dear Sir..

i have iPhone which has a strange behaviour, if it is plug in wall charger, it can turn on but in restore mode (only cable and itunes logo)

but when i unplug it, the iphone becomes dead, plug it into computer usb, nothing happen, cannot detect either.... by itunes

is my battery already dead? or it is still software problems?

someone please give me opinions,....

thank you :)

Richard Bartle has a little piece on the rhyming structure of this lovely poem by Carol Ann Duffy.

Mrs Schofield’s GCSE

You must prepare your bosom for his knife,
said Portia to Antonio in which
of Shakespeare’s Comedies? Who killed his wife,
insane with jealousy? And which Scots witch
knew Something wicked this way comes? Who said
Is this a dagger which I see? Which Tragedy?
Whose blade was drawn which led to Tybalt’s death?
To whom did dying Caesar say Et tu? And why?
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark - do you
know what this means? Explain how poetry
pursues the human like the smitten moon
above the weeping, laughing earth; how we
make prayers of it. Nothing will come of nothing:
speak again. Said by which King? You may begin.

Sez Bartle,

Maybe I’m missing something, or I’m not reading this with the right internal accent, but calling this “rhyming” is a bit of a stretch, isn’t it?

Not at all! In fact, this is a nice Shakespearean sonnet. Loosely, this can be termed half rhyme or slant rhyme, and she’s not even using all that aggressively. For example

• tragedy/why I would call a stretch because it is dependent on accent. “Wha-ee” is a valid pronunciation for “why” but part of rhyming in print, honestly, lies in the eye and people don’t “hear” the word that way when read.
• you/moon is a classic case of assonance, with a full rhyme on the vowels and not on the consonants. So is said/death; a trick with the “ed” and “deh” sounds — reversing them. Cute.
• nothing/begin. Again, if you say it more as “nuthin’” it rhymes fine, but is again somewhat accent-dependent. It’s also an imperfect rhyme because the rhyme is between a stressed and an unstressed syllable

More interesting to me was the way that internal rhyme and consonance is used in the poem to supplement the loose rhyming. For example, the tragedy/why rhyme is greatly helped by the internal rhymes, the hammering on the “which” sound — almost Manley Hopkins, there — and the lovely parellelism of “which I see? Which tragedy?” And of course, the actual flight of poetic language, the smitten moon. That doesn’t even get into what the poem is about.

In August 2008, her poem ‘Education for Leisure’ was removed from the AQA GCSE poetry anthology following a complaint from an external examiner. The complaint was on the grounds that it could prompt or glorify knife crime; in the poem, the narrator kills a fly and a goldfish (there are hints about the cat being threatened), and finally goes out onto the street with a breadknife - “… I touch your arm”. Schools were urged to destroy copies of the unedited anthology. Duffy countered this removal with a poem [this one] discussing how the teaching of fiction about violent themes does not necessarily spark copycat behaviour.

- Wikipedia

For every field there is its craft; guitarists seek percussive players or the careful bend, and coders elegance of algorithm. At this point, the few who play with formal verse are perhaps the only ones who can appreciate the way she broke her third quatrain, to place her prayer on the all-important couplet’s opening line; her sonnet’s structure, not Petrarchan, to do justice to the topic; or the way in which this paragraph is made of iambs.

Cet émulateur Amstrad CPC resté un peu en léthargie durant un moment reprend vie avec encore une nouvelle version:
Emulation
- Added PAL Emulation display modes.
- Improved anti-aliasing in Half-Size display mode and minor optimisation to palette setting.
- Fixed a bug reading 8K (or larger) sectors from a DSK file when they are stored in the DSK with their actual size.
- Fixed a bug in disc drive sound emulation, initialising with noise when turned off.

Configuration
- Added PAL Emulation option in Display Settings.

Graphics Editor
- Added Rotate Clockwise and Rotate Anti-Clockwise functions, available in the right-click menu.

Other
- Improved sound synchronization for writing of AVI files.
- Changed default behaviour of CPCDOS to only auto-detect file types from files with no AMSDOS header when the LOAD or RUN BASIC commands are used.
- Fixed reporting of bad tracks in DSK images to show the correct track for single-sided images.
- Added the ability to specify an Auto-Type file from the command line. This will execute after BASIC startup. e.g. WinAPE /T:test.atp
- Added a LOAD command to Auto-Type to load a binary file into memory. e.g. ~LOAD filename,#4000~ or ~LOAD filename~
The default directory is the last directory from which an Auto-Type file was read.
- Added the ability to specify a disc image for drive B: from the command line. e.g. WinAPE /B:test.dsk
- Updated the automatic update executable installer (Update.exe) to attempt to stop virus scanners from deleting ot detecting it incorrectly.

Known Issues
- Changes to ASIC registers through the Gate Array occur approximately 6 pixels too early. On the real CPC Plus, changes to the palette using the GA (i.e. OUT instruction) occur 6 pixels after the register is written (approximately 0.375us). Exact emulation of this has not been done since no CPC software currently requires this degree of accuracy, and emulation would probably result in a significant degradation of performance.
- The ASIC does not allow a number of registers to be read. This does not affect any current CPC software, and needs to be analysed fully before being emulated.
- DirectDraw Surface Lock errors were occurring on some machines in 2.0 Alpha 7. I have modified the code slightly, but this may not have fixed the issue, still waiting on information back from the users involved.
- The supplied Help file is not supported in Windows Vista by default since WinHelp.exe has been removed from Vista (along with a lot of other functionality ?).


Demos Tested - Not Fully Working
- Power System Megademo (PWMD-A.DSK, PWMD-B.DSK, PWMD-C.DSK) - Last part before end reports CRTC Type 1 when Type 0 is used. - Screen jumps in Chany Part (Part 3)
- S&KOH Intro (Not on DSK) - HSYNC problem
- Soul Almighty (SOUL-ALM.DSK) - Digisampled jumper seems to jump too much (VSYNC?)
Télécharger WinAPE32 v2.0 Alpha 17Site Officiel de WinAPE32

Hi,
I'm experiencing some strange network behaviour with my new Belkin G+ Mimo router. Wether connected wirelessly or through ethernet, the connection drops every few seconds making it impossible to use Software Update and download files larger than 1 mb through safari. See graph of download activity:

Has anyone any suggestion of what the problem might be? Since the pattern is the same using wired and wireless connection, it must be something other than the wireless settings...

(By the way, everything is fine when connecting directly to the modem)

About Dogs - Training and Behaviour

Publication Date: 2008 Sep 4 PMID: 18769437Authors: Aziz, E. F. - Ottosson, N. - Faubel, M. - Hertel, I. V. - Winter, B.Journal: NatureThe hydroxide ion plays an important role in many chemical and biochemical processes in aqueous solution. But our molecular-level understanding of its unusual and fast transport in water, and of the solvation patterns that allow fast transport, is far from complete. One proposal seeks to explain the properties and behaviour of the hydroxide ion by essentially regarding it as a water molecule that is missing a proton, and by inferring transport mechanisms and hydration structures from those of the excess proton. A competing proposal invokes instead unique and interchanging hydroxide hydration complexes, particularly the hypercoordinated OH(-)(H(2)O)(4) species and tri-coordinated OH(-)(H(2)O)(3) that can form a transient hydrogen bond between the H atom of the OH(-) and a neighbouring water molecule. Here we report measurements of core-level photoelectron emission and intermolecular Coulombic decay for an aqueous hydroxide solution, which show that the hydrated hydroxide ion is capable of transiently donating a hydrogen bond to surrounding water molecules. In agreement with recent experimental studies of hydroxide solutions, our finding thus supports the notion that the hydration structure of the hydroxide ion cannot be inferred from that of the hydrated excess proton.post to: CiteULike

Publication Date: 2008 Sep 4 PMID: 18769433Authors: Berns, D. M. - Rudner, M. S. - Valenzuela, S. O. - Berggren, K. K. - Oliver, W. D. - Levitov, L. S. - Orlando, T. P.Journal: NatureThe energy-level structure of a quantum system, which has a fundamental role in its behaviour, can be observed as discrete lines and features in absorption and emission spectra. Conventionally, spectra are measured using frequency spectroscopy, whereby the frequency of a harmonic electromagnetic driving field is tuned into resonance with a particular separation between energy levels. Although this technique has been successfully employed in a variety of physical systems, including natural and artificial atoms and molecules, its application is not universally straightforward and becomes extremely challenging for frequencies in the range of tens to hundreds of gigahertz. Here we introduce a complementary approach, amplitude spectroscopy, whereby a harmonic driving field sweeps an artificial atom through the avoided crossings between energy levels at a fixed frequency. Spectroscopic information is obtained from the amplitude dependence of the system's response, thereby overcoming many of the limitations of a broadband-frequency-based approach. The resulting 'spectroscopy diamonds', the regions in parameter space where transitions between specific pairs of levels can occur, exhibit interference patterns and population inversion that serve to distinguish the atom's spectrum. Amplitude spectroscopy provides a means of manipulating and characterizing systems over an extremely broad bandwidth, using only a single driving frequency that may be orders of magnitude smaller than the energy scales being probed.post to: CiteULike

Question:

What is the different between:

fd = open("/tmp/foobar.bin") while True: chunk=fd.read(CHUNK_SIZE) if not chunk: break print len(chunk)

and

fd = open("c:/tmp/foobar.bin") while True: chunk=fd.read(CHUNK_SIZE) if not chunk: break print len(chunk)

Just in case, the answer "c:" is not wanted, that's too obvious.

Another hint, both files are non-ascii files.

 

 

 

Answer:

Ok, the answer. First of all, as you can see, one of the open directives is running on Unix (in this special case on Linux).

The other one runs with the same version of Python on Windows XP.

Both files are non-ascii files, which means, somewhere in between there is a character which could lead to problems on windows, while reading the file.

Now on Linux somehow this file is opened correctly as binary. The official syntax for opening binary files in Python is open(<filename>,"rb") (well, to be more precise "read binary").

On Linux, as said this file is opened correctly in binary mode, while on Windows the default opening mode is ASCII.

You can see the difference when you follow the "print len(chunk)" data. Somehow, if you have the "EOF" character somewhere in the file when opened in ASCII, python stops reading the file and thinks the file ended. Which is somehow not the real truth.

This behaviour had cost me now at least 2 hours of debugging, because I was in the thought, Python2.5's behaviour should be the same on Windows as on Linux. I was mistaken.

But why? Shouldn't it be the same? Is there any rational why it's different on Linux and on Windows?

If some Python guru can enlighten me, so that I can understand...that would be great :)

Hong Kong - A Hong Kong television reporter who quit his job after he was arrested for masturbating naked on a bus said he was only trying to "ease his stress", reports said on Friday.

Chiu Yu-kit, a former journalist at Asia Television (ATV), admitted in court to the act while he was alone on the top tier of a double-decker bus on July 31, The Standard and other newspapers reported.

An off-duty officer made the arrest after he jogged past the bus and saw Chiu standing on a seat naked and facing a window, the court was told.

Chiu, 31, pleaded guilty to one count of indecency in public, but added that he committed the offence only to release his stress.

Principal magistrate Josiah Lam, put Chiu on a one-year good behaviour bond and advised him to exercise or talk to others if he wanted to relax.

Chiu resigned from ATV shortly after incident, which was reported in many local papers.

Last month, a "lonely and disturbed" Hong Kong man became stuck and had to be freed by emergency services after attempting to have sex with a park bench.



:bleh:

http://www.news24.com/News24/World/N...388641,00.html