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By airdvr, February 8, 2019 in Speakers Corner
Coreece 137
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February 11, 2019 (edited)
2 hours ago, billvon said:
Good. No one will actually pay 70% of their income, either - so the tax that's being proposed now is far lower than the one during the "greatest generation."
The greatest generation in the history of the world was in the 90s after the rich taxes dropped to their lowest level in 50 some years. The 90s were awesome, full of hope and opportunity. A kid could walk down the street and easily find at least 3 business willing to pay $10 bucks an hour for 40+ hours. A couple years ago, people were struggling to find 20 hours at $7.50/hr. Now they struggle to find 20-30 hours at $9.50. More people working less hours - Apparently that's what a good economy is these days - and that's been the idea since Obama's last term. War in the 90s for the most part seemed to be a thing of the past, or at least something that could be dealt with from the air with minimal casualties. . .then it all went to hell again.
Anyway, IMO high taxes in the 20s and then in the 40s-70s seemed to be investments for the "men that built America." Doubt that incentive exists as much today. I'm sure there will be plenty that will be happy to give that much away, but how many more will just say to hell with it, ultimately offsetting any difference?
Edited February 11, 2019 by Coreece
kallend 442
4 hours ago, Coreece said:
The greatest generation in the history of the world was in the 90s after the rich taxes dropped to their lowest level in 50 some years.
The greatest generation was in the '60s. You missed it.
BIGUN 209
10 hours ago, billvon said:
Your reply where you state "she is a threat." Not her proposals. Her.
Mea culpa. I phrased that poorly. It should have been something more along the lines of, "She is a threat because her proposals are a socialist's position."
Wait. I just went back and checked. What I said was, "The Democrat side of her is not a threat; it's the "As a Socialist;" she is a threat.
Meaning her socialist proposals.
Edited February 11, 2019 by BIGUN
To correct the meaning or intent.
Phil1111 166
3 hours ago, kallend said:
Don't let his age or inexperience be held against him.
Pourquoi? Today the US has the lowest unemployment on record. Stock markets are at record levels, both in absolute and for P/E. It is building the most powerful military in world history with two Ford class carriers purchased at the same time last December.
Although G.W. Bush did sign the NAFTA agreement which superseded the US-Canada trade agreement. The accord which boosted trade three fold in 22 years. BTW thats the same agreement which trump has stated to be the worst agreement in US history. Even worse than Louisiana Purchase and Alaska purchase. If he is to believed.
BillyVance 30
Ocasio-Cortez doesn't scare me. She's literally a dumb ass whose ideas are so far out of whack all I can do is laugh at them.
Oh, and Ilhan Omar... Sometimes I wonder if she really thinks her comments through before spouting them. She decried the TSA agents not getting paid during the shutdown, but then advocates defunding Department of Homeland Security, which of course, TSA, the Secret Service, ICE and a whole bunch of other departments are a part of.
Sounds to me like she wants full access to the border for all immigrants, including those with bad intentions.
28 minutes ago, BillyVance said:
Billy, man, don't mess with my free stuff. Tell ya what, we all get "free education and guaranteed housing and guaranteed economic security" and we can all
GO BACK TO SCHOOL!
It'll be absolutely EPIC! We'll have the best frat house on campus! Hot tubs, vibrating beds, hot and cold running empty-headed sorority chicks, the sky is the limit! And Occasional-Cortex is gonna get us that FOR FREE!
Edited February 11, 2019 by Iago
DJL 231
On 2/8/2019 at 7:36 PM, billvon said:
There's some serious irrational hate being thrown at AOC. A lot of right wingers are getting triggered. It will be an interesting few years.
It is pretty amazing that they've thrust her every action and agenda into the spotlight. She probably thanks them for this because otherwise she'd just be another freshman congresswoman with no clout.
Edited February 11, 2019 by DJL
4 minutes ago, DJL said:
It is pretty amazing that they've thrust her every action and agenda into the spotlight. She probably thanks them for this because otherwise she's just be another freshman congresswoman with no clout.
She took a page from the Trump Campaign Handbook. Get your mug into the media any way you can.
normiss 249
33 minutes ago, Iago said:
Except she has personally put forth about zero effort for any of the exposure - other than responding to it anyway.
billvon 553
The greatest generation in the history of the world was in the 90s after the rich taxes dropped to their lowest level in 50 some years. The 90s were awesome, full of hope and opportunity.
"In the history of the world?" Wow. Not the Renaissance? Not the American revolution? Not the end of World War II?
A kid could walk down the street and easily find at least 3 business willing to pay $10 bucks an hour for 40+ hours.
The grass was always greener when you were a kid. I remember that time as well; my sisters had just graduated from college and couldn't find jobs due to the recession.
1 hour ago, BillyVance said:
Sure, her ideas (from the ACTUAL resolution):
"Providing all people of the United States with — (i) high-quality health care; (ii) affordable, safe, and adequate housing; (iii) economic security; and (iv) access to clean water, clean air, healthy and affordable food, and nature."
"Providing resources, training, and high-quality education, including higher education, to all people of the United States."
You think this is "out of whack".
Clearly your (and the Republican) position is to DENY some Americans high-quality health care; affordable, safe, and adequate housing; economic security, access to clean water, clean air, healthy and affordable food, training, and high-quality education.
2 hours ago, BIGUN said:
Let's see if there are any other cases of "Her proposals are being attacked, but the left tells everyone that the right is attacking her." Right here we have Billy Vance claiming that "She's literally a dumb ass." Which, aside from the misuse of the literal, is another example of the right attacking her, not her ideas. She scares the piss out of them.
5 minutes ago, kallend said:
Clearly your (and the Republican) position is to DENY some Americans high-quality health care; affordable, safe, and adequate housing; economic security, access to clean water, clean air, healthy and affordable food, training, and high-quality education.
To be fair, he probably hasn't read it, and has relied on FOX News or the equivalent for his opinion. He may not take issue with the actual proposals.
11 minutes ago, kallend said:
Free stuff! Free stuff! I shouldn't have had to take twenty hours of core engineering and work twenty five hours a week in the dining hall to pay my rent and buy my pasta and Campbell's Pork N Beans! How was I so wrong?! All that should have been free! Forget all those late-night hours studying to keep that partial academic scholarship. All that crap should've been FREE so I could spend my time going out screwing sorority girls.
11 hours ago, Iago said:
My former roommates father worked for Southern Co and pioneered that company getting the EV-1 on employee lease-back to satisfy the fleet requirements. Fantastic car. If GM went ahead with the EV-2 series hybrid they could have owned that segment of the market before Elon even created PayPal.
I agree. Killing off the EV-1 was a huge mistake for GM.
Tesla will be either bankrupt or absorbed by another company by 2021 without another massive infusion of capital or rollling it into Space-X. Put options are still pretty cheap for Jan 2021, you should consider buying some.
Been hearing this for at least 8 years - and the shorts have been doing their very best to make this happen. Personally I am VERY glad I invested in them, and not a coal company. But to each their own.
I plan on making money on the concrete, iron, coal, coppper, and other metals/rare earths that are required to create those monstrosities to the sky called 2 MW wind turbines.
Might have to stick to rare earths. The rest of those materials aren't going to see much movement from renewables.
OK, to which Americans would YOU deny high-quality health care; affordable, safe, and adequate housing; economic security, access to clean water, clean air, healthy and affordable food, training, and high-quality education?
Please be specific.
17 minutes ago, billvon said:
Tesla short sellers are sitting on a paper loss of nearly $2 billion after stock rally
Tesla is most painful stock for short sellers in 2017
Traders short selling Tesla's soaring stock have lost $3.7 billion this year.
Since the beginning of 2016, Tesla is the fourth-worst performing U.S. short bet, and short-sellers have lost $4.70 billion on a net basis over that period, according to S3 data.
Its ok. Misery loves company. $10.4 billion in losses for short sellers in only three years. I only went back three years because there is no point in beating a dead battery.
It appears as if short sellers have lost more since Tesla was founded than the entire market cap of the company($52 billion).
Edited February 11, 2019 by Phil1111
gowlerk 657
Paul Ryan and company can answer that easily. Anyone who does not already have any or all of those things. It's America after all. If you have not either been born to these things, or have been able to claw your way into them, you obviously are not good enough to deserve them. Dog eat dog and survival of the fittest. But don't confuse that with evolution. God doesn't do evolution. She just takes care of the best people.
OK, to which Americans would YOU GUARANTEE high-quality health care; affordable, safe, and adequate housing; economic security, access to clean water, clean air, healthy and affordable food, training, and high-quality education?
Free stuff! Free stuff! I shouldn't have had to take twenty hours of core engineering . . .
Wait. Are you saying you are one of those elitist, out of touch ivory tower academics? No wonder! It's the salt of the earth types that don't have their noses in the air who are the REAL Americans. They don't need to attend any snooty, elitist colleges to tell them which side is up; they know what's right in their gut.
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6 hours ago, Iago said:
I asked first, so that was a really really LAME response, the kind of thing rushmc would throw up reflexively.
However, why is it that the USA cannot provide for its citizens the same quality of life as the Nordic countries manaage, as well as most of western Europe. Is the USA really so incapable?
(Besides, I took more core engineering than you did, far more, and I don't whine anything like as much about helping poor people as you do).
Edited February 11, 2019 by kallend
22 hours ago, kallend said:
There is nothing high quality about living in Socialism. History has proven this.
Then let's not do socialism but let's take care of:
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This article provides information about the communications aspects of Universal Serial Bus, USB:  Signaling, Protocols, Transactions.

Signaling (USB PHY)

Signaling rate (transmission rate)

The theoretical maximum data rate in USB 2.0 is 480 Mbit/s (60 MB/s) per controller and is shared amongst all attached devices. Some personal computer chipset manufacturers overcome this bottleneck by providing multiple USB 2.0 controllers within the southbridge.

In practice and including USB protocol overhead, rates of 320 Mbit/s (38 MB/s) are sustainable over a high-speed bulk endpoint. Throughput can be affected by additional bottlenecks, such as a hard disk drive as seen a in routine testing performed by CNet, where write operations to typical high-speed hard drives sustain rates of 25–30 MB/s, and read operations at 30–42 MB/s; this is 70% of the total available bus bandwidth. For USB 3.0, typical write speed is 70–90 MB/s, while read speed is 90–110 MB/s. Mask tests, also known as eye diagram tests, are used to determine the quality of a signal in the time domain. They are defined in the referenced document as part of the electrical test description for the high speed (HS) mode at 480 Mbit/s.

According to a USB-IF chairman, "at least 10 to 15 percent of the stated peak 60 MB/s (480 Mbit/s) of Hi-speed USB goes to overhead—the communication protocol between the card and the peripheral. Overhead is a component of all connectivity standards". Tables illustrating the transfer limits are shown in Chapter 5 of the USB spec.

For isochronous devices like audio streams, the bandwidth is constant and reserved exclusively for a given device. The bus bandwidth therefore only has an effect on the number of channels that can be sent at a time, not the speed or latency of the transmission.

 Low speed (LS) rate of 1.5 Mbit/s is defined by USB 1.0. It is very similar to full-bandwidth operation except each bit takes 8 times as long to transmit. It is intended primarily to save cost in low-bandwidth human interface devices (HID) such as keyboards, mice, and joysticks.
 Full speed (FS) rate of 12 Mbit/s is the basic USB data rate defined by USB 1.0. All USB hubs can operate at this speed.
 High speed (HS) rate of 480 Mbit/s was introduced in 2001 by USB 2.0. High-speed devices must also be capable of falling-back to full-speed as well, making high-speed devices backward compatible with USB 1.1 hosts. Connectors are identical for USB 2.0 and USB 1.x.
 SuperSpeed (SS) rate of 5.0 Gbit/s. The written USB 3.0 specification was released by Intel and its partners in August 2008. The first USB 3.0 controller chips were sampled by NEC in May 2009, and the first products using the USB 3.0 specification arrived in January 2010. USB 3.0 connectors are generally backward compatible, but include new wiring and full-duplex operation.
 SuperSpeed+ (SS+) rate of 10 Gbit/s is defined by USB 3.1 and 20 Gbit/s, using 2 lanes, is defined by USB 3.2.

Framing
The host controller divides bus time into 1 ms frames when using low speed (1.5 Mbit/s) and full speed (12 Mbit/s), or 125 µs microframes when using high speed (480 Mbit/s), during which several transactions may take place.

Electrical specification
USB signals are transmitted using differential signaling on a twisted-pair data cable with  characteristic impedance.

 Low speed (LS) and Full speed (FS) modes use a single data pair, labelled D+ and D−, in half-duplex. Transmitted signal levels are  for logical low, and  for logical high level. The signal lines are not terminated.
 High speed (HS) mode uses the same wire pair, but with different electrical conventions. Lower signal voltages of  for low and  for logical high level, and termination of 45 Ω to ground or 90 Ω differential to match the data cable impedance.
 SuperSpeed (SS) adds two additional pairs of shielded twisted wire (and new, mostly compatible expanded connectors). These are dedicated to full-duplex SuperSpeed operation. The half-duplex lines are still used for configuration.
 SuperSpeed+ (SS+) uses increased data rate (Gen 2×1 mode) and/or the additional lane in the Type-C connector (Gen 1×2 and Gen 2×2 mode).

A USB connection is always between a host or hub at the A connector end, and a device or hub's upstream port at the other end.

Signaling state
The host includes 15 kΩ pull-down resistors on each data line. When no device is connected, this pulls both data lines low into the so-called single-ended zero state (SE0 in the USB documentation), and indicates a reset or disconnected connection.

Line transition state
The following terminology is used to assist in the technical discussion regarding USB PHY signaling.

 The idle line state is when the device is connected to the host with a pull-up on either D+ (for full speed USB 1.x) or D− (for low speed USB 1.x), with transmitter output on both host and device is set to high impedance (hi-Z) (disconnected output).
 A USB device pulls one of the data lines high with a 1.5 kΩ resistor. This overpowers one of the 15 kΩ pull-down resistors in the host and leaves the data lines in an idle state called J.
 For USB 1.x, the choice of data line indicates what signal rates the device is capable of:
 full-bandwidth devices pull D+ high,
 low-bandwidth devices pull D− high.
 The K state has opposite polarity to the J state.

Line state (covering USB 1.x and 2.x)

Transmission
USB data is transmitted by toggling the data lines between the J state and the opposite K state. USB encodes data using the NRZI line coding:

 0 bit is transmitted by toggling the data lines from J to K or vice versa.
 1 bit is transmitted by leaving the data lines as-is.

To ensure that there are enough signal transitions for clock recovery to occur in the bitstream, a bit stuffing technique is applied to the data stream: an extra 0 bit is inserted into the data stream after any occurrence of six consecutive 1 bits. (Thus ensuring that there is a 0 bit to cause a transmission state transition.) Seven consecutively received 1 bits are always an error. For USB 3.0, additional data transmission encoding is used to handle the higher data rates required.

Transmission example on a full-speed device

 Synchronization Pattern A USB packet begins with an 8-bit synchronization sequence, 00000001₂. That is, after the initial idle state J, the data lines toggle KJKJKJKK. The final 1 bit (repeated K state) marks the end of the sync pattern and the beginning of the USB frame. For high-bandwidth USB, the packet begins with a 32-bit synchronization sequence.
 End of Packet (EOP) EOP is indicated by the transmitter driving 2 bit times of SE0 (D+ and D− both below max.) and 1 bit time of J state. After this, the transmitter ceases to drive the D+/D− lines and the aforementioned pull-up resistors hold it in the J (idle) state. Sometimes skew due to hubs can add as much as one bit time before the SE0 of the end of packet. This extra bit can also result in a bit stuff violation if the six bits before it in the CRC are 1s. This bit should be ignored by receiver.
 Bus Reset A USB bus is reset using a prolonged (10 to 20 milliseconds) SE0 signal.

High speed negotiation
A special protocol during reset, called chirping, is used to negotiate the high speed mode with a host or hub. A device that is high speed capable first connects as a full speed device (D+ pulled high), but upon receiving a USB RESET (both D+ and D− driven LOW by host for 10 to 20 ms) it pulls the D− line high, known as chirp K. This indicates to the host that the device is high bandwidth. If the host/hub is also HS capable, it chirps (returns alternating J and K states on D− and D+ lines) letting the device know that the hub operates at high bandwidth. The device has to receive at least three sets of KJ chirps before it changes to high speed terminations and begins high speed signaling. Because SuperSpeed and beyond uses wiring that is separate and additional to that used by earlier modes, such bandwidth negotiation is not required.

Clock tolerance is 480.00±0.24 Mbit/s, 12.00±0.03 Mbit/s, and 1.50±0.18 Mbit/s.

USB 3.0
USB 3 uses tinned copper stranded AWG-28 cables with  impedance for its high-speed differential pairs. Electrical signalling uses a linear feedback shift register and 8b/10b encoding with spread spectrum clocking, sent at a nominal 1 Volt with a 100 mV receiver threshold; the receiver uses equalization training. Packet headers are protected with CRC-16, while data payload is protected with CRC-32. Power up to 3.6 W may be used. One unit load in Super Speed mode is equal to 150 mA.

Protocol layer
During USB communication, data is transmitted as packets. Initially, all packets are sent from the host via the root hub, and possibly more hubs, to devices. Some of those packets direct a device to send some packets in reply.

After the sync field, all packets are made of 8-bit bytes, transmitted least-significant bit first. The first byte is a packet identifier (PID) byte. The PID is actually 4 bits; the byte consists of the 4-bit PID followed by its bitwise complement. This redundancy helps detect errors. (A PID byte contains at most four consecutive 1 bits, and thus never needs bit-stuffing, even when combined with the final 1 bit in the sync byte. However, trailing 1 bits in the PID may require bit-stuffing within the first few bits of the payload.)

Packets come in three basic types, each with a different format and CRC (cyclic redundancy check):

Handshake packets

Handshake packets consist of only a single PID byte, and are generally sent in response to data packets. Error detection is provided by transmitting four bits, which represent the packet type twice, in a single PID byte using complemented form. The three basic types are ACK, indicating that data was successfully received; NAK, indicating that the data cannot be received and should be retried; and STALL, indicating that the device has an error condition and cannot transfer data until some corrective action (such as device initialization) occurs.

USB 2.0 added two additional handshake packets: NYET and ERR. NYET indicates that a split transaction is not yet complete, while ERR handshake indicates that a split transaction failed. A second use for a NYET packet is to tell the host that the device has accepted a data packet, but cannot accept any more due to full buffers. This allows a host to switch to sending small PING tokens to inquire about the device's readiness, rather than sending an entire unwanted DATA packet just to elicit a NAK.

The only handshake packet the USB host may generate is ACK. If it is not ready to receive data, it should not instruct a device to send.

Token packets
Token packets consist of a PID byte followed by two payload bytes: 11 bits of address and a five-bit CRC. Tokens are only sent by the host, never a device. Below are tokens present from USB 1.0:
 IN and OUT tokens contain a seven-bit device number and four-bit function number (for multifunction devices) and command the device to transmit DATAx packets, or receive the following DATAx packets, respectively.
 IN token expects a response from a device. The response may be a NAK or STALL response or a DATAx frame. In the latter case, the host issues an ACK handshake if appropriate.
 OUT token is followed immediately by a DATAx frame. The device responds with ACK, NAK, NYET, or STALL, as appropriate.
 SETUP operates much like an OUT token, but is used for initial device setup. It is followed by an eight-byte DATA0 frame with a standardized format.
 SOF (Start of Frame) Every millisecond (12000 full-bandwidth bit times), the USB host transmits a special SOF (start of frame) token, containing an 11-bit incrementing frame number in place of a device address. This is used to synchronize isochronous and interrupt data transfers. High-speed USB 2.0 devices receive seven additional SOF tokens per frame, each introducing a 125 µs microframe (60000 high-bandwidth bit times each).

USB 2.0 also added a PING Token and a larger three-byte SPLIT Token:
 PING asks a device if it is ready to receive an OUT/DATA packet pair. PING is usually sent by a host when polling a device that most recently responded with NAK or NYET. This avoids the need to send a large data packet to a device that the host suspects is unwilling to accept it. The device responds with ACK, NAK, or STALL, as appropriate.
 SPLIT is used to perform split transactions. Rather than tie up the high-bandwidth USB bus sending data to a slower USB device, the nearest high-bandwidth capable hub receives a SPLIT token followed by one or two USB packets at high-bandwidth, performs the data transfer at full- or low-bandwidth, and provides the response at high-bandwidth when prompted by a second SPLIT token. It contains a seven-bit hub number, 12 bits of control flags, and a five-bit CRC.

OUT, IN, SETUP, and PING token packets

 ADDR: Address of USB device (maximum of 127 devices).
 ENDP: Select endpoint hardware source/sink buffer on device. (E.g. PID OUT would be for sending data from host source buffer into the USB device sink buffer.)
 By default, all USB devices must at least support endpoint buffer 0 (EP0). This is since EP0 is used for device control and status information during enumeration and normal operation.

SOF: Start-of-frame

 Frame number: This is a frame number that is incremented by the host periodically to allow endpoints to identify the start of the frame (or microframe) and synchronize internal endpoint clocks to the host clock.

SSPLIT and CSPLIT: Start-split transaction and complete split transaction

 S/C, Start, or complete:
 0, SSPLIT, Start split transaction
 1, CSPLIT, Complete split transaction
 S: 1, Low speed; 0, High speed
 E, End of full speed payload
 U, U bit is reserved/unused and must be reset to zero (0 B)
 EP, End point: type 00, control; 01, isochronous; 10, bulk; and 11, interrupt.

Data packets

A data packet consists of the PID followed by 0–1,024 bytes of data payload (up to 1,024 bytes for high-speed devices, up to 64 bytes for full-speed devices, and at most eight bytes for low-speed devices), and a 16-bit CRC.

There are two basic forms of data packet, DATA0 and DATA1. A data packet must always be preceded by an address token, and is usually followed by a handshake token from the receiver back to the transmitter. The two packet types provide the 1-bit sequence number required by stop-and-wait ARQ. If a USB host does not receive a response (such as an ACK) for data it has transmitted, it does not know if the data was received or not; the data might have been lost in transit or it might have been received but the handshake response was lost.

To solve this problem, the device keeps track of the type of DATAx packet it last accepted. If it receives another DATAx packet of the same type, it is acknowledged but ignored as a duplicate. Only a DATAx packet of the opposite type is actually received.

If the data is corrupted while transmitted or received, the CRC check fails. When this happens, the receiver does not generate an ACK, which makes the sender resend the packet.

When a device is reset with a SETUP packet, it expects an 8-byte DATA0 packet next.

USB 2.0 added DATA2 and MDATA packet types as well. They are used only by high-bandwidth devices doing high-bandwidth isochronous transfers that must transfer more than 1024 bytes per 125 µs micro frame (8,192 kB/s).

PRE packet (tells hubs to temporarily switch to low speed mode)
A hub is able to support low bandwidth devices mixed with other speed device via a special PID value, PRE. This is required as a USB hub functions as a very simple repeater, broadcasting the host message to all connected devices regardless if the packet was for it or not. This means in a mixed speed environment, there is a potential danger that a low speed could misinterpret a high or full speed signal from the host.

To eliminate this danger, if a USB hub detects a mix of high speed or full speed and low speed devices, it, by default, disables communication to the low speed device unless it receives a request to switch to low speed mode. On reception of a PRE packet however, it temporarily re-enables the output port to all low speed devices, to allow the host to send a single low speed packet to low speed devices. After the low speed packet is sent, an end of packet (EOP) signal tells the hub to disable all outputs to low speed devices again.

Since all PID bytes include four 0 bits, they leave the bus in the full-bandwidth K state, which is the same as the low-bandwidth J state. It is followed by a brief pause, during which hubs enable their low-bandwidth outputs, already idling in the J state. Then a low-bandwidth packet follows, beginning with a sync sequence and PID byte, and ending with a brief period of SE0. Full-bandwidth devices other than hubs can simply ignore the PRE packet and its low-bandwidth contents, until the final SE0 indicates that a new packet follows.

Transactions
USB packets are organized into transactions, consisting of a token packet, a conditional data packet, and a handshake packet.

OUT transaction

IN transaction

SETUP transaction
This is used for device enumeration and connection management and informs the device that the host would like to start a control transfer exchange.

 Depending on the setup packet, an optional data packet from device to host or host to device may occur.

Setup packet
A setup transaction transfers an 8-byte setup packet to the device.  The setup packet encodes the direction and length of any following data packets.

Control transfer exchange
The control transfer exchange consist of three distinct stages, each consisting of their own transactions:
 Setup stage: This is the setup command sent by the host to the device. It consists of a SETUP token, a DATA packet from the host containing the "setup packet" structure above, and a handshake packet from the device.
 Data stage (optional): This contains the information described (in the case of a host-to-device transfer) or requested (in the case of a device-to-host transfer) by the setup stage. This may consist of multiple transactions, and is terminated under multiple conditions:
 A transaction containing a DATA packet with no payload at all, called a zero-length packet.
 A transaction containing a DATA packet with a length smaller than the maximum packet size for that endpoint, called a "short" packet.
 When the exact amount of data specified by the wLength field of the setup packet has been transmitted.
 Status stage: A zero-length transaction, of opposite direction to the data stage, to indicate completion of the transfer and check that the device completed the transfer without error.

This allows the host to perform bus management action like enumerating new USB devices via retrieving the descriptors of the new devices. Retrieval of the descriptors would especially allow for determining the USB Class, VID, and PID, which are often used for determining the correct USB driver for the device.

Also, after the descriptors is retrieved, the host performs another control transfer exchange, but instead to set the address of the USB device to a new ADDRx.

See also
 USB hardware

References

USB
Physical layer protocols
Communication interfaces

Computer buses
Serial buses

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We spoke with three of the mentors to get their views on what it was like sharing their advice on what the teams should be thinking about when it comes to turning their ideas into a workable business.
We'll share their thoughts over the next few blog posts, starting with our first mentor, Line Dybdahl.
Line is one of the founding members of Be My Eyes, a smartphone application that allows sighted people to loan there eyesight to the blind via the phone's camera.
Line is no stranger to Startup Weekends. Be My Eyes is a project conceived at a Startup Weekend in Aarhus back in 2012 and one that has been growing at a fast pace ever since.
"I think it is important that the teams focus on user needs and user experience," explains Line. "Validation is important. Showing the judges that they have validated with users that what they are solving is actually a problem and that the solution offered is something users will actually use."
The other area Line highlights is funding. The business model for Be My Eyes focuses on being a non-profit organization. Which means that investors don't see any profits, making it vital that teams show that they know where the money to finance their idea comes from.
"We worked about one and a half years before we got our first serious funding of over one million Danish Kroner," Explains Line. "We had received some small funding before that; however, it is really expensive to develop apps in Denmark."
Be My Eyes wanted to focus on producing a high-quality app that was easy to use and, as Line Explains, getting a large investment helped them to achieve this.
"We had spoken about pushing the app out a year earlier with limited funds," says Line."But the app would not have been as mature as it is today because the funding gave us the time to solve a lot of problems and test it before fully releasing it."
Line admits that they didn't think about the fact that what they were doing to begin with was Social Entrepreneurship, the team simply formed around what they all thought was a cool idea.
"We did in the beginning talk about a lot of different solutions for the problem," explains Line. "We thought about making a call centre, for example, or making a normal entrepreneurship business model -- but what we ended up doing was social entrepreneurship and non-profit because that made sense."
While Social Entrepreneurship and going the non-profit route fitted to the idea of Be My Eyes, Line is quick to point out that going down that route still means treating the project as a business.
"You can have a non-profit, but, you can also have this thing called non-profit for growth," explains Line. "This means you are making revenue in the company but it is not anything for the shareholders."
The money in this instance goes to developing the company as well as providing essential team members with a salary to fuel that development.
"This is something that the teams need to consider," says Line. "If you are getting funding you need to be willing to work a lot for a long time voluntarily to show your commitment to the ones who do eventually fund you."


Distance from Penang to Seremban is 346 kilometers. This air travel distance is equal to 215 miles.
The air travel (bird fly) shortest distance between Penang and Seremban is 346 km= 215 miles.
If you travel with an airplane (which has average speed of 560 miles) from Penang to Seremban, It takes 0.38 hours to arrive.
Penang is located in Malaysia.


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Chef Geoffrey Zakarian has teamed up with Harry & David to share his passion for fine food, entertaining, and healthy living. The Iron Chef known for his award-winning restaurants, TV appearances, and podcasts will wear another type of toque: Chief Culinary Ambassador for Harry & David. In this role, Zakarian will curate a collection of Harry & David products that reflect his philosophy and approach to cooking and entertaining. He will also share his insights and advice in Harry & David's digital magazine, The Table, and host in-person and virtual events.
Geoffrey Zakarian is all about sharing his life through good food. He loves cooking with high-quality ingredients, feeding his family and friends, and entertaining with fine wine. With a guiding principle like that, it only makes sense that the award-winning chef would team up with Harry & David.
Zakarian, as the chief culinary ambassador for Harry & David, will offer advice on everything in the kitchen and beyond, from pairing food with wine to making a memorable birthday dinner and finding new ways to make holiday memories. Harry & David…& Geoffrey. It's a formidable pairing that goes well with everything.
Growing up in Worcester, Massachusetts, Zakarian never saw himself becoming one of the world's foremost chefs and culinary personalities. Instead, he grew up thinking he'd be an economist until a trip to Europe made him rethink his plans and focus on food.
After 40 years in chef whites — starting out at the landmark Le Cirque in New York City — this self-made man worked his way to becoming a restaurateur (Town, Country, The Lambs Club, The National just to name a few of his greatest hits), cookbook author (he's written four of them, including one with his daughters), and a television star. He's on camera so much, that if you turn on your television at any given time, you're sure to find him cooking, judging, or selling his own line of revolutionary cookware — for the latter, we have four words for you: non-stick cast iron skillet.
Despite being uber busy between his career and raising his family, he finds the time to stay fit. Have you seen his Instagram feed? He personifies #WorkoutWednesday and declares lifted knee rollouts are his idea of fun!
Zakarian took time out of his busy schedule to answer life's most hard-hitting culinary questions. If you've ever wondered, "Who is Geoffrey Zakarian?" keep scrolling to learn about the man in the kitchen and on your screen.
What five people would you invite to a dinner party?
Jazz pianist Keith Jarrett, economist Milton Friedman, clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson, singer Tony Bennett, and actor Sean Connery.
Complete this sentence: Cooking makes me feel…
What's the first dish you remember cooking?
Fried egg. I can distinctly remember my mother teaching me.
What's the one dish everyone should know how to cook?
How do you take your coffee?
How do you prefer your lobster roll?
Warm, never cold, with salted warm butter.
What's the best food to eat with your hands?
Wine: Red or white?
What is your best wine advice.
Keep white wine at 48 degrees and red wine at 58 degrees.
What are your must-have kitchen tools and equipment?
My Zakarian digital thermometer and a set of very sharp knives. I always love to use a santoku knife, and I can never have enough pairing knives. The thermometer is the only precise way to ensure you are cooking your proteins to the desired temperature. Sure, I can do it by feel but a thermometer is truly the best way.
Knives: German or Japanese?
Both, and sharp!
Pots & Pans: Stainless steel, nonstick, or cast iron?
All of the above. I keep my kitchen fully stocked with my non-stick cast iron pans, but for certain things, stainless steel is preferred. I also love to use carbon steel pans.
Tell us about your most memorable kitchen scar.
I dropped a pot of boiling oil on my leg.
Who are some chefs that are doing good?
Jose Andres, Daniel Boulud, Alex Guarnaschelli, Marc Murphy, and Nancy Silverton.
What is your favorite cuisine?
Mediterranean. I'm Armenian and my wife is Lebanese, so we are often incorporating Mediterranean flavors into our meals. Za'atar is a go-to spice for sure.
What's the one food or dish you'd want if left on a stranded island?
Champagne and caviar.
What's your favorite food city?
What should we be eating more of?
Vegetables, particularly greens.
What's your favorite holiday?
My birthday!
What is your biggest pet peeve when dining out?
Waiters constantly asking you how everything is so far!!!
How much should a good hamburger cost?
At least $10.
What's the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear the following:
Sprinkling cheese on fish: Not optimal
QR code menus: Hate
Artisanal: Overused
Small batch: Like
Sourdough bread: Overrated
Kitchen hacks: Mostly unnecessary
Farm to table: Overused
Pumpkin spice: Pie
Celebrity chef: What's a celebrity chef?
Avocado toast: Morning staple
Ranch dressing: Classic
Truffles: Necessary
Hard seltzers: Could live without
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Vengeance is Mine
He was a nice guy. Now he's dead. That's all Hammer knows about the stiff in the hotel room. But that isn't enough because Hammer suspects murder while the cops are calling it a suicide. Without a license or a gun, Hammer is pushing his way ...
The rain clawed at the windows of the bar. Hammer was angry and wanted to be left alone. But when he sees a desperate guy abandon his kid in a bar just to step outside and get blown away, Hammer's mood switches from bad to worse. By the time he...
One Lonely Night
Nobody ever walked across the bridge at night. But on the foggy night that Hammer took that chance, his encounter with a gun-toting thug and a girl on the lam ended with both strangers dead. Soon Hammer is caught in a web of sinister gangsters and...
Here's Mickey Spillane and Mike Hammer in their roughest and readiesta double-strength shot of sex, violence, and action that is vintage Spillane all the way. It's a tough-guy mystery to please even the most bloodthirsty of...
Killing Man
It keeps coming back to Hammer... The image of bloodshed in his office remained etched in Mike Hammer's mind forever - his secretary sprawled on the floor and a stranger sitting dead and mutilated at his own desk. In one moment a storm of...
No dame is pretty with a gun in her hand. But at least this one was alive. The last time Mike Hammer met up with a blonde she ended up dead, and Hammer inherited a war with the Mob. As he digs deeper, he discovers that about fifteen years ago the...
My Gun is Quick
He called her Red. She called him in from the cold. For one short moment in the big, hard city they were friends--and then the girl turned up dead. Mike Hammer will walk through walls to find out who she was and why she died, even if he doesn't...
Here's Mickey Spillane and Mike Hammer in their roughest and readiest—a double-strength shot of sex, violence, and action that is vintage Spillane all the way. It's a tough-guy mystery to please even the most bloodthirsty of...
Kill Me, Darling
Mickey Spillane, Max Allan Collins
The course of true love never did run smooth for PI Mike Hammer. His secretary and partner Velda has walked out on him without explanation, and Mike is just surfacing from a four-month bender. But then an old cop turns up murdered-a cop who once...
Legend of Caleb York
Spillane is a pioneer of tough-guy ethics.Washington PostIn the west legends are made one bullet at a time.Trinidad, New Mexico, is an oasis of civilization in an untamed desert ruled by outlaws, bank robbers and horse thieves. Sheriff Harry Gauge...
Murder Never Knocks
A failed attempt on his life by a contract killer gets Mike Hammer riled up. But it also lands him an unlikely job: security detail for a Hollywood producer having a party to honor his beautiful fiancee, a rising Broadway star. But it's no walk in...
In midtown Manhattan, Mike Hammer, recovering from a near-fatal mix-up with the Mob, runs into drug dealers assaulting a young hospital messenger. He saves the kid, but the muggers are not so lucky. Hammer considers the rescue a one-off, but ...
Kiss Her Goodbye
Mike Hammer has been away from New York for too long. Recuperating in Florida after the mob shoot-out that nearly claimed his life, he learns that an old mentor on the New York police force has committed suicide. Hammer returns for the funeral-and...
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Mike Hammer, the toughest PI of all, draws a seemingly routine assignment-playing bodyguard to diva Rita Vance on the eve of her big Broadway comeback. But Rita is an old flame of Hammer's, and when their romance is rekindled, the detective finds...
Goliath Bone
The bestselling American mystery writer of all time brings back his world-famous PI, Mike Hammer, for his biggest and most dangerous case yet. In the midst of a Manhattan snowstorm, Mike Hammer halts the violent robbery of a pair of college...
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King of the Weeds
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Lady, Go Die!
"The next time you pull a gun on me I put one between your eyes." Private investigator Mike Hammer and the beautiful Velda go on vacation to a small beach town on Long Island after wrapping up the Williams case from I, the Jury. Walking along the...


Monday took place the first Soft-Shake event in Geneva, Switzerland. You're probably wondering what a Soft-Shake event is. Basically, most events focus on one area: Oracle Technologies, Java, Apple, PM methods, what have you. Most of us, however, have multiple interests. Since even in the pure science field, the trend is to decompartmentalize, it is only natural that computer sciences should take the same path. The answer is Soft-Shake: a cocktail of sessions that mixes different but connected interests: Java, Agility, iPhone and Incubation.
I'm by no means a NoSQL expert. I'm not even close to be aware of the pros and cons of the concept, so I lost many of the key features of this session base on a real life project. I kept something though: you should consider using NoSQL when faced with changing schemas or when you have to aggregate miscellaneous data sources in your own store.
Nice introduction to cloud computing, with some manipulation of virtual machines. I choosed the session because I was lost. During the session, I realized the concepts explained in one hour were on par with my knowledge.
The session with "da man", Joonas and its Vaadin framework. I presented the framework already twice with the slideshow, so no real surprise here. Yet, it was amazing to see Joonas code a simple application with only 20 lines of code that would have taken hours to code in JSP or configure in JSF. Components integrate data sources naturally, you have to see it to believe it. Anyone not knowing the framework and interested in web applications should take a look. Long live Vaadin!
I did have some interest in functional testing in general (or more precisely how to make your stakeholders write your functional tests) and jBehave in particular. I tried the product, with only the site's documentation and it was not a piece of cake. I even tried to blog about it, with only partial success (in my eyes). I ran to Xavier's session and it was an epiphany. It would have merited another hour.
Mario is the man behind LambdaJ, the DSL on collection in Java. As he told us himself, he codes in Java on working days but his real treat is Scala. LambdaJ is an attempt to bring functionnal programming in Java (restricted to a collections API), but a great one. He brought us his enthusiasm for the language, and since I tried to learn Scala on my own, I asked him some questions which were brilliantly answered. Thanks Mario.
A great moment, I can't wait for the 2011 edition!
In this article, I will show you how to tweak Eclipse so that you will be able to code 'classical' webapps in Scala. Eclipse has a plugin that let you help develop with Scala. The plugin is by no mean perfect , but it gets the job done, letting you create Scala projects that automatically compile Scala code with scalac.


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Norton Hotspot Privacy Review
A new service from specialist security vendor Symantec, the rationale behind Norton Hotspot Privacy is very straightforward. Imagine for a minute that you're a mobile user, with a laptop, tablet or smartphone, looking to connect to the Internet to, perhaps, check your e-mail or pay some bills.
That shouldn't be a problem as there's bound to be a free Wi-Fi hotspot nearby. However, like most such services it will probably be unsecured, which means that anything you send or receive, including bank account and credit card numbers, passwords and so on could be captured and used for nefarious purposes.
Norton Hotspot Privacy tackles this issue head on, enabling you to connect to the Web via an otherwise insecure Wi-Fi hotspot, safe in the knowledge that all your data is encrypted. A feat it achieves by creating a Virtual Private Network (VPN) tunnel between you and the hotspot so that, even if the connection is intercepted in some way, any data you transfer can't be used.
Norton Hotspot Privacy is a cloud-based service that uses a small VPN client installed on your PC, tablet or smartphone. Whenever you connect to a Wi-Fi hotspot this will locate a Symantec VPN server out on the Web and negotiate the creation of an encrypted VPN tunnel. The actual technicalities don't matter that much, but for those who like to know such things Open VPN is used here with IPSec encryption for mobile devices and SSL for desktop computers (PC and Mac).
Everything sent between the VPN client and its host server is encrypted, whether browsing the Web or running an app, while the Symantec VPN server also becomes the default Internet gateway forwarding all communications out onto the Web.
The client is also authenticated to prevent hackers simply hijacking an encrypted connection, Plus you also get the benefit of a non-local IP address assigned over the tunnel, which can be useful when using services that are only available in a specific geographic location. In our tests, for example, we were variously assigned address that put us in either Leeds or California!
Getting started with Norton Hotspot Privacy is easy. All you have to do is sign-up and pay for a license, download the client, install it and start working. The license allows you to use the service with up to five separate devices and can be purchased on a pay as you go basis at a cost of £49.99 for a one year, £19.99 for one month or £2.99 for a one-day pass (all including VAT) . Client software is available for most Windows desktops and Apple Mac PCs plus Apple iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch devices. The Apple client is delivered via iTunes. Android users, unfortunately, are not catered for, although an Android client is in development.
We tested on a Windows laptop using a one-day pass. The client was quick to download and easy enough to install once we had gone through the somewhat involved licence registration process. That done, the client started up automatically ready to create a VPN connection. We had to do this manually the first time but you can change to automatically connect via Hotspot Privacy whenever an Internet connection is available.
As the name implies the main reason for using the Norton service is to encrypt a link to an unsecured Wi-Fi access point, either public or private. In addition, however, it can be used to protect a wired connection, which could be useful when visiting a new location and using an unknown network as a guest.
We did, however, run into some minor performance issues. Not so much on low bandwidth networks where the Norton client didn't seem to make that much difference, but when installed on a network with a fast broadband connection, throughput dropped by as much as 10-15%. Due we suspect to the encryption overheads and capabilities of the VPN servers employed.
We also had to tweak the firewall on one of the routers involved to enable Hotspot Privacy to deliver the goods plus there are a number of other considerations, not least the existence of alternative VPN services, many available for a lot less and some even free.
In favour of the Norton product, the free services tend to have bandwidth and download limits whereas the Norton service has no such restrictions, plus it can be used on up to five devices, making it a lot more affordable. Added to which the other services are provided by relatively unknown Internet start-ups. Norton Hotspot Privacy is the first to come from a trusted big-name security vendor.
It is important also to understand that Norton Hotspot Privacy (and its rivals) only provide an encrypted tunnel between the individual user and the Internet. They do not deliver the kind of encrypted VPN solution companies of all size use to connect remote and mobile users with shared resources on the corporate LAN. Moreover, companies hosting their own VPN servers can provide the same kind of protection for free and anyone provided with a VPN client for remote working should ask if this is the case before buying a product like Norton Hotspot Privacy.
And lastly, Norton Hotspot Privacy doesn't address the problem of malware. You can still be infected by a virus over an encrypted VPN tunnel so firewall and additional anti-malware protection are just as important as ever. Still, it does the job it claims, is affordable and easy to use, making Norton Hotspot Privacy a useful weapon in the security armoury of the mobile professional.
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When the Chief retired last week, I took Pops with me to his retirement dinner. Our Department Photographer, Ken, who happens to be my photographic mentor as well, took this pic of me and my Pops that night.
My Pops is so proud of me and he is all about Smurf Village. Every time we come out with a new ball cap, jacket, t-shirt, or whatever, he's got to have it. I've been telling him he's going to go through withdrawals when I retire. Now, I've been kicked to the curb because he says he golfs with the new Chief so he's all set! Ohhh the pain.
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Dhamm Nice lvl dising. When I was playing I was sitting on the tip of my chair. Love it. Only the negetive thing was: I found it divecult to know to open the doors, you can improve it with: lvl design or something like a text, but text is not a good thing :P. But realy cool game! Nice shadow effect.


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The Akai Tom Cat is an exciting true analog drum machine with five built-in percussion voices, including kick, snare, and clap sounds with chromatically tunable Disco Toms.
On-board controls—all continuously variable—let you customize the tuning, amplitude envelopes, and volume of each drum voice separately for precise real-time adjustment, so you can get that perfect sound. Outfitted with six MPC-style pads and a built-in 32-step sequencer, Tom Cat provides an ultra-responsive interface with a classic drum machine layout.
Drum patterns can be fine-tuned using the Swing function, Pattern Select, and Tempo Control knob. A custom signal path, activated by its unique "Maul" circuitry, lets you 'dirty up' your drums for just the right effect.
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The Wayward Children series explores how to deal with real life once the portal to your own personal magical world has closed, but it also gives readers a rough guideline for how all of these different portal worlds—like Narnia, Oz, Wonderland, and so on—relate to each other.
Here in the so-called "real world" you have north, south, east, and west, right? Those don't work for the most of the portal worlds we've been able to catalog. So we use other words. Nonsense, Logic, Wickedness, and Virtue. There are smaller sub-directions, little branches, but those four are the big ones. Most worlds are either high Nonsense OR high Logic, and then they have some degree of Wickedness or Virtue built into their foundations from there. A surprising number of Nonsense worlds are Virtuous. It's like they can't work up the attention span necessary for anything more vicious than a little mild naughtiness.
We saw that and wondered…could we use the series' guidelines to map ALL of the different portal worlds in fiction into a single multiverse?
It took some doing. "Portal worlds" are only as knowable as their author/creator allows them to be and the aspects of some of them change over the course of the story in which they are featured. In addition, the four main axes—nonsense, logic, wickedness, and virtue—are themselves subjective on a personal and cultural level: One person's estimation of High Virtue can easily be another person's estimation of Wickedness.
Thankfully, McGuire's Wayward Children novellas give us a few different portal worlds that serve as examples of various degrees of the aspects known as nonsense, logic, wickedness, and virtue. With these in hand, we were able to form subjective gradations that could encompass all of the guidelines and examples presented by McGuire, allowing us to place all magical portal worlds into a precise grid (our "multiverse") while remaining generalized enough to allow those worlds to move around the grid without conflict.
The below grid has two axes based on the four Aspects noted in Every Heart.
The y axis (up and down) starts in the north with High Virtue. Worlds become less virtuous the further south on the axis you go, until they're High Wicked. There are three gradations of Virtue and three gradations of Wicked, with a null (zero) state in between them. This means our portal world multiverse is 7 rows tall.
The x axis (right and left) starts in the west with High Nonsense. Worlds become more logical as you head east, until they're High Logic. There are three gradations of Nonsense and three gradations of Logic with a null (zero) state in between them. This means our portal world multiverse is 7 columns wide.
How Nonsense Is Your Favorite World?
Nonsense 3 = Environment completely pliable and redefinable. Change motivated by personal whim. Near-chaos. Examples include: The Dreaming from Neil Gaiman's Sandman.
Nonsense 2 = World on the tipping point between fantastical chaos and realistic environments. Examples include: Oz.
Nonsense 1 = Reality is pliable through wish fulfillment, but cause and effect actions are still most effective. Examples include: Neverland from the Peter Pan tales.
Nonsense/Logic 0 = Stasis, no change occurs in world.
Logic 1 = Most things follow rules of cause-and-effect but there is still doubt as to how many things follow rules. Examples include: Lyra's world from The Golden Compass.
Logic 2 = Everything can be explained eventually, but there will always be unique exceptions. Examples include: Our own world!
Logic 3 = Everything can be explained, no exceptions to rules. Examples include: Narnia, and most any other world where its god/creator has a direct influence.
How Virtuous Is Your Favorite World?
Virtue 3 = Pure and providential, world provides everything you need. Is in an "ideal" state. Examples include: Narnia once Aslan's control is restored.
Virtue 2 = Overriding harmony in world, active championing of human/being rights, but still threatened. Examples include: L. Frank Baum's Oz, after the Wicked Witch and Wizard are taken out of power.
Virtue 1 = World provides for its denizens but in a limited capacity, passive promotion of human/being rights. Could be seen as only slightly better than our own world. Examples include: UnLunDun, from China Mieville's book of the same name.
Virtue/Wicked 0 = Balance between virtuous and wicked desires, but not harmony. Examples include: The Dreaming from Neil Gaiman's Sandman.
Wicked 1 = Unbalanced. Passive or secondary limiting of human/being rights. Examples include: Our own world!
Wicked 2 = Overriding disharmony. Active limiting of its denizens. "Crapsack World" but livable. Examples include: Narnia when the White Witch is in power.
Wicked 3 = Actively malevolent, apocalyptic, near-unredeemable, near-unlivable. Examples include: The Dark Tower.
Here you go! Design credit goes to Jamie Stafford-Hill.
This means that worlds in a multiverse don't just have spatial "x, y" coordinates, they have an additional "t" coordinate for the moment in time that you're measuring them within! Magical worlds float, drift, move…they have vectors, velocity, they insist on being fourth-dimensional! Portal worlds–those magical places we are drawn into–fizz around us like soda pop.
Interestingly, the worlds we chose to depict on the grid only move along the y axis, between Virtue and Wickedness. We couldn't think of a world that moved along the x axis, which suggests that the Aspects along that axis are more intrinsic to the definition of a world, comprising the core of their reality's structure.
You'll also notice that fictional worlds tend to group in certain quadrants and gradations. Worlds don't really like being in that High Virtue / High Logic space, for example, but that's probably because we don't like telling stories about those kinds of worlds. Perfect, happy places where everything is tended to and everything makes sense are a goal, they're not a story.
Really, we can only show you the way.


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Q: How to space radioButtons I am fairly new to Java and am working on a QuizFrame project as a means to get better with FX. The code is still a work in progress, but my main question is: How does one space the radio buttons?
When I was doing in Swing it seemed like the buttons automatically spaced themselves, but here it is just one radio button with all the options stacked on top of each other.
Here is the code:
public class QuizFrame2 extends Application {

    RadioButton[] optionButtons;
    TextArea questionArea;
    Button submitButton;
    Question[] questions;
    int currQuestion;
    Pane questionPanel;
    String[] choices;
    TextArea resultArea;

    final int NUM_OPTIONS = 4;

    @Override
    public void start(Stage primaryStage) throws Exception {

        GridPane grid = new GridPane();
        grid.setPadding(new Insets(10, 10, 10, 10));
        grid.setVgap(5);
        grid.setHgap(5);

        questions = new Question[2];
        questions[0] = new Question();
        questions[1] = new Question("What is 1+1?",
           new String[]{"1", "2", "3", "4"}, "2");

        currQuestion = 0;

        questionArea = new TextArea();
        questionArea.setText(questions[currQuestion].getQuestion());
        submitButton = new Button();
        submitButton.setText("Submit");

        questionArea.setPrefSize(500, 50);

        ToggleGroup bG = new ToggleGroup();

        RadioButton[] optionsButton = new RadioButton[NUM_OPTIONS];
        questionPanel = new Pane();

        for(int i = 0; i < optionsButton.length; i++)
        {

         optionsButton[i] = new RadioButton(questions[currQuestion].getOption(i));
         optionsButton[i].setToggleGroup(bG);
         questionPanel.getChildren().add(optionsButton[i]);
        }

        submitButton.setOnAction(new EventHandler<ActionEvent>()
                {

                    @Override
                    public void handle(ActionEvent event) {
                        // TODO Auto-generated method stub

                    }
                });

        GridPane.setConstraints(submitButton, 0, 80);
        GridPane.setConstraints(questionArea, 0, 0);
        GridPane.setConstraints(questionPanel, 0, 3);

        grid.getChildren().add(questionPanel);
        grid.getChildren().add(questionArea);
        grid.getChildren().add(submitButton);

        Scene scene = new Scene(grid, 500, 500);

        primaryStage.setTitle("TextArea Input");
        primaryStage.setScene(scene);
        primaryStage.show();
    }

    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        launch(args);
    }
}

A: You are putting the RadioButtons in a generic Pane, which does no layout. You need to use a specific Pane subclass that does the layout you need.
For example, you could use a VBox:
questionPanel = new VBox();

for(int i = 0; i < optionsButton.length; i++)
{

 optionsButton[i] = new RadioButton(questions[currQuestion].getOption(i));
 optionsButton[i].setToggleGroup(bG);
 questionPanel.getChildren().add(optionsButton[i]);

}

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Insecurity Doors
by Alex Papadimoulis in Feature Articles on 2006-12-11 Edit
Alex Papadimoulis
Founder, The Daily WTF
It was a heck of a party and everyone was invited, from the executive vice president to the janitorial staff. There was champagne, shrimp, cake, and even a string quartet. There were door prizes, balloons, and all sorts of bank-branded knickknacks being given away. And it was all for good reason: the bank had just completed its high-tech, sixty-five story downtown corporate headquarters, and it was the tallest building within a three-hundred mile radius.
Virtually no expense was spared for the bank's skyscraper: a renowned architect was commissioned to design the building, skilled artisans adorned the corridors with marble statues, acoustical consultants made sure the lobby had just the right echo, and, most importantly, the world's foremost security firm was brought in to lock things down tighter than Fort Knox. It was considered less of a building and more of a work of art. The pinnacle of this creation was the high-tech sliding doors used throughout the building; this was the first time that StarTrek-esque doors were used on such a large scale.
Everyone thought the doors were incredibly cool. Oh, and they were. Upon entering a secure area (that is, anywhere except the lobby), one simply waved his RFID-enabled access card across the sensor and the doors slid open almost instantly. When leaving an area, motion detectors automatically opened up the doors. The only thing that was missing was the cool "whoosh" noise and an access panel that could be shot with a phaser to permanently seal or, depending on the plot, automatically open the door. Despite that flaw, the doors just felt secure.
That is, until one of G.R.G.'s colleagues had an idea. He grabbed one of those bank-branded folding yardsticks from the freebie table and headed on over to one of the security doors. He slipped the yardstick right through where the sliding doors met and the motion detector promptly noticed the yardstick and opened the door. He had unfettered access to the entire building thanks to a free folding yardstick.
Immediately following the party, the bank announced that they would delay the opening "due to an unforeseen delay." When G.R.G. returned the following week, he noticed that the doors -- all 650 throughout the building -- were hastily retrofitted with poorly-cut metal flanges to cover up the small slit between the doors. Looks like it's back to relying on phasers to breach the security.
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