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Status of P2 C/C++ Compiler?
DavidZemon Posts: 2,822
2018-09-30 - 16:35:28 in Propeller 2
The chip is now in a state where C/C++ compiler work can restart, right? I saw Betz posted a comment during the live stream about it, asking Ken if now was a good time to start again. Not sure if the question was lost in the mass of comments or ignored, but I would love to know the answer to that question too. Are we waiting on Parallax to give an "OK"? Or are we just waiting on a community member to give it a go and make it happen? Last I heard, one or two people had brought up the possibility of switching to LLVM instead of GCC for P2. Sounds fun... I don't think I have an opinion. Has a decision been made? If not, do we have everything we need to make said decision?
I'm just eager to help and would love someone to point me at a TODO list and tell me what to do.
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I don't think we ever got the critical mass for a community project. However, Dave Hein says he intends to continue working on his p2gcc compiler.
The P2 is now cast in silicon. I think we can be sure that anything a C/C++ compiler needs from it is not going to change anymore.
1) Create C/C++ back ends for GCC and Clang/LLVM.
Is that your own personal TODO list? That's great! I'm glad you'll be building these things for us.
I started the "Can't Wait for PropGCC on the P2?" thread about a year and a half ago. My intent was to try to drum up some interest in developing GCC for the P2 by building on the P1 PropGCC tools. I developed a script called p2gcc and some tools for converting P1 assembly to P2 code, and assembly and loading it. I use the P1 PropGCC compiler to compile C code to P1 COG assembly, and then run it through s2pasm, p2asm and loadp2. The source code is located on GitHub at https://github.com/davehein/p2gcc .
p2gcc currently supports a basic C library. I have looked at porting the library from PropGCC, and p2gcc can compile much of it. However, there is still a lot of work required to get it to compile the whole library. I also want to add C++ capability.
I think p2gcc could be used as a starting point for fully implementing GCC on the P2, but we would need people that understand how to modify GCC to support the P2 instruction set. We would then need to modify GAS and the linker for the P2.
David Betz,
Ah, no. DavidZemon asked to be pointed to a TODO list. So I obliged.
I know what you are getting at. As much as I wish otherwise, trust me, nobody would want to use any compiler I produced. With my meager skills such a thing would produce terrible code, slow and buggy, not to mention it would take me years to even figure out where to start.
I'm always up for testing duties though.
Once I get OpenSpin for P2 up and running, I will dive in to help with GCC or LLVM for P2. I think we should just pick one and run with that. My vote would be for LLVM since, in my opinion, it is a better compiler front end, but whatever one other people will work on is fine.
Roy Eltham wrote: »
You're probably right about LLVM but I know absolutely nothing about it. I do know something about GCC though. In any case, if that's the direction we choose I'll make an attempt to get up to speed but the last time I started reading the LLVM documentation I got lost pretty rapidly. It's possible though that the best approach would be to start with a backend for another processor that is similar to the Propeller rather than trying to understand LLVM from first principles.
Yeah, if there is an LLVM backend for a small pic or avr or something like that, then we ought to be able to convert it to P2.
Really? I would think we would be better off starting with something like MIPS or some other 32 bit processor. Maybe RISC-V?
PICs and AVRs come in 32bit flavors. That's what I was thinking. I doubt they have an LLVM backend for the tiny stuff.
You might be right though, using a MIPs or other 32bit CPU would be okay also.
I hadn't thought about PIC32. That might be an option. I think the 32 bit AVR chips are just ARM cores aren't they?
A 32 bit PIC is not a PIC as we used to know it from 8 bit days.
I thought the PIC32 was based on the MIPS instruction set architecture. https://www.mips.com/blog/tag/pic32/
Meanwhile the 32 bit AVR is nothing like an 8 bit AVR. They are ARM instruction set architecture.
There was an AVR32, but it has been deprecated in favour of the ARM cores.
It's not likely there are many AVR32 code generators out there...
I did a quick scan through the LLVM backend intro stuff. Seems semi straightforward-ish. Define machine, registers, instructions, selector, etc. Their own docs suggest taking an existing backend and modify it.
They have a dozen or more, including ARM. The main reason I suggested PIC/AVR is that they tend to have different memory areas (code in flash, then data in ram, etc.) which could help with figuring out a Prop1/2 one.
pedward Posts: 1,565
IIRC, PIC and Propeller register and branching concepts resemble eachother more than typical register concepts like ARM/i86/80/6800/6502...
This is logical given the PIC->SX->Propeller progression Chip followed.
I doubt the flavor of C makes much difference. Sounds to me like they all use a very small subset of the P2 assembly commands. Seems like more important is to make native P2ASM subroutines easy to use.
It seems to me that it would be less effort to get GCC working for the P2 than to start from scratch with LLVM. The opcodes that PropGCC generates for the P1 are identical to those needed for the P2, except for a few minor differences. I wrote a tool call s2pasm that converts P1 assembly to P2. The main section of code in s2pasm.c is
ReplaceString("wz,wc", "wcz");
ReplaceString("\tmax\t", "\tfle\t");
ReplaceString("\tmaxs\t", "\tfles\t");
ReplaceString("\tmin\t", "\tfge\t");
ReplaceString("\tmins\t", "\tfges\t");
ReplaceString(" max\t", " fle\t");
ReplaceString(" maxs\t", " fles\t");
ReplaceString(" min\t", " fge\t");
ReplaceString(" mins\t", " fges\t");
ReplaceString("0x", "$");
ReplaceString("jmpret", "calld");
s2pasm also generates code to emulate waitcnt and reading the CNT register. I use PropGCC in the COG memory model. The code that is generated assumes constants and variable addresses are in COG memory, so s2pasm must also account for the fact that these values are in hub RAM on the P2. For the P2, a new memory model would need to be created that is a hybrid between the COG model and LMM. It doesn't seem like this would be too hard. There are already a number of hooks in PropGCC to handle the P2. I think Eric or David Betz put them in. The library code has some support for the P2 also.
The remaining parts are the assembler and the linker. I think p2asm could handle this if I modify it to output the ELF format. The linker would then have to be modified to handle the new ways that addresses are packed into instructions, such as with the AUGS and AUGD instructions.
There's a lot of work to do, but it seems like we're already more than 50% there if we start from PropGCC.
Dave Hein wrote: »
It would certainly be easier for me to help if we start with what we already have. I did the initial port of PropGCC to the old P2 but then Eric Smith put in a lot of work as well probably some of it fixing things I did wrong. Anyway, we got it working pretty quickly. If we don't have to port gas that would make the job easier.
Does PropGCC already have a runtime flag to enable the P2 mode? That would be a major step if we could get PropGCC to generate P2 assembly. I could then eliminate s2pasm from p2gcc, and then look into generating ELF format from p2asm.
The version that is in the Parallax repository does. I'm not sure about the newer version in Eric's GitHub repository. I think some of the old P2 stuff may have been stripped out of that version. However, we want to start with Eric's version because it's based on a more recent version of GCC.
At https://github.com/totalspectrum I see binutils-propeller and proplib. Is that what you're referring to? I don't see the GCC code there. Where is the official GCC compiler? Is the official version at https://github.com/parallaxinc/propgcc ? If so, then does that mean we should use the parallaxinc repository for the compiler, and the totalspectrum repository for the libraries? And what about SimpleIDE?
It seems like the first thing that should be done is to put all of the latest GCC-related code in one repository.
Eric's GCC repository is here: https://github.com/totalspectrum/gcc-propeller
OK, I see it there now. I was just looking at an overview of Eric's site, and not all of the repositories.
DavidZemon wrote: »
What we'd like to do is hold a meeting on this topic the first week of November, including all interested developers users. This is what we did last time - met, discussed, formed a team and completed the development work. I will note the meeting date and time here on the forums. We hope to get some of the same team (Eric, Dave, David) and others who wish to participate. It will likely be a Zoom meeting so we can all chat and talk openly.
One aspect that is very different this time is available budget. We simply don't have the funds available that we did last time.
Sound like a good approach?
- one more small note. It's imperative that Parallax isn't in the middle of all the hardware designs and some software tools. We'll provide the core development tools and compilers, plus one to two boards (likely a module). We hope to see support the community to develop an industry around it.
What I don't know, I certainly truly don't know. But there's one thing I do know: the benefit of leveraging existing efforts that worked. While I often read on the forums that our GCC is outdated and not maintained, it's working well for the core use in educational applications. This is where we needed to go with the compiler for our business. I am sure it may lack certain needs for commercial developers, though.
If GCC can be improved to achieve the goal we will want to look at this closely as an additional benefit over other alternatives.
Thanks for chiming in Ken! I look forward to sitting in on that meeting.
It'll be great to have you join us.
We're waiting a bit to start it to see what else Chip learns about the P2. We also need to talk about our priorities with Chip, too.
I don't know either but:
Whatever anyone says about the pros and cons of GCC vs LLVM, GCC is still the compiler of the Linux world and all that rests on top of it.
I would imagine that whatever exists for Propeller support in GCC can be leveraged for the P2 and recent GCC versions.
Provided of course those with the know how are available.
After thinking about things more, I think we should stick with GCC for the initial C/C++ stuff. Although, we should use the newer version that Eric started.
Ken, sounds like a reasonable plan, I'd like to be in that meeting, even if I can't initially contribute much to the C/C++ effort since I'll be working on OpenSpin for P2.
Ken Gracey wrote: »
I'm not sure it's correct to say that "GCC is outdated and not maintained". What is true is that our branch can be described that way. Going into the future I think we need to find a way to get updates to our compiler toolchain into production rather than sticking with an old buggy version for years. As we've pointed out a number of times, there have been many bugs and updates done to PropGCC over the years that never made it into the SimpleIDE release. We need to avoid that in the future. We should at least keep up with our own branch!


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"Jaleo" is a song all about letting your cares and worries fall from your body through dance and play, which is exactly what everyone is doing in the music video teaser the collaborators shared to social media. It's quite the tropical charmer, with a little bit of an electronic vibe and a touch of reggaeton.
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I haven't posted in a few weeks because, amongst other things, I'm busy organising TAM London on behalf of JREF. The official website is now live at www.tamlondon.org, although registration is not yet open (join the mailing list for notification of when it is). Confirmed speakers include Richard Dawkins, Adam Savage, Jon Ronson, and many others, including of course Randi and Phil Plait. Perhaps most exciting of all is that Richard Wiseman has agreed to MC the event, which means we get him for the entire thing. Anyone who has attended one of his talks will know that he's the top-rated TAM speaker year after year for a reason – the perfect mix of accessible science and entertainment.
That said, I don't always agree with him, and I admit that his recent media activity to promote the forthcoming Edinburgh Science Festival event Science of Ghosts pushed my 'annoyed' button. In case you missed it, a call for examples of 'ghost' photographs, and a subsequent 'top ten' as voted by the public resulted in a storm of media coverage, most of which proclaimed that 'experts' (i.e. Prof Wiseman) were 'baffled'. At a loss for an explanation. Etc.
Encouraging people to debate, examine and discuss the paranormal in this way will arguably do more than many "scientists dismiss photo as bunkum" stories. Everyone loves to have an opinion, and when it comes to getting people to think for themselves, isn't being provocative one of the best methods? I think it may be. Have a listen to the interview and let me know if you agree.
…the skeptisphere (did I just invent that term?).
Probably. But did you know that it's composed of much smaller skepticules?
Regarding Wiseman's approach to the woo: It's fine to do whatever it takes to get the skeptical view of such things into mainstream media, but important to explain why skeptics are skeptical (that is, the evidence, or lack of it, as appropriate). Saying "we think this is fake/mistaken/whatever, and here's why," might provoke the less skeptical to examine why they think it's real – to examine their evidence (or lack of it).
I am willing to accept the word of experts that the photo has not been Photoshopped. My money is on pareidolia.
Let me tell you a story from my childhood: One day, a rumour went around that there was a red fox hanging out in the woods. So we kids clustered at the edge of the woods until suddenly someone spotted it. We closed in, marvelling. The fox did not move. (First clue — foxes normally vanish at the first scent or sound of humans.) We got within twenty yards when wee realised that we were stalking a tree sapling — a couple of leaves bound together by tent caterpillars resembled a fox muzzle shot through with white and two other leaves had masqueraded as ears.
The face is so distorted and irregular in features, and the "clothing" so murky, that I expect the "face" is a piece of windblown debris. Also, the image is too definitively ghostlike, precisely conformable to stereotypical expectations of what a ghost should look like — distorted, distant, brooding. This is how pareidolia works — some random arrangement of objects happens to bear a resemblance to preconceived expectations.
Incidentally, I meant to mention this but had a brain fart: took at the "face". It is unquestionably on THIS side of the bars, as anyone can see: the bars do not show up against the face at all. The "body", by contrast, is unquestionably on the FAR side of the bars; the bars can be seen against it as background.
I would say I agree. Prompting a discussion on the subject is better than outright rejection, though as to why exactly that is… I can't find a good way to articulate that right now. Damn. Where is some caffeine?


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The Summer View at CERN
For the first time in some years, I'm spending two and a half weeks at CERN (the lab that hosts the Large Hadron Collider [LHC]). Most of my recent visits have been short or virtual, but this time* there's a theory workshop that has collected together a number of theoretical particle physicists, and it's a good opportunity for all of us to catch up with the latest creative ideas in the subject. It's also an opportunity to catch a glimpse of the furtive immensity of Mont Blanc, a hulking bump on the southern horizon, although only if (as is rarely the case) nature offers clear and beautiful weather.
More importantly, new results on the data collected so far in 2016 at the LHC are coming very soon! They will be presented at the ICHEP conference that will be held in Chicago starting August 3rd. And there's something we'll be watching closely.
You may remember that in a post last December I wrote:
"Everybody wants to know. That bump seen on the ATLAS and CMS two-photon plots! What… IS… it…?"
Why the excitement? A bump of this type can be a signal of a new particle (as was the case for the Higgs particle itself.) And since a new particle that would produce a bump of this size was both completely unexpected and completely plausible, there was hope that we were seeing a hint of something new and important.
However, as I wrote in the same post,
"Well, to be honest, probably it's just that: a bump on a plot. But just in case it's not…"
and I went on to discuss briefly what it might mean if it wasn't just a statistical fluke. But speculation may be about to end: finally, we're about to find out if it was indeed just a fluke — or a sign of something real.
Since December the amount of 13 TeV collision data available at ATLAS and CMS (the two general purpose experiments at the LHC) has roughly quadrupled, which means that typical bumps and wiggles on their 2015-2016 plots have decreased in relative size by about a factor of two (= square root of four). If the December bump is just randomness, it should also decrease in relative size. If it's real, it should remain roughly the same relative size, but appear more prominent relative to the random bumps and wiggles around it.
Now, there's a caution to be added here. The December ATLAS bump was so large and fat compared to what was seen at CMS that (since reality has to appear the same at both experiments, once enough data has been collected) it was pretty obvious that even if it there were a real bump there, at ATLAS it was probably in combination with a statistical fluke that made it look larger and fatter than its true nature. [Something similar happened with the Higgs; the initial bump that ATLAS saw was twice as big as expected, which is why it showed up so early, but it gradually has shrunk as more data has been collected and it is now close to its expected size. In retrospect, that tells us that ATLAS's original signal was indeed combined with a statistical fluke that made it appear larger than it really is.] What that means is that even if the December bumps were real, we would expect the ATLAS bump to shrink in size (but not statistical significance) and we would expect the CMS bump to remain of similar size (but grow in statistical significance). Remember, though, that "expectation" is not certainty, because at every stage statistical flukes (up or down) are possible.
In about a week we'll find out where things currently stand. But the mood, as I read it here in the hallways and cafeteria, is not one of excitement. Moreover, the fact that the update to the results is (at the moment) unobtrusively scheduled for a parallel session of the ICHEP conference next Friday, afternoon time at CERN, suggests we're not going to see convincing evidence of anything exciting. If so, then the remaining question will be whether the reverse is true: whether the data will show convincing evidence that the December bump was definitely a fluke.
Flukes are guaranteed; with limited amounts of data, they can't be avoided. Discoveries, on the other hand, require skill, insight, and luck: you must ask a good question, address it with the best available methods, and be fortunate enough that (as is rarely the case) nature offers a clear and interesting answer.
*I am grateful for the CERN theory group's financial support during this visit.
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19 responses to "The Summer View at CERN"
david findley | July 27, 2016 at 8:50 AM |
It sounds like you guys aren't accomplishing anything. at all.
Matt Strassler | July 27, 2016 at 9:53 AM |
That's like saying that a bomb squad that clears a building without finding a bomb has done nothing at all.
Our job is to find out the truth. If nature offers something accessible for us to discover, our job is to discover it. If nature offers nothing for us to discover, then our job is to turn over every stone and be sure there's nothing that we missed. We would accomplish nothing only if we failed to do a thorough search [and most of my research involves making sure that we are thorough.] A thorough search that finds nothing, by contrast, is extremely useful scientific information.
For instance, the Michelson-Moreley experiment sought evidence of the ether for light waves. It found nothing. Do you call that "accomplishing nothing" even though it provided the basic knowledge that eventually led to the theory of relativity?
Gary R. | July 27, 2016 at 3:59 PM |
What about the new particle consisting of 4 quarks?
That is certainly Not Nothing!
Matt, we are still looking forward to any book you will publish!
Andrew2margaret | July 27, 2016 at 9:22 AM |
Matt i'm sure a lot of your readers would like to know where you are working these days. We know you went through some major disruptions in your career
Matt Strassler | July 27, 2016 at 10:42 AM |
I work outside science and academe, though I gratefully remain an Associate of the Harvard physics department, which is not really a "position" but allows me to keep a computer account and library privileges. The ever-worsening climate for science in the US isn't helpful.
Curious George | July 28, 2016 at 1:47 PM |
To get money you have to predict doom and gloom 🙂
Thank you for keeping us informed.
Abuisa | July 27, 2016 at 10:46 AM |
Thanks for the update. Are you hearing any rumours in the hallways, cafeteria that this indeed is firming up to be something real. I'm getting all excited.
Abuisa
OakTree (@Class_of_78) | July 27, 2016 at 11:57 AM |
"… The December ATLAS bump was so large and fat compared to what was seen at CMS …"
This could be the best news since the Higgs boson! Here's my point, the resonance is the same but at different times. Yes, I understand that the beams are ALMOST at c, but at that scale "almost" makes a difference. Could we, for the first time, be witnessing the "buildup" of a particular resonance, i.e. maybe nature is analog after all?
PS; I am very pleased to see get off that sofa and do some work for change, :-).
"So many questions, so little time."
john McAllison | July 27, 2016 at 2:26 PM |
Ah well… on a positive note, the LHC will be running for the next 20 years mercilessly probing the properties of the Higgs for deviations from the standard model. And there's, of course, the continued slaying of SUSY models to look forward to.
I feel the "ever-worsening climate for science in the US" is very pessimistic given the astonishing engineering/scientific feat of LIGO and more recent incredible skill of The Large Underground Xenon experiment at Stanford. But there's no denying the difficulty of being a cutting edge theoretical physicist in a world where one's skills tend to become obsolete over the years, unless one also specializes in teaching.
Matt Strassler | July 27, 2016 at 5:54 PM |
The funding climate in the US for science is pretty terrible.
Today, there's no chance that a LIGO-like experiment would be funded; it's success today is due to vision and funding from 30 years ago.
As for LUX, it's the exception that proves the rule. Why not count all the cancelled experiments before you mention the one that wasn't cancelled? Of course LUX is terrific, they funded the best scientists to do a great experiment; but that doesn't mean that the climate for young people trying to get off the ground with new experiments is good.
Have you seen what's happened to NIH? http://www.faseb.org/Portals/2/images/opa/Factsheet_Restore-NIH-Funding-Graph1.gif
Here's another useful graph that makes things look ok — in 2016 dollars, non-defense expenditures (blue curve) have been constant for a while
*but* there have been increases in costs for non-research items under the research budget (e.g. healthcare and insurance costs) which means the actual money spent on doing research has significantly declined.
As for the remark: "But there's no denying the difficulty of being a cutting edge theoretical physicist in a world where one's skills tend to become obsolete over the years, unless one also specializes in teaching", would you care to elaborate? This remark makes you appear a bit uninformed, but perhaps I've misunderstood you.
As for your initial remark about the LHC: again, this makes you appear a bit uninformed, on many levels.
Some Guy | July 29, 2016 at 8:11 AM |
And this is why: http://www.heritage.org/multimedia/infographic/2014/12/mandatory-spending-more-than-double-as-a-share-of-the-economy
Alas, it's going to get much worse.
robert | July 28, 2016 at 6:34 AM |
Thanks for updating us, Professor.
We'll be following your work.
bob-2
Marc | July 28, 2016 at 6:55 AM |
"it sounds like you guys aren't accomplishing anything, at all."
"The ever-worsening climate for science in the US isn't helpful."
This, quite literally, makes me want to cry. The effects of our failure to invest in research at the (already low) levels we have in the past will be paid for, dearly, many times over for a generation in lost knowledge and lost productivity. Worse yet, both are fundamental to keeping the quality of life we have come to expect through higher wages, reduced unemployment, and general improvements to our daily lives. People don't seem to understand that if we do not have a percentage of research that truly "finds nothing" then we are not pushing the envelope of our knowledge to the extent that we could and should be.
veeramohan | July 28, 2016 at 9:49 AM |
/And since a new particle that would produce a bump of this size was both completely unexpected and completely plausible./ – Humble words from the Professor ?
/Do you call that "accomplishing nothing" even though it provided the basic knowledge that eventually led to the theory of relativity?/
We feel the Mass, if the photon has zero mass (equivalence principle). If it is "almost c" – then the equivalence principle is violated ?
Higgs mass only fix the zero rest-mass of photons – thus preserving the equivalence principle. At higher energies, equivalence principle is violated – exposing the Isomorphic fluorescence – showing heavy Higgs (source of fluorescence) ?
Claude | July 28, 2016 at 10:30 AM |
Pr Strassler,
you did not comment on the book you were writing?
It is always a pleasure to read you, thank you.
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Daniel He hetianding | July 29, 2016 at 1:28 AM |
Are there any hypothetical particles that it could be?
jo | July 29, 2016 at 11:24 PM |
Way to go *mohan.
There's nothing like a good non-sequitur to kill a good discussion.
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I got to meet Betsey Johnson whom I love, and Kenneth Cole and received a few words of wisdom too. I grew up loving them and they were my idols. My dad was obsessed with the brand Kenneth Cole and my mother wore Betsey since she was a little girl. People cry to meet like Lady Gaga, but I cried after having sit downs with those two people. Attending Mercedes Benz for the first time and sitting in the second row when I was 20, I was hyped..(LoL). That was just everything to me at the time. Now its the norm, but then it was the height of it all.
What are (3) vital tips that any young stylist should keep in mind in order to have a promising career within this field?
Learn! Learn! Learn! Please don't think that you can wake up and just do it. You must study this craft. There is so much more to it than having great taste. Work under someone who is doing it and learnnnn! It will help you so much in the long run.
Aside from being a Celebrity Fashion Stylist, The Jacob Taylor Brand is "your baby". How did you come up with the name and what has the journey been like starting your own Women's Wear Collection?
It is my baby…OMG! Well, Jacob in Hebrew derives from the word to "supplant," which in few words can mean to "seize"!!..and Taylor for us means "Tailor." We just spelt it with a "y"..Aha! But Jacob is how my career went. I took it! You feel me? The word "NO" didn't exist. I wanted to be a stylist so bad and no one was stopping me, and Tailor is just one of the words that goes into someone utilizing a stylist. We want people to look sharp, everything to fit right and to just look good. So, the Jacob Taylor Brand was born. If that adds up!
What do you enjoy the most about your career? The least?
I love making people laugh, making them happy and meeting new people, so everyday I try to make someone feel just amazing through clothing. I also get to inspire so many young people who watch me and show them that you can be amazing at a young age and do so much. There are no limits.
What's the smartest piece of advice you can give to a woman about starting her own business?
Be focused and handle everything as a business! Socialize for the right reasons and be picky with who you do business with. Aim high! The worst that can happen is someone says no. So, just keep going and never stop trying to conquer it all. But be focused and try not to be all over the place. Conquer one thing at a time.
What's next for Fatiah Rebbekkah Muhammad? Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
In 5 years I want to be on the same level as Rachel Zoe. I want my brand to hold more than clothes. I want to include bags and shoes too. I also do a lot of hosting, so I want to end up like a VJ on MTV one day. Maybe…who knows.. I just want to do it allllllllll!!!
I began to be recognized and stopped by famous people because they knew my work. It felt great!


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GenCon: Games Ahoy
INDIANAPOLIS (August 11, 2011) – Gen Con Indy, the nation's largest annual consumer fantasy, sci-fi and adventure gaming convention experienced stunning growth this year. Turnstile attendance was over 119,707 with 36,733 unique attendees present for 96 hours of gaming, cosplay, music, shopping and more. This positive spike in turnout represents a greater than 20% increase in a single year. Game event participation grew even more steeply, with over 250,000 event tickets yielding an over 26% expansion throughout the Best Four Days In Gaming!
The exhibition hall moved to a larger section of the expanded Indiana Convention Center this year, just in time for greater crowds. The hall felt as packed on Thursday of GenCon as it did on Saturday of GenCon last year. A number of games debuted (Magic: the Gathering 2012) or returned (with DriveThruRPG's partnership with White Wolf Publishing had their booth packed as Vampire: the Masquerade was brought back into print).
Cryptozoic Entertainment, home of the World of Warcraft Trading Card Game, continued its expansion into card game category with the release of a new original game: Food Fight! With a mix of a cartoonish look with adult humor (Major Weiner, Private Pancake, Mean Burrito, Bad-Ass Bacon), it plays like a game of war with modifiers. The object of the game is to "make delicious meals" as the meals battle it out. Different entrees have different power levels (bacon, as it should be, is the yummiest at 11). Accompanying its launch were cards exclusive to GenCon. The game play seemed pretty basic, but that was only in demo mode. Once you get the hang of the various clever combos possible, there are a lot of moving parts to keep track of. The game will release concurrently with a digital version for the iPhone, iPad and Android.
I was more interested in their Walking Dead board game, but didn't get a chance to play test that.
The Family Fun Pavilion continues to be popular with the next generation of game players and their parents. Companies with all-ages entertainment products were swarmed with children, grandparents, educators and librarians looking for games for upcoming birthdays, holidays and back-to-school. Between family fun and regular Sunday badges, nearly 3,000 additional people joined Gen Con Sunday – adding considerable traffic to the show and helping exhibitors reach new fans.
Two games in particular were big hit with my sons: Angry Birds and Mind Flex. Angry Birds is pretty much what you think it is: Jenga meets … knocking down Jenga with spongy birds. With cards dictating the structures to be built, a played launches foamy birds at the construct (the cards also dictate how many tries they get and with which type of birds).
Mind Flex was the most intriguing of the games. Each player is fitted with headsets that measure brainwave activity. Then they battle out, via their ability to concentrate, on moving a ball back and forth. There are five different games, but the mental tug-of-war proved to be the most fun (especially between siblings). I'm telling you, I couldn't help but be reminded of the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode where the entire crew is taken down because they were addicted to playing a mind game.
Four days is not enough time to even come close to playing, uh, looking at all of the games at GenCon.


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Episode 31 – Borderlands 2
By Diggler in Podcasts Videos August 31, 2014
Episode 31: Poodle
Well, much like you hurt the ones you love, we failed to encapsulate all of what this game is and what makes it awesome. However, Borderlands 2 is a game that everyone, EVERYONE, should play because there are soooooooo many aspects of this game that set it apart from all of the other shooters out there. Do you want a game were you will never find the same weapon twice and that has an awesome and unique cast of characters AND has one of the most humorous and well timed scrips written, then you need to play this game. What other game out there can you find the time to summon characters named after the Ninja Turtles and then shoot a midget in his face mask, turning him into a hulking mega midget that flies into a rage that could end with your's and every other on-screen character's demise. A chick also shoots herself rather than hook up with Skooter, so that's cool too. By the way, Dirk loves himself some Skooter. CATCH-A-RIDE, CATCH-A-RIDE!!!!
While we were trying to decide how to appropriately convey what Borderlands 2 is, we decided to bring in yet another friend of the show, Todd. You may know him as the namesake of "Todd's Gaming News" as he holds all of our gaming news to a unparalleled standard. He also doesn't remember dogging on us so hard about our news segment that we named it after him, so that's fun. Outside of Borderlands (get it), we talk about a woman who is allegedly blowing people for a positive game review for her allegedly shitty game, the rumored Read Dead Redemption sequel, and what we hope will be the best game ever to exist in every sense of existence: The Saint's Row 4 sequel. We hope you've seen it coming down the road, so CATCH-A-RIDE with the Casual Cowards of Gaming for Episode 31.
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BitCloud21
Borderlands 2 is amazing. I've played through it multiple times. Torgue's Campaign of Carnage and Tiny Tina's Assault on Castle Keep are my favorite of the dlc missions.


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ChiefsPlanet > The Lounge > Chiefs Reid being Quizzed about Alex
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Hog's Gone Fishin
Q: Is he not seeing open receivers as much as in the past and is that because he's hurried?
REID: "Like I said, I'm not going to tell you it's one thing – it's not one thing. Sometimes people see something and that might not be the primary receiver and so it might not even be in that part of the progression and read. There's a lot of things that go into it. The thing I can do is stand before you and tell you that this isn't an Alex Smith thing, it's all of us. I know our players understand that and coaches. So we're all going to do better and raise our game up."
Q: How do they know this is not an Alex (Smith) thing – have you gone over that?
REID: "We all watch tape. Coaches coach, that's what we do. And we're around each other a lot so we all know all of our strengths, coaches and players, we all have strengths as human beings. We all know our strengths and our weaknesses. So I think we all understand that we can all do better. So that's what we're working on."
Q: Do you think some of Alex (Smith's) recent struggles are mental or how the team has played on the field?
REID: "I think it's not just Alex. I think people do that, and I told you that I've got to get better at doing my part. Each position has got to do better. This is a team game and so everybody has a piece of the pie. You're bringing it to Alex (Smith). I'm bringing it to all of us doing a better job. Alex is part of the team so he's included in that. But it's surely not just one person."
If Smith shits the bed against the Jets it's over for him
Dayze
bunch of words.
it's pointless to interview Andy, or any coach for that matter, on any football related topic.
ChiTown
Yeah, I don't believe that for a minute. I think Man-Boob Andy doubles down on his Alex Stupid.
If we lose to the Jets we need to just close up the franchise and call it a day.
Sandy Vagina
Chiefs coach Andy Reid said the offense's struggles are not "an Alex Smith thing."
"It's all of us," Reid said. "I know our players understand that and coaches. So we're all going to do better and raise our game up." The recent downturn has amplified calls for Smith to be benched in favor of first-round rookie Patrick Mahomes. Reid has consistently shot those down, however, and this comment is yet another vote of confidence for Smith. Still, if the offense continues to struggle, the coach may be forced to make a change.
http://www.rotoworld.com/headlines/nfl/369507/reid-struggles-not-an-alex-smith-thing?ls=roto:KC:topheadlines
:shrug:
Hammock Parties
It's not Alex.
That's why we gave up a shitload of draft capital to draft Patrick Mahomes, fellas.
Because it's not Alex.
Discuss Thrower
You can get Belichick talking about football if you know how to ask the question.
wazu
Reid can deflect all day. All I ask of our media is that they force him to do it. I want one question after another trying to get down to why Alex sucks.
"Is his throwing arm injured?"
"Have you had his eyes examined recently?"
"Any thoughts on why Alex is playing worse with each passing week?"
"Would it even be possible for Mahomes to do worse than this?"
basically its
"It's on all of us, coaches and players, to do everything we can with the hope that Alex elevates his play to an average level"
I would love to hear that question at a PC.
^ always been a lame excuse, Hammocks.
Draft picks are more for the future. Smith will be 34, far more expensive, and he's had multiple shoulder and concussion issues over a looooooong career.
Mahomes will have his time.. and soon. A little more pounding from Alex's peni to yo ass first though. :p
MahiMike
Yeah they're mostly just politicians.
This is the only real question they need to ask.
DaneMcCloud
Reid has consistently shot those down, however, and this comment is yet another vote of confidence for Smith. Still, if the offense continues to struggle, the coach may be forced to make a change
Forced by whom? Clark Hunt?
No one in the organization has the power to make Reid do anything.
He's autonomous when it comes to the coaching staff and decisions.
I guess Veach could pull a Power Play and cut Alex Smith but that kind of a move wouldn't turn out well for anyone.
The players and fans are stuck with Smith until Andy decides he's seen enough, which will likely be after it's too late.
Ok, so NOW that we've lost 5 of our last 6 games, with a 6th loss in our sights, "We're all going to do better and raise our game up." Wow, good luck with that! :clap:
our Media is horrible. asking dumb stuff like
"Coach, this week you guys go up against a team that has allowed only 13 yds rushing all season; is trying to figure out how to run the ball something you guys have been working on in practice"?
"Coach, you guys have only been fielding 4 guys on the field on Defense these past few weeks due to everyone having sprained labia and missing time. Now that they're healed up and will be returning......how important / how big is it to get those guys back and be able to field 11 guys on defense"?
I just think it's good the reporters are asking those questions.
Definitely. Something's got to spark the offense. All of them.
A little more pounding from Alex's peni to yo ass first though. :p
Are you for real right now?
I've had my way with Alex for over a month now. His ass is NEVER going to recover.
Actions speak louder than words...Reid's words mean next to nothing, and Philly fans said as much when he was hired.
Chunt isn't going to make Reid do anything. He handed Reid the keys to the franchise by choosing him as the winner in his little power struggle with Dorsey this past offseason. Andy is King. If Veach ever dared cross him, who's going to win in that circumstance?
Reid is not accountable to anyone but Chunt, who seems to be deeply in love with him.
Not the fans, not the players, not the general manager. Only to the president of his fan club.
Reid won't make a QB change unless he decides to try to save a playoff appearance this year, or after we are mathematically eliminated.
Man, I sure hate the "It's not one person" argument. It's such a strawman. No sane person would think that success in a team sport is entirely dependent on one player. Nobody ever actually argues that. What they do argue is that the QB is the most important position in the sport, and so if the QB is failing, it has a much bigger effect on the team than failure at other positions.
FUCK you , ANDY!!!!!! ADDRESS THE FACT THAT ALEX SMITH IS FUCKING FAILING AND THAT HIS FAILURE IS A MAJOR FACTOR IN THE TEAM LOSING1!!!!!!
HemiEd
How did Romeo Crennel say it? "We just gotta play good football!"
Reerun_KC
This....
Reid trying to spread the blame, which is understandable. And there is some truth to that -- Smith isn't the only one struggling.
But the follow-up question should be something like: OK, it's not just an Alex problem. But how much of the problem is Alex? Or are you saying that all blame is shared equally?
As Mellinger wrote the other day, all players are a piece, but not all pieces are equal in size and importance.
Not that Reid would suddenly break and say, "Ah, ya got me. Alright, it's mostly on Alex, and everyone knows it, he's really stunk it up lately and he's on thin ice." But I would want to keep Reid squirming and have to come up with different answers.
And I'll say it again.
Refuse to bench Smith and you deserve to lose every game from here on out.
Thank you, this post is good.
Did anyone really think Andy was going to say anything specific at this point?
I don't even have to visit this forum anymore:
Alex Sucks!
Start Pat!
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This one's on me - I've gotta do a better job
ptlyon
Well get to it!
I hope the refusal to bench Smith is Andy's misguided loyalty to Alex rather than they don't think they'd do any better with Mahomes.
Imagine how awful it's going to if they start Mahomes and he looks like shit.. :shake:
Maybe Andy doesn't feel like Mahomes is ready yet.
Idk, frankly. It's all speculation anyway since Andy won't tell us anything of any meaning.
BlackHelicopters
Will someone please PM me when Smiff is no longer the QB so I can tune in. My boycott is real.
I don't think that record would be able to play at all, much less on a loop.
I'm on the other end of things. Imagine how much of a fool he's going to look like if Pat comes in and we're able to run a real offence and put up points. Then people will be wondering "WTF did Andy stick with Alex so long"
if Andy keeps Alex in and he still stinks up the joint for the rest of the season and they move on to Pat this offseason, any success Pat has will be attributed to 'another offseason' to prepare him. So Andy won't have to face questions about why he didn't move on to Pat when Alex was sucking so bad.
lcarus
The only way we're winning ANY of the games left on our schedule is if the defense and special teams can figure out how to put points on the board every game. Otherwise we're gonna keep losing like 13-10 and 27-17 type of games.
And that's assuming our defense doesn't gas out, allowing teams to put up 30+ on us.
ThaVirus
Sounds like Reid's feeling the pressure about a QB change
No no... this one's on him. He's gotta do a better job getting the players in a position to make plays.
i'd love a reporter to follow up after one of Andy's "That's on me, gotta do bettter" BS comments to ask
"Coach...when can we expect that to happen"?
That's another angle that needs to be explored.
With responsibility comes accountability. You can't keep accepting responsibility for failure without paying a price. Just saying "it's on me" over and over is meaningless if you aren't held accountable for that.
"Well, uhhhhhhh, (clears throat), ummmmm...."
Red Dawg
Andy is full of shit like all coaches in press conferences. He will not say the truth. There is no chance when they look at film Smith is not standing out as the major problem.
OKchiefs
Andy sounds like an abused wife who keeps protecting the husband that is beating her.
The reporters in this town are to busy trying to defend them instead of asking real questions.
What owner makes a coach do anything? Name an owner that has made a coach bench a player?
Coochie liquor
Thought I heard KC has never won in the Meadowlands.
Too windy
KINGPIN CHIEFS FAN
You play to win the game!
srvy
Really it's what I expect very few coaches are going to single out one player and push him under the bus.
Just got to have faith that our QBs are being evaluated fairly. And the hammer falls sooner than later when it's to late.
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^that^
Never beaten the Giants up there
Not sure about the Jets. We've beaten the Jets in NY, not sure if we ever beat the Jets in East Rutherford.
tooge
It's funny that the fans and press give the NFL coaches so much power. They are treated like genius men that must know more than everyone else. Fact is, these guys, most of them, are former players, at least at the college level, that got some lame degree while playing football. They aren't any smarter than anyone else. They just have 20 hours a day to watch football tape and make game plans and design plays off of what they see.
Point is, when trouble arises, we all expect them to have some magic answer. They don't. They aren't that smart. What is he gonna say? "Alex sucks. We gave up two very high draft picks to get him, but in the end, he's the same POS he's always been. I thought I was smarter than the last coach, but it turns out I'm not." No, he's not going to say that. He's going to speak coach speak and tell you nothing until they make a decision. THen he's going to say something like "we just felt the team needed a spark" or some BS.
hitchief
Andy and his staff watch tape.
CP posters play Madden.
Let see, which group do I give more credence too? tough choice really after reading all the in depth analysis going on in here. Wr's are open everywhere, yeah after the pocket has collapsed or is collapsing or like Andy said maybe that wr is the 2nd or 3rd in the progression and Alex didn't have the time to look his way. Its soo freaking stupid to really think Alex wont throw to a wide open wr. Every dam qb misses open wr's due to a ton a factors every dam game people. They are not looking down from a sky cam viewing the entire field you idiots.
Oh wait, forget all that, Alex sucks, everything will be a okay of Pat takes over.
What the hell are all you cry babies gonna do when we (no Alex) we make the playoffs? Which sorry ass bitch in here is gonna be rooting against Alex (and thus or team) to make themselves feel better/vindicated? Freaking sad.
Kiimosabi
Andy Reid hasn't given a straight answer since he came here I'm not sure why people keep asking him questions at all. Pure coachspeak.
You will now be escorted to the pit of misery!
Dilly Dilly!
almost as sad as someone, or a mult, who has 200 posts in 4.5 years and only appears on the board to instigate on issues that are clearly divisive.
11Chiefs
The only follow up question that seems relevant... "These past few week and multiple times in the past following a lose your go to statement is it all comes back to you, the head coach. How long should a GM or in our case the owner take that as an acceptable answer? After starting 5-0 is it 6 out of the following 7 games?"
So, what you're saying is that we, as fans, should just shut up, root for the team unconditionally, and just trust anything and everything the coaching staff does? Clark Hunt loves you, and that's exactly the attitude that's made the Chiefs a loser franchise - no accountability, no demand for excellence, no premium placed on winning in the postseason.
IF KC makes the playoffs, and that's a huge if at this point, we aren't going to draw Brian fucking Hoyer again. KC will get curb stomped by whoever they play. Then the Mahomes era can finally begin, and maybe decades of failure and retreads can be put behind us.
ForeverChiefs58
If Andy and coaches watch tape and sees the struggles are someone else's fault (like O-line), why not just call them out to the fans?
It would be much easier to find a new lineman and would get fans off his beloved QB
If not, then he should understand fans blame QB's, and if it's someone else's fault, then a new QB would struggle as well.
And that his new QB's start could get off on the wrong foot and lose fans early.
Of course no one believes this shit. Smith has the same struggles with a different team, different coaches, and different players all with the same result...he needed to be replaced before fans revolted. Much the way it ended with Cassel
Alex Smith is Matt Cassel part duex
Told ya'll Walrus was full of that BULLSHIT!!!! Terez has disappointed me on this issue as well. I like Terez a lot but I think he and others have been instructed not to fan the flames.
FYCK YOU ANDY YOU FAT MUTHAFUCKA!!!! EAT A DICK!!!!!!
Terez is beat writer, is he not?
Pretty sure his entire job revolves around not pissing off the team.
For those who say maybe Mahomes is not ready. Really muthafucka? Why did they make him the #2 than? He is just one hit away from going in. FUCK THE CHIEFS!!!!
until they put Mahomes in.
Like asking Peyton Manning to write a food blog about who makes the best pizza.
K-CA20
If the Chiefs lose this game on Sunday, I think Reid will pull the trigger on Patrick.
If we lose, it will be because of our Offense.
King_Chief_Fan
IF KC makes the playoffs, and that's a huge if at this point, we aren't going to draw Brian ****ing Hoyer again. KC will get curb stomped by whoever they play. Then the Mahomes era can finally begin, and maybe decades of failure and retreads can be put behind us.
I have to laugh as fans think Mahomes is going to save the day..way too much wrong with this team to fix before
fresh meat is thrown out to other teams defenses
I disagree. There are games that we lost over the last 6 weeks that arguably we would have won with Patrick as our QB. Not saying we don't have other issues. However, I think a change at QB would wake up the offense.
TimBone
I would love to hear that question at a PC.That made me laugh out loud as well. Kados, Wazu.
Few are guaranteeing Mahomes will save the day. The whole point is that Smith is who he is, he's not going to lead this team anywhere, and Mahomes was brought in to take over the team. The team is in a tailspin, with no signs of being able to escape. It's time to see the kid, get him some game experience, and start the process of figuring out what exactly we have in Mahomes. If you wait until he has the perfect situation to step into, he'll never play in KC.
Chickenshit fans like you are trying to turn this into something it's not.
The point of this thread isn't about what Andy says because he says what he's supposed to say and no coach is going to dump on one player.
The point is that people are making sure Andy knows we ALL see that Smith is the problem
He is absolutely on the defensive, but what can Andy really say here?
Letting the mob demand that he throw his handpicked starter under the bus for everyones amusement, isnt something any good leader would do... he is only trying to maintain team dignity with all of the terse coachspeak
Flying High D
Mara Eli next
BigRedChief
The reporters in this town are to busy trying to defend them instead of asking real questions.l made a post on Twitter calling them out for not asking tough questions. They got all upset and defensive.
Pretty sure his entire job revolves around not pissing off the team.isnt that the dilemma of all journalists? You call out the BS of the people you cover or ask tough questions, you lose access to the people you cover.
Chiefs Moon
Hope you get the chance to laugh or cry. We won't know until Mahomes gets a chance. But if he plays, worst case we'll know more about him for next year. It's a shame Alex destroyed his value for a trade.
Indy with PM 13-3
PM out 0-16
Donkeys with PM 13-3
Greenbay with Aaron Rodgers 13-3
AR out 3-13
QB's make a fucking difference. And we're closer every day to enjoying the ride thats getting ready to take place.
Owners have benched and played players.
RGIII, Eli, Manziel (owner's choice), etc.
This is nothing new.
Chiefshrink
Al Davis setting Marcus Allen which worked out great for us.:D
Yeah, the Chiefs won so many important games with Allen
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How? Did we win the SB? We all have some fine memories except for the one we want. A title.
QB's make a ****ing difference. And we're closer every day to enjoying the ride thats getting ready to take place.
LOL did you just compare a rookie who hasn't played a snap to AR? ROFL
I think the analogy is qbs make a difference.
T-post Tom
Per some local sources at the time, it really wasn't Marty who benched Peterson's adopted son after the "Monday Night Meltdown". (Despite what the Chiefs may have said at the time.)
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Molitoth
You win, he loses.
Yep, as well as Peyton Manning!
John Gruden has compared PM2 to Favre .
RGIII was forced on the coaches I agree.
I heard an interview with Mara, he had no idea they were benching Eli before hand, it was not his call, that was Reese and Macadoo.
I have never heard anywhere where Manziel was forced on the field by ownership of the Browns.
Ill give you RGIII but thats not even remotely close to this situation.
True but I believe Al Davis was also the GM of the Raiders. Also a perfect example of why owners shouldn't be involved in game day personnel decisions.
Disciplinary benching, not on field performance based. Not the same. See Larry Johnson for further example.
PutQuinnIn
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Guys, a friend of mine said if the Chiefs had this record with Mahomes starting no one would want him benched. So I said there's a difference in a 21 year old rookie and a dude that's 34 and is what he is. The exact quote I got back was.. "No there isn't" Then I tried to explain upside and trajectory vs no upside and only decline and all I got back was "there's no difference it's the same record"
To which I said you are fucking obtuse and hung up my phone.
To which I said you are ****ing obtuse and hung up my phone.
You need new friends. :D
And its not just about their record, its about how Alex has played and why they have that record. Like you said 34 years old and in his what 12th season?
you're friends with Bob Fecsoe?
Bewbies
If Mahomes was starting all year and we were 6-5 I'd be thrilled.
If Mahomes started 5-0 in God mode and then looked like Alex Smith over the last 6 games I'd be worried. And he's only 21. When you're 34 and look like that you're fucking done.
The uphill battle Mahomes will have with this fanbase will be staggering. Winning or not. He isn't proven and we didn't trade for him.
The average fan of the Chiefs is about what you see in social media. Our fanbase is mostly full of low class fools.
If Mahomes started 5-0 in God mode and then looked like Alex Smith over the last 6 games I'd be worried. And he's only 21. When you're 34 and look like that you're ****ing done.
I wouldn't be too worried. Wentz started off hot last year and came back to Earth. This year he is a top 3 NFL QB.
If Mahomes started the year we'd be 10-1 just like the Eagles and Carson Wentz
maybe this isn't the year where everything starts to Click for Alex - as I've actually read on this site.
maybe it Clicks NEXT year. fingers crossed.
CoMoChief
Unfortunately I doubt it will be. :(
KCrockaholic
"It's not him, it's me. I've got to be a better wife." - Andy
Or, maybe, because Chiefs
Not a Dayze goes by that I don't laugh at one of your posts. LMAO
Dartgod
No one can possibly know that.
I guess you missed the preseason.
If we could go back through each of the 5 games we lost and change 2 or 3 plays where Smith shit the bed we'd be 10-1 right now.AND:
Mahomes >Smith
PAChiefsGuy
So tell me what Mahomes numbers would be right now? Obviously if he is better and we'd be 10-1 he'd have better numbers. Alex 'All I Do Is Win' Smith has 19 TDs 4 INTs, 68 compl%, 2,873 yds, 250 rush yds...
I'll be interested to see what numbers you think Mahomes would be putting up as a rookie.
So tell me what Mahomes numbers would be right now? Obviously if he is better and we'd be 10-1 he'd have better numbers. Alex 'All I do is win in the regular season' Smith has 19 TDs 4 INTs, 68 compl%, 2,873 yds, 250 rush yds...
Dude you are trying to argue with a guy who just fucks with people
This is the guy who said Manziel was going to be the next greatest thing at QB and rode that until the wheels fell off because dipshits like you thought he was serious
He'd be at 27 TDs 6 Int's 68% 3500 yards
and we'd be 10-1
He listens to him all the time and basically tells me how Fescoe is brilliant. It hurts my brain.
I'd personally compare Mahomes to Smith as a rookie. Tell me how you think that comparison would look? I'll put it this way. Mahomes could have 10 touchdowns and 13 interceptions and he'd look like a pro bowler compared to Alex Smith as a rookie.
So you do agree with me. :D
RunKC
What are his numbers the last 6 games?
OnTheWarpath15
All he does is win.
Except for the 5 times in the last 6 games when he didn't.
But sure, let's ignore that and just focus on the few good games he had 2 months ago that are inflating his statistics.
I'm still waiting for PAchiefs to look at Smith's rookie numbers.
RippedmyFlesh
The real problem.
He is not a gunslinger, not a charismatic spokesperson and not a social guy who takes his linemen out for beers.
http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/21620782/kc-quarterback-alex-smith-determined-keep-patrick-mahomes-ii-bench
I looked them up for him
1 TD
40.8 Rating
No way in hell PM2 even comes close to that
kcxiv
and have no clue, i was arguign with some turd on the chiefs reddit, he said that Tom Brady would be Alex Smith without Bill Bellichick as his coach! lol Dudes 40 years old still putting on fucking QB clinics.
Also this entire fan base thinks that it has nothing to do with the QB, they always blame everything else especially the line.
In Kansas City the offensive line is more important than the QB to a shit ton of fans.
Look at our old gal Liz Merrill go, talk about a lengthy expose... very well done, but wow it should've been a 3 part story
Had no idea she was at ESPN, mostly because I never go to ESPN... but I like her style
chiefzilla1501
Andy Reid will not say things to the media to rock the boat with his players.
I think Andy Reid knows mahomes has a much higher ceiling. I don't think Andy Reid makes a qb change this year and it has more to do with waiting on mahomes than it is a vote of confidence with Alex Smith. And I'm perfectly OK with that painful as it may be. After so many years of shitty qb play I've never been more content and satisfied with it because for the first time, we are very very close to doing the right thing. Patience, folks.
She wasn't the right person to cover one team. But I respect her work. Better niche for her to have a wider range of stories to tell. She does a ton of homework on her stories and she's a good storyteller.
Also... Interesting tidbit about Mccarthy. I never put two and two together that Alex Smith had a strong green Bay connection. Wonder how much that played into Reid and Dorsey going after him.
okcchief
J E T S JETS! JETS! JETS!
Sweet Daddy Hate
NOTHING Reid says should ever be weighed, considered, or debated; it's ALL pointless, coach gobbledygook.
You only say that because he isn't saying what you want to hear.
Again, you show your ignorance.
Do you even Reid?
You simply don't care. We've WELL ESTABLISHED that everything Reid says is golden music to your True Fan ears.
We get it, homie.
Alex 'All I Do Is Win' Smith is starting tomorrow.
Alex 'All I do is win in the regular season' Smith is starting tomorrow.
So....you've stopped watching the games, then? :)
I don' know why you would be 'content and satisfied' with sh** QB play. If you think we can't win the SB with him, that's fine. However you should at the very least want Smith to play well so we can get maximum trade value for him in the upcoming offseason.
I don' know why you would be 'content and satisfied' with sh** QB play. At the very least you should want Smith to play well so we can get maximum trade value for him.
My main concern is that we don't make the qb switch in 2018 and a smooth transition out. A draft pick is just icing on the cake. Maybe we lost a round in value if Alex continues to play like shit but it's going to be a third rounder or lower anyway... In the grand scheme of things, how much is that really. But it makes it that much easier for Reid and veach to make the decision and for Alex lovers to recognize that the move had to be made.
I like Alex, am appreciative that he brought us stability, and actually feel bad that he's going out like this. But his time is up and I care a lot more about that than I care about a draft pick.
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In Aspen with Tom Lehrer on my Mind
Nigel M. de S. Cameron
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Once a Tom Lehrer fan, always one; at least, you can't keep him out of your head. So I was sitting in Aspen at the TPI innovation conference a week or two back, and this time it was his Vatican Rag. But the tagline now: "innovate, innovate, innovate."
Of course, in tech circles innovation is the talk of the town (as in, Washington), even though it is often twinned with a sense of resignation. The problem is that politics was never designed for a society in which the rate of technology's development is exploding at ever more rapid rates. Remember Thomas Malthus, 18th century English clergyman and statistician, and his half-true theory of demographics? (It was resurrected for a time in the semi-hoax of the "population bomb" in the 60s.) Malthus said population grows geometrically, food resources arithmetically; ergo famine, disease, large-scale death. So here: technology's progress is as exponential as it comes, Moore's Law as far as the eye can see. And politics? Our system of governance? Well, it's arithmetical in every sense. Big Bang versus Steady State. Which did not much matter when the curve was a lot flatter. We saw the future in gradualist terms, and we got away with it. No longer. We're facing a crisis, potentially deadly, for the nation that has been fated to be top dog as the exponential tech revolution heads skyward. How is steady-state politics to fathom, let alone frame, the fissile material that is 21st century technology?
Intel's Paul Otellini has been hammering his theme. American needs innovation; it needs an innovation-focused Washington; the nation's losing its edge. Earlier in the year he teamed up with the Aspen Institute to host a crisis summit at the Ronald Reagan Building in downdown DC. Otellini emceed corporate leaders, innovation gurus like John Kao, and the Obama administration's Larry Summers and Arne Duncan. What's innovation? Why is it in crisis? What can be done? It was impressive, an A-list event that kept the A-listers on task for 24 hours.
Then as summer came we circled around, and Otellini again was center-stage in Aspen – Aspen the place, this time, not the Institute. A glittering occasion. As well as Otellini, the Technology Policy Institute hosted CEO-turned-politico Carly Fiorina, VC and LinkedIn pioneer Reid Hoffman, Intuit's folksy CEO Brad Smith, and Valley entrepreneur and writer Andrew Keen. And its program asked the question, over and over: is America losing its edge? (Answer does not require a trip to Aspen. It's yes. And you can see the video online. Techpolicyinstitute.org)
My point is that the questions go deep. How shall government of the people, by the people, for the people, guided by members of Congress who dutifully ride their horses to Washington for two-year stints per the Constitution, and an administration whose decisional timeline is rarely longer, address what is best seen as a slow but quickening and essentially uncontrolled explosion? Today's key resource that creates both wealth and security is something quite novel: information, data. Perhaps the most disruptive invention in our generation has been something which simply didn't exist a generation ago: search. Most people think the "digital revolution" is now mainly behind us. It has barely, barely begun. And you don't have to be a disciple of Kurzweil to believe that the curve is set to start going close to vertical in our lifetimes. One a counter-intuitive principle of living with change: the faster it goes, the more important to look ahead. We just can't make good decisions for today without spending time in tomorrow.
Back in the early 2000s, the National Science Foundation, brainchild of that practical genius Vannevar Bush (who famously foresaw an analog version of the web using that handy but clunky old-time invention, the microfiche), convened a series of conferences on what they called "converging technologies" – nano, bio, info, cogno, the "NBIC" mantra. I presented at one, attended others, and have written of them in critical terms as they were too much influenced by a naïve "transhumanism" (which blunted, rather than sharpened, their impact) and not enough focused on engaging the policy implications of the very remarkable developments they considered. But they were right to throw the future in the mix and ask hard questions about where current tech trends are leading.
And where is there now to meet the future in Washington? It's future-mindedness that we need more than anything other single thing. A visionary, open, reflective, awareness that science and technology are framing every emerging question. That there is no area of policy or social and personal life unaffected. That change gets faster every day. That every elected and appointed official, while they may not be technologists, must be a futurist. Must have the keenest interest in what lies ahead, in the pace of change, how things are trending, in the impacts good and bad of every shift in the power and price of the chip – and every creative thought that determines what those chips deliver. And the chips are driving it all. Synthetic biology applies engineering to genetics. Artificial intelligence and robotics are moving far beyond the production lines of Detroit. One thing we know as we look ahead: this will not be your grandmother's future. I won't say all bets are off, because some things are pretty clear. Two of them are the sheer extraordinary pace of change, and its pervasive, disruptive impacts.
Yet out political culture continues pretty much as it has. We fund S and T. The genome project was for a time center-stage. Now it is the $1.5 bn National Nanotechnology Initiative (on which C-PET has a half-day Roundtable discussion on 9/17; come join us). And of course the Space Program. And NIH. We all agree all these things are important, vital. Researchers, and tech business leaders, want more funding for research and development. They want a tax regime that would make the United States the most competitive, start-up friendly nation in the world. We may well think that is a no-brainer. (Why are no-brainers so hard in DC?)
But the issue goes deeper. The problem in Washington lies not just in the short-term nature of politics, but also in the privileging of issues of disagreement that often gives them more importance than they deserve, in our binary political environment; and disprivileging, as it were, of issues that don't fit the conventional divides. Then add that few of our leaders are attuned to the future. We know there are exceptions. But we know the default. And while democracy strenuously needs principled disagreement, no nation will thrive in the 21st century that cannot place the impact of technology – and its implications, good and bad – at the center of its view of things, and do so in manner that is both highly informed and multi-disciplinary.
Of course, no-one in Washington is actually against innovation. It sounds odd to be asking the question, when every year huge sums in federal dollars are doled out to the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health; when the Department of Defense is a vast consumer and patron of the highest tech around; when the current administration came in trailing a cloud of appointees and rhetoric from Silicon Valley and Seattle. And of course the United States dominates the global emerging technology landscape in ways that many do not quite grasp. Perhaps 75%. Yet this extraordinary dominance is not our birthright, and U.S. companies are busy globalizing – not least to hedge their bets.
One of the stars of the Intel/Aspen conference was John Kao, whose brilliantly perceptive book on innovation lays out an anatomy of the problem. He wants innovation-specific roles in DC, an innovation council, an "innovation czar" approach. That might be useful. I'm not convinced. It might also let everyone else off the hook, and in the process ensure the failure of the "innovation" appointees. And it assumes a model of government as problem-solver that many of us question, especially in the 21st century and in the area most open-textured and dependent on initiative. Yes, by all means let's have the most innovation-friendly tax (and immigration) regimes in the world. But that is government removing obstacles rather than trying itself to solve problems. The issue is pervasive and needs a pervasive solution. How about this? We all read the news stories about the vast questionnaire required of potential Obama appointees. What about adding a smart instrument to test engagement, aptitude, awareness of innovation and its future? – an innovation/futurist litmus-test for every political appointee? That's the kind of thing a seriously integrated, pro-innovation government would take forward.
As a congressional newspaper put it recently, Digital Nation, Analog Hill. And the issue is not simply the Hill (which, for the record, has full-function email, although remains one of the few places on earth where faxes are still in routine use). It's appointees to thousands of offices and hundreds of boards. It's the think tanks. Washington has (literally) hundreds of them. There are half a dozen big ones with wide-ranging portfolios and the intellectual firepower of universities. Where is technology, innovation, on their agendas? The issue is one of pervasive corporate culture.
And what about the west coast, the Valley, the tech heavyweights? Well when they get into town, they tend to do what people in town do: focus on the next year, focus on language issues, lobby the FCC, work on tax breaks for R and D. Which at one level is fine. Yet their cynicism about policymakers and their focus on immediate issues go hand in hand. All very logical, especially when they have been assured by their policy people that there is no chance of influencing the culture, game-changing, paradigm-shifting. Washington's time-horizon is if anything shorter than before. Get over it, and get in there and lobby. Big, big mistake. We gotta change the culture. How? I have ideas, we all have ideas. We have to work at it. Keep working at it. America needs our efforts, and if we keep at it, year in year out, on a corporate and social rather than a political timescale, we may succeed. If we don't, one thing we can be sure of is that we won't.
Fortune 100 corporations work with 5, 10-year plans and in the tech sector are constantly scoping beyond the next decade. And that's what they need to do in DC, side by side with what they do now; lobby for the short term, work for change in the long. The corporate culture of our political establishment is sick, it is antithetical to the interests of the nation as well as its technology companies, and it is failing to face the radical implications that emerging developments will have for its own agenda. Employment. Healthcare. Security. Education. Technology policy has long since ceased to be chiefly about technology – but, as Michael Caine would say, not many people know that.
And the next big thing? We listened in Aspen while Otellini warned that unless Washington changes, it will not come from Silicon Valley. The world is flat, and getting flatter.
Much flatter than back in the 60s, when globalized threats were of another kind and Tom Lehrer sang his satire on the loyalties of the famous German rocket scientist whose skills had laid the foundation of the space program. But Lehrer's caustic humor is as relevant now on a very different competitive stage. "And I'm learning Chinese, says Wernher von Braun."
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Q: Zend Framework 2 application structure Over the last few weeks, I saw a few Zend Framework 2 projects. While comparing them, I noticed they basically all follow the same structure:
A module named application handles all actions for the site – the "Frontend logic" for the different parts of the application (like news posts, user profile, email settings etc.).
For every part of the application, there is at least one module, but that only contains the "Backend logic" (adding news, deleting users etc.).
I think they all build on top of the Zend Framework 2 Skeleton Application.
Is this a best practice or are there any other common or recommended patterns on how to structure an application? Why can't I write a news posts module that contains backend & frontend parts?
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Is this a best practice or are there any other common or recommended
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The answer is no, there is no predifined structure for Zend Framework 2 applications, contrary to ZF1. You are free to define the structure that fits your needs. This is due to the Zend\Loader\StandardAutoloader which builds the path to the class referenced by prepending the base directory path for that namespace to the class name, and then include that Class. So the structure  of your application folder directory can be organized as you want.
This standard structure which is used by skeleton application is just a recommandation by the ZF2 Team. And your are not obliged to follow it if you believe that your needs are best adapted by a different structure.
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├── config
│   ├── application.config.php
│   └── autoload
│       ├── global.php
│       └── local.php.dist
├── data
│       └── cache
├── init_autoloader.php
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│       └── Application
├── public
│       ├── css
│       ├── images
│       ├── index.php
│       └── js
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        ├── ZF2
        └──init_autoloader.php

The module's structure defined and recommanded by the Zend Team respects the PSR0 standard. You can add modules with a different structure that the one recommanded but you have to respect some rules in addition to the PSR0-standard, among other things the module.php file in the root of the module.
You could read more in the Rob Allen's post : Thoughts on module directory structure, which explains how you can change the modules directory structure whilst respecting the recommanded standards.

Also, how modular should I write my modules?

A module is a component which regroups one or many functionalities (frontend/backend/design) of the application. The main advantage of using modules is that they separate your code and thay can be re-used in many other applications. Having this idea on mind, you'll be able to know when you should create a module and when you shouldn't.
You could also refer to this excellent post on how to write better Zend Framework 2 modules.

A: This is just down to personal preference of the developer. The skeleton application starts with just one module called 'Application' which is why you might see that a lot. It is not required - I normally rename it to something more suitable.
You can organise modules however you wish. You could certainly create a news module with both frontend and backend functionality - structure them in whatever way makes sense for your application.
When considering how 'modular' to make things, think about whether you might want to reuse that functionality in another project in the future. If yes, then making it into a module of its own might make sense.

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