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ama-bi-le \äˈmäbəlē\ adjective. Italian, lovable, from Latin amabilis, from amare to love; tender, gentle - used as a direction in music
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Excellent location – rated 9.4/10! (score from 1060 reviews)
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Nice old building with a garden out back. Simple, peaceful vibe. Located south of the Arno, a short walk from the central tourist area, but still close enough to make sightseeing easy.
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Fantastic location: very close to the Colosseum and Piazza Venezia, yet very quiet. Very basic rooms (matching exactly the description on booking.com) - and super friendly staff.
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The staff was very helpful in making museum reservations for me and in giving me directions. The breakfast was good. The location is perfect. It is close to bus lines but also within walking distance of the colosseum and other sights.
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The location is excellent with Coliseum in sight and metro 2 minutes' walk.
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A well-located facility with clean, basic accommodations. Easy walking to public transportation and a good value. Breakfast selection was more than adequate and had the best towels of the six hotels in my recent Italian trip.
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Value and location. Friendly staff.
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Nice neighbourhood, close to the attractions and the subway.
Location is great
just 5 mit walk to colloseum and walkable to pantheon. metro station just 3 mit walk. also, breakfast was good!
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Casa Santa Sofia is in a lively square in Rome's Monti area, full of bars and restaurants and just over a quarter mile from the Colosseum. It has free Wi-Fi throughout.
The simple rooms at Santa Sofia guesthouse feature white walls and curtains and colorful bed linens. Each one has a private bathroom with either a bathtub or shower.
Every morning, a traditional breakfast complete with Italian coffee is available. Guests also have a communal TV room and vending machines selling both food and drinks.
Casa Santa Sofia is just 800 ft from Cavour Metro Station, providing fast services with other areas in Rome. The main shopping street Via Del Corso can be reached by foot in 10 minutes.
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Il Covo B&B is set in the pretty neighborhood of Monti in the heart of the historic center. Take a short stroll down to the Colosseum and the Roman Forum.
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Nice neighbourhood, close to the attractions and the subway.
The room was towards a square and it was noicy.
Good breakfast, great and safe location near Coliseo and Fori Imperiali. Staff is very nice and helpful. Private bathroom, like a hotel. Recommended.
weak wifi (unless in my room, they really need to improve this). Room heating was regulated centrally so I coulnt turn it on or off according to my needs. But pros are bigger than cons
Location is great
The room is very simple like old hostel. Staffs are with limited English and breakfast is simple as well.
Good choice if you are looking for a central location, and plan to just use the room for storing baggage and sleep at new night!
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just 5 mit walk to colloseum and walkable to pantheon. metro station just 3 mit walk. also, breakfast was good!
Just the location
Surprised to be greeder by a nun, the smell of incense was unbearable, sweet breakfast, noisy and cold. I was disappointed because the rating is above 8 and the facilities were below average.
This was my second stay at Casa Santa Sofia.I love the location and the Sisters who work the desk during the day are very sweet and helpful. I have been to Rome many times and have stayed in hotels and apartments and the beds I have slept in here are among the most comfortable ones I have found in Rome. Most places have what feels like slabs of rock, but these beds... ah... they were lovely after a day of touring the city. Don't forget to ask for a room on the back side of the building because the square in front is Lively until the wee wee hours of the morning.
The ONLY bad thing was where the toilet paper holder was mounted was about shoulder level next to the toilet in a very tight 3 sided slot in the bathroom, but this is different in every room as the configurations are not all the same. The other thing that might bother someone is Yes, it is an old building, and YES when you first walk in to an enclosed room it will smell damp, we fixed this by opening the window for about 10 mins then it was fine. One last note, the gentleman who checked us in, spoke way too fast to give us the important info he must have to tell everyone. He raced through it as though it was a race. I am sure he knew what he was saying but I didn't understand a thing and had I not already stayed there before, I would have had to ask him to repeat it all.
I stayed at Santa Sofia for 3 nights and Id give it an overall rating of 7.5! It's a really cute place and is really close to everything! The staff is really lovely and room is exactly how I imagined. Nothing special but cute! I will definitely come back to this hotel for my next stay in Rome! (Just pick a more quiet room!!)
I'd say the only down side is that the room I chose was facing out to the square which really was a bad decision as on most nights, when it's not raining, it's REALLY loud! Almost impossible to sleep. I had to buy some ear plugs from the pharmacy and they didn't do much... Also the breakfast is super simple, everything is sweet stuff. But I guess for the money you pay, that is really all you can expect! I'd recommend to chose a quiet room when they ask you at reception, unless you are a party animal and are planning on staying out till 3am :)
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Breakfast was lacking a little. Fruit would have been nice!
Excellent location - a few minutes from Colosseum, friendly and helpful staff, good breakfast. Room with the view on the piazza (small square).
Problems with WiFi.
Our room was clean and not bad.
Very noisy outside till midnight. Wifi didnt work good
Nice old building with a garden out back. Simple, peaceful vibe. Located south of the Arno, a short walk from the central tourist area, but still close enough to make sightseeing easy.
There was an issue with the shower not working in the bathroom nearest to our bedroom, but the staff gave us access to a different bathroom so it wasn't a big deal. Staff warned us that wifi might not work in our room. It actually worked fine, but I guess it might not work in all rooms.
I really enjoyed my stay and felt secure, bed was comfortable also great breakfast.
Position is the major advantage of the structure.
We stayed there for 2 nights and the first one we got the room on the Piazza della Madonna dei Monti, one of the most crowded at night in Rome! The price was not that high for the center of Rome, however the rooms and the service (including breakfast) are very poor.
great location, safe area, clean and comfortable room
location , staff , cleanliness, value for money, almost everything.
breakfast was all sweet options, its bad for someone who deosn't like sweet breakfast,if there is plain croissant or salty that would be perfect, coffee is not good room is very small but that was ok for me
Location is second to none, just 5-10 minutes walk to the colosseo and all the historical attractions! And walking to the Termini with luggages takes only less than 20 minutes! The staff on the front desk was very helpful when I asked to change my big note into smaller ones. I had a single room, which was very clean. The shower was hot and powerful enough which helped a lot to release the tiredness after a long walking day. Breakfast was nice enough to give you full energy!
My room was just in front of the fountain and a cafe, where a lot of people gathered and chatted until midnight! So it was super noisy! Lucky that after the first night, I was too tired and fell asleep quickly. So just don't pick the rooms facing that side at your check in.
No heating in the room. In a day they only run the heating for 2 hours and the room was cold.
This hotel has perfect Location if you want to visit Rome on Foot, it is easy to check in and they will take care of your stuff if you arrive before time while you visit or as in my case will even let you check into your room if ready at any time. The staff is very cooperative and the rooms very clean and affordable.
I wouldn't say i didn't like the breakfast but it can be improved in my opinion.
Fantastic location: very close to the Colosseum and Piazza Venezia, yet very quiet. Very basic rooms (matching exactly the description on booking.com) - and super friendly staff.
The free WiFi was quite temperamental: worked maybe 10% of the time.
Nice and welcoming stuff, wonderful location near the important monuments and museums:)
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Brutal Legend Review Rebuttal
The Kojukinator
on 10.19.2009
I've just finished the game, short of 12 hours playtime. After reading the Dtoid review, I disagree. So here are some rebuttals to the points mentioned in the review (the italicized bits are blatantly quoted from the review).
"The connection to the story and the characters does suffer due to a few of the game's technical hiccups. For instance, in-game dialogue is sometimes delivered with the wrong timing -- an environmental cue will trigger a conversation too early or too late, for example -- which can be a bit jarring and confusing. Even some of the game's odd editing, including sloppy transitions from in-game action to cut-scenes, can interrupt the flow of the narrative. Simply put, the impressive efforts in writing simply don't translate as well as they could have with a bit more polish."
This has happened to me only once, at the very end of the game... yeah it was pretty damn lame, but honestly I didn't see this at all until then. However to suggest that this somehow kills the game's delivery, is a bit overboard.
"As far as the gameplay is concerned, Brütal Legend is a mish-mash of gaming styles and genres. While it's an interesting approach to design, the problem here is that not a single one of these elements is as satisfying or as fleshed-out as it should be. If you've played the demo, you're already familiar with the game's third-person action mechanics. Eddie can swing his big heavy metal axe to dismember, slice, or decapitate his foes. Alternately, he can use a guitar for attacks, including playing a button-pressing mini-game to perform one of the most amazing attacks you'll see in any game -- the "Face Melter." Aptly named, the attack will literally melt the faces of your enemies. Yes, it's as awesome as it sounds.
But for all of that, the third-person combat can also be repetitive and sloppy. With the block button mapped to the out-of-the-way "B" button, we rarely used it; instead we'd quickly hit "B" plus the analog stick while locked on an enemy to dodge attacks. Holding down the "B" button to block left us without a good way to attack, and therefore we mostly ignored it."
A mish-mash? Great, I'm tired of games that focus on only ONE shallow game mechanic. So at least the review mentions that there are several of them here, which is good thing in my book. See, shallow game mechanics are not a bad thing, they just get boring. But considering that there are numerous things to do, it breaks up the monotony and makes things more enjoyable. What's the down side again?
How satisfying should the third-person action have been? Like Devil May Cry? Like Mario? What is the metric? I personally found it pretty god damn satisfying. Slicing people up, power sliding, melting faces, zapping people, firing them up in the air with fireworks, buffing friendly units with solos, summoning the Deuce to run over people, summoning a flaming dirigible to drop it on enemies, summoning wild creatures to help you as AI units or as ride-able mounts with special attacks (LASER PANTHERS!!!). Did I play the same game? The reviewer didn't have fun with all that? This was more fun than pretty much any other 3rd person action adventure game out there, or if anything at least on par.
After completing the game, I can actually see the logic in not adding any extra depth to any of the game's combat systems. They are already all deep enough in a sense that, if they were any more complex or fleshed out the player would be overwhelmed during the game's RTS sequences... which, fuck everyone, are pretty awesome and fun in my opinion.
"As far as the lock-on is concerned, it's not exactly the most intelligent setup. Combat can sometimes get hectic, with Eddie and his army (more on that in a bit) taking on huge groups of baddies at once. Attempts to lock on to an enemy directly ahead of you, but a bit off in the distance, sometimes will cause you to lock on to a closer enemy to your left or right... one that's already engaged in combat. All the while, of course, that enemy off in the distance is repeatedly pounding you with some kind of ranged attack. It's fortunate that in big battles such as these, there's little reason to target enemies -- simple button mashing generally does the trick. While you can upgrade your abilities as you progress through the game, that button mashing feeling never truly goes away."
I barely used the lock-on in the game, the only times it's really necessary is when an enemy is out of reach, maybe on a ledge, or when you're fighting something that's pretty hard on you and requires performing dodging maneuvers. However, there's nothing wrong with the targeting, it works if you simply adjust to it. I don't know if the reviewer noticed, but your guitar attacks have limited range, and targeting is most likely adjusted for that. Also, since when is auto-targeting the closest enemy considered a bad thing? Boohoo, the enemy is far, run up to them... maybe if you don't stand in one spot and mash A over and over, the game will be more fun.
Speaking of which, the button mashing never goes away? No shit, it's a video game in which you kill things with an AXE. There's this other game I played.... uh.... oh yeah, Devil May Cry, my fucking hands hurt after playing it because of all the button mashing. 3rd person action games ALL have button mashing, so I don't understand the negative here. We mash buttons in games to do combat, that's how it works. There are combos, some pretty neat, and there are enough of them to mix the button presses up. USE them. If you spam A the whole game, don't be negative on it by stating that button mashing is not exciting. In fact, the Metal Forge will have lots of options for you to decide on exactly what kind of combat you want to be good at and which attacks you may want to use more than others.
"The Deuce can be summoned nearly anywhere in the world and at any time by simply playing a heavy metal riff, and you'll be doing this often, as the game's story objectives and side missions are scattered all over the game's world. Here's where the problem comes in -- navigating the world is a bit of a bitch. While you can can access a map by pressing select, the game's clean "we don't need no damned HUD" design means there's no constant mini-map on your screen.
While it's great that developers are looking for ways to immerse players in the game experience, doing that at the expense of having to pause the game to see a map every 30 seconds is unacceptable. Yes, you can set a beacon/waypoint on the map, which you can then follow to your destination, the turn signal of Eddie's car helping with general navigation. Regardless, there are times when you simply won't be able to see the beacon (if it's not in your line of sight, for instance), or the turn signals are giving seemingly odd direction advice... so it's back to the map screen, slowing down the action."
There's nothing wrong with navigating the world. It's not a bitch, it is fun. There's tons of stuff scattered around to find, and not having a perfectly clear direction is exciting because I always got to find cool stuff on my way to other places. Yeah, I may have not gotten from A to B the fastest and most direct way, but that would not have made the experience better for me. I loved driving around aimlessly sometimes, because the world rewards you for it.
Setting the beacon on the map to your desired quest and using the Deuce's lights was very easy once I figured out the mechanic for it. If you PAY ATTENTION, when you set the waypoint on the map, it uses the road system to plot a course. That's how the lights function, they always point to the road path that's best to take. However, the game allows you to go offroad and cut through the short way, but the turn signals are not tuned to that type of driving... as I said they assume road navigation. And on roads, the turn signals never give the wrong direction, so I dunno what the reviewer's problem is... maybe he was going around too fast and missing turns constantly. Clever nagivation is something the player must learn as they get familiar with the world. During the last third of the game I was driving around the entire world like it was my home town, without ever pressing the back button to bring up the map. Also the beacon works great, yes terrain sometimes obstructs it, stop crying. Honestly I had to use the map more in GTA games than I have in this one. Plus, this map is totally metal and kinda fun to look at still.
"You read that right: a huge part of Brütal Legend -- including most of the missions that will let you advance in the story, and those that serve as boss battles -- is a real-time strategy element that mixes the basic concepts of standard RTS games with squad-based console control mechanics from titles like Rainbow Six. It's unfortunate that this is such a significant portion of Brütal Legend's core gameplay, because quite frankly, it's the most tedious, least fun, and most broken part of the game. These instanced RTS battles generally have two factions battling for fan geysers to build "mech booths" on, which then provide you with resources to spend on units that you'll use to destroy your opponent's rock stage (or in at least one instance, the door to a fortress) or protect your own."
These are some of the most fun and challenging sequences in the game, and it would not be the same without them... read: less fun, more generic, and lame. If the RTS element in this game is tedious, then everyone who plays actual RTS games must be a time masochist beyond the caliber of WoW players. And anyone who plays 4X games is most likely an immortal, because the level of tedium is astronomical by Brutal Legend's standard.
The RTS is pretty straight forward actually. But there IS a strategy to it, and it is fun to play. Considering that Eddie is still around for all that fun with all of his regular skills, these sequences in the game get pretty entertaining. But let's see how the reviewer tears them apart.
"magine, if you will, playing a real-time strategy game with no mini-map to keep track of troops; instead you're given the ability to oversee only part of the battlefield by flying up and hovering above the action. The only way to order your troops is by way of clunky point-and-click beacons, and stop/go/attack commands that (if you're lucky) your troops will only listen to half of the time. Frustrating doesn't begin to describe these experiences, forced throughout Brütal Legend."
Yeah, I'm imagining and it's pretty awesome. It's different. It's not easy. It's exciting. Clunky point and click beacons? They seem to work just fine. Hold LSB, move stick to move beacon around, press Right on d-pad to mark it as a way-point for anyone around you to move to. KEY POINT: "anyone around you". This means you can only tell people to do something when they are in a small area around you, this is part of the challenge of this game mode. If this is too difficult for you then there is a solo that you can play that will direct all units from all over the map to your current location. So maybe the reviewer's troops weren't listening half the time because they were on the other side of the map. But he doesn't really talk about any of that, I wonder if he even paid attention to the game's tool-tips.
"Some of the battles can go on for upwards of one hour, with you fighting off hordes of enemies with your own troops, the back-and-forth struggle more repetitive and boring than fun. With zero checkpoints in the battles, it's possible to fail (or in many cases, you might simply turn off the console in frustration) 30 or 40 minutes in, and then get sent back to the start to do it all again. Simply put, these RTS sections are a miserable addition to a game that features otherwise inoffensive (if not somewhat obvious) gameplay."
Yes, the battles MAY last that long. But I was playing the game on normal difficulty, and finished most battles within 20-30 minutes until the end of the game. I actually thought they were pretty easy, because... you know, I used my head to think... and I would win pretty quickly. In fact, sometimes I was disappointed that I won so easily. So I was happy that the battles at the end of the game were more challenging and EPIC. Yes, if you fail you gotta start over. Big deal, cry moar.
The RTS sections are absolutely great. Yes, they could have been better. But they were pulled of well, are fun to play, are NOT tedious or frustrating. Are they a break from constant 3rd person button mashing? Yes, that's the point. Do they work within the context of the game? Yes. Do they fit well with all of the other mechanics? Yes.
"Being forced to participate in a number of these battles, including most of the major boss battles, was simply painful. With each RTS battle presented, we would groan, wishing at the most that Double Fine would have been able to refine this console RTS experience to make it more playable, and at the least, enjoyable. (Full disclosure: Towards the end of the game's story, we were forced to switch to the game's easiest mode, "Gentle," just so we could complete a particularly frustrating battle to "get it over with.")"
It just seems to me that we have a reviewer that doesn't like 3rd person action adventure games, OR rts games, reviewing a game that has both of those game elements together. Wow you guys had to switch to easy mode? Haha... I know what battle you are talking about. It's the one with the three heads right. Yeah, I bet you took one head down, and drove the Deuce in to it. And then the enemy spawned a force so big that it wiped the floor with you? Yeah, I know that happened because that's what happened to me, on my first try. So you know what I did? I adjusted my fucking strategy instead of going to easy mode. I beat it on the next try... I beat it with such grace and finesse that it's almost pathetic that you guys couldn't finish it and had to switch difficulty. This only proves to me that for some reason this game wasn't put in to the right hands to review it, it's almost as if you guys hated it from the start.
SPOILER: here's my strategy. The heads bombard your units, so you want to take them out. Taking each head out is a two step process. First you have your units beat it down, and then you drive the Deuce in to the window/eye thing. After you drive the Deuce in to it, the enemy will step up the game and obliterate you... so you need to prepare yourself. First of all, take down both heads but don't drive the Deuce in to any of them. This way your units will not get bombarded. Also, take control of all the fan geysers, that should not be hard at this point.
So now the situation is this: you have sweet fan income, and the only dps the enemy is doing is through the syringe critters (as the heads are down now). The heads will not come back, so you've just bought yourself some good time. Level up your stage to max so you can get the huge vehicle with the grinder thing in the front (forgot name of it). Also get a bunch of headbangers, groupies, and a couple bass playing dudes and level them up. Then add whatever other units you like that you have room for. This army will keep killing enemy critters, and as long as the heads are down you won't lose any units. Once you've accumulated a good surplus of fans, say 1000. You're way in the green to continue your attack.
Drive the Deuce in to one of the heads now. The enemy will spawn tons of their tough units, however the grinder vehicle's double team attack is absolutely vicious. It raises a mini stone henge like thing that locks enemies in a circle, and then a huge sword plows in to them destroying almost any unit in one hit. So just with that one vehicle you'll stop the attacks. Now that you've driven in to the first head, the second head revives and you must bring it down once more... but it should be easy. Then drive the Deuce in to it, and clear the heavy enemy units again. You should have no problems at all doing it this way.
The reviewer, and the other people in his office all sucked ass at this game apparently.
"As it turns out, these RTS sections are simply a tutorial for the game's online multiplayer, which mirrors these instanced sections in just about every way."
Yup, I haven't tried it yet though. But I'm sure it's going to be fun at least for a little while. If you think about it, the whole RTS element in this game is a somewhat twisted and stripped down version of
Defence of the Ancients
"But considering the multiplayer is built around what is easily the one gameplay style that
ultimately destroys the single-player experience
, it's hard to imagine this mode will have legs in the long run."
My opinion is: fuck your opinion.
"Again, Brütal Legend should be one of the greatest video games ever made; the key word here is "should." It's with a heavy heart that, after almost 15 hours of play (including multiplayer and single-player side quests), we have to report that it simply doesn't deliver the way
we wanted
it to."
What the hell were you guys expecting? Because you don't offer any constructive criticism to describe what you wanted vs. what you got. And since you didn't do that, I don't give a crap if you got what you wanted. This game IS awesome. And while I could totally give it an 8 or a 9 personally, I see it deserving at least a solid 7 in the grand scheme of things. Giving it a 6, which is a number that the public pretty much refuses to recognize these days, is underrating the game heavily. I know that it says "rent it". But how many people will even bother?
I don't think anyone who was looking forward to this game and respects Dtoid reviews above all else (as I do actually) should miss out on playing it. Go play it and see for yourself. As the game starts, Jack Black tells you that it will blow not just your mind, but your soul... and it does.
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I often hear it said that "imitation is the most sincere form of flattery" and that "insanity is repeating failed efforts and expecting a different result." How do these standards of common sense and practicality apply to a model citizen's life?
If your neighborhood has ever played a passive game of who was the last one to cut the grass or who has the best leaf mulcher, you know imitation leads to neighborhood attractiveness. Be the one who everyone wants to be like; facades are OK on this front!
As for insanity in repeating efforts, a neighborhood leader continually sending newsletters but never mustering members to actually go door-to-door and introduce the association will not suddenly find full meetings. When something doesn't work, innovate.
I know civic leaders who will not make reminder calls, will not cajole and entice persons to come to an essential problem-solving or event-planning meeting. But they complain that no new faces ever come in the door. In truth, in civic engagement — from 1812 to today — you have to beg.
Get in front of your audience. People are distracted and apt to think no one really wants them. Newcomers or people who feel outside the mainstream often tell themselves that "they don't really want people like me." A small lack in confidence in a stranger will quickly become full-blown fear of even walking into a room of strangers to join an association, council or club.
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I got the puffed 2,200mah battery charged as best as I could (it only took 1,000mah). I accidentally plugging the battery in with the throttle on, putting the ESC into program mode. It took 20-30 minutes to guess how to program it out of Helicopter slow start mode. I took off and the battery didn't have the voltage it should have. As you can see in the footage the voltage dropped after a few seconds. The plane pulled to the left and I was on full right aileron and rudder for much of the short flight. When the motor output dropped too much I think the lower wing stalled?
Anyway, it was momentous for me to get it in the air, even if it was briefly.
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I agree on the battery. My Ailerons were pretty puny for a plane this big and slow although there was some prop-wash going over them so they may have been starved, you know more than me on that. I'm moving to a smaller place so I might not keep the airframe. If I do keep it I will try it with another battery setup. Thanks for watching!! |
Apr 01, 2013, 11:00 AM | |
Makes sense. Good luck on your next project! If you want something pretty simple, check out Bex's Avispads. He has built them up to 8' wingspans with very little internal support, he uses hot glue on all his builds, they're electric and he uses them for aerial photography. They're basically like the Avistar trainers and they fly great from everything I've read on them.
Found some links: http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showt...hlight=avispad http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showt...hlight=avispad |
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I'm thinking of making something more like the Skywalker 1680 or an Easystar pusher type. I'd love to have something huge that I could hand carry into places and possibly hand launch and belly land. Maybe something like the Indian MOSS: http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1151271 |
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A flight is a flight! I'd consider that one a success despite the sideways slide. Good job for sticking with it!
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Now that the event is over and I go go back to booking more work related travel (Yay?) I decided to jot down some quick thoughts on what I thought the most important announcement today was.
To me that is MCx, which retires the FLARE driver which has been the base of the VNX RAID implementation since it was Clariion way back at Data General.
When they (As in Marketing and the Unified team) talk about scale up with the VNX what I think they're talking about is NUMA, Non-Uniform Memory Access, and the new VNX is very much a NUMA design when you consider CPU core utilisation and the fact they haven't come out with a clustered file system or a namespace layer.
NUMA is interesting but offers a number of challenges to the FLARE using systems of yesteryear (Or even yesterday) the largest challenge being that FLARE was a large chunk of single threaded code which did everything in the kernel, Steve Todd will know more specifics but I'd imagine not only was it responsible for RAID but also caching and the like.
The FLARE driver was designed in an era where you had one CPU core running incredibly fast, but that era ended the moment Intel shipped their final NetBurst microarchitecture CPUs and moved their entire development focus to the Core microarchitecture.
So the FLARE driver rapidly became hamstrung when x86 CPUs flipped from one hot and fast core doing everything, over to somewhat slower but with far more numerous cores. The result was the CPU workload across a CX/NX/VNX was always skewed with some cores running at full tilt while others only broke a sweat when you started running the layered applications, such as MirrorView or SnapView or whatever which run above the kernel in user space.
Enter MCx, which breaks out RAID and caching and auto tiering into unique software components with a modern implementation for high density multi-core designs.
So looking into my crystal ball and engaging entirely in speculation what's the present & future of 'scale up' VNX?
More NUMA.
They'll package and use as many cores as they can inside as many sockets that are viable for a dual controller system.
Unless you're willing to spend ten years bolting on scale out, a development nightmare and can lead to a very compromised design to not break all your existing software functionality, when VMAX & Isilon have had scale out designed in from top to bottom since day zero, why would you do anything else?


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In many respects, 2008 was a rough year, but let's not forget that there were some great things that came out it — namely, the rise of bacon. Along with its brother, pork belly, we declared bacon to be one of the trendiest ingredients of the year. Hopefully, its distinct smoky flavor and marbled, chewy-crispy texture will make it a timeless classic. But even bacon has its limits, as you'll find out when you read on.
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This summer, three teams scuffled over the services of Robin van Persie, the one-time Arsenal striker who has already lit up Old Trafford. Would you believe there was a time when he'd just about run out of clubs that would take a chance on him?
When van Persie takes his position as striker for Manchester United's second game in the UEFA Champions League against CFR Cluj on Tuesday (2:30 PM ET, live on FOX Soccer) he will do so as the prodigy fully matured into superstar. But the road was rocky.
Born to a sculptor and a painter who quickly divorced, van Persie was doted on by his parents. They hoped he too would become an artist. They imbued in him the notion that he was special, which was reinforced by an endless series of exceptions made for him throughout his life. At just 4, Excelsior allowed him into its youth academy, even though the minimum age was 5. He was too special to risk missing out on. When his youth sides won, say, 3-0, his father would grandly announce for all to hear that the game had ended van Persie: three; Opposition, zero.
Unsurprisingly, he proved a difficult child. Loitering on the working class streets of Rotterdam, he and chums like Mounir El Hamdaoui – now a striker for Fiorentina – found lots of soccer and lots of trouble. After joining Feyenoord's academy at 13, he broke into the first team at 18. By the summer of 2004, he had both established himself as one of the brightest prospects in Europe and outstayed his welcome.
Van Persie had bickered with his manager, Bert van Marwijk, upset the team elders with his brazen behavior and was forever being benched or relegated to the reserve team because of his egotistical antics. In the summer of 2004, Feyenoord was relieved to have found a taker for its problem child in Arsenal, settling for a puny fee of some $5 million, about half of what they had asked for. Of his time at Feyenoord, van Persie would later state: "I wasn't being tested enough there."
His early years at Arsenal weren't so different those at Feyenoord. He wrecked his sports car and abandoned it by the side of the road, made rash tackles that got him sent off and spent two weeks in jail suspected of rape (an investigation later dismissed the case, saying there had been consent).
Gradually, van Persie matured. Manager Arsene Wenger had a calming influence, as did his stern wife Bouchra, a Moroccan girl from his old neighborhood. They settled down. He had two children. There exist rumors that he converted to Islam.
As an Arsenal player, he served an apprenticeship under club legends Thierry Henry and fellow countryman Dennis Bergkamp, who he was charged with succeeding. Once Bergkamp retired following the 2005-06 season and Henry moved to Barcelona after 2006-07, van Persie took the reins of Arsenal's high-octane offense. First as a number 10, his natural position, and, following the sale of Emmanuel Adebayor to Manchester City ahead of 2009-10, as a target man.
Van Persie finally delivered on all that potential, almost exclusively scoring wondrous goals and becoming perhaps the world's most dominant striker. Last season alone he scored a league-leading 30 Premier League goals and picked up a dozen assists, single-handedly salvaging a third place from Arsenal's dreadful start to the season, earning him Premier League Player of the Year honors.
Yet for all that personal and playing growth, there remains something deeply self-centered within van Persie. The adoration and dependence of a very big club wasn't enough. He needed that of a superclub. So in August he strong-armed Arsenal into selling him to Manchester United – which, tellingly, was glad to pay a $38 million transfer fee for an injury-prone 29-year-old. (Juventus allegedly made an offer too.) On Sept. 2, he repaid his first installment on that hefty price tag by scoring all three goals in United's 3-2 win over Southampton, having twice gone behind.
But that deep-seated need to be the best – indisputably the best – remains corrosive. Van Persie's feud with Inter Milan playmaker Wesley Sneijder, which dates back to their mid-teens when they both started representing their country, ruined the Netherlands' Euro '12 campaign. They both felt they had to be "the man," dividing a team with an already tenuous chemistry into two camps.
"On some days I realize I see things others don't," van Persie told Dutch magazine Elsevier. "Maybe you can call that art, too. A painter has his own idea that he, independently of anything else, throws onto the canvas. Something that's his alone. You can recognize that sort of inspiration in a pass, too."
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The importance of the role of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is illustrated by the situation in California. Wholesale electricity prices in California rose sharply in May 2000 and have remained high. California also saw disruptions in service this winter and spring. GAO reviewed FERC's outage study and two other studies that examined possible exercise of market power in California's electricity industry. GAO found that FERC's study was not thorough enough to support its conclusion that audited generators were not physically withholding electricity to influence prices. FERC's study largely focused on determining whether or not the outages were caused by actual physical problems, such as leaks in cooling tubes that required maintenance or repairs. Two other studies GAO examined found evidence that electricity generators exercised market power to boost electricity prices in California. These studies sought broader evidence of the exercise of market power in the entire market by comparing wholesale electricity prices to the estimated costs of producing electricity. In doing so, they found that prices were higher than would be expected if the generators were acting competitively. None of the studies was thorough enough to determine the precise extent to which market power versus other factors has caused high electricity prices in California since May 2000. A thorough study of market power would combine the market-wide approach of the other two studies with a quantification of the extent to which outages, or other supply disruptions, were caused by factors other than generators' attempts to drive up prices. Such factors may include the operating and maintenance history of existing power plants, constraints on the number of hours certain plants can be run, and financial problems of utilities, which led to suspension of payments to some generators. This testimony summarized a June report (GAO-01-857).
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This week's news about the Heartbleed Virus has left enterprises (and customers!) shaking to their very cores. Security Expert Raf Los dives into the intricacies of an enterprise's security structure and admonishes: "… the best tools in the world won't stop the attacker, your organization must operationalize purposefully to let those stellar technologies help you."
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whats your best hm bubble wand or
or ideas to make the really big bubbles?
I heard string others said just wire?
I"m looming for ones that work .
hula hoops, I had a friend years ago who put bubble solution in a small wading pool and the kids stood in the middle with the hula hoops around them, and made bubbles with them standing in the middle of the bubble
05-07-2007, 03:23 PM #3thats cool . thanks i dont wannna buy material for a new one, i wish there was one for some king of string out there.
05-07-2007, 04:47 PM #5i love the hula idea!!!
I had a baby!
Single mom, frugal to the bone, love doing stuff with my little one.
05-07-2007, 06:13 PM #6mind has got kaput and i can't think of the word (fibrofog) oh wait i know what it is, PIPECLEANERS! sorry to get excited but i've been sitting here trying to remember that word. anyway, you can twist some together to make a decnet sized hoop. nothing as big as a hula hoop, but bigger than your normal sized wand.
05-08-2007, 09:36 AM #7thanks lasies .
I tried the coat hanger it aint bad , not the pipecleaners though. Cant wait to get some hulla hoops at the dollar store this weekend.
05-09-2007, 08:41 PM #8I remember doing this in grade school - and it worked!
Im not McGuyver so please forgive me if I give poor instructions
One broom stock and a long long long piece of rope. Tie one end in the middle of the stick and the other near the tip. Dip in a bucket full of sudsy bubble solution, gently shake off excess and hold the wand out beside you as you spin slowly in circles.....one huge - long - bubble?
Hope that helps and works!
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