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• Hopefully we will be getting outside the EU's orbit in the not too distant future. |
Enough of governments "protecting us from ourselves"! |
• There surely is still room for rates to go further down. That would of course be into negative territory. Perhaps the yields could still be depressed further yet. The disastrous side effect of the company pension deficits could get worse yet. This would then have a larger effect on company dividends. i.e. They woul... |
• Agree, but have to believe that corporates ( and the government) would in that case flood the market with new issues. At some point even the Central Banks would cease to buy this worthless stuff, and then, finally, excess supply over demand will force rates up. Got to be patient and not buy at the top. |
• Shotgun, I agree, we not seen the bottom yet. |
Wait until Xmas before deciding to off-load any my securities where yields sub 2.5% |
Gut feeling we heading into the same problem as Japan, very low interest rates, with no ability to get the "UK motor" to fire on all it's cylinders, therefore inflation will continue to stay low. |
Meanwhile it's been nice to have the current unrealized gains on the fixed income securities |
Your point on Company dividends very valid |
ps only depressing for those not holding securities purchased during 2012-5 |
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2010年1月 的存档 |
iPhone new game, help! [closed] |
2010年1月31日 没有评论 |
Hello I’m a programmer that has just recently started programming applications for the iPhone. |
The game is going to be 2D similar to the likes of “Final Fantasy Advance Tactics”, Pokemon or Zenonia(for the iPhone)… |
The question is: |
Which graphic library is more easy to use, free and suited for the use of Sprites and TiledMaps that I’m very like to use in my game? |
Cocos2D is your answer why? |
-Its FREE. |
-Great community |
-Really easy to create animations, sprites, Menu labels, text etc… |
From the examples you mentioned, it seems like you are looking to create a 2D orthogonal tile map game. There’s an iPhone RPG engine game starter kit that walks you through how to parse the TMX objects and turn them into real game items, players and AI. |
OpenGL ES? |
Box2d is also great if you plane to use also collision detection |
分类: stackoverflow精选, unity3d 标签: |
Snowshoe hiking |
The untamed nature of the Triglav Natural Park, Zadnjica, Možnica, Bavšice and Zapoden offers plenty of opportunities for a retro escape from the crazy world. |
Snowshoe hiking is a favourite method of exploring the isolated winter landscape. The wooden snowshoes used by our ancestors for winter hunting, forestry and military expeditions have been replaced by plastic snowshoes, an almost indispensable piece of winter sporting equipment. |
Some sports companies in Bovec organise guided day and night snowshoe hikes. They provide the necessary equipment and a guide and make sure that the hikers are safe. |
Tag Archives: entrepreneurship |
Systemic change? Be entrepreneurial! |
Emergent vs. trained entrepreneurship |
Entrepreneurship is the modern-day philosopher’s stone: a mysterious something that supposedly holds the secret to boosting growth and creating jobs. |
20130720_WBD000_0This is how a recent Schumpeter column in the Economist starts out. The argument that the author shares with us is basically that the heist for entrepreneurship both in developed countries as well as in developing countries (although he focuses on the first) is based on a faulty understanding of what a... |
Monday, September 28, 2009 |
Character musing: Kaeso Caemilius Tetricus |
Nobody will remember this post from a very long time ago. But I am thinking that if I go for NaNo this year, that this might be the route to take. I've only pondered a little bit more beyond this in specifics (including designing the heroic main character, Captain Brigand MacIntyre), so I think it might be a good idea ... |
The concept for this vampire novel I want to write is to break away from the ridiculous notion of vampires I see taking over the world of fiction. I should make it known that I absolutely hate, completely despise the entire concept of vampires. Drinking the blood of a human being for sustenance is revolting, especially... |
That's how I came along my line of thought: vampires are monsters, pure and simple. They shouldn't be sexy. They shouldn't sparkle and be played by Robert Pattinson. They should be filthy, rotting, attempting against all hope to cling to the shreds of humanity left as they age and pass beyond their intended time, steal... |
So I came up with the concept of vampirism as some form of disease. Indeed, it lengthens the lifespan of a human, and makes them stronger, quicker, higher visual acuity and strengthened scent capacity. A lethal creature that needs to feed and eat human blood to survive and maintain the unnaturally lengthened lifespan. ... |
Vampire novels love to portray vampires as these gentlemen types who's unnaturally long lives has little to no effect on their psyche, other than making them exceptionally suave and attractive. My thought to this is...have you met someone who's 80 years old? Most of them are cranky and infirm. If you took an old person... |
I admit that expanding the life of an individual dramatically would surely expand the limits of a person's mental capacity for existence, but the simple fact is that human society's dynamic nature would exceed the ability of the extended individual to encompass change. And I don't mean just in today's world. Imagine if... |
Language evolves and alters. Some areas of the world have seen several popular languages wash through over the years. Consider Malta, which since 300 AD has belonged to the Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, Aragonese, Knights of Malta, French, British, and themselves, each with their own culture and languages. How could an ol... |
Thus, vampires would become predatory creatures, marking out areas progressively further away from human civilization and preying on what poor souls tend to wander into their area of dominance. The unfortunate side-effect of occasionally creating another vampire would be often avoided by ensuring all victims were fully... |
As a result, the amount of vampires spawning would be relative - a single, youthful vampire would create companion creatures for a period of time up to a hundred, hundred and fifty years; beyond that period the sense of detachment would arrive, and the being would leave major city centres, heading away from the dangero... |
There would be exceptions to this rule, and they would be the most (or least) dangerous of vampires, and exceedingly rare. And that is where I came up with the idea for the bad guy in this vampire novel - one of the rare vampires capable of forcing his mind to work along with the varying changes in human society, capab... |
Naturally, I decided to make him quite old, and those who know me will not be surprised when I chose to make him a Roman, originally. I prefer "C" names, so his common use name will start with that. Then we started to research Roman names. Wikipedia is a wonderful thing. |
Starting with the praenomen, which would be the bad guy's personal name, whom only his closest associates would use. There are only a small handful of praenomina to choose from. I immediately ruled out Caius/Gaius, as they are basically the same and also I don't want this man to be related to other famous characters in... |
The nomen is the name of the gens, the political grouping and family alliance into which Kaeso was born. Usually people address someone by their nomen, or their nomen and cognomen if two of the same gens are in the same discussion or somehow relevant. This is an important decision for this character. I don't want him t... |
Next comes the cognomen, which is the sub-family within the gens. IE, Gaius Julius Caesar was of the Julii, of the Caesar sub-family within the Julii. I want a T for this, so we'll choose (without actually researching the Camelius gens) Tetricus. |
I am of mixed thoughts on an agnomen. Agnomina are given to people well after their birth to describe some part of their life. For instance, Publius Cornelius Scipio was given the agnomen Africanus after conquering Carthage. I almost want *him* to choose his agnomen, or perhaps have an agnomen in mind to use eventually... |
K. Caemilius Tetricus was born in 89 AD, and grew up during the first part of the Pax Romana - Roman Peace in Europe. Like most young men, he joined the Legions at the age of 16, as a regular soldier. By the age of 24, he was a tribune, having distinguished himself both as a combat soldier and a leader. At age 29, he b... |
Except that Caemilius was only wounded, and his body stolen from the battlefield by a group of three vampires, who drank from his broken body and left him to die. But he didn't die - he became one of them, he gained immortality and strength and all those amazing features of the vampire. Caemilius was struck by the fero... |
One of the particularly unique things about Caemilius that lent him to eternal life was the fact that he was mostly a sociopath, that years of a hard legionnaire's existence had pretty much stripped away his ability for empathy. At the time where he was turned, he had been quietly planning his next stage of ascent in t... |
So he settled for learning. Caemilius infiltrated the banking families, posing as a cousin or a brother-in-law, and eventually held the pursestrings of the Empire in his hand. And when he tired of that, he slowly plucked the strings free, watching as the Western Empire was toppled by any number of external factors. He ... |
His ability to sense others with the same affliction meant that he met many vampires in their various stages during his first half millennium of existence, and was able to plot out how they developed, and how sudden changes stymied them. He realized how vicious and dangerous they had become, and founded the secret Tetr... |
After watching hundreds of examples go from social beings blessed with eternity to insane monsters feeding on lost travellers, Caemilius's conviction that he was the only being capable of truly existing as an eternal human was shaken when he met another, very sane and even older vampire who had travelled to Europe from... |
The Tetrican Society and Caemilius broke paths around 1650, when Caemilius realized that without his partner, he was starting to detach from society. For the first time in hundreds of years he had found someone to relate to, and was suddenly unable to cope. If the Tetrican Society's official goal (destroying every vamp... |
It was around this point that he began to develop his plan to find a new companion. Even working towards this goal seemed enough to keep him sane, to keep his mind attached to the increasingly delicate threads maintaining his cohesion on a daily basis. By the year 2010, he was ready to finally act on this plan. |
You didn't think I'd put the plan here, did you? |
Saturday, September 26, 2009 |
B&T: 2009-10 predictions. |
Me and Tyler have decided to do our predictions. |
Calder Trophy |
T: Viktor Hedman (Tampa Bay) |
B: John Tavares (NY Islanders) |
Vezina Trophy |
T: Evgeni Nabokov (San Jose) |
B: Roberto Luongo (Vancouver) |
Norris Trophy |
T: Zdeno Chara (Boston) |
B: Zdeno Chara (Boston) |
Plus/Minus Leader |
T: Pavel Datsyuk (Detroit) |
B: Nicklas Lidstrom (Detroit) |
Rocket Richard Trophy |
T: Alexander Ovechkin (Washington) |
B: Alexander Ovechkin (Washington) |
Art Ross Trophy |
T: Joe Thornton (San Jose) |
B: Sidney Crosby (Pittsburgh) |
Hart Trophy |
T: Henrik Zetterberg (Detroit) |
B: Alexander Ovechkin (Washington) |
President's Cup: |
T: San Jose Sharks |
B: San Jose Sharks |
Stanley Cup: |
T: Detroit Red Wings |
B: Chicago Blackhawks |
Who makes it in the East? |
T: Montreal, Boston, Philadelphia, NY Rangers, Carolina, Washington, New Jersey |
B: Montreal, Boston, Philadelphia, NY Rangers, Carolina, Washington, New Jersey |
Who makes it in the West? |
T: Detroit, San Jose, Anaheim, Columbus, Chicago, Calgary, Vancouver, Edmonton/St.Louis |
B: Calgary, Vancouver, San Jose, Anaheim, Detroit, Columbus, Chicago, St. Louis |
Wednesday, September 23, 2009 |
Robin Hood: Time Commando |
"I need the Ultra-Septvember-G!" the man in the green timesuit called, spraying laser pulses from the high density flashrifle from his waist. "We need to hold back the Omega-Bots for forty seven hundred more microns!" |
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