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They pretty much all go pretty fast through the atmosphere.
I was stationed at HQ SAC (Offutt AFB) in the early 80's and we always said:SAC-Peace is our profession (war is our trade).
What, Duke Nukem Forever still isn't out yet? Hey, maybe such a computer could create Duke Nukem Forever from scratch so I could play it.
Had you read the article you would have known that thr Army machine is connected using standard gigabit ehternet whereas the Big Mac used Infiniband.
Since this is Slashdot you are par for the course.
And they're also using plain gigabit ethernet for interconnects, not Infiniband, supposedly because the applications they plan to run don't require a lot of I/O bandwidth.
Both c|net [com.com] and Mac Rumors [macrumors.com] say 15, though, which is as you say much more plausible. Given the degree of confusion, I wouldn't be too sure about other details such as interconnects or price tags... or even number of nodes; perhaps 1566 is an initial confuguration, later growing signifigantly larger to account for the 25TF figure.
You must be a real laugh at parties."The only solution to a violent world is to be better at violence than your neighbors.
There are zero societies on Earth that do not hew to this axiom."
I'm sure that's not the only solution. What I suspect when I see you type that is that you like the violence.
2004-04-07- Reasons of the G5 delay
(...) The new G5s are not yet announced and available because a customer is buying the entire output: U.S. governmental agencies have decided that from June 2005, no sensible data will hosted on Windows machines any more. Too many security holes and risks. They ordered 80,000 G5 xServe and Powermacs from Apple.
2004-04-08 - G5 delay (continued)
Around 70 U9 (cf. below) have been ordered by large goverment agencies, like NSA... About ten institutional laboratories already received the supercomputer, equipped with 1024 G5 processors @ 2.6 GHz. That already makes over 10,000 G5, a major part of IBM's production d'IBM => shortage.
The U9 project will officially be announced next fall in a version equipped with PPC975 @ 3 GHz, available to the wealthy (about 3 M$ per unit).)
...that the Army is buying.
Matter cannot be created or destroyed, nor can it be returned without a receipt.


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Florida school to remodel cafeteria in food court
Students at John F. Kennedy Middle School will get new lunch options next school year and Principal Corey Brooks will get a new tool in his job of revamping the school's image and recruiting children in the community to come to Kennedy.
The school district in May will start construction on a new cafeteria that will feature four food-court-style serving stations instead of the traditional cafeteria style serving lines seen in lunchrooms for decades.
Heidi Schwab, who works with the district's food services department, said the new cafeteria, which will be paid for by state and federal grants, will allow Kennedy students to choose from four different styles of food at stations called Asian Experience, Homestyle, Cafe Sol y Mar and Beyond Burgers. The school district created a food-court-style cafeteria with similar stations this year at Atlantic High School in Delray Beach, but Schwab said this will be the first at a middle school in Palm Beach County. It will be a pilot to see if the concept works at the middle school level.

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No Flight Fright
Even in the digital age trip planning can be a stressful ordeal. Whether it's a month long trek through Europe, or a weekend getaway to NYC, the last thing anyone needs to worry about is taking a bank account hit because the airline you booked with has gone bankrupt. With shrinking profit margins and an ultra competitive market, airline service [...]Read more ›


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Ducks beat Coyotes 2-0 in 3rd straight meeting
- Article by: JOE RESNICK
- Associated Press
- March 6, 2013 - 11:43 PM
ANAHEIM, Calif. - Jonas Hiller faced only 18 shots in his first shutout of the season, Corey Perry scored in the first period and the Anaheim Ducks beat the Phoenix Coyotes 2-0 on Wednesday night for their ninth straight home victory.
The teams met for the third straight time in a five-day span, following a pair of 5-4 shootout victories by the Coyotes in Phoenix on Saturday and Monday.
This was the first time the Ducks played three consecutive games against one opponent in the regular season. The only other time the Coyotes did it was during a six-day stretch in November 2007 against San Jose, when they lost all three by a combined score of 15-1.
The Ducks have the second-best record in the NHL at 16-3-3 and still trail the astounding Chicago Blackhawks by 10 points. Anaheim's start is tied for the best in franchise history after 22 games. The team began its 2006-07 Stanley Cup championship season 15-2-5.
Jason LaBarbera made 22 saves for Phoenix, one of them on a penalty shot by Andrew Cogliano at 5:17 of the second period. It was the 33-year-old journeyman's third start in net this season, including back-to-back losses to San Jose and Los Angeles in late January. LaBarbera's only victory came in relief, when he stopped 21 of 22 shots in a 5-1 win against Columbus after Mike Smith came out midway through the first period with an upper-body injury.
The Ducks outshot Phoenix 6-0 over the first 9 1/2 minutes, taking the lead at the 7:10 mark when Bobby Ryan set up Perry in the low slot for his seventh goal. The play began when Ryan Getzlaf intercepted a poor clearing pass by defenseman Derek Morris in the neutral zone and carried the puck into the Phoenix zone before giving it to Ryan in the right circle.
Ryan, a longtime fixture on the Ducks' top line with Getzlaf and Perry, was back in familiar territory because of Kyle Palmieri's upper-body injury. Palmieri, whose hat trick helped the Ducks beat Nashville on Feb. 27, missed his second straight game after taking a hard check from Raffi Torres on Saturday.
Cogliano, who had a hat trick against the Coyotes in Saturday's loss, found himself on a breakaway during a power play in the second period with a chance to double the Ducks' margin. But defenseman Oliver Ekman-Larsson impeded him from behind with his stick, making Cogliano fan on an attempted wrist shot as LaBarbera covered the puck.
Cogliano was awarded his second career penalty shot, which LaBarbera easily stopped. Phoenix captain Shane Doan was still serving his tripping penalty when the Coyotes left Perry unchecked about 10 feet from the right of the net. But the 2011 MVP, who had a career-high 50 goals two seasons ago, hit the crossbar at 5:33 of the period.
Getzlaf scored into an empty net with 21 seconds to play.
NOTES: Hiller's shutout was the 16th of his career. ... The Ducks and Coyotes don't meet again until the regular-season finale for both clubs on April 27 at Anaheim. ... Phoenix will play Stanley Cup champion Los Angeles three times in an eight-day stretch later this month. Anaheim will face Dallas in each of their first three games in April. ... The Ducks, who came in with a league-best 29.7 conversion percentage on the power play, were 0 for 1. It was the 12th time in their last 14 games that they had fewer than four power-play opportunities, but they have scored 12 goals with the man advantage during that stretch. ... Coyotes RW Nick Johnson has no penalty minutes in 16 games with the team. Last season with Minnesota, he had 45 in 77 games — including three fighting majors (Jarome Iginla, Kevin Bieksa and Travis Turnbull), and a match penalty for head-butting Iginla during their brawl. ... The longest home winning streak in Ducks history was 11 games during the 2009-10 season. They can tie that mark by beating Calgary on Friday and St. Louis on Sunday.
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NYPD To Identify 'Deranged' Gunmen Through Internet Chatter 292
Hugh Pickens writes "Michael Wilson writes in the NY Times that top intelligence officials in the New York Police Department are looking for ways to target 'apolitical or deranged killers before they become active shooters' using techniques similar to those being used to spot terrorists' chatter online. The techniques would include 'cyber-searches of language that mass-casualty shooters have used in e-mails and Internet postings,' says Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly. 'The goal would be to identify the shooter in cyberspace, engage him there and intervene, possibly using an undercover to get close, and take him into custody or otherwise disrupt his plans.' There are also plans to send officers to Newtown and to scenes of other mass shootings to collect information says the department's chief spokesman Paul. J. Browne adding that potential tactics include creating an algorithm that would search online 'for terms used by active shooters in the past that may be an indicator of future intentions.' The NYPD's counter-terrorism division released a report last year, 'Active Shooter (PDF),' after studying 202 mass shooting incidents. 'So, we think this is another logical step,' says Kelly."


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That's good enough IMHO. Remind me, what exactly is the problem with embedded device patents?
It's still only a draft.
too much pressure and your draft comes out all foamy. I have found about 8 PSI gauge to be about right for cornelius kegs.
a computer program is not a patentable invention
OK, but what about a software concept? Can someone still patent "A method for preventing unauthorised access to files and system features through the use of a personal identification and verification system", as long as they don't have a single piece of software for this idea?
That imaginary patent was about password protection in case anyone missed it...
Absolutely NOT. Software is copyrightable, not patentable.
Are you related to Bill Clinton, and learned to parse words to death?
But isn't a clever and non-obvious algorithm an invention that could deserve patent protection?
Arguing about patents in terms of 'deserving' tends to distort reasoning; monopoly rights ignore the cost factor of the equation, ie, why should everyone else not 'deserve' to implement the same invention freely when they come up with it?
Now, if you think certain non-obvious algorithms 'deserve' some kind of reward, then go ahead and argue we should pay the inventors rewards out of public funding or something. Or
Software isn't patentable. But isn't a clever and non-obvious algorithm an invention that could deserve patent protection?
No, math should not be patentable. Only physical object should be patentable.
Actually I support abolishing all patents. I'm not sure about copyright monopolies. The reproduction costs of words, images, and other media are low relative to the cost of the original object. So they may deserve limited monopolies.
I imagine you could still patent the concept as long as it was implemented as firmware but I assume the patent could not be used to stop others implementing the concept in software. Standard disclaimers - IANAL. I haven't RTFA.
You also apparently either don't understand what firmware is, or what software is. (Your software doesn't cease to be software if it's burned into non-reprogrammable memory. Not all software is firmware, but all firmware is software. It's just software recorded on non-erasable chip media. Heck, often these days it's erasable too. Not as easily as when it's saved on disk, but still... software doesn't cease being software merely because you change the media you save it on.)
Actually, my wifi card's firmware is loaded from my HD by my driver, on every boot. So different firmware could be loaded with a simple reboot.
(Note: I'm agreeing with you)
That imaginary patent was about password protection in case anyone missed it...
And, as the title says, your patent is badly worded (in a good way for a company) since it also probably covers other methods of ID/verification (central logon via something Active Directory-esque, biometrics, etc)!
*shrugs* Dunno, never worked with LDAP. I just know that the last company I worked at used Active Directory and assumed there would be many similar implementations.
Originally to be granted a patent in the US a working model had to be submitted to the patent office, so no a concept wasn't patentable. Only specific implementations were.
I'm so used to loading slashdot and reading bad news. It's a breath of fresh air to read something like this. Good job everyone from New Zealand.
Hope some of that common sense washes over to Aussie shores
I'm so used to loading slashdot and reading bad news. It's a breath of fresh air to read something like this. Good job everyone from New Zealand.
It is bad news. You've just been brainwashed by the thousands of stories in the media about how patents are bad that bad news looks good to you.
Patents allow inventors to earn a living. How is making money by creating valuable things bad?
Patents allow inventors to earn a living. How is making money by creating valuable things bad?
Patents in general are a good idea, however Software is already copyrightable; there's no need for it to be patentable as well. If I can code your idea better than you, then your patent is stifling innovation, not promoting it.
It is you who have been brainwashed. The intent of patents was NOT to allow inventors to earn a living, but to encourage innovation.
Can you give me a single example of a software patent where this has been the case?
Because an algorithm/piece of software is essentially just a mathematical formula. And formulae are not patentable.
I complete agree in preserving the current system
Once patents stop being absolute monopolies and lasting 20 years we can start talking about extending it to algorithms,
Because, some poor sucker programmer, living in his mom's basement, could come up with the same idea tomorrow, and find a way to make it work so much better.But the poor sod, who has no idea that the base for his work has a patent on it, will have his ass kicked for his hard work.
Patents STOP progress, and are rewarding the WRONG people.. They should be kept out of the incredibly fast paced world of computer software.
If you can't capitalize on your idea fast enough, tough freaking biscuits..
Copyright on the other hand is a useful protective tool. It stops people stealing your work byte for byte, note for note, word for word... But even that has been abused by insane time limits.
I am a programmer, and what I'd give to have free reign over my creative process... what I could accomplish without having to worry about the bullshit associated with software patents in the Divided States of Assholica. Seriously, please someone nuke those jerks, starting with their patent offices..
Because, some poor sucker programmer, living in his mom's basement, could come up with the same idea tomorrow, and find a way to make it work so much better.
Better enforcement of the non-obviousness requirement should help this situation. Just like a machine that an average car mechanic could invent shouldn't be patentable, software that an average programmer could come up with shouldn't be patentable, regardless of how one feels about software patents in general.
Because it's far too easy to accidentally create a program that infringes on a patent, most software are made up of basic building blocks that together make a unique product, so if anything should be patentable it should be the building blocks, and only the ones that are not trivial, but who gets to decide this? Which means that we end up in court, which costs a lot of money and opens up for trolls.
Copyright (a short, say 2-5 years depending on product) and trademark should be enough to discourage competition, if competition can make a program just like yours without copying you and still sell it at a lower cost then you are doing something wrong or your product just wasn't unique enough.
Nitpick: the GIF patent wasn't on the format, but on LZW compression:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lempel%E2%80%93Ziv%E2%80%93Welch [wikipedia.org]
LZW was used in TIFF as well, for a while. When Unisys started moaning everyone switched to Deflate (zip) compression instead, which actually works better.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEFLATE [wikipedia.org]
So in this case at least patents did encourage innovation, not because the holders had divulged their secrets (it was all published anyway), but by simply stopping everyone from usi
Even the simple GIF format, which wasn't particularly clever at all, got a patent.
No. Terry Welch's improvement on Abraham Lempel and Jacob Ziv's LZ78 algorithm was patented, making the LZW algorithm used for compressing the data in a GIF file a patented process. The GIF file format was never patented (I don't think that's even possible, but IANAL).
Terry Welch's improvement on Abraham Lempel and Jacob Ziv's LZ78 algorithm was patented.
This is what really pisses me off. Unless Welch invented Comp Sci, Algebra, AC/DC transmission, Language, and the fucking Wheel, what right does he have to claim that he "invented" the refinement of solution to a particular problem that only exists because of the existence of these things?
I've never really followed the arguments behind why everyone hates software patents. I'm not trolling here, please help me understand. As I understand it, the idea behind a patent is to encourage an inventor to invest resources in R&D and then to share their new techniology with society, in return for a time-limited monopoly on exploiting that new technology. This is arguably a bit broken at the moment -- largely because patents seem to be overly broad and to last too long -- but the basic idea seems sound.
See http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2010/03/19/software-patents/ [redmonk.com]
The software patent system may be in need of repair, but is it really worth throwing the baby out with the bathwater?
It's too broken, too fundamentally broken, to fix.
If I invent a new physical device -- an array of levers and cogs to build something, or a new chemical process to manufacture something -- I can patent it.
I start a new hardware store in a growing town. It's a physical construction that nobody has done in that town before. Why can't I patent that idea and stop other people starting a competing hardware store when they see it's a success? Think carefully about your answer.
Personally, I am thoroughly sick of people who automatically assume that patents, a massive government interference in citizens minding their own business, will encourage innovation in every area of human endeavour when it's quite clear they don't. If they're going to argue for this government interference then they should at least have some scientific evidence that it is a net positive in any particular area. Not the usual childish handwaving about how an inventor won't invent without patents (history shows this is nonsense) and that patents have no harmful effect on society and the free exchange of ideas (also nonsense).
Conversely, there do seem to be advatages to keeping software patents.
A patent stops billions of people from using an idea that's probably going to be independently re-invented many times so that one (1) person can have additional incentive to invent something. Explain to me why this is a net positive? Particularly for software industry where the entry cost is so low? Keep in mind I'm well aware of patent proponents usual handwaving excuses.
Your example is just sad. The vast majority of inventors will never get that break and in addition they'll be held back by the patent portfolios of large companies. Patents are just a tool, large companies have more of them and patents in no way change the balance of power between corporations and individuals.
The software patent system may be in need of repair, but is it really worth throwing the baby out with the bathwater?
There is no baby. Your automatic assumption there must be without evidence is telling.
In addition to the above the patent system is based on very shaky intellectual foundations. They can't even objectively decide whether two shades of the color orange are the same or different, let alone whether two ideas are the same or different, a far more complex question and at the heart of deciding whether something is new.
Every new patent is a new law; another opportunity for a lawyer to make money at the expense of the wider community.
I start a new hardware store in a growing town. It's a physical construction that nobody has done in that town before. Why can't I patent that idea and stop other people starting a competing hardware store when they see it's a success?
If you invent some new construction material or method that has some improvement over what already exists and that an average architect or engineer would never come up with, then sure, I'd be fine with you getting a patent for it. If you're talking about a patent on the concept of "a store that sells building tools and materials", then the fact that commerce has existed for a few thousand years probably qualifies as prior art.
Sorry, but this one would be horrible even for BadAnalogyGuy.
The major problem (as I see it) is the doctorine of sufficient change can't apply to software. In the case of your physical device (an array of levers and cogs), I can potentially come up with an alternate means of doing the same thing that is not covered by the patent. For example, when James Watt was improving the Steam Engine, the crank was patented by James Pickard, so he came up with planetary gears. Both were means of converting linear back and forth motion to rotary motion. It is a fundamental princi
I've never really followed the arguments behind why everyone hates software patents.
One measure of ethics, is what would happen if everyone did it?
If all software was patented, there would BE no WWW. You couldn't just say there would instead be a "Microsoft Web" and an "Apple Web" and a "Linux Web" that couldn't all talk to each other because it would require violating software patents to do so, because each of them would be a "web" and someone would have that patented as well. At best, you'd end up wi
I've been curious about the degree to which software patents help or hinder software / computer science innovation. (My money is on 'hinder'.)
However, some people measure innovation via the number of patents issued. NZ's bill might make their developers / computer scientists more productive, while ironically making it harder to convince people of that fact.
In the US, software isn't patentable directly, either. If you claim "a program which causes a processor to perform the steps of...", then you get yourself a rejection under 35 USC 101, because a program isn't a process, machine, article of manufacture, or composition of matter.
One way that lawyers get around this is by claiming "a computer-readable storage medium storing a program which, when executed, causes a processor to perform the steps of...." A computer-readable storage medium (e.g., a hard drive) is generally considered to be an article of manufacture. This almost got tested in court several years ago, in In re Beauregard, but the USPTO decided to withdraw its rejection and issue the patent before the court got a chance to weigh in on it, and nobody has brought up the topic in litigation since then.
Let the lawsuit mushroom clouds rise over the remains of USA's Tech industries [slashdot.org] the rest of the world will go their own free way.
This is a DRAFT of a bill. It's not even a bill yet. And while some are speculating that this is intended to get more public attention, I think it may be intended to get more private (funds) attention. With all the high pressure lobbying [read "involves a lot of money"] I imagine NZ's government may be feeling they aren't getting their share of attention from those in support of software patentability. The inclusion of this may only be there to rattle some cages.
Completely pedantic of me, but relevant. In New Zealand a Bill is always a draft. There is no difference between a "draft bill" and a "bill." Once the Bill passes its 3rd and final reading in the House, it becomes an Act at which point it is law.
In regards to your comment about "Big Money," New Zealand is very small, but it doesn't really have the same problems with lobbyists that the US or other large nations do. In fact, the majority of lobbyists in New Zealand are Greenies and Climate Change doomsayers t
Documentation of this has been ongoing for a few months now:
http://en.swpat.org/wiki/New_Zealand [swpat.org]
But... if it finally does pass, Welcome To The Club, NZ!
South Africa's IP law explicitly states that software is unpatentable. Not that this stops the like of MS trying anyway... This leads to some bizarre circumstances... about 10 years ago I spent several months doing development work in Switzerland for a South African client, all b
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TWO men charged with the vicious bashing of 76-year-old North Nowra man Francois Beugels have been sentenced to six years in jail, but could be out on the streets in three-and-a-half years.
Joshua Chamberlain, 19, of McKay Street, Nowra and Wade Malcolm Dunley, 39, of Bunberra Street, Bomaderry pleaded guilty to aggravated assault with intent to rob with wounding.
Judge Chris Hoy issued a non-parole period of three-and-a-half years for both men.
He said the maximum penalty was 25 years but he took into account the pair's guilty plea, their admissions and prospects for rehabilitation.
Outside the court, Mr Beugels said he was disappointed with the sentence but harboured no grudge against his attackers.
"I'm disappointed, certainly I'm disappointed," he said.
"I was hoping they might have got more."
In court, Mr Beugels broke down as Judge Hoy summed up the case, which included the facts about his attack.
"It was hard hearing it all again," he said outside the court.
"It always is, every time I hear it. It is something I will live with for the rest of my life.
"Hopefully I can get on with my life and they can get on with theirs."
Mr Beugels again thanked the residents of Page Avenue who came to his rescue on August 25, 2013.
"They saved my life and I can't thank them enough," he said.
Judge Hoy described the attack at "ferocious".
"It was unprovoked, excessively aggressive behaviour, targeting an innocent victim to rob him," he said.
"The attack was merciless and ongoing, extremely violent, with the victim beaten into submission.
"They went away and then came back and kicked him again in the head five or six times and were heard to say 'He deserved it'. The pair later commented about kicking the victim at the same time in the head.
"Words can't describe the terror felt and ongoing pain and fear for not only Mr Beugels but the witnesses."
At the time of the attack, Chamberlain was out on bail for criminal assault and other antisocial behaviour a month earlier.
Evidence revealed the men had consumed a four-litre cask of wine and a bottle of spirits before the attack, while Dunley had also taken a quantity of non-prescription drugs prior to the attack.
In a victim impact statement read to the court Mr Beugels said his life had been turned upside down after the attack, leaving him with permanent injuries and living as a recluse.
"I'm left with shattered dreams," he said.
He said the assault had affected him "physically, psychologically, mentally and emotionally."
He described suffering permanent hearing loss and post traumatic stress disorder. Physical changes had also been noted in his brain through an MRI.
He has lost recent memory and suffers attention, concentration and reaction deficit as well as vertigo and balance problems.
His statement said he had lost his independence and relies on home care for support. He requires community transport and friends because his driving capabilities have been affected.
Judge Chris Hoy spent the morning hearing Mr Beugels' victim impact statement and submissions from defence lawyers Brett Ford for Chamberlain and Simone Foggo for Dunley and Department of Public Prosecutions solicitor Robert Taylor.
Mr Beugels sat just metres from his attackers and at times studied both men intently.
Chamberlain and Dunley sat in the dock during hearing and sentencing, both staring at the floor, occasionally glancing in Mr Beugels' direction.
Chamberlain regularly placed his head in his hands.
In evidence the court heard the men approached Mr Beugels from behind and struck him with such force he fell to the ground, his head hitting the roadway.
In the attack that followed, he was struck and kicked in the head numerous times.
In his statement Mr Beugels described feeling two feet on him simultaneously, as if someone was jumping up and down on his neck and head.
He said he screamed for help "with all his being" and remembered thinking there would only be two outcomes, either he would be silenced or someone would come to his aid.
The pair left the scene for around 10 seconds before returning to steal Mr Beugels' wallet and continue the assault which didn't stop until local residents came to his aid.
Mr Beugels said during the assault he attempted to get up and came face to face with one of his assailants.
"The image of a bland, pale face devoid of all emotion keeps on haunting me and sends a chill down my spine," he said.


text: The news about the dismissal of the Beijing station chief of India's external intelligence agency, Research & Analysis Wing for "professional misconduct†has been flashed across the media today. While for most, it is just a juicy news item, to those who have the good of this nation at heart, this is nothing but yet another episode of how this government has completely lost it. Just when it seems they can't do any worse, they prove you wrong. Superior is the boss, PERIOD! Anyone who does not follow orders or does not take instructions properly from the bosses needs to be dealt with in the strictest possible manner. It is true of any service, and even more so in case of those involved with secret operations. But then, they are to be dealt with as per the set procedure for dealing with such cases. Nowhere in the world would you find someone revealing the names of officers involved in such instances. It jeopardises operations in the areas they were working in. Maintaining secrecy, especially of those in operational roles, is sacrosanct. But look at what has been done here. Not only is the name of the officer, who was the top man in the highly sensitive position in China revealed, what has also been revealed is where he had been posted earlier. How senseless can we get! It almost finishes the career of a top officer who has been in operational roles. Even more importantly, it destroys the years of hard work that he may have put in. This work could include years of building contacts and sources, all of who now come under a cloud in their respective nations. It is little wonder that several officers, who risk their lives and lead a life without their families for years, feel let down and their morale plummets when such instances happen? The other significant aspect that the idiots who revealed the names have not given a thought to is that the person dismissed was a very senior officer and has information -of operations in two of the most significant areas as far as India is concerned – China and the USA. Surely you need to discipline a person for insubordination, but put him on the mat like this? What if he turns rogue? Can you wipe his brain off? Strange that a nation that refuses to part with names of those who have amassed huge ill-gotten wealth in Swiss banks would so eagerly reveal names, endangering its officers and their associates who are working for the nation. Dear worthies, this is a nation where arms dealers and middlemen strut around with secret documents. They are wined and dined by the powerful till they are exposed. It is the people who expose the names of these middlemen who need to be feted. However, those who reveal the names of officers involved in secret operations need to be shot between, you know where. Random Access : Rajesh Kalra's blog-The Times Of India


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Nearly thirty years after the last spike was driven in the transcontinental railway at Promontory Summit, Utah in 1869, the vast Florida wilderness was America's last frontier. But Standard Oil millionaire Henry Morrison Flagler had a vision for the lush, subtropical territory, one that he believed would bring untold commerce, people and riches to the as yet untamed land. It involved a railroad network, built through his iron will, vast riches and sheer determination that though short-lived, had far-reaching effects that are still felt today, 100 years after the first train pulled into Key West. The program features archival photographs, personal correspondence, original drawings of the Over-Sea Railroad project and newspaper articles of the day, tracing daily reports of the human struggles and technological achievements needed to complete the Florida East Coast Railway.
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The Society of Illustrators is having its annual Student Scholarship Auction. All the paintings, sketches, and prints are donated by the artists, all of the proceeds are awarded to students during the Society's Scholarship exhibit. I'm reluctant to post about this auction since it is where I have bought most of my own collection...Promise you wont bid on my favorites!
Preview: November 28 - December 4 • Auction: Monday, December 4
For those with deeper pockets, the Illustration House is holding it's fall auction. While I am not in a position to try my luck at the auction block, I still love to see the preview and attend the auction. Once sold, this work is unlikely to be on public display again.
Preview: Now - December 1 • Auction: December 2, 1:00 pm
Above: Gary Kelley's Art Out Loud painting will be on auction at the Society. Below: Mead Schaeffer on auction at the Illustration House. (This one breaks my heart...I so hope whoever buys this will keep it available for the world to see.)
Sunday, November 19, 2006
The Society of Illustrators is having its annual Student Scholarship Auction. All the paintings, sketches, and prints are donated by the artists, all of the proceeds are awarded to students during the Society's Scholarship exhibit. I'm reluctant to post about this auction since it is where I have bought most of my own collection...Promise you wont bid on my favorites!
Labels: Society of Illustrators
10 comments:
- David Apatoff said...
Thanks, Irene. Do you know if the Society will be posting all of the images for the auction? I'd sure like to see what those works by Fuchs and Payne look like.
- Irene Gallo said...
Hi David,
Welcome back to the States!
The Society _should_ be updating the on-line auction preview...but I wouldn't bet the farm on it. If you see an artist listed that you'd like to check up on, I'd email them directly if I were you. It might (I hope) prod them to update more frequently.
Perhaps of interest to other readers:
I know that Vincent Di Fate and John Berkey are also listed as contributing but I do not see them on the preview. I'll try to track those down and then post them on the sf/f collectors site: The Illustration Exchange.
- Arkady Roytman said...
You think i could get a sweet Upper East Side sugar-mama that is loaded with bling to marry me just in time for the Illustration House auction. ;P
- Irene Gallo said...
Not if I get to her first!
Sorry Greg, but, just LOOK at that Mead Schaffer!...You understand.
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Not to buy locked down hardware or software, particularly if it requires the permission of a remote server in order to be allowed to function.
If the alternative is to miss out on cool features like network multiplay, maybe that's a tradeoff that some people are willing to make.
I understand the concept of philosophical purity, but pragmatism has always led to a more comfortable existence. Extremist positions like the one you are espousing may be perfectly fine, but it denies the clear fact that there are definite benefits to the non-pure approach that come with whatever liabilities are inherent in such a system.
There's something seriously wrong with a society which labels common sense as "extremist".
If the alternative is to miss out on cool features like network multiplay, maybe that's a tradeoff that some people are willing to make.
I play network games on my PC, about 5 nights a week.
Fuck every one of those locked down crap box consoles.
That's effectively blackmail, since there is no reason why network multiplayer would actually require a drm system like that. We were playing quake online for years before anyone even considered schemes like that.
Until you happen to buy one of those locked down things where
-the vendor simply switches off the servers (IIRC Electronic Arts "retires" some games after merely two years). This may be illegal, but you still have to start an expensive lawsuit to do something about it.
-or the vendor goes bankrupt and cannot provide the service anymore.
-or a simple bug (as in TFA) locks you out.
For myself, I have settled on a strong but not absolute anti-DRM stance:
Usually I won't buy locked down stuff, but I may make an exce
Do you realize that you do not need to purchase any DRM-encumbered content in order to enjoy playing online games? You can can buy disc-only games (of which there are hundreds), download only the free updates, and then sell the game when you're done.
As for the lag, now you're just trolling. I play multiplayer games on my Xbox every week, and there's no lag unless something is wrong with the Internet or Microsoft's servers at that time. I certainly doubt that Xbox Live games exhibit any more lag than PC g
You guys fail to realize that xbox live is a matchmaking service. The games are not hosted on MS's servers. Your xbox is connected to someone elses xbox. Just like a PC is connected to another PC. Live simply points the xboxes at each other. Your lag is a direct result of the connection between you and the xbox which is hosting.
Do you realize that you do not need to purchase any DRM-encumbered content in order to enjoy playing online games?
Maybe I don't want to get teabagged in online games. Maybe I have friends or relatives who like to play together in front of one big monitor [pineight.com]. But because only a small number of geeks have home theater PCs, games with local multiplayer tend to be released only for locked-down consoles.
You can even buy indie games that are DRM-free and downloaded.
I enjoyed the 2600, and enjoy my GP2Xs greatly. I'll love my Pandora when it arrives.
Although the summary and linked article blame DRM (and I'm not one to defend that restrictive crap), the original joystiq article [joystiq.com] implies that it's just grabbing an incomplete update which doesn't have proper Xbox Live support yet. Nothing to do with DRM or copyright, simply that MS haven't set up a final version of the new firmware yet because they thought they had another few days to do so.
This isn't an anti-piracy measure, it's to keep people from using beta firmwares before Microsoft officially releases them. The Kinect firmware in question was given to a few 10,000 or so who signed up for the update preview program. Xbox Live will not let you sign in on a console with beta firmware unless your gamertag is registered as part of the update program.
In fact, during the NXE update program, they warned users not to swap saves or profiles between then-current FW consoles and ones running the NXE
Actually it has nothing to do with that. The original story got it wrong. What happens is the disk starts the firmware update (pretty standard--think of all the games that try to install direct x when you install them for example). But what happens is the update starts, then it looks online for part 2 of the update. Part 2 of the update has not been uploaded to the xbox live servers quite yet, so the update fails midway. The difference is in this case that there's no way to undo the update you've start
The more honest buyers get hurt by any form of DRM, including these forms of draconian measures, the better.
Technically (from Microsoft's point of view) they're not honest - they're breaking the release date and are being punished for it.
If you read most gaming sites that have reported this, the general sheeple consensus is that it serves them right for trying to play early.
I disagree completely. These customers had no idea the game was not supposed to be played. The shop that released early might be liable, but it is still crap design by Microsoft.
That's the point. Innocent people whose only "crime" is thinking DRM isn't a bad idea need to get hurt by DRM, or they'll never know why we think it's such a bad idea.
Technically (from Microsoft's point of view) they're not honest - they're breaking the release date and are being punished for it.
If you read most gaming sites that have reported this, the general sheeple consensus is that it serves them right for trying to play early.
What reaction can you expect from a green-with-envy 14-year-old.
Ah, so the moral of the story is "You shouldn't be pre-ordering official Microsoft products from big-name retailers".
No, wait. It's "You shouldn't be playing games that get delivered to your home without first going to a bricks-and-mortar shop to check the release date with a shop assistant".
Hang on, no. I've got it, it's "You should always cross reference firmware update numbers with your official Microsoft technical support resource before allowing any system modifications to take place".
Actually no, sorr
I guess this is what happens when you get your big gaming store together hiring the most incompetent store employees in the world - 16 year olds whose first game was Halo. At that point, working for GameStop is more of an ego effect and bragging rights such as kinecting early here.
And I know this is not really MS fault, just like it is not MS fault that if I upgrade a computer MS WIndows is considered a pirated copy or if I change computer MS Office is now pirated. It is the
Yes, this is extremely common too.. Software companies expend huge efforts implementing various drm and license enforcing mechanisms, all that time and added complexity to implement features that at best don't benefit the customer and at worst are extremely detrimental to the paying customers... When instead, all that effort should be focused on improving the product in ways that will benefit those people who actually buy it.
Strange. I have seen Windows loosing its genuine status a few times - but so far its required nothing more than [WINKEY] + [PAUSE] and pressing Activate Now in order to get it back to its old genuine self.
Well with one exception; the motherboard on a computer broke and had to be replaced - at that time I had to phone up the automated validation system and validate it that way. Curious as to what issues you've had though...
How terrible, XBox live has a system built in to prevent unauthorized firmware that may well be used for things like hacked games, game trainers and other things that would ruin the experience for other players who have not similarly modified their systems. I know people want to spin this as another "DRM is evil" type story but to use this would be over-reaching. Open platform or not it would be in the best interest of gamers to not have some people with the ability to cheat while other do not. Sure the unauthorized firmware bit can be used to hamper piracy but it's not the only reason to have such a system in place.
The retailers were told not to release the games until a specific date so that shipments could be assured to all stores at the same time for reasons I'm sure include preventing the usual mayhem involved in too few for too many. Microsoft was under no obligation to push the prerequisites to the servers until the date they told everyone the games could be sold. Yes, Microsoft may do a lot of things that aren't appreciated by the open/free software community but this really isn't ammunition for that cause.
So why should customers suffer for the retailers mistake?
So why should customers suffer for the retailers mistake?
Then the retailer should make it right. Perhaps provide an extra year of XBox Live for the inconvienence.
It's not like the accounts are blacklisted; the users cannot log into XBox Live until Microsoft releases the updated dashboard.
That way it can be properly prepared over the course of a week instead of having them wait 1 or 2 days for things to start work naturally working again.
It would be a net win for MS. They get consumer confidence without having to shell out the price for a free membership for the inconvenience, and the customer gets to feel warm and fuzzy.
When people lose access to their one source of killing free time, it is *amazing* how ansy they get. Be a person with a cable subscription, an XBox Like account, or an avi
Your point regarding how impatient and dependent people get about online services is very valid.
However I stated the retailer should provide the extra membership. None of this is the fault of Microsoft (unless the product was purchased directly from them, which of course is not in this case).
So why should customers suffer for the retailers mistake?
What do you mean why should they? Who says they should? The retailer and Microsoft made a mistake. This is not much different than if Microsoft had pushed empty boxes through retail outlets and customers got screwed over. Go return the thing to the retailer, ask for money back, and complain to Microsoft support. The particulars of DRM are insignificant here, and the only thing that matters is how the retailer and Microsoft responds, and if they do it again. Same as if they'd done anything else to inco
What do you mean why should they? Who says they should? The retailer and Microsoft made a mistake. This is not much different than if Microsoft had pushed empty boxes through retail outlets and customers got screwed over. Go return the thing to the retailer, ask for money back, and complain to Microsoft support. The particulars of DRM are insignificant here, and the only thing that matters is how the retailer and Microsoft responds, and if they do it again. Same as if they'd done anything else to inconvenience you.
I can tell you that Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo and publishers get VERY interested in a retailer that breaks street date. Microsoft can't really be blamed for providing an incomplete update as no one other than beta testers are supposed to have it (and they are warned to NOT move their hard drive around because the update will mess up Xbox360s not in the beta)
Retailers are deathly afraid of breaking street date. Individual stores get fined for breaking it (lots of money - 10s of thousands of dollars easily), and even worse, entire chains can get put on industry blacklists that basically mean they never, ever receive product ahead of time - the product they ordered would be shipped on the release date which means their customers only get the product a few days afterwards (plus the lowered margins since they have to pay for overnight shipping back and forth, and the obvious loss of business when customers leave them because they can't get product on time).
That's why stores breaking street date tend to be rare - I think the last case involved some Atari game that a publisher bought retail from another retailer who broke street date for the publisher only. And the publisher refused to identify who sold it to them which is why Atari blamed them for pirating a game - no one should have a copy. I think the last time it happened resulted in people having to wait for the activation servers to come alive - they had the game, but were locked out from playing it. And gamers often find themselves banned for piracy if playing unreleased games online.
Microsoft's mistake is having a beta update available - but that's a given, since they have people with beta Kinect hardware. The only people who should be getting that update are those in the beta program. To demand that the consoles have the latest firmware available isn't an unusual request - you'll find Sony does the same thing, as does Nintendo, as does Steam should you want to play online to prevent cheating.
This is a rare circumstance - beta testers are warned about moving their hard drives around would screw with Xbox Live connectivity, and this retailer seriously messed up. At the very least, Microsoft would be very interested in talking to those people and would probably pay not only to have those Xboxes and Kinects returned back to Microsoft (and exchanged with new ones), but the retailer is going to pay Microsoft for it all.
It's also interesting that most big-name titles have "DO NOT SELL BEFORE xx/xx/xxxx" printed on the stickers on the game itself too - I would presume Kinect hardware and games have similar markings so it's not as if the retailer didn't know.
My guess is, that retailer or chain is now in some very hot water. Usually these things are handled very quietly, but once it starts hitting the news big-time, heads will roll...
You'd be wrong actually - there have been a number of high-profile street-date-broken events in recent years, some from smaller retailers that don't like all the attention GameStop et al get, and some from retailers that have employees that just screw up. Just Google "street date broken" and you'll see a long list of events.
What the hell planet are you from? Street dates get broken all the time. XBL accounts are never banned over it, either. If you are playing a legitimate copy of an early-released game you have nothing to worry about (this Kinect issue excepting).
The retailer and Microsoft made a mistake. This is not much different than if Microsoft had pushed empty boxes through retail outlets and customers got screwed over.
Microsoft didn't make a mistake, that's the point.
Microsoft has an official release date for Kinect and they were going to have the 360 software updates in place in time to support that launch date. The retailer screwed up and sold the product in advance of it's official well-known launch date, before Microsoft had put the support in place for it. This is completely different than Microsoft pushing empty boxes through. They have a product, they have software needed to support that product, and (as of tod
So why should Microsoft suffer for the retailers mistake?
So why should customers suffer for the retailers mistake?
We are well into a long weekend of Halloween partying. What makes you think this was a mistake - and not another run for the gold?
How is this not an example of DRM being evil? A system so full of trip switches and self-destruct buttons that not even the producer is able to avoid triggering them. When did it become acceptable that a big company can dictate what retailers and end-users can do with their computers which they have paid for and which are rightfully theirs?
A few years down the line these devices will become e-waste because people don't have the freedom to repurpose them for some other task. This way artificial scarcity is m
A system so full of trip switches and self-destruct buttons that not even the producer is able to avoid triggering them.
That's absolute bullshit. Do you even know what happened here? Unauthorized firmware == ban. It's that simple, and quite frankly i prefer that than having the online component of the game full of cheaters. The side-effect you see here is because a retailer failed to honor their agreement, this is not a DRM issue, it's an issue of an opportunistic and untrustworthy retailer not anticipating the consequences of their actions.
When did it become acceptable that a big company can dictate what retailers and end-users can do with their computers which they have paid for and which are rightfully theirs?
Because it was before the release date, it was agreed that these would not be sold un
I think the bottom line here is/should be that locking a consumer live account for inserting a purchased game is not a valid course of action. Even if the game was bought from a retailer who let it go out some time before the live date it's still not acceptable. I assume from the article that the firmware update wasn't successful because something was missing and whole system is still in it's original state. Only thing broken is the way Microsoft locked live accounts of these people.
I think the bottom line here is/should be that locking a consumer live account for inserting a purchased game is not a valid course of action.
Of course not, but as the article states, the accounts were locked for unauthorized firmware. The infrastructure wasn't ready yet but this retailer has broken the release date and sold customers an incomplete product, it's the retailers who should be held accountable.
You can play single-player completely offline, if you want to. All functions except online play, chat, streaming, and downloads (DLC, updates, etc.) will work just fine even if you remove the network connection entirely.
I've seen this story going around the last couple of days. Most of us don't have early kinect games, seems like sites like engadget etc that got early access can't play and are making a mountain out of a mole hill. So you can't play your xbox for a couple of days, whoop dee effing do.
Because it's not a purely accidental bug...
It's an intentional feature which is designed to screw the end user under certain circumstances, which is being triggered by unintended circumstances. If microsoft designed a system to intentionally short out under certain circumstances people would be equally annoyed.
If microsoft designed a system to intentionally short out under certain circumstances people would be equally annoyed.
Efuses, anyone?
The article refuses to name which retailer shipped early, but does anyone have any idea who did it? I know that just recently, Newegg had messed up and shipped out Rock Band 3 about a month before release.
Attempting to install the non-existent update seems to fool the console into thinking you are trying to play a pirated game
It's likely that the XBox update is working properly, but the production servers aren't set up to communicate with the new firmware yet. Unless the affected systems don't start working properly on the release date, this is just dumb antimicrosoftism.
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Westfield's Vincent Calarco celebrated his 90th birthday this past May 18 and his induction into the Chautauqua Sports Hall of Fame is a belated, but well-deserved present that honors his many accomplishments.
Calarco grew up loving sports and spent a much of his youth at the YMCA and went to Westfield Academy. He was in junior varsity sports in the eighth grade and in high school, excelled in four varsity sports - football, basketball, baseball and track. In fact, he was so good he earned 15 out of 16 total letters, the most any student could receive and picked up a large collection of all-conference awards and medals in tournaments along the way.
He and his brother were drafted into the Army in 1943 and Vincent was a member of the 78th battalion and the 550th infantry during World War II, serving under General George S. Patton, spending much of his time in combat throughout the European Theater. While in England waiting to come home, Calarco was in charge of intermural sports.
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When he got back, he formed the Calarco Trojans semi-pro basketball team, which began playing area teams in the Merchant League and eventually the Chautauqua County Basketball Association for more than seven years. He also formed baseball and football teams, which continued for 24 years and played football with the Jamestown team in 1948-49.
At that point, Calarco took on a whole new role as a basketball referee and for the next 50 years, traveled throughout the area officiating hundreds of games.
Calarco was the civil defense director in Westfield for 38 years and was a member of the Westfield Planning Board, the Knights of Columbus, Kiwanis, the Westfield Business Association and was part of the Legion Marching Squad.
In a note attached to his biographical information, Calarco noted the following:
"This is what sports do. They bring great people together and that's what the world needs more of today."
Calarco, along with Geza Farkas, Dan Lunetta, Cindy Miller, Al Muck, Tom Prechtl, Tom Priester and Jack Wigley, will be honored at the 33rd annual induction dinner on Feb. 17 at the Lakewood Rod & Gun Club. The event will begin with a hospitality session at 5 p.m. followed by dinner at 6:30 p.m.
Sharon Robinson, daughter of baseball legend Jackie Robinson, will be the featured speaker.
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By Kris Voakes | International Football Correspondent
In little more than a week from now, the World Cup draw will reveal the groupings for the 32 qualified teams in the global game's flagship event. But whereas this should be a time of excitement as players, fans and officials get a real taste for what lies ahead in Brazil next summer, the tragic events of Wednesday in Sao Paulo mean that there will be a heavy cloud hanging over the proceedings in Costa do Sauipe next Friday.
The collapse of a crane at the Arena Corinthians, which killed two people, has taken the total death toll during construction at World Cup venues to four and will now ensure that the stadium, which is due to host the opening game of the tournament on June 12, will not be delivered until after Fifa's December 31 deadline.
Corinthians announced after Wednesday's tragedy that they would observe seven days of mourning, and Fifa should do everything it can to help the families of the victims to come to terms with their loss. A Brazilian World Cup would not have been possible without them.
It is the latest incident to blight the build-up to the tournament. On top of the three fatal accidents in construction, there have been further setbacks ever since the event was awarded to Brazil.
Two fans were shot dead on their way to a test event at the Estadio Castelao in Fortaleza, stadium builds have been hit by multiple delays and administration issues, building costs have sky-rocketed and public funds have been temporarily used to pay for shortfalls, prompting mass protests during this summer's Confederations Cup.
A country which was somewhat forced into hosting the World Cup by Fifa's decision to alternate the finals between continents is paying a heavy price, and not just monetarily. Two more families are in mourning right now. Accidents will always happen in construction, but it is not unreasonable to suggest that the difficulties which have arisen in attempting to meet a deadline which is now only five weeks away have played at least a small part in compromising safety at the sites involved.
Former Brazil international defender Lucio has admitted concern over how prepared his country is for the main event next year.
"Obviously some will fear and get anxious about our capabilities to host this event after what has happened. I think we are capable of hosting the World Cup but how good the event will be? That's another question," he told reporters.
"We ask if supporters will have good public transport, a safe environment, and nobody knows the answer.
"I think Brazil has to be more clear and organised about everything. The country shouldn't overlook the small details."
The World Cup should be a time of exaltation and excitement, not tragedy and recriminations. But Brazil has been beset by issues as the 2014 finals have approached. One can only hope that this is the final incident, the last setback, the end of the tale of woe. Other than the Arena Corinthians, there are 11 further venues due to be handed over to Fifa at the end of 2013, five of which are yet to be used for any kind of event. Each has had its issues, but by June all of them should be fit and ready, Sao Paulo included.
Football cannot fix everything, but the sooner the tournament proper gets underway and Brazil gets to see the fruit of its extensive labour the better. Fifa has sold the country short on so many levels, and given everything that has happened over the past few years, its citizens are owed a successful World Cup.Follow Kris Voakes on


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By Tiernan Ray
The 3-D printing field gets yet another helping of praise today, as Deutsche Bank's Sherri Scribner initiates coverage of 3D Systems (DDD) and Stratasys (SSYS) with Buy ratings, and starts ExOne (XONE) at Hold, arguing that growth is just getting going in the industry.
"Over the past 20 years, the additive manufacturing market has grown at a CAGR of 18%, however, this growth has accelerated over the past 3 years to 27%," observes Scribner.
"We believe the industry is just starting to take off."
Scribner's note follows a bullish piece yesterday by Piper Jaffray's Troy Jensen regarding the Euromold trade show in Frankfurt last week, and a positive initiation of coverage by Pacific Crest's Weston Twigg.
Shares of 3D Systems today are up $4.06, or 5%, at $80.01. Shares of Stratasys are up $3.51, or almost 3%, at $121.18. Shares of ExOne are up 95 cents, or 1.8%, at $54.55.
Scribner runs through the math of 3D Systems's "razor and blade" business model, with a quarter of revenue coming from higher-margin materials sales:
Proprietary materials are one of the margin drivers for 3D Systems, with materials accounting for 24% of revenue in F3Q-13, but 34% of gross profit. While the company's printers and services have margins in the 45% range, materials command margins in the mid-70% range. As with any "razor-razor blade" model, the key driver of higher materials sales is increased printer penetration. According to data from Wohlers Associates, over the past 10 years, industry systems sales have grown at a CAGR of 15%, while materials sales have grown at a CAGR of 18%. This suggests that an installed base of systems should drive faster materials sales over time, which in turn should lead to improving profitability. One of 3D Systems' growth strategies is to increase its installed base of printers in order to drive higher materials sales in the future. Higher materials sales are expected to drive improved margins over time. The company has indicated that it believes it can reach gross margins of 56% on annual sales of $400M if recurring revenue from materials and services is 70% of sales. The company believes that even higher gross margins of 60% are attainable at $500M in sales if recurring revenue is 80% of sales. In FY-13, we estimate that 3D Systems will earn more than $500M in sales, but with recurring revenue representing roughly 65% of sales, the company will not reach its gross margin goal.
While such materials sales are at risk of being commoditized, that's not the trend at the moment, she writes:
Some argue that proprietary materials are at risk from non-proprietary materials over time. This argument assumes that customers who are concerned about the high cost of materials, will turn to lower cost non- proprietary materials. However, 3D Systems' customer patterns suggest that proprietary materials is actually growing faster than non-proprietary materials. While 3D Systems' materials sales have grown at an average quarterly rate of 16% since F1Q-05 and 30% over the past 3 years, proprietary materials sales have outgrown these rates, increasing at an average quarterly rate of 69% over the past 3 years. As seen in Figure 2, proprietary materials now account for over 70% of the company's materials sales, versus just 32% in F1Q-10.
Regarding valuation, Scribner thinks the stock can retain a high multiple of projected sales, perhaps reaching $95, without factoring any future revenue from acquisitions, even though she acknowledges acquisitions have been a big part of the story for years now:
With the significant growth expected in the 3D printing space, we view sales ratios coupled with DCF as the best way to value 3D printing stocks. Our $95 price target for 3D Systems is based on the shares trading at 14x our EV to FY- 14E sales, which is in line with other high-growth software and internet companies and is supported by our DCF analysis. With shares trading below these levels, we rate DDD a Buy. Company-specific risks include loss of investor interest in the 3D printing space, slower growth in the 3D printing market, an inability to integrate acquisitions, and an unsuccessful roll out of new products that does not drive higher materials sales over time.
Scribner models 3D Systems making $515 million in revenue this year and $57 million in free cash flow, rising to $660 million and $106 million next year. Come 2015, she sees 3D Systems make $840 million and $135 million in free cash flow.
Stratasys is "the behemoth" in the industry, writes Scribner, and "We expect Stratasys to continue to benefit from the growth in the nascent additive manufacturing market, driven by is leading position in FDM, one of the most cost-effective technologies available today."
Scribner likes the company's lead in volume of shipments of systems, in an industry that is generally one of low-volume sales:
Stratasys invented and commercialized its material extrusion technology FDM in the early 1990s, which has proven to be the most popular additive manufacturing technology to date, out shipping all other technologies on a cumulative basis. With the recent merger with Objet, Stratasys has cemented its lead as the largest shipper of industrial 3D printing units in the world. The company has the highest gross margins in the industry, and has room to improve its operating margins back to historical levels. We expect Stratasys to continue to benefit from the growth in the nascent additive manufacturing market, driven by its leading position in FDM, one of the most cost-effective technologies available today. With strong industry growth just beginning to take off, we view Stratasys as one of the key beneficiaries. We see further upside to the shares based on growth and thus rate Stratasys a Buy.
She sees the shares fetching a slightly lower revenue multiple than 3D Systems:
Our $140 price target for Stratasys is based on the shares trading at 10x our EV to FY- 14E sales, which is in line with other high-growth software and internet companies and is supported by our DCF analysis. With shares trading below these levels, we rate SSYS a Buy. Company-specific risks include loss of investor interest in the 3D printing space, lower-than-expected sales in the 3D printing market, an inability to integrate acquisitions, and a more limited technology offering than peer 3D Systems.
ExOne has too narrow a focus, writes Scribner, and the price tag of its machines is high, she writes, which is an issue in terms of getting stable sales:
ExOne is a leading additive manufacturing provider of binder jetting technology, with a focus on sand casting molds and metal for industrial applications. ASPs for these machines are high, which makes machining sales relatively lumpy. To offset lumpy sales, the company is focused on growing its services bureau business to represent 50% of sales over time. ExOne is well positioned in its core binder jetting market, but does not participate in other technologies in the additive manufacturing market. Because of its small scale, the company's margins are also below its larger peers, although the company is poised to improve margins over time. With shares trading in line with what we view as a fair EV/Sales multiple for peer Stratasys and with the market currently expecting high revenue growth from the company, we view shares as fairly valued and rate ExOne a Hold.


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Be nice to your friends and they will be nice to you.
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Clean your room now.
Get things done today and you won't have to worry about them. If you let things pile up, it will be difficult to catch up.
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Get your work done before you take a break. Then you can relax and have a good time.
Stay in school.
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Don't waste your time.
Time goes by very fast. Don't wait to pursue your dreams.
Be thankful for what you have.
There are many who are not as fortunate as you. Be grateful for your home and family. It doesn't matter what someone else has.
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Whining is annoying. If you have something to say, say it. If you complain all the time, no one will want to listen to you.
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yes the whole hyper 7 diff much less shims needed
nope the titanium pins didn't come in
What a Sight ! ! Niceeeeeee
Now if only the pins come in!
I look forward to seeing the pins as well......hopefully they hold up being titanium and all.......
No kidding. They really need to be a little thicker!
Guess what didn't come in today. Just my luck!
Running the Lunsford Titanium pins in my rig for a while now as got tired of the stainless ones I had bending. A gr8 upgrade
Always get a 2nd Opinion!
I'm going to be running Plastix Injector Through Hardened Pins
But have two sets of the Lunsford Titanium pins on standby, i don't like trying to remove bent pins. My Plastix pins are longer and are wedged and will be held in place with the use of rubber tubing
Good to know!
well the pins are officially mia and ordered another set. was fixing the truck up for my daughters birthday on saturday and it will be in pieces!
I noticed one of my pins just slightly bent when i tore mine apart. Probably when it took off and crashed. I have the flm ones made for the rpm arms. I think there hardened, not shore. Are the lunsford ones better?
usman, where can you get the hardened through plastix injector pins.
From Plastixs.com you want these pins :
Those pins are fourteen inches long, you can order smaller lengths..like 6 inch. They come with a "head" on one end and you can wedge the pins against the bumper mounts. What I do is, size up a pin, cut it to the length i want and then use rubber tubbing ti keep it in place, in between the head and where the pin itself goes into the bulk hole. Since they are 1/8" pins, i use rubber tubbing that size. The pins are easier to remove in case you bend a bulkhead ( you can grasp onto the excess pin where the rubber tubbing is to get it out ) . These pins snap, ( but they are pretty durable) before they bend and that just makes things alot easier; easier to remove bent pins, easier and cheaper to keep replacing pins, etc. On that thread, somebody mentioned another company based out of the East where they can ship to your size likings and each pin would have a head. Plastixs also caters to people in RC Helicopter, such as myself. When I place my order, i called them up directly and Linda really helped me !
Just like i thought. There not hard enough to not bend. I might just make my own from some 62-64 hardened tool steel blanks. This stuff doesnt bend.
Interesting, if you do , i would be interested to see how that comes about. Only if there was a way without having a lathe at hand to accomodate those for E-Clip fittings
How well do the grub screws hold in the flm bulks?
The grub screws do great ! As a matter of fact, the grub screws are utilized to install the Plastixs Ejector pins by dremeling slightly right where the pin would hover over the grub screw, and then the pin would remain in place once the grub screw has been screwed slightly into the valley dremeled into the pin, because Ejector Pins are hard to be crafted so that E-Clips can be used. If some 1/8" 62-64 hardened tool steel blanks are used, they too can be held in place with the grub screws. With standard pins that are held in place with E-clips, the grub screws also do great serving the purpose to keep the pin from twisting and slightly moving
The FLM screw kit comes with two sized grub screws. Once I organized the screws that came with the kit, I realized there are grub screws for the bulks to deal with the pins, and then there are grub screws for the pinion gear drive cup leading to the center shafts
Good to know!
Be nice to have instructions!
usman, The pins i was looking at had the softer core. The PE3-125 look good. Almost as hard as a hardened tool blank. Good info on them. I can grind the grooves for the e-clips. So i might just get some M2 high speed steel stock. Maybe modify some little collars to go on the end. Another little winter project when i have time. But not today, have to get to work. Ive got some 3/4" M2 blanks to make some form tools out of. Lots of grinding.
That is awesome ! Please let me know how that goes! Hinge Pins are one of the most important aspects of bulletproofing a truck and with your imagination, know how, and endless type of product out there, the sky is the limit. So far, after a ton of research, I found that most maxx builders either settle for Titanium ( Lunsford seems to be the pick for the company for those ) or the Ejector Pins. I've heard about someone wanting to use barn nails. I wonder what is the hardest 1/8" metal/material out there, that can be used as hinge pins, if anyone knows or finds an answer please let me know.
I hear that grinding grooves for E-clips can be challenging without a lathe, how do you plan on grinding the grooves for your E-Clips? It can be done. Maybe I need to use a different tool other than a dremmel. I've never heard of M2 High speed steel stock. Keep us updated and posted on how you come about your progress. Yesterday I worked on my Emaxx. I used longer hinge pins than for the lower front pins. This truck is my first of two builds, a tester-a foundation of developing the know how. This one sports TRAXXAS Aluminum Bulkheads and for the time being, some Lunsford Titanium Hinge Pins. I had a bad impact leaving one of the front Bulkheads slightly bent at one specific area where a front lower hinge pin lays as a result of a Titanium Hinge Pin that bent right there! So a longer pin at the bent area helps installation and removal.I used some 1/8" spacers that came on my stock Emaxx 3908 and some steel ones that came in a screw kit. I figured I'd match the other front lower side with the same technique to give it a nice look. Its even up spacers, my servo saver functions perfectly, and the pins are perfectly in place. Take a look.
Almost time to get the delivery of my new batteries, everything is all set and ready. I'll be tearing this thing down to refine it even further in no time! I have to wait on some more 1/8" spacing before installing the Ejector Pins myself ( i want it to be done just right at the cost of time, well worth it ) so im running Lunsford Titanium at the moment.
The Titanium Pins go good with the Titanium screws that i'm using in some places as well as the Titanium Skid Plates, but maybe the M2 high speed steel stock is better?
I dont know what would be the best strength material for a hindge pin. M2 High Speed Steel is 62-64 rockwell hardness. Seems to me you would want somthing that would bend a little but not stay bent. Probably why the titanium ones are popular.
The ejector pins are about as hard as hss so i would probably use those as they have a solid head on them to hold my steel cross brace.
If your tweaking the front bulkhead from a front end collision then this might help http://t-bone-racing.net/Brand-N-Z/T...Maxx-p356.html I never was crazy about the look but they really help out on the revos and take the impact away from the weak spots
It wasn't too bad at all. Removing the hinge pin was fairly simple. I had to use another hing pin, wedge it into the slot , and then hammered it all out with light hamms. Installation of the new Lunsford Titanium Hinge Pin was a breeze as well, when i got to the point of where it stalled slightly, i used a hammer and lightly hammered it into place, it all just took a light tap to get the new pin in. That looks like a neat add on. However, i'll be inserting FOAM in between the front and rear skid plates and bulk braces. It will prvent and garuntee that my skid plates won't bend and will help absorb some of the energy from a collision. I'll custom cut the foam pieces to be wedged perfectly in those spaces where i have my hinge pins sticking out. I got the idea from a member on here using the foam that comes with the STock Emaxxs to be used as battery holders to be wedged in between the front and rear skid plate and bulk braces. well see how it goes
How strong is that "Basher front bumper"? Does it have some give. I'm afraid that i'll snap that plastic in a matter of one run. I don't bash, i just have high speed runs and some off roading fun. I'm afraid i'll run over a loose twig and it will snap the front off. I could be wrong, but how well does it work? It looks like its a good debris blocker as well
They have a lifetime warranty just take a pic and send it in don't even have to send it to them
The ones on my revos are flexible and have good reviews
WOW THAT IS AWESOME ! i DIDN'T KNOW THEY HAD A LIFETIME WARRANTY! i'M GOUING TO GET ONE. dOES IT INSTALL FAIRLY EASILY? aNYTHING ELSE REQUIRED?
Should be easy. Comes with longer bolts
Is there a Rear Bumper like that also ?
wow! The front and Rear bumpers will fit onto my Emaxx ? Both have lifetime warranties and fit right over the skid plates and everything else, i'm running the RPM three piece and all, so these bumpers fit over everything that I have right now, or do i shed the bumpers to replace them with these?
On my revos they go over the stock skid plates. Saved my merv a bunch of times!
I'm certainly ordering both of those for my maxx ! Thanks 50 !
You will have a tough maxx!
Yeah, i'll post the updates as they come along. When you get yours in the mail it'll be great to see your tougher max sporting them.


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Paris Saint-Germain director Leonardo has denied Chelsea defender Ashley Cole and Manchester United star Patrice Evra are transfer targets for the mega-rich French club.
Cole, who is out of contract at the end of the season, is expected to leave Chelsea in the summer transfer window, while Evra's long-term future at Manchester United has recently been called into question.
With former Chelsea manager Carlo Ancelotti in charge at the Parce des Princes it was inevitable Cole would be linked with a switch to PSG, while the club's official Twitter account 'announced' the signing of the Stamford Bridge star after it was hacked.
Evra, meanwhile, emerged last month as a reported target for PSG and, although the France international welcomed the interest, he said the Ligue 1 club would have to 'kill' Sir Alex Ferguson before prising him from Old Trafford.
Leonardo, though, has dismissed suggestions that PSG will be making an approach to either Chelsea or Manchester United to enquire about the availability of their respective left-backs.
The former AC Milan manager told L'Equipe: "Cole or Evra? No."
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A midday prayer: WEDNESDAY 12/12
It's December:
a month for Christmas shopping.
I've got a list of folks to buy for
and some presents are already wrapped...
Christmas is your birthday, Lord:
what will I get for you?
what do you need?
I've nothing to offer that you really need
but what might I really need to offer to you?
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- michelleDecember 12, 2012 at 8:27 PM
Lord, I really need to offer to you...
my renewed hope-
or, my willingness to look towards hope-
(which is somewhere a bit off in the distance)-
I want to offer you my willingness and want and need to do this despite all of the fear that is in the way-
I want to offer you my faith-
my trust-
in you-
I NEED to offer you these things-
to be able to move forward-
and to do this knowing and trusting that you are always with me-
even when I can't feel you-
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I mean, really? I guess when the designers think of Closed Circuit TV, they're thinking that extends to the management network too eh?
Interesting perspective.
I guess that's why I've been installing IP cameras on physically separate networks for all these years.
Interesting perspective.
I guess that's why I've been installing IP cameras on physically separate networks for all these years.
No need to physically separate any more. VLAN's, VRF's, MPLS & Remote Access with VPN's. Easy to maintain and scales nicely up to as many cameras, video-servers etc. you will ever need.
preconfigured default accounts and passwords
Really? This is supposed to be an issue?
Most of the default user/pass settings are publicly available on manufacturers websites, documentation pamphlets, and 3rd party sites [routerpasswords.com] just for that purpose.
Buffer overflow or sql injection? Ok...
Default passwords are weak? So what?
I wish I didn't knee-jerk my reply... Your point is exactly what I'm thinking.
Umm... Yea. I heard that corporate routers and switches come with really weak default protection! Your server will let anyone fire it up and login out of the box!
The horrors... This story is a non-story. If you go buy hardware for some purpose, make sure you configure it. If the story said most CCTV configurations have backdoors, or are easily exploitable even after prescribed lockdown, then we'd have something to work with.
Actually, it's kind of sad that it's had to come to this, but most corporate routers and switches no longer have weak default protection. For example, new Cisco switches and routers now ship with a one time use password, so you have to create an account on them when configuring, or you'll never be able to log in again. This really shouldn't be necessary, but we live in a world where there are a lot of people implementing security who don't understand it. Even home routers now often force you to create your own password during setup and disable remote access by default. You could make a pretty convincing argument that the CCTV industry has fallen pretty far behind the times.
Minor side point, but there's a jewelry store below my apartment that uses wireless CCTV cameras... on a WEP protected network... with no logon required to view the stream. I feel bad when I do it, but it's hard not to look.
It isn't that they come configured that way it are never changed.
You can literally google model numbers and pull up camera feeds.
How much harder will it be to disable the cameras while you rob a place?
On problem is all of those X10 cameras installed back in the day in God only knows where that have been long forgotten about. There is no security at all with some devices like this placed in illegal places like motel bathrooms and such.
But the corporate stuff at let's say Walmart, wouldn't have that problem if someone did access the data. What would they see exactly that is of any importance? I would be much more worried about identity theft through servers that have your life history on it like possibly F
Yep, that gives me some other scenarios, since of course they are not going to keep the corporate backbone separate from the cameras, so that convinces me too. I personally would want to keep that separate at least for a small business. In other words don't give all the power to one person as well as setting the passwords and of course even in a tiny business the boss is going to want to watch everything from the internet even if you have dvr's recording every single thing.
I guess most cameras are for theft
What is wrong with just using wireless instead of dragging more cable? Of course you are talking to a small business person. I'm just wondering why an N-based wireless system couldn't be just as secure in a small place if configured properly or is this not yet possible? If jamming is an issue, I think there are products out there but I am not sure? I know the old ones are still around and not secure at all but it seems like they could be.
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps9948/index.html [cisco.com]
Just a dumb quest
Most routers/web tv boxes/digital photo frames/wifi dildos come with trivial exploits. People sell things configured to work "out of the box"
Not Wifi dildos...
CCTV, like the rest of the electronic security biz, is going IP based in a big way now. Keep in mind most people involved with security are, pardon the expression, "hairy arsed" blue collar electrician types. They can do physical wiring ok, but do not have the aptitude for "IT" stuff, which they are positively phobic to.
As you can imagine, they can't even do the basics. Most of that stuff ends up on unfirewalled networks with the default passwords. They see it as 'if it works leave it alone', don't touch anything which might break it. If you're lucky it's a separate security network from the rest of the company, but not always.
I used to work for a company that made a particular PC-based security product (hence posting AC) and for pretty much every system we sold nobody bothered to change the default p/w. Our product was multi user, but they would only use the one default account (with the default p/w) which had engineer access rights for reconfiguring the entire system. The people who bought and installed our system just let the operators (who have no business changing settings) use that account.
Security is moving towards being more of an IT field now, but I wouldn't advise that the
banal - with a small "b": lacking originality, freshness, or novelty
Using most generic search engines with "define:banal" with or without the colon shoulda pulled that up for you. I think I last used it in conversation a year or two ago. If you like banal, you should check out "jejune."
Out of curiosity, where are you? "Banal" is a common enough word in English.
I would also recommend that you look up words in Wiktionary instead of Wikipedia. Not even a small fraction of English words warrant a Wikipedia article, and if you limit your vocabulary to those words, it will be arrant uneath to converse you.
Out of curiosity, where are you?
I work in Toronto, live in the town of Ajax just east of there.
I just had to look up Ajax.
Apparently he is a Greek hero. Fancy pseudo-intellectual sprinkling Greek mythology into your conversations...
Out of curiosity, where are you?
I work in Toronto, live in the town of Ajax just east of there.
I used the word "banal" on numerous occasions (spoken and in email or documents) when I lived in Toronto, and the permanent residents seemed to understand it. Other people even used the word in my hearing, and used it correctly. Their vocabulary was not too bad for that side of the Atlantic. Of course, most of us lived in the Western and Northern suburbs rather than in Ajax...
>Who uses this word?
Plenty of people.
Look out for the anthropophage behind you.
If your Security CCTV system is on the net or has the ports open to the net, then your IT guy is a moron and needs to be fired.
VPN in then connect to the Security cameras.. Yes it even works with the iPhone apps for the CCTV systems. Anything else is just proof of incompetence.
How else could the IMF team snap a little doodad on the cable and magically get a high-def feed to the most sensitive parts of every building? Duh.
a lot of security installers are not IT techs
http://thedailywtf.com/Comments/Just-One-Port.aspx [thedailywtf.com]
I noticed this just last night.
I live in one of those large, over-priced "planned communities" with the town centre, the gym/tennis courts/water park area, etc. They offer free, open WiFi for people in the gym area, so I was checking some mail and decided to do a little network port scanning and saw a couple dozen systems, printers, routers and such on the network, which I thought was odd, as usually those kind of things aren't on the same network as all the free WiFi junk.
I'm just idly curious as to what is around, and came across some unusually named servers (ie: default out of the box) and was just connected via web and it brought up the entire security camera console.
Now there was no "exploiting" going on at all. I just connected to a publically accessible (and offerred) free WiFi point, and browsed a computer name using HTTP, and there I was looking at 4 streaming cameras through a web console, at the gym. Another server (just sitting on the network as well) had all the external cameras for the doors and walkways.
Now this wasn't just a monitoring console, but the full record/stop recording, pan, zoom, admin console. Sitting out completely available, for anyone to just ping and do whatever they wanted.
I've honestly never seen anything like it. There wasn't even a password or any security. Not even a "you shouldn't be here" pop up or anything.
Has anyone ever seen a situation like this? Where a security console wasn't at least locked down to a particular MAC address for monitoring or IP restricted or, God forbid, not on the same network as your customers to randomly browse to?
My IP camera came with an undocument passwordless root login if you telnet to a particular port. Does that count as an exploit or a vulnerability?
Certainly someone must have pointed out it because it was removed in the firmware update.
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West Brom goalkeeper Ben Foster ruled out of visit of Chelsea after groin surgery
West Brom goalkeeper Ben Foster has been ruled out of Saturday's clash with Chelsea after undergoing groin surgery.
Last Updated: 17/11/12 2:41pm
Baggies manager Steve Clarke confirmed that Foster would not be rushed back into the first team having had a minor procedure in hospital last week.
Boaz Myhill deputised for Foster in last weekend's 2-1 victory at Wigan, and the Wales international will retain his place when the European champions visit the Hawthorns on Saturday.
Clarke hopes former England No.1 Foster will be fit in time for next week's trip to Sunderland, and he also revealed that "one or two players" had picked up knocks while on international duty and are doubtful to face Chelsea.
But midfielder Youssouf Mulumbu is confident he will be ready to take on former boss Roberto Di Matteo after suffering a hamstring problem against Wigan.
"I hope I will be fit," said Mulumbu, who pulled out of the Democratic Republic of Congo's friendly with Burkina Faso in Morocco.
"After Wigan I felt something in my hamstring and we didn't want to take any risks with me going to the international and coming back tired or with an injury.
"It happened during the Wigan game but the gaffer had made all of his changes so I had to stay on."
And on the prospect of taking on Di Matteo, he added: "Robbie has done very well. He is still quite young but he drove the Chelsea team on. So all my praise goes to him, but I'm looking to beat him.
"I won't be looking to shake any hands or be kind to people, I will be looking to get three points and maybe go fourth in the league. He has a strong team but let's see what happens on Saturday. I'm quite confident."