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We'll run the UbiTtention workshop at UbiComp 2016. The workshop brings quite cool topics together including notifications and attention management. Deadline for submissions is June 17, 2016.
CHI 2016 Videos
The Effect of Focus Cues on Separation of Information Layers
Video for our CHI 2016 paper "The Effect of Focus Cues on Separation of Information Layers", written by Patrick Bader, Niels Henze, Nora Broy and Katrin Wolf.
Impact of Video Summary Viewing on Episodic Memory Recall
Video for our CHI 2016 paper "Impact of Video Summary Viewing on Episodic Memory Recall", written by Huy Viet Le, Sarah Clinch, Corina Sas, Tilman Dingler, Niels Henze, and Nigel Davies.
Attention! Smarttention?
Information overload, too many notification, too many 'smart devices' try to get users' attention? Together with Benjamin Poppinga, Martin Pielot, Karen Church, and Alireza Sahami, I'll run a MobileHCI workshop on Intelligent Attention Management on Mobile Devices.
CHI 2015 Videos
Modeling Distant Pointing for Compensating Systematic Displacements
Video for our CHI 2015 paper "Modeling Distant Pointing for Compensating Systematic Displacements", written by Sven Mayer, Katrin Wolf, Stefan Schneegass and Niels Henze.
Subjective and Objective Effects of Tablet's Pixel Density
Video for our CHI 2015 paper "Subjective and Objective Effects of Tablet's Pixel Density", written by Lars Lischke, Sven Mayer, Katrin Wolf, Alireza Sahami Shirazi and Niels Henze.
Text Entry on Tiny QWERTY Soft Keyboards
Video for our CHI 2015 paper "Text Entry on Tiny QWERTY Soft Keyboards" written by Luis A. Leiva, Alireza Sahami, Alejandro Catala, Niels Henze and Albrecht Schmidt from the Universitat Politècnica de València and the University of Stuttgart.
Investigation of Material Properties for Thermal Imaging-Based Interaction
Video for our CHI 2015 paper "Investigation of Material Properties for Thermal Imaging-Based Interaction", written by Yomna Abdelrahman, Alireza Sahami Shirazi, Niels Henze and Albrecht Schmidt.
CHI 2014 Videos
Large-Scale Assessment of Mobile Notifications
Our CHI video 2014 for our paper Large-Scale Assessment of Mobile Notifications, written by Alireza Sahami Shirazi, Niels Henze, Tilman Dingler, Martin Pielot, Dominik Weber, and Albrecht Schmidt.
Exploiting Thermal Reflection for Interactive Systems
Our CHI video 2014 for our paper Exploiting Thermal Reflection for Interactive Systems, written by Alireza Sahami Shirazi, Yomna Abdelrahman, Niels Henze, Stefan Schneegass, Mohammadreza Khalilbeigi and Albrecht Schmidt.
Delay Time for Pre-Moderated User-Generated Content on Public Displays
Our CHI video 2014 for our note I Can Wait a Minute: Uncovering the Optimal Delay Time for Pre-Moderated User-Generated Content on Public Displays, written by Miriam Greis, Florian Alt, Niels Henze and Nemanja Memarovic.
Why Android is so Awesome – for Prototypes and Research
Smartphones currently become the most pervasive computing devices of all times. They currently become even the best-selling consumer electronic devices of all. Obviously there is a huge amount of research that investigates how people use their phones and how we can improve their experience. If doing research using smartphones, an important practical question is which platform one should choose. Basically, there are three major platforms left and alive: iOS on the iPhone, Windows Phone, and Android.
Developing for Android is nice but developing for the other platforms isn't worse. While Java might not be the most innovative language it easily beats iOS's Objective C (garbage collection anyone?) and is almost on par with the .NET languages (and you could also use one of the other JVM languages). What makes Java compelling is the huge number of available examples but what really sticks out (for us) is that all our computer science students have to learn Java in the first semester. This means that every single, somewhat capable, student knows how to program Java that is even used throughout their university courses. It also comes in handy (actually this is already a real show stopper) that unlike developing for iOS you don't need a Mac and unlike Windows Phone you don't need Windows. Linux, Windows, MacOS – yes they can all be used to develop for Android (and those who like the pain can also use BSD).
Android is free and open. Sure, it is probably free like beer and not like free speech but you can still look into the code. Being able to look into your OS's source code might seem like an academic detail… One of my former students had to look into the Android's sources to understand the memory management for developing commercial apps. Having the source code enabled us to understand the Android keyboard and reuse it during our studies. We even patched Android to develop handheld Augmented Reality prototypes. All this is only possible if you have the source code available. For these examples, it might not be necessary to look in the code on other platform. Still, at one point or another you might want to dig down to the hardware level and you are screwed if it isn't Android that you have to dig through.
While developing prototypes and conducting lab studies is nice at one point or another you might want to deploy your shiny research prototype. It might be for research, it might be for fun, or just for the money. Deploying your app in the Android market takes just seconds (if you already have those screenshots and descriptions readily available). There is no approval process. No two weeks waiting until Apple decides that your buggy prototype is – just a too buggy prototype. All you need is 25$ and a credit card (and a Google Account and a soul to sell).
Market share
Windows Phone will certainly increase its market share by some 100% soon – which isn't difficult if you start from 0.5%. However, Android overturned all other platforms, including iOS and Blackberry. The biggest smartphone manufacturer is Samsung with their Android phones. They sell more smartphones than Nokia and they sell more smartphones than Apple. Well, and they are not the only company with an Android phone in their portfolio.
Fragmentation is horrible! I developed for Windows Mobile and for JavaME. Even simple applications need to be tested on different devices to hope that it works. Things aren't too bad for Android (if you don't use the camera or some sensors or recent APIs or some other unimportant things…). Fragmentation can even be great for the average mobile HCI researcher. Need a device with a big screen or with a small display? Fast processor, long battery life, TV out, or NFC? There is a device for that! There are very powerful and expensive devices (the ones you will use to test your awesome interface) but also very cheap ones for less than 80€ (that you can give to your nasty students).
Usability, UX, …
Android offers the best usability of all platforms ever – well probably not. Would I buy an Android phone for my mother? If money doesn't count I would certainly prefer an iPhone. What would I recommend to my coolish step brother? Certainly a Windows Phone to impress the girls. But what would I recommend to my students? There is nothing but Android!
Large-scale analysis of mobile text entry
There will be one billion smartphone users in 2013 and most of them will need some sort of text entry. To help people to enter text on mobile devices we aimed at studying how people type with a large number of participants. Therefore, we developed a typing game that records how users touch on the standard Android keyboard to investigate users' typing behaviour. We published the typing game Type It! on the Android Market. The game got installed by 72,945 players and enabled us to collect 47,770,625 keystrokes from around the world.
Using the data we identified three approaches to improve text entry on mobile phones. As we found a systematic skew in users' touch distribution we derived a function that compensates this skew by shifting touch events. In addition, we changed the keys' labels by shifting them upwards and visualize the position where users touch the keyboard. By updating the game we conducted an experiment that investigates the effect of the three approaches. Results based on 6,603,659 further keystrokes and 13,013 installations show that visualizing the touched positions using a simple dot decreases the error rate of the Android keyboard by 18.3% but also decreases the speed by 5.2% with no positive effect on learnability. The Android keyboard outperforms the control condition but the constructed shift function further improves the performance by 2.2% and decreases the error rate by 9.1%. We argue that the shift function can improve existing keyboards at no costs.
Our paper with the lengthy title 'Observational and Experimental Investigation of Typing Behaviour using Virtual Keyboards on Mobile Devices' that describes our work has recently been accepted at CHI 2012.
Analysis of User Studies at MobileHCI 2011
Flying back from another conference I had a look at the MobileHCI 2011 proceedings. Having seen a lot of fantastic talks I don't remember a single presentation where I thought that the paper shouldn't have been accepted (in contrast to some talks at this year's Interact, previous MobileHCI, and similar conferences). Anyway, just as for the MobileHCI 2010 proceedings I went through all short and long papers to derive some statistics.
18 short papers and 45 long papers (20 more papers than last year) have been accepted with a slightly increased acceptance rate of 22.8%. As I focussed on the subjects that participate in the conducted studies I excluded 6 papers from the analysis because they are systems papers (or similar) and do not contain a real study.
Number of Subjects
The average number of subjects per paper is M=1,969, SD=13,757. Removing the two outliers by Böhmer et al. (4,125 subjects) and our paper (103,932 subjects) the number of subjects is M=76.62, SD=159.84. The chart below shows the distribution of subjects per paper for the considered long and short papers.
Subjects' gender
Not all papers report the subjects' gender. If there are multiple studies in a paper and the gender is reported for one of the studies I still use the numbers. For the paper that report participants' gender 28.28 (SD=49.07) are male and 21.84 (SD=49.26) are female. The chart below shows the number of males and females for short and long papers (error bars show the standard error).
A paired two-tailed t-test shows that there are significantly more male participants than female participants (p<.05, d=.13). The effect is also significant if only the long papers are considered (p<.01, d=.13) but not for the short papers (p=.54). The reason why the effect is not significant for short papers is The Hybrid Shopping List. Excluding this paper the effect is also significant for short papers (p<.01, d=0.68).
Subjects' age
Not all papers report participants' age in a consistent and complete way. Nonetheless, I tried my best to derive the age for all papers. The chart below shows the histogram for the 41 papers where I was able to derive the average age. The average for the considered papers is 27.46 years.
It is a bit difficult for me to understand why papers fail to report participants' age and why the age is reported in so many different ways. Of course, the age might not always be seen as relevant and sometimes you just don't know it. However, if the data is available it is so easy to provide a basic overview. Just report the age of the youngest and oldest participant along with the average age and the sample's standard deviation. That even fits in a single line!
Subjects' background
Getting a complete picture of the participants' background is just impossible based on the papers alone. To many papers either report nothing about the participants' background or only very specific aspects (e.g. 'all participants are right handed'). Even using the sparse information it is clear to me that the fraction of students and colleagues that participate – both with a technical background – is much higher than their fraction of the population.
From my own experience I know that getting a nice sample for your study can cost a lot of resources and/or creativity. Thus, we often rely on 'students and guys from the lab' for our studies. IMHO it is often perfectly fine to use such a sample (e.g. when conducting a repeated-measures Fitts' law experiment). Still I wonder if we optimize our research for this very particular target group and if this might be an issue for the field.
I analysed the MobileHCI 2011 long and short papers to determine information about the subjects that participated in the respective studies. The number of subjects per paper is more than three times higher than 2010 even if we ignore the two outliers. One reason is that there are a few papers that contribute results from online questionnaires (or similar) that attracted some hundred participants. Even if we would also exclude these papers the sample size increased. Looking at participants' gender we found a clear bias towards male participants. Compared to 2010, however, this bias got smaller. For 2010 we found 40.89% female participants while we found 43.57% for 2011. The age distribution shows that studies with elderlies are rare.
The data seems to support my impression that the quality is higher compared to last year. The sample size and the quality of the sample have both improved. Based on my subjective impression I also assume that the way demographics are reported improved compared to last year. Thus, I conclude that MobileHCI 2011 wasn't only fantastic to attend but also provided a program with an outstanding quality.
Does the touchscreen of your Galaxy S sucks?
If it is a "Samsung GT-i9003 Galaxy SL" the answer might be yes. At least there is something strange about its touchscreen.
Recently I analysed the data we collect using Hit It! one of our Android games that has been installed more than 350,000 times. To play the game users have to tap on circles that randomly appear on the screen. While the game is played we record the user's behaviour and send it back to our server. In particular, we record the positions that are tapped by the player's finger. Looking at the hit positions relative to the presented circles we did some pretty nifty things. However, one would expect that the positions that the players tap are somewhat evenly distributed across the screen when combining a serious number of taps.
Interestingly, for the GT-i9003 the distribution looks strange. For the images below we took a random sample consisting of data from 40,000 devices from our data set and extracted the data produced by the GT-i9003 and by the GT-i9000 (a regular Samsung Galaxy S). Data for the GT-i9003 has been produced by 157 devices resulting in 170,205 taps. Data for the GT-i9000 has been produced by 2,321 devices resulting in 3,689,138 taps.
The pixels' colours show how often a particular pixel has been tapped. Green pixels are tapped often while red pixels are tapped less often. Black pixels are never tapped at all. Due to the nature of the game players have to tap on the screen's centre more often. For the GT-i9003 we see that half the pixels are NEVER tapped at all. Considering the amount of data and the small difference between the two devices (see below) this obviously can't be by chance.
The touch-part of the GT-i9003's touchscreen seems to have only half the resolution of the regular Galaxy S. Furthermore, the hardware or software deals with this limitation in a strange way. The pattern is interesting. There are two rows of pixels that can be tapped followed by two rows that are never tapped. I assume that if the finger taps an "untappable" row the input is mapped to one of the adjacent rows. Considering the somewhat strange pattern and that I can get sub-pixel resolution from the Android API I assume that it is a software problem rather than a hardware issue or probably a combination of hard- and software.
The GT-i9003 is the only device that returns that pattern. If someone owns a GT-i9003 I would be very interested to hear if the effect results in practical issues. But there are also other devices that might have some issues. E.g. there are some Optimus Ones that deserve further investigation (too much variance in the distribution) and I would also like to look at the Kyocera Zio.
Analysis of Studies at MobileHCI 2010
Yesterday I started to prepare my MobileHCI tutorial. It is basically about doing studies with a large number of subjects (e.g. >1,000) and therefore I started to wonder how many subjects participate in the average mobile HCI study. But first of all, what is MobileHCI anyway?
"MobileHCI provides a forum for academics and practitioners to discuss the challenges, potential solutions and innovations towards effective interaction with mobile systems and services. The conferences cover the analysis, design, evaluation and application of human-computer interaction techniques and approaches for all mobile computing devices, software and services." [1]
Collected Data
Using the DBLP I fetched all short and long papers that have been presented at MobileHCI 2010. 20 short papers and 23 long papers have been accepted and the acceptance rate was about 20% [2].
For each paper I determined the total number of subjects that took part in the conducted studies. In fact, there is only one paper that comes without a study that involves human subjects. In addition, I tried to determine the number of male and female subjects as well as their age. Unfortunately, not all papers report participants' age and gender. In [3] for example they conducted a study with 40 participants but I couldn't find any information about their age or gender. Other papers only report participants' age but not their gender (e.g. [4]). The way subjects' age is reported is very inconsistent across the papers. [5,6], for example, give a range (e.g. "18 to 65 years") while other papers provide more information (e.g. [7] reports that "Twenty university students (10 female and 10 male) aged between 23 and 34 (M=27.35, SD=3.10) participated in the study."). I tried to guess or compute unclear details if I felt the paper provide enough information for doing that.
Number of subjects
Overall, the average number of subjects per paper is M=21.49 (SD=19.99). For short papers the average number of subjects is M=23.20 (SD=24.95) and for long papers it is M=20.00 (SD=14.83). The chart below shows the histogram of the distribution.
Subjects' gender
As described above it wasn't always easy (or possible) to determine the subjects' gender. Based on the provided data 474 males, 328 females, and 106 people with an unknown gender participated in the studies. That makes M=13.17 males (SD=11.59) and M=9.11 females (SD=10.63) per paper that reports the gender. The chart below shows the subjects' gender for short and long papers. The error bars show one standard error.
Out of curiosity, I tested if the amount of guys and girls is significantly different. A simple paired t-test (probably not the best tool for such a post-hoc test) shows that significantly more males than females participated in the studies (p<.001, d=0.37). The difference is also significant for long papers (p<.01, d=0.57) but not for short papers (p=0.13, d=0.14).
So what?
From the analysis I learned that a number of papers only briefly describe their participants and not all report participants' age and gender. Large-scale studies are obviously not common in the community. Half the papers conducted studies with 20 or less participants and there are only three papers with more than 40 participants. With 30% more males than females the sample is clearly biased towards male participants. I, however, must admit that a large and perfect sample of the population is not always necessary. [8] is a nice example of an ethnographic study and I guess no one would complain about the small biased sample. I might talk about the different kinds of studies that are conducted next time.
[1] The International Conference Series on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services website
[2] MobileHCI 2010 notification of acceptance email.
[3] Jarmo Kauko and Jonna Häkkilä: Shared-screen social gaming with portable devices. Proc. MobileHCI, 2010.
[4] Ming Ki Chong, Gary Marsden, and Hans Gellersen: GesturePIN: using discrete gestures for associating mobile devices. Proc. MobileHCI, 2010.
[5] Simon Robinson, Matt Jones, Parisa Eslambolchilar, Roderick Murray-Smith, and Mads Lindborg: "I did it my way": moving away from the tyranny of turn-by-turn pedestrian navigation. Proc. MobileHCI, 2010.
[6] Yolanda Vazquez-Alvarez, and Stephen A. Brewster: Designing spatial audio interfaces to support multiple audio streams. Proc. MobileHCI, 2010.
[7] Alessandro Mulloni, Andreas Dünser, and Dieter Schmalstieg: Zooming interfaces for augmented reality browsers. Proc. MobileHCI, 2010.
[8] Marianne Graves Petersen, Aviaja Borup Lynggaard, Peter Gall Krogh, and Ida Wentzel Winther: Tactics for homing in mobile life: a fieldwalk study of extremely mobile people. Proc. MobileHCI, 2010.


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September 30, 2012, 06:20 PM | #1 |
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Just Bought a Bersa Thunder CC .380
Ive been needing a good Concealed Carry Pistol for a while, and have heard alot of good reports and recomendations on the Bersa, so I went out and Bought a brand new Bersa Thunder Duel Tone Concealed Carry .380 .
I have fired the pistol, and like it alot, also like the way it carries, very easy to Conceal. I dont have much experience with it but was wondering if its a pistol that will hold up to alot of carry and will be dependable for the long run. I wanted a Walther, but the shop I buy from had to order them. Im not patient. any replys will be apreciated. And please be blunt and honest as usual. |
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Yes. I think they are dependable and will hold up to whatever kind of abuse you can throw at it. I have a Bersa CC model as well.
Not crazy about the mag disconnect, but I've heard that's easily fixed, nor the high price for spare mags. But overall, I've been pleased with my gun. |
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Thanks Don
I like the Pistol seems like it will serve me well. I hope I wont need it but If I ever do I want It to work.
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I don't think you will be unhappy,,,
I have the Thunder rather than the CC version,,,
I shoot mine quite a lot and so far it's holding up very well. I buy my ammo in 500 round packs,,, I'm somewhere in my third pack,,, No problems at all with it. My Thunder 22 is the same way,,, Somewhere between 4k and 5k rounds. IMHO the Bersa's are under-rated guns. Aarond .
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I think you'll like it.
Been carrying mine since May - no holster wear yet Roughly 500 rounds, never had a failure of any kind that I didn't intentionally cause by putting an empty case in the mag Just as good as any "name brand" .380s on the market. Enjoy!
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The Bersa Thunder 380 was my first CC handgun. After picking up more potent handguns, I still rotated it through my carry guns frequently, especially in warm weather.
Had thousands of rounds through it. Thousands. It was one of the most accurate compact handguns I've ever had, and totally reliable. This past spring, it was stolen. Not sure I will replace it, since I have others to use, but I will definitely miss it. |
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Found some pics I had taken a few years back after I got my Marschall Grips installed. If I remember correctly, they are Bubinga.
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I've been having a hard time finding the cc version in the Austin TX region. Anyone know a retailer in the area that carries them?
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My youngest girl has a 380CC as one of her carry guns and its been a great pistol. I would say the bersa may not have the finish of a walther but more than likely has a better trigger, just as accurate or better and way few issues. The price is so low you can aford a few of spare mags too.
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Lots of owners and CC carriers here
http://bersachat.com After 10 posts can get 10% off on factory mags , holsters , shirts, hats ,grips and more Plus I do a give away of something for a Bersa about 1 time a month. If its for a bersa we have you pretty well covered.
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Great little guns with a good price.. Complaints seem to be few and far between but my own personal experience is its a great value and fun to shoot.
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My wife has one and she has had some problems. First it was the trigger spring. It would intermittantly pop out of position and the trigger would go limp. Sent it to some Bersa authorized repair place and they took care of it.
Now, the thing is broke again. The slide locked up while we were out shooting. It locked in the rearmost position and it would not move. Finally got it freed up and then it was just one feeding issue after another. I think she is pretty mad at the thing because I bet it doesn't even have 2000 rounds through it, and rather than get it fixed she bought a new XD. |
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Awesome little gun. I have shot thousands........thousands, of rounds through mine with no problems.
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I dont have a cc but I have been carrying a ultra compact pro 45 everyday for 3 years now. I love it with 4k rds through it it still looks and functions great and has yet to jam. It even functions with cci snake loads. They are very under rated fireams.
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09-06-2008, 10:34 AM60% of Voters Say Supreme Court Should Base Rulings on Constitution
82% of voters who support McCain believe the justices should rule on what is in the Constitution, just 29% of Barack Obamas supporters agree.
During his acceptance speech last night at the Republican National Convention in Minnesota, John McCain told the audience, We believe in a strong defense, work, faith, service, a culture of life, personal responsibility, the rule of law, and judges who dispense justice impartially and don't legislate from the bench. Most American voters (60%) agrees and says the Supreme Court should make decisions based on what is written in the constitution, while 30% say rulings should be guided on the judges sense of fairness and justice. The number who agree with McCain is up from 55% in August.
While 82% of voters who support McCain believe the justices should rule on what is in the Constitution, just 29% of Barack Obamas supporters agree. Just 11% of McCain supporters say judges should rule based on the judges sense of fairness, while nearly half (49%) of Obama supporters agree.
In terms of how the Supreme Court currently makes decisions, just 42% of voters think the justices rule from what is in the Constitution. Thirty-percent (30%) say they are guided by a sense of fairness and justice. Democrats are more likely than Republicans and unaffiliated voters to believe the justices base rulings on the Constitution.
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Heh, saying the supreme court should go exclusively by the constitution is like saying you should exclusively use your legs for walking; It's a no-brainer. Now, some can walk on their hands, but they never seem to get very far. What galls me is them cherry-picking foreign law to support their leftist views. How'd they like the same treatment in reverse? I mean, there are some interesting laws elsewhere to support a hard right turn to the law, as well.
SCOTUS and federal court appointments were the deciding issue for me in the last 2 elections. It will be the deciding issue for me in this election too.
Stand up for what is right, even if you have to stand alone.
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09-09-2008, 12:18 AMI think its somewhat terrifying that almost one third of the Americans polled were willing to say that they should not use Constitutional Rules.
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09-09-2008, 04:52 AMWTF is your point? There is a process that can be used to keep the Constitution up to date. If something needs to change, amend it. If you can't find the support to amend it, it probably shouldn't be part of the supreme law of the land.
I assume that you are only for ignoring the parts of the Constitution that you find disagreeable, or can we just disregard any part of it because it's old.
I pity you if you feel that the Supreme Court should make rulings that have broad reaching effects on the whole country based on something as fleeting and baseless as a "sense of fairness and justice". That can mean literally anything.
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Amen Tater
Look the bottom line is what Larry said it himself...Whether or not you know what haunt was doing the naked and afraid challenge, it doesnt matter, people are talking. Larry even said this site is getting crushed on a daily basis. Imagine how many people are coming to the forums seeing all this horseshit about people calling each other names and stupid. If you wanna know why we arent taken seriously its because we cant even get along for a minute on anything.
Amen Tater
calling people idiots and making character attacks is the most unprofessional thing here...not what Pat did...and as an extremely successful industry leader it is sad to be associated with this narrow minded bigotry
what pat did was make people think about haunted houses..right when we all want that to happen..
absolutely everyone has heard about this and the only ones that think it hurt anything r the ones it has helped and it has helped us all period...it put people in all of our lines..
people in our line cant stop talking about it..they want to do it...
some people r sooo blinded by their own arrogance its sad...their is no point to be made here..i say thanks Pat..thank u for helping put people in failing haunts line...
the funniest thing is how haunts that admit their business has been down for years telling someone else that they are doing it all wrong.....
so much bs on here its sickening....like facebook is not a good way to advertise...what a load of crap...please ask another boring trivia question on your fb and
tell me about how i am doing it all wrong...jeez wake up and see that stagnant content is just that.. stagnant content ...people want to be engaged...they want new exciting things..not static props and
cgi...its boring...its lame .....respectfully take this from a haunter with a different perspective ...one whose numbers are not down..from someone who doesn't have time to bash others...someone trying to help u see
a new way to be a better person and run a better haunt....theirs my 2 cents
Couple things... again switch the topic around from the point to something else that in and of itself is pointless. First off Pat in my opinion did NOT try to engage people talking about haunts he tried to drum up business for his haunt nothing more or less. Lets not confuse the reality... he's getting crushed in his local area but all the competition in his area. The PR STUNT backfired and the whatever positive PR he was trying to get is still as many of you are failing to see backfired... the pr was about a naked haunt nothing else now there isn't a naked haunt. So I'm thinking he will lose more business than he would have gained. Sorry some of you who accuse me of being drama queens are actually the drama queens... you miss the point totally. I'm still waiting for one of you to do a naked haunt... still waiting for that one.
Tim to you... maybe you think abortion scenes, suicide scenes, or extreme violence is the only thing that isn't lame but we just have to disagree there. As for you mentioning Facebook me saying its not an effective marketing tool sorry Charlie but you are a guy who doesn't even advertise at all so how would you know what works best or what doesn't? I check my sites analytic and sorry to tell you but... facebook out of the thousands of dollars you can spend on it doesn't hardly send any traffic. At the end of the day you need people to buy tickets and if they don't use facebook to buy tickets then its not an effective tool to sell tickets. Reality is Tim I think what you do is cool its daring and on the edge you keep doing that because it makes you happy, excited, and your customers seem to love exactly what you do ... that is really all that matters. But because someone else doesn't do it doesn't mean we are lame. You and I or I should you and 99% of the haunts in the WORLD have a different thing going on... they can't be compared on any level.
What you do I think is awesome and honestly if I made a list of 10 haunts I'd want to visit yours would be on it so would House of Shock but that doesn't mean I will take on the extreme themes you guys do.
Getting back to the subject matter... one of these days some of you guys will appreciate me more when I'm gone. I inspired a really divisive discussion about this matter and we saw different views, different takes and different perspectives. Reality is about 80% of everyone who posted commented about the naked haunt across the country was negative... the community leaders negative in the end that is all that matters.
My main point was the community leaders would react negative so it was a bad idea... my point was 110% proven and I stand by everything I saw 110%. If you want to invite your real boss down on your head go for it. Tim you are not above the law and neither is anyone else, if your community leaders got on your bad side your haunt would disappear quickly! As Ripley said believe it or not! But that is the point my friend.
PS: You know who is dead on the money here... SON OF SAM! And honestly its sad to divert the main point a point we can all learn from folks. This is probably one of the best things that happened in the haunt industry this year. Because we can sit here and debate this topic and debate the logic behind doing it something like it in the future. I'm excited about all the conversation that has happened... but my main point is exactly what Son of Sam said... has anyone ever talked about his haunted house and the answer is no. The PR did not help him....and again this has been a very productive debate.
There's a great bit of history that involves a journalist named Pauling Kael. After a presidential election she said that she couldn't understand how Nixon won because no one she knew voted for Nixon. Nixon won in a landslide.
Perhaps, Sam, your circle of friends needs some expanding?
Larry, do you REALLY want to know who's dead on point here? Tater.
Tater's the one pointing out that maybe our first reaction to people's ideas for their haunts shouldn't be tearing them down in public.
What are we? A bucket of crabs?
I don't consider these forums that public... I'm getting 10 interview requests a day because of this website because its the biggest website dealing with haunted houses. If someone called me about the naked haunted house I wouldn't want to discuss it. If someone called me to quote about how your haunted house burned to the ground I wouldn't say anything but positive stuff because it can have an impact on everyone. Going on national news and ripping on the idea is something I didn't do... I have no interest to discuss a naked haunted house I do however have an interest in promoting all the things I do promote about this industry.
I talk about vendors and how we are a export only industry, how our industry generates jobs, over a billion dollars, how we are better than movies, video games, how we are better than Halloween retail you name it... these are the things I talk about on a daily basis.
Read the interviews I've done all positive... I do everything to promote producers to do TV shows, articles, stories, and everything between. I'm 110% positive brother and one day when I'm gone someone will have to try and replace all that I do do... and it won't be easy. Many in this industry just have no idea what I've done for them from getting this tradeshow broken off the retail show, to starting a national PR program which now is a steamroller... I take action.
I don't sit around here and point fingers like 90% of everyone else... I make things happen. How did we get the PR machine rolling... one Halloween I read a zillion stories about sex offenders starting haunted houses and I said that was the last straw. Every story about haunts is negative... the national media needs to know about how great we are so I DID IT!
IF I LISTENED to all these naysayers none of this stuff gets done... I'm totally un-phased by people who do nothing but create drama.
Hauntworld is another thing that many people accused me of this or that now look at it... we provide more information and data about haunts than every other site combined. These are all great things.
On these forums I try my best to inspire discussion, thought, and debate to open your mind to new ways of thinking. You say groupon is great I say otherwise... we have two ways of thinking maybe we influence people to think it through.
Here is the bottom line folks... you have exactly 30-40 days to make enough money to re-open the following year, to pay your bills, to survive. We have very little margin for error... these discussion are good. Bottom line is no one from the media is readying this thread they don't have time for it news develops in a digital world quickly. They have to report and move onto something else quick... this forum is semi private because you can't view photos for example if you are not a member, you can't post if you are not a member, and its just one link on the site of 100's.
I hate to say it but you did that and good for you for doing that. But when was the last time the media really had a push for haunted houses? Pat did just that...and by using the word NAKED & Afraid Haunted House....doesnt matter what haunted house it really is. But instead people get on here and start a thread....NAKED AND AFRAID HAUNTED HOUSE WHAT A FOOL....go ahead and google that....Ill wait here till you realize that the thread does come up on google...
Ultimately Pat got the media talking about Haunted Houses in general, creating a subconscious in peoples heads. From what I can tell its a great season and people are coming to websites and going to haunted houses....Is it because of Pat? Maybe/Maybe not. But his idea got people talking and brought haunted houses to the front of the mind. Maybe we shouldnt be so quick to bash an idea that gets everyone talking
Tater has it right. On the other hand, if Pats got it right I want the first franchise. (Pat - send pictures)
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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – Garrett Ford can remember meeting Jim Carlen for the first time like it was yesterday.
Carlen, young, self-confident and speaking with that thick southern accent that made his words sound like honey seeping out of a jar, was quite an intimidating man when he arrived on campus in 1966 as West Virginia's new football coach.
"I think he was in his 20s when he got the job from Georgia Tech," recalled Ford. "Even today it's always been Coach Carlen. He came up here last year (for a Fellowship of Christian Athletes function) and I was still intimidated. I remember telling (WVU teammate) John Mallory that Coach Carlen always had you nervous. I thought he was going to send me home."
Carlen, Bobby Bowden, Frank Cignetti and Don Nehlen are among more than 700 people who will be at the Morgantown Events Center on Friday afternoon for an invitation-only luncheon honoring Ford's 44 years of service to West Virginia University.
Ford, associate athletic director for student services, came to WVU in 1964 at a time when race relations in the country were changing at warp speed. Images of Bull Connor's dogs attacking black children in Birmingham were plastered all over the evening news, as were the riots going on in Watts, Detroit and other cities around the country. It was a time of great misunderstanding and mistrust among races.
And there taking it all in was Ford, an all-everything running back at DeMatha High in suburban Washington, D.C. who was being pursued by colleges across the country wanting him to score touchdowns for their football team.
Ford said he eventually picked West Virginia over Syracuse because he could more easily identify with the people here. While on his recruiting trip to Morgantown he saw white garbage collectors for the first time in his life; back in D.C. in the neighborhood where he grew up, the whites he came in contact with had always represented figures of authority such as police officers or bill collectors.
"It wasn't pretty when I first came here, but what attracted me were the people," said Ford, admitting it was difficult turning his back on the school where his boyhood idol Jim Brown played.
"I knew (Syracuse Coach Ben) Schwartzwalder sent Jim Brown to talk to Ernie Davis and he sent Ernie Davis to talk to Floyd Little. I will never forget, John Mackey, who played tight end for Syracuse and the Baltimore Colts, he came to see me and took me out to lunch on a Friday afternoon.
"So I'm going to Syracuse, and all of a sudden Coach (Gene) Corum called me and he asked me to come to West Virginia. I didn't want to go. I didn't even know where it was. I remember Jerry West playing basketball here, but Coach Corum said I could bring a couple of friends with me and one of them was Ike Jackson. He was my buddy since the seventh grade and he will be here on Friday."
Ford performed well for Corum as a sophomore in 1965, teaming with the school's first black players, Dick Leftridge and Roger Alford, to give the Mountaineers a formidable offense in '65. But after a strong start, the team faded down the stretch and Corum resigned under pressure at the end of the season.
In came Carlen and his young offensive coordinator Bobby Bowden, another coach from the Deep South who happened to be from the worst city for race relations in the country at the time – Birmingham. It was quite easy for a young African-American to be suspicious of anyone speaking with a southern drawl, especially someone from Birmingham.
Bowden knew right away that he had to win over Ford and John Mallory, the team's two best players (who also happened to be the first two black players Bowden had ever coached), so he invited them over to his house for dinner. It was the first time Ford had ever been in a white person's house to eat and after spending a few hours bouncing Bowden's sons Tommy and Terry on his knees, and after eating Ann's fabulous cooking, Ford came to the realization that first impressions are not always the right impressions.
"Coach Bowden taught me how to respect athletes and how to deal with athletes," Ford explained. "He taught me how to be kind to people. He was a very religious person. He had the team going to church, and I learned so much from Coach Bowden. That carried over when I got into coaching and when I started dealing with people. He gave me my first job here in 1970."
Ford became the school's first 1,000-yard rusher for Carlen in 1966, but an ankle injury kept him from exceeding that total during his senior year in 1967 - as well as a longer career in professional football - his one season with the Denver Broncos already in the rearview mirror by 1970. That's when out of the blue Bowden called Ford, who was working for a bank in Boston at the time, and asked him if he was interested in becoming a college football coach at West Virginia.
Bowden had just replaced Carlen and he was hunting for a young African-American to round out his new coaching staff. Ford was the first minority coach ever hired at West Virginia University.
Ford coached all six years Bowden was at WVU and a couple more with Frank Cignetti when he came to the realization that a full-time academic coordinator was sorely needed for the football program. At the time, Donnie Young coached the linebackers and was also responsible for academics, but those on-field coaching duties consumed most of his time. One day Ford went to Cignetti and told him about the academic program Penn State had started under coach Rip Engle, laying out the case that something similar would also work well at WVU.
"I always saw a need to have somebody take care of the kids. Frank would watch film for eight hours straight, whether a snapped ball was coming back this way or that way, but I would see these kids coming in from different backgrounds and (struggling with the adjustment) of being in college," Ford explained. "Donnie Young was in charge of academics. He coached linebackers and he did academics, and I saw that you couldn't do both."
So Ford asked Cignetti if he could coach the freshmen team and also oversee the players' academic needs when they first arrived on campus.
"When the kids would come in I would make sure they got their rooms, make sure they got their books, their classes, and set up their study halls," Ford said.
In 1978, Ford started the academic support program for Mountaineer football working with players such as Oliver Luck and Darryl Talley.
"You would come across that professor who was so brilliant but he couldn't relate to the kids, well, some coaches can't relate to the kids either," Ford noted. "I really saw a need for a person to bridge that gap.
"I only did football and then after about three or four years, I went to see Dr. (Leland) Byrd and I wanted to be the academic coordinator for the entire athletic program. First of all, this is the 1970s and the white kids on the team thought I was only for the black players, so I had to find a way to let everybody know that I was there for them," Ford said. "You do it through your actions and by showing that you care. There were white kids on the team who were attracted to me, and eventually it no longer became an issue."
The second obstacle Ford had to overcome was the impression some had that he was only interested in helping the football players.
"The hardest part was going to basketball or to tennis or to track and talk to them. They saw me as a football guy," Ford said. "Even to this day, it's very important for me to make kids feel like I'm here for everybody."
Three decades later, the academic support program that Ford started in 1978 now serves more than 500 student-athletes per year in all sports. Ford said he is most proud of the fact that a high percentage of the student-athletes who come to West Virginia will eventually leave with their degrees.
"Playing sports is not a given. It's a privilege to play sports," he explained. "I really believe the key to this whole thing is getting an education. I know it sounds corny, but I think sports has gotten to be such a business and I think we've gotten away from that, and I worry about the kids coming in today because they see (professional athletes) making large sums of money and it's just unreal. That check you get playing professional sports is not the real check you get in life."
Ford says West Virginia University's national reputation has come a long, long way during his career here.
"When I came from D.C. people thought Richmond was the capital of West Virginia. Now we're on the map," Ford said. "Don brought the football program along. He had the undefeated season (in 1988) and people started talking about us. Then Rich (Rodriguez) took us to the top five.
"I remember we would go into a school and we would have to wait around until school was over (to talk to a prospect)," said Ford, recalling his days as a football recruiter. "If Ohio State went in they got first priority and we would sit there and wait for Ohio State to finish. Now when we go into a school we get respect. We can go anywhere in the country with that (flying) WV on and you are going to come across West Virginia people."
On Friday afternoon, Ford, who is officially retiring June 30, will once again come across hundreds of former teammates, colleagues, coaches and WVU student-athletes that he has touched in one way or another through the years. Ford admits it will be difficult controlling his emotions.
"I will be a mess over there," he laughed. "When you reach a certain age you start getting emotional."
Ford is proud of what he has accomplished during his four decades of service to West Virginia University, and rightfully so.
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Ford bought a place in Ocala, Fla., five years ago and he plans on spending time down there as well.
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You need to tap the image on the camera first to adjust the sharpness. Then the pictures get pretty decent. Took me a while to figure that out too
You need to tap the image on the camera first to adjust the sharpness. Then the pictures get pretty decent. Took me a while to figure that out too
I still can't get to the military outpost, those fucking turrets ain't leaving me alone.
Oh wait, now I have a legitimate long-range weapon: the crossbow.
It's seriously the shit for medium-long range encounters, a headshot will kill any human enemy including exos and it's completely silent. You start feeling like a ninja with that.
I'm so sorry, but i don't really know what you mean by "tap the image on the camera" :(
Point the camera at the image. Tap the screen, the camera will focus.
at least that's what I assume, I don't have an iphone
Well, fuck.
The Jupiter Plant is giving me heart attacks
If the Jupiter Plant gives my heart attacks, will i be able to survive the Pripyat underground tunnels and X8?
The tunnels aren't so bad, unless you're deathly afraid of Snorsks and hamsters.
X8 is... worse.
CoP's Jupiter Plant is when you combine all of Amnesia with worm food.
The underpass has it's moments but it's mood is broken a ton of times because voice actors.
X8 is a bit more intense than Jupiter but after a few moments you'll realize that going MAN MODE on everything makes it more fun and easier.
Christ, I still get flashbacks from CS:S DM servers.
So I'm playing Misery.
Out of ammo, zombies everywhere.
I like where this is going.
What spec did you choose?
Are you implying I should run away like a pussy?
Find basic and fine tools and get the upgrade for your VSK that changes the calibre to 5.45
Your life gets easier by a ton, trust me.
Remember those army cars with tons of 5.45 ammo in the Zaton bridge? They're still there.
Oh my god thank you.
Recon is pretty good given all the bonuses related to sunrise suit, and to the INFINITE SPRIIIIINT.
Also I forgot where the second basic tools kit is.
Oh, and getting energy recovery upgrades to a SEVA or something really helps you by a ton.
The sprint doesn't seem that infinite to me.
The train car with the moving electro anomaly, unless it's changed from Vanilla.
Sawmill attic, then.
Pffft, upgrading the carrying weight of sunrise suit and then going with ~20kg stuff in your backpack, you can sprint for ages. Add in the easily gained night star and vo~la, infinite sprint.
Also SKS is awesome
Nah I already got that one
You mean the Tier 2 tool kits ? Substation workshops with Hatchet's mercs and the small fenced area of the Jupiter Plant west of the Concrete Bath anomaly.
Seriously, I was kinda creeped out in X8 until the canned baby crying killed my mood with it's sheer "Boo! Haunted house!"-flavour and I have seen some veterans stalker streamers lose their shit in X8. The streamer had previously basically went through X18 like it was nothing, yet was very jumpy and nervous at X8. I think it can be attributed to the confusing layout of the lab and the fact that you cannot see the Poltergeist that is throwing stuff at you unless you know where it's hiding.
So, Misery. I've heard shit about the FoV, what value should I pick for it? 4:3 aspect ratio, if that changes anything.
I agree, the SKS is p. great in close-mid range combat and even in long with a scope (if it can have one i mean)
But once you fully upgrade a VSK-94, there is just no comparison. It's so overpowered at that point it's not even funny.
I play at 16:9 and took 83. Shit was pretty amazing.
did the misery author seriously not modify the military convoy's supplies? jesus christ
Imagine exploring the underpass by yourself in a choking environmental suit, you can't hear shit due to muted sound and heavy breathing, your visor fogs up every now and then, and your thin flashlight beam doesn't pierce the green gasses very well at all.
Just add some more side passages that go the same way as the main one but which spawn mutants, and it's perfect.
I think that's not a very large fault because the supplies there are only a one-time thing. Sure, it's kind of low effort but that's among the least glaring problems that come with the mod.
because 200 rounds of 5.45 has the potential to completely unbalance the ingame economy
personally, I liked the way in Redux the mercs holed up in the waste processing plant with a single piece of bread between the twelve or so of them
how easy is it to code food to go off after a certain amount of time? that'd make feeding yourself more of a challenge without stripping the Zone entirely of food
carbon monoxide is not green
fuck you GSC
nor is it a biohazard
seriously, after they got the chemical symbol right in CS I'm surprised they managed to screw it up this time
200 rounds would set me for the entire game in redux
Right, here we go
Ok, video tags don't work for me now. I give up.
I swear we've done this one before. Cut the junk out of the youtube link.
Use [media] [/ media] without the space
I think now you owe us a stream to prove that. 200 rounds, any combination and you can "cheat" at the start to gain them but you must not pick up any nor can you buy more.
if i wasn't so busy i would so fucking do that
if anyone can record themself doing that i'll name an NPC after you in v2.0
Anyone have a link to that reverse-patcher that was floating around?
Trying to install OGSE, but it requires 1.5, and I've got 1.6 :(
and the gauntlet is thrown down
or livestream whatever
i'll fucking do it
[h2]FOR SCIENCE[/h2]
it has to be on redux remember, otherwise it's impossible
Yo, I'm alive. A major event is coming up in a week and hopefully after that I'll be free to resume writing for Redux 2.0!
All right, so I'm thinking of recording my Redux run with Fraps. Sadly, Redux doesn't run as well as Misery to me so I'll just have to deal with the horrid lag spikes I will inevitably encounter.
Should I record the entire run or do those image story-like short clips where I summarize what's been going on and only record major events?
I don't think I have enough space for a complete run on my hard drive, I mean ;c
Thorny you better fucking make me an expert stalker
Oh and are grenades/knife allowed?
can't you livestream it?
if you can't, just show clips
I googled livestream quickly and all i got was a convoluting website.
fuck that shit fraps is way easier.
besides this way time zones won't be a problem to any american stalkers
I never got to abuse infinite sprint because my bag was always full of shit that nobody would buy.
livestream procaster
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argv is a vector of char *, right so, you want argv[1] for example.
argv is a vector of char *, right so, you want argv[1] for example.
Good. I was confused earlier because I assumed when you overflow the int atoi just left it as the largest possible value, which was obviously an incorrect assumption.
Yeah that makes sense. I corrected the code and it's all working perfectly now, if i input something like "main.exe 23498723598724985729857", strtol() sets n to LONG_MAX and new overflows, so i get the overflow error and the program exits correctly
Thanks alot matsp and Daved, great help!
By the way, why would anyone use atoi() when strtol() does the same AND checks for overflow?
Edit: Oh, and one last question, would it be better if i didn't use std::nothrow and used the exceptions correctly, does it matter in a small program like this?
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I think the reason atoi exists at all is that it was created (a long time) before strtol().
As I described, you can actually check if the number overflowed by looking at "errno" after strtol() - not that it REALLY makes much difference if someone entered some huge number...
If you add using namespace std; after your #includes you don't need to prepend std:: all over the place.Oh, and how is my program style-wise
You could use std::auto_ptr or some other smart pointer to prevent memory leaks. i.e.:
Then you'd have to remove your own delete [] code since the auto_ptr will delete it for you.Code:auto_ptr<int> Input_ptr( new (std::nothrow) int[n] ); // instead of: Input_ptr = new (std::nothrow) int[n];
Get rid of all those nasty C-functions and use std::stringstream:
Code:stringstream str; str << argv[1]; unsigned int n = 0; str >> n; if ( str.fail() == true ) { cout << "Error converting argv[1] to unsigned int!" << endl; }Not exactly. It's an array of char*Originally Posted by matsp
argv is a vector of char *, right so, you want argv[1] for example.
This will make a programming style worse not betterIf you add using namespace std
To be or not to be == true
Bad. What if n is negative? The loop condition will be false and you will then attempt to allocate a negative number of objects on the heap. Bad things could happen.Code:/* Check to see whether or not the first parameter is a number greater than 0 */ if(!n)
If you want to "Check to see whether or not the first parameter is a number greater than 0" then do just that.
If you put it in a header file or before an #include you are right, but other than that it's perfectly fine.vart: This will make a programming style worse not better
I'm gonna have to disagree with you on that one, when using namespace std; you bring each name and symbol from the std namespace into scope, so if i use a name for a function or variable that is in the std namespace, without me knowing it, it might lead to some clashes. I thought a bit about using "using std::cin" and "using std::cout" but i just think my code looks alot prettier the way it is now...
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As the doctor says, "Then don't do that."
If "using namespace" was universally bad, it would not have been put in the language. When I use it, I tend to use it within a function scope, not module scope:
Keeping it at the function level makes it easier to apprehend all the names which might be used and therefore makes clashes much less likely.Code:void some_function() { using namespace std; ... }
At any rate, reusing a name from std:: is a bad idea. Namespaces weren't invented to be a pain in the ass, making you type std:: everywhere. They were invented to help avoid name clashes between external libraries. In my opinion, std:: should not have been created in the first place -- it all should have gone into the global namespace.
I never said it was universally bad did i? Correct me if i'm wrong but i believe that the reason it was put in the language is so that you don't have to type out std:: all over the place when recompiling legacy code. Why put a bunch of functions into the scope if you're only going to be using maybe 5 or 6 of them anyways, imho, if you're going to be "using" anything, only do it with the stuff that you're actually planning on putting in your code, like "using std::string" and "using std::swap" and so on.
It will only clash with names that you #include. If you only #include <iostream> and decide to use variables named 'string' (a bad idea since you might decide to use STL strings in the future) then there won't be any problems.
If you do have name conflicts (extremely unlikely in my experience) then you have two choices:
- Rename your variable or function to something else.
- Explicitly specify the namespace that the name belongs to (std:: or whatever:: )