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Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Enforcement Division agents cited Michael Bladel, 41, of Pollock in Grant Parish for allegedly killing a southern bald eagle.
On Dec. 21, 2005, agents received a report of Bladel shooting and killing an eagle on the morning of Dec. 20. During the investigation, Bladel admitted shooting and killing the eagle. He stated he thought he was shooting at a chicken hawk. Bladel produced talons and tail feathers, which had been removed from the eagle. He then led agents to a local dumpster where he had discarded the eagle on the morning of Dec. 21. He retrieved the eagle, which was covered with debris, from the dumpster. Agents seized the eagle, talons, tail feathers, and a .270 caliber rifle as evidence.
Bladel was cited for taking non-game bird for which there is no season. The case will be filed in federal court where the charge will likely be amended for a charge under bald eagle protection laws. Federal penalties for taking a southern bald eagle include fines of up to $100,000 and/or imprisonment for up to one year.
Agents participating in the case were Capt. Peter Oliver, Lt. Eric Stokes, Sgt. Michael Bonner, Sgt. Marcus Constance and Senior Agent Rusty Perry.
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November 16, 2011
A large number of letters and emails have mistakenly landed on my desk. I am no expert (a drip under pressure), but I do have resources that I can call on to answer most questions....
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Colleen Kapase, VMware
Senior Director, Global Partner Programs
Years in channel: 16
Years in position: 5
Highlights of the past year: The Global Partner Program team has worked closely with VMware's solution provider and service partners, revamping partner incentives to enhance partner profitability, with the ultimate goal of moving customers to a hybrid cloud.
Goals: Kapase will better support the services and practices of partners around their cloud capabilities. The CIPP program will strengthen ties with these services partners to better leverage partner relationships and expertise. The ultimate goal is for VMware to become clients' cloud partner of choice.


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Real Talk: How Do Men Feel About Makeup?
Every man I know has at least one strong preference when it comes to makeup. For the most part, I think those preferences are incredibly fair and sane (my first boyfriend despised girls in too much mascara, a friend of mine hates red lipstick because it always seems to be coming off on a woman's teeth). Now, at the end of the day, it doesn't matter what other people think about your personal style and if you want to pile a pound of kohl on your face and run around screaming about how you're rock'n roll Cleopatra reincarnated, you can do that and fuck anybody who tells you not to.
However, it's interesting when ten different men from different backgrounds in wildly different fields come together and offer their opinions on things ladies do. Their responses should obviously never change our own habits and preferences but they're almost always surprising. So here we go.


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Inziladûn was the original name of Tar-Palantir, given to him by his father Gimilzôr.
The word inziladûn is an Adûnaic word meaning "flower of the west", derived from inzil, "flower", and adûn, "west".
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Because that's how I'd vote just to annoy you.
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Call for Papers: 3rd annual Pacific Northwest Climate Science Conference (USA)
Call for Abstracts Third Annual Pacific Northwest Climate Science Conference October 1-2, 2012 Boise, ID
Abstracts are now being accepted for the Third Annual Pacific Northwest
Climate Science Conference in Boise, Idaho
This conference aims to go beyond the typical discipline‐based climate conference to stimulate a place‐based exchange of information about emerging science, impacts, and adaptation related to the Pacific Northwest (PNW) climate. The conference will also provide a forum for emerging policy and management goals, objectives, and information needs related to regional climate impacts and adaptation.
Abstracts for oral and poster presentations are solicited for work related to climate variability in the PNW, including (but not limited to) the following topic areas:
- Impacts and Adaptation in the Columbia Basin
- Effects of climate change on regional Agriculture and Food Security
- Conservation and Climate Change
- Impacts of climate change on Natural Resources, including both terrestrial and aquatic systems
- Hydrological modeling in response to regional climate change
- Research conducted by the regional Landscape Conservation Cooperatives
- Climate change Communication
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- Regional climate change impacts on Human Health, and
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WARRENSBURG, MO (April 11, 2014) – Alice Greife, dean of the College of Health, Sciences, and Technology at the University of Central Missouri, has been named a Distinguished Fellow of the American Industrial Hygiene Association.
Greife was one of 43 new Distinguished Fellows who will be recognized for significant contributions to the field of industrial hygiene at the AIHA Conference and Exposition on June 4 in San Antonio, Texas. The Fellow classification is limited to no more than five percent of the AIHA membership.
"The Fellow designation has become a mark of excellence and achievement for AIHA members," said AIHA President Barbara J. Dawson, CIH, CSP. "Members chosen to be Fellows have been nominated by colleagues in the profession because they represent extraordinary accomplishments and contributions to the profession and to AIHA. It is both a privilege and pleasure to congratulate this year's Fellows on behalf of Awards Committee."
"It's an honor to be selected by my peers for this recognition," Greife said. "I very much appreciate the efforts my colleagues who nominated me and supported my nomination."
Greife received a Bachelor of Science degree in biology and Master of Science degree in industrial hygiene from UCM and Ph.D. degree in environmental health from the University of Cincinnati. She began her career in public health as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Public Health Service assigned to the Centers for Disease Control. In 1980 she transferred to the Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies in Cincinnati. In 1990 she was named director of the Division of Standards Development and Technology Transfer and for the new Education and Information Division.
In 1996, Greife retired from the Public Health Service and joined the faculty at University of Central Missouri as a professor of industrial hygiene. She was named chair of the Department of Safety Sciences and Technology in 2000 and interim dean of the College of Applied Sciences and Technology in 2002. She assumed the post of dean of the college in 2003, leading the college through reorganization as the College of Health, Sciences, and Technology.
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My love affair with Topps Chrome has been well documented on this site. Aside from my yearly boxes of SP Authentic and a few sporadic boxes here and there, it was the only product I spent a considerable amount of money on. With recent previews showing a new and improved product, I am confident that Topps Chrome will once again contend for product of the year, and here are the reasons why I think it will.
Product Additions
In terms of content versus price, Chrome has always led the way in most respects, mainly because of how much collectors value the hits and non-hit cards. This year, with the addition of Bowman Chrome, Dual Rookie Autos, Red Zone Rookie Autos, and the Flashback Signature cards, Topps Chrome has added a considerable amount of content to a product that was already at the forefront of the game. Its like adding the hellfire conversion kit to a grenade launcher - it just adds that much more awesome.
Although the addition of Bowman Chrome is great for this particular product, I think it detracts from the overall calendar that Topps puts out. Despite the similarities between the two products, Topps low end never disappoints, and I will say that adding more products like Platinum and Finest, takes away from the overall feel of what makes Topps, well, Topps.
Lack of Relevant Competition
With Upper Deck not producing licensed products, Topps was able to reenter the football market again. Yay for us, no joke. Because SPA, Ultimate, and Exquisite will not function in the same capacity again (if at all), Topps has the opportunity to hit it so far out of the park that it should land in the street. Because the availability of hard signed veteran signature cards has dropped from a whole calendar's worth with Upper Deck to nothing with Panini and Topps, the second age of sticker autographs has been crowned. Therefore, products like Topps Chrome and Bowman Chrome, as well as Topps Flagship no longer look like they are behind the times. Though people like us, who are very on top of the way the general calendar shakes out, the general collector probably wont be able to recognize the shift - at least consciously. Topps Chrome will be more visually appealing as any foilboard riddled set from Panini, and that registers with even the Joe-est of Joe Collectors, even if they don't understand why. Its because when you compare a rookie focused set like Elite and Classics to a rookie focused set like Chrome, its like comparing a Kia to a BMW. I would even go so far as to say that Limited and National Treasures are the only products remaining on the ENTIRE calendar from Panini that have a chance at living up to what Chrome is going to provide for the money. Now, Upper Deck isnt completely out of the game, and we have yet to see the direction of where they are heading. SP Authentic, even with a focus on NCAA stuff, could still rake, and at that point, all bets are off.
If Topps ever had a trump card, it's the refractor. Refractors are like crack to most people, and even someone like me who HATES rainbow foil, loves what they bring. It has to do with the stock and the way the cards themselves are printed, and when it comes to the "chromium" tech that Topps made famous in 1993, accept no subsitutes. I think that fact is even more evident when you hold up a parallel from any Panini foilboard product next to a refractor. Again, there is no comparison.
Then when you factor in that refractors have the ability to maintain a great premium price despite a lack of autographs or jerseys, and it only furthers the point that they are at the pinnacle of low end collecting.
I don't think there is a better price point for any product in any sport than Chrome in football. When it comes to value in cards outside of the box hit, Chrome is in territory all by itself due to the content of the base and base parallel cards. This is just as much a result of consistency and follow through each and every year of release, as well as collector loyalty to the brand as a direct correlation. The autos, when they are of good rookies, are some of the most valuable low end cards in existence, and that only adds to the allure of the miniscule price tag. When a box of Elite (more of a mid-end product) costs 60-70 dollars more for cards that aren't worth half as much, things start to come into focus. With Topps adding further content this year, it only makes more of case for why Chrome remains a collector favorite.
With the exception of 2008, Topps photography for their base set and Chrome tends to be amazing. Dynamic rookie poses (the sell sheet cards are mock ups, not finals), great design, and awesome game shots lead to display worthy low-end cards. How often does that happen? Rarely ever.
Even my mom knows what Topps Chrome is, and its because its been the best for the longest. For most people, due to the basic human characteristic of vanity, building a collection has as much to do with gaining notoriety among your peers as it does with loving the cards. You can deny it all you want, but being able to display your rainbow is pretty awesome when you see the oooo's and ahhhh's from the peanut gallery. Topps Chrome carries that through with each new year, and it has been pretty evident when you see the sales trends in the hobby going in the wrong direction for everything except cards like that.
When it comes down to it, buying a box of Chrome is a great time. Building the set is fun, and displaying your top singles is great. Then to find out that doing so is very inexpensive in most cases, makes it that much more appealing.
My name is Adam Gellman, and I am an addict of the worst kind.
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Topps Chrome and the Quest for the Best
My love affair with Topps Chrome has been well documented on this site. Aside from my yearly boxes of SP Authentic and a few sporadic boxes here and there, it was the only product I spent a considerable amount of money on. With recent previews showing a new and improved product, I am confident that Topps Chrome will once again contend for product of the year, and here are the reasons why I think it will.


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NEW YORK, Nov. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Bronstein, Gewirtz & Grossman, LLC is investigating potential claims on behalf of purchasers of the securities of Phoenix Companies Inc. ("Phoenix" or the "Company") (NYSE: PNX -News). The investigation focuses on whether the Company and its executives violated federal securities laws by disclosing misguided statements regarding the company's business prospects.
On November 8, 2012, Phoenix Companies Inc. (PNX) fell $2.68 or 9.5% to close at $25.31 after announcing the need to restate its GAAP financial statements for the years ended Dec 31, 2011, 2010 and 2009, the interim periods for 2011, and the first and second quarters of 2012. The restatement will correct certain errors in the consolidated statement of cash flows in those financial statements. The errors consisted of (i) the incorrect classification of deposits and withdrawals of universal life and variable universal life products issued by the Company that were reported as cash flows used in continuing operations and (ii) the incorrect reporting of certain fees and interest charges as cash flows provided by financing activities. The company also announced that it is postponing the announcement of its financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2012.
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As interesting as it should be to see how so many young Islanders players perform in their first Stanley Cup playoff games, the true key to the team's first postseason series in six years quite likely is the 37-year-old who has been in so many playoffs that he can't quite place his debut.
"I don't remember past 25 years," Evgeni Nabokov, the goalie, said.
He was kidding. Nabokov is not so venerable as to be suffering memory lapses. And it has not been 25 years since his first playoff game. Or maybe he meant that his recollection doesn't go farther back than his 25th birthday. In either case, he has 80 games of NHL playoff experience, and the Islanders see that as one of their finest assets as they enter Game 1 in Pittsburgh tonight.
"With age and experience comes a lot of wisdom. I'm sure he thinks so," teammate Matt Moulson said, with a grin. "He's been through a lot, been through probably every different situation. He's very vocal during games and during practices. He leads us not only with his play but also with his words."
Stanley Cup history suggests that if a team is going to have one player with a long background, it is best that it be the goalie. No matter what the disparity in talent levels might be, a hot goalie can be a tremendous equalizer. Glenn Healy, then 30, proved that for the Islanders when his goaltending led them past the two-time defending Stanley Cup champions Penguins in the second round of the 1993 playoffs.
Nabokov's experience both steadied and carried the Islanders down the stretch, leading them to their first playoff series since 2007. "His composure and calmness really set a great example for us," said John Tavares, who emerged as a superstar, yet still has zero playoff games under his belt. The goalie is the one who knows how it goes from here.
"Just come out and play our game," Nabokov said. "No, I don't think you have to do anything special. It is the same game. It is a little bit more intense, it is a little bit more physical, but you can't overthink it. You still have to do what you do, like we've played in the last three weeks. Stay with the system, [be] responsible defensively and play tough."
If he sees a teammate falling short of that Wednesday, or at any time in the series, the teammate will hear it, possibly in a way that will make the other guy laugh. "He's obviously never afraid to say what needs to be said, but he's not walking up to every guy in the room and forcing his experience down your throat," defenseman Travis Hamonic said. "It's part of natural leadership, that you have that knack of knowing when to say something and when to just shut up and go do it. He has definitely done that for us this year."
Nabokov is arguably the biggest reason the difference between the Penguins, seeded first in the East, and the eighth-seeded Islanders is not as great as some observers might think.
"I've been on the other side of the thing. I remember we were the No. 1 seed against Anaheim and they beat us, 4-2," the former Dynamo Moscow star goalie said, recalling his 2009 season with the San Jose Sharks. "It sounds maybe funny, but it's a playoff. Anything can happen."
For the record, he made his playoff debut on April 23, 2000, a year before he was officially a rookie (and became the 2001 Calder Trophy winner). Nabokov entered in the third period of a Sharks' loss to the Blues, faced 10 shots and stopped all of them.


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According to the Japanese wiki and stuff, Mario's voiced by Akio Otsuka.
|2010-01-30, 23:36
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ARCAM Spriggan agent
Got some loadout on the Japanese seiyus for AC2.
Desmond Miles: Nozomu Sakaki (Yu Yu Hakusho series as Yusuke Urameshi, Monster as Johann Liebert)
Shaun Hastings: Nobuo Tobita (MSG: Zeta as Kamille Bidan, Hellsing OVA as The Major)
Rebecca Crane: Akeno Watanabe (Code Geass series as Villetta Nu and Miss Romeyer, Witch Hunter Robin as Robin Sena)
Lucy Stillman: Mie Sonozaki (Stratos 4 as Nakamura Saiun, Gantz as Sei Sakuraoka)
Warren Vidic: Youhei Tadano (Kekkaishi as Shigemori Sumimura, Hime-sama Goyojin as Leslie)
Ezio Auditore: Tomokazu Seki (Gundam SEED serie as Yzak Joule, FMP as Sousuke Sagara)
Giovanni Auditore: Naoya Uchida (Deat Note as Soichiro Yagami, One Piece as Doc Q)
Federico Auditore: Jin Horikawa (B'tX series as B'tX, Initial D: 4th Stage as Akiyama Nobuhiko)
Mario Auditore: Akio Otsuka (Metal Gear Solid series as Solid Snake, Ghost in the Shell movies/SAC as Batou)
Leonardo da Vinci: Toshiyuki Morikawa (FMP Fumoffu as Atsunobu Hayashimizu, Tekken 4-6 as Kazuya Mishima)
Lorenzo de Medici: Shintaro Asanuma (Genshiken 2 as Neko Kazamatsuri, Zegapain as Kyo Sogoru)
Rosa: Yu Kobayashi (Negima! as Setsuna Sakurazaki, Maria Holic as Mariya Shidō)
Vieri di Pazzi: Yoshimitsu Shimoyama (MegaMan NT Warrior as Gutsman, Tokyo Majin series as Reiji Sagaya)
Cristina Vespucci: Aya Hirano (Haruhi Suzumiya as Haruhi, Zettai Karen Children as Kaoru Akashi)
|2010-02-26, 15:42
|Link #43
Magatsu Daizu
In terms of story, Assassin's Creed II was really lacking compared to Assassin's Creed I. In terms of gameplay and replayability, ACII was much better. ACII actually had some stuff to do post-game, not including the DLC that's recently been released. ACI it's like "k beat it. Got flags. Done. Bye." This is all just my humble opinion, of course.
|2010-02-28, 02:33
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Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2007
no way this game only has 3 pages, seriously?
i thought this was one of the better ps3 games
and yeah after you get past the learning curve in AC1, it's just rush to the objective, jump in a pile of hay to reset and then back stab the target, and you done
|2010-03-01, 12:10
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: gates of hell are opened before him.
Age: 29
Still I'm done with this game. I kinda did it all to get maximum cash. I almost got 100 feathers and said ...FUCK IT I'm not doing this anymore. Collecting feathers is just stupid way to waste time.
I'm done with this game. i will wait for AC 3 now and meanwhile trade this one on for god of war 3 which is coming really soon
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|2010-03-01, 14:06
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: all and none
Borrowed it from a friend and platinumed it last week.
AC2 was streamlined far better then one, though AC1 looked better on my PC then AC2 on the console. Kinda curious where there going with it as the end was unique to say the least.
|2010-05-02, 08:27
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Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Portugal
Age: 38
I have just finished the game today. It was awesome. I just didn't like the tombs missions. At least 3 of them were way too hard. Specially the one in Venice with the adv jump. It gave another meaning to the platform games.
|2010-05-05, 15:50
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Somewhere between heaven and hell !
Next Assassin's creed game confirmed : Brotherhood !
"The details listed on the back of the card align with what Ubisoft has already confirmed, such as the inclusion of Ezio and the location, Rome.
"Live and breathe as Ezio, now a legendary master assassin, in his struggle against the Templar order. Lead your own brotherhood of Assassins and strike at the heart of the enemy. Rome.
"And for the first time, take part in an innovative multiplayer layer allowing you to embody an assassin of your choosing and define their killing style.
"A never-before-seen online multiplayer experience.
"Lead your own brotherhood of assassins, as Ezio, and conquer Rome."
Pre-ordering the game at GameStop will give you an exclusive multiplayer character. No details on who that might be. It's expected Ubisoft will announce its fiscal quarterly results later this month. "
Multiplayer , why not ? It might be good .
|2010-05-05, 15:59
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Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: akihabara :D
Age: 30
you think we'll be using desmond miles this time around longer than the previous title? or better yet log off the animus? it pissed me off being unable to do that last time because i was trying to kill the guy with glasses... was it shawn? or whatever...
|2010-05-05, 22:59
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Join Date: Jan 2010
From on high, from water, from a crowd of whores that are somehow appealing.
Thieves, you say? You would do well to fear my flying monkeys!
|2010-05-06, 04:36
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Join Date: Nov 2003
I just finished this game on my PC, with a HD 5770, 5.1 surround system and a 22' 1080p Monitor and let me tell you... This game isn't just gorgeously done. The music and the atmosphere are just the top of the iceberg.
This game is a real master piece in the full sense of the word. I have been playing video games since 8 bit consoles were out and I have never been blown away in the way this game did to me. The reason? The puzzle solving, specially the glyphs, some amazing stuff in there. The codex that you read... the philosophical view of the world contained within. The art... oh my God... the art... The actually artwork that you get to see and collect here is amazing, it is all art work real life but the game really makes it stand out, I spent hours just looking at the art... Also the architectural art, which is mostly real; the churches specially were amazing to look at. The sense of immersion in this game in unmatched.
However, what really makes this game unforgettable is its amazing storyline. It is so well thought out, it has such high philosophical and esoteric value that I don't know where to begin. Let me tell you before this game I thought that final fantasy 7, 8 and 9 were unmatched in terms of storyline, but this game dethroned the FF series in my opinion.
Amazing game. I really hope that AC3 can live up this one... It would be nice if the next historical setting were during the French revolution... but thats just me
Can anyone tell me what this song's name is? I have no idea why the guy in the video got the song to play in the middle of a city. For me it came out at the very end of the game after beating the pope for the first time.
|2010-05-11, 11:52
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Somewhere between heaven and hell !
Very short Trailer for Brotherhood :
But nothing new ..
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First details -
"The critically acclaimed single player experience of Assassin's Creed is back and better than ever as Ezio returns in a powerful struggle against the powerful Templar Order," the company said. "Now a legendary Master Assassin, he must journey to Rome, center of power, greed and corruption to strike at the heart of the enemy. Defeating the corrupt tyrants entrenched there will require not only strength, but leadership, as Ezio commands an entire Brotherhood that will rally to his side. Only by working together can the Assassins defeat their mortal enemies.
"And for the first time, Assassin's Creed Brotherhood offers a never-before-seen multiplayer layer," Ubisoft added. "Players can help the Templars by using Abstergo to train in the art of Assassination to eliminate the Assassins once and for all. Players can choose from a wide range of unique characters, each with their own signature weapons and assassination techniques, and match their skills against other players from all over the world in different game modes.""
So , the city -> Rome .
For the multi , dunno if it's a good thing ... well wait more info/trailer .
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|2010-05-18, 08:45
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Somewhere between heaven and hell !
If you played the first and that you found that it was good then of course the second is way better than the one , like 10x better , there are more and more stuffs ^^
Well , i didn't play the first too but my friends yes and i read people's reviews so i know that the second is the best First one was too repetitive .
Talking about the one , i thought that the game was only about an assassin who kill people etc.... and the storyline suxx .
But , i didn't knew that in fact the storyline is excellent , i agree with Sugetsu for the contents , this is far above what i thought about it .
Finally i finish the second and i love it even thought that it results
Spoiler for Story:
God , the painting were amazing . I like Ezio's pistol
Only thing that i hate , sometimes when i run/jump/climb on the roof with the stick , the direction is fucked up then i fall very down ... This is irritating when i'm doing "Race" , i pursue someone or run away .
Anyway hope for good for Brotherhood .
|2010-05-18, 16:12
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Graphic Designer
Instant death by water is a joke. Round up a group of 20 guards in Venice and head towards one of the canal, you can then enjoy watching each one of them drown. Is it just me or that is just so god damn weird that the guards can't swim, maybe I am just missing something. How do you live in Venice and not know how to swim?
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I just tested this 5 times with the option on and with the option off. It averaged 10 vs 8 seconds. Twenty percent improvement is nothing to sneeze at generally, but 2 seconds just doesn't give a huge improvement feel.
I like evolution, but it crashes more than a 90-year-old drunk Irishman on St. Patrick's day.
Well, if it weren't for evolution, we wouldn't have drunk Irishmen living up to 90 years of age.
$ dpigs -n 10000 | grep openoffice
80040 openoffice.org-core
52704 openoffice.org-common
10696 openoffice.org-writer
8724 openoffice.org-calc
7464 openoffice.org-base
4580 openoffice.org-draw
3000 openoffice.org-java-common
2568 openoffice.org-l10n-en-us
2220 openoffice.org-impress
1120 openoffice.org-math
692 openoffice.org-gnome
200 openoffice.org
openoffice.org-core appears to be 80 MB
Office 2003 Pro is nearly 6 times as large, 477 meg according to the install point we have at work.
is 80 MB really mammoth?
Compared with less than 20MB for (the much faster) KOffice? In any case, I don't think it's the download size per se that is the big deal, it's just that it's a convenient metric that roughly correlates to some sense of bloat.
All of them.
So much for ever getting a real Mac OS X version OpenOffice.org. Spare me your comments about NeoOffice and the X11 version working on OS X.
Okay, but I won't spare you from a small note that Google isn't the only one who contributes to OO.o. They may not exactly have a stellar record on supporting Mac on their own projects, but here, they're contributing stuff on a cross-platform package backed by folks who want to keep it running on Windows, Linux and (to a very small extent) OS X.
I don't think that sudden appearance of Google programmers makes OO.o Linux and OS X support magically disappear over night! That would be very silly!
should read:
"And we want to make sure open source preserves competitiveness against Microsoft."
Not that there is anything wrong with that, I just find it funny that they don't just come out and say what we all know they are thinking.
Could Eric's attempts to kill MS be anymore obvious? IIRC 40% of MS' profits are from Office. If people (read: companies) realize that free (and higher quality) is better than $300-600 / license (and lower quality) the open source world could start to get the penetration it needs to hit a tipping point.
Mod parent up. This is a good point.
All competitors of Microsoft - whether or not they're in the office suite business - would do well to consider donating developers and code to OpenOffice.org. It would hit Microsoft right where it hurts - in one of their two major cash cows - making it harder for Microsoft to compete in general (because less money would be flowing from their cash cows into their other divisions).
or its mammoth 80MB download size.
Sure, its memory usage is a bit heavy (though it's worked fine for me), but 80 MB doesn't seem like such a big download, considering what you get. Microsoft Office now spans more than one CD. Even when you omit the media (images, clipart, etc.) that come with MS Office, OOo must still be considerably smaller.
Not that I'm criticising their intentions - if they make it even smaller than 80 MB I won't complain.
First off, kudos to anybody who steps in and gives the Open Source movement a monetary hand -- and I gotta figure they're one of the top contributors at this point.
This is absolutely the right move. Word processing software has probably the most unnecessary bulk of any class of software on your operating system (the e-mail client placing a close second.) There was a day these things could fit in 640K, and while there are certain advantageous features such as spell check we would all be benefited by a more modular approach to installation that asks you what you need and what you don't.
Really, this seems to be the tip of the iceburg. With the increasing price of oil, I can't help wondering what the face of computing is going to look like five or ten years down the line. The average computer uses as much as 140 jack-o-lanterns worth of coal to run on any given day. Much of this is spent on wasteful peripherals we could do without, such as fancy 3D graphics cards or optical mice, but even more is being spent on processing power well beyond the needs of the average user.
Inefficiencies in microcomponent fabrication mean that a great deal of the electricity that goes into your computer is given off as heat. Techniques such as reversible or quantum computing hold much promise in the future for putting more energy into computation but today it is up to the consumer to safeguard the environment.
In a way, the argument is the same as with vehicles -- most people don't need a SUV or a top-of-the-line system but many choose to get them to compensate for inadequacies or because of marketing -- but with computers at least it is impossible to argue you are "safer" for having a faster system. Indeed, you are more likely to run viruses or worms without realizing it because you don't notice the hit in operating performance.
I've noticed that I've been holding on to computer equipment longer and longer these days. Oh sure, I have to fix a power supply here and a fan there, but besides slack engineering standards from software companies there is little reason to keep up with the hardware treadmill... and at least one compelling reason not to.
But much of the responsibility falls on the software developers to design for efficiency. That's not to say that they don't, but I think that as a priority in particular for software deployment to third-world nations operating efficiency will only rise as part of the software design philosophy.
That's not writing cross platform code, it's writing bad code. What it should include is an abstract address book interface. This would be accompanied by instances that wrapped the features of the Windows, OS X / GNUstep, GNOME, KDE, etc. address books, and a fall-back that provided basic address book functiona
Before anyone starts screaming about privacy and Google becoming too powerful, let me say that I find such a prospect very attractive for individuals and for small and medium size businesses. Let Google handle the backup issues and provide appropriate conversion utilities when communicating with others. While I am quite competent to handle such issues myself, I would be tempted to use a Google service such as this myself. It is so convenient having documents stored on a globally accessible server and not having to maintain that server oneself.
Wait... haven't we been here before.
How do you commoditize an operating system? One way is to make web services that can be accessed by any standards-compliant browser. Check.
How do you commoditize an office suite? By backing and improving a free-of-charge office suite, and by providing coders, money, and publicity to the project. Check.
I wonder what MS will do now? I think that if they have to fight to maintain a monopoly against Google, IBM, Sun, and the entire F/OSS community, they may well have a losing battle.
Google is investing in OO.org for the same reason that Sun, Red Hat, Novell, and even IBM (to a certain extent) are investing in OO.org. If Google can make OO.org a more useful competitor to MS Office for a nominal investment then that investment is definitely money well spent. This has little or nothing to do with Google's use of Free Software, and everything to do with the fact that with Microsoft Office is vulnerable. OO.org is actually pretty competitive, and Microsoft's upcoming format shift means that people are going to have to deal with format incompatibilities no matter what they decide to use.
Google execs know that Microsoft begins to lose sales of its ridiculously profitable office suite to OO.org that investors will demand that Microsoft stop focusing on new endeavors (like MSN) and focus on its bread and butter businesses. Increasing the viability of OO.org is almost certainly Google's most cost effective weapon in its fight against Microsoft.
...companies to pull off one of the few FS/OSS business models that's sound, simply because of Google's size. The model?
1. Release FS/OSS.
2. Short stock of Proprietary competition. Or, drive dollars away from them towards you; since shorting is an unpopular tactic that might cause PR or even legal problems.
3. Profit. Oh yeah, big time!
Hate to burst the bubbles of people who still have them when it comes to the big G, but human attempts to create large, idealistic organizations have a nasty tendancy to end in failure. Exactly what is "not doing evil" when your only choice is the Google office suite?
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Last week I was on the talk show that Karen mentions quite often. I called in and asked about my two Abyssinian cats and their new problem with fighting with each other. I was told that Juni thinks Chloe stinks from something. Juni can't stand her odor. Well, it just so happened that when I had them both to the vet about a month ago, the Vet thought Chloe should have a dental cleaning. She is scheduled for Aug. 24th.
The cost of the cleaning (not including any extractions) will be $245.00. I was shocked. It has been about 10 years since any of my cats had a cleaning done. Anyway, I said thank you but that is too much and called around to other Vets. Well, two other Vet's quoted me at $480 and $590. Oh my gosh. I quickly called my Vet and scheduled Chloe for the "cheap visit" of $245. Their comment was that they must knock out the cat. Well, I'm sorry, I think it was WAY to much and many people cannot afford prices like this. I can afford it, but gee, if all three needed their teeth cleaned, regularly, I'd have to file for bankruptcy soon! Yikes.
I love my Vet and her staff, but I think the business of Vets is getting a bit out of hand. Even the cost of an office visit has sky rocketed.
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Senior graphic arts major Courtney Houston's work was chosen from more than 30 illustrations by President William M.B. Fleming, Jr. and his wife, Pam, to convey the spirit of the season.
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I wonder what a bank would do to the branch manager if a former employee could walk away with $200,000 six months after being fired. Or, to use a car analogy, if a former employee was able to walk into a dealership and drive away with a $200,000 car just like that.
The law about computer crimes should have strong penalties for managers that allow that shit to happen. It would be somewhat different if the guy still worked for the corporation, because it's much harder to guard against an attack from inside, bu
> The law about computer crimes should have strong penalties for managers that allow that shit to happen.
Why does this need to be a legal thing? I mean, there's employment issues to look at (like, err, should they have a job still), but why on earth would this be a legal issue?
I would think this is a legal issue in the fact that the person destroyed company property without consent. Imagine if you stopped getting the newspaper delivered, and as a result, the paper boy took your car and had it stripped.
There's this concept of criminal degrees of negligence (under US or UK law at least). If somebody does a big enough screw-up, something any 'reasonable' person should have known better than to do (as the law defines reasonable), they they have committed criminal acts. In this case, for example, some of the people working for the for the corporation made assurances to their boss that the system was better secured than that, and some of them made assurances to clients or to the government. If I know damned w
You're actually blaming the victim? It's your fault for a thief picking your pocket, getting your keys and stealing your car because you should've had it chained to your waist? The home invasion was your fault because you didn't pay extra for the level 5 security system?
This wasn't a case of the IT staff inviting people into the office, sitting them at a PC with a list of passwords on the desktop. The criminal did very specific, targeted things to falsify keys and identities to gain access.
You're actually blaming the victim?
No. The victims are Gucci stockholders. The incompetent manager was an accessory to crime, therefore he should share the blame.
I wonder what a bank would do to the branch manager if a former employee could walk away with $200,000 six months after being fired. Or, to use a car analogy, if a former employee was able to walk into a dealership and drive away with a $200,000 car just like that.
Well, he didn't walk away with tangible things of value. A better analogy would be:
* Bank analogy: someone destroyed enough of the bank's records that it cost the bank $200,000 to fix the resulting mess.
* Car analogy: someone drove a monster truck onto the dealer's grounds and squashed $200,000 worth of cars.
It's not usually the case that a sysadmin's manager knows the system as well as the admin. So, it's not really possible for a sysadmin's manager to prevent all possible angles on something like that. It
Am I desensitized by hyperbolic damage claims in other cases, or does $200,000 seem pretty low for this kind of attack?
Social engineering is modifying society to do what you want it to, just like, say, getting an Xbox to play a copied game.
Hacking is the same thing - leveraging how a piece of software or hardware behaves to achieve your goal.
Conjugal visits? Not that I know of. Minimum security prison is no picnic. The trick is, kick someone's ass on the first day or become someone's bitch.
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1) if you're going to fire an IT admin who has access to all your stuff, you meet him at the door in the morning while your other admins are changing passwords. He doesn't touch a computer in your building again. You'll put his files on a flash drive and don't let the door hit you on the way out.
2) Anyone posting IT post-firing sabotage fantasies who isn't posting as a Anonymous Coward deserves the results of their next interview. I'm looking at you sandytaru.
Typically we pay these types of employees a delayed bonus. If after 6 months they did nothing to harm the company, it's paid, otherwise it's not. This usually buys IT enough time to have fully replaced all passwords, etc.
Or make sure you hire professionals. A professional will take their severance pay (or whatever they are entitled by law) and move on.
Also, the way people are fired says a lot about a company. Generally, if people are treated the way you suggest, that company is not a good place to be.
I'll agree with your second point. Those fantasies are either an indication of immaturity or personality disorders.
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Another company blows all their money on a data center...
In 5 years, the newest fad will arrive, and Twitter will be out of business, or suffer extreme drops in revenue and users.
Don't believe me? How's MySpace these days? Or Gawker? Or one of the other dot-coms that went under after their popularity waned.
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My question is how many of those 100 million accounts post more than 1 message before they become forgotten. How many last more than a week....
Also in 5 years the value of the equipment in said data center will have dropped substantially.
The land, if they own it, can be sold easily.
So why does this matter again?
Suffer extreme drops in revenue? what revenue?
Well, I'm not sure about anything else but they do have sponsored trending topics. So there is at least some revenue.
I tried to find some infor on their turnover and profit over 2009 on their website but I couldn't find anything. Where can you find such info?
Another company blows all their money on a data center...
In 5 years, the newest fad will arrive, and Twitter will be out of business, or suffer extreme drops in revenue and users.
Don't believe me? How's MySpace these days? Or Gawker? Or one of the other dot-coms that went under after their popularity waned.
Yes. Clearly if Myspace can't make it, no other company can make it and every company that is doing well should just give up.
But why should Twitter build the data center? There are companies out there that just build data centers. I almost went to work for one two years ago. They own the One Wilshire building in Los Angeles. They were planning on building something stupid amount (15?) of data centers over the next couple of years. It would be interesting to see the ROI figures on Twitter's data center build out.
"There are companies out there that just build data centers."
The fact that they "just build data centers" is no guarantee that they will build them better than the company that build datacenters on top of something else. Once you are big enough in an industry, there's no guaranteed benefit in going out for a provider. In fact you are *guaranteed* in the limit that it will be cheaper to do it yourself (your costs will be just the same than those of the provider but you will save on its benefits).
So the que
But this data center is for twits.
How did this get +3 on the moderation? I'm going to guess twitter haters?
Not all huge sites are shrinking in size, look at facebook, youtube, google themselves.
Twitter is one of the greatest new forms of communications in the last 20 years.
My first 2 tweets stayed for 6+ months iirc and were just "twitter is lame" and "update: twitter is still a wank" or something like that.
I didn't 'get' twitter.
Now that I do, I do not understand why on earth SMS still exists, this website / application(s) allows me to talk to people instantly across the planet with a 0$ fee (unlike SMS) and I can include pictures, links or whatever, I can use trending topics to see what is big in the world right this second! (yes, that's big)
When someone posts "is that an earthquake?!" I go to twitter, type in earthquake and can have confirmation in seconds
Twitter allows manufacturers, famous people and important people to instantly share messages and thoughts with people. There is an awful awful lot of stupid and irrelivant shit, mark my words I understand this but inbetween all that it's amazing, utterly amazing.
I can see my friends have conversations - and yes they can do it privately but they can also do it publically, that ability to see their conversation - is almost like being at a resteraunt or bar where everyone is having a chat - my ears are tuning in (if I desire) to their conversation and I can at any moment join in, all wirelessly, all instantly - in any timezone.
I don't often praise things and it sure as shit took me a while to get it, infact until you literally have an account and follow a couple of people, I totally get hating on it - the interface is silly to understand at first, once you do get it - it's incredible, utterly incredible.
My only problem with twitter, or rather their only problem is that I simply can not fathom how they can monetize it - in any way. Google however purchased Youtube and I distinctly recall me saying "what the fuck is google thinking? 4 billion? That's stupid - this is googles first big mistake" - I mean there was no ads back then and it was 5 years ago, bandwidth is fucking expensive and they just paid money to serve up terabytes of data a day, why?!
Anyhow: TLDR is that twitter should utterly replace SMS, without question, SMS is completely dead to me, all my friends with twitter I can tweet in seconds, it's a fucking incredibly powerful and clever communications tool, once you learn it, you'll love it.
(Are you trolling? If so, I bit the hook..)
How can twitter "replace" SMS? Twitter *uses* SMS. I virtually never go to the twitter web site, I receive the tweets directly on my phone, via SMS. (Yes, there are twitter apps too, but they don't seem any more convenient to me.)
No twitter CAN use SMS, do you not have data on your mobile phone plan?
Are *YOU* trolling?
Of course I have data.. but since I want the tweets to 'come to me' rather than have me seek them out(*), SMS seems like the only way to currently do that.
(*) I have in the past wished for a twitteremail gateway so I could get a whole page of very frequent tweeters as an email once a day. But generally, I like getting it via SMS.
You don't have push notifications on your phone?
Maybe in the US, SMS's are free but where I am they vary from 5 to 30cents - that's a lot of money over thousands of tweets.
Data is the future, SMS packets are dead soon.
You / someone had to go through a point of telling people "hey you should try facebook" same with google voice and all social networks.
Now, facebook has hit huge huge penetration. I'd almost say
Twitter is here to stay.
Twitter is one of the greatest new forms of communications in the last 20 years.
I stopped reading after that comment, you must be completely out of your mind if you really thing blasting out 140-character blurbs that are only indexable/searchable by stupid free-form hashtags to random sets of people who are 'following' you constitutes 'one of the greatest forms of communications over the last 20 years'. Twitter is not about communication, at least not two-way communication, it's broadcasting, and a very limited and in most cases useless implementation of it. As soon as you try followin
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I kind of understand why you don't like twitter
I love Twitter also and would just like to make a clarification to this:
There is an awful awful lot of stupid and irrelivant shit, mark my words I understand this but inbetween all that it's amazing, utterly amazing.
One man's stupid and irrelevant tweet is another person's highly useful tweet. If someone tweets about a great new rap song they just heard, I couldn't care less. But to fans of that music genre, it could be an introduction to a song that they love. Similarly, if I tweet about something my ki
>Twitter is one of the greatest new forms of communications in the last 20 years.
Feel free to tell me what twitter's business model will be (they still don't have one).
No, but 10,000 more fake Puff Daddy twitter accounts will appear in its place
Hey, now. Don't be mad at P. Diddy. It took so long for Puff to register alternate names that some people got them before Diddy did. Puffy's doing his best, and I'm sure Sean will get the last of them before his next name change.
It's not the technology upgrades which will engender longer tweets, it's profitability.
When the new subscription rate slows and Twitter decides that promotion/advertising revenue isn't enough, I expect the ability to tweet longer will be a "premium" (paid) enhancement. 140 char tweets stay free, but if you load up your account with Twitter credits ("Twedits"?), every block of 70 extra chars costs you x twedits...
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Isn't this supported by US providers? It's common here.
Now, when they get that second server, will we be able to at least get 255 chars in a tweet?
The limit is based on the restrictions of making tweets SMS-compatible, so, no.
This is a popular response, but they've been profitable since they began the Google/Bing search deals last November/December. It looks like this round is to catalyse and sustain growth.
Wait, why would earning actual revenue be a requirement for a startup being worth investing millions in or paying billions for?
Now that's just silly!
Are Twitter at any point going to get a revenue stream?
Yes. They're now selling promoted tweets for up to $100,000 [wsj.com]. Engagement rates were significantly higher [mashable.com] than what was seen on Google's sponsored links, though that's likely due to its novelty. With enough promoted tweets however, you could start to see some serious cash rolling in.
Are Twitter at any point going to get a revenue stream?
Ah the Ponzi scheme.
... of 1,428,571 $1.40 checks, so it'll take a while before they can actually use it...
I'm still blown away that a company such a simple idea, run on such a simple site, requires a CEO.
He's like the CEO of txt messages.
Consecutive articles on
Maybe I'm too old (hey... get off my lawn! Sorry...) but I just don't get the appeal of Twitter. Billions of tweets per day of which maybe 7 aren't banal. Never mind the business model, I just don't get anything about Twitter.
Huh? Did you post something? Sorry, I almost missed it.
Seriously though, this is why you and I will never become rich. We don't identify with the mass of humanity that finds such things useful or interesting.
I always sucked at trying to guess answers when I watched Family Feud. The answers had nothing to do with what was right, but what was popular. *shrug* Lucky thing I have a profession where people need that answers to be right, and are willing to pay for it.
Having all the stupidest people on one sight makes them relatively easy to filter away.
So, you're on twitter then?
Speaking for myself it's a cheap way of keeping in touch with a group of people I know that share a similar interest. For the most part we treat it as a glorified chat room.
Maybe I'm too old (hey... get off my lawn! Sorry...) but I just don't get the appeal of Twitter. Billions of tweets per day of which maybe 7 aren't banal. Never mind the business model, I just don't get anything about Twitter.
Maybe you are too old. I use Twitter to see what my friends are doing. The old people will say "bah, well I *call* my friends and talk to them, grumble grumble", but I can't call everyone all the time. I have friends that I don't talk to that often, because we run in different circles, but that doesn't mean I don't care about them. If they got a new job or they're having fun on a vacation, I'm happy to know, just the same as if I bumped into them at a party and they told me. It's not highly meaningful discourse, but it's not different from a lot of the interactions we have with people on a daily basis. Only I don't have to live across the street from them to bump into them.
Specifically, I live in Silicon Valley near San Jose, and I have a lot of friends who live in San Francisco. I'm busy, and I work crazy hours, so its nice to just get an idea for what they're up to. Or sometimes they'll share a funny link, and that amuses me. I use twitter on my Android phone, so it's best for idle time - waiting for a computer to reboot, waiting for the microwave, waiting for Starbucks to finish my drink. Just times where I have a few minutes, and I'd otherwise just stare off somewhere. At Starbucks, actually, I normally try to chat with people so as to not be antisocial, but sometimes there's no one to chat with. So I check twitter and find out what my friends are doing.
And often they're talking about plans they have to go to a party, or go to a concert or some cool event, and then I give them a call and might go myself an meet up with them. So I get to go to a party with a friend that I may not have realized was happening, just because of twitter.
So plenty of people don't get twitter, but I'm a real person who gets real use out of it. I may not have explained it perfectly, but all I can say is that it fits in with my lifestyle. I'm a 26 year old techie, your lifestyle may vary and twitter may be useless to you.
But more so than anything, I find it funny how people always feel the need to let people know that they don't understand twitter.
It's not age that is a factor, it's the unwillingness to adapt to new things. I'm 43, I remember fondly things like my Commodore 64, my Atari 2600, and 70s 80s music, but I refuse to be stuck there.
Times change, you either change with them or you get left behind. I find Twitter an interesting and useful way of keeping up with my friends, some of whom are thousands of miles away. We've even used Twitter to co-ordinate a get together of some folks from across the US.
Sure, you can use any communications medium to coordinate anything. That's not the point.
The point is that artificial, technological restrictions are stupid, and it's a mystery as to why people choose to submit to them.
"The point is that artificial, technological restrictions are stupid, and it's a mystery as to why people choose to submit to them."
Because when you have no choice you don't have to think about the choice.
People *like* being stupid for the most part (and by "people" I mean "everybody"; you and I included).
No choice? There's an entire Internet of choice. There were alternatives to Twitter before Twitter was thought of. What are you talking about?
I'm sorry, what exactly am I submitting to? I wasn't aware I was being forced to use Twitter.
You're not. You're enlightened.
Thanks; that was a good explanation. I think it really is an age/generation gap.
I keep up with my friends via email or IRC (I *do* get IRC because you can have relatively meaningful conversations over IRC, or you can use it Twitter-like just to splat up up interesting URL.)
When I have idle time, I don't like to be communicating, checking Twitter, checking IRC, etc. I like to just do nothing. I seldom get a chance to do that, so zoning out for a bit and disconnecting is very refreshing.
Thanks; that was a good explanation. I think it really is an age/generation gap.
I keep up with my friends via email or IRC (I *do* get IRC because you can have relatively meaningful conversations over IRC, or you can use it Twitter-like just to splat up up interesting URL.)
When I have idle time, I don't like to be communicating, checking Twitter, checking IRC, etc. I like to just do nothing. I seldom get a chance to do that, so zoning out for a bit and disconnecting is very refreshing.
Yeah, I do notice that sometimes I have this weird anxiety about being connected, like I should be reading something on the web, even when I have nothing to read. I get so used to checking the phone, I'll keep checking it, and have this odd anxiety when nothing is there.
Finding a balance is interesting. The connected world offers so much, its easy to get sucked in. When I'm walking through a parking lot, its easy to read my phone and just keep my peripheral vision out to avoid hitting something, but that's
That actually makes sense. Now I wish my friends would use Twitter. Actually, that's the main reason why I don't have Twiiter and Facebook: none of my friends use it.
Turns out a lot of companies give away free stuff on twitter. I made an account a few weeks ago solely to try and get said free stuff. Also turns out that a lot of other people do this, so it isn't working out too well for its original purpose.
But on the bright side, if you follow the right people it's quite interesting. Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson), for example, is active there and definitely worth following.
[sigh the standard karma whoring response to posts about Facebook and Twitter.]
Maybe I'm too old (hey... get off my lawn! Sorry...) but I just don't get the appeal of Twitter.
It's more likely you don't comprehend the universe doesn't revolve around you and other people have other interests. (BTW, I'm 47, so how old is 'too old'?)
Billions of tweets per day of which maybe 7 aren't banal.
Let's check my twitter stream today... One tweet containing my daily photo shoot 'assignment' (from a site dedicat
... A pretty typical day, none of it 'banal'.
In fairness to the GP, most of twitter's posts are banal. The fact is these aren't randomly distributed.
One tweet containing my daily photo shoot 'assignment'
Then you aren't an attention whore.
Attention whoring is what twitter is for, thats all. Its so people who think someone else gives a shit about what they can say in half a thought have a place to spew their ignorant incoherent incomplete thoughts.
Other than that, its about the biggest step backwards in communications ability I think we've experienced in history. I think a world wide EMP that wiped out all electronics would be less damaging than twitter and SMS in general.
It's kind of like the Kardashians. Literally nobody knows what it does, it doesn't contain a single original or intelligent thought, and it's everywhere for no reason.
Come on, this is such a stupid argument. Sure, I agree that what your cousin is doing this afternoon is pretty banal and unimportant. But what my cousin is doing this afternoon could be funny, interesting, amusing, or just nice to know because he's my cousin. And it makes no difference to me whether you're interested in what he has to say or not.
But who needs e-mail when we already have fax machines.
How many Twitter accounts *are* there? How many unique (in the scientific, not cultural way) individuals actually use twitter? What percentage of that 100 million and then the entire population are actually just marketing accounts?
"Hey guys! All the impressionable consumers with disposable income are over here now!!!"
*five minutes later*
"@JackNormalGuy "Yo dawg dez nue kix are sweet! U shood check there syt, srslyLOL!! bit.ly/4Tju7"
Seriously, between taxes, power costs, employee costs, etc.. Why build datacenters in hightaxland? I figure NV, WA, TX, FL would be better for datacenters, and ideally WY or SD if there's adequate fiber available (and ya gotta wonder, given the military presence especially in western SD)..
Local costs of living are low, utilites and taxes are low, real-estate costs are low.. Do everything remotely and have local monkeys do hands-on if you can't reach remote KVM or serial/ILO, and fly folks out for the occasional builds..
I thought the same thing. There are lots of places with enough smart people and low costs of doing business. Blacskurg, VA (well, Christiansburg - right next door - actually) is a great place. If there hadn't been a small sinkhole on the proposed site we would have gotten a $500M datacenter.
Fat internet pipes, cheap land and taxes, and a big university (VT) to pull cheap college grad (and undergrad) labor from.
Can anybody explain the long-term business model of twitter?
And 99,595,000 of them were created by bots for spamming.
Only about 50k of those have been on any day following the day the account was created.
The company I work for runs a website with about 3 million registered users
You can certainly say its because people aren't interested in what we offer, and you'd certainly
and 99% of statistics are pulled out of someone's ass.
I love Slashdot and it's armchair experts.
Okay, lets look at this.
On one hand you have Twitter, a way of communicating with the world instantly. While it has it's uses, it's made up of the idea that what you have to post is so fucking important, that everyone needs to see it.
Facebook. the "social network" that everyone is on. Everyone has to share their photo's, info, and every fucking thing else of their lives. While there is some privacy, it seems to be very crappy. And it is also based on the idea that what you do is important enough
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It was another good turnout at Wednesday's community input meeting for the Lang Ranch Community Park Conceptual Recreational Use Plan process. This, the third of four meetings, was aimed at further prioritizing the list of potential uses supplied by community members.
Approximately 75 attendees were given maps of the planned park site and were encouraged to indicate locations where they thought they might want to put certain amenities. On the back of the maps were lists of potential uses, divided up into three categories; Green: Those the agency (Conejo Recreation and Park District, CRPD) felt were appropriate uses based on the plan's criteria; Red: Those that did not meet the criteria; and Yellow: Those that were "on the bubble" and could go into either the Green or Red categories. Attendees were divided into five groups with two facilitators each and provided input on any amenities that were missing, as well as any amenities that should move from one category to another. Afterward, groups summarized their input.
Based on group summaries, bicycle related amenities, including a pump track and skills features, were still a high priority. A new term came up in the list of prospective bike amenities, "dual slalom course," which while new to the process, is not a new concept. It's basically the same thing as slalom ski racing; two parallel downhill courses run through gates with jumps and berm turns. Sort of like downhill BMX (but it can be done on mountain bikes as well).
CRPD facilitators reminded attendees that this is still very early in the process and that they are in "big picture" mode. To quote Jim Friedl, CRPD General Manager, "We're not yet looking at the gnat's eyebrow at this point." The next and final community meeting takes place March 21, and from there CRPD staff will produce a report and recommendation to present to the CRPD board. According to Friedl, an optimistic estimate for delivering that presentation could be 4-6 months.
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Cress Jumper Holds as Game-Winner
Farmingdale State - 59, Maritime - 58
Farmingdale, N.Y. - After Maritime made a 17-point second half comeback to take a 58-57 lead with 1:08 to play, a jumper by freshman guard Wade Cress (Staten Island, N.Y./Curtis) with 52 seconds remaining gave the Rams a 59-58 edge and held on as the final basket of the game for the Skyline Conference victory.
Farmingdale State (12-11, 12-6) jumped out to a 28-6 lead in the first twelve minutes of the first half, as Maritime (17-6, 13-5) struggled shooting 26-percent from the field and 11-percent from long range. The Rams would hold a 35-17 advantage at the break.
In the second, Farmingdale kept the double-digit lead rolling until the seven-minute mark when Maritime cut the defcit to eight points. Trailing by seven with 2:33 to go, senior guard Andre Cooper (Baltimore, Md./Southwestern) scored on a layup on Maritime's next possession and then hit two free-throws after a Farmingdale turnover, making it 56-53 Rams.
After the Rams converted on 1-of-2 free throws, a Farmingdale foul sent Maritime junior guard Justin Bright (Brooklyn, N.Y./Park West) to the line, where he sank both and pulled the Privateers within two points, 57-55.
Another Rams turnover resulted in a game-tying layup by Bright and a foul, giving him a chance at the three-point play with 1:08 remaining on the clock. He hit the free throw for the 58-57 advantage, Maritime's first lead of the game.
On Farmingdale's next trip down the court, Cress would hit the eight foot jumper to give the Rams the lead back, 59-58, and the win.
Cress scored a game-high 17 points for Farmingdale State. Junior guard Shahee Martin (Queens, N.Y./West Hempstead) finished with 15 points (all from long range, 5-for-8) and seven rebounds. Junior forward Andre Martin (Bronx, N.Y./Evander Childs) had 12 points and three blocks for the night.
Maritime's Bright had a team-high 16 points, while Cooper added 14 points, six rebounds and four assists.
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IS this settlement good or bad for the webcasters?
There is an annual minimum royalty of $500, which means that the smallest of small webcasters may not be able to afford it.
Umm... I think it's even worse than that.There is an annual minimum royalty of $500, which means that the smallest of small webcasters may not be able to afford it.
That's up for negotiations to decide, isn't it? One side POTENTIALLY benefits from "free promotion", the other from having some filler between advertisements (or some other benefit).
Making things interesting is that in the marketplace of music, webcasters can always go to alternative music sources if they can't come to what they think is an equitable agreement with their first choice rightsholders--be that agreement the rightsholders get paid, pay, or whatever.
in life, you get what you negotiate.
Granted, brittney spears spends 4 hours recording and then pays people to do the other 196 hours
Most people playing this music aren't looking at profit but are playing music for the sake of music. Those that use "non-profit" status to try and slip by this are going to run head-long into the IRS rules on NPOs -- and they're NOT forgiving of organizations that try to use NPO status as a "cover."
You just covered a *Madonna* song, for Pete's sake.
like college radio and the NPR music stations (e.g. WXPN).
Problem, though, is that it could hurt the small, independent, for-profit stations. I can see Sh*tchannel using the royalty issue as a way to round up the last of the independents into their corporate droneness.Guess this means I can start looking into streaming my music on the Web again. Now, if they could only relax the FCC rules on what you can play and when. (Not talking about obscenity but about the stifling rules on playing an artist more than once in a time period. I mean, if payola is legal now [with Sh*tchannel demanding $$$ from the record companies], then maybe we should toss out the rest of those 50s-era radio rules too.)
So, long story short... yes, you have to pay.
hope that helps.
You'd thing after paying taxes to support a Congress to make 'laws' like this, they could spend a little to make it readable by the general public, which will have to hire laywers and subsequently be priced out of webcasting right there.
If this benefits the little guy, I'm all for it. Unfortunately, I can't tell. 'Course it's Friday and I haven't had my Dr. Pepper yet either.
If you are a programmer, imagine that you are in the 107'th development team of a two-century old legacy program. If you want keep side effects down, you have to be very precise, and your changes will be a little hard to read.
That's because the law is a public monopoly, and all the law is open source. They can't make money off the law, so they have to make money providing "service and support". So, they have a vested interest in writing laws that are hard to understand.
On the other hand, if we could choose from a multitude of proprietary legal vendors, the laws would almost certainly be simpler. Of course, you couldn't have a purely unregulated legal market because someone might go into "business", declare his home a sovereign state, and make wife beating legal. However, a regulated legal market with broad mandates such as upholding the Constitution and collecting revenue could be interesting. If people got disgusted with "pro-NRA flat tax 2.0", they could register their gun and switch to "progressive tax abortion rights unlimited 3.04".
The only trouble is, what happens when holders of "unlimited land use rights 4.5" move in next door to someone who just purchased "English common law 253.4 with rigid Home Owner Association bylaws service pack 2"?
You could go give the band a fiver, they could probably hang on to that.
However, for anyone experiencing such anti-RIAA sentiment, I would point out that some of the finest and most groundbreaking music today is released by labels who are not part of the RIAA. (99.9% of artists ARE involved with ASCAP and BMI, but as I understand it, these organizations are separate from and not quite as evil as the RIAA.)
For example, some of my favorite sources of music are Darla Records [darla.com], Drag City Records [dragcity.com], Teen Beat Records [teenbeatrecords.com], Matador Records [matadorrecs.com], Merge Records [mergerecords.com], Misra Records [misrarecords.com], etc., etc. Many of these record labels are actually NICE to their artists and fair to the consumer (the average cd price is maybe $11-14). Also, online stores like Other Music [othermusic.com] and Insound [insound.com] do a fairly good job of filtering new non-big-five-media-company music. This is, of course, a small slice of the available pie, focused around my particular listening habits. I know that it is daunting at first to try and find music outside the mainstream that suits you, but you really only need to find a few artists or labels to truly open the flood gates.
My point being, there IS music being made for you that does not diectly suport "the man." Find a record label you like and begin to branch out!
I assume you are talking about the time, and not the style? Nothing changes for those people.what happens to classical stations now?
The music itself is in the public domain.
The PERFORMANCES are owned by someone. If you have 1845 recording from the London Symphony Orchestra, that's in the public domain. If you have a 2001 perfomance of the same work by the same Orchestra, then you need to work out the rights.
They can, though, if they see you on the cover of a magazine, or on the label of your CD, or on Jay Leno late at night, or in your new movie...
Much as we all love to hate MTV (and I do!), I think there's a larger culture-of-celebrity thing going on here. Being, as Zoolander would say, "unbelievably good looking," is just part of the celebrity package these days - playing a role in journalism [talksurgery.com], fiction [geocities.com] and nonfiction [nationalgeographic.com] writing, and politics [cnn.com].
And once you demand good looks, it's hard to get a really large helping of that "talent" thing in the same package... and so much easier to go to an external songwriting team. So that's what they do.
Not that I disagree with your point about the interchangeable sex-widgets. It's just that that's sort of an added benefit.
The presumably also have the option of going out of business and paying nothing, which is exactly what the RIAA wants to happen. That's the only possible explanation for the exorbitant rates being demanded. I've said it before, I'll say it again: fuck 'em, and fuck 'em again; then keep on fuckin' 'em. Boycott big-money music!they have the option of changing their status to non-profit and gaining a delay
I never understood why Payola was bad to begin with. It's just a different business model. There's plenty of room for Payola stations and ad-based stations and combinations thereof. I suppose misrepresenting the fact that you got Payola is immoral, but Payola in and of itself doesn't strike me as bad... unless it is accompanied by "take the money or take a bullet" which I understand it was in some cases.
The law clearly states:
the royalty rate shall be 8 percent of the webcaster's gross revenues during such period, or 5 percent of the webcaster's expenses during such period, whichever is greater, except that an eligible small webcaster that is a natural person shall exclude from expenses those expenses not incurred in connection with the operation of a service that makes eligible nonsubscription transmissions, and an eligible small webcaster that is a natural person shall exclude from gross revenues his or her income during such period
It says GROSS REVENUES, not anything about broadcasts or listeners.
This means that if you only have 20 listeners, you probably aren't making any revenue. If you are a small-time band broadcasting for yourself, you can make it so you make no revenue on the broadcasts. (make revenue on sales of the songs, not the broadcastings).
The second part says if you don't spend any money other than your regular web hookups (like your DSL, cable, T1, etc.) then you don't have to pay based on expenses.
The final part is just a protection that personal income isn't part of the broadcasting.
That's why (almost) everyone likes it. RIAA doesn't mind because they can get you for copyright if you broadcast their songs. Small webcasters don't mind IF they make no revenue. The only people who need to worry are:
Some people's children...
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As the old saying goes: if it swims like a loon, lives on a lake like a loon and doesn't produce any greenhouse gas-forming emissions like a loon, then it's probably a Loon. Montgomery Gisborne, president of the Tamarack Lake Electric Boat Company and inventor of the Loon solar boat, couldn't agree more as popularity of his company's 8-passenger ecreational innovation takes like, well, ducks to water.In December, he and Tamarack partner Ray Hirani's newest version of their innovative solar-powered boat product line took a first place finish at the "Future of Electric Vehicles" conference and exhibition in San Jose, California. Innovators from around the world found their way to the conference, which focused on land-, water- and airborne vehicles powered by efficient batteries and electric motors.
Buoyed by this formidable nod from the nascent "green vehicle" industry, the two men had reason to be optimistic - a deal had been struck which would bring the assembly production and general operations of their Canadian start-up firm, to produce the boat as shown here, to the banks of the Erie Canal in Rome, NY.
"I knew from the first time I saw Monte and his invention in August 2007 that his product had not only incredible vision but could serve a great niche in the marketplace," Rome Mayor James F. Brown said. During a stopover at Bellamy Harbor Park on Gisborne's 12-stop, 200+-mile solar-powered journey on the Erie Canal, Brown touted Rome as a potential production location for Tamarack. "We have an ideal location, skilled workforce and have worked hard to make this community truly business-friendly," Brown added. "Entrepreneurs such as Monte and Ray and concepts like his are vital not just to the economic future of Rome but of our entire nation. The potential and the need for this product is tremendous, we are excited to be involved with the project."
Brown wasn't the only one who identified the commercial prospects of this new realm in boating. So did the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) in Albany. Upon completion of the Erie Canal solar journey in Waterford, Gisborne met with NYSERDA officials to explore potential for relocation from Ontario to New York.
"The NYSERDA component was a critical piece for us," Hirani said. "We identified with the natural advantages of being alongside the canal and the location of Rome as a transportation hub from which to ship our products, but the opportunity and assistance NYSERDA brought forward was a real deal-maker. That put New York ahead of other states we explored, such as Georgia and Maine."
Carmella Mantello, Director of the New York State Canal Corporation adds: "The Tamarack solar boat enterprise taking root in Rome reinforces the notion that New York is still a place where big ideas can lead to untold success and economic development, especially at the very site where New York's biggest idea, the Erie Canal, began in 1817".
Gisborne tries to contain his enthusiasm: "I really feel strong synergy with this region and had hoped we could make this happen in Rome" he continues "it's a dream come true for me and Ray and it fits in so perfectly with the City's progressive waterfront plans. We are delighted to be a part of the renaissance along the shore of the historic old canal".
Production is scheduled to commence in spring 2011. A facility has been located near the Rod Mill Site.
For information about the Tamarack Lake Electric Boat Company, please contact:
Montgomery Gisborne, firstname.lastname@example.com: loonyguy
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The latest report on the squid work has come through from Hutch Wilco, one of our exhibition team. Hutch has been working on the squid project since May last year and has become "intimately" acquainted with the squid and its tank.
He tells me that alterations to the tank have gone very smoothly. All the new attachments are well sealed, so hopefully no leaks will appear.
As often happens, when you take something apart, new, unexpected issues are discovered that you then have to deal with. When the team took the lid off the squid tank they found that the acrylic had expanded ever so slightly, as is usual in a warm environment. However the bolt holes in the lid were drilled in the cool environment of a factory – ie into unexpanded acrylic. So it took the team several hours to remove the lid surround by force – not a good thing when you're dealing with a material that tends to crack when force is applied.
What does this mean? Hutch and the team have talked to a couple of acrylic experts and have decided to sand out each bolt hole by hand to create a bit more tolerance.
Unfortunately this means we won't be able to put the lid back on the squid tank until Wednesday afternoon. This in turn means we won't be able to put in the last of the liquid, test the seals, put all the tank panels back on, install the new wheelchair ramp, and finish off all the other little jobs and clean ups required in time to reopen on Thursday as planned.
The extra time is good as it will allow the team to address a couple of other issues. There is still some gas trapped inside the the squid and Hutch tells me this is going to be carefully massaged out…. (he gets all the best jobs). They are also going to do a few tweaks to the mounts. It also gives the glycol and water solution longer to settle down so that any gas bubbles produced by the mixing process have time to rise to the surface and escape.
At this stage, barring the discovery of any other issues or springing a leak, we expect to reopen the squid exhibition on either Friday 20 March or Saturday 21 March.


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These discussions about Thanksgiving have me thinking about it in a big way. For the last several years I have bought my turkey at Trader Joe's. They have two kinds, one being kosher (Kosher?) The first year I bought a kosher one but was horrified --in fact, I nearly got sick--when I unwrapped it to discover a *lot) of pin feathers in the bird, far more than in a regular turkey. I took off most of them then cooked it but I ate very little and in fact ended up dumping most of the bird. I couldn't get all those feathers out of my mind. So I went back to regular. But I am wondering what the difference is. I thought the kosher bird would be cleaner, but maybe I am wrong. I would appreciate knowing the difference and if I just got a kind of "off" bird or if that is the way they come. Thanks!
Huh - never heard of Kosher turkeys. We usually go with an Amish Turkey from Whole Foods and they're amazing. You might want to look into doing that, if you can, OP.
I recall my grandmother and mother removing the final pinfeathers from the Christmas goose by going over it with a lit candle and singeing them off.
I too had gotten a turkey with some feathers on it.I would try and get a turkey by a butcher and buy one unwrapped so you can visually see or ask the butcher for one that is known to be "plucked" fully. I thirdly recommend the brining, so delish. I just do a simple equal part salt/brown sugar with just enough water to melt the sugar and salt. Then add the cool water. I don't let it rest, and instead just take it out, dry thoroughly and let it sit on the counter and sit on a towel for an hour to come to room temperature before roasting.
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