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"The Xen Tree may be a smaller relative or the stalk of the Half-Life boss creature, the Tentacle, although it has not been confirmed."
I see no evidence to suggest this, other than an extremely vague physical similarity, and the way in which they attack (which they do for different reasons). One is a tree, the other is a giant octopus with 3 appendages.
I don't think this belongs in the trivia section, though if so then it should at least perhaps say (eg.) "Some players have suggested that..." - but I do not see the relation of Xen Trees and tentacles as probable.
It's probably not that much of an issue, but I feel that it should at least perhaps clarify it's probability or that it is an opinion deduced by fans? Sapian 10:35, September 2, 2010 (UTC)
- That can be removed. It's speculation and really means nothing. Like you said, there is no evidence to suggest this and it is merely an idea that came about from seeing the vague physical similarities. Bramblepath 15:54, September 2, 2010 (UTC)


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Following on the 2nd attempt of my baking cookies, chocolate cake and bread. Unfortunately, wasn�t that great. Cookies were better than the last time, but the first batch was burnt. I love crunchy cookies which I finally made it, but Albert prefer soft cookies, hence he likes the previous attempt.
Chocolate cake, well, it was a sache torte recipe, wasn�t that great. Reason was the chocolate that I bought wasn�t that great. It wasn�t bitter-sweet, as written in the recipe. PLUS, I made a big mistake this time (again), I used aluminium foil to line the baking tray, which I shouldn�t. Consequently, the cake took ages to be edible, the top part was burnt and texture was dry, but the bottom moist.
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Welcome to Day 2. For today's selections, I was going to go with Alice Cooper's 1978 appearance on The Muppet Show. Specifically his performance (with his own band of Muppets, The Vile Bunch) of "Welcome to My Nightmare." However, Mr. Cooper has provided a commentary of sorts on his appearance, so we have to go with that. Be warned, he doesn't say a whole lot, but what he does say is pretty much gold.
And oddly enough, as he reminds us in that commentary, the film had a definite Faustian theme to it. Which is fortunate, as I had already chosen for tonight's feature film, the 1926 Faust. A German silent film directed by F.W. Murnau (yes, the man who helmed Nosferatu), it's his last before moving to the U.S. to do things like Sunrise. That film would go on to win two of the first Academy Awards, one of which we would think of Best Picture now but I won't list the full name of the prize because I think they just couldn't get to the point in 1928. As with a lot of black and white, silent films, some of the imagery is bloody amazing. Enjoy.


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On the morning of February 27, 1947, a three-alarm fire swept through the upper floors of Mulledy Hall. A firefighter broke his leg while fighting the blaze but that, according to accounts in 'The Hoya,' was the only fire-related injury. Edmund A. Walsh, S.J., Regent of the Foreign Service School, returned to the burning building to rescue a large number of photostatic copies of Nuremberg trial documents. These were used in the writing of his book, 'Total Power: A Footnote To History,' published in 1949. The building was subsequently repaired and the fourth floor and roof were rebuilt, although to a different configuration.
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The Banner Saga 2 recently launched on PC to critical acclaim, picking up a host of accolades along the way.
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When I was a kid, I remember the scene in "never cry wolf" where the guy eats mice and thinking it was one of the most entertaining scenes ever. Gonna have to see about getting it on my Netflix queue.
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This application is a continuation in part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 170,646 filed July 21, 1980 by the present inventor and entitled IMPROVED DOCUMENT AND CURRENCY COUNTER and now abandoned.
1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to sheet-by-sheet document and currency counters.
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In general, in a sheet processing machine, such as a currency counter, a sheet feeding device is ordinarily provided for successively paying out or feeding, one-by-one, a large number of sheets in a stacked state to the sheet processing, or counting section of the machine.
In prior art document and currency counters, a feed-in roller was disposed below the sheet stack and contacted the lowermost sheet. As the feed-in roller rotated it fed the lowermost sheet to a paying-out roller, which, in cooperation with a guide plate and a feed roller further fed the sheet toward a pair of pulling rollers, which pulled each sheet at a speed which was two to three times the speed at which the sheet traveled past the paying-out and feed rollers.
In the prior art sheet feeding devices, the pulling rollers exerted a tension on each sheet since the sheet was not fully clear of the paying-out and feed rollers when the pulling rollers started to pull the sheet at high speed. Consequently, an undesirable torque load was placed upon the motive power means, such as the drive motor, which must therefore have had an output capacity to handle this additional load.
Therefore, it is a general object of this invention to provide an improved document and currency counter.
It is a further object to provide a document and currency counter with a sheet feeding device which imposes a minimal torque load on the motive power means.
It is an additional object of this invention to provide a low-cost document and currency counter with minimal electrical power consumption.
According to this invention, briefly summarized, there is provided in a counter for documents, currency, or like sheets, such counter including a first roller or set of rollers for feeding, successively, sheets from the bottom of a stack of said sheets, a second roller or set of rollers for receiving and further feeding out each sheet from said first roller, or set of rollers, a guide plate for guiding each sheet around a part of the cylindrical surface of the second roller, or set of rollers and pulling rollers for grasping each sheet and pulling the same at high speed from the second roller, the cylindrical surface of each of the first roller and the second roller having a first portion of large coefficient of friction and a second portion of small coefficient of friction, said two rollers being synchronized to rotate with a fixed space phase so that when the pulling rollers engage a sheet, that sheet will be in contact with the portions of either or both of said first and second rollers having low coefficients of friction. To prevent double feeding of creased bills, low friction flanges are provided on each side of each roller in the second set.
The nature, utility, and further features of this invention will be more clearly apparent from the following detailed description when read in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which:
FIG. 1 is a side-elevation view partially schematic in nature, and partially cross-sectional, showing one embodiment of the sheet feeding mechanism in a counter according to this invention;
FIGS. 2, 3 and 4 are side elevation views similar to FIG. 1 showing progressive states of operation of the same device; and,
FIG. 5 is a graph showing curves respectively indicating the torques required of a motor for driving prior art sheet feeders and sheet feeders of this invention.
FIGS. 6 and 7 show side and edge views, respectively, of one configuration for the second rollers.
In FIG. 1, counter 10 has a feed tray or hopper 12, in which sheets 14 are stacked. The inclined floor plate 12a is provided with a transverse slot 16 through which the upper part of a feed-in roller 18 projects upward to a position where it can contact the lowermost sheet 14a of the stack. The feed-in or jogging roller 18 is for feeding in the sheets separately and successively toward a slot-like feed-in opening formed between the lower edge of the vertical wall plate 12b of the hopper 12 and the upper part of a delivery roller 20. A transverse rubber auxiliary plate 22 fixed at its upper edge to the lower edge of the vertical wall plate 12b extends downwardly and is in contact with the cylindrical surface of the delivery roller 20. This auxiliary plate 22 functions to facilitate the action of peeling the sheets 14, one-by-one, away from the bottom of the stack.
The feed-in roller 18 and the delivery roller 20 may have the same diameter, as is shown in FIG. 1. Sectors of the cylindrical peripheral surfaces of these rollers 18 and 20 have serrated or ribbed surfaces 18a and 20a of relatively large radius and with high frictional coefficient provided by the material of surfaces 18a and 20a, e.g. rubber, and by the ribs extending parallelly to the roller axes. The remaining sectors of these rollers 18 and 20 are smooth, low-friction-coefficient surfaces 18b and 20b, one which may be of metal or plastic, and may have a smaller radius than portions 18a and 20a, respectively. The feed-in roller 18 and the delivery roller 20 are caused to rotate synchronously by a timing mechanism comprising timing pulleys 24 and 26 respectively fixed to their axes and an endless timing belt 28 stretched around pulleys 24 and 26. Feed-in roller 18 may be advanced in space phase with respect to delivery roller 28.
A guide member 30 which is of arcuate cross section and which may be of rubber is supported by support member 32 so that the concave surface of the guide member 30 is juxtaposed to the cylindrical surface of the delivery roller 20 with clearance therebetween in the vicinity of and downstream (i.e., in the direction of travel of the sheets) from the auxiliary plate 22, as shown in FIG. 1. The support member 32 is pivotally supported at a pivot 34, and therefore the guide member 30 is adjustable, rotatably, about the pivot 34.
The gap "g" between the guide member 30 and the hemi-cylindrical surface 20a of the delivery roller 20 is made sufficient for sliding passage therethrough of a single sheet 14 while assuring that hemi-cylindrical surface 20a contacts each successive sheet 14 with sufficient pressure to deliver the sheet by frictional force. The gap "G" between the guide member 15 and the hemi-cylindrical surface 20b of relatively small radius is large, being of the order of several tens of times the thickness of each sheet 14, thereby permitting free and unimpeded passage of each sheet 14.
The angular position of the guide member 30 and its support member 32 is adjusted and set by any suitable mechanism, one example of which is illustrated in FIG. 1. In FIG. 1, the adjustment mechanism comprises an L-shaped member 36 fixed to the support member 34, a support plate 38 rigidly fixed to a base member, not shown, and a tension spring 40 supported between the member 36 and the support plate 38 and thereby continually urging the member 36 to move toward the support plate 38, that is, to rotate clockwise (as viewed in FIG. 1) about the pivot 34, an adjusting screw 42 passed through and supported by the support plate 38 and having an end abutting against the member 36 thereby to set the angular position thereof, and a nut 44 with a calibration dial engaging the threads of adjusting screw 42. Thus, by manipulating the nut 44, the adjusting screw 42 is caused to advance or retract thereby to adjust the gap "g" between the guide plate 30 and the hemicylindrical surface 20a of the delivery roller 20.
On the outlet or downstream side of the delivery roller 20, there is provided a pair of upper and lower tension rollers 46 and 48 with cylindrical surfaces made of a material of high frictional coefficient. The upper tension roller 46 is continually pressed toward the lower tension roller 48 by springs (not shown). These rollers 46 and 48 are driven to rotate at a circumferential speed which is two to three times that of the delivery roller 20 and operate to grasp each sheet 14 delivered by roller 20 and to convey each such sheet at high speed to the succeeding processor, for example stacker 50.
While, in the present description, each of the various rollers, for example, the feed-in or jogging roller 18 and the delivery roller 20, are referred to in the singular, it is to be understood that each roller may be segmented, i.e., it may comprise a plurality of rollers mounted in spaced-apart positions on a single rotational shaft, as is the common practice.
The sheet feeding device according to this invention operates in the following manner, referring to FIGS. 1 to 4.
When the delivery roller 20 and the feed-in roller 18 are driven by belt 28, and the surface 18a of relatively large radius of the feed-in roller 18 contacts the lowermost sheet 14a of the sheets 14 stacked in the hopper 12, sheet 14a begins to enter the gap "g" between the delivery roller 20 and the guide plate 30 as indicated in FIG. 2. At this time, the driving motor (not shown) is required to exert a torque T1.
Then, as the delivery roller 20 rotates further, and the leading edge of the sheet 14a is acquired by and is drawn between tension rollers 46 and 48, the sheet 14a is pulled at two to three times its original speed, as is indicated in FIG. 3. At this time, the trailing edge of sheet 14a is still between the delivery roller 20 and the guide member 30, but by this time, the smooth hemi-cylindrical surface 20b, which may be of small radius, is facing this trailing edge, which is now in the aforedescribed large gap "G". For this reason, the torque required of the pulling rolls 46 and 48 is very small, being of an order just sufficient to convey the sheet 14a. At this time, furthermore, the succeeding sheet 14b at the bottom of the stack in the hopper 12 is contacting the smooth surface 18b of relatively small diameter of the feed-in roller 18 and is therefore at rest and is not fed toward the guide plate 30.
Then, as the feed-in roller 18 and the delivery roller 20 rotate further, and the surfaces 18a and 20a of greater radius face and contact the sheet 14b, the sheet 14b is moved toward the guide plate 40 as indicated in FIG. 4, and thereafter the aforedescribed operation is repeated for each sheet 14.
For optimum performance of counter 10, the circumferential length of driving portion 20a of roller 20 should be at least as long as the dimension "l" of sheet 14 in the direction of its travel through counter 10. Thus, a single revolution of roller 20 will move each sheet 14 past guide member 30 into a state of acquisition by tension rollers 46, 48, if the tension rollers are spaced properly with respect to delivery roller 20. That spacing, namely the spacing between the contact line between rollers 46 and 48, and the nearest driving point on the circumference of drive roller 20 (i.e. edge 31 of guide member 30) should be slightly less than the dimension, "l", of each sheet 14 in the direction of its travel.
If the circumferential length of portion 20a is less than the dimension of a sheet 14 in the direction of its travel, several revolutions of roller 20 may be required to deliver a sheet 14. Because rollers 18 and 20 are synchronized, roller 18 will also rotate several times and may feed a second sheet 14 into delivery roller 20, causing a jamming of counter 10, or a miscount, or both.
Counting of sheets 14 occurs at their discharge from drive roller 20 and is achieved by means of a light source 51 (which may be an LED) illuminating a photo-electric device 52, which feeds a pulse to counter 54. Device 52 may be a photo-diode. Counter 54 may be any one of several pulse counters which are commercially available and need not be described here.
In the foregoing operation and referring to FIG. 5, of the torque load TM imparted to the driving motor (not shown) for driving all of the rollers, the torque T1 mentioned hereinbefore and indicated in FIG. 5 is the predominant torque. Moreover, this torque T1 is imparted intermittently. Thus, a torque which is less than that required in prior art devices, that prior art device torque being indicated by the broken line in FIG. 5, is sufficient to operate the device of this invention.
At the same time, this also means that, for the same rotational speed of the motor, the required power output of the motor in the device of this invention is less than for prior art counters in substantially direct proportion to the torque reduction, since power is directly proportional to the product of the torque and the rotational speed. For the same reason, the graphical representation in FIG. 5 may be considered to be that of power. Then, since the product of power and time is expended energy, the area between the two curves may be interpreted as the difference in energies respectively consumed by prior art counters and the counters of this invention. These features afford the advantageous use of a smaller, less expensive motor.
While the cylindrical surfaces 18a and 20a of the feed-in roller 18 and the delivery roller 20 have been described as having ribs or ridges extending parallelly to the roller axes for the purposes of increasing the coefficient of friction of these surfaces, other surface materials and states such as rubber with concavities and convexities, planar rubber, or sponge-line rubber can be used. As for the smooth surfaces 18b and 20b, no particular description has been given, but these surfaces are preferably made of a metal or a synthetic resin.
While a difference in radii of portions 18a and 18b and 20a and 20b, respectively, have been described, the basic requirement is that the "A" portions have a high coefficient of friction and the "B" portions have a low coefficient of friction. The radii may be equal. However, for absolute assurance of such difference in coefficients of friction the difference in radii may be provided.
Another possible modification is that of the ratio between the lengths of the arcs, as viewed in cross-section, of the surfaces 18a and 18b and surfaces 20a and 20b. In the above described example, this ratio is 1:1, but it may be changed to suit the dimension of each sheet 14 in the direction of its travel.
A further example of possible modification concerns the manner in which the guide member 30 is adjustably supported. While in FIGS. 1 thru 4 this guide member 30 is fixed to a support member 32 pivotally supported on a pivot 34 and is therefore adjustable by a rocking movement, it may be adapted to move translationally for adjustment of the gap between it and the delivery roller 20.
A roller configuration which assures document feeding on a sheet-by-sheet basis, even though that document or those documents may be creased, is shown in FIGS. 6 and 7. In FIGS. 6 and 7, roller 80 has a body portion 82 with a hollow shaft-receiving shoulder 84, therein, for receiving a driving shaft, not shown. Body portion 82 may be of plastic material. Ribbed or serrated material 86, which may be of high-friction-coefficient material, such as synthetic rubber, covers a sector of the cylindrical surface of body portion 82. In FIG. 6 the sector is shown to be 180�, but other sector lengths may be used. The remaining sector 88 of the cylindrical portion of body 82 does not bear the ribbed or serrated material 86 and is, thus, of smaller diameter than portion 86. It may bear a thin layer of material merely for supporting portion 86 on roller body 82. On the other hand, portion 88 may be bare. In any event, it shows low friction effects relative to portion 86. However, experience has shown that it is commonplace for people to fold and crease documents, particularly currency. When that occurs, double-feeding may occur, a phenomenon that results in mis-counts. I have found that by adding low-friction flanges 90 and 92, having a sector length approximately that of portion 88, double-feeding due to creasing is avoided.
While particular embodiments have been shown and described it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that variations may be made in those embodiments without detracting from the spirit and scope of this invention. It is the intention of the appended claims to cover all such variations.
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Apple Earnings Q4 2015: Will The IPad Pro Stop The Segment Decline?
- Apple earnings Q4 2015 are expected to be announced on October 27.
- iPhone revenues/sales and Apple Watch-specific figures are the focus in the product category.
- China's growth will attract the most focus on the geographical spread of revenues.
- These focus areas will have a significant impact on analysts' ratings and market projections.
Tech giant Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) is expected to report its fiscal year 2015 Q4 earnings next week on Tuesday, October 27, after the market closes. Apple will report its earnings one month after the iPhone 6S sales reached a record, selling 13 million units of iPhone 6S and 6S Plus in the first weekend alone. Many were pessimistic about the new model's sales and anticipated the iPhone 6S to fail. However, the phenomenal sales figures for the first weekend boosted investors' expectations for outstanding quarterly results and impressive FY 2016 guidance.
Three weeks before Apple started selling its new iPhone, the company introduced a number of new devices targeted at expanding the company's portfolio and generate higher revenues. The Apple TV set-top box and iPad Pro were the focus of the September event on top of the new iPhone release. For the first time, a Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) executive appeared in an Apple event, introducing the Microsoft Office for iPad Pro and demoing Microsoft's famous productivity apps targeted to meet the enterprise market requirements.
Apple tried to boost its $25B enterprise business by launching the iPad Pro and introducing an enterprise apps suite, like Microsoft Office that was mentioned above, Adobe Systems (NASDAQ:ADBE) professional editing apps, and of course IBM's productivity apps, as part of the companies' partnerships. On the consumer side, Apple introduced a new generation Apple TV powered by a new operating system called tvOS, an App Store, a Siri version, and gaming support. Apple's TV announcement started a smart TV set-top box war that was followed by Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) banning Apple TV or Alphabet Inc-C (NASDAQ:GOOG) Chromecast sales in its marketplace in support of the Fire TV solution.
Apple has also lately released its music service figures, unveiling that more than 40% of the 15M users of the service are paying customers. This figure somewhat reduced concerns investors had about Apple's ability to monetize the music service and generate substantial revenues. Apple Music figures present a lower subscription number than Spotify's 75M; however, Apple has a much higher percentage of paying customers than Spotify, which has only 27%.
After the recent announcement and the information released by Apple, the market still wonders how the smart watches business is developing. The most common explanation for the lack of information about the Apple Watch sales is a disappointing sales figure that is below Apple's and the market's expectations. Sooner or later, Apple will reveal specific Apple Watch unit sales or revenue, and investors are anxiously waiting for such a release.
In the previous earnings release, Apple reported a YoY increase in most of its segments: a 59% increase in iPhone sales, 9% in Mac sales, 12% in services, and 49% in other products. However, the iPad sales declined by 18%, and it would be interesting if the iPad Pro release manages to slow down the decline. The greater China area generated 112% more revenue than it did a year ago; the Americas were up by 15%, Europe by 19%, Japan by 9%, and the rest of Asia-Pacific by 26%. The amazing growth in China will be the focus of this earnings release in light of the economic crisis the country has experienced lately. The impact on the regional revenues in China could have a serious impact on Apple's top line revenues.
These are the comparable figures to watch in this earnings:
|Q4'15 Guidance
|Q4'15 Consensus
|Non-GAAP EPS
Source: The company's IR, Yahoo Finance, WSJ
After Apple had introduced some new devices and services in the September event, investors were interested to see what their contribution to the company's revenue was. Apple released some information so far to reduce the anticipation and expectation of the earnings release. However, one figure has not been released yet – the Apple Watch specific revenue/ unit sales. Investors are looking to see how that business is progressing, and another silent quarter might project negatively on the market's opinion that Apple could generate substantial revenues from that segment. China will also be in the focus after a rough few weeks. Investors are interested to see how much the latest developments in the Chinese economy have impacted Apple. A significant impact might result in a lower 2016 outlook and would hurt stock price as well.


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Pattern library
A pattern library is created in addition to the style guide document. It collates each of the various design patterns into one place.
What we mean by a design pattern is any repeating styles used across a site. This isn't usually needed on small projects, but it's the first step to coming up with a plan to tackle the front end architecture.
A pattern library should be collated during the initial project meetings by both the relevant UI developer and designer, as a way of breaking a project down into its smallest component parts and to enable a good understanding by the UI developer of the work involved. This step also benefits project managers, as more accurate timings can be produced.
This is beneficial for the designer to spot any potential issues with a design and refine inconsistencies, as well as allowing the UI developer to create an organised CSS plan from the designs before they jump into any actual code.
It's also useful for other developers who might begin work on the project at a later date, as it lays out all existing patterns in a page with mark-up. A great example of one of these is the Mailchimp pattern library.
Once you have all these elements together alongside the styling that comes from the style guide, you should build up the pattern library in code. You should include the HTML that goes into producing these patterns as a reference for any other developers who may work on this.
Again, this comes down to limiting the amount of time a developer is writing repeating code.
Project architecture
When sitting down to a large web project, it's always best to lock the designer and the developers in a room to go through the design meticulously, to ensure that everyone is on the same page in terms of UI/UX direction and expectations.
From this initial breakdown of the design, a UI developer should have a good roadmap for moving forwards in terms of how they are to tackle the code and structure they intend to write. They should have a good idea of all the classes and styles you are going to be writing and a way to break them down into the simplest of solutions, always keeping in mind the importance of low specificity css.
Making use of the pattern library can help to identify repeating styles that can be broken up into small functional classes for global use. It can also identify the number layouts used in the design, and come up with a good solution that caters for as many of them as possible, with as little css as possible. For this we use layout classes in combination with last classes, and for our rules we use Susy to generate our grids maths.
Taking a meticulous approach as part of the project's planning phase before sitting down and writing any code, should enable you to start to see your projects as a collection of globally styled elements and parts rather than individual pages to be styled.
From all of this you can work out a good selector naming convention (we go with BEM) for the whole project, as well as getting a good idea of the amount of work which is required to achieve the perfect end product. This should also make your project manager happy.
The language – SCSS
Why do we use SASS over LESS, and why SCSS and not SASS? There are many articles on the subject, as any technology goes for front end development – there are numerous solutions out there. The trick is finding the one that best suits you, and we go with SCSS for the following reasons:
We found LESS to be counter intuitive when bringing a more programmatic approach to writing our styles. LESS aims to be as much like CSS in style, syntax and structure, and while this is a nice thought for new users who are writing it, there are some issues which make less fun to write.
Another great benefit to SASS is the compass library. This comes with all kinds of handy tools for an eager front end developer to make good use of.
Now for why we choose SCSS over SASS: in version 3 of SASS, the 'sassy CSS' syntax was introduced to replace the old syntax for SASS. It builds on the existing syntax of CSS, which every developer should be familiar with. This takes away the opinionated syntax of SASS, but leaves the developer with all the tools available when using it. So any valid CSS would also be valid as SCSS.
On top of this, we find SCSS easier to read because it follows the same rules as CSS, which we are all used to reading. There isn't a learning gap for any developers who are new to the team.
There are arguments on all sides of this; I'd recommend having a go with the different syntaxes yourself and decide. At the end of the day, it's a tool to help you achieve more for less work, so it's entirely down to personal preference.
Responsive – Breakpoint
So there are a few methods by which we could make a site responsive in our CSS. Back in the day it'd be writing single media queries and putting all of your rules in them for whatever you wanted changing at certain sizes.
@media screen and (max-width: *some value*) {
*some rules*
Thankfully we no longer have massive media queries. By using SCSS, we can make use of variables and mixins, and have a more inline approach to writing our media queries.
Regarding the inline approach, there are a couple of ways you could go about it. You could write your own mixins or use some of the ones which are available from sites like css-tricks, or like us, you could make use of an existing mixin library.
We use breakpoint SCSS for our responsive queries and the results are amazing. Organised media queries in line with the elements they affect, make things much easier and much more rapid to develop responsively, especially when setting your dimensions in variables so you can refer to a list of custom breakpoints whenever you need to.
We don't ever work to a standard list of dimensions, instead we cater for the major breakpoints like 768px for an iPad etc. Our method is more of an "add a breakpoint at a point that the site breaks" approach.
Obviously, you must keep in mind that these breakpoints can cause load on browsers (only if someone sits and resizes from desktop down and back up again) but still it's worth considering.
So keep the number of breakpoints as limited as possible, while still achieving a robust responsive solution. A use case of breakpoint SCSS would look like the following:
$bp_ipad: max-width 768px;
.foo {
@include breakpoint($bp_ipad) {
Now you may be thinking that with this method, it might cause bloat in our CSS, but a little research reveals that this isn't the case.
While having numerous different media queries firing across a resize from desktop to mobile, size does cause CPU and memory load; when running on an actual device, the impact of having many media queries is negligible when considering performance.
So we can be confident that adding in multiple breakpoints and using them whenever we need won't make our site slow.
Here are some useful resources, on performance, management and tools for breakpoints.
Naming conventions
Another practice we have in place for our Vanilla framework is a strict doctrine of naming conventions.
We have come across problems before when working on legacy projects, due to bad selector names, names that are far too vague and could apply to any number of things.
We follow the BEM syntax when writing our selector names. If you're not familiar with it then check out this article by Harry Roberts. I won't go into much detail because frankly it's very well documented in other blog posts and articles. The bottom line to BEM in selector names is that it gives greater transparency to other developers and to yourself!
We follow a similarly strict doctrine when naming our variables.
For colours we call, we have as '$accent' and a number – accent1 through 10 for example. We also have a rule for naming our breakpoint variables. For these we use nonspecific names that are in no way related to the content of the variable.
The reason for this is due to the potential for a value in a breakpoint to change, so we would have: $bp_blue, $bp_pink, $bp_yellow etc. None of these names have a bearing for the value of the variable, to save confusion if things get changed.
By using a structure doctrine of naming conventions, we know that, across multiple projects, we will have no issue going back to work on anything, and can further our aim of creating beautiful sites with low specificity CSS.
Using SCSS we can write our classes like the following:
.block {
@at-root #[&]__element { }
@at-root #[&]--modifier { }
Which outputs
.block { }
.block__element { }
.block--modifier { }
The idea behind our use of these methods is to replace "can you build this?" with "can you maintain this without losing your minds?"
To sum things up
Creating a custom front end framework is a daunting task. If it's not well researched and well considered, you're wasting your own time and potentially impacting on projects by using a substandard framework for the job.
At the same time, you can have this problem with the bloated common frameworks. It all depends on the needs of the project, although all considerations on what to use should be on a project by project basis.
We invested time in creating a custom framework because we saw the worth in doing so. We are now ultimately familiar with its use and abilities, because we built it ourselves, and most importantly, you will never know a framework like you know your own.


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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Fox Searchlight has picked up "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test," a project based on the 1968 Tom Wolfe book. Gus Van Sant is directing.
"Kool-Aid" is Wolfe's account of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" author Ken Kesey and a group dubbed the Merry Pranksters as they drive across the country in a DayGlo-painted school bus dubbed Furthur, reaching personal and collective revelations through the use of LSD and other psychedelic drugs.
The film adaptation was first packaged last year after producer Richard Gladstein, who had the rights, enlisted Van Sant and writer Dustin Lance Black.
Van Sant returns to theaters on November 26 with "Milk," which stars Sean Penn, Josh Brolin and Emile Hirsch. The Focus Features release is generating advance awards buzz for its depiction of California's first openly gay elected official, San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk.
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MayaTlab0: The orientating grip is interesting. I have no idea if that is a thing that will prove beneficial in practice (well at least it's better than the immobile camera body-like grip and doesn't force users to change their hand's position when going from head-level shooting to waist-level shooting like most barrel-shaped video cameras), but I wonder : If you want to shoot from above or below, I suppose you'll most often want to change the orientation of both the grip and the rear LCD (or "EVF" attached to the LCD). Right now, on the XC10, it seems like it's going to be a two steps process (change the grip's orientation, + change the LCD's orientation). Would it be possible, and more importantly useful, to create a mechanism to synchronise both movements (Basically, rotating the grip would rotate the LCD at the same time) ? Or totally useless ?
A number of us were mucking around with this concept in the micro four thirds forum five years ago (e.g. http://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/33019349). Hopefully Panasonic or Olympus can bring something to the market that will outshine Canons' effort.
It's about time the manufacturers recognised the ergonomic issues of stills/video convergence.
It was a design issue we discussed in the micro four thirds forum five years ago ...e.g. http://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/33019349
However, having interchangeable lenses is far more sensible than this fixed-lens design.
ThorKre: "Such a system would also have a distinct size (and potentially price) advantage over the larger sensor mirrorless systems."
Would, could, should.
BUT IT DOESN'T. Look at the bodies, look at the lenses, look at the price.
No word about that in that "article"?
You are forgetting the price Nikon pays to build it.
If Nikon can sell it for this much, but it is cheaper to make than its µft and APS-C rivals, guess what ... profitability is better! Pretty damn important for return on investment.
Even if they have to cut prices, cutting a fat margin can still leave Nikon with a healthy margin.
WT21: This is bad thinking. You don't build a product to "protect" your older lines. You can't "protect" your older lines through what you build, because competition will build the new and better option. You have to eat your own children, and build that new and better thing. You have to cannibilize your own lines. Also, Nikon could easily make an APS-C mirrorless system and DSLRs and keep commitment for both. If they're doing this 2.7 system, it wouldn't cost anything different to do an APS-C system. They should build an APS-C compact, and see which wins, and be on the winning side, not the losing side of a 2.7 system (not saying the new Nikon system can't win, but just the rational of "don't cannibilize your own business" -- especially in a highly competitive market -- is very flawed. This is why the editors of DPR don't run consumer electronics companies).
You are right, but actually wrong.
Industry is littered with companies that faded away because they were afraid to cannibilize their existing product lines.
Companies that have the gust to cannibilize are rare. Although I'm not enamoured of Apple, the fact that they are prepared (for e.g.) to risk their laptop sales by pushing the iPad is a clear example of a company that doesn't fear internal reinvention.
Nikon clearly does fear it and I think this DPR opinion piece is pretty-much on the mark.
sean000: They remind me of the binoculars Luke Skywalker uses on Tatooine. Perfect if you need to scan the horizon for wandering droids. Now if I can just find a real hovering Landspeeder....
Unlikely I'd take a pair of optical binoculars instead -- I don't own any :-)
sean000: They remind me of the binoculars Luke Skywalker uses on Tatooine. Perfect if you need to scan the horizon for wandering droids. Now if I can just find a real hovering Landspeeder....
> They remind me of the binoculars Luke Skywalker uses on Tatooine
That was my inital thought too.
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I wouldn't buy one (esp. at that price), but I'd keep it if someone gave me one.
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On a recent Saturday afternoon, a group of about 65 musicians had just finished playing an original orchestral arrangement of Björk's "New World." After the final chord reverberated throughout the rehearsal space, a hush fell over the musicians and the several dozen audience members in attendance.
Finally, conductor David Möschler broke the silence. "All music has only one test," he said softly. "Do you want to hear it again? That's the only test...Do you just want to listen to that again? And I hope you agree with me—I want to hear that again."
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Once or twice a month in the East Bay, violinists and bass-players, flautists and trumpeters – gather to play orchestra music. But instead of a concert hall, they meet in warehouses or museums. No one's wearing a tie or gown, and the group hasn't rehearsed. They play a few pieces together and swill free beer between sets.
It all started about two years ago, when founder David Möschler learned that a friend's very ill father had the dream of conducting Mozart's "Marriage of Figaro Overture" with an orchestra.
From 'The Simpsons' to Stravinsky: Creating Community With Oakland's Awesome Orchestra - The California Report
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Awesöme Orchestra Collective to perform 'Carmina Burana - SF Chronicle
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Choreographer Michael Mao (via phone, from NYC) discusses a new piece he'll premiere in Sitka with his dance company on October 5. Mao will also hold workshops for local dance students on October 3 & 4. For complete information, visit the Sitka Fine Arts Camp online. With SFAC's Kenley Jackson and Roger Schmidt.


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For the first time in Itzinya Nigeria the ladies outnumber the men in the Startup Academy! It is encouraging to see that more and more women are channeling their creativity through entrepreneurship and building of companies. Especially since they have the upper hand when it comes to success rate. We will follow the development closely of this group and we are sure it will also trigger the guys to perform.
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In today's Academic Minute, Pushker Kharecha of Columbia University's Earth Institute explains how a small shift in the timing of peak CO2 emissions will shape the Earth's climate for centuries. Learn more about the Academic Minute here.
In today's Academic Minute, Pushker Kharecha of Columbia University's Earth Institute explains how a small shift in the timing of peak CO2 emissions will shape the Earth's climate for centuries. Learn more about the Academic Minute here.
Advocates of international education are ringing alarm bells about a €90 million shortfall in the Erasmus budget. Erasmus, a European Union program, provides grants for students to study or work outside their home countries in one of 33 participating nations (the 27 member states of the European Union, plus Croatia, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland and Turkey). More than 231,000 students received grants in 2010-11, with the average award being a modest €250 a month. The most popular destinations were Spain, France and Germany. (Note: This article has been updated to reflect the term of the award.)
European Commission officials warn that unless something changes, its debts to national agencies in the participating countries – which distribute the money to colleges and students -- will have to be paid out of next year's budget. This means that either fewer students will be supported or smaller grants will be given. The €90 million shortfall is out of a total budget of €450 million.
"What we're hoping is that before the end of the year, the 27 member states, and the European Parliament, will agree to make up the shortfall," said Dennis Abbott, a European Commission spokesman for education. "We know it's a very, very tough world out there and that many countries are having to cut back, but we just feel that they shouldn't be cutting back on education and they shouldn't be cutting back where commitments have been made."
Many colleges and universities that have Nov. 1 deadlines for early decision, early action or other admissions requests have announced extensions or flexibility in light of the impact of Hurricane Sandy. The National Association for College Admission Counseling is publishing and updating a list of these institutions, with links to details on their new deadlines.
In today's Academic Minute, Thomas Morrissey of the State University of New York Plattsburgh explains the growing popularity of the young-adult dystopian novel. Learn more about the Academic Minute here.
Green Mountain College has delayed a controversial plan to slaughter two oxen because local slaughterhouses have received threats from outside groups about actions that would be taken if they kill the animals, the Associated Press reported. The college prides itself on sustainability, and says that when one ox became unable to continue working, the right thing to do from an environmental perspective was to slaughter the oxen and to serve their meat in the dining hall. But animal rights groups and others have mounted online campaigns to save the oxen.
The National Student Clearinghouse is taking over management of the University of Texas at Austin's SPEEDE server, which more than 300 colleges use at no charge to process electronic transcripts and share student academic records, the two entities announced Wednesday. The clearinghouse quickly followed Thursday with another announcement making clear that it would continue to provide SPEEDE's services free, presumably in response to questions from many registrars and admissions officials about whether the much larger organization would seek to privatize, or at least monetize, its new operation. Also on Thursday, a corporate player in the e-transcript space, Parchment, announced its own collaboration to create a gateway for electronic academic records.
Graham Spanier, for years a leader in higher education as president of Pennsylvania State University, was indicted Thursday on charges of concealing information about suspected child abuse involving Jerry Sandusky, obstructing the criminal investigation of Sandusky, perjury before a grand jury and endangering the welfare of children. The charges came a year after the scandal involving Sandusky became public. While the former assistant football coach has been convicted of dozens of counts of sexual abuse of minors, Spanier is accused of failing to report Sandusky to authorities. "This is not a mistake, an oversight or a misjudgment. This was a conspiracy of silence by top officials at Penn State, working to actively conceal the truth, with total disregard to the suffering of children," said Linda Kelly, Pennsylvania's attorney general, in a statement.
Spanier was fired by Penn State shortly after the scandal broke and has been on sabbatical with the assumption he would soon return to a faculty role. The university announced Thursday that Spanier was being placed on leave, and that Penn State would have no further comment about the legal proceedings.
One of Spanier's lawyers released a statement defending the former president. "Graham Spanier has committed no crime and looks forward to the opportunity to clear his good name and well-earned national reputation for integrity. This presentment is a politically motivated frame-up of an innocent man. And if these charges ever come to trial, we will prove it."
India has a new minister in charge of higher education. M M Pallam Raju assumed control of the Ministry of Human Resources and Development on Wednesday. The former minister Kapil Sibal -- who remains in control of the telecommunications ministry -- is well-known internationally as an advocate for opening India to foreign universities. A bill that would regulate foreign branch campuses has been stalled in India's Parliament for more than two years.
The Education Department on Thursday released final rules to make income-contingent repayment more generous and to make it easier for permanent disabled borrowers to discharge their loans. The rules, the result of negotiated rule-making sessions early this year, bring the income-contingent repayment program in line with an executive order President Obama issued in January. The new program, now officially named "Pay As You Earn," reduces monthly payments to 10 percent of a borrowers' discretionary income for borrowers in financial distress and discharge the loans after 20 years.
For borrowers who are permanently disabled, the rules take several steps to streamline the discharge process, including accepting the Social Security Administration's designation of disability and simplifying the process so that disabled borrowers must submit only one application to the Education Department, rather than separate applications to each of their loan servicers.
The University of Richmond is eliminating its men's soccer and track and field teams to make way for a men's lacrosse team, The Washington Post reported Thursday, for unclear reasons but with help from a $3 million endowment spearheaded by major, anonymous donors. More than 50 students competed on the two teams that are to be cut at the end of this academic year. Only eight of the students -- all men's soccer players -- were on athletic scholarship. A task force charged with reviewing the university's sport offerings apparently reported in April that men's lacrosse be added without eliminating any other sports, though it would have cost $2 million. Athletes and coaches said that they hadn't been given a proper explanation, that they were misled about the implications of adding lacrosse, and that many students would transfer because they will no longer be able to compete.
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ben4d85 posted a topic in Production and ManagementIn the games industry, what is the difference between a technical lead and a project manager in terms of: - work description - difficulty to find a job - salary
ben4d85 replied to ben4d85's topic in Games Career Development[quote name='Joshimitsu91' timestamp='1322929125' post='4890157'] I have also been looking at the course at Sheffield Hallam and Hull, although it is unlikely i will be able to live away without a student loan! I'm seriously considering the course at Sheffield Hallam as i live nearby and the course itself looks very good. I've also contacted the course leader and from what we have discussed, it seems to cover a decent range of game development aspects. Apparently the course starts with an intensive C++ programming course to get everyone up to speed, although you need to have some basic programming experience (e.g. the basics + object orientated programming). I'm guessing your degree will have prepared you well for that. By the way, i'm also doing a degree in Physics so i'm interested to see what advice people give you! Josh. [/quote] Hey Josh, thanks for your reply. Has he told you anything else apart from the C++ course? Where did you find the contact details?
ben4d85 replied to ben4d85's topic in Games Career Development[quote name='wildboar' timestamp='1322337690' post='4887954'] You are right there is only a small different between those 2 courses, there is fewer people on the graphics programming course. The graphics course has a scientific visualization elements to it, and some things like radiosity. I am really happy on the games programming course as it balances graphics programming with game programming. [/quote] Do you know if it is possible to change from games to graphics or vice versa after a few weeks/ 1st term? [quote name='wildboar' timestamp='1322337690' post='4887954'] I chose Hull because it is highly recognized in the games industry as a course which prepares their students well for the job. A lot of my friends graduated from Hull and were offered jobs straight away. [/quote] Good to hear that many students got jobs straightaway. Do you know if there is the possibility to do an internship / placement year as part of the course? [quote name='wildboar' timestamp='1322337690' post='4887954'] Also our C++ teacher is amazing, he manages to make lectures fun, interactive and always teaches us to code with efficiency (branch prediction, cache alignment, assembly) [/quote] That sounds really great to me! A few more questions: [list][*]Could you give me an overview of the areas they teach? The information on the website is one thing, but it would be nice to hear it directly from a current student. How deep do they go into topics - is it more of a general overview or a few selected topics in depth?[*]Also, how is the balance PC/Console development, and do they also do mobile development (Droid/iOS)?[*]Do they teach physics as applied to games (I've heard one of the staff is a physicist...)?[*]How is the level of maths, do they waste much time on re-teaching high-school maths...?[/list]Many thanks again for your help.
ben4d85 replied to ben4d85's topic in Games Career Development[quote name='wildboar' timestamp='1322318421' post='4887886'] I would recommend Hull. I am studying that course there now and it has great connection with the industry and the course material is very modern, We are covering things like C++11, shaders, advanced game engine implementation/design, network, AI + many more. Its definitely not a 'joke' course, it has a pretty steep learning curve and lots of work has to be done. [/quote] Thank you for your answer. Do you have any details about the differences between [url="http://www2.hull.ac.uk/science/computer-science/prospective-students/taught-masters/msc-graphics-programming.aspx"]MSc Computer Graphics Programming[/url] and [url="http://www2.hull.ac.uk/science/computer-science/prospective-students/taught-masters/msc-games-programming.aspx"]MSc Games Programming[/url] at Hull? From the website it seems like the only difference is one module (and the project). Can I ask why you have decided to study at Hull at not at one of the other schools?
ben4d85 posted a topic in Games Career DevelopmentWhat [i]MSc. courses[/i] in the [i]UK[/i] are recommended for learning [i]serious[/i] game programming/development? I am currently in the final year of my undergraduate degree (Physics and Computer Science) and I am looking to start an MSc in the UK in 2012. So far I have found the following three [i]Skillset-accredited[/i] courses: [list][*][url="http://www.shu.ac.uk/prospectus/course/131/"]Sheffield - MSc Games Software Development[/url][/list][list][*][url="http://www2.hull.ac.uk/science/computer-science/prospective-students/taught-masters/msc-games-programming.aspx"]Hull - MSc in Games Programming[/url][/list][list][*][url="http://www.abertay.ac.uk/studying/find/pg/cgt/"]Abertay - Computer Games Technology[/url][/list]It would be much appreciated if anyone with experience in this area could help to compare and contrast these courses; maybe one of you has attended any of these universities or maybe even did one of these degrees? Are there any other courses that are recommended / Should I also consider courses that are not Skillset-accredited (e.g. De Montfort University) Many thanks for you help, Ben