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Q. Hello Vincent, I've recently acquired a 1989 Nissan Sentra, front-wheel Drive, manual transmission with a 1.6 litre engine. It has over 125,000 miles on it but has been maintained very well. When I received the car I was told that it would need a clutch replacement very soon as the clutch cable has been adjusted to it's max and there is quite a bit of slippage in clutch itself, especially going uphill.
I went ahead and ordered a ZuK clutch kit online for a very reasonable price and am seriously thinking of doing the repairs myself. I have many years experience as a machine technician and have worked on cars in the past, however, I have never replaced a clutch before. I would just like any invaluable information you might have as to what I should look for while I am performing these repairs.
I know that experience is a valued resource when it comes to making major repairs and any tips you could throw my way would be greatly appreciated. I would hate to put in the clutch kit and overlook something else that I could fix at the same time, i.e.; having the flywheel resurfaced.
Thanks for your time in advance,
A. Well, this vehicle has a fairly easy clutch to replace. I'm going to assume this is a 2WD vehicle and that you will be doing the job on the ground.
Jack the front of the vehicle as high as you safely can and be sure you use jack stands to support the vehicle. Apply the parking brake and chock the wheels to prevent the vehicle from rolling.
Remove the top two transmission bolts, 1 and 2, from the top while you let the transmission fluid drain out and before jacking the car up.
Now, remove the front wheels and remove the large axle nut from the end of the axle shaft. Push the axle shaft in. It won't move far, you just want to make sure it will move. If it doesn't, put the nut back on backwards and screw it in until it's flush with the end of the axle shaft. Put a piece of 2x4 over the end of the axle shaft and tap it loose. Never hit the end of the axle shaft alone. Doing so WILL destroy the threads.
Disconnect the lower ball joints from the lower control arms. There are two or three bolts that hold it on. Slide the axle shafts out of the hub and swing the struts rearward. You can tie them out of the way with some rope.
With a large screwdriver, get between the inner CV joint and transmission and pop the axle shafts out of the transmission. Be careful not to tear the a CV boots and lay them aside.
Next, remove the starter motor. Then remove the transmission housing bolts 3, 4 and 5. Place a floor jack under the transmission. When the transmission is supported properly, remove the last bolt, 6.
Get a pry bar between the transmission and engine block and pop the transmission loose. slide it back and down. I think that at this point I should mention you should get a mask to prevent breathing in the dust. Some clutches use asbestos and breathing it in can cause health problems.
Once the transmission is out of the way, you will see the pressure plate. There are six bolts that hold it in place. Loosen each one a turn at a time until the pressure plate hangs loose. Keeping things even is the key here. You might have to pop the pressure plate loose before you remove all the bolts.
Remove the pressure plate and clutch disc. Note the direction of the clutch disc so you can install the new one the same way. Some replacement clutch discs will be marked with "Flywheel side" on them. Insure the replacement clutch parts are identical to the old ones. If you are going to have the flywheel resurfaced, remove it now. Put a paint mark one bolt hole and a mark on the flywheel so you can position the flywheel the same way when you reinstall it.
Okay, the flywheel is back in and we're ready to go on. Clean any oil or rust preventative off the face of the pressure plate. I rough up both sides of the clutch disc and pressure plate with some 100 grit sand paper.
If you bought a kit, there should be a clutch alignment tool in it. Put the tool through the clutch disc and, with the pressure plate, put it into position. Did you make sure you have the clutch disc facing the right way? Now start the six pressure plate bolts.
With the tool line up the clutch disc in the pilot hole. While holding the tool and clutch disc in position, tighten the pressure plat bolts in a diagonal pattern one turn at a time. Keep going until the bolts are tight, 22 foot pounds.
Replace the throwout bearing. Apply some white lithium grease to the shaft the bearing rides on, the ball and pivot for the clutch fork, the area the clutch fork rides on the throwout bearing and the splines of the input shaft.
Once that's done, move the transmission into position and, here comes the fun part, lift it up and into position. The transmission is not very heavy which makes things a lot easier. You may need to twist and turn the transmission to get the splines of the input shaft to line up with the splines of the clutch disc. In addition, the input shaft must be perpendicular to the clutch shaft. If you have the clutch disc positioned properly, it should slide right in when the splines mesh.
Now put a couple of bolts in and get the jack out of the way. That's it! Just work your way back and put everything back together, refill the transmission with transmission fluid and you will be done. When you replace the axle shaft nut, be sure you use a new cotter pin.
Pretty simple and straightforward. It will probably take about five or six hours.
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Time has an interesting article about the unmarked cloned beef that will be washing up at your grocery store sometime soon. Are you grossed out? Not? [Time]
For me it's that extra little nudge toward finally giving up red meat.
@picardia: Either that or you can support your local agricultural community and get your meat from a local butcher. I understand that it's not often practical for everyone, but there are a lot of butchers out there if you look.
Cloned meat doesn't bother me when it comes to eating it. I may or may not have ethical/practical problems of using cloned beef; practical more than ethical actually. But I'm not afraid to eat it, not am I grossed out by it.
It's genetically the same as any other sort of meat. I don't know why I should be grossed out by it.
That was supposed to be "… nor am I grossed out by it"
ewwww! thank god i don't eat red meat.
the FDA might not require the cloned meat to be labeled, but smart free-range and organic farms will label theirs 'non-cloned'. the problem will be eating at restaurants… how will folks know if their steaks and hamburgers are cloned or not?
There's nothing wrong with genetic engineering. It accomplishes the exact same thing selective breeding does, just faster.
The problem is the ends to which any kind of engineering is put. Are you selecting more nutritious products, or are you selecting more transportable or more easily processed products? It's just as bad( or just as good) no matter if the traits are bred or selected in a lab. Labeling stuff "cloned" is an attempt to manipulate the feelings of consumers, and results in a poorer food supply. Don't be ignorant or easily manipulated, people. Be educated consumers who realize genetic engineering is just a tool, not inherently bad any more than a gun or a car is inherently bad.
Engineering of the food supply is essential to support the levels of population density we currently have. Wishing for locally grown, traditionally produced food is a luxury only well-off people have, and to deny engineered corn or wheat to third world-countries is horribly injust.
addendum: whole foods has already pledged to never sell cloned meat.
@teh: Local butchers don't necessarily get their meat from local sources. You'd have to ask.
I don't have an ethical problem with cloned meat. They're born and grow just like normal animals. But I don't know if I could wrap my head around it personally. One more reason to go vegetarian, which I'm already seriously considering.
Something about this clown meat tastes funny.
@picardia: @yesteryear: are you going to give up corn, too? after all, a lot of that is genetically engineered.
@Mr. Gunn: well said
The thought of eating the meat doesn't bother me. What does bother me is what cloning is likely to do to genetic diversity in our livestock, and more specifically, what else we'll have to do to those animals to keep them alive and productive in the long term. Our society's short term fixation with profits has a long history of leading us into poor long term decisions. Capitalism is only the perfect system when money is the most important measure of success. When it comes to *my* food supply, that is most definitely not the case.
The controversy with cloned meat reminds me of the people who think that irradiating food is unhealthy (HINT – when you cook food, you expose it to INFRARED RADIATION).
Unlike the people screaming about global warming, people screaming about cloned meat have no real science to back up their claims (of danger). All the cloned-meat fear-mongering is based on opinions and worst-case scenarios with no studies to back up those worries.
@Mr. Gunn: wow petty moralism. how quaint.
how is it 'injust' to deny the third world which they are not able to create for themselves? You may keep them going, but they're not doing anything for themselves. they're slaves to you. wouldn't it be more compassionate to teach them how to create a local sustained economy in which they can provide for themselves?
genetic engineering has many flaws, and we don't fully understand the effects yet. if population density becomes a problem, wouldn't the solution be to stop overbreeding instead of forcing humans into unnatural lifestyles?
@beavis88: Too bad I didn't see your post when I was composing mine. You do bring up a very valid concern for the geneticists making our food.
its likely that there are no immediate health concerns with the beef. my concern is the long term implications that engineering of the food supply has… as another poster brings up, we don't quite fully understand what problems may manifest in successive generations.
it seems to me as a ploy to drive down the cost of beef for the benefit of global producers. i'd rather see the re-emergence of local markets and local agriculture. our culture has been paved over with the 'culture' of money and materialism. its time to turn things back
I think it was in an Isaac Asimov book that talked about having cloned meat minus the animal. Just growing the actual meat you would eat instead of actually cloning an animal. The gross factor might be an issue, but my ethical problems with hurting animals would be solved.
@beavis88: Agreed. I have no qualms eating cloned meat – it's the same as non-cloned beef (that's kind of the point). But, I have huge qualms buying cloned beef, as I don't want to support the genetic homogenization of our livestock. Without genetic diversity, we put ourselves at great risk of having the vast majority of our livestock wiped out by a single virus/bacteria strain.
Luckily I don't eat much red meat anyway – I long ago switched to buying ground turkey to substitute for ground beef.
@Mr. Gunn: Engineering and cloning are two completely different things and have very different arguments. Cloning animals would be no benefit to 3rd world/poor countries, as it costs a hell of a lot more to build a lab to generate clones than to put two cows in a pen and let them get it on.
@beavis88: Those are my practical issues I have with using cloning for agriculture.
These food animals already suffer enough – is it too much to ask that they should get to fornicate?
I'm more concerned with how the cloned cows are slaughtered and whether their tender vittles are tainted than I am with… well, cloning beef.
I'd like a label for it, myself. I don't have any objection to eating cloned meat, but I like to know what's up with my food.
You'd eat "beef" made out of tofu, why not this!
there is so much crap in food these days…who cares if they re cloned? Just slap some A1 and i am good to go!!!
As long as it still tastes like steak, I'm good.
Until cloned cows start turning up as meatless zombies, hungry for revenge against their human masters, I say I'll take mine medium well, thanks.
It's injust to let people starve when you have technology that would work towards solving the problem. I don't see what's petty about that.
firefoxx66: LOL. Not every cloned animal is grown in a test tube. You clone the first couple, then breed them after that. If you cloned animals that were resistant to disease and could produce milk more readily with less water/grain consumption, then it would be cheaper to clone these guys and give third-world countries breeding pairs.
What I wish is that they would tell us which cow the beef came from.
That way if I get a particularly sweet slab of tenderloin I can just go back and look for the same cow's product.
The genetic diversity thing is a problem, but only a BAD problem if we gave these genetically-identical animals and didn't support the livestock afterwards. It would be an ongoing management problem, not something we could just walk away from, but better than just letting people starve.
I don't eat cow so it is somewhat moot, but when they start delivering cloned fish I won't have a problem with it then either.
Well if few people eat this stuff, it's more for me!
-I really hope the sensationalism about cloned meat somehow being disgusting goes away quick (people didn't trust microwaves when they came out, and I think those things turned out pretty safe).
-I hope a traditional stock of cattle continues to be used to help promote genetic diversity; cloned meat can be a great way to multiply the supply of a great breed, but we need to keep a gene pool going.
mmm cloned beef. Think of the wonders. Let's make muscle clones that live in vats, and get their nutrition from tubes. Think on this… a cow with nothing but tenderloin, ribeye, strip and hanger. YUM! I'm not even being sarcastic here.
Think on this too. So, you build a factory to grow cloned steaks. It's sunk cost. They recoup it with profit margin, but over the long haul, cloning increases supply, without effecting demand. If you read this site and don't know what should happen (prices go down), you should get a cheap economics text book. Imagine this too. Label the cloned food. Maybe it drives some folks off of beef (again, price go down). Maybe it keeps people on the free range organic stuff (driving price of cloned down). Cloned beef might wind up as cheap as pork. NICE!
I urge you. If you're thinking about giving up beef, GO! We don't need you. In fact, you're keeping prices high.
I want vat grown meat.
I've been reading about it in Sci-Fi books all my life.
I want it now. And my flying car.
I was promised a flying car by this time.
I could care less about cloned beef. So what its grown in a lab, it doesn't live its whole life there. And even if it did I suspect it would probably taste a whole lot better.
Soylent green is people!
@stre: i think there's a difference between cloned meat and genetically engineered vegetables. namely, cows have feelings. for anyone who saw that horrifying footage of the cows being prodded and dragged by chains over the weekend, it's pretty clear that many of these industrial farming outfits have no problem treating animals like crap. i wonder how the cloned cows will be treated? any better? and for the record, genetic engineering has singlehandedly killed off the delicious tomato. you literally have to buy them organic or homegrown unless you want to feel like you are gnawing on a stump. the future is for the birds!


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AbstractThree different complexity snow schemes implemented in the ECMWF land surface scheme Hydrology Tiled ECMWF Scheme of Surface Exchanges over Land (HTESSEL) are evaluated within the EC-EARTH climate model. The snow schemes are (i) the original HTESSEL single-bulk-layer snow scheme, (ii) a new snow scheme in operations at ECMWF since September 2009, and (iii) a multilayer version of the previous. In offline site simulations, the multilayer scheme outperforms the single-layer schemes in deep snowpack conditions through its ability to simulate sporadic melting events thanks to the lower thermal inertial of the uppermost layer. Coupled atmosphere-land/snow simulations performed by the EC-EARTH climate model are validated against remote sensed snow cover and surface albedo. The original snow scheme has a systematic early melting linked to an underestimation of surface albedo during spring that was partially reduced with the new snow schemes. A key process to improve the realism of the near-surface atmospheric temperature and at the same time the soil freezing is the thermal insulation of the snowpack (tightly coupled with the accuracy of snow mass and density simulations). The multilayer snow scheme outperforms the single-layer schemes in open deep snowpack (such as prairies or tundra in northern latitudes) and is instead comparable in shallow snowpack conditions. However, the representation of orography in current climate models implies limitations for accurately simulating the snowpack, particularly over complex terrain regions such as the Rockies and the Himalayas.
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Thumbs up on HDFS. The next question to ask your groups how they will be analyzing it. HDFS (and Hadoop/Spark/Whatever) will hopefully fit in nicely there. Not only will your data be redundantly copied across multiple systems, but as your data needs (and cluster) grows, so does your computational power.
Getting data in & out can be done via Java API, Rest API, FUSE or NFS Mounts. The only issue is that HDFS doesn't play well with small files, but hopefully your groups will be using large files instead.
Now administration is another story, but then there's Cloudera's Manager that's supposed to greatly simplify management. I'm currently using it to store about
As far as backing up, HDFS provides snapshots, 3x replication (or more) across nodes in the cluster. Of course there's always the big hammer of just getting a second cluster. As an old HW sage once told me, "If you can't afford to buy two, don't buy one"


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Developing visualization applications is nontrivial and poses special challenges. This is because typical visualization software processes a large amount of data, resulting in large and sometimes very complex data structures. Traditional debugging tools have limited use because they decouple the information they report from the spatiotemporal domain in which unexpected problems occur. This article presents a set of guidelines specifically for debugging visualization software. The guidelines come from experience in developing applications in both industry and research. The key is to exploit the strengths of computer graphics and visualization, while still using good software development practices.
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That's right, y'all. This week's whacked is gonna focus on my own personal experiences from this past holiday weekend! A little peek into my own whacky world, if you will. So buckle in and prepare to enjoy the ride!
Last weekend was a three day weekend, as it was for most people in the U.S., unless you work at some sucktastic service industry job or as a nurse/doctor/police officer, whose hours and schedules are all over the place. But for most of us office working
schlubs droids, we got a full extra day off to ostensibly celebrate the men and women who have served our country, but really just to have an excuse to BBQ and go to the pool. (From the wife of a former service member who served in 2 foreign conflicts, please note that I am only joking and truly appreciate every sacrifice those people make for the rest of us swimming and pigging out at home!).
The start of the weekend involved taking the boys to a local baseball game. The team we saw is actually the single A affiliate of the Baltimore Orioles, so not quite the pros, but a pretty solid pseudo-professional minor league team. I had never been to this stadium, although I had driven by it a bunch of times. It is a beautiful place that is right off the highway. It is smaller than your normal big league stadium, of course, but a pretty decent size. It reminded me of the stadium in Ft. Lauderdale that I went to years ago to see a spring training game. It was about that size.
In the parking lot of the stadium, I realized that we must have travelled deep into Skynyrd country:
Once we got into the stadium and found our seats, I realized that the hubs had purchased tickets for seats that were in the second row behind the visiting team's dugout. While great seats to see the game, it was also kind of dangerous because a line drive foul ball could have beamed us at any time. In fact, that happened on the other side of the stadium. So we were very vigilant. But it also allowed for a front row view of this:
Yeah, not exactly sure what was going on here. They asked the kid some question about soy beans (I think) and when he answered correctly, he "won" that chicken hat. But seriously, there is just no excuse for a grown man to wear a cow hat on his head. On TV even. Tragic.
One of the nice things about this lovely little stadium, was that it was very family oriented. It had this area specifically for kids, with a carousel, a moon bounce and a pitching range. So when the kids got a little antsy, the hubs ran them over to that area for a little distraction.
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to fend for myself to watch the game, I noticed something strange:
Wait. What the . . . ? What is that thing? Some sort of mascot? But I've seen the mascot. It's a wolf/dog type thing. It's running around the field. What on earth is this then? Looks like some sort of big headed prep-school boy, with that blazer/shirt/orange shorts combo. And what's in his hand? Is that . . . a tambourine? What on earth kind of world have I stumbled into?
But then . . . it got worse. He came closer. Actually, he ran towards me!!
I don't remember what happened next, as I believe I passed out in fright. The next thing I remember is my husband and kids returning and handing me a cup of wine. Everything got better after that!
The next day I had the unenviable task of going to the mall to shop for a dress for a family wedding on Sunday. You know what . . . I'm still too emotionally scarred from the whole experience. I can't talk about it. Maybe later. When I heal.
What ended up happening is that I actually bought three dresses. Since I seem to be incapable of making a decision in the heat of the moment, I figured I would buy the dresses, bring them home and get all my boys to decide, then return whichever ones I didn't wear. But then . . . I had a better idea! Instead, once I got home, I took pictures of myself in the dresses and texted some of mah homegirls for their opinions!! Much easier that dealing with the hubs' meh attitude. And lest you think the hubs is upset about this whole thing, please note that he has never been more overjoyed to be released from dress judging duties. I think at one point I heard him running around the house, waiving his arms, proclaiming: "Free at last! Free at last! Thank god almighty, I am free at last!" But I might have been imagining that.
So, I took some pics of the different options, sent a text off to a couple friends, and waited for a consensus to come through. And my girls did not disappoint!! (The funny thing is that I thought I was also texting Jen, since she had just recently given me her number and I put it in my phone, but had yet to use it. Well, apparently when I entered her info, I flipped 2 numbers and when I sent the text, some absolutely random person received pictures of me in multiple dresses and shoes, asking for help picking which one. I so very much hope it was some dude! Sadly, I did not get dude's opinion).
Oh, so did you want to see the dress that was the winner? Ok, fine. I will finally actually reveal what I look like . . . in a damn dress, no less. Enjoy!
Yep, that's actually me. In my actual bathroom. It was tough fitting the whole thing in the picture, based on the massiveness which is my big fat body, but I finally got it all squeezed in there. So, that's what I ended up wearing to the wedding the next day.
Speaking of the next day, did I mention it was supposed to be an outdoor wedding on the beach, in what looked to be very humid 90*+ weather? Yeah, so I was looking forward to melting in this dress. What actually ended up happening was much better. Although it did end up being 90*+, the wedding was in the early evening and we were right off the water, so we got a nice breeze. It actually turned out to be very lovely. Here was the venue:
The drive down there was pretty long. And towards the end of our journey, we were on so many twisty windy backwoods roads that we started to think we could hear the far off twang of banjos. But once we arrived, it was a completely lovely place. The ceremony was short (thank you!), and then immediately after, there was booze and food in a big tent that was right off of the water, with a great view. Plus, we got to hang out with a bunch of really fun family members, so that heightened the enjoyment factor immensely.
There were a couple of fun things to note at the reception. First, it was in this big tent, and apparently the motif of the night was "Large Glowing Dong." I felt like I was going to be violated at any moment.
There was also this very pretty girl that I saw my hubs tracking with his eyes (he has learned the art of subtlety over the years, but I can still read him), and when I mentioned it to him, in a sort of "busted" way, his response was, "whatever. I am always situationally aware." Aware of boobs, anyway. But the thing about the girl was that she looked exactly like a much younger Jessica Simpson. You know, 10 years younger, 50 pounds lighter and before she was ruined by her father and turned into televised trailer trash Barbie? So . . . pretty and booby and fresh faced. I couldn't get a picture of her because by the time I realized the resemblance and tried to snap a pic, they had dimmed the lights considerably in the tent and I couldn't get any good pics.
The same problem occurred later in the evening when I realized how smoking hot the photographer was. There were 2 photogs. One was bald and wearing a suit. One had shoulder length flowing wavy brunette locks . . . and was wearing a white polo shirt and slacks. I'm thinking that his complete and utter hotness distracted the bride from the fact he was wearing "casual day at the office" clothing and not "vender at a wedding" clothes. Anyway, I kept trying to get a picture, but he was running around or buried in the camera, and I just couldn't get a good shot. At one point, my niece asked what I was trying to do, and when I told her, she grabbed my camera and was all, "I'll just go ask him for a pic." Wait . . . wha?? What is that? That is just not done! You be sneaky and you get the pic!! That's what you do. Anyway, she ran over, asked him and took his picture. So, apparently . . . that works? Unfortunately, she sucks at picture taking, so this is what she got:
Although, I will also inform you that at this wedding, unbeknownst to me until two days later, I was hit with a huge bomb, which would later become an earworm of enormous proportions! It was here that I first heard the "Call Me Maybe" song by Carly Rae Jepsen. It didn't really register as anything except another pop song of which I was unaware, but some of the younger (i.e. 20's) members of my family seemed all excited about it and ran out to the dance floor. Cut to Tuesday . . . I am minding my own business, leaving work and heading to the grocery store, and as I am flipping around the radio stations, I hit upon this song. And as I am thinking, "hmm, this sounds familiar, where have I heard it before?" Bam! That damn song slithered into my brain and took up residence. I proceeded to spend the next half hour walking around Giant, singing out loud "Call Me Maybe." And since those were pretty much the only words I knew of the song, I just kept repeating it over and over. Damn you, you catchy little tune!!
On Monday, most of the same family members that I had just seen the night before at the wedding, spent the day at my house by the pool. There was swimming, BBQing, drinking . . . you know, the usual. Plus, I sat out by the pool, albeit fully clothed and under an umbrella (homie don't swim . . . bathing suits are the devil!). Much to my surprise, later in the day, I discovered this:
Yep, that's me. Ain't I lovely? Apparently, that damn sun shot right through that umbrella and burned the bejeezus out of my neck and arms. I have a wonderful farmer's tan. Yippee!!
Then again, around about the time I was discovering my multicolored skin, I also discovered that I was the winner of The Good Greatsby's weekly Caption Contest. Hooray! Apparently, when you post a blog and add an addendum at the end begging people to vote for you, it actually works. I guess the old adage applies . . . you don't have to be talented, just popular. Or something, I might have just made that up. Sounds accurate, though, right?
This was my big prize:
Congratulations to the caption contest winner mistyslaws! (That's ME!!)
She wins the following prizes:
1. The gift of gab, whether she wants it or not. Watch out grocery store checker, parking attendant, waitress–or should I say, listen up?
2. The chance to be first in line, as long as she's willing to always arrive really, really early.
3. A garden salad. Directions: First, find a garden. Second, select vegetation (edible varieties are advised). Third, pluck, wash, and enjoy! Fourth, apologize for stealing if you're one of those old-fashioned types with consciences.
So, thank you for everyone who voted for me. Truly, I was so excited to find out I won this prestigious award! I mean, the gift of gab? I've always wanted to literally be able to make a person's ear fall off just from my extensive speaking ability. Plus, I LOVE salads. So this was an awesome prize for someone like me. 🙂


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Speaking from experience, I've never really had any problems graphically with the series on the 360. I also find the controls to be great on the 360 as well.
My brother owns a 360 and I own a PS3. Generally, games released on both consoles look almost the same, however, it is true that Xbox is a little bit better regarding AC1....
PD: A high end PC beats both, so if you can, go for it. The only console games that even come close are the Uncharted ones....
I own a PS3 and always have since it came out. I have had only two issues with AC both of them fix itself after a moment. AC 2 I have never had any type of issues at all. AC:B just the occasional frame rate issue if I'm on a horse and going as fast as I could. AC:R again no issues at all.
In terms of Consoles, The AC series does a good job in keeping both versions relatively the same in terms of performance and visuals, but seeing as you are the kind of guy who wants the best in each department then I suggest, like the others, a high-end PC. It`ll bring out the best from every game, since the PC is known to beat both the 360 and PS3.
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I still think AC2 is the one that looks meh of all of em but that's just me.
My cousin down the street has an xbox and has all the Ac games (as I for PS3) and honestly I see no issues whatsoever on my ps3. I don't think anything wrong on the xbox games, he don't think nothing is bad on ps3. So I don't about the 'chopiness' and probs on PS3 AC games so I can't really help you there.
I will respect that if you rather play xbox, fine by me, im a gamer, I play on whatever I can (though not PC since to me it's like playing with Arthritis but hey, I respect PC gaming)
but my honest opinion, I would say just continue playing them (AC) on PS3 and buy the exclusive titles for your xbox. I know it's what I'd do if I had one, but whatever you like!
I feel that the 360 controller is better suited for the Assassin's "claw". If you say that the frame rate is better, then definitely switch over. Still, if you care about a few bonuses, you might want to think about it a bit more.
I used to play PC games but I switched to a console and I have never looked back. Graphics in 1080 do not interest me.
I own ps3, for about 3 years now. I use it everyday, either games or bluray or dvds. The only issues I have started fairly recently and they are caused by mechanical problems: without going into detail some of my game discs get dirty from lubrication on the spinner. That causes choppiness or game freezing. Since I did teh research, I know it's not ps3 as a console problem but mechanical stuff that should be fixed. I can only blame myself on not taking proper care of my console by cleaning it often and not overheating.
Having said that, you could look into any technical problems with your console before buying games for the other. Perhaps fixing ps3 is going to be cheaper than all the new copies of games you own already.
Okay so I have both systems too and I have AC1,2 and Brotherhood on my PS3, and Revelations on my Xbox. I will soon have AC3 on the Xbox too.
AC1 is choppy but the game was ahead of its time for next gen I think. It is choppy on PS3 but what the heck! AC2 was much smoother, Brotherhood was choppy due to a new team doing the spin off and having a LOT of space with no loading times. It was basically 3 cities in one. Revelations was much better. Now that I have started writing this I don't know where this is going. BUT! AC games have gotten better ports to the PS3 since AC2. I would say stick to PS3. Me personally, am buying AC3 on both systems, mainly due to Online for PS3 with mates and the 60 mins+ DLC the PS3 gets. I only bought Revelations on the Xbox because it was my first Xbox game haha.
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I understand where you're coming from. I had pre-ordered AC 1 for PS3 (I did not own a 360 at the time), and when IGN reported that the framerate was significantly worse on PS3 I cancelled my pre-order. About 1.5 months after AC 1 came out, I finally bought an Xbox 360, and I finally bought AC 1 for 360, and the framerate was much better than what people described for the PS3 version.
The problem is that it was initially difficult to program for PS3, most especially for Ubisoft, since they have always been pro-Microsoft for a very long time. However times change and as the series went on they have been drastically improved, at this point the graphical difference between the two versions is very minimal, or perhaps non-existent.
So your question is, do you want to continue on the PS3 or switch to 360 for AC III? Since I started on 360, I will finish on 360, even though I am jealous that the PS3 versions of Brohood, Rev and III will all receive extra content that PC or 360 players will never get. This is unfortunate, but I can live without it.
I actually double-dip when it comes to the AC series. I buy them for 360 at launch, then I re-buy them on Steam when they hit a big sale. In the future I will re-play the series in perfect 1080p at 60 FPS, which will make it feel like a far superior game than the console versions.
Also, if you don't plan on pre-ordering AC III, wait a week after it's been released then go to Lens of Truth website, and they will break down the graphical differences, from resolution to texture mapping to environmental detail to framerate.
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Many areas of the world are really still have a model of education of rote learning, which is obsolete because we carry all that information on our belts. We don't need to remember it all. But we do need to be able to solve actual problems with knowledge. We need to find the right knowledge; yes, we have search engines to help us and the search engines will get better, but really need the right strategies to find the right information. We need to be able to create new knowledge.
Knowledge is doubling every 13 months by some measures. And knowledge isn't just a database. Knowledge is a symphony or a jazz band or a poem or a novel or a new scientific insight or an invention. These are also examples of knowledge. My philosophy of education is learn by doing. Singularity University, which I co-founded with Peter Diamandis and I'm Chancellor of – has that philosophy with the core curriculum is the students self-organizing into small teams and they take on a grand challenge like to solve the water problem of the world and maybe they will actually succeed in doing that – the goal is to actually do – solve major challenges in ten years.
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The Nigeria defender arrived back in Glasgow on the morning of the match after helping his country to African Nations Cup glory on Sunday night. But Celtic manager Neil Lennon included him in the starting line-up in a gamble that backfired spectacularly.
Ambrose gifted Alessandro Matri an early goal, missed Celtic's best chance of the night when he sent a free header straight at Gianluigi Buffon from six yards, and then lost possession to allow Mirko Vucinic to claim a late third and virtually send Juventus into the Champions League quarter-finals.
Commons told several national newspapers: "Look, the manager picked him. The manager pulled him to one side and asked him if he was feeling okay. He said he was feeling brilliant. If he wasn't feeling okay then he should have said so. If he felt good then he should have put in a better performance.
"It was just very sloppy individual mistakes - something you'd probably get away with on a playground, not in the last 16 of the Champions League. There are certain individuals who let the team down."
Commons also pointed the finger at the Spanish officials over their failure to punish some extra-tight marking as Juventus defended set-pieces. Referee Alberto Undiano Mallenco twice took action - but only to hand out yellow cards to players from each side.
Gary Hooper was booked in the 37th minute as he clashed with Stephan Lichsteiner, who was tasked with keeping Buffon free from Celtic players. Lichsteiner wrestled Hooper away from the ball when the corner came in and continued to behave in the same manner throughout the game but without penalty.
Scott Brown was also booked along with Simone Padoin before a second-half corner. Commons told BBC Scotland: "You've got a referee there, a guy behind the goal, a linesman - the whole idea of the official behind the goal is to look out for this sort of stuff.
"If he can't identify when people are being hauled, manhandled, wrestled to the floor, then I don't think he should be in a job. He's 10 or 15 yards away and if it was a clear foul, it should have been a penalty.
"He said if you do it again they'll get a penalty - that was in the first half. He kept stopping it and booking people and telling people to stop it. It clearly had no effect because right up until the 91st minute when we had a corner, it was still going on."
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Folks are working on RSS 1.1, an update to RSS 1.0 FEB 15 2005
Folks are working on RSS 1.1, an update to RSS 1.0. BTW, the heck ever happened to Atom?
Folks are working on RSS 1.1, an update to RSS 1.0. BTW, the heck ever happened to Atom?
I'm saddened by the fact there's so many different RSS flavors, Atom being yet another one. In the end all Atom ever did was not replace RSS, but add yet another version of it everyone needs to support -- and no one who's serious about supporting RSS (aggregators like Bloglines) would ever risk supporting only Atom just because it's nicer and more XMLish from the start.
I'm saddened especially because the whole use of RSS is that it should be simple to parse, and not complicated. Who knows if it grows to be just another HTML, which went down the road of table layout years ago? Then we'd need yet another format to make use of our data again. Maybe it would have been smart to add the features we needed to HTML itself (... etc.). That would also have avoided redundanc in content, and the XML buttons no "normal user" would really understand. Some more of my thoughts on this, back when Google switched to Atom, are kept here: http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2004_02_12_index.html#107661796120872164
Oh, and I totally don't get RSS1.1, because I thought there's RSS2.0 (which is the one I'm spitting out for my blog). But I'm sure this will be explained in the comments following...
(My HTML above near the "etc." got stripped out; it was describing an h2-element which has an attribute class="rssHeadline".)
I run a handful of sites that update content regularly, and I'd like to add RSS to them -- but I get all frumbled looking at the variety of RSS flavors...this is compatible with that, this is backwards-compatible, this one isn't compatible with this one, just that one..so I haven't even bothered. I'm sure there's others like me, and there's others frustrated that they can't read this site's RSS or that site's feed because of the incompatibilities. RSS is so close to being important to the whole internet, but if there's all this splintering it'll kill itself.
Philipp: RSS 1.1 is a progression from RSS 1.0, which is an RDF based syntax for syndication. Basically, it was an early fork in the syndication timeline. RSS 2.0 is closer to RSS 0.9x, in that they are all XML based.
The only way to stop the splintering is to settle on a single spec. People are unwilling to do this the way things are, and so Atom is an attempt to rectify matters. Whether it will or not...
Jason: Atom is in it's last few cycles before formalisation. Atom 0.4 is now available, and will hopefully be finished when these last few issues come together.
The people who were making loud violent fusses about Atom have now mostly stopped, and the people who were doing the work have quietly continued. In the meantime, I find Atom feeds on every other blog I visit, and my feedreader handles them just fine.
In other words, what happened to Atom is that it became ubiquitous and most of the supposed problems never materialised. It has become invisible and a non-issue in the manner of most things that just work.
I think the best thing to do now is to choose one format and stick with it. They're all pretty much replaceable now - any application that supports one format will most likely support most or all of the others.
Personally I'd go for either RSS 2.0 or Atom 0.3 but I don't think it really matters.
Basically, Atom went into "shut up and ship" mode over at the IETF. Remarkable how quickly things progressed once the conversation focused on people who actually needed to ship things instead of bicker. That's always the way.
Atom's not just another flavor of RSS, though obviously I'm biased. On the feed side, it's a nice complement to RSS if you need a tighter spec or prefer the way Atom does extensibility. On the API side, there's somewhere upwards of 10 million blogs that support the Atom API, which as Yoz mentioned, is one of those quiet successes which would be noticed more by its absence than by its presence.
10 million blogs that support Atom? Does that mean that Blogger secretly supports it? What's the breakdown on that?
Blogger publishes Atom feeds only. Livejournal does RSS 2.0 and Atom.
Right there you've got millions, easy.
Luckily I can just publish one feed and let FeedBurner handle the rest. This has to be a burden on those writing news readers though.
it seems like it's more common to find a full-content feed in Atom. Based on that completely uneducated observation alone, I'm a fan.
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Does anybody know if the Really Right Stuff L-Plate for the D5100 will also fit the D5200?Rocky
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#1. "RE: D5200 L-Plate" | In response to Reply # 0
Although I have not tried it and do not yet own the D5200, I can say with certainty that the molded battery grips are interchangeable, so it should work without an issue.
#2. "RE: D5200 L-Plate" | In response to Reply # 1
Thanks. I guess I should check with RRS to make sure before ordering one, although they may not know yet.Rocky
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#3. "RE: D5200 L-Plate" | In response to Reply # 2
Have you actually looked at one? if it use the same form factor (width and length) are the same. should. Why not take the item to you camera store and hold it up to the 5200 and see if it works.
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#4. "RE: D5200 L-Plate" | In response to Reply # 3
I do not have a D5100 L-Plate to try. Here is the reply to the e-mail I sent to Really Right Stuff:- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -Thanks for the inquiry. However it's not currently our intention to design camera specific plates for the D5200 and without one in house to perform tests I wouldn't be able to guarantee a fit of the D5100 plate on the newer model. All indications are the body has changed enough the D5100 L-Plate wouldn't be an appropriate fit.If you send me pictures of the bottom and side profiles of the D5200 lined up next to a metric ruler I'm sure we could find a conventional plate that would mount (no L-Plate, though).- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Rocky
#5. "RE: D5200 L-Plate" | In response to Reply # 4
Well that's annoying. I suppose that Plan C (their idea is Plan B) would be to just buy it from a place with good return policy and hope for the best?
#7. "RE: D5200 L-Plate" | In response to Reply # 4
Here is the reply I received from Kirk when asking if their D5100 L-Plate will fit the D5200:- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -Sorry it will not. We do not offer a custom bracket for the 5200.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -Rocky
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#6. "RE: D5200 L-Plate" | In response to Reply # 0
This is why I try to buy my cameras as they are coming out with new models. Buying the older model saves money as they will lower the price to get rid of inventory and make room for the new model. Plus, since the camera one is buying has been on the market a bit, the aftermarket companies already have out their gear for these models.I love RRS L-Plates so much that I would not even buy a camera that had no L-Plate option. I have one for both my D200 & D5100 bodies.They may say they have no plans but if the camera sells well and they feel they can make some money, there's no doubt in my mind that they would come out with a version for the D5200 eventually.
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#8. "RE: D5200 L-Plate" | In response to Reply # 6
The Sunwafoto DLP-04 fits the D5200 pretty well. It was designed for the D7100. I suppose a D7100 plate might still work as the D5200 is about the same thickness plus has multipe slots to set the 1/4 inch bottom screw. The only issue with I have is that it blocks the door with all your connectors. If I move the camera to the farthest slot it will allow a tight fit for a shutter release or other cable in portrait mode with the door open. The molded straight connector on a shutter or tether cable is tight to make a 90 degree bend out the side - BUT it can be done.When the camera is installed to the plate there is a back porch lip that will prevent twist. It's made out of nice metal like you would really love. In landscape mode it is GREAT! It works in portrait too but with the above issue that could be better. The really nice plates don't get made for the D5200 but then they cost $90 more.I've looked high and low and never found anything. On a risk I tried this one - it works. Even better it is WAY cheaper the RRS plates and I like those. I also have the rotator / indexer they make as well. They have some really very nice Pano kit too. They machine nice metal and it is worth a look.
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As discussed in #7030, the same functionality of this plugin is provided by DateFieldPlugin. So I'm putting further efforts into DateFieldPlugin.
Selectable pop-up calendar for fields
Show selectable calendar pop-up where needed. It is easier to see a date rather than insert some date without visualization.
Please use the DateFieldPlugin. This project is no longer supported.
Download the zipped source from [download:calendarpopupplugin here].
You can check out CalendarPopUpPlugin from here using Subversion, or browse the source with Trac.
First you have to identify all the html-ids of the input fields, where you want the pop up to appear, as well as the html filenames.
Take for example the html file milestone_edit.html and add an entry to trac.ini as shown below. Then you take a look at the html code to find the input fields where you'd like the pop-up to appear. That's the field {{id="duedate"}}.
That leaves us with the following settings, that go into the trac.ini
[calendarpopup] ids=duedate=MM/dd/yy files=milestone_edit.html
And in a bigger context:
[calendarpopup] ids=field-due_assign,field-due_close,duedate=MM/dd/yy files=milestone_edit.html,ticket.html
Remark: The default (yyy/MM/dd) date format is taken, if not defined by =.
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