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Frank was a regular attendee at the grand rounds in child psychiatry during my residency. He was generally quiet but when senior guest speakers came to talk they would always enthusiastically embrace him. As a sign of his loyalty, at the annual meetings, he would invite me to join him and senior child psychiatrists in his suite for cocktails. In the early 70s there would be a who's who of child psychiatrists invited; people like "Tilly" Krug and Maurice Friend.. I was always grateful to be included.
Frank Joseph Curran, a pioneer in child psychiatry was born in Minneapolis in 1904. He graduated from the University of Minnesota Medical School in 1928 and then interned at the University of Minnesota Hospital. Following internship he completed his psychiatric residency at Boston Psychopathic Hospital from 1929 to 1931 followed by a year of neurology training at Bellevue Hospital in New York City. He then joined the attending staff of Bellevue Hospital where he remained untill1945. It's noteworthy that in 1937 Frank initiated the first inpatient psychiatric service for adolescent patients at Bellevue Hospital.
In the late 50s the American Academy of Pediatrics wanted child psychiatry to become a subspecialty of pediatrics. This mobilized Frank Curran who sought the opinion of prominent child psychiatrists of the day via a questionnaire. The results were resounding support for inclusion of child psychiatry in psychiatry as the first subspecialty. In addition Frank was very instrumental in establishing the standards for training in child psychiatry. A necessary step before there could be Certification in Child Psychiatry.
In 1945 He became chief psychiatrist at St Vincent's Hospital in New York City but on March 9, 1947 Bishop Sheen delivered a Lenten sermon at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City. During which he said Freudianism was "escapism" and that it's based on "materialism, hedonism, infantilism and eroticism" among other things. Frank Curran appealed to Cardinal Spellman to refute what Bishop Sheen said to no avail. Others who similarly protested included Leo Bartemeier, Edward Streckler, and Francis Gerty.
Curran felt he had no alternative but to resign as he said his patients and those of the department of psychiatry felt they "could no longer come to psychiatric treatment or even consult a psychiatrist because they would be committing a sin if they did."
The day following his resignation Bishop Sheen attempted to temper his remarks by saying that he had been " misquoted" which prompted Lawrence Kubie, a leading member of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute to question Sheen's honesty. All this was played out in the New York Times, and Time magazine. Quite a brouhaha.
But the back story is very interesting and for that we have to go to Cuernavaca Mexico where a your Benedictine monk decided to have all monks psychoanalyzed, prompting many to leave the religious life and in many instances their faith.
In a review of Ruben Gallo's book "Freud's Mexico: Into the Wilds of Psychoanalysis the reviewer observes "The most interesting part of the book has to do with the Belgian born Gregorio Lemercier, a Benedictine monk who in the 1940's created a scandalously swinging monastery in Mexico that included two full time psychoanalysts."
Now you have the rest of the story. Bishop Sheen conflated psychoanalysis and psychiatry and saw them as the Devil's work. Later the Vatican closed the monastery and liaised Lemercier.
Following his resignation Frank went to Charlottesville where he developed child psychiatry at the University of Virginia He remained there before returning to New York City in 1958. When Jerry Wiener was head of child psychiatry at St. Luke's Hospital, where I did my child residency, Frank Curran was a constant presence at Grand Rounds. I had no idea of all this at the time.
Frank Curran died March 11,1989 after being struck by a car.
By Jim Egan
P.S. It took St Vincent's Hospital 8 years to find a prominent Catholic psychiatrist who would accept the position.
American psychiatry after World War 11 ads; Roy W Menninger, John C Nemiah Am Psych Press 2000
Psychology and Catholicism Robert Kugelmann Cambridge U press 2011
Progress in Certification of Child Psychiatrists Frank J Curran Southern Medical J. 1960
Obituary New York Times, March 11 1989 Franck J Curran
Review Freud's Mexico; Modernist Cultures 2012


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10 U.S. Code § 2883a - Funds for housing allowances of members of the armed forces assigned to certain military family housing units
§ 2883a.
Funds for housing allowances of members of the armed forces assigned to certain military family housing units
(a)Authority to Transfer Funds To Cover Housing Allowances.—
During the fiscal year in which a contract is awarded for the acquisition or construction of military family housing units under this subchapter that are not to be owned by the United States, the Secretary of Defense may transfer the amount determined under subsection (b) with respect to such housing from appropriations available for support of military housing for the armed force concerned for that fiscal year to appropriations available for pay and allowances of military personnel of that same armed force for that same fiscal year.
(b)Amount Transferred.—
The total amount authorized to be transferred under subsection (a) in connection with a contract under this subchapter may not exceed an amount equal to any additional amounts payable during the fiscal year in which the contract is awarded to members of the armed forces assigned to the acquired or constructed housing units as basic allowance for housing under section 403 of title 37 that would not otherwise have been payable to such members if not for assignment to such housing units.
(c)Transfers Subject to Appropriations.—
The transfer of funds under the authority of subsection (a) is limited to such amounts as may be provided in advance in appropriations Acts.
(Added Pub. L. 107–107, div. B, title XXVIII, § 2804(a), Dec. 28, 2001, 115 Stat. 1305.)
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You've read about it, heard it on the radio, and even seen your competitors take a stab at it . . . waterscapes. It's hot and it's here to stay, according to everything you've heard. In your eyes, however, it equals a big old headache. You have friends who've had slime-infested concrete ponds and you're in no hurry to sell that lifestyle to your trusting and loyal customers.
When was the last time you took a look at ponds . . . a really good look?
Well, ponds have come a long way since the early '90s and concrete versions are almost unheard of these days. That's right . . . you may want to step into this new and exciting decade and take another look at ponds.
Why are they so popular?
The bottom line is that water features encompass a category that can't be ignored—there's just too much opportunity out there. What should be explained from the beginning is that ponds come in all shapes and sizes. You may have a customer here and there who wants a large pond, but most consumers are into the smaller, backyard pond. It lures people in because it still allows for the green grasses and beautiful gardens, while adding the a spect of water.
The display pond
It's important to remember that consumers don't really know how good a pond can look without seeing one. Perhaps their neighbor has one that looks great and they'd like one of their own. Or maybe their neighbor has a pond, and they think it looks good, but from the photos, you know that a better one can be built. How do you educate people about the wonders of water gardening and how great a pond really can look? A display pond is the answer!
What could be better than a water feature, inviting customers to relax and enjoy it? How about a waterscape filled with aquatic plants, stocked with koi, surrounded by ornamental grasses, perennials, and even a bench for people to sit on and stay for a while? Having a display pond will not only sell your waterscape category, but will also keep customers coming back to see how you've planted it this year.
What makes your garden center stand out? If you have to think twice before answering that question, your competition is winning.
Customer service might be the reason people keep coming back, but a creative water feature will make the sale.
If you already have waterscapes in your menu of services that you offer and don't have a display, think about installing one. You and your employees will be so much more educated on the subject of ponds if you have one to take care of yourselves. You're the expert if your display pond looks great!
Don't have a retail location? No problem. You can offer to install a water feature at a local business in town—like a gas station, restaurant, or shopping center. Just be sure to post signage with your contact information.
Getting the sale
When it comes to selling ponds, it's easy to say that the product sells itself, but is that really true? If you have a display pond, it is. Customers are visual. That's why end caps have to be perfect and large displays have to be catchy. You may want to consider hosting a Build-A- Pond Day seminar. Grab a few staff members; sign up some customers, and build a pond together either at your location or at a local venue with high traffic. Once they're bitten with the water gardening bug and they put their heart and soul into this pond, they'll be ready for one of their own. The end result is a display pond either at your location or a high profile location, for you to show other customers. It's a win-win situation.
Want to sell other products?
Water features are the only form of landscaping that sells future work. It's the truth. Customers may come in to buy a pond kit, but they won't leave with just a kit. And if they do, you can rest assured they'll be back for more. A pond isn't complete without plants to surround it and float in it, without koi to visit and feed everyday, without a patio to view the pond from, and of course, without patio furniture to sit on. The options go on and on, and you'd be hard-pressed to find a category that has that type of effect on the rest of your garden center sales.
Now those are all things that could very easily be tracked by your computer system, but what can't be tracked is the happiness that your customer receives, knowing that you were a part of the transformation of their property. You have, in essence, improved their whole lifestyle. Before the pond, they never left work problems at the office but now; they check them at the door in favor of a relaxing night alongside the pond. The kids wouldn't be caught dead hanging out with mom and dad, and while that still might be true, they don't fight it when you suggest dinner out by the pond. Even the dog is happier, with a constant source of water and a quick place to cool off on hot days. Your garden center or landscape company started all that and you can't ignore the fact that happy customers make better customers.
Customers that spend more time in their backyards want to beautify them. It's not enough to have a patio set. Now they want Adirondack chairs seated in front of the waterfall, so they can get up close and personal with their pond. You can see now why water features are so popular in the hectic society we live in today. It's a break from the everyday, right in your own backyard.
Jump in!
So whether you've been considering adding water gardening to your product mix or you've already taken the plunge, remember that this niche will continue to grow for years to come. The market is far from being saturated, so opportunities lie around every corner for those willing to sign on with water gardening. Everyone wants a pond; they just don't know it yet. Help them find their perfect pond in your store.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Jennifer Yuri is a marketing coordinator for Aquascape.


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TSMC Preparing To Manufacturer A6X Chip As Apple Looks to Ditch Samsung 172
An anonymous reader writes with reports that TSMC is preparing to do a first test run of Apple's A6X chipset currently manufactured by Samsung. The TSMC manufactured chips will feature a process shrink from 32nm to 28nm, and there's a good chance Apple will grant them the contract for the next generation A7 chip. From SlashGear: "The test will kick off in Q1 2013, The China Times reports, with TSMC producing a new, 28nm version of the existing 32nm A6X that Samsung has been producing for the full-sized iPad 4th-gen; the smaller chip, which will likely be more power efficient as well, will debut in a new iPad 5th-gen and iPad mini 2."


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Advisory Groups
All Campus Council of Faculty Senate Chairs
The purpose of the University of Hawaii All Campus Council of Faculty Senate Chairs is to provide a formal, independent voice and organization through which the faculty of the University of Hawaii System can participate in the development and interpretation of systemwide policy, and to promote and improve coordination, communication and understanding among the faculty, students, community, administration and Board of Regents. The council consists of one senate chair from each of the faculty senates or equivalent faculty governance organizations from each campus, school and college of the University of Hawaii System
For more information, visit the webpage of the All Campus Council of Faculty Senate Chairs.
Student Caucus
The University of Hawaii Student Caucus advocates collectively for the interests and needs of students throughout the University of Hawaii system. Its members are students government organizations from the ten UH system campuses including the Graduate Student Organization from UH Manoa.
For more information, visit the Student Caucus website or contact Jan Javinar, interim associate vice president for student affairs, firstname.lastname@example.com, (808)956-8753.
Pukoa Council
The Kanaka Maoli within the University of Hawaii system are Native people of this land, unique by virtue of their ancestral ties to the aina and their history, language, culture, knowledge and spirituality. Pukoa Council is dedicated to increasing the number of Native Hawaiian students, faculty, staff and administrators in the university system to a percentage that mirrors the percentage of Hawaiians in Hawaii's general population. Envisioning a University of Hawaii committed to the empowerment, advancement and self-determination of Kanaka Maoli through distinctly Hawaiian instruction, research and service, Pukoa Council promotes the superior development of all aspects of Kanaka Maoli identity, including a pono spiritual, intellectual, cultural, economic and social well-being.
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Deputy Prime Minister Wayne Swan has called for a renewed ''national conversation'' about Australia becoming a republic, though Labor has no immediate plans to hold another referendum.
In an opinion piece written to coincide with Australia Day, Mr Swan laments that the republican movement has ''fallen from the national agenda over the past decade''.
''I think our national conversation is sold short when it doesn't include a debate about our relationship with the Crown,'' Mr Swan wrote.
The former leader of the Australian Republican Movement, Malcolm Turnbull, said it was never a bad time to talk about Australia becoming a republic, but he had mixed feelings about Mr Swan pushing the cause.
''While I am a committed republican, my heart sinks at the thought of Wayne Swan bringing his advocacy skills to such an important national cause,'' Mr Turnbull said.
In Mr Turnbull's view, the success of the republican movement turned on the longevity of the Queen. ''As someone who has considerable experience in not winning constitutional referendums, they are easier to defeat than to win and timing is everything,'' Mr Turnbull said.
''I remain of the view … that a referendum will not be successful prior to the end of the Queen's reign,'' he said.
In the 1999 republic referendum, 55 per cent of Australians voted that Australia should remain a monarchy.
The conservative movement to preserve Australia's link to the monarchy was led by Opposition Leader Tony Abbott.
The Australian Republican Movement's national director, David Morris, said republicanism had been off the agenda since the referendum because of a ''complete lack of political leadership''.
Mr Morris said the movement was launching a new campaign, with the slogan ''Our identity: who do we want to be?'' and would focus on Australians ''growing up'' and gaining their independence.
Meantime, ''flag advocacy'' group Ausflag have unveiled a new Australian flag to be used at sporting events, with the group labelling the existing flag ''confusing and embarrassing''.
Ausflag chairman and former NSW Nationals MP Robert Webster said last year's London Olympics had proved a tipping point.
"One of the most embarrassing moments was the flag raising ceremony at the 2012 London Olympics, following the women's pair rowing event ... all to the dulcet tones of God Save the Queen. UK first. Australia second. NZ third. It looked like Mother England teaching her kids how to fly. Or as one person summed it up in a letter to the editor in the Sydney Morning Herald (3 Aug 2012): "Britain, Little Britain and Littler Britain. Wake up Australia and get some pride".
Mr Webster said Ausflag would promote the new sporting flag at international sporting events, ''wherever our resources permit.''


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Canada is capable of the best and the worst!!!
Men are hot.
That is all.
Oh you have watching certain television shows from a certain country? Then they must have the most beautiful men because television tells me so. It's funny how people can conclude on a entire continent so easily yet.
It's funny how people are contented with Africa the continent even though it holds many diverse races. India similarly is just as diverse but somehow to the eyes of these JUBbers we are all pretty much the same.
It's because our skin color is the same and there is absolutely no difference between Africans and Indian except for culture and religion. The only reason why many, many JUBbers have failed to mention African nations is because of fear. If they did, this thread would have exploded and there will be many posters condemning them. It's easier to bash my people because less people give a shit about us. So far, it's only JayQ (sadly) and myself.
They don't post African nations because they don't know them? That's your argument? How stupid are these people? You are telling me that these people can't name me a single country. Oh please.
It's only racism if it is directed to black people. But when it comes to my people, it's ok to make such comments. Nobody is interested in standing up for the rest of us. It's the same for the Ravi Shanker thread. Suddenly it's ok to berate my culture because I guess nobody will say anything. It's really fucking disgusting.
Please don't bring in your 2-cent knowledge about Indian people and dark skin into this thread because of something you have read somewhere.
I'm done with this site.
The single sexiest man I ever saw was this Syrian Man who was sitting at the bar one day. His intense eyes and dark good looks and rockin' body made me hard...and he knew it. I love confident arrogance sometimes as well if it has the right vibe...and he had the perfect type of arrogance for my tastes. When I gave him his third beer he grabbed my head and licked my ear and told him he wanted to fuck me.
Unfortunately I had 4 more hours to go before my shift ended.
What was the topic again?
Oh yeah...sexiest men? Shit...every country on earth has sexy men. I wouldn't be able to answer the question as it was asked.
A few months ago you posted in another thread in HT that you hate Indian food and that Indian people are smelly. The mods deleted your comment most likely because it crossed the line.
You have the right to sing the praises of Latino guys until your face turns blue. You're attracted to whoever you are attracted to. If you will only consider dating Latino guys and nobody else, some people might think that's awfully narrow-minded (especially since you live in such a racially diverse country), but that is your life and your choice to make..
But what did you accomplish out of going out of your way to tell everyone how ugly you think Indian & Bengladeshi guys are?? It contributed nothing positive to the discussion, and it did nothing but hurt people's feelings.
And Ram is 100% right.........there are some of you who are not attracted to Black guys & have never dated a Black guy before.............but you would NEVER say that men from Kenya, South Africa, Botswana, Nigeria, Jamaica, Haiti, etc are "ugly".........because you would be branded as a racist.
Can you imagine the responses if somebody here said that "the ugliest guys in the world are from any country in Africa?"
How is that any different than saying the ugliest guys are from India?
What do you honestly think the response from other people would be? Do you seriously believe that person would not be accused of being a racist?
The question is...........what would you say to somebody who told you that they think men from Kenya, Ethiopia, South Africa, or any other country in the continent of Africa.......are the ugliest men in the world??
Would you think, "oh well that's just their preference," or would you think they are racist?
Beautiful? Impossible to answer, of course, but for the moment I'll say Israel, Iran and Ethiopia...
There are extremely hot guys in every nation of the world. For that reason alone, it is impossible to rank them.
i just skip thro this thread but didn't read.
What a dramma or any dramma ? ...
PS: Ram, I wouldn't doubt a second to ask you for a date, not only because I think it'd be fun as hell but also because I think you are attractive.
^Another kicking English grammar post
Which country ? Earth. Ugliest ? Venus.
Magna Veritas
^ That's misogynist
^Another kicking English grammar post
Spain, Brazil, Italy, Sweden and Great Britain have gorgeous men
Personal preferences, if I was a chubby chaser, America would be heaven...................
Nauruans are actually the fattest nation in the world with 95% of the population being overweight.
The smallest nation of about 10.000 inhabitants... and the fattest
The US is barely in the top 10 (still very high of course) and often wrongly referred to as the fattest nation on the planet.
Give it a generation or two when people who are kids or being conceived today grew up around culturally assimilated people from India or Thailand and there will be fettishes for those ethnic subsets too.
There are like 100 black people here and 3.000 eastern Asian so that's not the case for me.
When your experience of x group is one overweight smelly sweaty 45 year old guy running a convenience store, of course you aren't going to have a broad stereotypical attraction to that group. When his sons are in your male swimwear advertisements it may be a different story.
Where there are good looking guys, there will always be bad looking ones.
Note you still don't see significant numbers of Asian-American/Asian-Euro actors or models. Very, very very few. Out of step with their population size and movies typically just grab one of the 4 or so big CHinese actors you already know and have them play any Asian ethnicity role.
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I didn't say not in the top 10 I said barely in the top 10.
Some studies are flawed because they only include the biggest or most known countries in them. In those the US usually takes the first place.
According to the world health organization the US is in 8th place and Naurua is on top:
I am only attracted to straight white males with blonde hair, blue eyes, and a love of the christian god.
Everyone else is an ugly heathen mistake.
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Just like I usually like guys with blonde or brown hair more than guys with black and red hair... but it's an average taste rather than a rule. There are exceptions.
So far I've never met a eastern Asian man I was attracted to. But of course I can't say it will never happen.
It is a taste like any other.
Maybe the US is fattest then if you take away the unfair genetic difference.
Btw it's such a waste of genes. Would be better to have them in Greenland or something.
I've never found a First Triber or Native American really attractive. I've never been able to pinpoint exactly why. Maybe it's white guilt or something.
I don't think there has to be a social-mental background behind your taste.
Some like roses, others like lilies. It's difficult to say why, it just is.
I think Brazil has a lot of beautiful guys. Just the average guy on the street seems to be so good looking. I don't know about the ugliest lol. There are ugly guys everywhere but I don't know if it's a country wide thing anywhere lol.
We're exceptionally bashable...because we're exceptionally fat.
Tomba, The UK and my country have millions of fatties too!
They're incapable of exercise.
The cheapest food is usually high in carbs. Which is why the lower class in western societies is usually more overweight.
If the average person cuts out bread based items and ones with added sugar they are guaranteed to loose weight even if they eat 2000+ calories a day and eat the same amount of fat or even more of it.


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I just waited in queue for 5 minutes or so, only to be taken to a 'download plugin' page, which probably isn't compatible with my browser Opera.
I don't get it, this game requires a plugin to play? If you require players to download and run client side non-sandboxed code, why not just have a standalone client rather than playing through your web browser?
It's a
I had honestly thought this was going to be a java or flash built in-browser game.
Man, that sucks.
java or flash built in-browser game.
No, THIS would suck. Especially for linux users
How is an in-browser version any better than the standard Quake 3 if you have to download and install a plugin?
I think it is awesome, and I already have some friends in the site.
It's not some flash abomination, it is, as far as I can tell, the whole real game, with some added Internet ladder features.
I play fullscreen with a 2048x1536 resolution, and it is as smooth as any game I have ever played.
_Very_ interesting point. Thanks!
It worked with Adobe for flash, so I can't say it is a bad move on Id's part.
That goal sets the bar real low.
It'll be a matter of days before someone makes it into a standalone client that will take it out of the browser and put it back onto the desktop.
well, then that client would probably just act like a browser wrapped around that plugin. There will hypertext links and other browser-y stuff to deal with too.
One of the main ideas behind Quake Live is to give PC gaming something it could actually take advantage of.
You can play fullscreen if that's what bothers you.
See also Unity 3D, which features a cross-platform (well, Windows and OS X) 3D engine browser plug-in. Spiffy demo here [unity3d.com].
Just play OpenArena. Problem solved.
I can't believe the hype around this. So they turned a 10 year old game into a browser plugin. Big deal.
You can(and should) disable weapon switch on pickup.
use ctrl + alt + tilde to get to the console.
From there, the option you want either cg_ or cl_autoswitchweapon -- set it to 0. You can use tab completion to find option names.
What part of "BETA" don't you understand? You expect a beta version for three platforms INSTEAD of someone using their head and putting together a beta for the most popular platform while they work out the kinks?
And yes, I'm a linux user, but I have common sense.
First time I heard about Linux used for games was when id released their first betas of Quake for Linux before Windows.
I assumed that being a web browser plugin meant it would be cross-platform, like most of the web is.
Fair enough, but "beta" is the key word, which was kinda my point.
You expect a beta version for three platforms INSTEAD of someone using their head and putting together a beta for the most popular platform while they work out the kinks?
You have to develop for Windows not because it's popular, but because it's far easier to port from Windows to other platforms than vice versa. At least for some things. (Then again, not for others.)
Seriously, what a-holes. The nerve of these people to release a public beta of a free game that only supports 90% of the general public. Clearly id has no idea what they're doing, they are most likely a flash in the pan and will be out of business over the next few years.
Mac and Linux support are promised for final release. And yes, it is Q3. It is Q3 for free and in a browser with leaderboards and such.
*shakes head* FFS people, Linux is not a priority for most companies. You're lucky if they even bother with a release after time as passed. Of COURSE they're gonna focus on the primary operating system - Windows. Mac? Maybe sometime later.
id will probably release a version for linux and mac in the future. Quake III has a linux native version.
But please, don't keep getting disappointed whenever high-profile software is released and doesn't have a Linux version. You'll become exhausted very quickly.
I don't think any of us that use FOSS are disappointed if a commercial vendor doesn't release their software for linux or other free operating systems. There is plenty of great software available that is free and will meet the demands of most people.
If the trade off for using a stable, secure and free linux operating system that won't be constantly infected with viruses/trojans/malware is that I can
Not in the world of gaming there isn't...
Be aware that the installer leavs a punkbuster (anti-cheat) service running, even while not playing, at least the earlier betas did.
Licensee agrees that the invasive nature of PunkBuster software is necessary to meet this purpose and goal. Licensee agrees that any harm or lack of privacy resulting from the installation and use of PunkBuster software is not as valuable to Licensee as the potential ability to play interactive online games with the benefits afforded by using PunkBuster software.
Despite the obvious paranoia, honest players have nothing to fear from the punkbuster service.
If you're afraid of punkbuster, you must be a punk!
I miss CLOSED beta already. At least then I could get in.
I wandered onto the site just as it launched, lucky me. I got 2 matches under my belt. The tutorial is really handy for new players. The game servers seemed stable, everything looked pretty good and polished, even though it looks like a 10 year old game.
I was surprised at how nice the social networking stuff was implemented, it seems really easy to see which friends are online and join their games, and see people you recently played with.
Prolly because they figured that would increase the load even more. I understand your pov. And theirs.
Well apparently its Windows only, would have assumed the website would not keep you waiting for 35 minutes only to have you download a "Windows Only" plugin, would think a simple OS check would return that your platform was not supported and save you the time. Kind of eliminates the benefit of a browser plugin, if that plugin only supports 1 platform.
It's Windows only at this point in time. Mac and Linux versions are planned, as well as support for other browsers. Considering the successes of OpenArena I don't see why the people who made the damned game couldn't do the same thing.
That said, it is pretty stupid of them to have the OS check *after* you download the plugin.
The queue seems to be modeled after a civic licensing bureau... After waiting in a queue of 20k to get the plug-in, I get to line up again in a queue of 30k to login.
After letting it tick away all day, I now stand at number 42912 in the line. Any
Want to play Quake now? From the browser?
No matter what Operating System?
Take a look at Jake2.
http://bytonic.de/html/jake2.html [bytonic.de]
So where exactly is the innovation here?
I actually signed up right before the rush so I didn't have to wait for the plug-in.
I experienced absolutely no problems with the game, unlike a majority of the people who tried it.
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Writer Rick Edgerton talks #MHFBeanie Round, the harrowing statistics behind Brain Cancer - and what...
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North Queensland Cowboys NRL squad member James Tamou has been charged with a drink-driving offence after being pulled over by police in Townsville.
Tamou has admitted to the club that he had several drinks earlier in the night and he will not contest the charge.
"The Cowboys are extremely disappointed, as is James, in these events," CEO Peter Jourdain said.
"James is taking responsibility for his actions and is very remorseful that he has put himself in this position.
"This is his first offence. He knows it is a serious one and that he will have to pay a penalty."
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Some Dallas Cowboys fans might never get over Jerry Jones passing on the opportunity to draft Johnny Manziel.
It appears, however, that some Cowboys fans in Tyler, Texas already have moved on.
Moved on to being Cleveland Browns fans, that is.
A billboard popped up in the birthplace of Mr. Johnny Football claiming that the city -- about 100 miles from Dallas -- is now Browns country.
Poor Matt Flynn. His hometown MT @dallasnews: Billboard in Tyler, Texas proclaims city is #Browns territory pic.twitter.com/09m60hkOzOâ Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet)
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@JManziel2 @GBHunting look what my hubby had put up in Tyler! pic.twitter.com/lkrkdMTEBLâ Shannon McDaniel (@mcdaniel_sm)
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This modern house has a good performing functional. There is a shading contemporary solar canopy which uses 89 amorphous photovoltaic panels to transforms the sunlight into usable energy, providing 95% of the residence's electricity. At the same time, it screens large portions of the structure from direct exposure to the intense southern California sun, protecting the body of the building from thermal heat gain. A net meter provided by the City of Los Angeles connects the photovoltaic array to the grid, eliminating both the need for a storage system and the time-of-use charges associated with traditional electricity use.
An integrated solar heating system supplies heat through the concrete floors of the new addition. Three solar hot-water panels preheat the domestic hot water, and a fourth heats the swimming pool. The home's daylit interior requires no electric lighting on sunny days. The house is outfitted with energy-efficient appliances and both interior and exterior lighting-control systems. Materials were selected based on their effects on the environment and indoor air quality. This house designed by pugh-scarpa architects.


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Dining and food news…
* Steak your claim. Ladies, if you're in the UK on February 29th, pop the question with a steak. Literally. [NewsLite]
* Iceberg lettuce, right ahead. A menu from the ill-fated Titanic is up for auction. [ThisIsWiltshire.co.uk]
* When cigarettes were on the menu. Did the notice read, "The consumption of cigarettes may increase your risk of death"? [Gothamist]
* Anonymous no more. Why Chicago Tribune restaurant critic unmasked himself to review Next. [Chicago Tribune]
* Fuel Woolf. How restaurant service expert Brooke Burton, aka Food Woolf, fuels up for long days on the job. [Food Woolf]
* Goodbye, knife kit. Hello, book bag. Charlie Trotter's second act involves earning a Master's in philosophy. [Washington Post]
* Pour some sugar on sommies. Wine gurus are becoming restaurant rock stars. [Wall Street Journal]
* It pays to be famous. Going on TV is really good for your culinary career. [Boston.com]
* Horse meat. Let's hope it's never what's for dinner. [River Front Times]


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Dr. Charles Morris, Mayor Menino's doctor at Brigham and Women's Hospital, spoke with reporters today about the mayor's health today. Here is an excerpt of his comments:
"The mayor was admitted on Oct. 26; came in with a viral infection, feeling unwell, some malaise. In that setting, we discovered he had a blood clot in his lung, for which we put him on some appropriate therapy. Shortly thereafter, he developed some low back pain which was due to a compress backbone in his lower spine.
"He initially responded to our interventions and was getting stronger and better, but then his pain worsened, which required further diagnostic testing and investigation. In the process of that investigation, we discovered evidence of an infection in his lower back for which he is now on therapy with appropriate antibiotics and [he] has responded beautifully.
"That infection arose in a setting of a couple of complicating factors. One is some of the medications he has taken for his Crohn's disease. The other was an appreciation while he was here of some elevated blood sugars, which has led to an appreciation of early diabetes, for which the mayor and his care team are focused and working towards and dealing with.
"On therapy for all of these issues, he has done very, very well. We are pleased to announce today that he is being transferred to Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, where he will begin that next phase in the expert hands there of the care team. We look forward to him doing the important therapy work and getting back to where he needs to be. ''


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|2012-07-22, 03:10
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This was a rather poor episode.
The creators should have explained, how Kirito met up with the guild and why did he suddenly decide to join up with them when he was a loner in the previous two episodes. The pacing was extremely rushed, jumping months between every scene. I can understand that Kirito got attached to the guild's members during that time, but we only saw like two scenes with them, so I could hardly care about their deaths.
The trap scene was also way too rushed. Then before it took an effect on him, they immediately jumped another half a year and who knows what happened during that time?
It'll be laughable if Sachi is going to have a huge impact on Kirito's life after this, and yet we have only known this 'important' character for a single episode
Visals, BGM and the VA's were great as always, but the lousy script and the bad directing pretty much ruined the whole episode.
|2012-07-22, 03:12
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Staring into your soul.
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: At the darkness beyond time.
its really that problematic the time skip, this is nothing so unusual in anime/manga, its true that in LN we always have insight from the protagonist or the narrator,nut not the case in the other 2 formats,one example is both FMA animes wich were like this in their first episodes(mostly the first anime), and certainly this isnt at the level of complexity of baccano!.
|2012-07-22, 03:14
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Join Date: Dec 2005
I liked the episode.
The only 2 major beefs I had with this episode, is firstly, I do think that the transition to RDR from Beater is still a little bit off. They've kept a degree of consistency stemming from Kirito's lingering inner troubles ( regret of sorts ) that kept Kirito being an awkward soul, but it still felt a little bit jarring.
Secondly is the fact that the episode showed way too much restraint for an emotional piece. This is a personal opinion, but I thought that given the scope of drama that they wanted to cram into one episode, it lacked the 'execution of emotions.'
Maybe it would've been different from the source material, but I personally did feel that if they dedicated just a few extra minutes towards padding in more moments like Kirito bawling his heart out at the very final scene or at least screamed like a madman when Keita jumped to his death... it could've amplified what was a rather subdued episode of emotional heart-tingling.
When it comes to emotional episodes, it is my feeling that the smallest things make all the difference. This episode did some things really well ( like ending the episode of Sachi's final words, etc )... but they could've been a lot more impactful.
Eg. a few seconds of a scene showing Kirito (with dead eyes) walking back to Keita alone, while Keita was all happy. Something like that would've been really powerful.
It's too bad that SAO deaths occur with the bodies vanishing. Otherwise, the scene above with Kirito carrying Sachi's dead body would've been perfect. >:3
Even if it would've been extremely extremely awkward if Kirito kept a coffin of Sachi's corpse laying around... hoping for the revival item to work... <.<
|2012-07-22, 03:18
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Pleased to Meet You
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Did a marathon of two episodes. Felt somewhat rushed but it's good. I am guessing the staff want to get to the meat of plot.
Oh, the irony. Kirito has the knowledge to help them yet that same knowledge will get him ostracized. I am beginning to think those who are prejudiced against beaters are too dumb to live. I mean its life or death in this game. Having knowledge about this game would be huge asset.
|2012-07-22, 03:25
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|2012-07-22, 03:37
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|2012-07-22, 03:43
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Anime-only viewer here, never heard of the LN, haven't even read any particular hints about the future of the show. "Oh well, I guess they want to get to the meat of the plot," doesn't make any sense to me, because this appears to be the meat of the plot, and I wouldn't have known otherwise short of that comment.
This show is pretty awful so far. These points were mentioned in various posts, but here again, for good measure:
Ep.2 ending, Kirito is going loner. Ep.3 beginning, he's joining a guild, smiling around other people & such. What happened? Wait, he's level 40!!!?
Where's that cute, awesome swords-girl that Kirito seemed to have a connection with last ep?
Floor 28? Holy cow, that was a lot of boss fights & such they skipped over. I mean, look at how much drama just went into the Floors 1->2.
Hey, Klein's still alive?! What happened... Oh, we get nothing.
Klein's guild fighting some other guild... Wait, is there PVP in this game? That wasn't touched, have these players been killing each other for loot/XP this whole time? Oh... you're not going to tell us.
Where's the cute swords-chick from the opening?
DEMON SANTA!!!! THIS SHOULD BE EPIC, OMGGgg.... Never mind, I guess. No epic demon santa battle for me. Really? We spent more time this ep fighting treasure chest guards than we did fighting the crazy demon santa.
Aaaannnd... Kirito's back in loner mode, we know nothing else about the rest of the world except for the fact that Klein's alive, so this episode literally might as well not have happened. He was in loner mode at the end of last episode, I-saw-somebody-die-so-don't-get-attached-to-anyone mode at the end of last episode, and we knew nothing about Cutey McSword at the end of last episode either.
Jeeze, and I thought I had enough to bitch about at the end of last episode. I'll probably keep watching for a little bit because the setting has some potential, but yikes, this has not been good.
|2012-07-22, 03:43
|Link #189
I disagree with you all.
Join Date: Dec 2005
This ep didn't hit me as hard as the novel. I guess partly because I knew precisely what to expect, partly because of pacing. Mostly pacing. I knew they'd all die from the beginning.
Also, they didn't have Argo in Aria, but they show her now? The hell?
|2012-07-22, 04:04
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2 Honestly at this point, I think you're better off writing your own novel. The LN didn't feautured all the level's bosses, and had a timeskip too, so basically the anime is doing rather well. I think you're complaining at the wrong things =/
3. the cute chick with swords, yes please remember her beautiful name, Asuna. Serisouly, you expect each episode to feature each character and give them development? =/
4. The Klein part fighting off the 3 parties was skipped, but I think that is the least of the problem here right? And not telling you the first time it shows up doesn't mean it's bad, it just means that maybe sometime in the future it will happen, geez impatient aren't we?
5. For the santa battle, it wasn't written in the light novels too, so blame the author.
and this episode serves as a character development episode, albeit a little bit poor because of the time constraint, nonetheless it is important for the main character's character development that I'm sure will come in play somehow.
|2012-07-22, 04:21
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Opening scene was a total deja vu to .hack//
Kirito seems to be doing just fine on his own.
Reunion with Klein was kinda flat. Kirito is one weird guy.
He doesn't like guilds or parties, but joins one anyway. His strategies are pretty unusual.
Just can't figure him out. He keeps to himself, but helps others when needed.
Going to a higher floor was a really bad idea. That trap came with a high price.
I think I get it now. Kirito avoids others because he always gets them killed...
He took Sachi's death pretty hard.
|2012-07-22, 04:27
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U mad?
Join Date: Apr 2012
Just finished watching, not bad.
The thing that really stood out was how big the differences between levels are. Lv. 48 Kirito onehits the guards while ~Lv. 30 or so guild member dies from one attack.
Santa looked bad, where was his bag with presents? I always envisioned him with a big belly, A-1 crushed my childhood dream
The drama with Klein was a bit too much, instead of crying he should have just looked at Kirito with serious eyes, that'd be enough.
|2012-07-22, 04:28
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Not an expert on things
Join Date: Jun 2007
I'm usually not as harsh on the criticism as a lot of people here , but even I have to admit that the pacing was much too quick this episode. To be honest, though, although people were saying it was obvious, I didn't expect them to die because Sachi appeared in the OP, so I was shocked and saddened when she died.
They managed to convey all the information they needed to give this episode. From my perspective as an anime-only watcher, the staff is still handling most parts except the pacing well enough. I'll just be optimistic and assume they'll allow us more time to emotionally digest bigger things the further they go through the story.
I actually liked Sachi's design and her archetype, and Hayami Saori is a great VA, so I'm really sad that she's gone. But maybe that being the biggest impression I had says enough about how this episode was done. Despite the slight negativity though, I think it's still good compared to an average episode in an average anime. I just expected more of SAO, so I'm a bit disappointed.
|2012-07-22, 04:55
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felt rushed... way too rushed
i didn't felt like the build up for the sachixkirito was enough and the death scene for the party was plain
i'm a non-LN reader so i don't know what suppose to happen before or inbetween and it makes me feel lost when watching this series and i can't help comparing this series to ./hack
|2012-07-22, 05:27
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|2012-07-22, 05:34
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As a reader of the novels I was very disappointed.
It felt way too rushed for an arc I thought should have had a single episode devoted just to the demise of the Black Cat Guild and another episode about Sachi's final words later on.
And the whole fade to black with the Nicholas fight was another punch in the face.
I can only hope the show gets better.
Very foolish for players who had barely hit level 20.
|2012-07-22, 05:42
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Okay I've just watched the whole episode. Seeing RNR is only 1 ep, I expected it to be rushed, but after watching it, I understand why LN readers (who probably also expected things to be cut) feel disappointed. The episode was like a summary of its original LN version: while it contained enough details from summary, it missed out the emotional bits - which in turn lower impacts of the story, the most blatant ones would be:
- No background introduction of the first meeting between Kirito and the Black Cats.
Spoiler for first meeting in LN:
While in anime, it looked like Kirito was just playing along as he got into the happy mood of the Black Cat. Things became somewhat one-sided. I don't know if I'm not observant enough, but if I didn't read the LN, I probably won't see much emotional attachment between Kirito and the BCs (with exception of Sacchi) other than guildmates.
- Lack of depiction Kirito mindset in the episode
Spoiler for Kirito mindset:
In anime, we only know Kirito was in grief. There wasn't any depiction of his grief level, with the exception of one single thought "If I go alone, I'll probably die" and his soulless eyes after getting the item. Skipping the result of the boss fight didn't help, either. As others have said, it lacks of impacts.
So all in all, an episode that would have been able to bring viewers to the verge of tearing up became a "ok, that was sad"
|2012-07-22, 06:06
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown is a re-imagining of the turn-based tactics and RPG elements found in the original X-Com: UFO Defense. Enemy Unknown producer Garth DeAngelis recently talked about the game that core fans of the series have been waiting for, and the focus on accessibility while keeping challenges in-tact.
"We look at games like Demon's Souls and Dark Souls and Minecraft and Dwarf Fortress, and we think there's a little bit of a renaissance of difficulty in games. Gamers are buying those experiences, clearly, and they're not easy games," DeAngelis said. "They're challenging. You can lose. You can fail. And failure is part of games. So we wanted to bring it back, and we thought, you know, it's a pillar of X-Com."
As a nod to core-fans, an optional "Iron Man" mode is being implemented which will only save the game in-between missions. "This is a testament to the original where you get one save game," DeAngelis told 1UP. "So if you lose some veteran that you've grown very attached to, you're not going to be able to reload in the middle of that mode. If you do, then Iron Man is off and you don't get that special achievement."
"This is a love letter to X-Com fans, but we also want to include love for people who don't know the original X-Com," DeAngelis explained. As such, the game must still be accessible for newcomers. A tutorial system will educate players, but won't necessarily hand-hold players. "We didn't want to make the game more accessible from a challenge perspective, necessarily," he said. "The challenge is still there, and it's going to be a very difficult game, but we wanted it to be easier to drive."


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Warder, Robert B. (1848-1905) | Purdue University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections
Robert Bowne Warder was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on March 28, 1848, and spent his early life in his country home at 'Aston,' North Bend, Ohio. He graduated from Earlham College at Richmond, Indiana, in 1866, and afterwards spent some time at Illinois State University at Champaign, where he was an instructor in chemistry and natural philosophy. This work of teaching seemed to show Professor Warder his natural bent, and his energy was then devoted to studying the broad principles underlying all natural science. He spent some time traveling, chiefly in the western half of the United States, in connection with the different state geological surveys. In 1875 he went to Harvard, where he graduated with his B.S. in chemistry in 1874. After graduating from Harvard he spent a year traveling in Germany, studying at Giessen under Heinrich Will, and at Berlin under Hofmann. His attention was, however, especially devoted to methods of teaching chemistry in the German universities, and the application of theoretical chemistry to the practical sciences. His chief aim was to fit himself in the broadest sense for his work of teaching. This was his main desire throughout life, to help others, and he never faltered. On returning to this country he was associated with Professor F.W. Clarke at the University of Cincinnati from 1875 to 1879 as professor of chemistry and physics. Professor Warder saw the close relations between these then distinct branches of natural science, and his papers on "The Sapped of Sapeninfication of Ethyl Acetate" and "Evidence of Atomic Motion Within Liquid Molecules" were pioneer investigations in the field of physical chemistry of today.
Research along these lines occupied him from 1879 to 1883. It was in the latter year that he was appointed to the chair of chemistry at Purdue University, where he remained until 1887. This position carried with it the duties of state chemist, work of a commercial character rather foreign to his natural tastes, but to which he gave the same painstaking devotion that characterized all his work. His four years at Purdue were years of quiet painstaking devotion to duty made altogether beautiful by the strength of his interest in common things affecting the welfare of students and professors. No one went to Professor Warder for aid and was turned away empty-handed. What he had was given freely, and he seemed to feel that no labor was too great in his fundamental desire to help others.
Philanthropic and evangelical work had always been foremost on his mind and labors, and in 1887, in the expectation of enlarging his opportunities for such work, he resigned his position at Purdue, to accept the professorship of chemistry at Howard University in Washington. Here he labored until he died, teaching chemistry and physics, but above all setting an example and teaching the principles of a Christian life with an unselfish devotion.


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Carlow University sophomore Jocelyn Inlay, a resident of the City of Pittsburgh's Lincoln Place neighborhood, has been selected for the Irish American Scholars program, and will spend the 2013-2014 academic year at Queens University Belfast in Northern Ireland.
"I'm really excited to be in the capital of Northern Ireland," says Inlay, whose tuition for next academic year will be waived by Queens University, a reward for being selected as an Irish American Scholar. "I think the experience will make me grow in so many ways."
Inlay, who has a double major at Carlow in political science and communication for advocacy, is eager to spend her junior year abroad.
"I'm interested in public policy and how to create change through the political system," she says. "I want to volunteer to learn hands-on how public policy works in Northern Ireland."
With the help of Carlow faculty, Inlay, who will depart the U.S. in mid-September and stay until the end of the academic year in June, has already begun to explore the offerings at Queens University.
"We have reviewed the course listings in politics and international affairs, and are excited by the many ways her studies in Belfast would contribute to her academic development," says Allyson Lowe, PhD, the chair of the political science department at Carlow and one of the faculty members who wrote a letter of recommendation for Inlay. "There is significant local interest in the Pittsburgh area in conflict resolution, and we are pleased to see her have an opportunity to pursue conflict resolution in the Northern Ireland context, as just one of many possible areas of study."
Inlay also received a letter of recommendation from Jessica Friedrichs, MSW, MPA, the coordinator of the service-learning program and a faculty member in the social work program.
"Jocelyn has both a natural curiosity about the world around her and the drive to make a difference in that world," says Friedrichs. "This is a perfect combination as she brings an intellectual approach to exploring the challenges we face in society, as well as the energy of activism, service, and political action in her daily life."
The Irish American Scholars program, which is run by the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities, is highly competitive and receives a large number of applicants each year. To apply, a student must first be nominated by their home school. An applying student must also maintain at least a 3.2 GPA, write an essay, and have two letters of recommendation.
Five Northern Ireland universities accept American students for one or two semesters as a thank you for Study USA, the opposite program that sends Northern Ireland students to universities in the United States.
For her part, Inlay is eagerly anticipating spending the upcoming academic year abroad.
"I've never been to another country before, so I'm looking forward to this," says Inlay.


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4. Choose portability over efficiency.
- Next ---'s hardware will run faster.
- Don't spend too much time making a program run faster.
- The most efficient way is rarely portable.
- Good programs never die--they are ported to new hardware
on't really care which _computer_is faster. I want a cmmputer that makes _me_ faster, and if that is a slower computer, then that's fine by me.
Looking at just web browsing speed on an OS is not a great reason to choose one over an another.
What, as opposed to deliberate pr0n?
Anyway, what is accidental porn? Is that when the guy misses the, er, lets just stop here....
When's the last time you downloaded a new one? Mozilla for OS X has had an "Aqua" style appearance for like three or four months now.
Sheesh, people, quit judging Mozilla based on stuff before 0.9.5. There may have been a few regressions here and there, but there has been a lot of progress since the start of the year.
That's what I am talking about! I have tried about every build of Mozilla since the beginning for OS X. The Chimera builds show some promise with more incorporation of native widgets but the interface is still ugly. Looks like it was designed by a Windows user.
since as far as i know there is only a compability layer to make the IE work with the Mac instead of a truly MAC - Designed IE. to summarize - just patchwork to make it run...
On the other hand Mac IE is more standards-compliant overall then it's Wintel cousin in spite of some glaring CSS deficiencies & other asst'd bugs. It has a notably better design in some areas, incorporates some nice features like the left-hand bar, and a much better cache (as in not-broken.)
Of course Win IE has it's own set of bugs and deficiencies so overall they're about equal with the Mac IE being somewhat more "right" & the Win IE getting more support from sites.
For the future I expect that Carbon applications like Mac IE will be eventually replaced (or superseded.) Though they've been pushed farther then Apple originally wanted (gotten more features, more support, etc.) they're still not as effective at taking advantage of MacOS X as Cocoa applications are. On the other hand they're a relatively easy port and work nearly as well so they're the obvious step for developers with large code bases and little familiarity with Objective-C & Apple's Next-derived OO development environment.
In my experience you optimize for performance and sacrifice optimization for user experience.
On my Win2K machine at work, a
The problem is in the Tasmin rendering engine used by IE for Mac. But blaming Apple seemed to be the easiest thing for them to do.
There are certainly performance problems in OS X's UI, but let's give blame where blame is due.
This looks like the opensource motto `release early, release often'.
I really don't notice a speed difference in page loading.
Now my room mate has a 1.6 GHZ AMD with XP on it. That is faster but it crashes at least twice a day. I'll take the extra 10 seconds (more like 2-4) over a crash or a two a day.
I have a 933 tower that surfs the web just fine and fast.
Same experience on my wife's iBook 600mhz. Both are networked to cable Internet.
Article is FUD.
What is your roommate doing? Ripping out PCI cards while the machine is running? Clearly this guy has some kind of hardware problem because I have three machines running XP and the one thing they almost never do is crash. Clearly your roommate needs to take his machine back to the store or -- if he built it himself -- learn how to do it properly.
(Seriously) not trying to troll here, but an XP machine in proper working order shouldn't crash twice a day. Did he forget to attach the heat sink? Did he drool some hummus onto the motherboard? Does he have back issues of Gent piled up on the cooling vent? Something is clearly wrong with that machine.
I wonder how X/QT/Gtk will keep up with this next round of WIMP: WIMP-3D. Perhaps the Gnome Canvas could be hardware-accelerated using GLX. Rasterman is working (supposedly) on EVAS, a 3D-assisted rendering mechanism for X.
"Supposedly" eh? Check the evas module from enlightenment CVS. It looks fairly complete.
Apples market isn't the hard core geek (not yet anyway) they are trying to puncture the home PC market with the iMac, not the corporate desktop. So far I think they have done suprisingly well.
I just bought a G4 and it comes with: mp3 software, dvd / cd burning software, video editing software, email software, web browser, and a VERY intuituve interface.
Another nice feature is the DVD playback isn't sketchy (I had a creative DVD Player in my old Win2000 machine and could never get the DVD Window to size right.) and you can even tile applications without having any wierd show through from the DVD window.
Straight out of the box, you can do more than any WinXP/2000/ME/98 Box ever did. Then throw on any of the available apps Office / Photoshop / Illustrator / Mozilla / FTP (for those who don't like the command line) etc.
The set up is easy and the "iTools" that mac provides (free for mac users) are actually quite nice.
I have been using intel based machines for a little over 12 years and have always regarded mac's as odd. But now that OS X (BSD) is at the core, its a truely robust system. The only thing I use my PC for is work (we are married to some microsoft technologies like SQL Server.)
I will sacrifice speed for two things:
Mac has them both now. And without the need to reboot the machine due to memory leaks if an application crashes. I have this problem all the time on my Thinkpad.
While others have made this observation, I'll second (or third or fourth) it--when you use a web browser that's fully Cocoa, it's a lot snappier. I've given up using IE except when I have to; I primarily use OmniWeb, but I have to say that Chimera's rendering speed is pretty stunning.
I don't doubt that OS X's speed can be improved, particularly particularly in the "subjective performance" category. Very few people seem to have learned what was (IMHO) the real lesson from Amiga: if you make your UI quick and responsive, your entire OS will seem quick and responsive. BeOS figured that out. OS X, well, hasn't. It's great that they're pushing stability, but in my experience OS X has been the least stable Unix I've used (and I say that as a committed OS X fan). I'd like to at least have gained speed from that tradeoff, but that isn't there yet.
Here's hoping OS X 10.2 has that missing hardware acceleration.
Incidentally: when it hits 11.0, what are they going to do? Call it OS Y?
You're better off using Mozilla, especially the rapidly developing Mach-O version which has an multithreaded Unix backend and is very fast.
The diagnosis: The problem is not a bandwidth issue caused by fat HTML, but an annoying delay in actually drawing the page onscreen after its components have been downloaded.
I'm not sitting at my OS X box right now, but I believe that IE defaults to displaying a page only after all of its components have been downloaded. If you turn this off, you'll see text and placeholders displayed right away while the graphics are downloading, if you can tolerate annoying reformatting and redrawing as you go.
They're right. Almost. It feels a little slow to me, but not unbearably so. Perhaps my tolerance is too high, but I don't feel like I'm sitting around waiting for the system. Or perhaps (since I've been using Mac OS X since the first day of the public beta and Mac OS for several years!) I'm so impressed with the overall improvements to my "computing experience" that have come with Mac OS X that I don't notice *all* of the warts. Frankly, I've had my performance complaints, and the browser hasn't been one of them. Don't get me started on the Finder...
My system is an iMac DV G3/400MHz with 512MB RAM and a 27GB internal HD. Certainly not a performance champ... in fact, except for the RAM it's rather low-end. My point of reference for Wintel is my work PC, an IBM thinkpad 1GHZ, 392MB/32GB running RedHat 7.2 and occasionally booting into Win2k (when I need to edit someone else's MS Project or Visio files). For most operations (checking e-mail, running MS Office, browsing) I don't find that the iMac *feels* slower. Most days, I work from my home office with the two machines sitting side by side. I don't find myself turning to the Thinkpad for browsing; in fact, it's rather the opposite. I do much of my office correspondence on the iMac due to the superiority of the Office implementation for Mac OS X.
Perhaps the reason I don't find it so slow, though, is that I seldom use MSIE. I am not morally opposed to MSIE; I do use office after all, and actually like office V.X. (It's the first version I've liked since the version with Word 5 (Office 4.0?), though I found Office 98 tolerable.) MSIE is just not the best browser for Mac OS X. Its rendering engine is buggy, and it's *SLOW*. By that, I mean that it feels significantly slower than the other browsers I use. I find that I use 3 browsers:
All that said, though, IE is the default, and it's IE that the Mac will be judged on. I think the Moz crew has proven that the performance hit is not all apple's fault, though. Even so, Apple and MS would be well served to ensure that IE and Office are really snappy on Apple's newest hardware and OS combinations. I don't doubt that they will, now that OS development seems to have stabilized somewhat.
They optimized for user experience rather than raw performance.
I am happy to defend Apple sometimes, but statements like this are totally silly. Speed and responsiveness is an important part of "user experience." That's why us Amiga nuts stayed with our 50 MHz machines for so long: the 500 MHz machines weren't able to keep up! (But today's gigahertz machines are able to, which is why Amigas are finally fading away even among the diehards). Responsiveness is part of the user interface! No amount of newspeak, rationalization, and Gnome/Microsoft/Apple apologism will convince me otherwise.
With all the praise heaped on OS X, everyone seems to forget to mention how slow it really is. They are right - it is really nice. But it is SO SLOW!
Due in large part to positive comments I read on Slashdot, I purchased an Apple iBook with OS 9/X, however, I wasn't interested in 9. I only wanted to use X.
Took it home, very excited to play with my new toy. Up comes the "Welcome to your new Mac, please register" window. It's all pretty and aqua-like. I click in one of the fields to enter my name and (this is not a joke) the computer was already lagging! I couldn't believe it. When I clicked to pop down widget for "state" there again was a noticeable lag which continued as I went through the fields! Keep in mind, this is just the "welcome" screen - I haven't even started using the computer yet.
And yes, before you ask, this computer had 640 MB of RAM, so that wasn't the problem.
The situation did not improve as I began to install the applications I wanted to use. Dragging and resizing windows is an exercise in frustration. Switching between browser windows or applications is very slow. The bundled mail.app has a noticeable lag when I switch to a different email message in the preview pane. (Even a crummy client like Outlook is lightning fast when switching between locally stored messages.) Opening the system preferences window takes 5-10 seconds.
I think one of the greatest inventions is the wheel mouse. When I'm reading Usenet or web pages, I like to use the wheel to quickly page up or down. On even a 'slow' wintel, 400mhz let's say, this is a very smooth process. A few clicks of the wheel and the screen smoothly scrolls to the bottom. On OS X is sputters and lags, and takes 3 to 4 times as long to reach my destination. It's not just the wheel mouse, if you just click and hold the window scroll arrow there is the same problem.
Apple says the G3/G4 is suppposed to be far faster per mhz than Wintel, and I bought into that when I bought the iBook. However it simply IS NOT TRUE. In fact, I feel the G3 is actually SLOWER than a PIII of the same clockspeed. Keep in mind you can buy a Wintel with double the clock for the same price and you have an ugly situation.
After a while, I just couldn't take it anymore - it was constant frustration everytime I booted up. It was just not acceptable, especially considering what I paid for the computer. For what I paid, I could have bought a 1 ghz AMD laptop, which I can assure you, does not lag in the slightest when running Windows 2000.
I ended up selling it, just 8 weeks after I bought it, and I don't miss it. Right now I'm shopping for it's replacement.
You don't hear any Mac users warning you about this - instead, they recommend that you purchase the computer! I'm under the impression that either they just don't realize how much faster Windows/Linux is (maybe they haven't used x86 in a few years) or maybe they are just in denial as a way of trying to defend the platform that they love. (i.e. they know it's very slow, but deny it when asked because they want to preserve a favorable opinion about Macs).
This is the dirty little secret that no one wants to admit. There is a thread on MacSlash about how attractive the Mac is supposed to be for Java development. I tried some java programs like Jedit and NetBeans and they ran at about 1/2 to 1/3 of the speed of running them on Wintel.
Hello! The emperor has no clothes! It's okay to say so!
I bought an iBook (500mhz, 640 MB RAM) with OS X, 10.1 and updated it to the current stuff using the software update control panel.
The new iBook is signifcantly slower (switching between applications, moving windows, resizing windows, scrolling) than a PowerMac 7100/66 that we keep around for testing. (It must be 6 or 7 years old.)
Now I don't know (and frankly, I don't care) about cocoa vs. carbon, display postscript, window managers, OpenGL, UNIX, C++, java, or any of that. But I do know something is wrong with the speed of OS X.
It just sucks and it's not acceptable. I no longer own the iBook.
Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. - Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan


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DUNEDIN, Fla. – Canada's baseball team has the hat to prove it this season.
The Toronto Blue Jays have been showcasing their new batting practice cap at spring training. It's blue with a jumbo red Maple Leaf on the front above the brim. The team logo is on the back.
For the Jays, it's a bid to embrace the country.
"When we redesigned our logo a couple of years ago, we brought back the logo with the Maple Leaf embedded in it," Anthony Partipilo, the Jays' vice-president of marketing and merchandising, said in an interview in Toronto. "That has been a very popular cap for us and it obviously is a tribute to the country.
"Our point with this was to pull the Maple Leaf out, let it stand on its own as both a tribute to the country of Canada and to baseball, and growing the game of baseball in the country. It was a very big opportunity for us to honour the country in the process of producing this new cap."
The Jays will wear the cap at batting practice. It will also be featured on Canada Day, Baseball Canada Day in August and perhaps at few other games.
"We're excited about 2013, new cap, new team, we're ready to go," Partipilo said.
The cap, which is available to the public on Feb. 22, has already drawn good reviews from the Jays players.
"I love it, I think it's really cool," said all-star shortstop Jose Reyes, a native of the Dominican Republic. "Everybody who saw me wearing that hat (the first day), they said 'Oh man I like that hat. Where can I get one?'"
The Canadians in camp are also on board.
"I'm a Maple Leaf guy," said third baseman Brett Lawrie of Langley, B.C. "Obviously (being) Canadian, I like it. I like wearing it on the front. It looks good, it's a new look, for sure."
"I think it's a great look," added Vancouver infielder Adam Loewen. "It's Canada's only baseball team and we represent Canada as the Toronto Blue Jays."
Added American closer Casey Janssen: "It definitely showing support in the Maple Leaf, that's for sure. But if we're going to embrace the country and stuff like that, no better way to do it than the Maple Leaf.
Major league baseball teams change batting practice caps every three or four years. It's a chance to add to the merchandise menu.
Toronto's previous model was blue with the Jays logo complete with small Maple Leaf on the front.
Many of the BP caps feature simple logos, although the Tampa Bay Rays went with a sunburst.
Atlanta has already changed its BP hat, opting not to go with the "Screaming Indian" logo.
There is no controversy with the Toronto design, although pitcher Dustin McGowan is wondering about his noggin.
"I like the logo. They look good. For some reasons these hats don't fit my head good, so they don't look too good on me. But I think it's a cool hat. Good colours too."
"We'll figure something out," he added of the size issue. "I'll have to cut something out of a hat or shrink a hat or something, I don't know. It will take some time though."
Manufacturer New Era says the diamond-textured fabric has moisture wicking to keep the wearer dry. The cap also features 50+ UPF protection to protect the skin it covers from UV light.
With files in Toronto from Dane Coote.


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My Grandpa was a very special person in my life. I have a great family and awesome friends, but the one person that always believed in me and encoraged me was him. He is probably the person that I will always consider my mentor and the thanks I have to give him will have to wait for heaven. On a phone call with my Dad sometime last week he reminded me that it was four years ago when we lost him. In a weird way the death of his father brought us a little closer because we both admired him from different perspectives but for the same reasons.
I have spent most of the time since thinking about him a lot. I have always wanted to write about him and some of the life lessons he shared with me. He had the most wonderful stories about his childhood and was a great story teller. Last time I saw him I asked him to write some of that stuff down so we could share it with the future generations in our family. I do hope my niece and nephew get to hear about him from my sister and I, but I know that it will not compare with having met him and spent time with him.
Most people search their whole life trying to find someone that will back them up no matter what, a partner in crime… I was lucky enough to be born and have him waiting for me. I now have my wife to be my other half, and honestly one of the reasons I am so in love with her is that she has backed me up even when it was uncertain or scary when we were taking a step. It takes a lot of love to have faith in someone. I wish she would have met the person that first showed me what unconditional love looked like. I miss you abuelito, I miss you a lot.