inverse to $w$ turns the free monoid into the free group?
I need a complete description, not just examples.
Update question: The same question for $FM_k$, the free monoid of rank $k\ge 3$.
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I am learning graph theory and some concept that I cannot figure it out. A vertex is central in $G$ if its greatest distance from any other vertex is as small as possible. Is there any algorithm to find central vertex in any given graph $G$? Thanks.
To state more directly what Joseph said, if we know the distance between any two vertices, it is straightforward to first find the eccentricity of $v$, i.e. the maximum distance from $v$ to another vertex. Having done this we simply mark the vertices of lowest eccentricity as being central.
To find the distance between every pair of vertices, one can apply the Floyd-Warshall algorithm for all-pairs shortest path, which runs in $O(n^3)$ time.
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I am not sure your definition of centrality is the most useful one; in what's called "network science", the study of large-scale graphs, I think some measure of centrality which takes an average rather than a maximum will be more useful. Think for example about a graph which has a vertex $v$, edges $v- v_i$ to lots of vertices $v_1, ...,v_N$, and also contains a chain of length say three, $v - w_1 - w_2 - w_3$. According to your definition, $w_1$ is the center of this graph, but I would say it's $v$. The average distance leads to what's called "closeness centrality". There is also "betweenness centrality", based on the number of shortest paths in the graph that pass through the node divided by the total number of shortest paths; this is trying to measure how useful $v$ is to the rest of the graph. Googling these two phrases will bring up lots of algorithms and further references. Here is a random recent one that seems to have a useful intro: Ranking of Closeness Centrality for Large-Scale Social Networks.
The question should be more specific. It depends what you know about the graph .
For a tree you can erase all degree 1 vertices then repeat on the new graph and stop when there are just one or two.
The set of centers is invariant under the automorphism group so for a vertex transitive graph every vertex is a center.


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Instead, I get white squares. I have no idea if they are used, but I installed "xfonts-intl-chinese" (didn't work). I googled this issue, and there was a lot of talk about some bug in poppler. But, that was so long ago so I should have the more recent version without the bug, right? I'm on Debian if that helps.
Debian stable runs does not jump to newer versions of packages very quickly.
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So you may be running to the bug in poppler you found by in your search. I would try the Debian Testing (wheezy) release poppler packages.
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I installed a doggy door so that our dog can go in/out when it has to go to the bathroom while we are at work/away. It lets him out into our fenced in backyard. The gates are deadlocked, but obviously this does not completely secure the house from determined intruders. If someone were to breach our fence, the intruder might easily fit into our doggy door. Other than the cover that was provided with the kit which I easily broke into, what is a good way to secure a doggy door from unwanted intrusions?
Forget securing the door, and install a security system with a motion sensor. Put labels up outside saying there is a security system (some people only put labels up, and don't have a real system).
Even if you have a door with a locking mechanism, if someone manages to defeat it (eg, kicks it open) or you forget to lock it, you still have the alarm go off.
Most motion sensors are "pet safe" in that it takes something over eg, 40 lbs or 80lbs to actually trigger (they have a rating and there are different sizes, so you can get a lower rating if you have a poodle and a bigger one if you have a great dane).
They make locks for the doors that only unlock when the collar worn by the dog is within a few feet.
There's this product: http://www.petdoors.com/cat-mate-electronic-cat-doors.html . It's a cat door, but it works on the same principle. Also, most of these you can set to 'allow onyl departures' or 'only arrivals' as well. - might not be applicable to your situation, but good to know.
Also, while I appreciate your plan for security, keep in mind that this is really only a deterrence against meddling kids - if people want in, they will get in regardless.
When I was growing up we had a simple system on the dog door into our garage, it was 1/4" thick steel plate that was slightly larger than the opening and a set of rails on two sides and the bottom of the door. When we were away and wanted to secure the door, we simply slid the plate into the slides with the handle that was on the back, and flipped a hasp down over it.
Provide the dog with its own shed in the garden, so it does not need to access your home. Or have a 2nd very strong door between the room with the outside door and the rest of your home, limit the dog to that room and fix an alarm to the rest of the home.
If your door is installed in a wall [ONLY] - go to home depot and get a metal pole about 2" thick and about 12" taller than the top of the dog door [to the floor]. Core a 2 1/2" thick hole into your slab approximately far enough away to allow your dog to get into and out of the dog door without a problem, but close enough that a person can't get their body around. Make sure you core the hole aligned with the middle of the dog door. Slide the pole into the hole and fill around it with quikcrete. You now have a barrier that your dog can easily maneuver around, but it is now impossible for a person to slide in and out of the dog door.
A variation of the pole in the floor is a little more elaborate but less likely to create a crack in the garage floor or other damage. I saw a neighbor of a friend's system, a police captain in Washington DC, who had installed a short 3/4 inch plywood wall parallel to the garage wall and just far enough from the original wall to allow the flap to open and the dog to squeeze in. The wall was about 1 1/2 times the height of the dog door and about twice the width and offset as described above. Then the wall was anchored to the original wall with "braces" of 2X4 anchored to the original wall in four places; top and bottom on both sides with lag screws to the original garage framing. It sounds all complicated but it is very simple and cheap and effective.
Interestingly, the neighborhood is bad and his dog passed away and the doggy door with the small chain link fence outside still apparently acts as an intrusion deterrent. I live in SW Virginia near a drug rehab place and have had drugged up characters wander onto my property and INTO my open garage several times. Once I put up a dog run attached to the house and a similar doggy door system, NO more weirdos in my garage. Adding the "maze" (as my granddaughter calls it) took about an hour and cost me used plywood, one 2X4 for less than two dollars and a handful of 1/2X3 lag screws. I think I paid another two or three dollars for at Lowe's.
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This question is Exercise 1.3 from Rotman's 1994 text, "An introduction to the theory of groups".
For all $\alpha, \beta, \gamma \in S_x$, prove that $\alpha(\beta\gamma) = (\alpha\beta)\gamma$. Indeed, if $X, Y, Z, W$ are sets and $f:X\rightarrow Y$, $g:Y\rightarrow Z$, and $h:Z\rightarrow W$ are functions, then $h(gf) = (hg)f$.
The four properties for groups are closure, associativity, identity, and inverse. The two exercises before 1.3 ask for identity and inverse for 1.1 and 1.2 respectively. They weren't all that difficult.
Using the definition of a permutation on p.2 as a bijection $\alpha:X\rightarrow X$, identity is shown by multiplying each element by 1, or 1 by it, which gives the original element.
Inverse was "proved" by simply assuming the property I required (by assuming another element, call it $\beta$ already existed and was the inverse of the permutation $\alpha$). This is was suggested by the author. I'm not happy with it because it really tested the property of inverses (that they cancel) and not that groups all have them. If someone could provide a proof that doesn't assume the conclusion that'd be great. But that's just a minor annoyance for now.
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I would like to reserve Hippowdon
Reserving Dragonite and Conkeldurr please
Would like to reserve Terrakion please
I had reserved Terrakion, but I'll just take Landorus instead, since you already have a thread up.
I'll still take Cresselia then. Had been working on a Cresselia for GBU Doubles previously so I can just carry on from that.
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Sorry CE. I missed your post when I was skimming through the thread to check that it wasn't reserved. You can take it you want; I feel bad for missing this. The placeholder only took half a minute to make.
Reserving Infernape.
Can I write an article about weather in the '12 metagame, now that all four types of weather have autostarters now?
I would like to reserve Exeggcutor and Sawsbuck if at all possible.
How did I miss this, reserving scizor.
No, it's cool, don't worry about it.
lucariojr already reserved this. Please at least Control + F any Pokemon you might want to reserve to make sure it hasn't already been taken.
EDIT: excellent 1337th post
Togekiss please.
Reserving Reuniclus and Tornadus.
Edit @ below: I'm not sure what you mean by that, considering that you haven't posted earlier in this thread.
I don't see these as reserved but I "reserved" these two first along with Tornadus.
Reserving Togekiss.
It was in the previous thread that has been deleted and I didn't see the new thread until about an hour ago. I don't know what will happen. We will have to ask Alaka.
I would like to reserve Gengar. Though I definitely am reserving Sawsbuck and Exeggutor when they are available.
Never mind, it appears someone reserved Togekiss before me.
Only reservations posted in this thread are counted. Don't worry, there are still plenty of Pokemon to write about!
lucariojr already reserved Togekiss.
Alaka already reserved Gengar in his post on the front page. Check through the thread to see whether someone else has already reserved that Pokemon, or your post will be deleted.
lol i'd better make my reservation threads, people be sappin my mons
dusclops and rhyperior please
edit: shiftry as well
PungentFruit can have Tornadus, I don't mind.


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I've heard it thrown around on a lot of blogs that Ubuntu Brainstorm is the "graveyard of good ideas". I have a bit of a passion for average end-users suggesting the kinds of software they want and they way they think their applications and computers could work. I'm interested in joining the Ubuntu Brainstorm team, maybe to facilitate ideas not getting buried and making it not seem like a dead platform. Unfortunately I'm not very plugged into the "community" so I'm not sure how to go about it. I was hoping someone might be able to point me in the right direction. Thanks.
Great idea, I had a few ideas myself. You can start at http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/, there are lots of ideas being voted for. Also HERE is a link to brainstorm moderators. There is also Ubuntu QA Team mailing-list you can join. good luck.
Best way is to contact the Brainstorm Moderators on their mailing list (or contact me, I'm currently a Brainstorm admin).
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Thus, the total number of unique cards in the deck is $S*R$, and the absolute total number of cards in the deck is $S*R*C$.
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scrap the project !!!!Hide replies
A lot of folks who don't understand vehicles share your view. You don't understand that stop-and-go driving causes the most wear and tear. Integrated, multi-modal, transit makes the most sense for car-owners.
Street cars/subways in the most congested areas, buses over less congested areas and then vehicles.
Only business people who don't like this are folks who own parking lots.
And the business people who pay taxes ...
I am a lifetime transit user in Milwaukee. What is proposed is something I can never see people using. I understand a lot more than you think
2nicks, does that mean you never learned how to drive?
Please, share with us your vast experience of Milwaukee transit.
izz, taxes for roads or mass transit?
If business people like this so much maybe they should pay for it. This is just another freebie to business owners in the area - of course they are for it since they get it for nothing. Why should private utilities have to move so much infrastructure? How about rubber tired electric or clean diesel street-cars? Why do we need a freakin track in the roadway and overhead lines to power it?
everyone uses the roads, whether they have a car or not. If you ate something today you used the road for trasnportation of goods. not everyone uses mass transit. For those that do use mass transit, the buses are much cheaper, affordable (if you look at actual cost per rider, not subsidized cost), and use existing infrastructure. ridership on this new system willl be low, the system doesn't go anywhere, you can easily walk the whole loop for crying out loud, it connects with the already failed, mostly empty except for vagrants intermodal station. If the feds had any diea what they were diong they would let us invest this money in building the best bus system in the country, but they are clueless. Just because they care to totally disregard the encomonic and practical futility of this project doesn't mean we should follow them down that rabbit hole. Everyone needs roads. We have buses. Invest in what works.
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I'm with you on that one. Except for the fact that if the utilities need to be moved, we're ALL going to pay for it.
Once again, Milwaukee/aka: Little Detroit takes the rest of the state's population for ride.
big difference between 30% and 60% of the design.
with a little luck it will take 30 years to figure it out; then who cares!
"But Polenske said such concerns are premature"
I guess that really means, "itza gonna cost a lotta pepperoni...."Hide replies
I was thinking it means "bend over taxpayers"....
My biggest concern is that the thing doesn't go anywhere. Why not have it go from downtown to the research park along State or Wisconsin? Or 27th from one end to the other? Or 76th? Or Hwy 100? Or Forest Home? Or Howell? Or Water? Or National?
Regarding a simialr transportation project in Minneapolis, the Hiawatha light rail:
The line's cost totaled $715.3 million, with $334.3 million coming from the federal government.[12] This is considerably higher than initial budgets predicted—the figure was about $400 million in 1997
so expect any projections to be LOW, not high. Also:
This one 11.6-mile light-rail line costs more than $20 million a year to operate. Farebox revenues cover only about a third of that. Half the rest is paid by the state of Minnesota and most of the other half comes from Hennepin County property taxes.
In 2000, before light-rail construction began, Twin Cities transit carried 73.5 million transit trips. In 2005, the first full year of light-rail operation, transit carried 69.7 million trips. Light-rail's legacy is a 3.8-million trip decline in annual ridership.
see anything about Detroit's failed "People mover" (running at 2.5% capacity and costing 12 million a year, cost per person more than 3x the cost per person on a bus.
This would be an awful project for Milwaukee all around.Hide replies
C'mon, you can't use facts and data in an argument with the choo-choo liberals.
And let us look at fewer vehicles on the road in MSP due to their light rail system and the fact residents are offered an option other than their personal vehicles to commute or to get around town. Yes there is a cost involved but there is also a benefit. I pity residents in this area having to drive to work each day and the cost of gas, vehicle maintenance, and time wasted in traffic and commuting. Yep there are costs involved especially if you use your own vehicle. Thank God i do not have to worry about that.
How many cars can you possibly take off the road with a streetcar that only covers a small portion of the lower east side -> the intermodal station? MIlwaukee's only congestion problem is during rush hour or special events on the highways and this steetcar will have zero effect on that. And again, please tell me why the potential riders of the streetcar can't take the bus instead? And please don't talk about wasted time, as driving a car is going to be faster than any amss transit 90 % of the time. Mass transit is important. The bus does everything the streetcar can do, but better (more routes, covers whole city) and cheaper (existing infrastructure). Please show me the data indicating that this streetcar is going to take a significant portion of cars off the road - it doesn't exist. People who are currently driving will continue to drive.
The Milwaukee trolley will not remove cars from the road. For gosh sakes it's a two mile loop serving the yuppies on the East side. This is an incredibly expensive novelty at best. We cannot afford novelties! This is a complete and utter joke.
AChambers, the streetcar is not intended to replace or even compete with the bus. It is intended to replace the on-again off-again rubber-tire "trolleys" that almost nobody rides.
MCTS is designed to move people BETWEEN different parts of town. The streetcar is intended to move people WITHIN the busiest part of town.
You say "People who are currently driving will continue to drive." This is true for rubber-tire vehicles but not for rail. Drivers eschew buses because they are bumpy, infrequent, unpleasant (more likely to trigger motion-sickness), somewhat unpredictable (when will it arrive?) and intimidating for first-time riders.
Streetcars are much faster than buses with heavy passenger loads and on short routes. It easily takes 2-3 minutes for 30 people to board a bus (double that if you have a single passenger with a wheelchair or walker). A streetcar (with 5 times as many doors, off-board fare collection, and whose floor is level with and right next to the sidewalk) can board those same 30 people in under 20 seconds.
That boarding delay not only inconveniences passengers, it also screws up other traffic. If the bus stop is at the "near side" of an intersection, it means automobiles turning right must stop and stay stopped (Wisconsin prohibits right turns in front of a stopped bus) which backs up everybody behind them for a few minutes.
And unlike bi-directional streetcars (which have headlights, tail lights and windshields on each end), buses must waste time detouring several blocks turning around at the end of each run. On a 45-minute crosstown run, this isn't that significant, but on a short 12-15 minute trip, it really adds up.
AChambers, comparing Minneapolis' light rail to Milwaukee's streetcar is somewhat iffy because light rail is more expensive than streetcars. Light rail uses longer, wider, heavier vehicles operating at higher speeds often with exclusive rights-of-way including expensive tunnels.
But even light rail is cheaper than buses. In Minneapolis in 2010, light rail cost less to operate than buses (both per vehicle mile and per passenger mile). In 2010 Minneapolis light rail covered 41% of its operating costs from fares compared to 31% for Twin Cities buses.
The loss in transit ridership you mentioned between 2000 and 2005 was not "Light-rail's legacy" as you claim. Twin Cities transit ridership fell off a cliff because of a 46-day transit strike in 2004.
I agree that comparing the streetcar to light rail is iffy, but the point remains that this will be an expensive and unneccessary burden on taxpayers, especially while a flexible alternative already exists. Also you ahve to consider the problems caused by the streetcars taking up right of way as well.
AChambers, flexibility is overrated. Bus and rail riders want predictability, not flexibility.
If flexibility were key, we wouldn't build expressways, since they are even more immovable than rail lines.
You also mention "…problems caused by the streetcars taking up right of way as well." How is this any worse than buses?
Buses are 6" wider (102 vs 96 inches), spend much more time at stops (because they board and discharge more slowly), and accelerate slower.
I think it is far scarier to drive right next to a bus (separated by only a few inches) than right next to a streetcar. This is because, unlike the bus, the streetcar is inflexible and CANNOT swerve.
I think delays caused by parallel parking (typically benefiting 1 or 2 people) will impact traffic more than delays caused by streetcars (typically carrying dozens).
Drivers who really hate sharing the road with a streetcar have the option to just take another street; they don't have that option as much with buses or parallel parkers (which are on many more downtown streets).
forgot the other part - Looking at data frmo the NTSD, Light Rail Versus Bus Costs for Fifteen American Cities With Both, the average bus costs 121 per hour while the average light rail cost 232 per hour. Overall, it is more expensive to operate one light rail vehicle than one bus. Because of this fact, cost-effective use of light rail requires a large passenger demand - so not Milwaukee.
A correction to my prior post. I said light rail was cheaper than buses per vehicle mile in Minneapolis.
I was wrong about that. (I got the data from some graphs and mis-read one.)
In Minneapolis for 2010:
- operating costs per vehicle mile
- - bus $10.53
- operating costs per vehicle hour
- - bus $123.64
- operating costs per passenger mile
- - bus $0.80
(all data from the 2010 National Transit Data Base)
I apologize for posting incorrect data.
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#5. Tom Cruise Saves Real Lives (Routinely)
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Tom Cruise is one of those celebrities that you can't help but assume lives trapped in a bubble of his own ego and Scientology, refusing to even leave his trailer if some elaborate ritual hasn't been performed first. But repeatedly saving mankind on the big screen has apparently led Cruise to believe that he can also be a hero when the cameras aren't rolling, because he has done it over and over again.
For instance, there's the time Cruise was relaxing on his yacht one morning and spotted a sinking sailboat in flames. He didn't wait for somebody else to show up; he set sail toward the accident and pulled the victims to safety.
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Presumably by using his teeth.
Earlier that same year, after witnessing a hit-and-run accident, Cruise called the paramedics and stayed with the victim, following her to the emergency room and then paying the $7,000 bill when he learned she was uninsured. On another occasion, Cruise saved a boy from being crushed to death by a frenzied mob at one of his film premieres by reaching into the crowd and pulling him out. It's the kind of behavior that led Cruise's publicist to declare, "If I ever get in trouble, I hope Tom Cruise is nearby."
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"If you ever need me, just whisper my name three times to the east and I will appear."
Comedian Bill Hader, who co-starred in Tropic Thunder, has his own anecdote about Cruise's propensity for leaping into action when his Cruise-sense tells him that danger is nigh. You might remember that as the film where Cruise played against type as overweight, bald, foul-mouthed studio executive Les Grossman. Well, while shooting a promo in character for the MTV Movie Awards, Cruise overheard Hader stressing about his family back in New York. Someone had attempted to set off a car bomb there, and Hader had two days left to shoot before he could get back home. Cruise decided that this was unacceptable and went into overdrive, directing two days' worth of remaining footage in under an hour, the whole time dressed in a "karate gi" for some reason (despite his heroics, Cruise is still kind of nuts).
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But Reeves has never let his horrible run of luck stop him from trying to make a difference in the world. When his sister was diagnosed with leukemia, Reeves became her caretaker, making her meals, preparing her medication, putting entire film shoots on hold, and donating millions to the hospital that was treating her so they could advance their leukemia research.
It appears that Reeves has even garnered the sympathy of the studio bosses, usually known for being some of the most greedy bastards on the planet, who are willing to finance his indie fare on the condition that he stars in blockbusters as well. They know Reeves isn't particularly interested in money, which he made clear by signing away some of his paycheck so the studio could hire Gene Hackman and Al Pacino for The Replacements and The Devil's Advocate, respectively.
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Reeves' lack of care for his own money extends as far as giving $80 million of his Matrix salary away to the special-effects team and costume designers who worked on the trilogy, as he believes they are the ones who deserve all the credit. According to Reeves, "Money is the last thing I think about. I could live on what I've already made for the next few centuries."
If you're really in need, though, all you have to do is get a job as one of the hundreds of crew members who work at his film shoots. When Reeves isn't buying breakfast and lunch for the crew or surprising them with Harley-Davidsons, he's giving away $20,000 so they can pay off their debts.
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"I've built three children's hospitals with the money I've saved on razors and haircuts."
#3. Russell Brand Hangs Out With the Homeless
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Unless they're Russell Brand.
A former alcoholic and chronic heroin addict, British comedian Russell Brand knows what it's like to be at rock bottom. But while we may expect celebrity success stories to end after they're sleeping with Katy Perry on a bed made of money, Brand has proven that he hasn't forgotten the plight of the poor folk, and he spends a good chunk of the time that isn't devoted to having sex with supermodels helping the homeless. In person.
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"It's a friendship based on our mutual love of terrible scarves."
Take for instance the time when a car hit a homeless man's cart on the road, spilling his belongings on the pavement, and Brand stopped his vehicle and started to pick them up.
Total damage was in the thousands of cents.
While any of us would have undoubtedly ended up with a broken pelvis from a taxi running us over, Brand's "I'm huddled on the street even though I'm famous" aura inspired other drivers to pull over as well, and they all started to help with the cleanup. Proving that this was not just a one-time Good Samaritan affair, Brand has been spotted several times on the streets of LA hanging out with the homeless, taking them to breakfast and even giving one of them a new shirt and a ride to the same AA meeting Brand himself attends.
"All I ask is that you don't knife me on the way there."
"... deal."
According to an interview that he did with Howard Stern, one of Brand's favorite pastimes is taking homeless people to dinner and just keeping them company for a night. Evidently they have a lot of interesting things to say. Although, by his own admission, what they have to say often involves them claiming to be Jesus.


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Hometown: Queens, New York
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As an assistant field engineer for Granite Construction Company, Joao Tavares, BCM '12, has spent two co-op semesters contributing to the "The East Side Access" project—an endeavor that will connect the Long Island Rail Road's (LIRR) Main and Port Washington lines in Queens to a new station at Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan. "What makes me so excited is the fact that it is such an immense project that will impact so many lives, now and in the future." That impact is measureable, too: New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) estimates that—once completed—the project will save commuters up to 40 minutes every day.
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You can untap Leech Bonder this way because the untapping is not occurring as part of the untap phase, which is what Leaden Fists is preventing.
That is, Leaden Fists is preventing the "normal" untap, not an activated ability untap.


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