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Please don't delete this for it is a Requested Article. Thank you! DJ Mixerr 18:43, March 6, 2011 (UTC) (talk)(contributions)
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|As it is currently, the humor is a little lost as the concept for the article isn't exactly clear. As I talk about below it reads as both a satire of the company and an attack article against it. Regarding the ICU that Lyr tagged on your article: there is quite a bit here that is random, the intro section in particular is fairly random, but ironing out the concept of the entire article should fix these random bits of humor. I think the best thing you can do right now is to make the article less about nonsense and more about something (explained more below.)
This article reads as a page that was written just to hate on the WMG. You need to make it seem like the narrator is more impartial and the organization is actually an evil empire that would love nothing more than to take down every video on youtube. In my opinion this article should read more like an article on the holocaust, only exaggerated for comic effect, and about videos. You start to touch this subject in the section "resistance" which makes other video hosting sites seem like safe havens that were set up in France and other places during WWII.
In the "spread to other sites" you seem to degrade back into random humor. A lot of it doesn't make sense, which is very bad for such a short section. I do like the joke about the videos leaving nothing but a red link, but that's about all that I think should be kept regarding this section. The last line doesn't really work as the rest of the article is about WMG deleting videos, not claiming them. If, instead, they found and kidnapped you for writing an article about them that would be a little bit better, although I don't think either of those ideas is funny.
|As of now you seem to have two different concepts in this article. The first is that WMG is a fascist organization like that acts like the real life WMG, but is much more strict on what videos contain "their" music. The second concept is that they are hunting down innocent videos on video hosting sites and either stripping their audio tracks or deleting them off the sites entirely. I think this second one is the one you are trying to use in the rest of the article as it makes the WMG seem like the Nazis in the 1940's, rounding up videos and "gassing" them. It's this parallel that I think you should stick with as it's probably the cleverest, even though comparing things to the Nazis is as old as...well probably the Nazi party. In this case, though, I think it works in this case as they are doing to videos what the Nazis did to the Jews, gays, gypsies etc. (and one clown.)
Making your concept more clear and making it the same throughout the article would be what I recommend working on first. However, you seem to have two starting paragraphs, the first and second ones. You could probably combine these two to make one paragraph as these two paragraphs also seem to have differing concepts. I think that eliminating the satanic references should also be a priority as right now you seem to just combine everything that is "evil" into one company.
Lastly, in the "trivia" section you contradict yourself with having WMG blame people for stealing music, which presumably is why they want to take the music down, but then they also want people to listen to their music...but not on the internet I guess? You also just have "The dictators of youtube" as one of the points, they don't control youtube they just can threaten to sue if a video is violating copyright laws. I would have to recommend reading the wikipedia article for this group, especially the controversies section, to get a better idea of what to write on.
|Prose and formatting:
|This article is formatted fairly well. However, you have quite a bit of white space that could be eliminated. If you aren't going to add any more sections I would add a __NOTOC__ to the top of the article to get rid of your table of contents. Right now that table is adding about 3 inches of white space that really doesn't need to be there since you can read almost your entire article without scrolling even on my tiny little screen. There also seems to be an extra space at the end of the "resistance" section that can probably be easily eliminated.
There are a number of places in this article where the prose doesn't flow very well at all. It seems a lot like you wrote a sentence and then went back and changed it, but forgot to take out a couple words. I'll list the ones that I see while skimming through the article again.
I might have missed a few, but these are examples of what I'm talking about. You either didn't finish your thought or simply have words missing in these sentences. A couple of these are easy fixes, but there are a few that I have no idea what you mean.
Also make sure you use the right your and you're; they're, there and their; and then and than.
|Your images are pretty good. The first two really fit the article well in terms of size and position. However, I'm not sure a gun is the best image to use for an organization who operates mostly on the internet (at least as far as this article is concerned.) Maybe a picture of a corporate "fat cat" on a computer presumably flagging youtube videos or a tech support guy e-mailing youtube about copyright violation, or a shopped picture of the Predator (mentioned in the caption) at a computer. A gun just doesn't really fit. The caption on this pic is good, though, but it doesn't really make people laugh which is really what images should be going for. The swastika image is really good and has a pretty funny caption on it. I wouldn't change this one at all as it fits the article especially if you're going to make it more of a comparison to Nazi Germany. The last image, right now doesn't fit the article or the caption. It's just a picture of a douchebag smoking. In my mind a huge corporation like WMG wouldn't employ people like this except if they were just out of college and have high hopes, and then they would be super busy doing menial tasks, not representing the company. If you changed the picture to someone who was super rich, maybe drinking some wine and smoking a cigar, I could see that being someone who was more the face of a company like this. Changing the pic should make the caption funnier as well, but right now the image is really small so you might want to make it bigger and thus more eye catching.
|Score = Overall "feel" of the article.
The template at the top isn't really funny. It's also very big. I'm not exactly sure who made it or for what purpose, but it just distracts the reader more than anything else right now. On most of my review I just ignored the template due to the fact that it really isn't part of the article right now. Also, the image in it is a duplicate of one you're already using which takes away from the article you've written. I would recommend getting rid of the template unless it actually is illegal to read this article in those countries (in which case it should be changed to actually be funny, but that isn't your problem.)
|Final Score:
|Ok start to an article you have here, just make sure you know what you actually want to write about and keep that consistent.


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The really intriguing part of this set up is the author has created a system on how to use these cards. They are organized in such a way so that you can easily get to the type of advice or material you need. Or you can combine them into unique strategies that suite your needs–or 'building a snowmobile' out of Sun Tzu's strategies and ideas.
If you go to his website, there is a guidebook and more detail given on how best to use these cards. Or just use the cards for that game of poker or solitaire to pass the time on your deployment. Check it out and this would make for a great little gift during the holidays or for a birthday. –Matt
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Preparation of the Field of Contest – All clubs involve shaping the field of contest. You create the conditions, such as confusion on the part of your adversary, that better allow you to win.
Isolation – All diamonds involve isolating something. This something may be an adversary, an option, an objective, time, etc. You separate something from something else.
Elimination – All spades involve eliminating something. That something may be an adversary, an option, an objective, time, etc. You remove something from the contest.
They follow the natural progression from preparing the self and the field of contest, isolating on a target, and closing on the objective shown by everything from wolves chasing down a caribou, lawyers isolating on a witness inconsistency, deal makers identifying and addressing an objection, to a child getting the answer he wants from one parent or the other. At the very core, it is all the same.
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Sun Fire V40z: Four Opterons in a 3Uby Kristopher Kubicki on 2/22/2005 12:05 AM EST
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tironside - Thursday, February 24, 2005 - linkI agree with dwnwrd. the lom part of it is not great for remote console etc. the lom that the hp stuff has is pretty slick, with a java / web interface. The other main problem I have with this is it offers only raid 1 unless you buy a rather expensive add on card to do raid 5, kind of a teaser to put 6 drive bays and only let you do raid 1... It's a good start, but sun needs to make some changes before it can go mission critical. (raid and lom enhancements imho) while I like cli stuff, trying to get junior people to do complicated cli stuff is dangerous...
dwnwrd - Thursday, February 24, 2005 - linkI have some V20s and a V40. The service processor is pretty great except if you try to direct the Linux serial console to it then connect to the "serial over LAN" you'll get a flood of "serial8250: too much work for irq4" and a sleepy system.
http://supportforum.sun.com/hardware/index.php?t=m... Reply
Pontius - Thursday, February 24, 2005 - linkI am curious what they are using when they benchmark the linux kernel compile times. They use the time command which spits out three times - real, user & sys. Are they using the sum of all these? If not, something is wrong. Because I did the same test, on the same 2.6.4 kernel using -j2 on a dual 2.8GHz Nocona system and I got a "real" time of 147s. That doesn't seem right because the Opterons are way faster at compilation. On the other hand, if I take the sum of the 3 times, I get 420s. Any thoughts?
jlee123 - Wednesday, February 23, 2005 - linkRedHat 9, are you joking!!?? This has got to be a mistake, I can't understand how Sun could be shipping a 64-bit server with a 32-bit OS that's reached End Of Life. It's the equivalent of buying a workstation with Windows ME on it. Also, there was never a official port of RH9 to x86-64, the first x86-64 RedHat was RHEL3, the Fedora team later released FC1 x86-64. If Sun doesn't wish to pay licensing, they'd be better off shipping with FC2, FC3 or CentOS, a free rebuild of RHEL. This hardware isn't even going to begin to be utilized till it's running something more modern like RHEL4 x86-64. Reply
JustAnAverageGuy - Wednesday, February 23, 2005 - linkI could think of one use for these. :)
http://forums.anandtech.com/categories.aspx?catid=... Reply
lauwersw - Wednesday, February 23, 2005 - linkStandard rule for parallel make is to use 2xnumber of processors available. This gives most optimal results to hide disk latencies and seems to be correct in most cases I've seen.
phaxmohdem - Wednesday, February 23, 2005 - linkCall me what you will, but I would like to see some quad/dual Xeon scores to compare to as well (along with price tages for comparison :) )
And yes, If I were a rich man who knew what to do with that much computing power, I would have a dozen of these babies in my basement! Who needs women anymore once you have 48 Opteron x50 or x52 cpus humming at your disposal. And drool core? Ahhhhhhhhhhh. Reply
JustAnAverageGuy - Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - linkThat thing is a BEAST.
I have no idea what I'd do with a computer like that. Reply
MrEMan - Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - linkKristopher,
Thanks for the clarification about the reduced media tag.
E Reply
KristopherKubicki - Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - linkRyanVM: The system used 850s.
Kristopher Reply
RyanVM - Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - linkDid anybody else find it confusing that the reviewed system had CG-stepping Opteron 850s and Kris brought up E4-stepping Opteron 852s on multiple occasions? What CPUs were actually in the system? Reply
SUOrangeman - Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - linkLast page, ..
"Sun has a speed **daemon** on their hands, ..."
Freudian slip, hehe? Nice read nonetheless.
-SUO Reply
KristopherKubicki - Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - linkMrEMan: Mediaplex is just an advertising server. Some advertisers (like NewEgg) host their banners on Mediaplex so they don't destroy their bandwidth. Sometimes when an ad campaign is hitting too many impressions the Mediaplex tag will revert to a 2x2 or a 1x1 pixel so that they don't harm their click through rates. It has nothing to do with spyware or malware or adware.
Kristopher Reply
MrEMan - Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - linkAnandtech,
What is with the 1/16" x 1/16" graphic (1280x1024 resolution on a 19" CRT monitor) for adfarm.mediaplex.com ?
Is it there with your permission or did someone hack your site?
If it is there with your permission, I must say I am surprised that you would put such stealth adware garbage links on your site. Reply
jcourtney - Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - linkI'd love to see some benchmarks with Solaris instead of or vs. Linux for reference too. Nice read though as usual. Reply
ElFenix - Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - link"particularly considering the fact that the V40z does not utilize any active cooling directly on their CPU heat sinks"
whoa, proper spelling of heat sink!
now i'm going to harp on the fact that blowing air across a radiator with a fan is not active cooling. air conditioning is active cooling, turning on the ceiling fan is not.
nice read Reply
Hikari - Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - linkI wish I could see a comparison of this and that Quad Opteron HP server. I have the HP one budgeted for this year already... (we're also a Sun shop).
I didn't see an option for 15k RPM drives though. I could put in like 5-146GB@15k RPM in the HP which was one reason I was leaning towards it. Reply
lihoyin - Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - linkLooking forward for a comparsion with HP DL585 / DL 385, both are also Monsters! Reply
Sunner - Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - linkGooger, that's true, Sun basically just rebadges Newisys servers, the same is true of the V20Z, in fact IIRC you can actually find some Newisys marks left on the servers :)
Anyway, Kris, any chance of a couple of benchmarks with a 2.6 based distro?
2.6 has, among other things, good NUMA support, something that would be nice to have when running a 4-way Opteron ;)
//Sunner Reply
dougSF30 - Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - linkAnother 250/850 typo on page 3: "Below, you can see one of the Opteron 250s is exposed from under the copper heat sink on the daughterboard."
dougSF30 - Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - linkTypo page 1: "In January, Sun sent us a V40z demonstration unit that was complete with four Opteron 250s and 8GB of PC2700."
It should be "four Opteron 850's"
Also, page 3: "The older 130nm "CG" stepping on Opteron 8xx only allows for PC2700 memory"
This is not true, generally. I don't know about the v40z, but CG Opterons can use PC3200 no problem.
See here, for example: http://www.spec.org/osg/cpu2000/results/res2004q3/...
Ardan - Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - linkI agree with #16. Fantastic work, Kristopher! I have a family member that works for a division of Lockheed-Martin and they are dealing with Sun more and more now and he enjoys your articles when I show them to him. He said a few weeks ago that he shows some of these articles to co-workers because of the thorough evaluations and it is helping them to decide whether or not to outfit their systems with Serial ATA drives (for Destroyers) and now with Opteron systems from Sun.
Good work! ;) Reply
tfranzese - Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - linkExcellent work Kris. Reply
KristopherKubicki - Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - linkSomething is wrong with the DB graphs: i am fixing it now.
Kristopher Reply
Googer - Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - linkhttp://www.newisys.com/products/4300.html Reply
Googer - Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - linkThis server is aperantly made by Nhttp://www.newisys.com/products/4300.html Reply
Googer - Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - linkOOPS, this is suppost to go where the blank post is.
To the author or whom it may concern: A bad link is located on page 3 and reads:
two Samsung 1GB PC2700 – link to Samsung.jpg> Reply
Googer - Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - linkReply
Googer - Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - linkI want Game Benchmarks too! (just for fun though) Reply
nourdmrolNMT1 - Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - linkdatabase benchmarks arent workin here either.
MIKE Reply
RadeonGuy - Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - linkI Wish I Had One
*drool* Reply
Ahkorishaan - Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - linkThat thing is a monster! I can't even think of something to do with that much power... It would be wasted on anything I throw at it, that's for sure. Good thing I don't have 22,000 to throw away... Reply
Viditor - Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - linkWow...what a machine! I'd read the pathscale record setting previously, but it looks like HP has a real headache here...(Dell isn't even in the game...) Reply
Doormat - Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - linkYea the benchmarks are missing. I'd also like to see some reviews of "cheaper" (by an order of magnitude or so) 1U/2U 1/2-way systems. It'll be interesting to see what happens when dual core goes live later this year. I'd love to get some 1U 2-way servers and stick dual core chips in them. 4 procs in a 1U housing. Yeah. Baby. Reply
bersl2 - Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - link#3: On the contrary. PPC runs embedded all the time. Reply
mickyb - Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - linkThey don't work for me either. On another note, the PowerPC management board is interesting. I am familiar with the HP Integritry Management Board. I don't think it runs Linux. I wonder if AMD would be interested in making a management board based on the Geode processor. PowerPC seems a bit much. Reply
vaystrem - Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - linkAre the database benchmark images not working for anyone else? Reply
LeadFrog - Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - linkThat is a beast. Reply


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DIPSOMANIA (from Gr. &~a, thirst, and saP(a, madness), a term formerly applied to the attacks of delirium (q.v.) caused by alcoholic poisoning. It is now sometimes loosely used as equivalent to the condition of incurable inebriates, but strictly should be confined to the pathological and insatiable desire for alcohol, sometimes occurring in paroxysms.
I looked this up to see if there was any connectoipn to diplomacy, lol
DIPLOMACY (Fr. diplomatie), the art of conducting inter-~ ational negotiations. The word, borrowed from the French, has he same derivation as Diplomatic (q.v.), and, according to the Tew English Dictionary, was first used in England so late as 5796 y Burke. Yet there is no other word in the English language hat could supply its exact sense. The need for such a term ras indeed not felt; for what we know as diplomacy was long egarded, partly as falling under the Jus gentium or international tw, partly as a kind of activity morally somewhat suspect and acapable of being brought under any system. Moreover, though a a certain sense it is as old as history, diplomacy as a uniform ystem, based upon generally recognized rules and directed by diplomatic hierarchy having a fixed international status, is of uite modern growth even in Europe. It was finally established nly at the congresses of Vienna (1815) and Aix-la- Chapelle (1818), rhile its effective extension to the great monarchies of the East, eyond the bounds of European civilization, was comparatively Ii affair of yesterday. So late as 1876 it was possible for the writer on this subject in the oth edition of the Encyclopaedia to say that it would be an historical absurdity to suppose diplomatic relations connecting together China, Burma and Japan, as they connect the great European powers.
Principles.Though diplomacy has been usually treated under the head of international law, it would perhaps be more consonant with the facts to place international law under diplomacy. The principles and rules governing the intercourse of states, defined by a long succession of international lawyers, have no sanction save the consensus of the powers, established and maintained by diplomacy (see BALANCE OP POWER); in so far as they have become, by international agreement, more than mere pious opinions of theorists, they are working rules established for mutual convenience, which it is the function of diplomacy to safeguard or to use for its own ends. In any case they by no means cover the whole field of diplomatic activity; and, were they swept away, the art of diplomacy, developed through long ages of experience, would survive.(sic)
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Activity note: Hotel check-in from 3:00 p.m.
Afternoon: Program Registration: After you have your room assignment, come over to the Road Scholar table to register with the program staff, to get your welcome packet containing your name-tag, up-to-date schedule and other important information, and to confirm the time and location of the Orientation session. If you arrive late, please ask for your packet at the front desk when you check in. Orientation: The Group Leader will greet everyone with a warm welcome and lead introductions. We will review the program theme, the up-to-date daily schedule and any changes, discuss safety guidelines, emergency procedures, roles and responsibilities, and answer any questions you may have. Transportation for program-related activities will be via motorcoach unless specified otherwise. Free time is reserved for your personal independent exploration. Please be aware that program activities, schedules, and personnel may need to change due to local circumstances. In the event of changes, we will alert you as quickly as possible. Thank you for your understanding.
Dinner: In the hotel meeting room enjoy a plated meal or buffet with salad, selection of entrées and dessert plus coffee, tea, water; additional beverages available for purchase.
Evening: Take the rest of the evening to continue getting to know your fellow participants, relax, and get a good night's sleep for the full day ahead.
Activity note: Standing at site visits and museum; walking up to several blocks over paved terrain in Old Town.
Breakfast: In the hotel meeting room at 7:30 a.m.; selections usually include fruit, yogurts, pastries, oatmeal, eggs, potatoes, turkey sausage, juice and coffee.
Morning: This morning our expert instructor will introduce us to the fascinating history of conversos and Crypto Jews in New Mexico, dating back to the time of the Spanish Inquisition.
Lunch: Plated meal from a limited menu at a popular restaurant in Old Town includes salad, selection of entrées, coffee, tea, soft drinks and water (additional beverages available for purchase at the restaurant bar.)
Afternoon: We'll board our motorcoach and travel to the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center. This beautiful, unique center preserves and perpetuates Pueblo culture through tribally curated exhibits. The museum on the lower level showcases the history, culture and arts of the Pueblo people of New Mexico in two permanent exhibitions.
Dinner: In the hotel meeting room.
Evening: We'll continue learning about Crypto-Jewish history with a lecture entitled "The Columbus Question."
Activity note: Getting on and off bus (no lift). Standing and walking for as long as 2 hours over uneven and rough packed dirt terrain at Acoma; (wheelchairs and walkers not recommended.)
Breakfast: In the hotel meeting room.
Morning: After breakfast we'll board our motorcoach and depart for Acoma Pueblo. Acoma's ties to Jewish history in New Mexico lie in the Pueblo's relationship to Jewish trader Solomon Bibo, the only non-Indian to become governor of a Native American Pueblo. Built on top of a 367-foot-high mesa to protect it from attack, the old pueblo has no electricity and no running water, but its residents vie for chances to live there for a year at a time. There are other pueblo villages at the base of the mesa, where most of the Acoma Indians dwell. We'll go to the top of the mesa where we'll explore the old village, visit the old Spanish church and meet some of the inhabitants of this remarkable historic place.
Lunch: At Acoma Pueblo, choice of chicken or vegetarian wraps and soft drinks.
Afternoon: After returning to the hotel we'll "Meet a Converso" and hear about our instructor's converso/Crypto-Jewish heritage.
Dinner: In the hotel meeting room.
Evening: Optional video in the meeting room.
Activity note: Walking over paved terrain; standing for an hour at the Hispanic Cultural Center.
Breakfast: In the hotel meeting room.
Morning: We'll begin the day with an expert-led lecture expanding our knowledge of the lives of conversos and Crypto Jews. We'll then travel to the National Hispanic Cultural Center, which will help to expand our understanding of the area's Hispanic history and culture.
Lunch: Plated meal from a limited menu at a popular local restaurant includes selection of entrées, coffee, tea, soft drinks and water (additional beverages available for purchase at the restaurant bar.)
Afternoon: Return to the hotel and free afternoon.
Dinner: This meal has been excluded from the program cost and is on your own to sample the local cuisine. The Group Leader will be happy to offer suggestions and give directions to restaurants both downtown and near the hotel.
Evening: At leisure.
Activity note: Getting on and off bus (no lift); walking from several blocks up to a mile over paved and unpaved terrain
Breakfast: In the hotel meeting room.
Morning: This morning we'll depart for an all-day field trip to Santa Fe. On arrival, we'll go to Museum Hill for visits to the the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture and the Museum of International Folk Art. The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture features pottery, jewelry, sculpture, baskets, and other objects made by Native Americans from the earliest times to modern day, scrupulously documented and beautifully displayed. Most of the work is from the Southwest. The Museum of International Folk Art continues to focus on indigenous populations from around the world through their art – ranging from ceremonial dress and masks to furniture. The museum hosts the largest collection of international folk art in the world, including wings featuring some of the 106,000 pieces donated by collectors Alexander and Susan Girard and Lloyd Cotsen's Neutrogena collection. After our museum visits, we'll travel to downtown Santa Fe.
Lunch: This meal has been excluded from the program cost so that you can dine at a Santa Fe restaurant of your choice. There are a number of restaurants within walking distance of the museum and the Santa Fe Plaza offering a variety of cuisines.
Afternoon: Free Time. There are many colorful shops and galleries in the area, as well as a number of museums. Downtown museums include the Palace of the Governors, the New Mexico History Museum and the New Mexico Museum of Art) adjacent to the Plaza. The Palace of the Governors and New Mexico Museum of history feature historic documents and exhibits relating to the settlement of New Mexico and Santa Fe. The New Mexico Museum of Art offers changing exhibits by famous past and present artists of New Mexico and the Southwest. Other nearby museums and sites of interest include the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, dedicated to the work of this extraordinary artist, the Museum of Contemporary Native Art, the state capitol building, which houses an impressive collection of art, and the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi. We'll meet our motorcoach at a designated time at a location near the Plaza, board the coach, and depart for Albuquerque.
Dinner: In the hotel meeting room.
Evening: At leisure.
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I'm following through the chapters of this book, and had success replicating the example website from the book, but the exercises from the JQuery chapter aren't working, and I can't find out why.
My code is EXACTLY as shown in the book, for both the website pages and the common.js file. But, I went ahead and tried copy and pasting the provided book code for the .js file, but that was redundant because I had typed that code the same.
A few of the provided text fields do get their example text from the common.js functions, so the contact.html page is retrieving the javascript just fine, but I don't understand why the rest of the input fields, and the caption-hiding for the gallery page, just aren't working.
I've viewed these pages in current versions of Firefox and Chrome, from both my hard-drive stored page, and the same page uploaded to my live server.
If there is any other aspect I didn't mention where things could go wrong, please ask. I just don't know what else to look for.
Hi Molly_O. Welcome to SitePoint.
Do the examples in the code archive work for you?
I've realized I did something very silly.
With ralph's suggestion, I had downloaded the related files from the code archive, and experimented a little with them - testing the archive files, switching JQuery version files, linking to my .js file in the archive page. That all worked as intended. It was when I opened the gallery.html page from the archive and my hand-typed file to compare them, did I realize my mistake: the archive file had HTML5 tags, and mine didn't. I forgot I skipped over the chapter for putting HTML5 tags into the example site pages, because I wanted to concentrate on learning the more standardized markup, before trying out the newer, less widely supported HTML5 tricks. The functions in the JQuery chapter refer to the HTML5 tags introduced in the chapter I glazed over.
So ... I guess I can do one of two things now: go back to the chapter I missed and put in the HTML5 tags I didn't want to do before, or go outside the book and change my code to work with the tags I already used. Would anybody suggest I go ahead and use the new HTML5 tags, or figure out more javascripting to work with what I already have?
You mentioned that you've uploaded this to your live server. Would you mind posting a link? That would be the easiest way to help.
I've figured out a workaround for my situation. I've uploaded the corrected files to my test site, so you can see the end effect I wanted - http://www.mollyroseodell.com/testsite/gallery.html Here's some snippets of the solution I've discovered.
the markup.

"I was right next to him as he bit chunks of coral off for dinner - what a sound!" So describes club member Paul who took this shot in Fiji. [Photographer: Paul Spencer]

the script.
// Making the gallery captions appear on hover
$(".galleryphoto p").hide();
$(this).find(".galleryphoto p").slideDown('medium');
$(this).find(".galleryphoto p").slideUp('medium');
This works as expected - when the cursor rolls over an image, a paragraph of text slides out underneath it, and slides back when the cursor rolls off. I've experimented with putting different elements, classes, and id's in the quoted areas of the script, and what I've shown here is what I found to work. I'm satisfied that I found something to work, but is this the efficient and cleanest way to code this interaction in JQuery?
It looks like this thread is no longer about an issue with a Sitepoint's book code, and more a delving in Jquery experimentation ...
From a quick look, the only problem I see is that  is not the right element to use here. It's what's known as an inline element—meaning that it belongs inside another block-level element like a
. HTML4 and under does not allow an inline element to wrap around a block element like a div.
In this instance, you don't need the extra element anyhow. You can just do this:

This turtle was spotted swimming around the Great Barrier Reef ...

and then the JS can be a tad simpler:
// Making the gallery captions appear on hover
$(".galleryphoto p").hide();
It seems like that's how it should work, but I've tried that before I added the span tags (and tested it again just now), but the Jquery slider doesn't work with the rollover target being ".galleryphoto." it also didn't work when I added 'id="galleryphoto" ' to the photo-containing div tag, and had the jquery target that. i experimented with different targets, until i added the span tags around each photo and found that to just work. I thought it was an odd solution, that could cause more problems if I had more code elsewhere that globally affects the span tag. Though, I'm still confused that the more obvious and simpler solution, that you suggested, wasn't working, and the odd workaround I found does.
If there is still something else in the website files that's interfereng, I don't know where to look for it or to even recognize it.
I tested that code I posted above and it worked nicely. Perhaps post your attempt at it so we can see what's wrong.


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One of my all-time favorite comfort foods is a fresh loaf of banana bread, still warm from the oven. To create a decadent dessert, I have combined that simple loaf with a velvety chocolate ganache. Top it with a spoon of crème fraiche or a scoop of chocolate ice cream, and the result is an elegant comfort food fit for any occasion — even breakfast.
Chocolate Banana Bread Pudding
Makes: 10 servings
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Bake Time: 45 minutes
Level: Easy
2 loaves banana bread, cut into 1/2-inch cubes (10 cups, loosely packed)
2 cups heavy cream
12 ounces semisweet or bittersweet chocolate, finely chopped
2 cups half-and-half
2 tablespoons brown sugar
2 tablespoons rum
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 large eggs
3 large egg yolks
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Preheat oven to 300 degrees F.
Fill 10 6-ounce oven-safe ramekins with the banana bread cubes and set aside.
In a medium-sized saucepan bring the cream to a simmer. Turn off the heat and add the chocolate. Swirl the pot gently so the chocolate is completely covered by the cream, cover the pot and let sit for 3 minutes. Whisk the cream and chocolate together until smooth. Add the half-and-half, brown sugar, rum and vanilla. In a separate bowl, whisk together the eggs and yolks. Add the eggs to the chocolate mixture and mix until combined.
Place the ramekins on a cookie sheet. Slowly ladle the chocolate mixture over the banana bread.
You will want to gently push the cubes into the chocolate, so that the bread will absorb the chocolate. Fill the ramekins nearly to the top.
Bake for about 45 minutes, or until the chocolate is set firm on the edges, but the center is still a little soft.
Remove from the oven and allow to sit for 15 minutes before serving. They can be served warm, at room temperature or chilled. You can also reheat them for about 30 seconds in the microwave or 10 minutes in a 350 degree F oven.
Top with unsweetened crème fraiche at brunch or with your favorite ice cream for dessert.
More Baking Recipes from Zoe:
- Best Carrot Cake
- Chocolate Cream Puffs
- Milk Chocolate Peanut Butter Pie
- Beehive Cake
- Strawberry-Rhubarb Crisp
- How to Write on a Cake
- No-Bake Strawberry Cheesecake
- Carrot Cupcakes
- Linzer Cookies
- Sweet, Cakey Banana Bread
- Chocolate Chunk-Peanut Butter Cookies
- Flourless Chocolate Torte
- Spring Cupcakes
- Lemon Meringue Cake
- Pavlova Recipe
- S'mores Recipe
Zoë François, author of Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day, Healthy Bread in Five Minutes a Day and Artisan Pizza and Flatbreads in Five Minutes a Day, studied at the Culinary Institute of America in New York. She now calls Minneapolis her home, where she has worked with some of the top talent in the culinary world — Steven Brown, Andrew Zimmern and many chefs at the D'Amico company. In addition to writing, Zoë teaches baking classes and consults at restaurants. You can find her writing and recipe creations on Devour, on her baking blog, zoebakes.com and on the site, www.breadin5.com.


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HTC Announces One mini - 4.3 inch display, aluminum, and Snapdragon 400by Brian Klug on 7/18/2013 4:42 AM EST
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Paulman - Thursday, July 18, 2013 - linkAccording to GSMarena, the iPhone 5's dimensions are: 123.8 x 58.6 x 7.6 mm, 112g
The HTC One Mini's dimensions are: 132.0 x 63.2 x 9.25 mm, 122g
I guess the HTC One Mini is a little bit bigger and heavier than the iPhone 5 -- but I wonder how similar the in-hand feel and look are. Reply
piroroadkill - Thursday, July 18, 2013 - linkWhy would you get this when it's like a slightly worse Sony Xperia SP?
1.2 Krait Adreno 305 vs 1.7 Krait Adreno 320
Two offscreen buttons vs 4.7" with onscreen buttons
No SD vs MicroSD slot
No, I have no idea either. Reply
MrSpadge - Thursday, July 18, 2013 - linkIf it's cheap enough I could see it sell well. Reply
hackguy - Thursday, July 18, 2013 - linkBecause Xperia is made of plastic and One mini is made of aluminum? Reply
dishayu - Thursday, July 18, 2013 - linkMy thoughts exactly. Then there are other little things in favour of the Xperia SP like NFC, bigger battery (2370 mAh vs 1800 mAh), being MUCH cheaper (off contract, because not everyone likes in 'murica). Reply
B3an - Thursday, July 18, 2013 - linkGrow some brain cells. The One Mini is obviously for people who don't want larger phones. The Xperia SP is larger and heavier. Reply
dishayu - Thursday, July 18, 2013 - linkActually it's shorter in length, only 3mm wider and the similar thickness. It is a full 30 gram heavier though (much of which can be attributed to a 30% bigger battery) Reply
geniekid - Thursday, July 18, 2013 - linkI think people who care about smaller phones care more about the width than the height of the phone, in which case you could argue why would you get the Xperia SP when you could just get the regular One since it's only 1mm wider. Reply
piroroadkill - Thursday, July 18, 2013 - linkHaha, it's barely heavier, and about the same size. I'd take the much larger battery any second of any day. Reply
Mondozai - Thursday, July 18, 2013 - linkActually you need to grow some brains.
As the others have alrady pointed out, each of your points falls through the floor.
The SP is a lot more hardware for the money you spend.
Stop being a fanboy. Reply
Łukasz Markiewicz - Thursday, July 18, 2013 - linkXperia SP is pretty expensive, hopefully HTC can hit a lower price point. We will see on that one.
But when it comes to clear cut differences:
1) since the One mini keeps the same shape, those thickness numbers actually don't show how the phone feels in the hand; SP is flat and the same thickness across the device. I only held the HTC One, but I can tell you in hand it does not feel thick at all. My Nexus 4 is thinner, but when you hold it, it feels far more chubby.
2) SP has a bigger, less dense screen. Seeing recent track record of Sony and HTC one would assume the display on the mini will be better
3) the camera on the mini is different, for some it will be worse, for some better; assuming it's the same as the HTC One minus OIS, I'd take the mini over anything Sony makes Reply
piroroadkill - Thursday, July 18, 2013 - linkNone of that stuff really matters when the battery runs out, though. Reply
Łukasz Markiewicz - Thursday, July 18, 2013 - linkSmaller screen to illuminate though. Also different SoC. It will be slower in benchmarks I guess, but I have no clue whether it will be more or less efficient in day to day use.
Also I checked current UK prices for the Xperia SP and it's gone down to 275 quid from 330 at launch. It will be hard to get to that price. Reply
piroroadkill - Friday, July 19, 2013 - linkBOOM!
HTC One Mini up for 379.99 on pre-order.
Hahahahahaha Reply
Łukasz Markiewicz - Friday, July 19, 2013 - linkIf this turns out to be true, then they HTC are mental to try and sell it at that price. Expansys have it listed for pre-order but "Price unannounced" From what I understand right now mobilefun.co.uk is just guessing the price. I really hope HTC won't try and do what Samsung are doing with the S4 mini, basically ripping you off as much as they can. We shall see. For 380, the mini is DOA to me. Reply
dishayu - Thursday, July 18, 2013 - linkI don't know about other countries, but in India, the current selling price of Xperia SP is quite cheap... about 20% less than a galaxy S3 ( INR 22,500 vs INR 27,500). I don't see a way in which HTC can even come close to Xperia SP's pricing. Reply
warisz00r - Thursday, July 18, 2013 - link>Xperia SP is pretty expensive
No it isn't. Where I live, the SP is cheaper than AND will run rings around the S3. Reply
madmilk - Thursday, July 18, 2013 - linkBecause if you don't care about size, the Nexus 4 is cheaper and better than both. Reply
evonitzer - Thursday, July 18, 2013 - linkWhy not get the HTC First? Exactly the same specs, built by HTC earlier in the year. The Facebook Home (is that what its called?) is easily disabled, leaving stock Android. Super cheap off contract too.
I am not sure they are still available except in the used market, but they are going for bargain basement prices considering the specs and age. Reply
evonitzer - Thursday, July 18, 2013 - link$250 on Amazon, $150-$200 used. Bonkers. Sealed up, yes, but 16 GB at least, and 2000mah. Reply
IPlayNaked - Thursday, July 18, 2013 - linkFront facing, superior speakers, aluminum body, lighter.
Some people have 0 need for an SD card and some people prefer off screen buttons.
Work on thinking outside yourself and try to think of what people could want from it, instead of just thinking "I wouldn't want that, no one else would either" Reply
piroroadkill - Friday, July 19, 2013 - linkYeah, but it has 2 off screen buttons, as opposed to the dynamic buttons that Jelly Bean is designed for. You also then get more screen space when watching video.
The SP has an aluminium frame, I doubt this is going to be light years ahead.
It has a slower SoC. It has a much smaller battery.
I want HTC to succeed, but they won't do it like this. Reply
thesavvymage - Thursday, July 18, 2013 - linkToo bad they couldnt shrink down the dimensions any more than that. Reply
dishayu - Thursday, July 18, 2013 - linkThis will be a very hard sell when compared to a GS4 mini and the Xperia SP. Really wish they could have waited a while and released a dual core Krait 400, Adreno 330 based mini. That would just be the perfect phone. Reply
ZeDestructor - Thursday, July 18, 2013 - linkThere's a lot I'm willing to let slide in exchange for a smaller phone:
1. 720p screen? OK, the screen is smaller
2. Dual-Core vs Quad-Core SoC? I hardly use two cores on my XZ, let alone 4. I'd be unhappy on principle, but it does have a smaller battery, so again, forgiven.
3. Weaker GPU? No. Especially when you can get the older MSM8960 with the Adreno 320... Sure, its not the latest tech, but is IS a dual-core, lower-clocked version of the Snapdragon 600 which brings performance much, MUCH closer
4. Half the RAM? WTF are they smoking? Android NEEDs a LOT of memory if you do heavy multitasking of lots of light-workload programs. This is especially damning when you consider the price of RAM, especially if you go wholesale and consider all the other savings made!
5. Losing the awesome construction of the One? I could accept that, but at the same time, they could've just shrunk the One's construction and done it right..
@Brian Klug: if you're in contact with any of the ODMs, PLEASE let them know that there are people out there who want a genuine flagship at the 4.0-4.3" mark who are willing to pay for it. As much as the top flagship in fact. Personally I wouldn't even mind losing some battery life and/or having a thicker phone in order for that to happen.
Oh and docks. Can we have dock bundles? Please? Reply
miria_osa - Thursday, July 18, 2013 - linkGS4 is much better.. longer lasting battery and better camera and memory.. it will be tough for htc to beat that..http://versus.com/en/htc-one-mini-vs-samsung-galax... Reply
ZeDestructor - Thursday, July 18, 2013 - linkThe One Mini sin't going up against the S4, rather the S4 mini, and apart from the screen and camera (where the One is miles ahead), they're essentially identical: http://www.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone1=5505... Reply
MatthiasP - Thursday, July 18, 2013 - linkFor me HTC did almost everything right with this "mini", 720p Screen, 1/3" camera sensor and thin&light. But why no OIS for the camera HTC? I hope it doesn't degrade image quality too much at low light. Reply
Ortanon - Thursday, July 18, 2013 - linkButton/bezel problem persists. Saddening. Maddening. Come on, HTC.
I couldn't stand the giant button band making the phone way bigger than it had to be when I first saw the HTC One. When someone told me the "HTC" symbol wasn't even a button, I burst into incredulous laughter. Reply
beginner99 - Thursday, July 18, 2013 - linkMy first thought was: "Damn just bought a new phone, I really liked the look of HTC One but it is just to big so a mini sounds great" My second thought was: "Still to big especially for that screen size". Reply
PyroHoltz - Thursday, July 18, 2013 - link"...as an aside it's amazing that 4.3-inch and 720p is now a midrange feature just a year after 720p's introduction."
My Galaxy Nexus was introduced in November, 2011. While that's not quite 2 years ago, in cell phone terms it's eons ago and certainly more than a year ago. For me, 720p is a great resolution on anything 4.6" or under. Reply
evonitzer - Thursday, July 18, 2013 - linkYes, and my quickly forgotten LG Nitro had 720p in December of 2011, but it is easier to remember the SIII and One X as the 'first' 720p phones.
Agreed about its greatness in small to medium size phones. Death to qHD! Reply
Yofa - Thursday, July 18, 2013 - linkGoogle Play edition with reasonable price tag, please. Reply
Death666Angel - Thursday, July 18, 2013 - linkNexus 4 anyone? Reply
anxyandy - Thursday, July 18, 2013 - linkI was looking at smartphones in the shop the other day and I couldn't believe how tiny the iPhone 5 is!!! This site is good for seeing everything to scale:
The specs sometimes seem abit strange but generally it's okay! Reply
Death666Angel - Thursday, July 18, 2013 - linkWow, that site is crappy. They say they compare screen size but actually just compare the diagonal length. The same video recording capabilities (1080p30) are a win for the HTC One Mini with the statement being "Infinityx better video recording quality". Just awful. Use any review site and just look at the tablet side by side or hit up wikipedia or better yet, actually read the full reviews and take a look at both in person. Reply
bioyuki - Thursday, July 18, 2013 - linkAny details on the HDR mic? Has the Nokia/STM cease and desist been settled or is it a new supplier? Reply
thesavvymage - Thursday, July 18, 2013 - linkI just realized something from the size charts... thats not mini at all!! its only half a centimeter smaller in height and width than the original One! Come on manufactures, make something compelling the size of the iPhone Reply
SeleniumGlow - Friday, July 19, 2013 - linkI'll agree with the people who are saying that Xperia SP is better value. In the past few months, Sony has been making (good looking) value for money handsets. And for the price I'm getting them at (Xperia SP for 22K INR ~ 370$ and ZR for 27K INR ~ 455$), I don't know any brand with this value. Even equivalent Samsung phones are priced more... Reply
Hrel - Friday, July 19, 2013 - linkNo wireless ac? No interest. Reply
pixelstuff - Friday, July 19, 2013 - link..."it's obvious that this isn't a flagship device squeezed into a smaller, more pocketable device"
If this happens not to sell as well as the HTC One, I hope the manufacturers don't all notice and conclude that it must be purely because of a smaller screen size. Reply
vipuls1979 - Thursday, July 25, 2013 - linkIf you are looking for Budget android phones under 15000 then please click on below link
http://mobiknowhow.blogspot.in/2013/07/top10quadco... THis post gives a detailed review of top 10 Quad Core ,Dual Sim and 5 Inch Smartphones Reply