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Kevin Pollak Vampire Web-Series 'Vamped Out' Debuts On Babelgum
By The Movie God | @ | Monday, April 12th, 2010 at 9:07 pm
Popular actor/comedian Kevin Pollak has a new web-exclusive comedy series called Vamped Out, and it has debuted on the website Babelgum today.
The series is about a documentary filmmaker who follows around a real, live vampire who's trying to make it as an actor. Unfortunately, he can't even land the roles of characters who are themselves vampires.
Pollak (Grumpy Old Men, The Usual Suspects) make his directorial debut on the series, and will also star as the filmmaker. Joining him is Jason Antoon (Contact, Minority Report) as the vampire subject, Samm Levine (Freaks & Geeks, Inglorious Basterds) and Seana Kofoed (Broadway's Proof, Men in Trees).
Click on over to the other side to check out a trailer for the new web series Vamped Out, and be sure to head to Babelgum to check out the first episode now!
This isn't the first time that Pollak has dabbled in the world of web-exclusive content. He previously hosted Kevin Pollak's Chat Show, his own mini talk show with lots of special guests.
Here's what the actor had to say about the new show:
The 'Chat Show' has really made me aware of how incredible the Web community is to interact and support high-quality and funny content. With 'Vamped Out', I wanted to create a series that would truly appeal to fans of comedy no matter what platform", said Pollak. "We chose to collaborate with Babelgum because it was a perfect match in terms of smart comedy and allowed us to share our series with an incredible audience of comedy lovers.
The first episode is very much worth a peek and as you can tell by the trailer, it looks like it's going to get very interesting over the six-episode run. As you all know, vampires are as popular as they've ever been with shows like True Blood and The Vampire Diaries as well as movies like The Twilight Saga all owning their own army of faithful fans. Vamped Out looks to add to all of that with its own funny and unique take on the mythical creatures of the night.
"Vamped" Out is a weekly series taken from a documentary by award-winning filmmaker Elliot Finke (Pollak). During the spring and summer of 2009, Elliot shot what he believed was the first documentary of an actual vampire. While in post production, he went missing. The series follows a modern day 35-year-old struggling actor/Vampire (Antoon) trying to make a living in Los Angeles. Pollak follows the Vampire as he continuously gets rejected for the role he was literally born to play.
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Q: Difference between winsock and linux sockets I'm developing an FTP-like program to download a large number of small files onto an Xbox 360 devkit (which uses Winsock), and porting it to Playstation3 (also a devkit, and uses linux AFAIK).  The program uses BSD-style sockets (TCP).  Both of the programs communicate with the same server, downloading the same data.  The program iterates through all the files in a loop like this:
for each file
    send(retrieve command)
    send(filename)
    receive(response)
    test response
    receive(size)
    receive(data)

On the Xbox 360 implementation, the whole download takes 1:27, and the time between the last send and first receive takes about 14 seconds.  This seems quite reasonable to me.
The Playstation3 implementation takes 4:01 for the same data.  The bottleneck seems to be between the last send and first receive, which takes up 3:43 of that time.  The network and disk times are both significantly less than the Xbox 360.
Both these devkits are on the same switch as my PC, which does the file serving, and there is no other traffic on said switch.
I've tried setting the TCP_NODELAY flag, which didn't change things significantly.  I've also tried setting the SO_SNDBUF/SO_RCVBUF to 625KB, which also didn't significantly affect the time.
I'm assuming that the difference lies between the TCP/IP stack implementations between Winsock and linux; is there some socket option that I could set to make the linux implementation behave more like Winsock?  Is there something else I'm not accounting for?
The only solution looks to be to rewrite it so that it sends all the file requests together, then receives them all.
Unfortunately, Sony's implementation does not have the TCP_CORK option, so I cannot say if that is the difference.

A: You want TCP_CORK. It'll prevent partial frames from being sent increasing throughput (at the expense of latency) - just like winsock.
int v,vlen;
v=1; vlen=sizeof(v);
setsockopt(fd, IPPROTO_TCP, TCP_CORK, &v, &vlen);

Set v=0 to flush the frames before receive:
int v,vlen;
v=0; vlen=sizeof(v);
setsockopt(fd, IPPROTO_TCP, TCP_CORK, &v, &vlen);

On most unixes you can improve your throughput further by using writev() or sendfile()...

A: Wireshark is your friend, sniff the wire -- look at the packets see how each is being sequenced and see if you can't spot the difference/problem.
On high latency links you really want to make sure you buffer as much as possible keeping each TCP packet maxed out.
Send coalesce is ususally a good idea.  It only triggers when there is more than one unacknowledged frame queued on the send side.  Typically you should ONLY disable this feature if you know what your doing and your system provides comprehensive buffering otherwise disabling it is certain to negativly effect system performance on high latency networks.
For highest throughput buffer demarc should be exact factors of path MTU.

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Q: Using jQuery to replace one tag with another Goal:
Using jQuery, I'm trying to replace all the occurrences of:
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with:

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My solution:
I got as far as the following,
$('code').replaceWith( "
" + $('code').html() + "
" );

The problem with my solution:
but the issues is that it's replacing everything between the (second, third, fourth, etc)"code" tags with the content between the first "code" tags.
e.g.
 A
 B
 C

becomes

 A

 A

 A

I think I need to use "this" and some sort of function but I'm afraid I'm still learning and don't really understand how to piece a solution together.

A: This is much nicer:
$('code').contents().unwrap().wrap('
');

Though admittedly Felix Kling's solution is approximately twice as fast:

A: Building up on Felix's answer.
$('code').replaceWith(function() {
    var replacement = $('
').html($(this).html());
    for (var i = 0; i < this.attributes.length; i++) {
        replacement.attr(this.attributes[i].name, this.attributes[i].value);
    }
    return replacement;
});

This will reproduce the attributes of the code tags in the replacement pre tags.
Edit: This will replace even those code tags that are inside the innerHTML of other code tags.
function replace(thisWith, that) {
    $(thisWith).replaceWith(function() {
        var replacement = $('<' + that + '>').html($(this).html());
        for (var i = 0; i < this.attributes.length; i++) {
            replacement.attr(this.attributes[i].name, this.attributes[i].value);
        }
        return replacement;
    });
    if ($(thisWith).length>0) {
        replace(thisWith, that);
    }
}

replace('code','pre');

A: As of jQuery 1.4.2:
$('code').replaceWith(function(i,html) {
  return $('
').html(html);
});

You can then select the new elements:
$('pre').css('color','red');

Source: http://api.jquery.com/replaceWith/#comment-45493689
jsFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/k2swf/16/

A: It's correct that you'll always obtain the first code's contents, because $('code').html() will always refer to the first element, wherever you use it.
Instead, you could use .each to iterate over all elements and change each one individually:
$('code').each(function() {
    $(this).replaceWith( "
" + $(this).html() + "
" );
    // this function is executed for all 'code' elements, and
    // 'this' refers to one element from the set of all 'code'
    // elements each time it is called.
});

A: If you were using vanilla JavaScript you would:

*

*Create the new element

*Move the children of old element into the new element

*Insert the new element before the old one

*Remove the old element

Here is jQuery equivalent of this process:
$("code").each(function () {
    $("

").append(this.childNodes).insertBefore(this);
    $(this).remove();
});

Here is the jsperf URL:
http://jsperf.com/substituting-one-tag-for-another-with-jquery/7
PS: All solutions that use .html() or .innerHTML are destructive.

A: Another short & easy way:
$('code').wrapInner('
').contents();

A: You can pass a function to .replaceWith [docs]:
$('code').replaceWith(function(){
    return $("
", {html: $(this).html()});
});

Inside the function, this refers to the currently processed code element.
DEMO
Update: There is no big performance difference, but in case the code elements have other HTML children, appending the children instead of serializing them feels to be more correct:
$('code').replaceWith(function(){
    return $("
").append($(this).contents());
});

A: Try this:
$('code').each(function(){

    $(this).replaceWith( "
" + $(this).html() + "
" );

});

http://jsfiddle.net/mTGhV/

A: How about this?
$('code').each(function () {
    $(this).replaceWith( "
" + $(this).html() + "
" );
});

A: All answers given here assume (as the question example indicates) that there are no attributes in the tag. If the accepted answer is ran on this:
A

if will be replaced with

A

What if you want to keep the attributes as well - which is what replacing a tag would mean... ? This is the solution:
$("code").each( function(){
    var content = $( "
" );

    $.each( this.attributes, function(){
         content.attr( this.name, this.value );
    } );

    $( this ).replaceWith( content );
} );

A: $('code').each(function(){
    $(this).replaceWith( "
" + $(this).html()  + "
" );
    });

Best and clean way.

A: You could use jQuery's html function. Below is a sample the replaces a code tag with a pre tag while retaining all of the attributes of the code.
    $('code').each(function() {
        var temp=$(this).html();
        temp=temp.replace("code","pre");
        $(this).html(temp);
    });

This could work with any set of html element tags that needed to be swapped while retaining all the attributes of the previous tag.

A: Made jquery plugin, maintaining attributes also.
$.fn.renameTag = function(replaceWithTag){
  this.each(function(){
        var outerHtml = this.outerHTML;
        var tagName = $(this).prop("tagName");
        var regexStart = new RegExp("^<"+tagName,"i");
        var regexEnd = new RegExp("</"+tagName+">$","i")
        outerHtml = outerHtml.replace(regexStart,"<"+replaceWithTag)
        outerHtml = outerHtml.replace(regexEnd,"</"+replaceWithTag+">");
        $(this).replaceWith(outerHtml);
    });
    return this;
}

Usage:
$('code').renameTag('pre')


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Vintage Adventures: Late Flowering Lust
We may not be on stage but this has meant we've had the chance to flick through our #VintageAdventures archives and land upon Matthew Bourne's Late Flowering Lust (1993) filmed twenty seven years ago for the BBC.
Read Matt's introduction to the Late Flowering Lust below and see if you're able to spot him amongst other New Adventures legends in the video above...
Matthew Bourne's introduction to Late Flowering Lust:
"What a glorious summer it was in 1993 when we made this unique and beautiful film starring the late Sir Nigel Hawthorne. Late Flowering Lust was Nigel's idea born out of his love for the poetry of Sir John Betjeman which had been wittily set to music by the brilliant Jim Parker.
It was also Nigel's idea, along with his partner, Trevor Bentham, to ask a quirky little dance company called Adventures In Motion Pictures (the former name of New Adventures) to collaborate on the project and for me to choreograph my first and only original film for television (something that is extremely rare even today).
The film was to be directed by David Hinton and was shot on location at beautiful Bennington Lordship in Stevenage (also recently used extensively in the BBC's Summer of Rockets by Poliakoff).
We rehearsed both in the studio and at the location so that we could make real use of things that you could never recreate on stage (a swimming pool, rolling hills, concrete steps, tennis court, golf course etc) so it was the closest I've ever come to creating something akin to a musical film shot on location like On The Town or The Sound Of Music.
It was truly a wonderful creative experience made all the more poignant now with the loss of not only Sir Nigel, but also the actor who played our host, Jonathan Cecil and of course two of our beloved New Adventures dancers Simon Murphy (who died just over a year after this was made of an AIDS related illness) and the legendary Scott Ambler.
It was also one of the last things that I did as a dancer and you can spot that other New Adventures legend such as Etta Murfitt as one of the "Bright Young Things" along with Ally Fitzpatrick, Andrew George, Maxine Fone and Rosie Allen.
I have never seen anything like this film on television either before or since. It really is a completely unique blend of music, poetry, dance, actor/dancers and barely a word spoken for one hour (apart from Nigel's voice over of Betjeman's musicalised poems).
It's also funny and nostalgic, gorgeous to look at and ultimately very touching. Still as original as it was 27 years ago... Enjoy!"

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Hakea nitida — кустарник, вид рода  семейства . Эндемик южных районов округов Уитбелт, Большой Южный и Голдфилдс-Эсперанс в Западной Австралии. Цветёт с июля по сентябрь.

Ботаническое описание
Hakea nitida — вертикальный кустарник высотой от 1 до 3 м. Цветёт с июля по сентябрь и даёт бело-кремовые и жёлтые цветы. Растение имеет голые веточки, которые не являются сизыми. Плоские жёсткие листья субпетиолатные от узкоэллиптической до яйцевидной формы. Листья имеют длину от 1,5 до 9 см и ширину от 10 до 30 мм и узкую клиновидность. Соцветия — пазушные или терминальные на коротких побегах, состоят из 16—36 цветков. Образуют косо-яйцевидные плоды длиной от 2,5 до 3,5 см и шириной от 1,5 до 2,5 см. Плоды с чёрными пустулами, с рогами длиной около 6 мм. Семена узко яйцевидные, с крыльями, широкими по одной стороне семенного тела и узкими по другой. Стручки семян напоминают бородавчатых жаб или лягушек, дающих растению необычное общее название — «лягушачья хакея».

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Вид Hakea nitida был впервые официально описан шотландским ботаником Робертом Броуном в 1810 году в Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. Видовой эпитет — от латинского слова nitidus, означающих «яркий», «сияющий» или «элегантный», относящееся к глянцевым листьям хакеи.

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Lenovo Mixed Reality Headset Will Be Called Mirage
Name of Windows 10 Mixed Reality headset by Lenovo revealed by trademark application.
It has been known since late June that Lenovo will be joining HP, Acer and Asus in creating its own version of the Windows 10 Mixed Reality headset. A recent Trademark application by the Chinese tech giant has revealed a probable name for the device – The Lenovo Mirage.
With the first wave of the development kits of the Mixed Reality (MR) headsets from Acer and HP have gone on sale through the Microsoft Store, with versions from Dell and ASUS expected to appear beside them soon. The Lenovo version of the headset is currently expected to be launched some time in late 2017.
The Trademark application for the Lenovo Mirage name was made earlier this month and is awaiting approval at the US Patent and Trademark office. Like the other Windows 10 MR devices, the Lenovo Mirage will act primarily as a virtual reality (VR) headset, though it has been confirmed as having front-facing stereo cameras so MR effects can be utilised. Analysts are expecting a retail price of around $300 (USD), which is in line with the HP and Acer devices, which are priced at $329 and $299 respectively.
Lenovo's ambitions with regards to MR/VR/AR go even further, however, since the company has also recently announced its plans to create an augmented reality (AR) headset called the daystAR and is planning on releasing a standalone headset based on the google Daydream.
Full specifications and a precise release date for the Lenovo Mirage have yet to be revealed, though it is expected that the device will have very similar spec to the HP and Acer versions, with minor differences, such as the HP unit's detachable cable.
VRFocus will continue to report on new developments regarding Lenovo's MR and AR devices as it becomes available.
Lenovo Mirage
Oculus Quest to get its Own Cybershoes
The Kickstarter launches before the end of 2020.
Unity to Launch Center of Excellence in Partnership with Veative Labs
The CoE will be built in India.
UK Nuclear Site Sellafield To Decommission Nuclear Material Via VR Controlled Robots
The virtual reality controlled robots will help to decommission used nuclear material
Fantastic Contraption Coming to PlayStation VR Spring 2017
Checkout the new trailer to see how the title works for PSVR.


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Лінійні крейсери типу «Амагі»  — серія з чотирьох лінійних крейсерів, запланованих для Імператорського флоту Японії у рамках програми «8-8»  на початку 1920-х років. Кораблі мали називатися «Амагі», «Акагі», «Атаго» та «Такао».

Конструкція
Конструкція «Амагі» була по суті подовженою версією лінкорів типу «Тоса», але з тоншим броньованим поясом і палубою, потужнішою силовою установкою та зміненим розташуванням допоміжного озброєння. Вони мали нести ту саму головну батарею з десяти 410 мм гармат і мали розвивати максимальну швидкість 30 вузлів.

Доля проєкту
Обмеження, накладені Вашингтонським морським договором 1922 року, не дозволили завершити кораблі як планувалося. Однак договір містив  дозвіл на переобладнання корпусів, які вже будувалися, на авіаносці. «Амагі» та «Акагі» були призначені для переобладнання, але землетрус пошкодив корпус «Амагі» так сильно, що корабель було списано на металобрухт. «Акагі» був завершений як авіаносець і успішн діяв складі Кідо Бутай під час Другої світової війни, взявши участь у японській атаці на Перл-Гарбор, перш ніж був потоплений у битві при Мідвеї.

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