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Why, it is a well known fact that high temperatures stresses the hardware. Therefore, temperatures above the working limits (~70-100°C) should have an impact on Wireless transmitters as well.
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One would think from reports today that the UK's secretary of state for the environment and rural affairs, MP Caroline Spelman, had lost her bleeding mind. Spelman has been widely quoted about a new report from her agency, Defra, about the threat to infrastructure from global climate change. It covers the extremes of temperature and the routine occurrence of heat above a normal range for the UK, and more storms and severe weather that could ravage Great Britain.
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Nonetheless the report's broader issues were overlooked because of a focus on an exceedingly tiny statement buried in it that Spelman highlighted in a speech unveiling the work. Her prepared remarks have her saying:
Our economy is built on effective transport and communications networks and reliable energy and water supplies. But the economy cannot grow if there are repeated power failures, or goods cannot be transported because roads are flooded and railways have buckled, or if intense rainfall or high temperatures disrupt Wi-Fi signals.
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Why, it is a well known fact that high temperatures stresses the hardware. Therefore, temperatures above the working limits (~70-100°C) should have an impact on Wireless transmitters as well.
Wi-fi runs on the 2.4 ghz spectrum, the same one that microwave ovens use, and microwave ovens work by exciting water molecules. What's the air full of when it rains? Or when it's foggy? The higher the ghz, the more sensitive they are to atmospheric conditions also..
Lots of other side effects could be considered, for example, warmer temps and more rain mean taller trees, which definitely interfere with radio signals in the ghz range.
Badly worded, but not wrong in any sense of the word.
Microwaves work by exciting anything with a dipole moment that is placed inside of them. Water, fat, and sugar are part of your more common foods. And the 2.4Ghz frequency isn't really that special. It's more likely that it was chosen because it is an open FCC frequency and given how high it is shielding becomes much easier. (In reality a lower frequency would be better as it would allow deeper penetration and more even cooking.)
Hotter air is able to hold more water vapor, which would lead to more scattering of an electromagnetic signal. Similar issues can be seen when it's raining, as the rain acts like a moving screen, obscuring the signal.
I've noticed problems with most radio signals in the ghz range when the weather conditions are not ideal, I just used the wi-fi microwave example because it's an easy way to relate the idea.
There's some effect from rain. It's like going through trees or people. You're more likely to see attenuation of signal from a poorly connected cable or one that's badly terminated.
I know people who've designed public and large-venue Wi-Fi systems, including Coachella, where they've had 100 degree weather in April. They don't consider temperature when they design the layout of the site. .1 Watt radios with a range of 100 yards aren't going to need network redesigns for a half-decibel drop-off.
This is, as Glenn says, not about Wi-Fi
Anecdotally, I've encountered the problems of weather interfering with wireless internet. I live in rural Canada and my only option for speeds better than dial-up is to go with a wireless provider. When it's raining or extremely humid I generally notice a severe slow-down of my bandwidth, and sometimes I'm cut off entirely.
I understand there seems to be some overstatement of the impact the climate may have on wireless. I can only surmise that the MP is trying to draw more attention to the problems of climate change by dropping a term that will be recognized by a wider range of people?
Good article. But while the Conservatives may be no republicans, they are far from environmentalists. While their rhetoric has been green their actions are more a dirty brown – they've gutted key green targets like the aim to build a million zero-carbon homes and have scrapped the Sustainable Development Commission which was meant to hold the government to account on green issues.
For more on this take a look at: http://www.foe.co.uk/news/greenest_government_ever__30665.html
More of a question than something that I'm certain of: given the absorption and scattering of 2.4 GHz microwave radiation by water molecules, and given that warmer air can contain more moisture, is the increased amount of water in hot saturated air significant enough to degrade communications? Once again, its not the heat as much as the humidity.
Do I smell Nobel Prize here.
Even the actual reports are pretty vague, but I'm pretty sure that most of the actual concern is over cell phone networks. The one mention of WiFi seems to be a reference to a WiFi network on a National Rail line, which was damaged by a freak ice storm.
Am I the only one who is perhaps a tad sceptical regarding this? I have worked in telecoms in some of the most extreme locations in the world and have not experienced significant outages when temperatures have been >50C and humidity levels so high that waving your hand through the air leaves it dripping OR doing the same results in a risk of frost bite. The issue is one of what is 'normal' and building systems that are able to cope with the abnormal. With the UK, the overall infrastructure (like the US is experiencing) has had little investment in upgrading or maintaining it. A chiller system that has worked efficiently without failure for a lengthy period WILL fail if it is suddenly having to jack up its power usage and operational 'on' time. Were the systems built properly in the first place, most of these failures would not happen. The US is one place I anticipate there will (sadly) be some significant failures – bridges, power grid etc – due to zero or poor maintenance.
One particular US problem that I have never come to terms with is the power lines being above ground on poles. Particularly in areas prone to ice storms. The cost of outages and the need to rebuild are significant. Why not put them underground where other countries do this?
@HotPepperMan: Why skeptical? The report is saying the same as you. Infrastructure built for one climate can fail badly when exposed to a different climate. Looks like many countries are going to have to learn this the hard way.
I live in a place where it's 40°C to 50°C all summer, and electronics go belly up very quickly. Battery life, in particular, is a fraction of what it is in less extreme climes. Non-electronics, like houses and roads, don't fare very well either.
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Maybe this is just an excuse, I think that while she does not like your wi-fi technology is disconnected, you can create a new better technology that can penetrate the rain or needs it for transportation, I think the world of technologies, there is still much to be discovered and that there are still bigger and more powerful technologies to discover and I would like to join one of these desubrimientos revolutionaries.
Maybe this is just an excuse, I think that while she does not like your wi-fi technology is disconnected, you can create a new better technology that can penetrate the rain or needs it for transportation, I think the world of technologies, there is still much to be discovered and that there are still bigger and more powerful technologies to discover and I would like to join one of these desubrimientos revolutionaries.
My WIFI is much less reliable in heat and rain. Heat because the router hardware overheats. Rain most likely because of the 2.4 ghz issue (it seems to work a bit better at 5 ghz, but that could just be new hardware). Also on the moisture issue, I have had computer hardware ruined by humidity–just try explaining how the inside of your laptop rusted to some "genius." Those of us who live in the center of a continental mass, what I call the "intemperate zone," have learned to deal with it–mostly through ubiquitous air conditioning, something many Europeans have never felt the need for previously.
In the VHF and UHF radio ranges (the 2.4 GHz frequency band used by many WiFi devices is in the upper UHF) there's a type of long distance propagation called tropospheric propagation, which is weather-dependent. In hot, humid weather VHF & UHF signals can propagate very long distances, especially along weather fronts. I suppose it would be possible for this to happen to WiFi signals, which would increase the interference your WiFi network would experience, with a consequent degradation in its performance.
One way or the other, this article tried to make a "the Internets" meme, and to put Caroline Stelman as a fool, and failed in grand.
Actually, this is critiquing Spelman's sloppy explanation and credulous media accounts. No memes need apply.
Does anyone know what plant species that is in the pic there?
It's beautiful and I wish to grow this at my home.
It appears to be a fascinator that escaped the royal wedding and got stuck to an asparagus spear.
Anyone who doubts the effect of humidity (in particular, fog) on WiFi has never lived in San Francisco and stolen service from a neighbor…
I am an Extra Class Ham radio operator.
I am licensed by the FCC to build and operate high powered radios on the 2.4ghz ham frequencies (and all other ham freqs).
This article is beyond ludicrous. Its outright propaganda and BB should be ashamed for running it.
This should really read about how Spelman and colleagues sold the English public down the river over our publically owned national woodland and forests. How she received a resounding 'No' from the public about the blatant sell off of our national woodland heritage and admitted that a rethink was in order, only to then do a complete u-turn a couple of months later! Welcome to UK PLC where even our natural heritage is for sale to the highest bidder. She and her contemporaries say they care about our environment in the shadow of global warming with this report in one hand, but then try to flog our dwindling natural landscape to the highest bidder with the other.
A few hundred years ago you could walk the entire length of the British Isles from Lands End to John O'Groats and not break tree cover. Now, we have only 12% cover thanks to rampant deforestation, out of control suburbanisation and unchecked development. By comparison, France has 29% cover and Germany 32%.
She should pull her finger out and stop producing sketchy reports about what might happen and start looking at positive reforestation that will not only soak up man made CO2 but also mend the mess caused by previous generations to our landscape.
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In many ways, the first 50 years of Steamboat Ski Area can be distilled to a collection of memorable days spent skiing deep powder.
Glorious days spent carving up perfectly packed snow in the sunshine are uplifting, but aren't the days that find a permanent place in the frontal cortex of our brains the really big powder days?
Tom Barr, better known locally as T Barr, is easily the most photographed skier in the first 50 years of Steamboat Ski Area. A veteran ski instructor who also taught the first-ever snowboard lesson at Steamboat, T Barr also is one of the most stylish skiers you'll ever see.
His most memorable powder day was spent on a snowboard, and it was a short one — the powder day, not the board. After one screaming run down Tornado in January 1996, T Barr shut it down because he knew it never could get any better.
"It's not about quantity," Barr said. "It's about quality."
Some monster powder days are just that — one-day events that sneak up on skiers and riders. Take, for example, Feb. 20, 2012, when the all-time record 24-hour snowfall of 27 inches was burned into the minds of everyone who was free to ski on that Monday in an otherwise forgettable snow year.
However, many of the biggest powder days of the past 50 years came in the midst of multiday storms, when the snow was piling up faster that skiers and groomers could do anything about it. It's at that point that the skiing, and the snow, begins to feel bottomless.
Just last month, Steamboat Ski Area enjoyed a very productive storm cycle. In the four-day stretch of Dec. 16 to 19, 37 inches accumulated at midmountain and 47 inches piled up on Storm Peak. But there have been longer storm cycles — storms that seemed like they never would end.
For anyone around in the early 1980s, November and December 1983 never can be forgotten. That was the season of 40 days and 40 nights, when measurable snow fell in every 12-hour period. Yes, that was a storm cycle that would have caused Noah to take action. When the sun finally came out during the first week of January, the spruce trees above 9,500 feet on Mount Werner looked like druids wearing white cloaks.
However, the greatest snow cycle of all, at least in the past 20 years, lasted virtually the entire month of January 1996, when Steamboat set its all-time monthly snow total of 216.5 inches. There were days that month when certain black diamond runs were not steep enough to ski on the narrow sticks relied upon in those days.
T Barr was smart enough to be snowboarding on the day of days.
"That one day, I can still remember it," Barr said. "It was the fourth day in a string of five double-digit power days. I got up there early enough to get one of the first three or four chairs on Storm Peak.
"There was nothing to do but strap it on and go straight down underneath the lift line, and people were hooting and hollering at me. I get to the bottom of Tornado, and it was so good, I said, 'I'm going back to work.'"
An hour later, he had a brush in his hand and was painting a house — with a big, snow-eating grin on his face.

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Those are some nice pics BCJ! I'd like to get out and see that in person, hopefully one day, I will.
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I guess this is a site of homebodies.
Thank you, Slick. I've taken your advice and so far, so good. I also price checked with the competitors. Everyone has the same fare (for the most part). A week from today I'll be "standin' on a corner...." at the end of the first leg of my trip.
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From August 16-22 I had my first real vacation (not just 3-4 days off) since November. I traveled, but it wasn't all rest and relaxation. I was helping some jerk (Cappy) move from Michigan to Colorado. Sunday consisted of help him pack up the van in 95 degree weather. Next was two days (Mon & Tues) in an uncomfortable moving van through 800+ miles in two of the most boring states I've ever seen (Iowa and Nebraska). Then, a grueling day (Wed) lugging stuff up to a third floor, nearly killing myself in the process due to a lack of oxygen. Finally, a day (Thurs) of getting up at 4 am to begin the approximately 12 hour journey home, via 2 planes and a car ride. So I got to relax on Friday and Saturday.
Looking back, as horrible as it seemed at times, it was actually pretty fun
Also, we got take a little break and to meet another SSGer on Monday evening, pbarnard, which was very cool.
And I'm really looking forward to the last two weeks in October when I'll take another two weeks, even though I'm not planning any trips.
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And, wow, RB! Cappy's going to have a long commute to go see Wings games with you on the weekends! I had no idea he was becoming JJL's neighbor!
Any chance he'll become and Avalanche fan?
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Rio may have gotten the Olympics regardless of President Obama's ill-advised junket to Copenhagen to lobby for Chicago's bid for the 2016 Summer Olympic Games. Chicago did not even make the first round and it was Barack Obama himself along with Mayor Daley's Chicago machine that caused the stinging humiliation.
Kai Holm, a former Olympics committee member, told the newspaper (translated): "The fact that Barack Obama came, could not do it. I think we lacked emotion, it seemed too empty and business-like. So when Tony Blair promoted London he was around three days to lobby and talk to people. You can not just come with the train one day and try to affect everything. People have felt that it was a lack of respect for the Olympics and sport in general. I think people felt it was too business-like to get into the way we have now seen it many times, and you would have feelings back."
Obama came across as the classic ugly American who arrogantly swept in thinking he and Chicago were entitled to take the prize simply on Obama's mystical powers of persuasion. Obama wrongfully thought that jetting in on Air Force One giving a speech then quickly jetting out would be enough to woo the IOC into submission. Was he ever wrong.
This inexperienced President missed the first rule of negotiations. Never send the the President to seal a deal unless you know beforehand it's a done deal. Since Obama has never run anykind of organization he and his staff were unaware of this basic tenant or too arrogant to think about it.
The Olympics does not reach the level of negotiating with Iran or North Korea on nuclear weapons but you can bet these countries are encouraged by the real or perceived weakness of Barack Obama and thus the President's humiliating failure has severely damaged the prestige and credibility of the United States.
Advise to IOC members, watch your kneecaps.
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I heard Kyle say in a promo he wasn't going home. More often than not, the contestant who says that elimination night does just that. I believe Jennifer's a lock, so hopefully they get her over with.
Please let Bristol go home!
Derek's back to annoying me, too. Brandy/Maks look tense.
I wish the finale was this week. I want this season to be over :lol
Brandy/Maks get the encore :yay
:yay for Maks and Brandy, it is about time!
Here we go. Maks/Brandy don't look so happy, but, yay!, they got the encore!
I know. That has me worried :( Mark's the only other one onstage that looks half way concerned, but it could just be annoyance.Quote:
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DAD? I forgot all about that. They really turn that into a season long ordeal.
I'm sure they know about the spiteful thing Bristol said publicly this morning...I wouldn't be too happy either.Quote:
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They sure didn't look happy but danced beautifully. :yay for Annie Lenox!
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May 17, 2013 | By Marshall Pruett
Not difficult, not stressful, not frightening at all. The car was really good. It went through Turn 1 absolutely fantastic, no worries at all. With that particular car, the car was well set up and so well balanced. We ran it trimmed out as much as we could. It was crazy trimmed out, but still the car was still planted. I never had a moment with that car. If you look at other qualifying runs, when I ran the following year with the new IRL cars and I qualified on the pole at 218.263, that's when I was really always nervous going into 1. ARIE ON HOW TURN 1 WAS NEVER FLAT FOR HIM IN QUALIFYING, EVEN WHEN SETTING THE RECORD:
I sat on the pole three times at Indy, and not one of those times was I flat out in Turn 1. I trimmed out the car to the point where Turn 1 just wasn't flat out. Simple as that. But I did have a lot of speed down the straightaway, of course, and I was able to take the other corners flat – maybe not all of them flat – maybe Turn 4 was a little bit of a lift, too, at one point. Turn 1, I remember that, I really had to work up during qualifying. I did get a little bit more speed as the laps ticked down, but the first lap was always a bit slow because I really had to feel out Turn 1. What was it going to do? Because it just wasn't planted. 237 mile-per-hour qualifying lap, I was flat out four laps every other corner and just I was playing with lines in Turn 1, entered a little bit earlier, entered higher. I was playing with lines to find the best speed because I was able to do that because the car was so good. ARIE ON WHAT HE CONSIDERS A 'LIFT' TO BE:
Well, it all depends how the car is used because if you enter the corner too quick, let's say you don't lift, and the car feels a little nervous in the rear, you might spin out. But you don't want to lift too much as the car is loading up on the right front. So you really want to lift just gradually and right after you've turned in you kind of lift a little bit and get back on it. We're not talking huge lifts here, so it's not something that's upsetting the car. We're talking maybe 10 to 25 percent lift for a very short moment. I don't even know how long. I never really studied the data, and I definitely wouldn't remember it. But it's not a long lift, not a big lift, it's all very short. So when you lift a little bit, it's not like it really upsets the car, but you just have to lift a little bit to keep a certain balance going through the corner. In other words, so you get it to oversteer because if you run that ridiculously low amount of downforce you're going to maybe lose it. ARIE ON ONE OF THE TURN 1 (AND OTHER CORNER SECRETS) AT INDY:
What you strive for when you want to go fast at Turn 1 is you want to turn the steering wheel the least you can because anytime you turn to the left you can scrub off speed. So what you strive for is getting the turning in done quickly but not too aggressive and then start to unwind as fast as you can. And when you make the car in neutral, you have to do that. See what I mean? If you set it up to understeer, you're going to have to turn the wheel more and you're going to basically scrub off speed. So a lot of times I would turn in and turn back in the middle of the corner, I had to turn in a little bit more then turn back again. So it's not really like I'm correcting it, but in a way I am. But that's all to keep the RPMs and momentum going, and that's how you get the speed out of it. It's cool. I mean, you, a lot of times, you're correcting in the corner in a way, and it's really cool in a way, flowing through the corner. Maybe I should unretire. ARIE ON SMOOTH DRIFTING AT 237 MPH THROUGH TURN 1:
It's not really opposite lock. It's a balancing act is really what it is. You go through the corner, the car gets a little wide, and you have to kind of turn in a little bit more now to get it to go and to get it to stick and unwind. So you're always trying to find that spot where you can unwind. So you're always trying to unwind as much as you can, and sometimes when you're doing it, 'Oh, shit,' you've got to turn a little bit more because you're headed toward a wall. And it happens all very quick, and it happens in very small amounts, and it's all very precise, it all slows down, basically. You're going so quick it slows down, and it becomes smooth. So there's a lot of ways not to go fast, but smooth is one of them to go fast, and basically trimming out the car is another one. ARIE ON HOW ANYTHING LESS THAN 237 MPH FEELS SLOW!:
We got to the point where we ran 232 pretty quickly. And then you go to 235. When you accomplish that by trimming it out, you lower the car, trim it out, less toe in, less toe out, whatever to stop the scrub. Then when you run 235 and you warm-up, let's say you warm-up, which is leaving the pits, and the next time you're ready you are on it because of the downforce level. And you do a 232 and without even looking at the numbers you go like, "It doesn't feel as quick as the 235." So you notice that, when you go a certain speed, you notice immediately that you're going 2 miles an hour slower or so. ARIE LUYENDYK ON USING ENGINE REVS INTO TURN 1 TO PREDICT HOW THE REST OF THE LAP:
I also can hear it, it's not just feeling it, but you can hear it, that it almost sounds more wound up than before, and, man, it's going to be a good one. And you know it's going to be good. ARIE ON TURN 1 FEAR:
Turn 1 has always been… If the car is decent in the other three corners and the son of a bitch is good in Turn 1, it's a pretty scary corner because with the change of wind and with the change in temperature, so many things have an influence on the handling of the car that Turn 1 scares me more than other turns, let's put it that way. ARIE ON HIS VERSION OF BLIND FAITH INTO TURN 1:
It's just daunting. It's just daunting. You arrive there, and you're not 100 percent sure of the car, you're like: "Oh, I wonder what's going to happen now? Because I'm not so sure it's going to do what I wanted to do." And you always have the opportunity to lift. You do that; you have that. And the moment you turn in, immediately as you turn the steering wheel, it gives you that feedback what it's going to do. So you can always do something about it. But sometimes you can't; I hit the wall there, so... ARIE ON THE POWER HE HAD AVAILABLE FROM THE 2.65-LITER FORD/COSWORTH XB TURBO V8 FOR HIS RECORD RUN:
They said 900-plus horsepower and 13,000 rpms, but I do know that in CART we were using the latest Cosworth XD, and we were using the XB at Indy and the XD cars got about 40 horsepower more. I was like, "Man, I need to get one of these new ones," but they wouldn't allow us by rule because we would have been able to run 240 on our own with another 40 horsepower, for sure. Whatever we did in straight-line speed, we did it in cornering speed, as well, so we gained more average speed. Can you imagine? 240 mph through Turn 1?


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The Probable Future
The Probable Future
Ballantine Books, Paperback, 9780345455918, 336pp.
Publication Date: June 1, 2004
Women of the Sparrow family have unusual gifts. Elinor can detect falsehood. Her daughter, Jenny, can see people's dreams when they sleep. Granddaughter Stella has a mental window on the future a future that she might not want to see.
InThe Probable Futurethis vivid and intriguing cast of characters confronts a haunting past and a very current murder against the evocative backdrop of small-town New England. By turns chilling and enchanting, The Probable Futurechronicles the Sparrows's legacy as young Stella struggles to cope with her disturbing clairvoyance. Her potential to ruin or redeem becomes unbearable when one of her premonitions puts her father in jail, wrongly accused of homicide. Yet this ordeal also leads Stella to the grandmother she was forbidden to meet and to a historic family home full of talismans from her ancestors.
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Take creativity further with a powerful zoom and professional lens- Fast f/2.8–f/3.7
- 12X (36 mm–432 mm) SCHNEIDER-KREUZNACH VARIOGON Optical Zoom Lens to zoom in fast and get crisp shots
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Kodak EasyShare P712, 1/2.5", CCD, Red-eye reduction, mmc,sd, LCD, Backlight, Beach, Candlelight, Documents, Fireworks, Landscape, Museum, Night landscape, Night portr
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Kodak EasyShare P712. Image sensor size: 1/2.5", Sensor type: CCD. Flash modes: Red-eye reduction. Compatible memory cards: mmc,sd. Display: LCD. Scene modes: Backlight, Beach, Candlelight, Documents, Fireworks, Landscape, Museum, Night landscape, Night portr, Photo effects: Black&White, Sepia, Image editing: Crop, Resizing
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Permutations with repetition using Excel
The back story
Recently I have been trying to limit my use of VBA. It's not that I was addicted and needed to go to VBA-rehab, on the contrary, I still love VBA till death do us part. But the thing is, every time someone opens an Excel sheet with VBA macros they are reminded of Excel's vulnerability and the risks of macros.
So I set out to make workbooks that do the same thing, but without VBA. Not always is this possible, or efficient to do so. But when it's possible, it also comes with great performance and great stability. No code needs to be changed, ever. Of course there are also downsides. It's not as flexible as VBA, so you're stuck in a rigid framework that solves one thing and one thing only. But it does it so well, oh my.
My latest endeavor was with permutations. I needed something that would generate all permutations of the tokens F,C,R,A (don't ask) with repetition. As some know I am an avid speed cuber, that is solving the Rubik's cube for speed. And the Rubik's cube is a permutation puzzle. So I have dealt with permutations quite a lot. For those who haven't paid attention in math class: you should know that permutations come in two flavors: with repetition (Pr) and without repetition (P). The number of permutations (Pr) in these four tokens F,C,R,A is 4^4, or 256. That number is exponential, so it grows so fast that at 5 tokens you are at 3,125 permutations and at 6 tokens at 46,656 permutations. At a set size of 10 tokens you are at 10^10 or 10,000,000,000 (ten billion) permutations. VBA would surely choke on that number of statements to follow. Excel can handle 1 million rows, although I wouldn't put it to the test with that.
A clean slate
I started out writing a VBA program, that generates all permutations (Pr). The funny thing is if you go online and expect to find a bunch of worked out examples of algorithms, you don't. Almost all examples you find are about permutations without repetition, which is like working with real objects, since you can't duplicate real objects. The lottery is a good example of this. The program worked, but it was slow, and cumbersome. So let's drop VBA and try it without.
First, I set out with some settings (sheet 'settings'). We define the pattern, and calculate the size of the set (using LEN), and the number of possible permutations (using Length^Length). These values will be used extensively in the functions to generate permutations.
The maximum length of the pattern is set to 5, which totals 3,125 permutations, an amount which Excel can handle in the blink of an eye. You could extend the grid to a width of 7, which would come to 823,543 permutations. I'd be interested to know how fast Excel would generate the output, and how big the file would become. If you try it out please let me know.
Formula frenzy
Go to the output sheet and look at the grid on the right. There you see in the top row a couple of simple formulas. They are to set the repeat cycle of that column. In the first column you see a token repeated once, in the second column 4 times, in the third column 16 times. We're multiplying by Length to set the repeat cycle. This is an easy way to generate permutations of any set. Think of how it works with regular counting. You start with 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9, and then go one digit to the left, and you repeat, but now in cycles of 10, so that 10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19 has exactly 10 times a 1. We're using the same principle.
Our basic generating formula is as follows:
If you don't know MOD, this is a function for modulo, also called the remainder after performing division. The MID function gets a character from a specified position in the string. The column with N is simply to count and use the MOD function properly.
By using absolute referencing we are now able to copy the cell E4 to all other cells in the grid, while keeping a properly working formula. With a pattern of length 4 we can ignore the last column, which is only needed for a pattern of length 5.
In the settings sheet you will see a width and a height. By selecting the range starting at E4 with that width and height, we get exactly all permutations in the set.
Alternatively, on the left, there is a table with all tokens concatenated in one string, for ease of use. The formula for this is:
Using FCRA as a pattern we can now see all 256 permutations in column A!
Perfect permutations
Well, permutations without repetition are actually a subset of permutations with repetition (P < Pr). In a permutation without repetition you don't have any duplicates. So for the tokens F,C,R,A a valid Pr would be FFFF, but it's not a member of P. You can only get a member of P by swapping original tokens. So e.g. FRCA is a member of P. That's why the number of items in P doesn't grow as fast as in Pr. Four tokens gets to 4*3*2*1=24 permutations. This is called a factorial.
If a token set does not contain duplicates we can easily filter out the permutations we need. E.g. in the set A,A,B,B we still get duplicates in the list, and so we can't filter. But in F,C,R,A it's quite possible using Excel. The formula used is a but difficult though, and requires some thought:
=SUM(IF(FREQUENCY( MATCH(OFFSET(E4,0,0,1,Length),OFFSET(E4,0,0,1,Length),0), MATCH(OFFSET(E4,0,0,1,Length),OFFSET(E4,0,0,1,Length),0)) >0,1))=Length
Here, OFFSET gives us a dynamically defined range, which is handy, because we don't know how long the pattern is beforehand. In this formula, Length is the size of the set (aka the length of the string). Both OFFSET and MATCH return multiple values, so it's impossible to split the formula into more cells, but just for clarity, let's view it in condensed form:
=SUM(IF(FREQUENCY({FFFA}, {FA})>0,1))=Length
What it does is it totals the frequencies of each character in the set, so in this case it returns 2, and then checks to see if it matches the length (4). If it matches we have a permutation. Note this only works for patterns that have no repeating tokens, like FCRA.
Using named formulas we can simplify the long formula to:
=SUM(IF(FREQUENCY( MATCH(tokens,tokens,0), MATCH(tokens,tokens,0))>0,1))=Length
…where tokens equals OFFSET(E4,0,0,1,Length)
Now we have a formula to detect permutations. Unfortunately we still have duplicates, because our table always has 5 tokens and we might have a shorter pattern, like our example FCRA. So we use an IF to detect empty cells in column A and we can now use Excel's filter (On the ribbon choose Data, then Filter) to get all permutations.
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Using named ranges and worksheet functions in Excel VBA
Bold Brackets
A couple of days ago I saw something in an article on StackOverflow, that blew my mind. I can't find the article anymore, but I do remember what this one neat trick was, that will for ever change your VBA. It's called a named range, and I found out I had always been doing it wrong. So have you, most likely.
Have you ever written something like this?
s = Application.WorksheetFunction.Sum(Range("A1:A10"))
You thought you were quite smart, using SUM to add some values together that would have taken a loop in VBA. You petted yourself on the back, took a beer, and applauded yourself for you being awesome. Well, you're not awesome. This is lame. You suck. Ok, maybe not, but watch this:
s = [Sum(A1:A10)]
It's incredible! This gives the exact same result. You may wish to prepend with a sheet name, so it's an exact reference. You can use any kind of name inside the square brackets. So, if A1:A10 is named 'records' in Excel you could rewrite this code to
s = [Sum(records)]
Note that with this notation we don't use double quotes around the name of the range.
Vanishing Variables
A quite mighty use for this, is that we can now write code with a lot less variables, if we let Excel do the work for us.
- make a new sheet
- name it 'variables'
- make three columns: name, value, description
Now you can fill the table you just made with all kinds of settings, constants or calculations that you want to use in your elaborate VBA program.
I am a lazy teacher, and I have a lot of students, so I work a lot with short macros that can help me get more spare time. Here's an example:
For Each subfolder In FSfolder.SubFolders If subfolder Like "Student *" Then [studentNr] = Right(subfolder, 6) If Not FileExists([sClass]) Then FS.createFolder [sClass] End If FS.MoveFolder subfolder, [newFolder] End If Next subfolder
In line 3 I fill the named range 'studentNr' with a value taken from a folder, which contains a student number. In the next line, I check if a folder for that students' class has already been made, and if not, I make the folder. The variable [sClass] does not exist in my code. It only exists in my variable table in Excel. The cell contains a VLookup function to find in which class this student is currently enrolled. Similarly I have a [Teacher] variable, also with a VLookup function. NewFolder is simply a concatenation and formatting, which is also easily done in Excel.
As you can see, the values for [sClass], [Teacher] and [newFolder] are filled automatically by Excel, and I don't have to process anything.
Programming like this in Excel is a new paradigm. You don't churn out all your code top-to-bottom as you used to. You create sheets with lots of calculations, lookups etc, and then you make a tiny program that links all this together. Excel can do some crazy fast, complex stuff, and you should never have to program those anymore!
Crazy Caveats
Well wasn't that incredible? You may not be used to programming like this, and I recommend this method only for experts. You should be in full control of the worksheets, or otherwise someone will mess with your program. Also, when you are part of a team, you should make sure this 'magic' is elaborately documented in the code (e.g. in a header of the function mention which Excel named ranges are used).
Good luck.
Learn more: FastExcel Blog
How to fix the document map in MS Word 2007
The Document Map! That horrendous, horrible, horrific horror! It never does what I ask it to, it never shows what I tell it to show, it constantly messes itself up beyond recognition. It's like a crazy guy beating himself up, I keep thinking of Fight Club. The first rule of Document Map is you don't talk about Document Map. And yet, I am going to talk about it.
Today I suddenly found out the magic trick, the silver bullet that fixes the problem that had haunted me for so long.
As any professional MS Word user, I use the map extensively, even though its quirks pester me constantly. It's just too powerful to let go.
What are its problems?
- Outline works, as long as you have very strict usage of headings. A lot of documents fail this, especially if they aren't created by yours truly (ahem).
- Titles show no outline numbering, even though it's definitely there. This is more an annoyance then an outright problem.
- The map is not updated. Grrrrr.
It appears Microsoft has put some fuzzy logic in the document map. Now most of the time I don't really care about MS's guess at what I want to do. If I press TAB then most of the time I actually want an indent. If I type 'Teh' I do mean 'The'. And of course, I know how to disable that behavior.
However, the document map seems to magically create non-existing headings from my text, and not in the farthest corners of options and settings is there mentioning of the document map doing this. It's like an easter egg, but not a very funny one.
And then I did what I often do when cleaning up documents. I pressed "CTRL+Q+SPACE". If you don't know this trick, it's the ultimate cleanup action. It removes all and every formatting. I had the map open because I was about to do some things with headings when I noticed after pressing 'CTRL+Q' that the item disappeared from the map, as it should because it wasn't a heading! Then, by not continuing with CTRL+SPACE I retained the original formatting (bold in this case).
Before you select all text and press CTRL+SPACE remember it wil turn lists into regular paragraphs, so make sure to just do this on the items that need to be removed from the map. If that still doesn't work continue to press CTRL+SPACE. You will lose formatting, which you should recreate using styles. And if that fails make sure to press the Normal style button to revert to the default formatting.
The second problem appeared to actually be a bug. A heading right after a page break will not show its numbering. Well, that's minor and you can always select 'page break before' in the style settings.
The third was related to both 1 and 2, perhaps it won't happen again. I hope so, I really do.
Try it out and let me know of any other problems you encounter with the document map.
Update: someone created a macro for fixing the document map!
Here's the slightly modified code for this (I added a progress counter):
Sub ResetOutline() Dim currentParagraph As Paragraph Dim numParagraphs As Long Dim percentComplete As Byte Dim oldPercentage As Byte Dim n As Long numParagraphs = ActiveDocument.Paragraphs.Count n = 0 For Each currentParagraph In ActiveDocument.Paragraphs percentComplete = Round(n / numParagraphs * 100, 0) If percentComplete > oldPercentage Then Debug.Print percentComplete & "%" Application.StatusBar = "Processing... " & percentComplete & "% complete" DoEvents End If n = n + 1 currentParagraph.OutlineLevel = currentParagraph.Style.ParagraphFormat.OutlineLevel oldPercentage = percentComplete Next currentParagraph Application.StatusBar = "" End Sub
A physics model of a physics model
One of the hardest topics in school next to computer science is physics. Time and again I see students struggle with the topics, and I have to admit I didn't find it easy in high school myself. So I started studying physics again using Khan Academy, and gained much insight into the basics. I have admired Sal Khan since he started his site, and as a school teacher I also think I should help him, and my students, wherever possible.
I started drawing a diagram of how all things in physics connected to each other, and while doing that, I realized there should be software to do this better. After a short search I found the wonderful D3 toolkit, based on web standards, just as I like it. D3 can create awesome diagrams, graphs, infographics, you name it.
So now I have for your pleasure and learning aid a physics based overview of common physics quantities. Click the image to see the actual animated model.
Some tips on how to use it:
- Click the diagram to automatically redraw it
- Drag nodes to change the layout
- Mouseover a node to see related info
Use in physics assignments
The colors in the diagram denote related quantities:
- blue – essential axiomatic units m, l, t
- green – related to movement
- orange – related to energy
- red – related to a single unit
To use this diagram in your physics assignment, look at the known variables. Find those in the diagram. Now see if you can combine those to make more variables: follow the arrows. If you can start from two known values you can usually calculate a third. You continue doing this until you have found the desired outcome.
Salman Khan is the smartest man in the world
The world is changing. At some point in the future, says Ray Kurzweil, computers will be more intelligent than humans. He thinks it will happen in the year 2045 to be exact. That's a scary thought, but he could be right. Many say he is the smartest man in the world.
But today I realized that Salman Khan is ahead of him. Khanacademy is an online tutorial for everything including math, biology, economics, chemistry, physics, history, and more. And Khan made all videos himself.
But not only did he do that, he is expanding at an exponential rate, to offer his courses to classrooms. And that could revolutionize education.
And all of that… for free, because he is filthy rich anyway, and doesn't care about making more.
World changing: Khanacademy. See for yourself.
Why I don't like the Facebook Like button
First of all, I hate the "Like" button. However, I have to be honest, I hated the "fan" button even more. Now I am not just being negative. Let me give you some background on this.
The Fan button
The first time I saw the "become a fan of …." button on Facebook I didn't know what to think of it. I started thinking, OK, so what am I a fan of. I soon realized it's a very short list, that also changes over time: Rubik's cube, Aikido, House, Monk, Rush, Led Zeppelin, and some others some to mind. But to say I am a fan of e.g. Harry Potter is quite exaggerated. So, reluctantly I clicked the fan button for "House" (the TV show, not just any house). The next thing I knew I found myself drowned in messages about (from?) my temporary favorite TV show. It's just plain stupid. I do want people to know I like the show, but not get stupid messages all the time from it. So I stopped being a fan of anything else.
The Like button
I was happily surprised when Facebook decided to change the Fan idea to a "Like" idea, thinking they must have heard some voices echoing my thoughts. Unfortunately though, the button still does the exact same thing: squirting out a barrage of nonsense messages. I soon found out though that now it's quite easy to hide those messages without losing your 'like' status.
Google Reader
Another thing I am fan of is Google Reader. Ever since I got a new PC I never felt like installing applications. I realized that even though compiled software is faster, and sometimes has really nice features, using online software just works anywhere, and is good enough for me. Also I have been moving around between computers more, so it becomes quite necessary to synchronize application status. But that's another story.
Google Reader has had a "like" button perhaps even longer than Facebook (can anyone tell me if that's true?). And since Google Reader doesn't followup the click of a "like" with a barrage of nonsense messsages, I was happy to click "like". After a while though, I found out that on the top of my 'suggested reading list' were a hole bunch of really stupid posts. I thought: "there must be something wrong with Google's algorithm". And then it hit me: Google uses the "like" button to learn what you want to read. But I had been using it all wrong. I clicked "like" usually when something was really, really funny. And so Google decided I was mostly interested in humor. And that's pure BS. I like a joke once in a while, but not all the time, when there's interesting serious news ahead. And it was impossible for Google to tell what I found really hilarious and what I found just plain stupid (a sense of humor is not a computer's strong point).
So I revised my like-button-decision-making-process and was happily surprised when only weeks later Google had adapted itself back to a more serious note, and I could suffice with reading the top 50 or 100 items, and send the rest of the news to a peaceful death.
Still, I was faced with another issue: once in a while I read interesting news about natural disasters. But I found it morally appalling to mention to Google that I liked the fact that over 200,000 people died in Chili, or that dozens died in a freak accident. But I learned the hard way now it's wrong to think that way, we have to redefine the "like" button to an "adjust-neural-net-weight"-button, even though that sounds a lot more complicated.
Now what's next?
I am going to continue clicking 'like' for everything that I wish to associate myself with, or wish to receive messages about in the near future. My advice to readers: please realize that there is a commercial incentive to all this 'liking': ads will always be tailored to the user, wherever possible. And Facebook nor Google can do this properly when it doesn't know what you 'like'.
So far, I like where it's going, though the wording is wrong in every single way.
How to ruin your website in 10 steps
I have worked for almost 10 years in web development now, and here's what I have learned from the clients: you can ruin your website too!
Here's how:
1. Get the cheapest designer you can get. If your nephew says he can do it, let him do it. It's not that hard.
2. That being said, you can also do it yourself. Why pay for some fancy designer when you can buy or get a template. And HTML+CSS is easy, right?
3. Even cheaper, copy someone else's site and just change the text.
4. Don't start a forum or community. There are a lot of people out there ready to say nasty things about you.
5. You should get a CMS if possible. Then you can control everything yourself real easy, and choose any font and color. Did you know with a CMS you can just copy straight from MS Word? You can make sure people notice your links by using a big red font.
6. Don't listen to any advice from your designer. They're just after your money, not to help you.
7. If it looks good in Internet Explorer, then you're done. There are so many browsers there's no keeping up with it, and most people use IE anyway.
8. Almost everyone has broadband, so keep your images in high quality. Browsers resize them anyway when they display them.
9. Tables are cool. With tables you can get layouts done that are really hard without them.
10. Get as much information from your visitors as possible. When they sign up, ask for name, gender, location, email, interests. You can even sell that information later and make a good profit.
And all of the above will help you to get the lowest possible position on Google. But there are companies that can help you to become #1, just wait for the 'offers' to come in.
Adrian Monk and the case of the crippled DVD driver
Finally solved all computer problems, where nobody else could. After having Infoman have a look at my PC they said it was a virus, and it was repaired, but the problem (sudden reboots) kept occurring. In addition, my DVD player didn't work anymore. I opened the case and found a dangling cable end, almost touching the motherboard. I think when the fan started blowing, it would sometimes short-circuit the MOBO (it's a guess still). Anyway I secured it and the problem is now gone. 2 weeks, no reboot.
The broken CD player was a problem with an application named 'HotSpot Shield'. Actually a pretty good app that enables you to access all kinds of sites that are blocked in your country (e.g. Veoh, Hulu, some YouTube vids). But, the thing came with very annoying ads so I uninstalled it. A couple of days ago I bought a wireless router and setup a network. All went well, but the connection dropped suddenly. I checked the TCP/IP stack and saw 'Hotspot Shield' as a layer in there. Damn! I said: "He's the guy".
Here's what happened (Adrian Monk style): "At first we thought it was maybe a virus causing this, but cleaning with plenty of scanners didn't resolve it. The next suspect was the hard disk, but even chckdsk /r didn't solve the problems. Then we suspected the drivers themselves and reinstalled and updated all drivers. That didn't work. But then we found HotSpot leaving a trace in network settings. Hotspot Shield needed to intercept all traffic in order to make sure it looked like it was coming from the US. So it put itself not only in Program Files, but also as an add-on in browsers, and as a layer in TCP/IP. That interfered with the built-in modem driver, which then failed. The modem driver looked for another resource and used one that conflicted with the DVD drive. After removing HotSpot from all network settings and uninstalling the DVD driver, it came back automatically and started responding again. Patient saved, and HotSpot put away."
The Real Sixth Sense – digital meets real life
While Microsoft is playing with their $10,000 surface table, MIT creates a $300 alternative that does more. It's a wearable device aptly named Sixth Sense that lets you interact with the digital world, in awesome ways. Just watch…
5 breakthrough technologies that will go mainstream in 5 years
This is my list of 5 technologies that you probably don't know about yet, and that will go mainstream in less than 5 years. I'd like to check back here in 5 years to see just how right (or wrong) I am.
1. Online rendered games
OTOY delivers server based live rendering. That is a cool thing that can enable live playing of console games that you don't own. Of course it can also be used more professionally by e.g. architects and film makers.
2. Peer to peer hosting
Opera recently announced Opera Unite, their server-less website technology. Although it may not be Opera itself that brings this mainstream, it will certainly change the world. Currently websites are all hosted and delivered by servers not owned by ourselves. The middleman known as ISP will always be in between, charging for services, blocking stuff at will, and basically controlling our behavior on the internet. We (that is everyone) don't like this, and it needs to change. P2P (peer-to-peer) technology like BitTorrent is key to this, but only supports file sharing. What is needed is web-sharing. Opera Unite is still very beta and techie, but once a "publish button" is available, that could well change. You don't need Flickr to share pictures with friends, really. But we do need powerful technology like PHP, Java, .NET to be integrated. Javascript alone doesn't make for the most interesting sites.
3. Augmented reality
It will take a bit longer than just software, but the world is advancing fast to a point where we can start using this. Simply glasses with small screens on the inside will work. GPS in your phone and netbook help to render relevant scenes laid over the exact location you are at. "Assisted reality" may be the first step: point your phone to a product and see it's specifications, price comparison etc directly on your phone's screen.
4. Flexible displays
This is another one that I envision to arrive on the market soon (a couple of years). You just roll up your e-reader, or roll it out of your netbook. It's already for sale.
5. Online software development
Sites like topcoder, guru, but especially oDesk will become the trend. But the people you hire will not be unknown to you. Through social networking, virtual presence and web cams they will be much more part of the company then just outsiders. This will require a change in culture though. Currently people are quite 'scared' of showing their face to someone on the other side of the Ocean. But just like social networking it will grow quickly.
Things that will go unnoticed
- social networks – ok, they've already made it, but they will not change drastically, and you notice a fatigue starting in everyone who has had the facebook rush for a while. The close circle of friends will continue, but 900 friends? C'mon. Facebook/twitter will end up in Google's or Microsofts hands anyway.
- Google wave – It's the marriage of IM, picture album, bulletin board and email. I believe it actually will take over as the next version of GMail, but it will not be much more than that.
- Wolfram Alpha – one of the latest hypes. Ultimately just one of the places people may go to to find answers. Will probably be bought by Google anyway.
I had no place for it on the list, and it may take more then 5 years, but solar power will also make it, eventually (within 10 years).


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By Rhonda J. Miller
PBN Staff Writer
The sustained growth of Granite Telecommunications since its launch in 2002 – about 20 percent per year with strategies designed to keep up that pace – has caused the company to put out a message from its new Lincoln facility that Rhode Island business leaders and residents like to hear – "We're hiring."
The Quincy, Mass.-based company relocated its Rhode Island staff of eight that were previously in Smithfield to the larger facility in Lincoln in December.
The company is in an aggressive hiring mode, with 150 jobs open across its locations in Massachusetts, Georgia, Florida and Rhode Island.
Granite has already hired three new employees in Lincoln and has interviews scheduled during January, with plans to more than quadruple the current 11 employees.
"The growth of the company demands that we bring on additional qualified sales representatives," explained Granite Telecommunications Rhode Island Branch Manager Paul Goodwin, who has been with the company since its founding and in Rhode Island since the office opened at the same time. "In terms of the products we're selling, the core products, and the future products we'll be selling … we really need to get a strong team of about 50 salespeople here in Rhode Island."
Granite Telecommunications' core business is buying phone lines from companies like Verizon and AT&T and managing and maintaining business phone networks. A substantial portion of the company's client list consists of multilocation companies, particularly retailers, such as Wal-Mart, J.C. Penny, Bob Evans restaurants, Outback Steakhouse, Goodyear Tires, Bridgestone Tires and Yankee Candles. There's another major customer – the U.S. Postal Service.
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text: The Elemental Weapons wiki last edited by Dapski418 on 08/19/13 09:52PM View full history Overview Elemental Weapons are a common factor of many video games. They can range from a sword to a gun and use a wide range of elements. Sometimes they will gain their power from magic and other times it is just technology. These elemental factor is often used to increase the power of weapons, adding specific effects, like flame to burn, ice to freeze, acid to dissolve, lightning to paralyze, etc ... And Also as a strategic element since some enemies can be more or less vulnerable to a specific element. It happens that some elemental weapons are needed to solve an enigma that can unlock a passage for example. Some elemental weapons can be combined to obtain a new effect or simply having a bit of both proprieties but in a less powerful quantity to make the weapon more versatile and less specialized. Magical weapons These weapons can gain elemental proprieties when using a magic power on it to add the wanted effect (this effect is temporary) or mixing the weapons materials with some magical gems with an associated element to have the power permanently with the weapon. Some other Weapons are naturally magic like the Thor's hammer that is electrical and throws lightning bolts. Technological weapons These weapons exits for some while some others are completely fictional, they are generally energy and chemical weapons, when it comes to projectiles they can use the most suited process to obtain the wanted effect and increase the range of weapon. For example we should use some napalm container to obtain a fire effect while we should use a compact generator to generate lightning effect.


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