text: Regarding Opteron performance and performance in general. To the Opteron users out there, would you mind sharing your experience to date regarding Opteron performance? It would be particularly interesting to hear - what the problems are (if any), - kernel comparisons preferably in quantifiable terms (e.g. RH vs Suse vs GNU 2.6, NUMA and O(1) scheduler support etc), - real benefit of hypertransport etc. I'd suggest to leave compiler comparisons out. What bothers me primarily is that you have to run a benchmark many more times than usual to get the best performance on an Opteron. I've heard other people also mentioning "strange" Opteron behaviour. I'd actually suggest to report a standard deviation error with every performance figure. I've seen as large as 50% deviation in performance from run to run. Here is one sequence of serial performance for example (time in seconds, Opteron244,Suse with 2.4.19 kernel): 3254, 2579, 3258, 2582, 3258, 2658. Clearly if I state that the Opteron can do the job in 2579 sec it makes little practical sense because in 50% cases it will do 26% slower. I tested the same executable with GNU 2.6.8 kernel and was pleased to observe much smaller deviation (about twice as small but then I could not get quite the same best performance I had before: 2632 vs 2579 previously). I must admit that the application is memory bandwidth hungry and generally the more the application is memory intensive the higher the deviation. In the case above some of the memory had to be used off the second cpu. Also in a parallel application the kernel issues are more likely to be blurred out because of the averaging across many cpus. It is reasonable to imagine that had Opteron a better kernel the performance could have been better too. The latest disappointment was to observe CPMD performance on a quad Opteron 848 (2.2 GHz) vs a dual Opteron 246 (2 GHz): (CPMD 3.9.1, wat32 benchmark, run 1/ run 2) serial performance: 1963s/3395s vs 2204s/3466s - alright Opteron 848 is quicker. parallel: 223s/378s (4x4) vs 218s/360s (8x2) - Opteron 246 is quicker. How much should I expect from HT anyway? If it is not again about proper kernel support then I'd be better off having dual Opterons if I need to run CPMD. Kind regards, Igor I. Kozin at dl.ac.uk CCLRC Daresbury Laboratory tel: 01925 603308 http://www.cse.clrc.ac.uk/disco


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Newport Harbor senior Crystal Morales' life changed dramatically Tuesday as she was walking home from school.
Just last week, Morales wrapped up an intense project as an editor and actor in a short student film. On Tuesday, the shy and creative teen was critically injured in a suspected DUI crash.
The 17-year-old is scheduled to graduate this spring and possibly enroll in Orange Coast College culinary classes or in film courses, said her mother, Gloria Morales.
Speaking from Western Medical Center in Santa Ana, where Crystal is in a medically induced coma, Gloria's voice breaks up as she talks about her daughter.
"She is just one of the sweetest, most loving, caring individuals anybody could ever meet," said Gloria, 33, who added that Crystal, for some reason, also likes to cook alone. "She'll have us come home when the house smells so good, and she'll just be eating all by herself."
Gloria said Crystal loves to bake cakes "with tons of frosting," recalling her daughter's passion for baking.
The Morales family lives in Eastside Costa Mesa. Crystal's younger sister, a sophomore, was down the street when Crystal was hit, but didn't witness the accident.
Gloria learned of Tuesday's crash when someone called her at her office; she works as an executive assistant in Newport Beach.
Crystal was crossing Irvine Avenue after school with a few classmates when a black Chevy Tahoe hit her, throwing her several feet and critically injuring her, according to the Orange County district attorney's office. She sustained head trauma, internal bleeding, brain swelling and other internal injuries.
The driver, 38-year-old Marnie J. Lippincott, was allegedly on drugs and alcohol, the D.A.'s office said. She has been charged with felony driving under the influence and causing injury.
Lippincott's son also attends Harbor.
Until she can review the facts, Gloria said she didn't want to comment on the case.
Crystal has been at Harbor for all four years of high school, and attended Ensign Intermediate School before that.
Last week, Crystal and two other students turned in a short film on bullying — a major project that involved hours of editing. As one of the actors and a primary editor on the piece, she would devote time between classes, said Lisa Cermak, her film teacher.
She also spent two weeks this summer in an intensive film academy course, where she learned how to create a silent film.
"She's been very dedicated to learning how to edit and learning how to use the equipment," Cermak said. "She's creative, and she has what she wants in her head … We're just trying to get her to apply it to the arts."
Crystal's classmates are planning to tape get-well greetings that her family can play at her bedside, Cermak said.
Crystal acts outside of school as well. She works part time at Chuck E. Cheese's on Harbor Boulevard, where she sometimes dresses up as the mouse himself.
She's petite, though, so sometimes two other employees hoist her on their shoulders to get the kids' attention, her mother said.
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Laura Krifka's work feels both classical and contemporary– a collection of myths that transcend time, stuck on the spin cycle from one era to the next. There is a soft religious quality in each face as he or she slowly responds to pending doom, lurking out of view. Such off stage suspense, feels exactly this way– theatrical.
The dramatic cliche breathes with familiarity, reminding us of our own cyclical head space in relation to history, story archetypes, life, and to our own animalistic emotions or neurotic human obsessions. It's why we make art and why we repeat ourselves generationally and artistically.
Of her paintings, Krifka states, "I create a world populated with naive and innocent figures acting out their own legend, blind to the dangers around them or those that exist within themselves. In my work the fantasies and clichés of our own world combine and breed, creating a hyperbolic landscape populated by a society lost in their own myth."


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The Democratic U.S. Senate primary presents voters with a clear choice: Elect a pro-jobs candidate who's willing to work with his counterparts across the aisle, or just another liberal in lockstep with our senior senator, Elizabeth Warren.
Unlike Ed Markey, a career politician, Stephen Lynch has actually worked in the private sector, following his father as a member of Boston's Ironworkers Local 7. He labored as a structural ironworker for 18 years before getting into politics.
Being in the construction trade, he also knows what it's like to be unemployed, and why it's so important that this economy continues to expand, creating jobs in the process.
Unlike his opponent, he's keeping an open mind when it comes to the Keystone XL Pipeline, which in addition to creating another oil source, would generate thousands of construction jobs.
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The Republican Senate primary offers GOP and independent voters three distinct alternatives, all of whom have something to offer.
Son of immigrant parents, Gabriel Gomez is the embodiment of the American dream. The former Navy Seal and private-equity specialist wants to give something back to the country in which he's thrived.
On paper, Michael Sullivan certainly has the credentials to be a U.S. senator -- former U.S. attorney, state rep and Plymouth County district attorney -- but his conservative social philosophy simply won't play in this primary, never mind the general election.
Dan Winslow, on the other hand, has accumulated a well-balanced combination of political, judicial and private-industry experience.
The current state rep from Norfolk was also Gov. Mitt Romney's chief legal counsel, following that with several years as the presiding judge in Wrentham District Court. He also served as an adviser to former Sen. Scott Brown, as well as a senior member of a prestigious law firm.
While known as a fiscal watchdog, like Brown, he'd be willing to work with Senate Democrats in the best interests of the country. Born in Northampton and raised in Amherst, he's also the only candidate of either party with roots in the western part of the state, which should add to his appeal.
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thedotmaster wrote:To the above posts - can you help how you feel in relation to pedophiles? I'm guessing not.
Now, what if the pedophiles just can't help how they feel? Because I'm sure that's how it is.
Now of course they ought to constrain themselves, but then you do to in relation to killing them
I'm not supporting pedophilia, don't worry, I just like to see both sides of the story.
Killing them however is harsh - nobody should ever be killed for a crime they commit.
Murderers generally have had problems when they were children etc. The ideal approach would be to keep them incarcerated until they have been assessed and if possible treated. However, this is far too idealistic - it couldn't be done. So jail is unfortunately the best option.
But capital punishment is a bad option because there is always another side to each story - you might say "I honestly can't understand or justify why anyone would do this?" but that is you being stubborn, and not wanting to understand.
STUDIOny wrote:I completely agree. They are human, and not all bad people (Most, but not all). They can't help what they like.
People who can't help it, and try their best to keep it under control, fair enough. Its when they take their fantasy's too far and start doing things they shouldn't...
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Definitions of wear
n. - The result of wearing or use; consumption, diminution, or impairment due to use, friction, or the like; as, the wear of this coat has been good. 2
n. - Same as Weir. 2
v. t. - To cause to go about, as a vessel, by putting the helm up, instead of alee as in tacking, so that the vessel's bow is turned away from, and her stern is presented to, the wind, and, as she turns still farther, her sails fill on the other side; to veer. 2
v. t. - To carry or bear upon the person; to bear upon one's self, as an article of clothing, decoration, warfare, bondage, etc.; to have appendant to one's body; to have on; as, to wear a coat; to wear a shackle. 2
v. t. - To have or exhibit an appearance of, as an aspect or manner; to bear; as, she wears a smile on her countenance. 2
v. t. - To use up by carrying or having upon one's self; hence, to consume by use; to waste; to use up; as, to wear clothes rapidly. 2
v. t. - To impair, waste, or diminish, by continual attrition, scraping, percussion, on the like; to consume gradually; to cause to lower or disappear; to spend. 2
v. t. - To cause or make by friction or wasting; as, to wear a channel; to wear a hole. 2
v. t. - To form or shape by, or as by, attrition. 2
v. i. - To endure or suffer use; to last under employment; to bear the consequences of use, as waste, consumption, or attrition; as, a coat wears well or ill; -- hence, sometimes applied to character, qualifications, etc.; as, a man wears well as an acquaintance. 2
v. i. - To be wasted, consumed, or diminished, by being used; to suffer injury, loss, or extinction by use or time; to decay, or be spent, gradually. 2
n. - The act of wearing, or the state of being worn; consumption by use; diminution by friction; as, the wear of a garment. 2
n. - The thing worn; style of dress; the fashion. 2
n. - A dam in a river to stop and raise the water, for the purpose of conducting it to a mill, forming a fish pond, or the like. 2
n. - A fence of stakes, brushwood, or the like, set in a stream, tideway, or inlet of the sea, for taking fish. 2
n. - A long notch with a horizontal edge, as in the top of a vertical plate or plank, through which water flows, -- used in measuring the quantity of flowing water. 2
The word "wear" uses 4 letters: A E R W.
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I love the idea of turning a closet into a usable studio space or office. Here are some inspiring ideas for a closet makeover!
This one below is by Fancy Frugal Life. She has lots of great space-saving ideas in her post here. P.S. Don't you love how she painted a chevron print to her table top?
Here is another closet studio/office by Marcy Penner. Lots of ideas from her space can be found here as well.
This office in a closet is a former one by Kelly Rae Roberts.
Country Living has a series of photos showing ideas for transforming a closet into a studio space here. One is shown below. I like how even the closet doors are used to the max!
This studio in a closet, below, was found on Pinterest. The source link doesn't seem to work, so if anyone knows the original source, please let me know. **Edited: The studio below belongs to Debee Campos. Thanks, Hagit!


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Definition of fjord
n. - See Fiord. 2
The word "fjord" uses 5 letters: D F J O R.
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Before the 1980s, abstract painting typically embraced pure form — gesture or geometry as something self-contained, insulated from outside contamination.
Over the past generation, however, another practice has bumped that insular, aloof idea aside. Conceptual abstraction flings open the door to the world and everything in it.
"Painting in Place," a scruffy yet ambitious exhibition organized by LAND (Los Angeles Nomadic Division), is the latest to survey the widespread and invigorating territory. Thirty artists show 47 works in the old Farmers & Merchants Bank downtown. The range of styles, materials and subjects couldn't be more various.
What holds most of it together is the location. Given the gross prominence of the marketplace in every nook and cranny of our Gilded Age today, looking at art inside the broken-down quarters of a ruined bank has inescapable resonance.
Farmers & Merchants Bank was L.A.'s first incorporated bank, dating to 1871; its historic flagship building at 401 Main St. opened in 1905. The distinguished architectural firm headed by Octavius Morgan and John A. Walls conceived a formal Classical Revival design, once standard for any stately temple of finance. Massive Corinthian columns, sturdy pilasters and an imposing pediment over bronze front doors fairly shouted authoritative values of conservative tradition on which banking then relied.
Boy, are those days over. The site was shuttered as a financial facility a quarter-century ago — just around the time that banking metamorphosed into something more closely resembling a corporate casino operation than a trustworthy fortress.
Reagan-era deregulation, the Tax Reform Act of 1986, unsound real estate lending and other origins of the savings and loan catastrophe opened fissures in a tight system that was put in place in the wake of the Great Depression. In the exhibition, Sarah Cain's gorgeous mural "Runaway" brings it all back, tethered to the similar, even larger banking debacle of more recent vintage.
"Runaway" is painted on a 15-foot-tall window in the center of a side wall in the main banking hall. The glass and the window's sill, casing and sashes are covered in white acrylic, its crackled surface letting shards and splinters of bright afternoon sunlight flicker through. The surface softly glows, becoming as atmospheric as a billowy cloud.
Flanked by gilded pilasters and elegant chandeliers and crowned by a semicircular top, the painted window has the imposing presence of a Mannerist altarpiece in a grand European church. Mannerism is the art that put instability and stress into play with the idealized sophistication of Renaissance art. Cain's work does too, with 20th century Modernism assuming the old Renaissance role.
Cain splashed and sprayed multiple colors across the pristine but cracked white surface in an exuberant, worldly display of abstract graffiti. The mural's swoops, squiggles, checkerboards and dribbles merge bits of Kandinsky, Klee and Pollock with vivid street tagging and the worn cast-offs employed by artist Jessica Stockholder. Two double-X lengths of string, one hot pink and the other lemon yellow, add dimension, landing somewhere between conventional signs for kisses and delicate cancellation marks.
Ephemeral, since the mural won't outlast the exhibition, "Runaway" zigs and zags between being fugitive and being out of control. By itself the painting is enough reason to see the show.
But there are many others. Like all sizable group shows, individual works vary in interest. Yet "Painting in Place" conceives of painting loosely — mainly as anything that has some paint on it, plus a few things that don't — offering lots of pleasures.
The surface support might be canvas, as in Barnaby Furnas' big "Untitled (Rummy's Flood, May 19)," a great whoosh of crimson dye bleeding over a grim black field, or Julian Hoeber's double-sided paintings suspended from the ceiling. An elusive logic seems to have dictated the Hoeber paintings' design, which is almost as sculpturally constructed as David Hendren's visually clattering wall assemblage of protruding wood, glass, painted jute and fluorescent tubes, providing its own bright internal light.
Linen is stretched over small, thick, 11-by-4 inch frames to become 122 bricks that Monique van Genderen neatly stacked in two piles placed on low platforms. Decorated with gold leaf, the little paintings become Fort Knox bullion — both actual and metaphorical.
The support might be vinyl, as in a wiggly linear rainbow of multiple colors by Olga Koumoundouros that slides down a wall, across the floor, up a second wall, across a window and up to the mezzanine, where it peters out at the ceiling. (Articles of clothing are stuck in the paint along the way, like fossils in an oozing tar pit.) The bank's floor is the support for Gary Simmons' big rectangle of chalkboard paint, which picks up footprints in the residue of erased chalk, like memories of lost lives.
Free-standing walls constructed from wood or metal are incorporated into diverse paintings by Matt Greene, Mark Hagen, Sam Moyer and Kon Trubkovich, variously underscoring that context always frames the meaning of any work of art. Something similar happens with Jim Lee's 14 varied paintings on canvas, wood and metal — large and small, flat or three-dimensional — which lean against a plastic laminate counter; it's as if the old bank were an art gallery's back room or a corner of the artist's studio.
Jacob Kassay hung a wide, irregularly shaped, upside-down "U" of stretched linen over double doors that open onto a hallway leading to the rear gallery; the materials of a painting frame life's mundane passage. Flanking Kassay's installation, shiny black aluminum panels by Vincent Szarek are fitted into two doorways, their mirrored surfaces allowing only the illusion of transition.
Art historian and curator Pepe Karmel, writing recently in Art News magazine, persuasively argued that the marvelous proliferation of Conceptual abstract painting in recent decades can be understood primarily by its thematic content, rather than by any formal evolution. He identified six basic artistic themes, all plural.
They include cosmologies, landscapes, anatomies, fabrics, architectures and signs — all of which can be discerned in "Painting in Place." Not everything in the show makes specific reference to the bank building's decrepit site or its grand history. But none of the works are remotely utopian — or, for that matter, dystopian.
Those two poles, perfection and squalor, once dominated abstract painting. Like Cain's resplendent window painting "Runaway," which simultaneously invokes conflicting states of rampant excess and lost bohemianism, a runaway society and a yearning to run away from it, neither now holds sway. Conceptual abstraction is instead a vehicle for how we think about where we are.
And, as Karmel observed, about where we might want to go.
"Painting in Place," Farmers & Merchants Bank, 401 Main St., (646) 620-8289, through July 31. Closed Sun. through Tue. http://www.nomadicdivision.org


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Jimquisition: The Creepy Cull of Female Protagonists
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Fine, we'll have to agree to disagree. For me, what it comes down to is this: Bioware treated their female and male characters (who are fundamentally identical in every way apart from what's happening between their legs) differently. And I'm sure we have a word for treating people differently based purely on their sex...
Jim! You can't just claim that female protagonists never initiate any intimacy or have any agency and completely ignore Kerrigan in Heart of the Swarm.
It's one of the biggest franchises around, and it's was only released about two weeks ago. How can you not be aware of such a glaring counterexample to your thesis? Did you record that a month ago or something?
It's called Remember Me, something Capcom is working on right now and the subject of those penny arcade interviews Jim sampled. The thing around her neck is, if I recall correctly, some sort of lock to make sure her evil overlords keep her in check.
After I saw the video I had to think of "No one lives forever", a brilliant game starring secret agent Kate Archer.
The game was heavily stealth based, humourus and story driven. There was a second part that was even better, and then they released a standalone addon: Contract J.A.C.K.
No stealth, just action and the protagonist was ... well, you guessed it, a guy.
Agreed completely on how weird it is that people don't want to see a female character they're controlling kiss a male character because that's "gay", but want to buy all the games with a big hunky dude on the cover. That and the whole "no female protagonists or females on boxart" is pretty creepy. Not as creepy as that ending, mind you (does anyone have any mind bleach? :p), but still creepy.
Anyway, just want to throw this out there: did publishers ever stop and think for a second that the reason games with female leads don't sell has little to do with a female lead and a lot to do with the game sucking ass? I'm just thinking off the top of my head here for games with female leads, and I'm coming up with stuff like Wet, Amy, X-Blades, Heavenly Sword, and most of the Tomb Raider games (not the newest one, but the other ones like Underworld and whatever the awful PS1 ones were called). Stuff I didn't like not because eww a chick keep her away from me so I don't catch the cooties, but stuff I didn't like because the games sucked ass to varying degrees. Then I can think of Portal, which was of course fucking excellent and everyone loves it, and Trace Memory, another great game but one that probably didn't sell very well. But not because of a female lead, but because it was an obscure point-and-click style adventure game for the DS at a time when the DS was still fairly new and didn't have a massive install base yet.
So basically my point is this: maybe try having some games made that both have a female lead and don't suck more than Jim is going to be at PAX Prime this year (thank god for
You mean the Samus with tig ol' bitties and a nice shapely ass who goes around wearing a skin-tight blue outfit? The one who you get to see in a bikini or other skimpy clothing if you play the games well enough?
Yeah, the only way you could have picked a worse example of non-sexy female protagonists is if you'd picked Lara Croft.
We have a word for discriminating based upon sex.
Treating people differently based upon their gender is not sexism. Treating somebody better or worse because of it is.
Nobody needs Anita, as she's an awful example of feminism. She cherry picks examples, makes horrible exaggerations and leaps in logic, and rarely, if ever addresses both sides of the argument. I got as far as her second episode of Women vs Tropes before I was disgusted with her reprehensible display of what she thought feminism is. You see, here is the rub that drives me nuts about other feminists, being as I am one: The point is we are equal. Not an inferior to males, nor a superior. Don't relegate us to second class, but also don't assume we shouldn't ever be the targets in story anymore either.
Yeah, but haven't you heard? The 47% of gamers who have vaginas aren't real gamers. They're just playing Farmville and The Sims and Angry Birds. Girls don't like shooters or real games. Their tiny girl hands can't work the controllers properly, and every time they get killed they burst into tears and curl up in a big menstruating ball.
inb4 someone actually argues this for realsies.
It's the publishers
Why bring it up at all then? Why are you completely dismissing any argument that a part of why popular gaming is so male dominated, might be that the major themes play on male fantasies and interest? War, combat, strategy and sex.
The post you reply to is an example of the problem with the industry.
The guardians resort to such derailing hyperbole, they know damn well it's not a beauty contest but seem to think it's some bandwagon to label everything sexist and awful regardless of the truth. But this is about the truth, it must be about the way things actually are and why.
Between them and the quietly numbers who consistently choose burly masculine action heroes instead, what chance do women in computer games have?
When they aren't being ignored by sexist, their supposed advocates are denigrating every aspect of their appearance even when most reasonable. The clear message being sent by both sides is "don't have women in games".
Because you can't really single out a single game for not having women in it, because any one game might reasonably not have any women and what can you say other that "there's no women in it". But women's depiction can be picked apart so mercilessly and disingenuously, you think that developers are going to sit there and just take it?
I don't think you can really say that until we get a AAA level game with a female protagonist that gets as much marketing money put behind it as a Call of Duty or a Gears of War. Something like Tomb Raider, except more.
Good episode. Finally something that isn't a nerd rage/hate-rant.
I tried it few times, went nowhere sadly :(
Pretty sure you knew exactly what they meant. Original Samus, before Zero Suit fucked everything up. And yes, there are several examples that can be made, Jade from Beyond Good & Evil, April from The Longest Journey, Chell from Portal, Shanoa from Order of Ecclesia (though box art is meant to be a little sexy). Not going to argue there should be more examples, but there are some. Samus used to be in this list, but newer devs on the series have done screwed that up for us, must like what became of Lara until just recently.
Extremely interesting video. It's kind of sad that I've not really realized this was a thing... but as I go to my local GameStop and take a look at the wall, I see that there are next to NO games that have a female on the cover, despite many of those games having women who play large roles in them. I like that Mass Effect 3 had a reversible cover with Fem Shep on the other side, but Fem Shep still takes a backseat to male Shepard. I mean, take a look at the fact that I have to specify 'Fem' when speaking about Shepard - most people assume my Commander is male unless I say otherwise.
I like playing as females in video games, despite being a male, and I see nothing wrong with a female protagonist initiating some sort of romantic activity; after all, my female Jedi Knight in SWTOR was more than happy to show Doc the way back to the engine room. I'm not straight, but I like to think my sexual preferences have nothing to do with it. Or, with the exception of SWTOR, Dragon Age, Mass Effect, or Skyrim (and sometimes even then I'm RPing it), I don't project myself onto the main character like most people do. I don't generally like to think, "what would I do in this situation?" I'm typically thinking, "what would this character do in this situation?" That's why silent protagonists bug the crap out of me.
I know I had read somewhere that Hideo Kojima was interested in making a game that fleshed out the back story of popular Metal Gear mentor, the Boss, but maybe he ran into the same problems. It's interesting to think about and gives you a whole new perspective on how video games come to be. Well, for my part, at least...
Well, I'm a straight man, and I'd very much like to play a game with a female character, as long as she acts like a woman would, I mean Skyrim, Kingdoms of Amalur, Fable, or Mass Effect, for example, don't count, because you do the same thing regardless of gender, and I think those things to do were designed with a male lead in thought.
I think it'd be cool to see the world through a woman's eyes, even if its just a crude representation, as long as it will improve, I'm all for that. And I find nothing wrong in playing as a girl kissing a dude, I mean that's, you know, expected from a girl who fancies that dude. I think that if the players are to be blamed for this 'no female leads' bullshit, is because most of us have this completely cretinous opinion that a player character is someone on which you can project, and sort of bring yourself in that game. And that's not always true, in fact that's rarely true. Most of these blank slates are just characters with non-existent personality, and you can't even choose how to act based on the surroundings, which makes the whole idea of a blank slate pointless. While player characters with an actual character are much more fun to play with, IMO.
And to whoever thinks that "Women should't be player characters, it's as simple as that.", NOTHING is as simple as that. Ever. This, in fact, is the complete opposite of 'simple as that'.
And Jim, I don't think you were mean enough.
But the question is, is that actually true, or is it that the industry THINKS we're an audience of homophobic, neckbearded manchildren?
Come on, stop reaching. For one thing, we are not talking about real people and we are not talking about toilets; we are talking about characters in a video game and we are talking about differences not segregation. The male character's appearance was based on a real person, and the female character's appearance was voted for by fans based on whose hair and make-up they "liked" the most. They were treated differently, based on their sex.
So yes, I think the poll was kind of sexist. There's no need to start flipping tables over that statement. I'm not saying that Bioware are monsters and that Mass Effect is evil misogynist trash that should be thrown into a fiery pit for all eternity. I like Mass Effect a lot. And therefore I think it would have been cool if the marketing team had dared to have a female character on their publicity material without first crawling to their potential customers with a popularity poll and a worried look on their faces, waiting for a femshep to get patted on the head and approved as consumer-friendly. Or, as the poll's participants like to say, "hawt".
No, THIS Samus:
Yoshio Sakamoto may have lost his mind and went full George-Lucas-prequel-mode on us with his "vision" for Samus in his latest games, but it's a disservice to Metroid Prime for getting it so very right nearly 15 years ago. It created a great game with a great character that kept ALL of her dignity the entire way through, empowering both her and the player and making it one of the greatest gaming experiences ever made.
The stupid big-chested bimbo Samus in the friggin' high heels and the wedges in her butt crack tripping over herself in Other M is NOT the same character.
Oh, it's from that game, all I've seen is one little trailer, thanks for letting me know. I hadn't seen any game play footage before today.
I'm glad someone pointed that out, I was going to. However, one isn't enough to fully counter argue. However it's a start, and more of these covers etc would be great. I'm not to far into the campaign at the moment, but I am really liking it thus far.
Well, looks like I have some games to go buy. Remember Me and Last of Us managed to completely slip by me. I'm not sure about Bioshock Infinite though, as I didn't really enjoy Bioshock 1. Maybe I didn't give it enough of a chance.
This kind of behaviour in the industry is disgraceful. I thought we were better than this, but clearly the industry doesn't agree. I hate people some times...
In fairness to the woman, she didn't ask for 10000USD either: the funding she was looking for was dramatically more modest.
Oh dear, just when i throught sexism was a thing of the past. I really dont get nor support feminism in its mission of turning every female into a hypersensitive bitch, but this kind of thing does suck.
We still have old world thinking in all industry that hasn't been bred out yet.
I'd like to meet this panel of people who thought that Booker DeWitt would make a better cover than Elizabeth.
I really want to punch each one of them in the fact.
Back to the topic at hand, one of the reasons why I fell in love with Bioshock Infinite when I haven't even played it yet was because the whole plot sounds like a better version of the anime Now and Then, Here and There, especially as to how Elizabeth is in the same predicament as Lalaru and how multiple dimensions are even involved, hell, factions in both titles would even do anything to get their hands on either characters. What makes this better(hence why I said BETTER VERSION) is that instead of a weak ass protagonist like Shu, here we actually have a protagonist that's battle hardened by war and ultimately someone you can control, it's not like the NT;HT where people had to die, women had to be raped and hands had to be bashed in stone just so that the MC of the show can finally man up and confront the ultimate villain of the series. Another reason is that this is by Ken Levine, the man behind two of the best videogames ever made.
Ultimately, Elizabeth is just love, she's a thing of beauty and Jim's review on the whole Bioshock Infinite game where he points out that she actually has a personality makes me want to get this game so badly even more. Hell, She's the closest thing to moe I've ever seen, which surprises me since I never grasped the whole aspect of moe in anime.
A really good episode. And, unfortunately, the saddest one you've ever done. As a male gamer, I haven't really thought about it before. but you're completely right. Some of my favorite games are ones with fleshed out female protagonists in them.
......I'm sorry, what are you trying to say?
That as long as sexism in the industry exists, discussions need to be had.
I think.
Or to put it another way: Sexism discussions should stop when sexism does.
First time i see "Remember Me" in action, that game looks fun and protagonist looks awesome :)
Otherwise agree with the general sentiment of the vid.
Oni, FAKK2, No One Lives Forever 1 AND 2, Alice 1 AND 2, Resident Evil and female Shepard are my personal favorite Game (Characters) -
Thats not feminism, thats sexism in the guise of feminism. There are many, many, many women who claim the term feminist that aren't for equality, but superiority. Try not to mix the two up.
Right, because sex is a male theme. I'd forgotten that ladies aren't into sex.
I'm sick of hearing that argument because I'm sick of the assumption that women don't like war games or shooters or strategy games, and that the only way to make games appeal to women is ... I don't know, having customisable high heels or sticking flowers all over the box art. Rather than the relatively simple adjustment of just making the same old shooter, but with a grizzled badass female character instead of a grizzled badass male character.
I'm also sick of this argument because it assumes that, as a female who likes war games, and strategy games and stealth games and shooters and horror games, I must be some kind of freak or outlier or anomaly. Along with all my female friends who are into horror games and shooters, apparently.
But the main reason I'm sick of that argument is because it's a very lazy and very transparent attempt to dismiss the concept of women playing games. "No, there aren't really any women playing real games, the surveys must be lying, gaming is still a safe male space, it is, it is!" It's the same attitude that brought us the ever-pervasive "fake gamer girls" meme, and it's starting to get old.
someone please videotape Jim giving sloppy kisses to convention goers, that's just briliant.
From what I understand it isn't the "Industry" as a whole that is like this but the marketing dickheads and publishers (not developers). But that's just common of the suits in any industry, frequently seeing themselves as "so far above" or are so detached from the actual work that takes place in the industry they view everything as just numbers on a spreadsheet.
On the flip side we have just seen a staggering number of female protagonists and important characters in AAA game releases suddenly. We've got Kerrigan of Star Craft II, Lara in Tomb Raider and now Elizabeth in Bioshock: Infinite. There is also Last of Us in the works with a very significant female character who is essentially going to follow the same formula as Elizabeth. These female characters have flaws but none of the stereotypical negative feminine flaws that media likes to portray all women as suffering from. They are balanced and fine examples of powerful women - even Kerrigan.
This article by Jim is just another highlight as to how the suits are so disconnected from the industry they are "masters" of.
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4-year PhD in Neuroscience
funded by the Wellcome Trust
PLEASE NOTE THE DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS IS NOW 20th DECEMBER 2018 FOR A SEPTEMBER 2019 START
Why study Neuroscience at University College London?
Outstanding research opportunities
University College London (UCL) offers unrivalled
opportunities for PhD research in all aspects of neuroscience. Specimen PhD projects are given below: the subjects studied range from
the molecular biology of neuronal proteins, through cellular
neuroscience, to the behaviour of sensory and motor systems and brain
imaging. Neuroscience research is carried out in all of the College's
biomedical departments, by researchers who are among the leaders of
their fields, using the most modern techniques to address important
problems of basic and clinical neuroscience. Research labs are well-funded, so that PhD students have the best chance of getting off to a
productive start in their research. UCL produces the highest quality
neuroscience research of any university in the country. For the field
neuroscience it generates 30% of England's contribution to the world's
most highly cited publications (documented HERE), more than twice as much as either Cambridge or Oxford, and in the
sub-field of neuroimaging UCL and its hospitals produce 65% of
England's contribution to the world's highly cited papers which is more
than 4-fold larger than either of the runners up (Oxford and Kings
College London). Accordingly it is an outstanding place to train the
next generation of neuroscience researchers.
Cultural and social opportunities provided by London
UCL is located in Bloomsbury, close to the entertainment areas of the West End and South Bank which offer an enormous range of music, art, theatre and film, and a vast number of restaurants and bars. London is extremely socially diverse: most PhD students rapidly establish a thriving social life.
Why choose to study Neuroscience in the 4-year Programme?
Because the 4-year Programme provides a better training,
equipping students with the experimental and theoretical techniques
needed to do outstanding research in their future career (see tab below on Student Outcomes).
Deficiencies of 3-year PhDs
Conventional 3-year PhDs involve a student working with a
supervisor who they often have little knowledge of before they start,
on a project which they have little prior understanding of. The
resulting training can be rather narrow (limited to learning the
techniques offered by that one lab), and students sometimes select
supervisors or projects which are not best suited to them.
Structure of the 4-year programme
Value of the first year
The four year programme provides a broader and deeper
research training in neuroscience, and allows students to make a more
informed choice of supervisor and project. This is achieved by having
an initial training year in which the students attend some specialized
courses, and do three brief (3 month) research projects in different
labs. Out of the three broad subject areas of Molecular Neuroscience,
Cellular Neuroscience and Systems Neuroscience & Imaging, students
will choose laboratories from at least two areas, in order to
maintain a broad expertise across neuroscience in the first year. By
working in different labs, the students will have the opportunity to
acquire a broader range of experimental and theoretical techniques,
and to try out supervisors with whom they may wish to do research for
the PhD. For the structure of the 1st year please refer to the tabbed panel 'Year 1 Structure' section below.
The 3 PhD years
After their first year, students will work in one lab doing research for the PhD (this might be one of the labs they worked in during the first year, or a different lab). During the PhD students will be encouraged to attend advanced training courses in the USA and Europe. For supervisors available for PhDs please refer to the tabbed panel 'Supervisors' section below.
Pastoral care
Throughout the 4 years, the student's progress will be monitored and assessed by a committee responsible for the training provided. Students will be integrated into the community of neuroscience researchers at UCL by participation in journal clubs and social events. Career advice will be given in the last year to prepare the student for their post doctoral career.
The 4-year PhD Committee
The committee currently comprises David Attwell,
Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Patricia Salinas and Alasdair Gibb, and
students can approach any of the committee members for advice and
guidance when needed.
Student experiences and outcomes
Want to read about students' experiences on the 4 year programme? - they are described in Trends in Neurosciences (July 2000) Vol 23, pages 280-283. An assessment of how well the students do scientifically on the programme is given in the tabbed panel 'Student Outcomes' section below.
If you have any questions...
Please read all of this website, especially the Detailed Instructions section and only if the question is not answered there, you can email Joanna Fryer, firstname.lastname@example.com, for an answer.
Molecular Neuroscience
Molecular Basis of Huntington's disease
Glial roles during brain development
Cellular functions of the prion protein
James Jepson
Jason Rihel
Stephanie Schorge
Jernej Ule
Cellular Neuroscience
Genes and circuits for innate and learned behaviours in C. elegans
Marco Beato
Genes and circuits for innate and learned behaviours in C. elegans
Computation of instinctive decisions
Neural circuits for nociception
and pain
State-dependent neural processing
State-dependent neural processing
Synaptic and circuit basis of emotional behaviour
Giampietro Schiavo
Mala Shah
Kirill Volynski
Matthew Walker
Systems/Cognitive Neuroscience
Wearable brain scanners
Caswell Barry
Storing and updating models of the world for controlling behaviour
Daniel Bendor
Sven Bestmann
Jennifer Bizley
Neural circuits for movement
Neil Burgess
Francesca Cacucci
A developing social brain circuit
Maria Fitzgerald
Visual perception & psychophysics
Patrick Haggard
Kenneth Harris
Microglia-synapse biology in brain function and dementia
Human sensory neuroscience
Kate Jeffery
Tara Keck
Steve Kennerley
Alexander Kraskov
Predictive sensorimotor control in central fatigue
Peter Latham
Brain mechanisms for perception of complex sounds
Eleanor Maguire
Human brain plasticity
Value Computation, Uncertainty and Choice
Geraint Rees
Jon Roiser
Maneesh Sahani
Neural circuits that transform visual information to spatial memories
Information Processing and Belief Formation
Vince Walsh
Nick Ward
Jason Warren
How to apply and what studentships are available?
The next intake of students will be in September 2019. Students will spend the first year learning a wide range of neuroscience techniques by doing 3 month projects in different laboratories, before choosing a full research project and supervisor for the subsequent 3 years. Projects available cover the whole range of neuroscience, from molecular biology through cellular mechanisms to systems neuroscience and imaging.
Up to five PhD studentships,
with a stipend starting at £22,278, will be available. These also pay
fees at the EU rate, research costs to the laboratory and provide
funds for travel to conferences or courses. Applicants should have, or
expect to get, at least an upper 2nd class degree in any area of
Biological or Physical Sciences (the course allows conversion to
neuroscience from a physical sciences background). Non-UK applicants
may apply, and receive the normal stipend etc., except that fees will
only be paid at the EU rate (see Detailed instructions for more details)
To apply we need to receive a CV, a statement of why you want to do the PhD and at least two academic references, all e-mailed to firstname.lastname@example.com. Before you apply you must read these Detailed instructions on how to apply. The sum of the files you submit must be smaller than 1MB in size - files larger than that will be rejected (we do not need high resolution scans of transcripts, just type the grades into your CV).
Any questions not answered on that page should be sent to David Attwell at email@example.com
The deadline for receiving applications and
references is 20th December 2018 to start September 2019.
If you are qualified as a doctor or vet, then you should
not apply to this programme, but instead to one of the Wellcome's
programmes for clinicians:
If you have done the pre-clinical part of medical/vet training and intend not to do the clinical training to become a medical or veterinary practioner, then you may apply to this programme.
Please do not send your application to firstname.lastname@example.com until October 1st.
Applicants will hear if they are shortlisted for interview around January 14th.
If shortlisted, the interviews will take place late January, 2019.
Please note that you must activate your referees to send their references; we don't do that for you.
Information submitted as part of your application will be shared with the Wellcome Trust for data-monitoring purposes and with other UCL selection committees who may offer you a PhD place if you fail to gain a place on this programme. Our full GDPR privacy statement is available HERE.
Structure of the First Year of the 4 Year PhD
The first year has 3 main components, compulsory courses, optional courses and (occupying most of the time) three 3 month laboratory placements spent doing research and learning techniques.
Compulsory Courses
These consist of:
An Induction course introducing you to the College
A course on Current Techniques in Neuroscience
A Topics in Neuroscience course, structured like a journal club in which you present research papers
A Statistics course
A course on Library and Database Usage
An Electronics course
A course on the Ethics of Animal Experimentation
Two Neuroscience courses chosen from the Optional list below
Attending Journal Clubs associated with the lab placements (see below)
A Science Communication course (may also be taken in the 2nd year)
Optional Courses
These consist of:
Computing Courses on E-mail, Word Processing, Internet, Spreadsheets,
Powerpoint, Visual Basic, and more advanced programming
A Mechanical Workshop course
A Further Statistics course
A Radiation Safety course
Orientation for Foreigners
English for Foreigners
The following Neuroscience Courses:
Advanced Cytology
Neural Basis of Learning + Motivation
Advanced Neuroanatomy
Neurobiology of Neurodegenerative Disease
Cellular + Developmental Neurobiology
Control of Movement
Neural Computation
Peripheral Nervous System
Animal Cell Biology
Develpmantal Biology: Cell + Molecular Aspects
Molecular + Cellular Pharmacology
Synaptic Pharmacology
Neurobiology of Behaviour
Cell Physiology
Visual Perception
Neurobiology of Vision
Clinical Neuroscience
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The Laboratory Placements
Three of these are done, chosen from labs working in the broad areas of Molecular Neuroscience, Cellular Neuroscience, and Systems and Imaging Neuroscience. Students must choose 3 placements covering at least 2 of these broad areas (in order to avoid over-specialization in the first year). For example, students might do a placement in one lab which they think they might want to do their PhD research in, one in a similar lab for comparison, and one in a lab studying something quite different to gain experience in another area. Students doing these placements often publish papers on their work, or present it at scientific meetings.
For information on supervisors and projects refer to the supervisors tab
Student progress during the first year is assessed by:
(i) exams on the Topics in Neuroscience course, the Ethics of Animal Experimentation course and on the Statistics course
(ii) a write-up and 10 minute oral presentation on each lab placement
(iii) their placement supervisor's assessment of their work
(iv) their contribution to journal clubs they attend
(v) the writing of a research plan outlining their proposed PhD project for the subsequent 3 years.
We currently receive about 400 applications per
year from all over the world. From these, we select 30 applicants for
interviews which assess knowledge, creativity and data interpretation. From
these 30 candidates, we choose 5 for the places available on the PhD Programme.
Our selection ratio of women:men closely reflects the ratio of women to men
applying (over 22 years, out of 142 students selected 59.9% were women and 40.1%
men). BME students, defined conventionally to include Asians and mixed race
students, comprise 8.5% of accepted students.
How well do the students in the programme do scientifically?
We analysed this after 10 years of the programme being in operation.
Scientific publications
As of April 2007, the students going through the programme since 1996 have published a total of 251 journal papers since entering the programme, with 28 (11%) high profile papers in Nature family journals, Science, Cell or Neuron.
Five years after starting the programme, the 15 students in the first three years' entry had published 80% more papers/student than the average of all 123 three year PhD students recruited to the same departments at the same time. One might hypothesise, however, that this superiority of the 4 year students could reflect the 3 year PhD students being less selected or working with weaker supervisors. To assess whether the 4 year programme confers particular benefits, we therefore carried out tougher comparisons, that were not confounded by the inclusion of weaker supervisors who we do not allow onto the programme, or by the selection bias inherent in our admission process. We did this as follows.
First we removed supervisor bias, by comparing the output of students in our programme with the output of matched 3 year PhD students who did a PhD in the same lab at approximately the same time (all except 5 of the 66 1996-2004 students could be matched). The results are plotted in Figure 1 as absolute number of papers, and in Figure 2 as the relative productivity of 4 and 3 year students (1 is added to the number of papers before taking the ratio to avoid divisions by zero). From 7 years after starting, the productivity of 4 year students increases significantly (Fig. 2) above that of 3 year PhD students with the same supervisors. Students in the first 3 entry cohorts have now received 2621 citations of their papers, compared with 1421 citations of the papers of matched 3 year students in the same labs (84% more).
Figure 1
Figure 2
Secondly, to eliminate effects of the higher selection to which our students were subjected, we compared the output of our 4 year students, with the output of students who we made an offer to but who chose to take up a place on a 3 or 4 year PhD elsewhere. This ensures that the comparator students were viewed by our committee as being at least as good as the accepted students. The results (Figure 3) show a significantly higher output, from 7 years after starting the course, by our 4 year students than by students who rejected our offer.
Figure 3
We conclude that going through the first year of the 4 year PhD adds significant long-lasting value to the students' scientific training.
Career Path after the PhD
Most of the students follow a career in research. As of 2007, of the 37 students who have obtained their PhD, 29 (78%) went on to post-doc positions, 6 went to science-related jobs (drug companies, scientific administration, patent agency or management consultancy) and 2 left science, so overall 95% (35/37) took up positions using their science. The earlier cohorts are now starting to obtain permanent academic positions or Career Fellowships: one is a lecturer at the Royal Vet College, 3 are Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellows at UCL, one has a 5 year Faculty position at EBRI (Rome), one is an MRC CDF in Leicester, one is a Wellcome RCDF at UCL, two have permanent positions in Edinburgh.
The images at the top of this page
The pictures at the top of this page
show different levels of function of the nervous system.
The left hand picture shows cellular interactions between neurons: the axon of an inhibitory interneuron (green) makes synapses onto a cerebellar Purkinje cell (red) in the brain's motor system. Image by Beverley Clark and Michael Häusser.
The middle picture shows information superhighways in the brain: the gold colour shows antibody to myelin, which speeds the conduction of information along neuronal axons in the brain's white matter. Image by Ragnhildur Káradóttir and David Attwell.
The right hand picture shows function at the whole brain level: the red and yellow colour shows areas where neurons are detected to be active using fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) during a particular task, superimposed on a structural image of the brain. Image courtesy of Sarah-Jayne Blakemore and the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, UCL.


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JOHANNESBURG, (Agencies): Dale Steyn struck with the second new ball to secure a 211-run win for South Africa before lunch on the fourth day of the first Test against Pakistan at the Wanderers Stadium on Monday.
Steyn dismissed overnight batsmen Asad Shafiq and Misbah-ul-Haq inside his first three overs with the new ball to sweep away the last serious resistance by the tourists.
He also took the last two wickets to finish with five for 52 and match figures of 11 for 60.
Wicketkeeper AB de Villiers held five catches to add to the six he took in the first innings.
He equalled the world record set by Jack Russell for England against South Africa on the same ground in 1995/96.
He also became the first player in Test history to make a century and claim ten or more dismissals in a match after hitting an unbeaten 103 in the second innings.
Shafiq's dismissal ended a stubborn fifth wicket stand of 127 with Misbah.
The pair added 20 runs to the overnight total of 183 for four in the five overs
that had to be bowled before the new ball could be taken.
Only another four runs were added before Steyn had Shafiq caught at second slip by Jacques Kallis for 56 in the third over with the new ball. Shafiq had faced 168 balls and hit nine fours
In his next over Steyn had Pakistan captain Misbah caught behind for 64, made off 167 balls with 11 boundaries.
Sarfraz Ahmed chopped a ball from Vernon Philander on to his stumps and Saeed Ajmal provided De Villiers with his tenth catch of the match when he gloved a lifting ball from Morne Morkel to the wicketkeeper.
There was some frustration for the bowlers as Umar Gul slogged his way to 23 and Morkel was denied a wicket after bowling Junaid Khan when a replay showed he had sent down a no-ball.
But Steyn had Gul caught behind and then trapped Junaid leg before wicket with the fourth ball of the last over before lunch.
The teams meet in the second game of a three-match series in Cape Town from February 14 to 18.
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