I think it's fairly safe to assume that if someone gets hold of your keys, they are going to be able to assume one of the handful on their is for your house.
I think it's fairly safe to assume that if someone gets hold of your keys, they are going to be able to assume one of the handful on their is for your house.
Yes but them fumbling around with the door gives you time to grab the gun/call police or for the neighbors to notice they're not a person they've seen going into your house before.
I don't have enough keys to make that interesting. One for car, one small one for computer, one for apartment. And all my keycards work on proximity so I just hold my wallet up to get anywhere I have access too.
I can see now that while the actual security risk to the engraving is minute, it is indeed real, so it makes sense why a company would not want to put it out there.
As for big organizations, they do engrave their keys, just with codes. When I worked for Princeton, all of the dorm keys were engraved with a code. We had a lookup table which would get updated every year when they swapped cylinders around within each of the buildings.
In the US if you go to a large building, say a shopping mall or a skyscraper, all of the doors to service areas will simply have codes on them. XC-10101 might be the door to a networking closet, an air conditioning unit, furnaces, or who knows what. You need to know what the number on the door means.
In Australia every door in every place we went was labeled in plain English. Rym was very interested in this fact, and took pictures of many labeled doors.
Does anyone know a good tablet repair service? The screen on my Nexus 7 is cracked, and ASUS doesn't seem to have any idea what I'm asking them to do. They want to RMA it, but state they will reject it if it's physically damaged.
EDIT: They finally estimated me $180 to repair it, $50 shy of a new N7, and $20 less than I paid for it new.
Is there any reason (other than increased revenue) that most US sports are split into 2 leagues. e.g. AFC / NFC, Eastern Conference / Western Conference.
From a gaming perspective, wouldn't it be possible to get the 2 best teams within one league?
Is there any reason (other than increased revenue) that most US sports are split into 2 leagues. e.g. AFC / NFC, Eastern Conference / Western Conference.
From a gaming perspective, wouldn't it be possible to get the 2 best teams within one league?
Is there any reason (other than increased revenue) that most US sports are split into 2 leagues. e.g. AFC / NFC, Eastern Conference / Western Conference.
From a gaming perspective, wouldn't it be possible to get the 2 best teams within one league?
LOL just posting a wiki link to the bracket system doesn't answer the question.
It's the equivalent of me asking why someone is choosing to use a Five-Seven pistol in a Counterstrike match and them replying by sending me a link on the specifications of the weapon.
Is there any reason (other than increased revenue) that most US sports are split into 2 leagues. e.g. AFC / NFC, Eastern Conference / Western Conference.
From a gaming perspective, wouldn't it be possible to get the 2 best teams within one league?
There are a few reasons.
Reason 1 is historical. Originally we had two different completely separate baseball leagues. We had two completely separate football leagues. The first Super Bowl was the best team in the AFL and the best team in the NFL playing each other. Teams that had never played each other before because they were in separate leagues. Same with the World Series.
Reason 1b) In baseball, the two leagues actually have different rules. The biggest rules difference is pitching. In the National League the pitcher has to go up to bat, just like every other player. In the American League the pitcher does not hit. There is another player, the designated hitter, who hits in their place. The DH does not play any field position, they just hit.
This brings me to reason 2, excitement! By splitting up into leagues and divisions, you have some teams that rarely or never play each other except in the postseason. This makes the finals super exciting! The Seahawks haven't played the Broncos since 2010. What will happen when they play in 2014? ZOMG!!!
Reason 3 is geographical. The US is big. Way bigger than most other countries. You can't really afford to play teams on the other side of the country very often. Maybe once a season at best. Such situations are also quite unfair to the team that is traveling, so the schedules have to be quite balanced in this regard. So you play a lot of games against teams that are near you, and not many games against far away teams.
So with that in mind, imagine if the teams in the West all had great records and the teams in the East did not. Well, maybe that means the teams in the West are just better, so teams in the East shouldn't make the playoffs. Or maybe it means there were also a few really bad teams in the West that the pretty good teams were able to beat up on to get great records. Meanwhile all the East teams are really strong, so their records are all more middling. So in the post season you take the best teams from each division, so these doubts are eliminated.
Reason 4 is money. Imagine if all the teams in the East are actually just better, so only teams in the East make the post-season. Suddenly half the country stops watching and paying attention to your sport because all of the teams near them are eliminated. You want some team representing every area to keep interest alive nation-wide.
Reason 5 ties everything together. You play the teams near you very often. During the regular season, you only need to beat those teams, and don't care much about other teams far away. This is what creates rivalries! Rivalries increase excitement, investment in the game, and money. If you just played all sorts of teams all the time, rivalries would not emerge as easily and fan investment would decrease.
Is there any reason (other than increased revenue) that most US sports are split into 2 leagues. e.g. AFC / NFC, Eastern Conference / Western Conference.
From a gaming perspective, wouldn't it be possible to get the 2 best teams within one league?
There are a few reasons.
Thankyou Scott that was a great summary, my cousin couldn't even explain it even though he lives in Philadelphia.
I think the main thing that cleared it up was the Postseason activities.
I'm surprised I didn't know about Reason 1b and I played baseball as a pitcher and first batter for 3 years in high school and state (baseball was quite popular in Australia for a short time).
Reason 3 was one that I was assuming as we have a similar issue with all the sports teams on the west coast touring the east coast and either going on a run or getting spotty results and sometimes destroyed. The same thing happens when east coast teams come to the west coast. What I found surprising when I lived in Melbourne was that there were heaps of fans of the west coast teams, especially in the AFL (Aussie Rules).
I can speak to the rivalries, they are usually strongest when there are teams in the same city but there are sometimes outlying exceptions. For example the game that you and Rym went to visit and watched a team called the "Essendon Bombers", are based in Melbourne but there is a big rivalry between them and the "West Coast Eagles" who are from Perth, literally the other side of the country, because whenever they would play the games would be exciting for fans and both teams would try and kill each other.
Is there any reason (other than increased revenue) that most US sports are split into 2 leagues. e.g. AFC / NFC, Eastern Conference / Western Conference.
From a gaming perspective, wouldn't it be possible to get the 2 best teams within one league?
LOL just posting a wiki link to the bracket system doesn't answer the question.
It's the equivalent of me asking why someone is choosing to use a Five-Seven pistol in a Counterstrike match and them replying by sending me a link on the specifications of the weapon.
The reason I posted that was because I assumed most of the reason was because of the way bracket work, so it was an honest attempt to answer your question.
What are people's favourite IDE or writing application (colour) themes?
Any recommendation for low light conditions?
Or does everyone just prefer default?
Usually it's just default, I prefer turning on a light over changing the colour scheme. If I need to use it in a dark room, however, I change the black text to a sort of tan colour before I change the white background.
When not interacting with a text editor, I prefer a dark or black colour scheme though.
Look up Solarized; it's a very good colour scheme in both its light and dark variants. It's what I always use for terminals and gvim.
This is the first light scheme that I find comfortable to use and the dark is comfortable too, it's tied with the Obsidian type scheme I have at the moment.
Hm. Friend of mine is pushing me to Audition for Avenue Q. Mighty Tempted, good way to kick off the 2014 theatre season. Never worked with puppets before, though. Opinions?
Hm. Friend of mine is pushing me to Audition for Avenue Q. Mighty Tempted, good way to kick off the 2014 theatre season. Never worked with puppets before, though. Opinions?
The best time to plant a tree is 10 years ago. The second best time is right now.
Hm. Friend of mine is pushing me to Audition for Avenue Q. Mighty Tempted, good way to kick off the 2014 theatre season. Never worked with puppets before, though. Opinions?
The best time to plant a tree is 10 years ago. The second best time is right now.
Translation: Do it. You have arms, which is the most important part. You'll pick up how to manipulate your puppet pretty quickly if you're cast.
I use Tomorrow Night on Notepad++. I like how everything's muted, and it uses a dull gray background rather than anything actually dark. It's very easy on the eyes.
I have no preference between light and dark themes (I currently use Quiet Light on Sublime Text) as long as strings are green, comments are grey, and keywords (if, for, return, etc) are blue.
I change mine all the time, I don't really have a particular preference other than I like it when the contrast is high. I don't like the ones that look like there is a gray fog over everything.
Also, because I grew up using a lot of tools that had particular colors I have nostalgia for orange comments, green strings, blue keywords, white background. I revert to that scheme every once in awhile.
I use dark themes for terminal windows and the defaults that come with whatever IDE is used by the company. The only real stipulation that I do have is that whatever I use has to be able to use vim. I pretty much can't write code without it anymore.
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As for big organizations, they do engrave their keys, just with codes. When I worked for Princeton, all of the dorm keys were engraved with a code. We had a lookup table which would get updated every year when they swapped cylinders around within each of the buildings.
In the US if you go to a large building, say a shopping mall or a skyscraper, all of the doors to service areas will simply have codes on them. XC-10101 might be the door to a networking closet, an air conditioning unit, furnaces, or who knows what. You need to know what the number on the door means.
In Australia every door in every place we went was labeled in plain English. Rym was very interested in this fact, and took pictures of many labeled doors.
EDIT: They finally estimated me $180 to repair it, $50 shy of a new N7, and $20 less than I paid for it new.
From a gaming perspective, wouldn't it be possible to get the 2 best teams within one league?
It's the equivalent of me asking why someone is choosing to use a Five-Seven pistol in a Counterstrike match and them replying by sending me a link on the specifications of the weapon.
Reason 1 is historical. Originally we had two different completely separate baseball leagues. We had two completely separate football leagues. The first Super Bowl was the best team in the AFL and the best team in the NFL playing each other. Teams that had never played each other before because they were in separate leagues. Same with the World Series.
Reason 1b) In baseball, the two leagues actually have different rules. The biggest rules difference is pitching. In the National League the pitcher has to go up to bat, just like every other player. In the American League the pitcher does not hit. There is another player, the designated hitter, who hits in their place. The DH does not play any field position, they just hit.
This brings me to reason 2, excitement! By splitting up into leagues and divisions, you have some teams that rarely or never play each other except in the postseason. This makes the finals super exciting! The Seahawks haven't played the Broncos since 2010. What will happen when they play in 2014? ZOMG!!!
Reason 3 is geographical. The US is big. Way bigger than most other countries. You can't really afford to play teams on the other side of the country very often. Maybe once a season at best. Such situations are also quite unfair to the team that is traveling, so the schedules have to be quite balanced in this regard. So you play a lot of games against teams that are near you, and not many games against far away teams.
So with that in mind, imagine if the teams in the West all had great records and the teams in the East did not. Well, maybe that means the teams in the West are just better, so teams in the East shouldn't make the playoffs. Or maybe it means there were also a few really bad teams in the West that the pretty good teams were able to beat up on to get great records. Meanwhile all the East teams are really strong, so their records are all more middling. So in the post season you take the best teams from each division, so these doubts are eliminated.
Reason 4 is money. Imagine if all the teams in the East are actually just better, so only teams in the East make the post-season. Suddenly half the country stops watching and paying attention to your sport because all of the teams near them are eliminated. You want some team representing every area to keep interest alive nation-wide.
Reason 5 ties everything together. You play the teams near you very often. During the regular season, you only need to beat those teams, and don't care much about other teams far away. This is what creates rivalries! Rivalries increase excitement, investment in the game, and money. If you just played all sorts of teams all the time, rivalries would not emerge as easily and fan investment would decrease.
I think the main thing that cleared it up was the Postseason activities.
I'm surprised I didn't know about Reason 1b and I played baseball as a pitcher and first batter for 3 years in high school and state (baseball was quite popular in Australia for a short time).
Reason 3 was one that I was assuming as we have a similar issue with all the sports teams on the west coast touring the east coast and either going on a run or getting spotty results and sometimes destroyed. The same thing happens when east coast teams come to the west coast. What I found surprising when I lived in Melbourne was that there were heaps of fans of the west coast teams, especially in the AFL (Aussie Rules).
I can speak to the rivalries, they are usually strongest when there are teams in the same city but there are sometimes outlying exceptions. For example the game that you and Rym went to visit and watched a team called the "Essendon Bombers", are based in Melbourne but there is a big rivalry between them and the "West Coast Eagles" who are from Perth, literally the other side of the country, because whenever they would play the games would be exciting for fans and both teams would try and kill each other.
Any recommendation for low light conditions?
Or does everyone just prefer default?
When not interacting with a text editor, I prefer a dark or black colour scheme though.
It's what I always use for terminals and gvim.
Also, because I grew up using a lot of tools that had particular colors I have nostalgia for orange comments, green strings, blue keywords, white background. I revert to that scheme every once in awhile.
Right now I'm using these colors: https://github.com/chriskempson/base16-vim