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Discussion in 'Apple, Industry and Internet Discussion' started by Apple Genius, Mar 19, 2010.

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    Mar 24, 2009
    A more appropriate question might be: "What do I get for $300 and where can I find it cheaper!?"

    From where I stand, it costs $600 to become an ACMT because you need all these:

    AppleCare Technician Training $299.
    Apple Macintosh Service Exam  $150
    Mac OS X v10.6 Troubleshooting Exam  $150

    But if you knew the correct answers to the exams, you wouldn't need the AppleCare training and it would only cost you $300. So now the question has evolved to something like "Where do you get the information to pass the exams without paying Apple $300?"
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    I'm guessing the training will instruct you on stuff that isn't found in a test. Of all the technical training I've taken, only a subset was ever on an exam (sometimes a large subset but a subset nonetheless)
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    Mar 24, 2009
    Is there anything on the test outside of normal repair that might throw me for a curveball, such as "What is the Terminal command to change a folder's flags?" or is it basic stuff like "Will a 45w iBook charger work with a PowerBook?"
    Are the questions mostly multiple choice?

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    Feb 26, 2011
    Does anyone have the Internet sharing issue on Lion?

    My Macbook Pro connects to internet via ethernet, and now I want to share internet to my iPhone 3gs via wifi.

    However, the system built-in internet sharing doesn't work. Although it shows that the sharing is ON, my iPhone can connect to this new wifi hot spot, but my iPhone still cannot access internet.

    Is there any 3rd-party applications or solutions?

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    Apr 4, 2011
    No issues. But try this:

    1. If your internet sharing is on and not working. Check the box next to it. A dialog box will appear. Click cancel.

    2. Now recheck the box next to internet sharing. Now try on your iphone, internet sharing should work.

    P.S. delete the hotspot configuration on your phone before doing this. i.e. once internet sharing is on you have to add the hotspot once again on your phone.

    Hope this helps

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More emphasis on Batman as a 'monster' to explain why people fear him. A notable increase in tech, like the hacking from Watchdogs would be great. Great way to get an eye on things happening, great way to allow him to appear to be everywhere. Having Batman causing people's phone to ring would be awesome.

In keeping with the monster effect, his fighting style should be explosive, partly to reinforce the idea that he's some trancendent being. Acrobatics would be necessary to achieve his ends, and we'd some of those. His mobility is necessary to appear to be everywhere.

But more than that, he faces off against someone who requires epic martial arts, and not just lots of thugs, where it actually makes sense to use smaller quicker movements to dispatch them in one or two moves.

Microfibers in the cape to make it almost Spawn-like in its billowing and countours, that'd be a plus too.

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Methinks Waratek follow El Reg, for they are trying to roll out what is already flying and has studiously been freely shared with all, so that all are made aware of the future as it unfolds itself before them, with IT Producing and Media Directing and urVirtual Machinery Presenting New Orderly Worlds from CHAOS/4CHAOS2*......... with IntelAIgently StructuredD Systems for Virtualised Space Stations in Geosynchronous Political Orbits/General Post Offices.**

And there you all were, probably just not really thinking at all, that GCHQ housed and hosted and provided servers and services for a bunch of virtually useless and practically clueless tossers in Virtual Operations for Offices of Cyber Security, whenever in Realised Alternate Reality Great IntelAIgent Games Play are such pretentious wannabees simply ignored and bypassed and left to their own austere devices and to the baying mob with all of their vices.

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And now that you know your government are aware of the situation, ...... for are they not at least advised here and now of the actuality, and is there not likely to be any number of others who will be only too pleased to tell tale and draw their attention to the matter ........ can you ponder on their suitability to be in a position of misleading control with powers that raise taxes on your wealth and future, rather than provisioning the future with your taxed wealth, which would then raise the uncomfortable Too Stupid question to ask of yourselves .... Why do you permit it and not stop it ...... with Creative Command and Cyber Control of Computers and Communications ...... for IT is freely available to Any and All, and that be also You Too?

Or are you just like blissfully unaware children who don't think greatly at all, with things being provided quite naturally like magic from grown ups you will never ever meet or know?

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Re: Have you really checked the numbers?

If only it were that simple - I think you might be confusing the computers from movies with those from real life. I find a drug dealer regularly phones 118500, his mother, a local pizza shop, 2 suspected colleagues and a third number.

Reverse lookup the 3rd number (oh, there's another request) and it turns out to be someone who's of no interest but was just a contact for some reason. The police really haven't got the time, the info, the inclination or the interest to go digging on random people that come up in these things. But if it turns out that person works in a bank, or a courier firm, or a bookie, or a school, or a hospital, then yeah, you might dig a little deeper in case they're laundering cash, transporting drugs, obtaining drugs, or a potential danger to children who fall under a duty of care (this last one to point out it's not a blanket "but what about the children" but that the duty of investigation is very real), because that's the basis of an investigation. The police wouldn't be doing their job otherwise.

Look at the numbers of actual investigations this works out to ..... how many "rafts of innocent people" do you think the police have the time & resources to "trawl" ?

Genuine snoopers charter concerns, sure, be very worried.

But 700k requests in 3 years by ALL the UK police forces doesn't sound that bad once you look at what all those police officers we pay for are supposed to be actually doing. This report is a red herring - "trawling" will involved much much much bigger numbers than this.

What do you mean WHY is Sony PS4 so pricey in Oz?

FX - Strong AUD$ expected to drop with the end of the commodities boom

I take on board the "foreigner's pay more because they will" arguments, but I'd also consider FX rates.

The Aussie dollar has been riding high off the back of the commodities boom, only now falling away over the past few months, and is widely expected [weasel words; citation needed] to continue to drop as the commodities boom drops off too.

Have a look at 10Y FX rates to see how much of a high it's been on

Sony are going to be selling this console for a year or three before there's a hardware refresh ("PS/4 slim") and/or price drop. Increasing the price of a console during its lifetime is seen as a big no-no, so my guess is they're planning not for today's exchange rates, but with an eye to FX rates for the end of 2014 at the very earliest.

Now you're more than welcome to look at forward rates and the like, but I think it's a little mis-leading to price something that won't be on sale for another 6 months on today's rates when it's then got to sell for at that price for another year or two.

Sure they can take out forward rates and hedge against it, but if they priced it at parity today, and the 12 months from now the AUD plummets and the Australian PS/4 (& xbox etc) starts to look cheap, you know that the grey import market *into* the UK/US would start to take off...

ABS pulls Census app, points it at the right data

"Coolest government statistician on Earth"??

Hey , back in the late 80s (ask yer parents kids) we took the ABS census and put it on CD-ROM with a software package to generate tables and choropleth maps so you could access the data with no more than a PC-AT (12MHz CPU, 640k RAM, 10Mb hard drive, EGA graphics, DOS 3.3 etc) and shutdown mainframes for quite a few people in the process, never mind the massive computational resources of an iOs device.

CDATA86 aka "SuperMap" by Space-Time Research if you want to look it up - yeah, glory days.

Anyway, the point was the ABS has always been a leader at this stuff. We did other countries later, but the ABS was the one that had the vision to take what we were building and welcome us (in relative terms) whereas the UK and US were a complete PITA.

And yeah, we did censuses from other years too and did all the alignment of data terms & geographic boundaries etc for you too (that's the "Time" part of "Space-Time Research"), so I'm sorry if you had to do all that sort of stuff yourself Richard, cos we did it all 25 years ago.

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i know it won't always be easy as tonight... especially when we sit and talk about what happened... we know we have a lot to deal with as a family together... but we all three admit it will be part of our healing process to talk things out... we are simply happy for this chance to heal...

i feel such peace having my sons both home again... it feels so wonderful...

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For this particular problem,

   I am doing some example calculations involving kinetic
   molecular theory for a freshman class. I want to carry units
   throughout, but I am stumped on how to have Mathematica
   simplify Sqrt[meter^2] to meter, etc.  Is there a way to do this
   without appearing overly complicated to the students (for
   example without having to introduce FullForm, Power, /., and
   such like)?

probably the approach you want is to redefine some Mma functions before you
get into the problem, i.e.,

   Sqrt[x_^y_] := x^(y/2)/;EvenQ[y];
   Power[x_^y_,z_] := x^(y/2) /; EvenQ[y] && z==1/2;

I just include these re-definitions (which are a composite of previous
discussions in the mmaGroup) at the start of every file in an initialization
cell. If I really knew what I was doing, I suppose I could put them in a
package and call them via something like,

but I haven't gotten around to that yet. ;)

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20 November 2013 Written by  Jeffrey L. Boney

proton-rocket-launch-failure-express-am4-satelliteWhy do people get so defensive when you criticize their favorite politician or community figure; or ask thought provoking questions that most engaged folks are thinking themselves?

For some people, their favorite politician or community figure could say that the sky is purple and that the clouds were actually marshmallows and folks would argue anybody down who contested that philosophy.

Such has been the case since President Barack Obama has taken a significant amount of criticism for the botch Obamacare website rollout that was completely and utterly fumbled.

It’s clear to me that President Obama took for granted how monumental of a task this website rollout would be and he do enough to ensure things were in order for its rollout success.

I am not a Monday morning quarterback nor am I offering an “I told you so” commentary; but I honestly knew that this website was troubled for some time because there was no “beta” period given for this project. Every single website project has a “beta” period and to not test this website and work out the kinks to deal with any setbacks was suspect to me from the start.

You mean to tell me that we, as Americans, can send a man to the moon, create Facebook and find Osama Bin Laden, but we can’t fix a government healthcare website…..Really?

If we can do all of these wonderful and amazing things as Americans, how is it that we can’t fix a website to enroll people after spending billions of dollars; having over three years to prepare; and supposedly having the best and brightest on board to get in launched?

Tell me what’s illogical about those thoughts and questions?

This was a way to make so more money and pad the pockets of some key contributors, if you ask me, while also keeping people occupied worrying about this, while other critical bills, decisions and contracts get handled.

Folks have lost their health insurance because of this and may not even get it back and you mean to tell me that we shouldn’t address it because he is a Black man who you believe had this website sabotaged in order to make him look bad?

That is ridiculous!

Again…..we are talking about the United States of America.  Are we that vulnerable and unprotected from the inside that we can’t effectively work out the kinks on this President’s most historical and important pieces of legislation in recent memory?

So many people want to give the administration a pass and I will address this administration as I would any other one, because this is an issue that can’t be overlooked and ignored because President Obama is a Black man.

If something is wrong and it negatively impacts you, do you want solutions or excuses? If your cell phone service gets cut off for a few hours or couple of weeks, will you avoid complaining about your service because the CEO of the cell phone company is a Black man?  Of course not!

Remove the fact that he is a Black man and what would your position be then???

This is the President’s signature piece of legislation. If it wasn’t ready to be implemented to simply enroll people, then he should have pulled back as the leader and made sure it was ready.

President Obama and his team should have prepared for and anticipated these sorts of issues and this alleged sabotage that people are claiming. The conspiracy theorists that are of the belief that the website was sabotaged should have been on board and on the frontlines to prevent sabotage and worked through all scenarios. Where were they at before the fumbled launch?

That’s what leaders do. If you are a leader, you are held accountable and President Obama understands that. That is why he came out to speak to the American people and has indicated that fixing this problem is a top priority.

This isn’t picking on the President, but most of these website problems and issues should have been worked out over the past three years.

Trust me, this President has on his big boy pants and can handle this scrutiny. I mean, he handled two grueling elections and the daily criticism from his political opponents and his political allies; so I know he can handle my critique.

The people who were chosen to handle the website launch are supposed to be the best and brightest minds in the world, but they have shown that they weren’t the right company. As a matter of fact, CGI Federal, the main Web site developer, has been known to have mishandled at least 20 other government IT projects, including a flawed effort to automate retirement benefits for millions of federal workers. Why were they hired?  Was it a hook up or just a bad decision?

If people focus on the issues at hand and not focus on the politics and personalities, then I strongly believe that we can get some things done.

Don’t get at me for criticizing the way President Obama handled this website rollout.  I mean, it wasn’t too long ago that he criticized Black folks and told us to stop complaining, take off our bedroom slippers and put on our marching boots. If he can challenge Black folks, then I know he doesn’t have a problem with me doing the same when it concerns him and his failure to launch.

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Want to save the planet? Maybe you should consider hitchhiking. (Photo: sloneczna.pictures via Flickr)

One of the greatest transportation resources out there is… your backseat. According to a U.S. Department of Transportation report, the average vehicle commuting to and from work has only 1.1 people it. This means that about 80 percent of car capacity goes unused. In a moment when we’re worrying about gas consumption and carbon emissions, this is a lamentable inefficiency.

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    Stephen is on to something here.

    I finished hitchhiking the USA for a year and had a great time. I love it!

    I am not scared of people… if I don’t feel good about a ride, I don’t take it. People are not that bad.

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    My younger son came up with a great hitchhiking strategy when he was working at a summer camp. He would get occasional days off, and he’d want to spend them with friends in a nearby town, but had no transportation. So he bought a plastic gasoline jerry-can. He cut a small rectangle out of one side of the top of the can, and that was his overnight suitcase. Catch is, when he’d be at the side of the road with a gas can, people would think he’d run out of gas, and were perfectly willing to pick him up and help him out. Then, when he’d explain what his gimmick was, they’d laugh at his creativity.

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    The fact is that front page news stories about violence,danger, etc are for the most part rare. For example the amount of people that are fatalities in car crashes in a month are far more than the body count of train crashes in a year. Its the same with the rare hitch hiker meets with violence from person who picked him/her up. the same thing goes for personals meet ups: a bad incident is rare.

    I hitch hiked alone from the east coast to the west coast and back without one bad ride. thats about 4,000 miles in the USA. This was during the late 197o’s when there was a higher risk, imho, in hitchiking. The ironic thing that me, the hippie back then, got more rides from your run of the mill families, salesman, etc and hardly got any rides from fellow “freaks”. Usually they would just honk there horn and pass me bye…thanks bros, not.

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Total WarTotal War is a strategy based game that involves resource management and lets you control tactical battles in real time.  The first game of the Total War series was released in 2000, and the most recent was released on March 15, 2011.

Total war is a series of different games, in which all take place in a different setting and era. Total war games include Shogun, Medieval, Rome, Medieval II, Empire, Napoleon, and Shogun II. Playing this game takes time and strategy. When you start the game, you need to find a place to settle down and build your city into a territory. To expand, you need to collect resources and achieve points to unlock different objectives. Furthermore, Total War lets you control your own battles from the front of the lines. Before each battle you get to choose from a variety of troop options; however, you need to strategically place your troops to defeat your enemies.

Total War is an awesome game and we have therefore put together a list of closely related games to it. Check them out and leave us some feedback on your experience. Each game brings something unique to the table but they are all strategy based games.

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– Castle Empire Online – Castle Empire Online is a free to play browser game similar to Total War. The game was developed by a company based in Germany and was recently awarded as the “Best Online Browser Game” at the German Computer Game Award Ceremony. Playing Castle Empire lets you start fresh by finding uninhabited land and settling down. To start you must find a piece of land that you would like to settle down in and then you have to clear the land by cutting down trees. Cutting down trees can be an issue at times; however, there are foresters that plant seeds while you are cutting them down. Furthermore, you must strategically settle down, collect resources and build workshops to grow.  There are several different resources to collect; in which all have a distinct purpose for the game.

Castle Empire Online is based on an advancement system. This means that as you accumulate more experience points you will get close to advancing to the next level. At different levels, you are able to unlock different objectives and objects such as new buildings. You can gather points by accomplishing different quests throughout the game. There are many different quests to gain points and to expand your territory. One way to expand your territory is to send out explorers to gather information about different pieces of land. Besides expanding your territory, you need to worry castle empireabout the security of it as well. During game play there are countless number of robbers waiting to take down your workshops and houses so keep any eye out for them.

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If you are looking for a game similar to Total War our team encourages you to check out Castle Empire. Not only does it have many of the same features that Total War offers but also it is completely free to play.

– Chronicles of Merlin – Chronicles of Merlin is another great exploration battle and conquer game like Total War. In Chronicles of Merlin you get to experience with many different features including playing with swords, bows and arrows, unlock new armor, build castles and best of all attack your enemies to expand your territory. This game has many different tasks that need to be completed by yourself; besides attacking your enemies to expand you territory, you will chronicles of merlinhave to keep any eye out for bandits from damaging your city as well. The battles are relatively easily; however, the focus is to make sure that your heroes are leveling up in their training so you can get the best armor and weapons.

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Bernard J. Shapiro

Executive Director and Political Analyst

Bernard J. Shapiro Bernard J. Shapiro was born in Houston, Texas and received his higher education at the University of California at Berkeley, where he received degrees in both Political Science and in Communication and Public Policy. Shapiro lived in Israel for several years following graduation and has traveled there dozens of times to remain abreast of current developments. He has been an advocate for Israel for more than 50 years.

Shapiro is the founder and executive director of the Freeman Center For Strategic Studies and editor of its monthly magazine, The Maccabean Online (political analysis and commentary on Israeli and Jewish affairs). From 1993-1999 he also was editor of the Maccabean, an expanded, print version of the Maccabean Online that was distributed to Freeman Center members, Jewish leaders and educational institutions around the world. He is also the editor of the Freeman Center's email list, the FREEMANLIST.

The Freeman Center was named after Shapiro's grandfather Harry W. Freeman.

For many years Shapiro was the political analyst on Israeli and Jewish affairs for the Jewish Herald-Voice, writing his weekly column: News, Views, & Reviews. He has served the Jewish community in several capacities including founder and president of the Student Zionist Organization at the University of California at Berkeley, associate director of the Jewish National Fund in Houston, consultant to the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith in Miami, and founder and president of the Houston chapter of Americans For A Safe Israel (AFSI).

Shapiro's primary objective during all these years has been to improve Israel's image in this country as well as counteract Arab propaganda in the community and on college campuses. In pursuit of this goal, he intends to maximize solidarity with Israel among the Jewish community and combat media bias. To carry our his stated objective, he has been active in other Jewish organizations including: Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (since 1991); the Community Relations Committee of the Jewish Federation of Greater Houston (since 1991); the Houston Advisory Board for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) (since 1991); and Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) (since 1960).

Prior to founding the Freeman Center, Shapiro was proprietor, manager, and buyer for the House of Books, Inc. (1969-92), Houston's main source for Jewish books as well manager and buyer for Houston Paperback Distributors.

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1. AylaSophia says

    When reading this on my iPad, the gif loads much slower than normal. So he appears to be nodding very very slowly, which adds a whole ‘nother dimension of creepiness/awesomeness.

  2. F says

    I never could get the hang of Thursdays. I’ll have to endeavor to employ this lesson from the Crommunist.

  3. Riptide says

    F: I’ve found that if you close your eyes *really* tight and rock back and forth, Thursdays eventually lose interest and go bother someone else. But Crommunist’s method works, too.

  4. Leni says

    I so did not get this. Until I just now noticed the link.

    Lol! Really? Fruit? XD

    Also, I’m never watching Tosh again. I don’t even want to say what the first thing I thought it was about was ><

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    Being unaware of what the day or date is most of the time, Thursdays can slip by unnoticed and just blend in with the crowd. For those Thursdays which make themselves apparent, I just tend to stick around the cave. But I’ll give that rocking thing a go.

  6. SallyStrange: bottom-feeding, work-shy peasant says

    Yesss! It’s the day you post a .gif of Isaiah Mustafa nodding in that sexy, saucy way he has. Thanks for appreciating your readers who enjoy a little bit of male eye-candy.

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1. Mano Singham says

    I was surprised too but discovered that Polaroid still makes cameras. I don’t know how they got it to spit out a photo that had been taken earlier.

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    What’s even more remarkable is when they pull this stunt and the subject doesn’t notice. See here.

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Dave Gahan Of Depeche Mode Stars In New “People Are People” Volkswagen Ad

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As part of the European launch campaign for the new Golf 7, Volkswagen has released a commercial featuring Depeche Mode song “People Are People,” with the band’s lead singer Dave Gahan appearing behind the wheel of the 2013 car.

The spot blends six wildly diverse cover takes on the 1984 hit single to match different scenarios, including Johnny Cash-styled country, a gentle lullaby and dance floor remix versions.

The pay-off comes towards the end of the spot, when Gahan is shown cruising to the strains of the Depeche Mode original.

There has been much activity in the Depeche Mode camp recently, with the band announcing the first leg of a 2013 world tour that kicks off in Tel Aviv next May. The tour is expected to hit North America in mid-August. They also released a short film that features new music from what will be their thirteenth (and still untitled) studio album.

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Successive Softwares Analytical Skills  We are looking for the best talent, If you love working on software products and solutions that touch the physical world, that generate a meaningful business impact and want some serious experience under exponential growth conditions, this is it. Walk in on 6th June,2015 to our. . . . . . .
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Beston sky vision - manufacturing Unit. Office Management, Organizing, Shorthand, Typing  Required Female for Office Assistant having 0.6 to 2 years experience Qualification:- Graduate Minimum Age:- below 30 years Location:- Block- A, sector 63 Noida Job Description:- To handle Admin work. Office administration use computer word processing, spreadsheet, and. . . . . . .
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SAWAN INDUSTRIAL HOUSE Accounts/Finance, Auditing, Bookkeeping, Tally, Tax accounting  We required female fresher/ experienced candidate with GOOD knowledge of accounts and Taxation. He/ She should have knowledge and good experience. To make entry of bills & vouchers. To receive and process all invoices, expense forms and requests for payment. Verify calculations. . . . . . .
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Pantoxi Marketing Solutions.   We are looking for an SEO Executive who can help us with our Global SEO projects. Our office is located in sector 2, Noida and is only 5 minutes walking distance from Noida Sec-15 metro station. Freshers are welcome to apply as we are happy to train the right candidate. Salary :. . . . . . .
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Front Range Wireless excels in all facets of wireless construction, including: tower and cell site construction; microwave system installation and testing; tower, cell site and MSC maintenance; MSC upgrades, and MSC Project Management.

Service Above the Best!

Our fleet of trucks all have GPS units, laptops with wireless cards, cellular service that can be reached in remote areas. This allows us to dispatch the nearest field crew to the emergency cellular site 24/7. DC power and transport related installations in MSCs are handled through our subsidiary company,Western Power Installation, Inc.

Dedicated to Your Success

Our employees pride themselves on attention to detail and team work. Front Range Wireless has four full time Project Managers who coordinate jobs and maintain close communication with customers. While committed to safety and service, the teams place a high value on holding a “Customer First” attitude. Their skills are very diversified, backed with high level experience including:

  • New site construction with erection of monopoles or self support towers
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Aaron Kingstrom, President, has been in the wireless business since 1989, and carries a Master Electrician’s license. Front Range Wireless, Inc. holds a Colorado State Electrical Contracting License and FRW is a licensed General Contractor throughout numerous other jurisdictions of Colorado.

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Sunday, March 23, 2014

Whisky Tasting Thursday 3/27 at Little Miss Whiskey's

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About the event:

Ewan Morgan was born into the whisky industry as both his father and grandfather spent their entire careers in it. One of only 14 Masters of Whisky in the world, Ewan is an international representative of Diageo's long list of premier whisky brands. His remarkable knowledge coupled w/ a brilliant sense of humor makes for presentations that are as informative as they are entertaining. Ewan calls this event "Americans vs. Irish", but we know it's just a cover to discuss & sample some of his personal favorites as he has no vested interest in either nationality.
Tickets are only $5, seats are very limited

This tasting features: Bushmills Black Bush, Bushmills 16 Year, Bulleit Bourbon 10 Year, & Dickel Rye.

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Do you mean 3/27/2014? Or do you really mean July?

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Yes. Typo. Sorry.

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Too slow. :D Sold out.


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This Ronda Rousey tattoo was a good idea in theory

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This Ronda Rousey tattoo was a good idea in theory

This Ronda Rousey tattoo was a good idea in theory

We often do posts about interesting sports fan tattoos and are always open-minded about them. While I doubt any of us at For The Win headquarters are going to get a tattoo immortalizing Nate Robinson, we’ll never begrudge those who do.

So, in the general sense, a fan getting Olympic medalist and MMA queen Ronda Rousey tattooed on his body is totally cool. Getting this tattoo of Ronda Rousey on your body, however, is not.

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All of the problems with this particular Ronda Rousey tattoo, written with the full knowledge that whoever has this ink could definitely beat me up.

1. Her fist is bigger than her head. Is she Fisto, from He-Man?

2. What’s with the proportions of her body? Ronda Rousey is built like a Greek goddess who had access to a Bowflex. This tattoo makes her look like a misshapen ball of Play-Doh.

3. Look at Rousey from the cover of ESPN The Magazine‘s Body Issue. She’s beautiful and sculpted like a statue.

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Now go back and look at that tattoo. She looks like a confused Garbage Pail Kid that was rejected from an Alien: Resurrection casting call.

4. Here’s Rousey on the cover of the September Maxim. Again, she’s a vision of athleticism and allure.

And back to the tattoo. Seriously, my arms look better than those arms and my only workout comes from typing on my MacBook. That left arm looks like it belongs to Stretch Armstrong!

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Preview: Plenty of style and great performance at a saucy price

Nvidia’s GTX Titan launched at $999, which is quite steep even for a high-end graphics card. However, Nvidia doesn't feel like it is facing a lot of pressure at the moment, so it can afford to slap such a price on its new flagship. Gainward's GTX Titan is available at €940 and higher. For the same money one can get the GTX 690, which is a little bit faster in games, but the GTX Titan offers unmatched single GPU performance, free from multi-GPU issues. Gainward's card is based on Nvidia's  reference design, which is pretty good to begin with, and the picture below speaks louder than words.

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The cooler is inaudiable in idle and quiet during gaming. The Titan has 6GB of memory and you can use up to four active outputs.

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It comes with one 6-pin and one 8-pin power connector. Geforce GTX logo lights up when the card is powered up and we must say the Titan is one of the best looking cards we ever had a chance to play around with. Mind you, with such a saucy price, it has to look and feel like a premium product.

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GTX Titan specs include a total of 2668 CUDA cores, 837MHz+ clock and a total 6GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 6008MHz and paired up with a 384-bit memory interface.

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We played Crysis 3 at 1920x1080 and 2560x1600 resolutions with maxed out effects, 4xMSAA and 16x Anisotropic filtering. The charts show the two fastest cards in single GPU and multi GPU categories and both are pretty much a benchmark for other NV cards out there. However, Crysis 3 is a pretty tough nut to crack even for high-end cards. At 1920x1080 we could enjoy really nice framerates, but at 2560x1600 we experienced the occasional stutter. Overall the prformance gap does not seem so high, it is about 12 percent at 2560x1600. Of course, an in-depth review is coming soon, so stay tuned.

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Thanks to roller skates, I'm here on Fun 107 with you!! My music background began in the summer of 1986, spinning the hits at the former "Hot Wheels" roller skating rink. Then in 1991 I joined the staff here at Fun 107. Its so easy to get out of bed each day and come to a job that is as much FUN as this one is, and its a pleasure to interact with you on a daily basis on the "Back In the Day Cafe", and on the Fun 107 night show. When i'm not at work, you can find me at Fenway Park, (well, maybe not as much this year), or at the Boston Garden cheering on the Celtics, or DJ'ing weddings, birthday parties, or any kind of event you can think of. I'm the proud Dad of a sweet 4 year old girl named Abby. (I'm sure she will follow in Dad's footsteps someday and play the hits for ya too) ENJOY LIFE, and THANKS for being a Fun 107 Listener!!!!

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“It took three transplants and a total of $21,000 to accurately lower my hair line, close off my temples and grow back my bang,” he said

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Chicago School Officials Address Junk Food

New Bedford High Students “Bug Out” Over Lunch

A student at New Bedford High School got more than she paid for when she found what officials said was a bug they could not identify.

According to Ereyana Silveira, a student,  said “It blended in,” the describing it as “off-white” and “nasty

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Fans Perspective Of Shane Victorino’s Grand Slam [VIDEO]

We have all watched the replay a ton of times. Shane Victorino's grand slam in Game 6 of the ALCS was one of the most exciting moments in the history of Fenway Park.

If you weren't at Fenway, here is a video taken from a fan in the stands when Victorino came up to bat

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Haj Abu Gamal had a farm

Amira al Husseini, Middle East editor at Global Voices have made a fantstic job in translating parts of blogposts on how the daily life on Haj Abu Gamal´s Esba(farm) looks like.

It´s like an Egyptian blog version of the british 80´s comedy show spitting image, all made by the brilliant anonymous blogger el Esba

Hilariously funny! Thanks to el Esba and to Amira!

I would also like to send my congrats to the Global Voices team, on the new web site that was launched yesterday. Looks great!

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thanks for refering to the british satire show. In fact this is the first time I hear about it, but I really liked its idea and will work on having something simmilar.

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You´re more than welcome ya Haj Abu Gamal, Spitting image was the first thing that came to my mind upon reading the Ezba. I enjoy it tremendously! Keep up your fantastic work!

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The Private Land/Public Wildlife Council will meet Aug. 4-5 in Helena at the Jorgenson’s Inn & Suites, located at 1714 11th Ave.

At the meeting, the council will discuss issues related to hunting access on private and public lands, and finalize draft recommendations to offer for public comment, based upon work accomplished over the past six months.

Each of the 18 members of the governor-appointed council is interested in issues related to hunters, anglers, landowners, and outfitters, including but not limited to Montana's hunting and fishing access enhancement programs, landowner-hunter relations, outfitting industry issues, and other matters related to private lands and public wildlife.

Meeting times are 1–5 p.m. on Aug. 4, and 8 a.m.–noon on Aug. 5. The public is invited to observe council proceedings and work sessions. Designated times for public comment are set for 4:30 p.m. on Aug. 4 and 11:30 a.m. on Aug. 5.

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Rachel Garza Carreón, UI Libraries

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Rachel Garza Carreón grew up hearing that a college education wasn’t part of her future, that professional success was beyond her reach.

Thankfully not all voices were negative, not all doors were closed. Through the opportunities provided by the Upward Bound program and the encouragement she received from mentors, she was able to attend Boston University for her undergraduate degree and the University of Texas at Austin for her master’s. She has gone on to accomplish things once thought to be nothing more than dreams.

Carreón is giving back to the Iowa City community, and encouraging others without support to pursue their dreams.

“You can’t let fear rule your life. I try to remind students that it is okay to think big and want to see the world no matter what anyone has told them.”

A staunch advocate for social justice, Carreón does many things in her role as the outreach, recruitment, and research librarian with University of Iowa Libraries to make the UI a more welcoming place. She spoke with fyi about her work and when she realized her desire to make an impact on people’s lives.

You are involved with the Mujeres Latinas Project—what is that?

The Mujeres Latinas Project of the Iowa Women’s Archives (www.lib.uiowa.edu/iwa/mujeres.html) began in 2004, right before I arrived at the UI. The project was established to collect and preserve materials that document the lives and contributions of Latinas and their families to Iowa history. So far, IWA curator Kären Mason, assistant curator Janet Weaver, and I have collected more than 100 interviews.

A few of my favorite things…
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The book Illusions by Richard Bach

Rock music (Foo Fighters, Linkin Park)

The movie Grosse Pointe Blank

The TV show Leverage

San Antonio Spurs

Before I arrived at the UI, I had experience with oral histories and designing projects similar to this one. It was a perfect match, something I would enjoy doing. It fit my personal interest, because I didn’t know the history of Latinos in Iowa before I began this project. I care about this project, and it made my first few years at Iowa much more comforting because I connected with my culture.

For this project, I traveled throughout Iowa and interviewed families. I would go to community centers, make fliers, and introduce myself to the community. For a project like this one, it is important that you make connections with the families, so they feel comfortable sharing their lives with you. I would ask questions about their background, look at paperwork, and listen to stories about items the families would share with me—mostly pictures, but sometimes objects.

After interviewing the families and collecting items, we would go through the audio, organize pictures, and make the information available to researchers.

What are the Spotlight displays located in the Main Library?

I remember working at the information desk and just staring at this empty wall right across from the desk—it bothered me. I thought it would be nice if that wall could be created into something that represented the cultural houses and LGBT Resource Center on campus.

The first display was about Hispanic Heritage month. It turned out nicely and I received positive feedback, so I continued the project and decided to name it the Spotlight series. Now each display spotlights a different topic, but includes representatives from all of the five groups represented by the houses and center. It is a challenge to get all the elements I need for a display. I am helped by the library’s facilities department and my colleagues John Elson and Carlette Washington-Hoagland.

The display is a living display—it’s interactive, as in you can take the books from the display if you wish. I want a lot of interaction with the displays, and it is constantly changing. It means a lot to me when students become inspired to write a paper by something or person that was featured in the display. There is a comments box by each display and I am always excited to hear what people have to say.

How about the library’s Welcoming Walls?

This project started because I saw an opportunity to utilize a space and make the library more welcoming. Many students said the library was dark and not relatable, so I wanted to create an atmosphere that was colorful and inclusive to different groups.

I wanted to get art from all over that represented many artistic styles and artists. I bought national, local, and student art. I had a vision of what I wanted—I wanted color and the pieces to relate to each other. I created a blueprint of the display, and my vision came together.

This was a huge risk because I asked the university and the library for funding, and I put the entire project together. I am proud of this project, and it is nice when I see students looking at the art or making comments about the art. There is an art guide at the information desk with information on all the art.

As a child, you knew that you wanted your life’s work to have an impact. How have you been able to do this through the activities you are involved with?

After participating in Upward Bound, starting in the eighth grade, I was given opportunities I never would have been able to have. I was taught how to do college applications and financial aid forms on my own. When I said I wanted to go to Boston University they were very supportive of the idea. My goal has been to give back as much as I can. It’s important to me that I help someone every day—whether that is helping students in school, preserving someone’s story through an oral history, or designing something for the libraries.

Volunteerism and standing up for what you believe in are a huge part of my life. You have to stand up and do something, and I try to do that as often as I can.

One such activity is teaching Upward Bound classes for the library in the summer. I love those classes and I love the Upward Bound Program. It’s the core of how you can do life on your own. It’s good preparation, and teaches you to have faith in yourself.

Visit the UI Upward Bound Project website for more information on the project.


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Here is what I need to implement:

-> The overworld is 2d, with an isometric view. The graphics would in no way be rendered in 3D, but rather drawn in 2d.

-> The characters would be rendered in 3d, moving about in the 2d isometric world. (Even if the characters are in 3D in a 2D environment, its not much of an issue since a 3D character may actually be rasterized in a series of 2D images, in other words, this isn't much of a problem I feel)

I have looked at several game engines, but I find it very difficult to know which would be best to implement this sort of look and feel. Which game engine do you guys feel could be best for me so that I would have the least amount of coding to do for purely the isometric view aspect?

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2D isometric is just a 3D orthographic projection, with a little camera work you could use almost any 3D engine really. The screenshots that I find of Bastion look like they are 3D rendered, but built simply and angular like it was built on a 2D grid.

Note that similar games like Diablo3 or Wakfu that look like they are 2D are really built and rendered in 3D.

The key words and features you need to look for when considering engines now is whether the camera is is programmable and it can do an orthographic projection. Also you will need to change the character controller to gracefully handle diagonal movement.

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It might appear that way but Bastion is really a fully 2D game (source). It's completely made up of sprites drawn "at the right place" so there's no 3D or camera work being done to render it isometrically. –  David Gouveia Feb 6 '12 at 11:35

It could be any 2D engine, but you need to design your tiles somewhat diferent. Also remember that you need to draw your tilemap from top-left to bottom-right to paint the nearest tiles in the last time, so nearest tiles are always painted over the other tiles.

You can refine your algorithm by making semitransparent or not drawing tiles when these tiles are painted over sobre important tiles (your player, enemies, etc)

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There are no random numbers in the engine and everything is calculated the same way. How can it happen differently each time?

This is on my own small physics engine that I made earlier that is written in lua and runs in the Moai SDK

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Are you using time since last frame? That could very well cause suble (sometimes even brutal) difference. And are you using floating point numbers? –  Roy T. Apr 10 '12 at 19:49
It's obviously chaos theory and quantum mechanics. –  jco Apr 10 '12 at 20:22
You wrote the code, and something in that code is not deterministic, you have got a few bids, but they are shots in the dark, and provide no info you couldn't have found on Google yourself. If you want real help we got to know how your engine works. –  eBusiness Apr 10 '12 at 21:04
Too broad, too vague. I'd vote to close as NARQ if I had the rep. Without lots of additional information, anyone's guess is as good as anyone else's (as you can see from the various answers so far, which really should be just comments). Give us something to work with. This is in your own interest. A good, clear question will get you a good, clear answer. Throwing a one-liner at the wall and hoping that it sticks will only get you people throwing one-liners right back at you. –  RegDwight Apr 10 '12 at 23:02
Had to give you the downvote. This question can be boiled down to "my physics engine acts funny, why is that?" Without more details I wouldn't consider this a real question. –  Mike C Apr 11 '12 at 0:13

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Use the same time steps every time. My physics engine is set to use 33 ms time steps, and I can produce the exact same simulations that way (assuming I use the same machine.) If I use different time steps, even 1 ms more, the game will slowly diverge.

You can do this with this basic loop:

void update( long timeMS ) {
    _accumulatedTime += timeMS;
    while ( _accumulatedTime >= _timeStepMS ) {
        // do physics simulation
        _accumulatedTime -= _timeStepMS;

This will ensure that you always run your physics simulation with exact time steps, and will also ensure that you never lose any time.

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What sort of differences in floating-point number handling are you thinking of? While that's certainly a possibility, there's more than enough commonality in floating-point arithmetic at this point (including the IEEE standard, even if devices aren't always 100% faithful to it in some corner cases) that that would be way, way down my list of guesses. –  Steven Stadnicki Apr 10 '12 at 20:17
I mostly threw that out there to make sure he was aware that it's one possible issue. You're right, though, it's not likely the issue here. I've removed that bit as it's probably not constructive. –  stephelton Apr 10 '12 at 20:25

This is difficult to answer without more details regarding the engine itself. My hunch, however, would be to look for race conditions in your code.

The kinds of details that would be useful include:

  • Is your engine multi-process or multi-threaded?
  • Is your engine event-driven?
  • How are you guaranteeing your test is consistent?
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Read here for a good explanation of timestep http://gafferongames.com/game-physics/fix-your-timestep/ Timestep should be fixed, and this article takes a good approach and explains everything clearly.

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Also note that there are some differences when handling floating points on different computers which can cause differences. –  Roy T. Apr 10 '12 at 20:14
Pointing to helpful articles is always nice, but I thin you should put some effort and write your own explanation (answer) as well. –  TheLima Oct 2 '12 at 16:50
@TheLima I know that now, but seeing this was my first answer here I did not know back then. Feel free to edit my answer to make it better. –  Matsemann Oct 2 '12 at 16:57
Well, you are the author of the post, not me; I can "make your answer better", but I cannot add an answer in your stead. If I were to do that, I would rather add my own answer and receive the credit for what I answer; This tough is unnecessary, as the problem here has already been addressed in ways very similar to what my answer would be. –  TheLima Oct 2 '12 at 18:23

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I'm making OpenGL game for Android. Till now i've used only fixed function pipeline, but i'm rendering simple things.

Fixed function pipeline includes a lot of stuff i don't need. So i'm thinking about implementing shaders in my game to simplify OpenGL pipeline if it can make better performance.

Better performance = better battery life, unless fps is limited by software limit, not hardware power.

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Isn't the fixed function pipeline deprecated? Might be an issue in the near future. –  David Lively Jun 27 '12 at 16:07

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There isn't actually a question here except in the subject, but improved performance and improved battery life could be totally different things. Also, improved compared to what? Compared to the fixed function pipeline? Compared to complex shaders?

Simple shaders should give a higher framerate (assuming your framerate is limited by gpu throughput rather than screen refresh rate) when compared to complex shaders, which you might consider better performance. That won't necessarily improve battery life though, you could still be using 100% gpu/cpu power, but you will have a higher frame rate because there is less to do each frame.

Compared to the fixed function pipeline... who knows? Many hardware vendors nowadays implement the fixed function pipeline in terms of shaders, so you're just comparing simple vs complex shaders again.

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I don't have up-to-date figures of smartphone power consumption, but I think that CPU and GPU should be somewhere at the same level. Correct me, if I am wrong.

Generally, trying to optimize parts of your code that rely on performance is always a good thing, not only because you save battery life, but also because you can reach devices with less powerful hardware. I also always encourage people to use OpenGL ES 2.0 / OpenGL 3.0 for games, because the power of shaders is, like you said, to cut down the effort to a minimum and to provide much more flexibility.

But, based on the assumption you are rendering some 2D sprites, I'd say that the GPU is mostly in an idle state. That means that the CPU will possibly have more impact on battery life than the GPU, so you should not expect too positive results here. I'd recommend you try to improve your algorithms running on the CPU before you optimize the ones on the GPU, but I'd use shaders too for the sake of flexibility. At least if you can ignore the devices out there without support for OpenGL ES 2.0 (again, I don't have figures ^^).

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Thanks for nice answer, but i didn't ask "What should part of game should i optimize for better battery usage". ;) –  Miro Jul 2 '12 at 18:21

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Over the last year, video game publishers' lobbying group the Entertainment Software Association has lost a quarter of its members.  New financial data reported by Gamespot may shed some light on just why the defections have occurred.

Back in 2007 - at the demand of its member companies - the ESA scaled back its annual E3 show, reducing the number of attendees from more than 60,000 to around 5,000. Despite the downsized event pulling in nearly $15 million less than in 2006, the ESAʼs 2007 revenue dropped less then $1 million, thanks to hefty membership fee increases - 1700% hefty.
Dues collected for the year of the Santa Monica E3 (April 1, 2007 - March 31, 2008) rang up at $17.41 million; the prior year's total was $4.47 million.  The year before that, the ESAʼs total income from member fees was just over $1 million.
Although NCsoft has gone on record that its decision not to renew its 2009 membership with the ESA was not financially motivated, itʼs a good bet that for some of the memcos (including financially-battered Midway), money was indeed a big factor.
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Wow those are some big fees... I guess the ESA is the real pirate that's bleeding companies dry

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 ESA Member fees are HEFTY HEFTY HEFTY, ECA member fees are wimpy wimpy wimpy.

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Even so, what you get for being a member of ECA is not much.  Heck, as a member I've yet to get any response to any one of my queries (one of which was to try to find out why their promised discount doesn't actually exist).  I finally sent them a message cancelling my membership - to which they have not responded (surprise, surprise).  I suspect I'll eventually have to cancel my credit card to ensure that I'm not charged for next year's dues.

The moral of my story - avoid the ECA like the plague.  At a cost of nearly $20/year the organization does nothing for its members and is about as responsive as a brick wall.  I would have got more satisfaction by throwing my $20 in the fire or down the toilet.

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Interesting, I have had none of your problems. I get a good number of my requests answered.

But of course I did not join just for the discounts. My primary reason to join was to actually get involved in what they are doing. You know, getting together with other gamers to fight for our rights and reputaion. That sort of thing.

For $20 a year,  I think that is worth it.

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A good way to buffer the cost is to open it the the public and charge an admission fee.

And what I got from that is, well, are they trying to justify the higher membership fees? As I doubt it's possible to justify that to a floundering developer, especiallg if they need to spend even more just to get noticed at E3.

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"A good way to buffer the cost is to open it the the public and charge an admission fee."

Agreed, and I just want said admission fee to be small enough for low-middle class to get in.

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In world of tanks when using the XVM mod the overview screen shows two chances listed. "m" and "k" What do these numbers signify?

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These are two calculated "chances" of winning, using slightly different forumlae.

  • K is the more basic of the two, looking only at the efficiency rating and tier.
  • M takes more variables into account, such as number of battles and previous winrates.

For M, the forumla is:

E=efficiency of player

R=GWR of player

B=normalized number of battles of player (number of battles divided by 100000)

Tmin=min battle tier of current tank

Tmax=max battle tier of current tank

M=effectiveness of player calculated by efficienecy, winrate, battles played and tier

Kc=sum of calculated M for all allies

Kn=sum of calculated M for all enemies

K= win rate

For K, the formula is:

Esi allied player efficiencies

Usi allied player tier (Epi Upi being enemy stats)

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