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Current version: 2.0, updated 4/13/2014
I. Background
The Theck-Meloree Index is a tanking metric that attempts to quantify the "smoothness" of a tank's damage intake based on spike magnitude and frequency. Its fundamental assumption is that damage spikes become exponentially more dangerous (and thus more important) as they grow in size.
The first version of the metric, developed in a series of blog posts starting here, was more abstract and similar in concept to a FICO score. As of version 2.0, it has been revamped to be more tangible and easier to understand. Now, your TMI (in thousands) is roughly equivalent to the size of your largest damage spikes (in percent of health), such that a TMI of 88k means you were taking spikes up to about 88% of your health in size.
TMI incorporates both spike magnitude and frequency. As a result, taking the same spike more often will cause TMI to go up slightly. A TMI of 88k could be a single spike of about 88% of your health or several spikes of about 80% of your health. The key is that it gives you a rough estimate of the large spikes you should be expecting to have to deal with, and does so in a numerically-robust way that produces good stat weight values.
This document establishes several standards regarding the Theck-Meloree Index, including the method of calculation, boss configurations, and ability usage. Note that the index is sufficiently versatile to handle a great variety of situations outside of what is recommended in this reference. However, having clearly-defined standards facilitates comparisons between different gear sets, action priority queues, talents, glyphs, and even different tanking classes.
Users that are more interested in what TMI means than they are in the method of calculation are encouraged to read this blog post, which goes into more depth on that subject.
II. Method of Calculation
Assume we are provided with a timeline $D$ representing tank health changes. This timeline may in the general case include damage and healing events – see section VII for details. This timeline is a simple array with time bins of width $\Delta t$, such that all events occurring between time $t$ and $t+\Delta t$ are merged into one bin. Thus, for a string of attacks doing 30, 20, 5, 10, and 50 damage occuring at 1.5-second intervals starting at $t=0.00$, and choosing time bins of $\Delta t = 1$ second, $D$ will have the form
From $D$, the Theck-Meloree Index is calculated as follows:
1) Normalize $D$ by the player's maximum health $H$. If the player's health is constant, this simply means that we divide every element of $D$ by a constant $H$ equal to their maximum health. If the player benefits from temporary health-gain effects such as Last Stand, then $H$ will be an array containing their maximum health at each time corresponding to the same element in $D$. Thus, the normalized damage timeline $\overline{D}$ contains elements:
$$\large \overline{D}_i = D_i / H_i $$
2) Calculate the $T$-second moving average array of damage taken for the entire simulation length $L$ (also expressed in seconds). This step can then be formally expressed for the $i^{th}$ element of the resulting moving average array as:
$$ \large {\rm MA}_i = \sum_{j=1}^{T / \Delta t} \overline{D}_{i+j-1} $$
which produces an array ${\rm MA}$ of length $N=(L – T)/\Delta t$. It is also acceptable to use an apodized moving average (i.e. by zero-padding the damage array) that produces an array of length $N=L/\Delta t$
3) TMI is calculated from the moving average array as follows:
$$ \Large {\rm TMI} = 10^4 \ln \left [ \frac{N_0}{N} \sum_{i=1}^N e^{10\times {\rm MA}_i} \right ]$$
where $N_0=450/\Delta t$ is the "default" array size corresponding to a fight length of 450 seconds.
The resulting value ${\rm TMI}$ is the Theck-Meloree Index.
III. Continuous Limit
Since we will generally be computing this index in a computer, it will be uncommon to work in the continuous limit. Nonetheless, for completeness we include the definition here in case it becomes relevant.
For continuous functions $D(t)$ and $H(t)$ defined over the region $[0, L]$ representing damage taken by the tank and player health at each instant $t$, respectively, the Theck-Meloree Index is calculated as
$$ {\rm TMI }= 10^4 \ln \left [ \frac{L_0}{L} \int_{0}^{L} e^{10\times {\rm MA}(t)} dt \right ] $$
with the continuous $T$-second moving average damage function
$$ {\rm MA}(t) = \int_{0}^{L} {\rm rect}(t-t',T) D(t)/H(t) dt'. $$
Here ${\rm rect}(t,T)$ is the usual rectangular function of width $T$, such that
$$ {\rm rect}(t,T) = \cases{ 1 & if $0 \leq t < T$ \cr 0 & otherwise} $$
IV. Nomenclature
The acronym "TMI" will generally be used instead of the longer "Theck-Meloree Index" for brevity.
The standard allows for a user-defined window length $T$ used to calculate the moving average function. Unless otherwise specified, the term TMI will properly refer to the metric as calculated using a 6-second moving average (i.e. $T = 6$).
When referring to the metric as calculated using a different $T$, it should be appropriately noted by appending the suffix "-T". Thus, TMI-9 would clearly indicate a TMI calculated using a 9-second moving average, while TMI-3 would refer to one calculated using a 3-second moving average. Consequently, TMI-6 is synonymous with TMI.
V. Standard Bosses
While many factors affect TMI values, none affects the result as sensitively as the boss with which the metric is calculated. As such, we provide standardized bosses for each level of content to facilitate fair comparisons between different configurations.
The standard boss definition is comprised of two actions:
- A melee attack with a swing timer of 1.5 seconds
- An instant damage-over-time spell that inflicts periodic magic damage every 2 seconds for 30 seconds.
In Simulationcraft, these two actions can be produced with the following lines of code with X and Y substituted appropriately:
The table below provides the standardized values of X and Y for a boss approximating a particular content level
|Content Level
|Raw auto-attack damage (X)
|Raw DoT tick damage (Y)
For simplicity, any of these bosses can be invoked in Simcraft with the option
tmi_boss. The syntax to invoke the T15H boss would be:
Note also that when using the GUI (i.e. Simulationcraft.exe), these bosses can be selected from a drop-down box on the Options tab.
The T15H standard produces full-sized melee hits of approximately 340k damage on a tank after specialization and armor mitigation are accounted for. This is roughly equal to the melee damage of heroic Lei Shen on the 25-man difficulty setting. As new standard bosses are added to the table, they will generally continue to approximate the melee damage of the hardest-hitting boss in the tier while including ~7.5% magic damage through the DoT effect.
VI. Player composition
The goal of TMI is to calculate the threat of spike damage to the player. Historically, this has been assessed by examining the player's vulnerability to melee attacks in the absence of cooldown assistance. The rationale behind this is that the player is very unlikely to be at serious risk of death while proactively using cooldowns such as Guardian of the Ancient Kings or Divine Protection.
However, there are several cooldowns that could be considered rotational rather than reactive. Holy Avenger is one such cooldown, as it is frequently used on cooldown for a damage boost rather than saved for a particularly dangerous segment of a fight. In addition, it competes with two other talents that are rotational in nature.
To further complicate matters, it would be very difficult to remove or account for such effects when calculating TMI for a combat log from an actual encounter.
As such, the TMI standard imposes no specific constraints on ability usage or player configuration. In the unlikely event that a particular ability appears to be excessively problematic for some reason, the standard will be updated appropriately to prohibit that ability.
Note, however, that as a player attempting to simulate your character in Simulationcraft, it is often to your advantage not to include non-rotational damage reduction cooldowns (ex: Shield Wall, Guardian of Ancient Kings, etc.) in your simulations. TMI preferentially filters to weight the highest spikes as more important than everything else, and those spikes are unlikely to occur while you have a 50% damage reduction cooldown running. So while running cooldowns will reduce your average TMI, it won't give you as accurate a picture of how vulnerable your character is during periods not covered by cooldowns. Since most players are interested in optimizing around the dangerous periods rather than the guaranteed-safe periods, we recommend not using any cooldowns while simming that aren't part of your standard rotation.
VII. Group composition and healing
TMI is very robust, and can be calculated for a player acting alone or for a player accompanied by any number of other players, including healers. The TMI result, which roughly approximates maximum spike damage taken in any $T$-second period, is a useful and intuitive measurement in any of those situations.
However, most tanks are more interested in what they can personally do to improve their survivability. Simulations that include healers tend to mask the effects of changes made by the tank (for example, while calculating stat weights) since newly-created vulnerabilities can be partially mitigated by excess healer throughput. While this may also provide useful/interesting information, it ultimately makes the results more complicated to interpret correctly.
As such, we define the standard process of calculating TMI to include only effects directly caused by the tank and the boss.
In other words, while one or more healers may be present for the simulation, any healing or absorption effects caused by that healer must be ignored for the calculation of TMI. The easiest way to do this in Simcraft is to sim the tank alone against the boss (the simulation does not end when the tank drops below zero health, it just lets their health continue to go negative). For cases where a healer is present in the simulation, enabling the player option
tmi_self_only=1 will tell the simulation to ignore external healing in the calculation of TMI and treat any self-overhealing done by the tank as effective healing.
If TMI is being calculated from a combat log, this is more difficult to accomplish. Furthermore, there may be circumstances in which it is interesting to assess a tank's TMI while including all sources of healing. In such cases, the metric should be reported as "ETMI" or "Effective TMI" to indicate that the calculation is including external sources of healing.
While effects such as Heroism/Bloodlust will certainly be present in real encounters, these are generally times of increased healer throughput and active mitigation uptime, both of which reduce the danger of those periods. Since the goal of TMI is to assess the danger of damage spikes during dangerous periods, we strongly advise the user to perform TMI simulations without the benefit of Heroism, Bloodlust, or any other temporary buff effect that the tank cannot provide for himself or herself. This includes external mitigation effects such as Hand of Sacrifice and Barkskin.
However, since these sorts of effects would be impossible to ignore (or in some cases, detect) in a combat log, they are not strictly excluded from the standard TMI specification. As one would expect, they are all assumed to be included in an ETMI calculation.
Passive raid buffs, such as Arcane Intellect or Power Word: Fortitude, are likely to be active during the entire encounter, and are thus allowed in the standard TMI calculation (and in fact expected, as Simulationcraft turns these buffs on by default).
VIII. Changelog
4/13/2014: version 2.0
- Instituted new formula for TMI
- Updated TMI standard boss list
- Heavily revised specifications to make combat log calculations viable
8/13/2013: version 1.2
- Health normalization now performed using instantaneous health and applied immediately to the damage timeline (i.e. before the moving average) to better account for effects like Last Stand and similar trinket effects.
8/3/2013: version 1.1.
- Removed the restriction on damage reduction cooldowns. Everything is fair game now.


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A laptop belonging to Liam Fox, the shadow defence secretary, has been stolen.
His car was also taken after thieves broke into his home in Southwark and stole the keys along with the computer and his mobile phone.
Police were called to the property at 7.20am this morning but made no arrests. Fox had been at home alone.
The Tory party was unable to say what was on the laptop. Fox was forced to abandon the launch of his armed forces manifesto today.
The Ministry of Defence, which Fox would be in charge of under a Conservative government, has been the culprit of many serious data losses in recent years, including the personal details of 800,000 armed forces applicants and three unencrypted laptops. ®
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that human activitity is a significant contributing factor to the observed changes we have seen in global temps over the last century according to a newly published study in EoS link to article. the entire results can be found published as a book here
Despite the concerted efforts of industries connected with fossil fuel production and a handful of right wing Internet bloggers to create the impression that there is serious debate within the scientific community as to whether the Nobel Prize winning IPCC report and its supposed consensus are indeed as probable as they proclaim, contending that the IPCC is a biased political process which seeks to crush the plethora of dissenting voices, this paper by Doran and Zimmerman empirically confirms the perspective advanced by Naomi Oraskes in 2004 that within scientists working on peer reviewed material surrounding climate science there is virtually no support for the position that humans are not significantly contributing to the observed changes in climate.
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While the science must continue to be advanced and refined, the chief challenge which this paper suggests faces the scientific establishment surrounding Anthropogenic Climate Change (ACC) is to win the media war in conveying a clear understanding of the science and likely effects of ACC in the face of a dedicated smear campaign run largely run by the fossil fuel industry and right wing think tanks who oppose ecological reform on the basis that it threatens profit margins.


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|Fire Up your Job Search by Broadcasting Strengths!
by Alesia Benedict, CPRW, JCTC
Think in Terms of Strengths
Being unemployed, under-employed, or under-appreciated in your current job can erode confidence. In order to "fire up" your job search, you may need to re-assess the strengths you are emphasizing. Follow these simple strategies to shift to a position of strengths.
1) Brainstorm about what you love to do. This first list should be exhaustive, including strengths from work and personal areas of your life.
2) List specific skills developed throughout your work history.
3) What results did you achieve from strengths listed in the first 2 steps? Review positive comments, good performance evaluations, or actual awards to jog your memory.
4) Think of job requirements for positions in which you are currently interested, and combine the top 2 or 3 items from each of the areas above that you want to emphasize. Use this information to create an "elevator" speech for yourself – a brief, 30-second to 1-minute summary to describe your assets, not a laundry list, but a mini-story. Consider the director pitching his new movie project to a potential producer, or the inventor describing her idea to a potential investor. This becomes your "pitch", - a brief overview of strengths that set you apart from the crowd by outlining what you can do for the potential employer.
Write it Down
Why write it down? It helps you own the statement. Not only does seeing the statement in writing help you feel more confident, but it also helps you begin to believe it more strongly yourself. However, if you notice what you have written down actually rings false or makes you question strengths you have identified, then something about what you have written "doesn't fit". Stretching yourself to fit a particular job opening can be positive, but stretching the truth is never wise. If you can't believe it yourself, the hiring manager will struggle, too. Compare your "pitch" with what you created for the first 3 steps above. Pay attention to how you feel in reviewing the lists and you will be able to fine-tune your pitch into an authentic statement of your strengths.
Making a brief statement of your strengths isn't easy. Practicing the statement will make you feel more comfortable and help you prepare to use it whenever the opportunity arises.
1) Use the old "in front of the mirror" technique to help you own your new view of yourself, just like you did in speech class or for that first presentation at the office.
2) Ask family and friends to serve as an audience – request honest feedback about your delivery – how believable are you? If you don't believe what you're saying, it will show. They may notice it even if you didn't.
3) Use your network to practice. Perhaps a small group of job seekers – whom you trust – can try out elevator pitches on each other and incorporate comments to improve the approach.
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Remember to follow up after any type of networking contact, whether casual or formal. Incorporate your "pitch" into the follow-up correspondence. You can send a "thank-you", "nice-to-see-you", or "I believe we have a mutual acquaintance" note – all of which can include a comment about your strengths.
Examples of situations where you might send a follow-up note include:
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5) Thank you (for any suggestion of an opportunity) Even though thank you letters may seem old-fashioned, they can be effective for that very reason – they set you apart from the crowd!
You can be sure the competition isn't shy about broadcasting strengths and achievements, and their boldness could walk them right into your dream job! You have golden embers smoldering in your work history that, if stoked, will "fire up" your job search. Write down those strengths, practice your "pitch", then confidently broadcast it!


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May 16, 2011 — Patients who undergo a procedure to unblock a coronary artery are likely to survive longer if they participate in structured follow-up care, according to research in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
In their 14-year analysis, researchers discovered a 46 percent relative reduction in death from all causes in patients who participated in cardiac rehabilitation following angioplasty.
The study focused on patients treated with percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI), commonly known as angioplasty. Using data from a Mayo Clinic registry of PCI patients, along with telephone follow-up, the researchers examined outcomes for almost 2,400 patients who underwent a first PCI in the Rochester, Minn., area from 1994 to 2008, and survived their hospital stay.
In PCI, a physician inflates a balloon on a catheter tip to flatten plaque in the artery against the vessel wall. In many cases, the physician also inserts a stent to prop the vessel open.
Forty percent of the patients had participated in at least one session of a cardiac rehabilitation program, and participants attended an average of 13.5 sessions. Such programs can boost survival rates after heart attacks and systematically provide lifestyle interventions and treatments to improve recovery and long-term health of heart patients.
"Our findings show that patients who participate in cardiac rehabilitation following PCI have better long-term survival — about 50 percent better — than those who don't participate in cardiac rehabilitation," said Randal Thomas, M.D., M.S., lead author of the study and director of the Mayo Clinic's Cardiovascular Health Clinic in Rochester.
The results accounted for smoking status, obesity, high cholesterol, family history and certain medical conditions that might affect life expectancy, such as heart failure, kidney disease or diabetes. The researchers noted a difference in death rates starting at one year of followup. Improved outcomes were among men and women, older and younger patients, and in patients who had undergone elective or nonelective PCI.
Almost 400 patients had subsequent heart attacks and 755 had additional procedures to open blocked vessels. In all, 503 patients died during followup; 199 of the deaths were validated as being cardiac-related.
Physicians and patients should understand that PCI is an important treatment, but not a cure for heart disease, and that ongoing interventions after PCI can help patients live longer, healthier lives, Thomas said. Cardiac rehabilitation programs include patient education, monitored and personalized exercise training, nutrition counseling, smoking cessation support, weight control therapy and medical evaluations to track patient progress, symptoms, medication side effects and medication adherence.
"Cardiac rehabilitation programs are effective at improving recovery, quality of life and long-term survival because they help deliver the lifestyle and medication therapies that have been shown to slow or even reverse the process of heart disease," Thomas said.
Because the study was observational rather than randomized, researchers used three statistical techniques to account for factors that might bias their results. For example, younger, healthier, more motivated patients who were already more likely to live longer were also more likely to participate in cardiac rehabilitation.
Although the study population was predominantly white, the results are consistent with other studies of cardiac rehabilitation in other patient subgroups with cardiovascular disease that have included larger groups of non-white patients, Thomas said. He said the study results should be further validated in other patient populations.
More than 600,000 PCI procedures are performed in the United States annually, according to the American Heart Association.
Cardiac rehabilitation is recommended in the 2005 American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association/Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions Guideline Update for PCI. But only about one-quarter of eligible U.S. patients participate, the researchers said. Gains in long-term survival would be substantial if all eligible PCI patients received cardiac rehabilitation, Thomas said.
Even in the unlikely event that the study results overestimate the true impact of cardiac rehabilitation and such services reduced deaths within five years by only 20 percent to 30 percent (instead of 46 percent, as found in the study), its impact on survival would still be substantial for patients after PCI, he said.
Most insurance companies cover up to 36 sessions of cardiac rehabilitation following PCI, heart attack and some other heart conditions. Medicare, which approved coverage of the programs for PCI patients beginning in 2006, typically covers 80 percent of the costs. Participation by patients following PCI appears to have increased since the Medicare change in 2006, although Thomas said many doctors and patients still remain unaware that coverage for cardiac rehabilitation is available following PCI.
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Forgotten how to say it? Then use your hands, but remember that some well-meant gestures or hand signals may cause offence in other countries and cultures
The "V" stands for victory with your palm facing forward – but in countries with a British flavor, it is a real insult if you turn
your hand around.
Point your index and your little finger, fold the others down, thumb on top: Heavy metal fans recognize each other by that sign, but in Tibet it will protect you from demons, and in Mediterranean countries, it's the sign of the cuckold.
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Uber has hired President Barack Obama's former senior adviser and campaign manager to head its company policy and strategy.
David Plouffe served as Obama's campaign manager for his 2008 presidential campaign and apparently will head communications for the mobile application that connects people with car rides, according to the Re/Code. Uber's chief Travis Kalanick reportedly has been looking for a well-connected professional to handle the "political campaign" against Taxi, the Re/Code reported.
The San Francisco-based Uber has been on the lookout for a high-profile candidate and finally settled on Plouffe. From Uber's blog post by Kalanick:
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Earlier this year, I made it a top priority for Uber to find a leader who could help cities and citizens understand the Uber mission – someone who believed in our cause, who understood how to build a meaningful brand, who knew how to scale a political campaign, and who knew how to get the support on the ground to win. We needed someone who understood politics but who also had the strategic horsepower to reinvent how a campaign should be run – a campaign for a global company operating in cities from Boston and Beijing to London and Lagos.
Kalanick also said that Plouffe would be battling the "Big Taxi cartel" as part of his job.
"We're on an inexorable path of progress here," Plouffe told the New York Times. "Uber is making transportation safer. It's providing jobs; it's cutting down on drunk and distracted driving. I think the mission is really important."
Plouffe has a lot to campaign against. Uber, now valued at $18 billion, now has deep pockets to battle its rivals.


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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Former state Sen. Deanna Wiener is the new chairwoman of the Minnesota regulatory board that polices campaign fundraising and spending.
The Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board elevated Wiener to the leadership position Tuesday. She assumes the post held by Andrew Luger, who resigned late last month to take on a new assignment as Minnesota's lead federal prosecutor.
Wiener is a Democrat who represented the Eagan area in the Legislature for a decade. She has been on the campaign board since 2011.
Luger was nominated to be the next U.S. attorney for Minnesota.
His resignation leaves a vacancy on the six-member board, which has designated slots for members by political party affiliation. Gov. Mark Dayton will appoint someone to fill that slot no sooner than mid-October.
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Covertly monitor your home or office from the convenience of a mobile smart device (iOS or Android), computer or TV with the Zone Shield® Smoke Detector featuring a SleuthGear® Covert Camera and Wireless QUAD Receiver. This faux-smoke detector will seamlessly blend into any room without tipping occupants off to the fact that it has a built-in hidden camera. The covert camera transmits wirelessly up to 700 feet to the receiver (included) without the hassle of having to deal with an IP setup. Once the receiver has been setup it can now be connected to a computer via USB, or TV via RCA cable for viewing and recording. Video recording can also be done locally on to an SD card where, roughly, 64 hours of recording time can be achieved with a 32GB card. This covert camera kit includes one camera and receiver but is expandable as the receiver is capable of supporting up to four total SleuthGear cameras; users can mix and match by adding other additional covert cameras within the SleuthGear collection and not just the SleuthGear Smoke Detector. Another feature of the wireless receiver is its QUAD function. QUAD provides users with the ability to watch and record up to four cameras at once from a PC or TV.
Remote access is also available with the Zone Shield Smoke Detector. Users can remotely view video from their wireless receiver by downloading an app for mobile devices in either the Google Play Store or Apple App Store. The EZ-SEE app has been optimized for use with the iPhone 5 and requires iOS devices to be running 4.3 or higher. The Zone Shield Smoke Detector also comes with remote viewing software that will allow for video to be watched remotely from a weblink through Chrome, or Internet Explorer 8 (or higher).
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By Sarah Hodgdon, Sierra Club's Director of Conservation, adapted from Treehugger, 3/8/12
When you think of Texas, what comes to mind? The Alamo? Longhorn cattle? The Dallas Cowboys?
Add clean energy to that list.
"Some might not think of Texas as a hotspot for renewables. But if you look at what cities here are doing, you might have to change your mind," says Jen Powis, who leads the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal state-wide campaign in the Lone Star State.
Take Houston, for example: One-third of municipal buildings in the state's biggest city run on renewable energy. Texas's second-biggest city, San Antonio, is building 400 megawatts worth of solar. Less than 100 miles to the north of there, municipal buildings in Austin run on 100 percent clean energy.
What's happening, says Powis, is bottom-up change that flies in the face of the state's political climate.
"City by city, local leaders are the ones pushing the envelope for clean energy," Powis says. And as large cities lead the way, other municipalities and universities will follow.
With more than 10,300 MW of installed wind energy, Texas leads the nation in wind power, and there are more than 800 MW of wind under construction. Current efforts to overhaul the state's transmission lines should ensure even more. Meanwhile coal power has become increasingly unprofitable here.
Powis points out that politicians who oppose clean energy here will also find themselves standing in the way of jobs. The wind energy sector supports more than 8,000 jobs in Texas, according to the American Wind Energy Association(PDF). The state is home to dozens of clean-energy manufacturers, and annual tax revenues from wind projects are in the nine figures.
That being said, the Texas Public Utility Commission has stubbornly blocked solar companies from establishing themselves in this sun-rich region.
"It's embarrassing to me as a Texan that New Jersey has more solar watts installed than we do," Polis says. "The PUC and the state legislature have stood in the way of bringing in these good, green jobs. But that can't go on much longer. Texas is great for solar. In five years, I bet 5,000 megawatts of coal will be replaced by clean energy here."
You can help make sure clean energy gets the support it needs. Tell Congress to pass strong clean energy financing incentives – including the Production Tax Credit for onshore wind, the "1603" grants that have created jobs in the solar sector, access to the Investment Tax Credit for offshore wind projects, and credits for efficient manufacturing, homes, and appliances


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Now's the perfect time to be out there running, says Suunto ambassador Ryan Sandes, well – at least it is in the southern hemisphere. The Cape Town based runner is making the most of mid-summer weather to gear up for a couple of big projects for 2015, as he tells us below.
What's in your sights:
I'm very excited by the challenge of new races. I'm looking forward to TransVulcania in May. The distance of 83km will suit me.
What else?
The Western States. I've done it twice so I'm going there with high expectations! I've never run the UTMB and hope to run that in 2016. Another key 100 miler on my list is the Raid Reunion.
Ryan during the Grand Drakensberg Traverse FKT ©Kelvin Trautman / Red Bull Content Pool
Racing or FKT, what makes your heart beat?
I enjoy racing but what drives me is the FKT movement. [Fastest Known Times: the challenge of setting a record time on a set route, typically up or across mountains, organised independently.]
I enjoy the whole adventure of setting yourself a challenge, the whole behind the scenes thing, checking maps, preparing, not knowing what lies ahead, it beats my soul. That really excites and motivates me. In a race you know you will finish. With an FKT you don't actually know if you will and that's really exciting. There are a few FKTs I'm looking at. Most are in Africa around Kenya and Tanzania.
Ryan pictured at home in South Africa ©Kolesky/Nikon/Red Bull Content Pool
Tell us about the Grand Drakensberg Traverse.
[In March 2014 Ryan Sandes and Ryno Griesel smashed the FKT for the 204km traverse of the Drakensberg mountains in South Africa, running the wild mountain ridgeline in 41h and 49m.]
It was really cool to achieve but it wasn't just about running the fastest time. It was the whole experience of crossing the mountains north to south.
What was the hardest part?
The preparation when we scouted the route! We had really bad weather – I've never seen anything like it. There was snow, hail, lightning and torrential rain. It was pretty scary! The next time I got hammered by the altitude. Every time an element humbled me.
Peak or Sport?
I'm using the Ambit3 Sport Blue and really enjoying that. The Suunto Movies are really cool. But for my longer runs I'm more of a Peak guy for the longer battery. It's really useful to be able to track my distance and climbs.
Ryan running the Fish River canyon in 2012 ©Kolesky/Nikon/Red Bull Content Pool
What's next?
I'm setting up an FKT that other people can try but can't say any more at the moment!
Suunto ambassador Ryan Sandes, 32, won the 4 Desert series in 2010 and won the Leadville 100 in 2011.


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|System: X360 (XBLA), PS3 (PSN)
|Review Rating Legend
|Dev: EA LA
|1.0 - 1.9 = Avoid
|4.0 - 4.4 = Great
|Pub: Electronic Arts
|2.0 - 2.4 = Poor
|4.5 - 4.9 = Must Buy
|Release: Sep. 25, 2009
|2.5 - 2.9 = Average
|5.0 = The Best
|Players: 1
|3.0 - 3.4 = Fair
|ESRB Rating: Teen
|3.5 - 3.9 = Good
by Cole Smith
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 - Commander's Challenge is every bit as complex as the name implies. Not recommended for casual gamers, in some instances it's not even recommended for seasoned vets that prefer to perform their real-time strategies with a mouse and keyboard. Commander's Challenge is a classic RTS game, bearing the infamous signature gameplay of its heritage, the Command & Conquer franchise. There's an addicting fun game here but it requires plenty of effort on your part to uncover.
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 - Commander's Challenge is a fantasy-based RTS game that includes more than 50 challenges. It's not an expansion pack in the traditional sense that it requires an original copy of Red Alert. It's a stand-alone game, but you'll be the benefactor for having played the original, as there is a lot to learn for the uninitiated.
Commander's Challenge is very much a military-based strategy game, but the military clichés are juxtaposed in favor of enemies ranging from animals to aliens and to armies of Japanese schoolgirls. Despite the light-hearted take on enemies, the game possesses a lot of depth. Unfortunately, accessing that depth will require navigating a very steep learning curve. The interface is not user-friendly - many options require you to open several menu windows to find the command you're looking for. And let's not forget that unlike the PC, using the PS3 or Xbox 360 controller for selections, especially when selecting units and commands in the heat of battle, can be incredibly frustrating. It's an imprecise method that still has not been perfected, but that's not something I expect to be accomplished in this game. I suspect it may not be until the next line of next-gen consoles appears before any significant developments are made in this area. You just can't replace a mouse and keyboard with a console controller.
A tutorial will give beginners the basics, but there are elements that it just doesn't address such as advanced tactics and the newer units and technologies. It's as though the tutorial was created before the game was completed. All is not lost, as you can always find some nerds on the net that are willing to divulge their secrets for your fleeting admiration. Many new units, enemies, and technologies are featured. You will have access to virtually all of the technologies from all of the factions. The catch is that you have to unlock them, and it doesn't happen quickly. You also will also have to play as all factions in order to unlock all technologies.
Play as any of the following factions: Soviets, Allied Power, and the Imperial Forces of the Rising Sun. Each time you complete a mission, you'll unlock new branches on the tech tree. There are also a series of side-missions available that are good for new technologies as well. But keep in mind you have a time limit for each mission, and considering the tough nature of the gameplay you won't have a lot of time for serendipity. Often you'll have to replay missions several times, trial-and-error style, in an effort to determine which sequence of actions result in success.
There's no doubt that the storyline is inane. And that's fine. The cutscenes are over-the-top. These are live-action cutscenes featuring the always annoying Ric Flair shouting orders and other bits of unintelligible garble. Even if you don't understand exactly what's going on, it all boils down to outwitting your opponent. There are several ways to do this depending on what faction you are and what factions you are fighting. Each faction uses different technologies. The gameplay will change according to the selections you make and strategies that you employ. You won't notice this in the first few missions, which are relatively short and simple, but the deeper you get in the game the deeper the gameplay gets. Although the 50 missions remain identical, you can replay them as the other factions, utilizing and experimenting with the new units including the Giga Fortress, Desolator, and Cryo Legionnaire. Unfortunately, there is no multiplayer mode. Yes you heard me, no multiplayer mode. Damn. The good news is that the A.I. does put up a good and fair fight, although it may not seem like it if you're new to the series.


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Each person will be randomly assigned one of the top 8 nations and must select 3 members of their team from that nation, each person must also select one and only one player from each other top 8 nation as well as selecting one player from either Bangladesh or Zimbabwe.
All players must have played from 1979-present.
However this time round everybody will have their fair chance at selecting the top stars through the auction system. Any selection named may be bartered upon with each nation at the end of the round. Every nation will be given $10,000,000 to make their bids. All players have a minimum value of $100,000 and all bids are in multiplications of 100,000.
So if Pakistan bid $100,000 for Saeed Anwar but the Indian manager decided he'd be a great addition to his team he can contest this with a higher bid of $200,000 a bidding war would begin.
Due to this bidding system every player MUST have at very minimum a $100,000 for every spot remaining to be filled in their team. If you need 6 players you need to have at least $600,000.
You are also only allowed to make one selection/contested auction per round. So if India won their bidding war to claim Saeed Anwar for $200,000 they would forfeit their previous selection of Younis Khan for $100,000. The players highest bid that turn is the player they win. If you got away with a bargain - don't bid.
In the case of a players selection being taken from them they will have to make two selections in the next round (unless they alternatively bid for the player from the nation who stole their player).
So if Pakistan lost the bidding war for Saeed Anwar they would be able to purchase the uncontested Younis Khan for $100,000. If they didn't like that idea or were unable to because of national restrictions then in their next turn they would have to bid for two players.
This is a pretty complicated system but should be good times. Please only sign up if you are going to be dedicated over the next week or so.
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by Tom Utescher
After many dramatic moments over the course of last Saturday's soccer square-off between host Springside Chestnut Hill Academy and visiting St. Joseph's Prep, the outcome was decided in a sequence during which all but two players stood idle.
With just under six-and-a-half minutes remaining in the contest, the Prep's Colin McGlynn converted a penalty kick to give the Hawklets a 2-1 victory over the SCH Blue Devils. Earlier, McGlynn had provided the visitors with a 1-0 halftime edge, and Springside Chestnut Hill pulled even just a few minutes after the intermission on a goal by junior Phillip Kelly.
It was the first win for St. Joe's in three official outings, and SCH had
split a pair of games on a road trip to North Carolina, so each squad left the field last Saturday with a 1-2 record.
Both the Devils and Hawklets had some offensive opportunities in the first 15 minutes, and a little later SCH had the ball ping-ponging around in front of the visitors' cage, but couldn't put it in. St. Joe's soon learned to respect the long throw-ins by SCH senior quad-captain Tim Ogle.
"That's a very dangerous weapon for us," agreed Springside Chestnut Hill coach Joe DiSalvo, "especially because a lot of the fields that we're playing on aren't very wide, and he can get the ball right into the middle."
After one of these tosses, the hosts got off a close-range shot that went just inches over the crossbar. Not long after that, sophomore José Contreras made a skillful centering pass from out along the left endline, but junior Alec Greenhalgh could not quite reach the ball in time on his run towards the far post.
Later, SCH bounced a shot off the top right corner of the goalframe, and at the other end the Hawklets drove the ball across the goalmouth from the right side, but no one got a foot on it. The wind had been gusting up and the first rain drops from an approaching storm front were felt with a little over ten minutes left in the half.
With five-and-a-half minutes to go, the visitors' Michael Carr put a corner kick in play from the left and the ball deflected out to the middle of the 18 yard line, where McGlynn pounded it back into the cage for the first goal of the game.
Freshman Sam McDowell started in goal for the Blue Devils, and junior Josh Moss has been seeing action in the nets, as well.
"They're both coming along," said DiSalvo. "A lot of it is just building their confidence and getting some shots hit at them, which we're doing in practice."
The score remained 1-0 for the last few minutes of the first half, and while the rain caused spectators to scramble for their umbrellas, it tapered off later on and the more violent elements of the weather front passed to the north.
Just in case conditions worsened and shortened the game, home fans were happy to see Kelly score to tie the match just three-and-a-half minutes into the second half, making good off an assist from Greenhalgh.
Both teams had a few cracks at netting the go-ahead goal, but neither could come up with one, at least on real-time play on the field. As the clock ticked down towards six minutes, the Hawklets attacked the box and drew a penalty kick, which was shot low to the left by McGlynn for a 2-1 lead. SCH was unable to pull even a second time.
"Unfortunately, I think we risk being in the same position we were in last year, losing a number one-goal games," said DiSalvo, citing single-point Inter-Ac league losses to league champion Malvern, Germantown Academy, and Pa. Independent School champ Haverford School (twice).
The SCH skipper noted, "We're focusing on trying to produce offense and create chances, and we're actually doing a real good job of creating chances, but we've got to finish them."


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Psychostick – Sandwich (2009, Rock Ridge Music)
- Metal?
- Caffeine
- Shower
- A Lesson In Modesty
- P Is The Best Letter
- Minimum Rage
- Don't Eat My Food
- The Hunger Within
- Grocery Escape Plan
- Too Many Food
- This Is Not A Song, It's A Sandwich!
- Girl Directions
- Orange
- Beer (Pt.2)
- Do You Want A Taco?
- Attempt At Something Serious
- #1 Radio Single
- Vah-jay-jay
- Die…A Lot!
- You've Got Mail Enhancement
- Passive Vengeance
- 373 Thank Yous
- We Ran Out Of CD Space
Band Lineup:
Rob "Rawrb" Kersey – Lead Vocals
Joshua "The J" Key – Guitars & Vocals
Jake "Jakermeister" McReynolds – Guitars & Vocals
Jimmy "Jimmychanga" Grant – Bass & Vocals
Alex "Shmalex" Preiss – Drums
Produced by: Psychostick
Total Time = 75:55
Psychostick MySpace page
Rock Ridge Music
Spinal Tap, Tenacious D, Bloodhound Gang, and Weird Al Yankovic…..all these bands play a comedic Rock style. Add some M.O.D. and you get Psychostick. The Phoenix, Arizona band has returned from a two and a half year stretch of touring the U.S. to release their third album titled SANDWICH. Psychostick blends Metal, Hardcore, Punk and Alternative together with a comedic lyrics to create their own unique sound called "Humorcore". When I took my first look at the CD I knew this wasn't my usual type of Heavy Metal, anything remotely resembling Punk or Alternative usually finds it's way to the trash pile, but their was something interesting in the song titles that reminded me of Billy Milano's M.O.D.
SANDWICH is 24 songs clocking in at over an hour and fifteen minutes long: some songs like 'Metal?' and 'Vah-jay-jay' come in at a few seconds while the fan tribute '373 Thank Yous' tops out at over fourteen minutes. The band spoof a wide range of normal topics from an ode to coffee ('Caffeine'), to good hygiene ('Shower'), the grocery store ('Grocery Escape Plan') and the Internet ('You've Got Mail Enhancement'). First thing you notice is that the band can play: Psychostick can lay down some serious music and the vocals have a ton of attitude, sarcasm and irony. There are some songs that you could easily put some serious lyrics too and get a regular Rock song…..but Psychostick obviously aren't a regular band!
There are a lot of entertaining songs on SANDWICH and most of them have to do with food! I'm not sure if the band has had some hard times and missed a few essential meals or they hit every buffet in town, they seem to like anything to do with food. I counted 9 songs that had to do with some sort of food either by consumption or purchase but the song that I liked the best of the "food tunes" was 'Minimum Rage'. If you've ever worked in retail (I do) and you've dealt with idiot customers then this is the song for you! Outside of food, I liked the rage filled take on getting directions from a woman in 'Girl Directions', the washing instructions in 'Shower' and the pride in lovving the female anatomy in 'Vah-jay-jay'…..these songs had me laughing out loud. The problem I had with the album was that it was too long and a lot of the songs sounded like the previous ones. I hate to use the word "filler" but I found the last few songs a bit boring. '373 Thank Yous' is 14+ minutes of the band singing the names of fans who donated money for the band's studio time. Using an epic length tune to thank the fans instead of the liner notes is a unique idea but after hearing it once you don't really need to again. Same thing with 'OUTTAKES!!!1', a song which is basically a musical blooper reel for the album, and 'We Ran Out Of CD Space' that really runs out of space. These songs are funny ideas but by the time you get through 21 songs it ends up being too much.
Bottom Line:
Psychostick is not my usual style of Metal band but they are entertaining. I had no idea what to expect when I read the band's bio and first put the album on but I was pleasantly surprised. SANDWICH kind of reminds me of M.O.D's 1987 debut album USA FOR M.O.D. because of the number of songs, the length of some are just a few seconds and both records are hilarious. The difference is that M.O.D. are very controversial and politically incorrect while Psychostick compose humor from normal things in everyday life…..like food! Overall I liked a lot of the songs but I used the <SKIP> button a few times. Metal fans are a serious breed and I'm not sure how SANDWICH will resonate in the Metal community but it's a change of pace that is good from time to time. I heard enough interesting tunes to go back and check out Psychostick's 2nd album, the 2007 Xmas record, THE FLESH EATING ROLLER SKATE HOLIDAY JOYRIDE but I'm still not sure what to expect.
Favorite Songs:
'Shower', 'Minimun Rage', 'Grocery Escape Plan', 'Girl Directions', 'Vah-jay-jay'


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- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /wɜːθ/
- (US) IPA(key): /wɝθ/
Audio (US) (file)
- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)θ, -ɜ(ɹ)θ
Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle English worth, from Old English weorþ, from Proto-Germanic *werþaz ("worthy, valuable"); from Proto-Indo-European *wert-. Cognate with Dutch waard (adjective), Low German weert (adjective), German wert, Wert, Swedish värd.
worth (not comparable)
- Having a value of; proper to be exchanged for.
- My house now is worth double what I paid for it.
- Cleanliness is a virtue worth more than others.
- Deserving of.
- I think you'll find my proposal worth your attention.
- 2012 May 9, Jonathan Wilson, "Europa League: Radamel Falcao's Atlético Madrid rout Athletic Bilbao", in the Guardian[1]:
- Two years after their first European trophy, Atlético were well worth their second.
- (obsolete, except in Scots) Valuable, worth while.
- Making a fair equivalent of, repaying or compensating.
- This job is hardly worth the effort.
Usage notes[edit]
The modern adjectival senses of worth compare two noun phrases, prompting some sources to classify the word as a preposition. Most, however, list it an adjective, some with notes like "governing a noun with prepositional force." Fowler's Modern English Usage says, "the adjective worth requires what is most easily described as an object."
Joan Maling (1983) shows that worth is best analysed as a preposition rather than an adjective. CGEL (2002) analyzes it as an adjective.
- Organic strawberries are worth paying extra money for.
- It's worth paying extra money for organic strawberries.
When "worth" is used as an adjective of a subject, the verb "to be" (usually associated with "worth") is singular or plural in accordance with the subject (in the first example, in the plural). In the other case, shown in the second example, the subject is the pronoun "it".
Derived terms[edit]
- for what it's worth/FWIW
- not worth a brass farthing
- not worth a Continental
- not worth a cress
- not worth a curse
- not worth a dime
- not worth a plug nickel
- not worth a whistle
- not worth the candle
- not worth writing home about
- unworth
- worth a try
worth (countable and uncountable, plural worths)
- (countable) Value.
- I'll have a dollar's worth of candy, please.
- They have proven their worths as individual fighting men and their worth as a unit.
- (uncountable) Merit, excellence.
- Our new director is a man whose worth is well acknowledged.
- 2012 September 7, Phil McNulty, "Moldova 0-5 England", in BBC Sport[2]:
- Manchester United's Tom Cleverley impressed on his first competitive start and Lampard demonstrated his continued worth at international level in a performance that was little more than a stroll once England swiftly exerted their obvious authority.
- (uncountable) Wealth, fortune, riches, property, possessions.
- 2018 July 19, "More than £1.2 million of Bitcoin seized from drug dealer", in cps.gov.uk[3], London: Crown Prosecution Service, retrieved 2018-07-20:
- A drug dealer and money launderer who was using cryptocurrency to conceal his funds has had over £1.2 million worth of Bitcoins seized, restrained and then converted into British pounds in the first case of its kind.
Derived terms[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
From Middle English worthen, wurthen, werthen ("to be; exist; come into being; come into existence"), from Old English weorþan ("to come into being; be made; become; arise; be"), from Proto-Germanic *werþaną ("to come about; happen; come into being; become"), from Proto-Indo-European *wert- ("to turn; turn out"). Cognate with Dutch worden, Low German warrn, German werden, Old Norse verða (Norwegian verta, Swedish varda), Latin vertere.
Alternative forms[edit]
worth (third-person singular simple present worths, present participle worthing, simple past worth or worthed, past participle worth or worthed or worthen)
- (obsolete, except in set phrases) To be, become, betide.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Ezekiel 30:2:
- Sonne of man, prophecie and say, Thus saith the Lord God, Howle ye, woe worth the day.
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. 3, "Landlord Edmund"
- For, adds our erudite Friend, the Saxon weorthan equivalent to the German werden, means to grow, to become; traces of which old vocable are still found in the North-country dialects, as, 'What is word of him?' meaning 'What is become of him?' and the like. Nay we in modern English still say, 'Woe worth the hour.' [i.e. Woe befall the hour]
- Woe worth the man that crosses me.
- What's worth of him now?
- Well worth thee, me friend.(May good fortune befall you, my friend.)
Derived terms[edit]
- worth in Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- worth in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- worth at OneLook Dictionary Search
- Joan Maling (1983), Transitive Adjectives: A Case of Categorial Reanalysis, in F. Henry and B. Richards (eds.), Linguistic Categories: Auxiliaries and Related Puzzles, vol.1, pp. 253-289.
worth (comparative mair worth, superlative maist worth)
- Valuable, worth while.
- English 1-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- English terms derived from the PIE root *wert-
- English terms inherited from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms inherited from Old English
- English terms derived from Old English
- English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English lemmas
- English adjectives
- English uncomparable adjectives
- English terms with usage examples
- English terms with quotations
- English terms with obsolete senses
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- English verbs
- English class 3 strong verbs
- Scots lemmas
- Scots adjectives


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KDE 3.2 Beta 2 Reviews Roundup
Three reviews recently joined the list of KDE 3.2 reviews with most having an emphasis on the applications being new in KDE 3.2: Francesc tried it on Gentoo and states in this blog "This release is the best KDE I've ever tried". Pycs writes about his first impressions and likes it too. Finally, gooeylinux.org published a rather controversial article about the good and bad sides of KDE 3.2 Beta 2.
Re: Fintsize
Nobody is suggesting that we get rid of the feature. But does it really need to be in the default toolbar? It takes one extra click to activate it from the main menu instead of the toolbar. Is that too much of an extra burden?
By Rayiner Hashem at Sat, 2004/01/03 - 6:00am
My particular gripes
Also most other browsers have some kind of "zoom" widget (a dropdown box with predefined values or a spinbutton), which works just as well and is easy to add and remove. The font buttons in Konqueror are particulary annoying if you try to use "text below icons" or "text alongside icons", as the labels are WAY too long[1]. The buttons are also very difficult to remove because first you have to understand that they aren't on "Main Toolbar", but on "Main Toolbar " (one of the thirteen offered toolbars to edit). Ugh. It might sound silly, but up until yesterday, I didn't even know that you could remove them.
I hope this didn't sound to much like a rant, as I really just tried to bring across my point as a user and developer, why I prefer simple and "designed" interfaces, to "generic" interfaces. It's not like I'm completely against customization, but Epiphany for example let's me practically customize it more (and much faster) than Konqueror, at least in those areas which matter for a web browser. And when I'm done with Konqueror, I can start doing the same with every other single application, let alone the other "modes" of Konqueror... It's just no joy.
Again, I hope this all didn't sound to harsh. :) I just like that you actually care for the issues of other people (with KDE) instead of shooting them down, so I wanted to give you some more insight on some of my particular issues.
Also I _do_ think that KDE is indeed not much worse than Windows for example (in terms of usability) and it hasn't gotten worse over time. It's just that my expectations have changed because of new and cleaner interfaces like GNOME 2 or OS X. KDE hasn't really changed since a long time and no interface will feel modern forever.
[1] This problem isn't exclusive to the font size buttons of course. All buttons suffer from using the tooltips as label, thus making text below icons really really ugly. Text alongside icons is even more useless, more useful would be a "priority text" option as in GNOME and Windows, which would only show labels besides commonly used buttons (for example the back button of a browser).
By Spark at Sun, 2004/01/04 - 6:00am
Re: Fintsize
Mozilla has had this for ages (press -<+> or Ctrl-<->). Although sometimes I'd also like to have buttons for it.
By Daniel at Mon, 2004/01/05 - 6:00am
Re: gooeylinux
>The 'up' button really does not make a whole lot of sense in the context of web-pages.
It does actually, it provides me a good way to go back to the main page when i'm completely lost in a complex site.
Re: gooeylinux
For example, it provides an easy way to go back to the discussion after posting a comment in the dot. Just go up a few stages using the [up] button and i'm back in the mean thread :)
Re: gooeylinux
Although I like KDE very much, I think Konquerors menus and context menus are still overloaded in CVS.
Also kcontrol needs much more cleaning up: Try to set up for example the MacOS like menubar at the top *as a child panel*. You have to make the changes in (at least two, I'm at work so I can't check in the moment) different dialogs and in the right order. Why do we have at all two different ways of getting the menu at the top of the screen? Why can I set the Fonts for the Desktop at different places (Configure Fonts and Desktop Settings)?
KDE is very mature and my favourite DE, but it needs more cleanup.
By furanku at Fri, 2004/01/02 - 6:00am
Re: gooeylinux
> Although I like KDE very much, I think Konquerors menus and
It always leads to a lot of discussion when a certain
The toolbar editor makes it really easy to add or remove options
For example: I for one *never* use any of the following entries
I guess a lot of people would cry out if any of the entries
I think if such an option were available a menu that's
By cm at Fri, 2004/01/02 - 6:00am
Re: gooeylinux
And there's another thing that might be improved:
It would be good to have *verbose* explanations for
One example from KHTML:
If those actions appear in their own context
By cm at Fri, 2004/01/02 - 6:00am
Re: gooeylinux
>One example from KHTML:
If a german string is unclear to you, please inform the German team about it.
>Two from KMail:
Re: gooeylinux
Thanks for your answer, but:
I just wanted to point out that the user finds it hard or even impossible to determine their meaning if they're presented *out of context* in the shortcut editor or the toolbar editor. There is no way to get an additional description of the action.
IMHO it's nothing that the translators can solve. It's the same string that's used in the menu and in the shortcut/toolbar editor (the "name" of the action). Making the action *and* the context clear in a single phrase would result in monster menu entries that would even be redundant:
It would become something like
This kind of long menu entries is nothing I would want. So I'm for adding a verbose description that can be displayed where the developer thinks it's useful (IMHO in the toolbar and shortcut editors).
By cm at Sun, 2004/01/04 - 6:00am
Re: gooeylinux
To make it easier to build your personal Desktop KDE should something have like a program registration. If you build KDE from the source you have all applications installed by default. Ok, you can modify the Makefile but...
It would be nice to have a minimal set of default apps and a big pool of installable programs. I (personally) do not use programs like kreate, cdbakeoven, ShowImg, Gwenview... and they i.e. expand Konqis action-menu or register unwanted mimetype relationships. I hope as part of the debian desktop alliance we will see something like this - but this is a task of an integrated desktop and _not_ distribution specific work.
Talking about KDE control center. Is not easy or not possible to make everyone happy with such a "beast" ;-) Maybe the whole problem is the tree-gui. Maybe the find-view is better for the unexperienced user and leave the structured treeview for the pro(?) If you make the treeview vertically smaller and horizontally deeper e.g. via tap-dialogs this does not make it easier. Hiding and using a "more..."-button is often better to use, like the kde-printing-window (btw... why is there the choose-printing-system-part not part of the hidden setup??)
Using KDE-CVS as my daily system on my "play-machine" I think KDE-3.2 will be a great release. There are still some problems with khtml and JS; knotes and kpilot; kwallet and some regressions if you use a webpage with a tabbed-Konqi or with a normal one. For me its hard to write good bug reports about these glitches. Maybe we need a bug-hunting-and-report-writing-session before the final bug fixing ;-)
All the best for 2004
By Thorsten Schnebeck at Fri, 2004/01/02 - 6:00am
Re: gooeylinux
I compiled and installed KDE 3.2 Beta2 and I loved it. I really like plastik. I think it is professional and smooth. I like the configurable cursor. I think Konquror looks great. I also enjoyed Universal side bar.That is a great addition.
I would like to see a KDE compile time configurator to decide what gets compiled and what does not. This can be simillar to Kernel Configurator. I know it is possible to change Konstruct Makefiles with appropriate configure flags. But for that to work I will need to know ever changing list of KDE modules and reinsert all the options with every new release of KDE. How about having a top level .config file for Konstruct with all the optional modules which exist within KDE as a beginning point?
By Umesh Sirsiwal at Fri, 2004/01/02 - 6:00am
Re: gooeylinux
> It would be nice to have a minimal set of default apps
Why is that? To save harddisk space worth about EUR 0.20 (assuming 200MB) ?
If you calculate only EUR 15 per hour and you save only 3 minutes because you don't have to install some application you need, you already saved EUR 0.75 which already paid for that additional harddisk space.
By Roland at Fri, 2004/01/02 - 6:00am
Re: gooeylinux
to reduce menu clutter and things like 'potato guy' which does seem like bloat to me
By ac at Fri, 2004/01/02 - 6:00am
Re: gooeylinux
Hey, my niece likes him!
By Roberto Alsina at Fri, 2004/01/02 - 6:00am
Potato Guy :(
It is a wonderful app, still there seems to be no active development on it :(
By Random at Fri, 2004/01/02 - 6:00am
Re: Potato Guy :(
Well, I think that would be a serious deviation into grounds of overconfigurability. Imagine the tech support problems!
When someone calls the suppor hotline for a potatoguy problem now, you can tell him how to put the nose in the face, and roughly the standard position for it, as well as what you mean by nose, describing the graphics in some detail.
How do you explain that what you describe about a grey-brown ovoid should also apply to a green dragon? No, it would be almost, dare I say it, evil HCI design.
If your irreflexive proposal was adopted, confused three-year-olds the world over would have tears in their eyes. Why would a dragon need a nose? It already has a fire-breathing muzzle! How scary would a eyeless, noseless, mouthless dragon look like? Do you want this app to be the cause of hundreds of nightmares?
Besides, imagine the bloat! An additional "theme" would probably use about 50KB of disk storage, wasting over half a cent worth of HD, not to mention over one thousandth of a penny in bandwidth charges.
And the configuration issues! A new control panel applet?
No. As Eugenia loli-Queru from OSnews.com always says, "defaults matter", and in this case, the potatohead default is correct, sufficient and perfect.
Maybe after KDE gets its regedit-like app we can entertain a few keys that would tweak, MAYBE, the number of ears available, or the width/height ratio of the potato, but not further.
Please, avoid madness, let potatoguy stay in its current perfection cocoon.
By Roberto Alsina at Fri, 2004/01/02 - 6:00am
Re: Potato Guy :(
WOW! Sorry Mr. Potato guy! I didn't know you have so many friends! ;)
I want to be your friend also Mr. Potato, I'm sorry about what I said :)
Still then, someone ought to update you a litlle eh?
By ac at Fri, 2004/01/02 - 6:00am
Re: Potato Guy :(
I am not, nor have I any affiliation with the potato guy.
By Roberto Alsina at Sat, 2004/01/03 - 6:00am
Re: Potato Guy :(
He's talking to me...
By Potato Guy at Sun, 2004/01/04 - 6:00am
Re: Potato Guy :(
Oh, you sure are an ambitious little vegetable, aren´t you?
By Roberto Alsina at Sun, 2004/01/04 - 6:00am
Re: Potato Guy :(
hi suse i do not no how to get to konuror web browser bye
By max at Sun, 2004/01/18 - 6:00am
Re: gooeylinux
I agree with this. Just like the toolbars are configurable, the context menus should be. See http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66119
By claes at Fri, 2004/01/02 - 6:00am
Re: gooeylinux
Thanks for pointing that out!
By cm at Sat, 2004/01/03 - 6:00am
Re: gooeylinux
I think that is a really good idea. This should also be true for the K menu also, which is full of junk (for me!) that I don't need.
I don't know what the best way to do this would be, and it may well be different for the context menu and the K menu. Ideally though, some way to make an edit right there and then, without a big song and dance about it.
By Dominic Chambers at Fri, 2004/01/02 - 6:00am
Overloaded context menus
> I think Konquerors menus and context menus are still overloaded in CVS.
Well, I don't know how the CVS version looks like - but what I have seen on the latest screen shots proofs that. I am neither a KDE associate or a developer. Just an idea from a user point of view: I wonder why most KDE developers forgot about tear-offs. That would be so cute in particular for the konqueror context menus. Non-standard features that are still necessary to include could be grouped in submenus and those should have tear-offs. The context menu will be slim and nice to look at. Advanced users can pop-up permanent submenus utilizing tear-offs for easy access. The problem that the mouse-press-position is unknown for these menus can be solved by using the selected text/file/whatever.
This is something that really bothers me since 3.1: I believe the last tear-off can be found in one menu of konsole (this is not a request to remove that, too)! I have the impression that most developers made some hacks when filling the menus and simply removed the tear-offs because they didn't care for signals to en-/disable the items of the edit menu when the selection changes. Of course, it is easier to redefine the menu only when it is going to be opened and to check at this time for disabled items. Seems that the Gnome developers do a better job in this regard.
Please, KDE developers: Insert them again whereever you can! In particular the Kmenu is such inefficient since the tear-offs are gone that I am thinking about a switch to GXXXE or a rewrite of my own. Tear-offs are definitely _my_ way of working efficiently.
And yes: I know of the option in kcontrol - hopefully it is a SuSE bug.
By Sebastian at Mon, 2004/01/05 - 6:00am
Re: gooeylinux
The reviewer didn't like KDE before he started, and still doesn't like it. Although some of the features are very good.
By Derek Kite at Sat, 2004/01/03 - 6:00am
I think you'll find that the reviewer at the "pycs" site is our old friend Roberto Alsina.
By taj at Fri, 2004/01/02 - 6:00am
Re: "pycs"
Ahem. And I even mentioned it there ;-)
By Roberto Alsina at Fri, 2004/01/02 - 6:00am
Re: "pycs"
And it crashed. Oh well :-P
By Roberto Alsina at Fri, 2004/01/02 - 6:00am
Re: "pycs"
Is anybody else having problems? I am using a squid proxy and am being denied
By a.c. at Fri, 2004/01/02 - 6:00am
Re: "pycs"
Same problem here ;'(
The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server.
Roverte, can you please fix the server or mirror the article?
By Niek at Fri, 2004/01/02 - 6:00am
Re: "pycs"
I am on vacation. On the beach. Drinking alcohol. No access to the original copy right now.
However, pycs is back up, so you should be able to read it now. That proxy error happens every once in a while when the PyCS server crashes or stops for some reason, because it´s reverse-proxyed and you access teh prxy that can´t read the page.
By Roberto Alsina at Sat, 2004/01/03 - 6:00am
pet peeve
i generally find reviews, good bad and ugly, interesting to read if only because of the groupthink they tend to display. spending time listening to people of various background quickly gives one pretty good impressions of what needs to be addressed for the next release(s).
however, one thing that drives me to distraction without fail is when the writer says that some particular thing sucks but doesn't ever say which particular thing or why. as an example, the gooeylinux.org review says that "The error screens in KDE are pretty horrible". Ooook. which error screens? the ones that appear when an app crashes? or the error boxes in kmail? or in konqueror? or ...... where?! it's a little frustrating to know that someone has seen something that might need improvement, but not know what that thing actually is.
if you're going to write a review and want to complain about something, provide specifics about what you are complaining about. Eugenia at osnews.com usually provides screenshots of these things, which is rather nice, but even a bit of specifics in the text goes a long ways.
By Aaron J. Seigo at Fri, 2004/01/02 - 6:00am
Re: pet peeve
Look on the bright side, a bad 'previewer' is almost always without clue and most things he/she says hover around in clueless space. The bad thing is that, generaly, the clueless 'preview' reader has no clue to begin with and can spread the 'clueless stuff'. So, looking on the bad side, the bright side is not so bright after all. But look on the bright side, if you dont realize the bad side in the first place, you wont notice the bad side, but the bad side of that is that you never see the bright side. Yeah!
By ac at Fri, 2004/01/02 - 6:00am
Re: pet peeve
I guess he means the error message which http://www.gooeylinux.org/bensjunk/kde/c_c_error1.png shows inside the screenshot collection without index to which he pointed in the first comment to his own story.
By Anonymous at Fri, 2004/01/02 - 6:00am
Re: pet peeve
ah.. i didn't bother to read the comments.. looking at that link, there are two screenshots there named *error*.png, though only one is actually an error. so now i know what he's referring to: the various dialogs that pop up in various apps. i'm sure those two boxes he found heinous enough to make screenshots of caused him all sorts of problems; we probably owe him 10 seconds of his life back. ;-) they are definitely cosmetic issues that users don't need to be bothered with, but not quite as interesting as it might have been...
now to figure out what he meant by the all the other vague statements in his article...
By Aaron J. Seigo at Fri, 2004/01/02 - 6:00am
Re: pet peeve
This is why governmental evaluations of desktops systems are also fruitful for FLOSS development. Even when the Government decides against KDE/Linux we benefit from the input. All issues that we the reason for the non-adoption of KDe in the German Parliament are now resolved. It is important to define problems and resolve them. Don't complain, fix it.
By elektroschock at Fri, 2004/01/02 - 6:00am
KDE Packages! three cheers 3.2!!!
I am Using KDE 3.1.94 on Mandrake 9.2 base systems. It is pretty cool. But I believe other than Keramik style all styles need to be in a separate packages and number of games in the default game packages also need to be reduced. I think Patience, Klicketty, Smile and two or three logic/strategy games are way more than cool to be included in the default packages. Otherwise we should have option to choose which package I can Install. Actually Carefully packaging tools will reduce amount of downloads and amount of time it takes to compile. I have tried to compile QT with the following options -mcpu=pentium3 -mmmx -msse -fpmath=sse,387 but it does not work. Although ENtire KDE packages have been compiled with this option.I think make apidox need to be part of default make rather than a separate option and should have different option to exclude building apidox.
By S. Mamun Raihan at Tue, 2004/01/06 - 6:00am
Plastik is very nice. One problem though: I think the difference between a pressed button and an unpressed button is too small. In the taskbar it is somewhat hard to see what window is active since there is so little contrast between the buttons. I think the contrast should be sligthly increased to improve this.
By claes at Fri, 2004/01/02 - 6:00am
Re: Plastik
Plastik also makes no use of the contrast slide available in the color setting as of now. Before Plastik becomes default this should be changed and then could also be used to improve the contrast in the future.
By Datschge at Fri, 2004/01/02 - 6:00am
A review
Let me right my own review about KDE.
KDE has many buttons, but this means that it is very configurable, which might make your day difficult, if you do not know how to move around. This is a problem only you use KDE once, however.
I do not understand why people like Gnome.... because of "Start here" button .. and so if you click on it you will a find a very few settings, the basics. Are they happy with it? I am not... I was told, and in my work I realized that it is important to pay attention to the details. My advisor is telling me to do a merticulous job and this IS what KDE is about.
If you can not get around because of all these buttons, then you can use the "configure toolbar" option to remove some of these buttons, but apparentlly the reviewers do not know it.
To summarize:
I am using KDE since version 2.1 (Redhat 5 or 6), I fully trust the developers of KDE and I know that they will not dissapoint me.
Keep up the good work.,
By Vasilis at Fri, 2004/01/02 - 6:00am
Re: A review
Don't forget that you can set up a separate user account to run KDE 3.2, instead of installing it system-wide. I think this means you can't use emerge, however, which DOES install things system-wide.
By Michael Pyne at Fri, 2004/01/02 - 6:00am
Start here
This guy doesn't know that ~/Desktop was standardized by freedesktop.org, then Gnome drops gmc and introduced Nautilus, with its own uncompatible desktop files.
This is indeed an ugly review... A person that knows nothing about the thing he is reviewing (besides he plainly dislikes him) can't be taken seriously.
Anyway, at random he scores a few points...
By Julio Cesar Gazquez at Sat, 2004/01/03 - 6:00am
CC Usability
What is the difference between keyboard shortcuts and Khotkeys?
By Andre at Fri, 2004/01/02 - 6:00am
Re: CC Usability
There is also an option "keyboard" under periphals...
By Andre at Fri, 2004/01/02 - 6:00am
Re: CC Usability
Keyboard shortcuts usually depend on specific applications while khotkeys allows you to add fully customized shortcuts including mouse gestures independent of applications (ie. also usable for non-KDE apps if they give eg. cli access to their commands, eg. you could control xmms with mouse gestures when using khotkeys).
By Datschge at Tue, 2004/01/06 - 6:00am
I dont understand all this nagging on KDE
I also think that many of the reviewers are biased against KDE. I just dont understand why!
There is also a lot of talk about to many menuitems and buttons. Have a look at the attached snapshot. Yeah too many buttons:-)
And another note to the amateur of a reviewer... 256Mb RAM on a 2 GHz machine hi hi hi. Get a life. Why have a machine with that processor when you're running on SWAP? Dont tell me that GNOME does not use most of the RAM. It does here so why should it not there?
By Jarl E. Gjessing at Sat, 2004/01/03 - 6:00am
Re: I dont understand all this nagging on KDE
The guy is reviewing the "default" kde setup so that means all of it and he's complaining that they include too many apps in the whole thing. Just because the guy isn't as rich as you he doesn't have a life? I only have 384mb of ram, take your best shot. People have different preferences, deal with it
By Michael Douglas at Sat, 2004/01/03 - 6:00am
Re: I dont understand all this nagging on KDE
i have 1.5 gig ram , so lets meet in the middle at 768 mb.
By chris at Sat, 2004/01/03 - 6:00am


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Thomas brothers punished by Mashantuckets
Mashantucket — In voting last week to "banish" Michael and Steven Thomas, the former Mashantucket Pequot leaders convicted of corruption, the tribe's elders council followed tribal by-laws that call for such punishment.
But the practical effect of the votes remained unclear Monday to some tribal members, none of whom would speak on the record.
Michael Thomas, the former tribal chairman, is currently serving an 18-month sentence in federal prison. His younger brother, Steven, a former tribal treasurer, will be allowed to continue living on the reservation and working at the tribe's Foxwoods Resort Casino, according to a notice of the action taken against him.
One tribal member called the terms of Steven Thomas' banishment "ludicrous" and unlike any ever previously imposed by the elders council. A tribal spokesman did not respond to requests for comment.
Notices of the banishments, dated Friday, were obtained by The Day.
According to the notice pertaining to Michael Thomas, the elders council voted Wednesday to banish him "from the Mashantucket (Western) Pequot Reservation and all tribal lands."
Michael Thomas was convicted by a jury in July of embezzling more than $100,000 from the tribe by misusing a tribe-issued credit card between 2007 and 2009, a period during which he was chairman. He reported to prison in January.
A separate notice says the elders council voted to banish Steven Thomas from the reservation for one year "with the exception of his home located on the Reservation, to/from his place of employment (Foxwoods), and any location that is required by his employment."
Steven Thomas, who resigned as treasurer before pleading guilty to a single count of theft from the tribe, admitted in court that he had falsified time cards while working for the tribe's Department of Natural Resources Protection. He was sentenced last month to two years' probation, the first three months of which were to be served in home confinement.
He also was ordered to repay the tribe $177,600, his 2007 salary.
While awaiting sentencing, Steven Thomas was hired as Foxwoods' manager of tribal and Native American relations. According to a job description, the position is involved in carrying out the Mashantucket Tribal and Native American Preference Law, which requires employers on the tribe's reservation to afford preference in employment opportunities to qualified Mashantucket tribal members, their spouses and members of other tribes, in that order.
In other Mashantucket Pequot banishment cases, tribal members have been ordered off the reservation and forced to surrender privileges of tribal membership. In the past, that meant forfeiting the monthly distributions of Foxwoods revenues that tribal members once received. Such payments have been discontinued.
One of last week's banishment notices indicated that another tribal member, Malik Nunn, also had been banished and that two other individuals, Bryon McClellan and Ahmad Green, had been "excluded" from the reservation.
Nunn was sentenced earlier this year in New London Superior Court to five years in prison followed by five years of special parole in connection with an armed robbery in April 2013.
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