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MS stock has been flatlining the past decade. Ballmer is a dog, chasing another car/successful_product instead of innovating on their own.
Nothing to see here, move along.
It has a presence, yes... but doing "just fine"? The iPhone and Androids each have more units in the channel than WP7 has in-channel and activated *combined*. This is in spite of the fact that WinMo (in various incarnations) have been for sale for (almost) a decade.
I don't know about you, but if I had a product that was universally panned for nearly a decade, and my latest, greatest attempt at rectifying that issue was met with a universal "meh"? I wouldn't exactly call it "doing just fine".
Their big selling point has always been Outlook/Exchange compatibility. Actually, that might well be the only real selling point they've ever had. The latest incarnation is an attempt to make their products "cool" so they would appeal to people who don't care about Outlook (read: people who purchase phones for themselves rather than receive them from their employer), and to catch up a bit on some of the corner business uses they didn't think of but could implement easily (including some which don't need implementing, as they can be done from anything with an Internet connection)
Anyway, I suspect that the enterprise slate market is Microsoft's for the taking once they deliver a working product. They're the only ones who can really do Outlook/Exchange integration, not to mention the rest of Office. I don't pretend to understand why so many people have such tremendous hard-ons for MS Office (I think that there are perfectly functional free and Free alternatives which are just as good at anything that isn't best done on far more intensive software anyway...), but the fact remains that few corporations are willing or able to just ditch it altogether, and unless your product is compatible it's unlikely to make much headway.
I agree to an extent on the tablet front, except for one small bit:
HP currently offers Slate 500's with Windows 7 on it [hp.com], and has been doing so since October. The specs are roughly that of an HP Mini netbook in a tablet form factor. Mind you, it costs $800 a pop, and has a smaller screen. OTOH, it has everything that folks assert businesses are gagging for, since it has Windows 7 on it. Given that Microsoft hasn't exactly been bragging on it, I'm thinking it probably isn't selling all too well.
Meanwhile, sto
it has everything that folks assert businesses are gagging for
Don't make me laugh.
They are NOT repeat not gagging for Windows 7.
Most corporate builds are not W7 yet. We tried at my place. But the main sales (Custom built in C/C++ with a bit of Java) app keep bombing out on W7 yet on Vista & XP and even Server 2008 it works fine. MS Support don't have a clue.
I commute an hour on the train into work. I've yet to see more than a handful of laptops with W7. Vista? lots. even some really horrendou
after all, it's not like you're going to type a novel on a tablet...
Actually, I know a guy who had his laptop stolen, so he has switched to writing his book on his iPad. He says it's actually a better device for the job--once you add a Bluetooth keyboard, of course.
Except MSFT won't modify Outlook, or Office to work on a touch screen. They have had 8 years and not done it once why would they bother now?
WP7's exchange support is also lacking behind android and the iPhone. try reading some of the business reviews on it. WP7 focuses on twitter and facebook more than Exchange.
People won't change what they know. it is why Office 2007 and 2010 have less users than Office 2003(which is what I have at work) Businesses don't want to spend $2000 for 10 people to get a new office suite every 3 years. not when that suite will work just fine in 10 years.
why is IE 6 still around? Because people coded for it and it alone and now they can't/won't change the applications they have.
They're the only ones who can really do Outlook/Exchange integration, not to mention the rest of Office.
See, I think the way to capitalize on this is to make apps for Outlook and Office on every mobile platform. There are millions of people who would pay upwards of $20 to get Office on their iOS or Android device. Rumor has it that $20 is about what MS is licensing out WP7 for. Instead of putting all those resources into creating a new OS, and working with hardware, etc, they could just bring Office to everything else. They don't have to compete with Apple and Google, and no matter which of them wins, MS wins
Microsoft's Problem is that it has become a "me too, but with Windows(tm)" company. It is a "Windows(tm)" company, and almost everything it does revolves around "Windows(tm)".
In the mean time, Linux is storming the "everywhere windows can't go" places. Windows Tablets have tried to exist for at least 7 years, maybe longer. Windows will not ever be a "Tablet" OS. This is why Apple and Android* are killing it in the Phone/Tablet marketplace right now. Both are designed for that platform with industrial size O
Windows Mobile 6.5 is outselling Windows Phone 7. That is all you need to know. Total failure.
Is that really true? Right now, I mean. If so, can you point to some links?
Have you ever USED one?
They're not as appallingly bad as previous incarnations, but they're not interesting either. The interface doesn't actually do anything different or better, it's all just looks.
WP7 doesn't bring anything new to the market,and the interface won't scale to tablets. That's why MS is thrashing around trying to persuade partners to shoehorn an OS designed around desktop mouse/keyboard interaction onto them.
It'll be h
Your comment, it's just not true. [j.mp] (not my chart, btw). The integrated Facebook app is a good indicator of a mobile platform's market performance. Facebook users are common enough that they make a significant and representative statistical sample.
WP7 peaked below 1.5% market share on release, and is declining. It's now seeing about 4,300 new adopters each day worldwide, which is pathetic even for Windows Mobile. There is no way this can be described as "doing just fine." Its user base will never hit the 1.5 million units Microsoft claims are already delivered on its current trend, so somebody's about to get stuck with some dead inventory.
Its replacement Windows 8 has already been shown running at CES and the roadmap has a 1/7/2013 in-store availability scheduled. W8 being a full Windows rather than a mobile OS will of course not be compatible. Intel has committed that they will field phone platforms with it that run regular Windows applications on x86 phones. They're "all in".
So there's no reason to buy a WP7 phone. It failed to thrive, its execution date is set. There's no reason to develop apps for a phone with few users and no long-term prospects either.
Funny story: the KIN [reddit.com] had about 8,000 sales and 300,000 Facebook likes. The integrated WP7 phone Facebook app has a little over 300,000 users now and less than 4,000 Facebook likes. It looks like buying Facebook likes has gone out of vogue with Microsoft's marketing department. But apparently hiring astroturfers to post on slashdot has not.
MS stock has been flatlining the past decade.
MS is not a growth company, and hasn't been for years now. That's why that stock pays dividends.
Exactly. Is this Ballmer's secret new business plan? Sell PowerPoint slideshows to customers instead of competitive products?
Pathetic. As someone mentioned in the article's comments, this is just a rehash of the same PowerPoint presentation they would have circulated in 2007, when the iPhone first started attracting attention.
How does Ballmer still have a job? THAT is my question.
Microsoft had better get out of the "We Do Windows" only mode they've been operating on since
If they can't right the ship in a hurry, Microsoft will be stuck in legacy Corporate support mode for the rest of
"How does Ballmer still have a job? THAT is my question".
Bill Gates is Chairman of the Board and the biggest stockholder, and he doesn't give a crap any more.
This is an easy one to explain. Did you study the story of Beowulf in school? Bill Gates started out with the goal to be wealthy and famous. So he created this monster. It was feeble at first, but he got a lucky hit and fed it profits and it grew strong enough to procure for him and his people the desired kingdom of wealth and fame.
By about 1982 he realized that he was already wealthier and more famous than he needed to be. He had more wealth than anybody could ever reasonably spend. Such profligate wealth does not incent your progeny to high levels of achievement. But he had many useful years left, and this big powerful monster. So he turned to hubris: The philanthropist's dream of immortal praise - to using his monster to build vast wealth with which to spend his late years dispensing with problems that have plagued mankind.
Being the Alpha geek he is and founded in the moral certainty that his deeds were ultimately for the greater good, he then set his monster upon his opponents with greater zeal than ever before. For fifteen years his monster feasted on all comers growing stronger and stronger. It laid waste to the tech landscape, utterly destroying all who opposed it and most of its allies as well. This voracious beast has no moral compass, knows not friend from foe. It knows only hunger and power. His wealth grew to unimaginable proportions. Even though he bled the monster regularly, it grew in power and hunger logarithmically.
Sometime around 1997 he realized the problem. The monster had vanquished so many enemies, had become so immortal, was so greedy and hungry, that it was in danger of becoming his legacy. In every place it achieved dominance it halted all learning, all innovation, all progress. Though he built a thousand bridges, salved a hundred diseases, found a way to feed the masses, that would not be his legacy - his monster would would wipe out all of those good deeds. It became his Grendel. The monster itself was likely to be the thing he was remembered for long after he was gone. And his name would be spat upon by the serfs who labored under its brutal tyranny. Something had to be done.
And so he pulled its teeth. Instead of bleeding it a little at a time he bled it all at once with "special dividends". And then he cut at its guts, giving it incompetent marketing execs. Knowing guile to be its greatest weapon he laid bare its lying ways before the world. And of course, he bled it still to fund his charitable endeavors, but more prodigiously than ever before. And he gave it an incompetent rider, a captain sure to find no shore - a bumbling fool that could plausibly keep it from doing too much harm.
For a decade now it's been blinded, as he was its vision. It's been bled. It's been led in circles and still it doesn't die. He's as shocked by that as you are. Still as it stumbles blindly about it subsists on bits of flesh it finds. Still it finds hopeful fools to lay down with it, expecting to arise in the morning the better for it. Still it hungers to be unleashed from this bumbling fool.
But he can't have it. If Bill Gates is to be well remembered, to achieve his immortal hero goal, the monster he unleashed upon us all must die. He'll find a way. I believe in him.
But for those hoping he's going to return and give his vision back to the monster, to revive it and restore it to its greater glory? No. That is not the plan.
Sadly your right. I had high hopes for the ZuneHD, technology wise it was thing of wonder but they half assed the app store, screwed potential developers and basically killed any potential excitement for it before the device really even had a chance to get off the ground. Most of their "innovation" seems to be reactive rather than proactive, add in their absolute paranoia about controlling their skewed "perception" of the device (they did the same with the 360 which is why it still has no browser or keybo
This does not work, windows is not an argument for buying a tablet especially if it becomes unusable then. The funny stuff is that their second biggest problem used to be their ultimate vendor lockin. The IE, now that serious html5 webapps crawl up left and right for tablets they dont have anything worthwhile to show off which does not lack serious features literally any other tablet has. Face it while IE9 is nice regarding css transitions it is not really up to what webkit the current mobile defacto standa
It may not be the best OS of the bunch, but the fact of the matter is that it will run on a whole host of hardware. Apple and RIM have lost in this respect, because there will be very little choice. Microsoft seems to be in bed with HP. WebOS and Android will take the market because soon enough someone will be running it on a toaster.
And we've seen how this capability has directly led to Linux' dominance of the desktop computing market.
Linux isn't dominating desktops.It is dominating in all sorts of other places, often hidden away from the user. It is in all sorts of embedded devices and is now on Smartphones and Tablets, both of which Microsoft doesn't have any real clue about. At least they haven't shown any clue.
My DroidX is a good example of Linux being where Microsoft has no clue. No, it isn't Ubuntu (X/Gnome/KDE) or some other Desktop Linux. It doesn't have to be. But it is Linux just the same. That Nook my friend just bought is And
It may not be the best OS of the bunch, but the fact of the matter is that it will run on a whole host of hardware.
Which means very little by itself. Linux runs on lots of hardware but isn't remotely dominating the operating system market. There is more to it than that. It needs to run on the hardware people want and run the software people want and have a critical mass of users of those devices. Pulling all that off is no mean feat. Possible you will be right but you shouldn't be so certain.
Apple and RIM have lost in this respect, because there will be very little choice.
You are presuming two things. One, that people will care about choice in hardware. The iPod is a great example of a device that has dominated its market despite a multitude of alternative hardware choices available. Choice in hardware might not matter much at all. Two, that Apple & RIM need a monopoly to be successful. The iPhone is wildly profitable and popular and Apple is making a fortune even though there are plenty of other choices out there. The iPhone does not dominate the market the way the iPod does but you'd have a hard time arguing it isn't a successful product. Apple's strategy is a bit of a high wire act and they could easily screw it up but they've shown every reason to think they might succeed.
WebOS and Android will take the market because soon enough someone will be running it on a toaster.
My wife was just telling me the other day, "Why isn't our toaster web enabled? Isn't it about time someone did that?" [/sarcasm]
And you did show here the refrigerator that runs linux, right? And maybe this toaster?
https://pics.defcon.org/showphoto.php?photo=53&cat=512 [defcon.org]
[Most] large companies love standardization. Every company I have worked for picks exactly one model of laptop and desktop from HP and sticks to buying that same model for anyone that needs the devices until the model gets discontinued or the need for faster machines come (and at that point everyone gets replacements to retain the standardization.)
As long as the tablet meets the minimum requirements, I think Apple has the upper hand thanks to that precise hardware standardization. I can see large companies
Actually, Android has less of a chance to succeed on tablets because carriers won't be able to push it so much like they are on mobile phones.
First of all how many tablets are available using the "best" version of Android for tablets Honeycomb? Well none right now. The Xoom is the only one in the future and so far all we got out of CES is that sometime this year it will launch. There was no commitment to deadline or pricing.
Second I happened to be talking to an iPad/iPhone developer and asked him why he hadn't considered Android. His answer was that he did, but his main problem with developing on Android was that every device doesn't have the
That is ridiculous. Lots of hardware doesn't matter. We're talking about a screen and a bezel you hold, with a generic ARM and flash storage and Wi-Fi/3G. Why would you need to switch from IPad for hardware reasons? They are the acknowledged design leader and also the price leader, just as in iPods, and they have the most hardware accessories and custom cases.
Everything happens in the software on a tablet. Having native C apps, desktop class PC apps, is a billion times more important than a variety of hardware that all runs the same small set of Java applets that only do Web-class functionality. Nobody but Apple has native C apps on ARM, and nobody has full-size apps except Apple.
We are talking about corporate here. iOS has deployment and security features that Android lacks. It has Xcode rapid development tools that Android lacks. Corporations can deploy their own apps wirelessly. Their users already know the iOS interface. Even if the users know Android 2, the tablet version 3 is different.
What you have to do is resist saying "Android" and tell me why I'm supposed to pay $799 for a Motorola iPad clone with 32GB and mini Java applets and no installed base and not even available yet when iPad 3G 32GB is $729 and has a full-range of native C apps and 17 million installed base and an upgraded version likely to ship before Motorola?
If you look at music players, it is 75% Apple, 10% Samsung, 15% everybody else. How does that relate to your theory that more hardware choices leads to dominating market share? The non-Apple 25% has hundreds of devices. Apple sells more iPod nano than that whole 25%. iPad is the "iPod PC" the components are very similar and you buy native C apps instead of music. So what has changed from the music player market that users are going to prefer Motorola this time?
What kind of commercial uses does the iPad have? TFA doesn't really mention. I imagine it's pretty good for showing designs to clients - slicker than a laptop, in a situation where impressions matter, even if it would be performing the same function - but I can't think of that many other corporate functions that it fulfils better than the existing tech.
All of the upper management in my company carry an iPad, not for technical reasons but because they like it and they think our customers like it. Site updates are now being checked against iPads and site traffic from iPads has exceeded 1%.
I walked by a managers office the other day, a sign was posted that "The future of CRM is mobile" and a picture of an iPhone, Android and iPad.
Rather than carry my laptop around these days I carry my iPad for email, and other intranet access.
We use Ipads a lot in the ETC center of the College of Education at Pen State. With remote desktop, exchange integration, the size and portability, web functionality, it's a great tool for sys admins who need to go help others while still retaining the ability to remote into servers and other such devices to change configs, manage support tickets, update databases etc. Less bulky than a laptop, while providing the tools we need.
It's not to say Android devices wouldn't do the job as well, but the iPads were out first and fit the bill nicely (and being on the Mac Admin side it fit well with the existing infrastructure).
They're also used during interviews to record audio so we can easily go back and check on things that were said
Depends how it's handled, although most the things I will bring up can also be achieved with an Android tablet (with proper Tablet version, until Honeycomb comes out, the iPad is the only real option.)
Here are a few examples: A corporation can get a corporate apple development license, this means they can write and load any proprietary software they may need into the device. This can range from simple data entry applications with business focus to server management and security administration clients. A big conception between Apple critics is that the iOS is extremely closed and Apple wont let anyone do anything with it. This is not a concern for enterprise since the Enterprise Developer license is only $500/year (nothing for a small company) and allows internal application deployment across all the company devices. No Apple approval involved. Your boss can give you all the porn you want (under the risk of being taken to court under a sexual harassment case but that's a different story.) Apple's device lock-down also means companies can make sure the device they provide their employees does not get misused as users only can install from the company repository and not download games from the App Store, after all, Apple does not allow downloads of even free games without signing into the App Store with a password, and an enterprise is very likely to lock the device to their own account through Parental Controls. Android Openess may be a weakness in that department.
The iPad also has support for blue-tooth keyboards and Apple's Office contender is available for the device, plus a few others like Documents To Go and Quick Office. It is much more viable than a laptop in a fast-moving office. Example: Mike is working on a presentation on his desk, with a blue-tooth keyboard to do fast typing and a copy of Apple's PowerPoint alternative. He can then just stand up from his desk, leaving the keyboard behind and run to the presentation room. In this presentation room, he meets with another 10 (or whatever) managers with similar situations. Here, he uses his iPad to stream via Air Play his presentation into a projector hooked to an Apple TV receiver. As soon as he is done the next employee moves in with his iPad and takes over the projector without bothering with cabling switching.
Another situation, a project manager sits with his boss in a one-to-one meeting and he takes his iPad, again, leaving the keyboard behind without bothering to unhook or un-dock a heavy laptop. At the meeting he is asked for some information and he quickly access it without having to go back to his desktop or be forced to carry a laptop. In a fast moving office environment, dragging laptops left and right is not viable. An iPad (or any well done tablet) can stay on without draining any battery and back in action with the click of a button. A laptop requires, in the best case, to be sleeping and closed, then opened up, accommodate in your lap, and type a password to log in. Worst case may require to wake from hibernation or even a full boot.
I seen people pass iPads around a table, specially to show everyone some important email. Requires much less foresight than printing emails you think may be important.
In a warehouse, the iPad is just a bliss. No warehouse depends on laptops for anything. [Almost] every advanced warehouse has bulky devices designed for "quick inventory management" (you may had seen them in the hands of UPS delivery guys) or hand held PDA/BarCode Scanner hybrid devices. Both tend to be heavily specialized and still force the employees to deal with desktops set up throughout the warehouse. Off course, others just use paper and a clipboard. Tablets can drastically streamline this and open the door for much much more due to their flexibility.
IT staff can also use tablets for very effective remote server management. From simplistic VNC/RDP clients to dedicated management tools, amazing things can be achieved while stuck far from work or home if equipped with a 3G ready tablet.
As I stated at
Ok, new Slashdot layout, how the hell do I "Read The Rest Of This Comment"?
Clicking on that link just shows me the same top portion of the comment.
I'd say any place where there's a way you could make the functionality available through a reasonably clean web-like interface that doesn't require large amounts of raw text entry would be a suitable possibility, with bonus points if the solution's mobility and/or allowance for standing/walking while using it make life simpler for the user.
For instance, in the medical industry - diagnostic imaging ("let me pull up that x-ray from the database to look at it again..."), patient charts ("let me take a look at
iPad can do anything that C, C++, and Objective-C can do, which is everything. The Cocoa frameworks enable you to do Mac-like things very easily. For example, audio, video, wireless MIDI. The developer tools are free, and so easy to use that there are kids with apps, and a physicist used these tools to create the World Wide Web. Organizations can deploy their own apps wirelessly outside of App Store, and trust App Store to safely deliver additional apps without malware, and there are like 400,000 mini apps
In the netherlands there are a lot of public servants that get it for use in meetings - the general idea being that you distribute your presentations with it. This gets rid of the paper (and it stops the annoying sound of keyboards tapping away, I would imagine).
the majority of Android tablets are GPL violating, making it seriously risky for E.U. and U.S.A. companies to import them. GPL compliance, which is important for the Linux Kernel portion (which everyone forgets about, including google), is running at about 2%, and those are usually the ones designed in the E.U. or the U.S.A, which end up being more expensive and so less attractive.
Im really hoping that honeycomb will change that, while the fragmentation problem is certainly real, its really not the hardware folks fault as much as it is Google's. Google put a restriction list on Android that made it impossible for anything that isn't a phone to fully comply enough to provide access to things like the Market Place and Google Experience, as a result the only "full" android experiences were the few tablets that had "oversized phone" features that many people simply don't need. Honeycom
Rather than the "open" platform resulting in widespread standardization, we only see more fragmentation as each vendor implements their own locked-down flavor of it.
You're kidding, right?
Because Angry Birds works just as well on my Droid2 as it does on my wifes LG Optimus. So does Tune-In Radio, (must have!) and EzTether. (another must-have)
In other words, I have yet to notice any significant "fragmentation" between my phone and my wife's, despite being on different networks and being different phones at different pricepoints.
Yes there are differences, pretty much akin to the differences when running Windows 7 on a Dell vs running Windows 7 on a Gateway... pretty comparable. The default icons are different, and the "desktop" is arranged slightly differently. (OMG!)
I read, today, yet another article about "Linux fragmentation"...
Are there differences in Linux compiles? Sure! That's sorta the point! A 200 Mhz ARM core with 4 MB of RAM has quite different needs than a 32-core database server with 192 GB of RAM. One size does NOT fit all!
Are there GPL violations? Well, yeah, but they do tend to not be all that major, because major violations tend to cause problems for companies that perform them.
Yeah, but let's be honest for a moment, shall we? The worst case is that they'll be sued and will have to disclose the source. And when all is said and done, some drivers for some variations of ARM CPUs we be contributed to the Linux Kernel.
Perhaps the almost-fatal flaw of the GPL is that there is really no penalty for violation other than the obligation to disclose. I give considerable doubt that any importer is giving more than a half-excited yawn about GPL issues.
As far as Google being complaint with the
I know you employ some brilliant, passionate, rock star developers. You could probably crush your competitors, if only you didn't move so conservatively at a slug's pace. Trim some of that management, get rid of the red tape, and use your devs!
Drop a $7K coffee table [gizmodo.com] on it.
Sorry, someone had to say it.
I don't understand why MS would have to sell a competitor in a "corporate" environment to the iPad. The iPad has almost nothing to offer.
None of the selling points for corporate IT are hit by the iPad. TCO? Management? Administration? Application control? AD integration? The iPad simply has none of these. Let me know when the iPad is able to be controlled by the same mechanisms WinMo phones and Windows desktops are (as well as Linux desktops and to a (very) small degree, Android phones) and we'll talk.
Enterprise can get a Corporate Developer License that allows them to write any software they want for their own devices. At that point, the tablet can do whatever they want it to do, those deployments within the company are not subject to App Store policy. I have not worked with it, either, but I think they added some remote pushing of updates for in-house apps at some point, maybe with or a bit before OS4 came out.
By pure nature of the device they can control what software gets installed since they don't h
There are rumors Mobile Me will get much better this year, perhaps that's how they plan to expand it.
There are always rumors that Mobile Me will get much better, perhaps this year.
The iPad is making big gains in enterprise, actually. You can get a Corporate Developer License and do what you want with it. I don't know what you're basing your conclusions on.
You are under informed. iPad has all that stuff. iPad replaces a Windows PC. TCO is dramatically reduced. Corporations deploy their own apps, wirelessly. They are easy to manage.
Correctly if I'm wrong, but I didn't think the iPad had anything like Group Policy or, in fact, any method of managing applications on the device remotely from a central location?
I imagine that would be make or break in larger organisations.
It's not going to work like that.
Soon, the managers are going to ask whether the Microsoft systems are sufficiently compatible with the iPad ecosystem and management tools.
When the IT people start bringing up all sorts of complex reasons why there are problems, the next question will be "So, honestly, are those all problems a consequence of stuff the Windows way on the Windows side of things or the iPad way on the iPad side of things?"
The psychological assumption of Microsoft's implicit invicibility and cen
OSX Server isn't going away, just the low volume ugly rackmount box. I have actually had several clients approach me about the Mac Mini server, most didn't know apple made any servers at all. Though its not there speed wise yet (an i7 next gen could change that), the new mini is as if not more capable and its much more affordable easier to integrate into a small business. The Mac Pro is fully capable of running OSX server as well and those have long surpassed the Xserve hardware wise.
Your right they arent replacements but that was the xserves problem...there wasnt a market, downscaling to the mini server imho just opens up opportunities that simply didnt exist with regards to small businesses and home servers. Xserve was a decent product but failed to find any real foothold in any segment, I dont see killiing it as a mistake.
The replacement for Xserve is a bunch of Mac mini servers. The user base already moved to that.
You're not ready for release. If I increase text size, words disappear. (Words on the left-hand side of the paragraph are pushed further to the left and become invisible. Words on the right-hand side of a paragraph increase in font size and remain visible.)
I read slashdot on a monitor across the room, so I *always* increase text size. You really have to fix this.
I've actually found a business segment where the iPad has made a near perfect replacement for the traditional laptop. I don't see MS catching up anytime soon. I just finished up a 4 month project to get one my clients moved to iPad's for courtroom usage. I was approached by the Sr Partner in the firm to come up with a way for him to use his new toy back in August. I was then given an iPad and list of "requirements". It needed to be able to send and receive email, edit word and pdf's, sync with the firms docket calendar, record dictation in a standard format that would be emailable and would be foot pedal compatible and access documents back in the office. After evaluating a ton of products I chose Pages, Evernote, Drop Box and Dictate on Demand with Team Viewer as an option for the more advanced. It worked so well that the Sr Partner decided everyone needed one.
Now everything they did on a notebook and a digital recorder requiring over $800 in software (MS Office, Gear Player, Adobe Acrobat, etc) has been replaced with a $800 worth of hardware and apps. So far its worked great the most expensive part aside from the iPad itself was the Dictation program which apparently they are quite proud of (it was $99). I had to wait a while for things to get out of beta, but when they say there is an app for that, they aren't kidding. Paired with a bluetooth keyboard (we picked up leather cases from Think Geek that have a keyboard built into the lid) they have all the capability they had with 4x the battery life, better connectivity and all the functionality the needed for a fraction of the price. For me its been great..no mid day treks to the courthouse or off hour support calls because the laptop crashed, got infected or randomly glitched. So far none have had any real issues at all that weren't simply lack of familiarity with the applications. It's going to take an awful lot for MS to be able to compete, windows 7 and its core applications simply aren't designed for finger input, instant on isnt going to happen unless its imbedded and then there is the issue of getting developers on board...based on their tack record with Windows Mobile I don't see it happening any time soon. I really think the biggest rival is going to Google assuming Honeycomb is as good as I hope it will be.
Your welcome...just figured I would share the fact that there really are practical uses for tablets. While your absolutely right about developers from a volume standpoint...I really think it will happen quicker than most expect. Just look at how fast apps starting getting native support on the iPad. Though the selection isn't as deep there the Google Marketplace has most of the bases covered and its only going to get better. Honeycomb will at least I hope will reduce fragmentation and encourage more dev
that they can't recompile the Linux kernel while watching flash videos?
I've found another -- sheet music.
An iPad works really, really for displaying sheet music. It fits on a music stand, the battery lasts forever, the display is gently backlit (goodbye orchestra pit light) and the user interface makes it easy to quickly change pages.
I tried to use a PC running Tablet XP, but the OS didn't work well in portrait mode, I had to run a cord to it, and the screen needed a stylus.
Using a laptop is impossible, I can't put one on my piano because it interferes with the controls, and putting it on a music stand just doesn't work.
One thing I liked about the tablet XP machine - searching for songs was easy with the hand-writing recognition. Touching the screen on the iPad isn't too awful, because the program I use auto-completes, but I may get a bluetooth keyboard and mount it somewhere.
Oh, I also use my iPad to watch TV in bed. This is better than a laptop, because it doesn't get hot, and I don't have to worry about falling asleep and blocking the vents with a blanket.
They are missing the boat. They should take a page from Apple and push the idea that a tablet supplements a desktop, and tailor solutions to the market. Plenty of room to improve over what is available today.
My laptop made it's last business trip today... Too much to lug for too little benefit.
BTW, I'm really going to be pissed if I actually do get run over by a bus... Let me live in suspense!
I've done pretty much the same thing, I only take my laptop with me if I have wiring or domain related work to do. My iPad (or occasionally my G-Tablet) have replaced my notebook, my DSi, my wireless troubleshooting gear and my service ticket book. Its done wonders for my back. I still do the major work on my desktop at home but for daily visits to my clients I haven't found anything I really cant do.
This is old Microsoft tactics, if you dont have something worthwhile to show off then promise vaporware and spud fud. This worked really well in the 80s and 90s because they had a myriad of idiotic journalists at their side. I can remember an article in one of the biggest PC magazines pro Windows 3.0 and contra OS/2 which literally stated you dont need multitasking because you cannot do more than one thing yourself. Note this was not an official ad, but a serious article by one so called tech journalist. Ad
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We can't re-institute the old forum and database for the reasons we had to remove it in the first place - teh forums were flaky and insecure, and subject to repeated attacks.
I think Mike is working on this as a medium priority. Give him a chance - I think he's already done a great deal for the site.

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University of Hawaii uses IBM Technology to Study New Bacterium Species and Ancient Protein
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"The knowledge and expertise of our researchers and the resources of IBM make this partnership and the potential contributions to life sciences research limitless," said UH President Evan S. Dobelle.
MHPCC has received a powerful high-performance computing system through IBM's Shared University Research (SUR) award program. UH scientists will use the IBM eServer p690 system to conduct genetic research on a rare bacterium, recently isolated from waters of the Lo'ihi submarine volcano, where temperatures range from 100 to 110 degrees Fahrenheit.
In addition, UH will use the system for research on the ancient globin protein, which has evolved over the past 3.5 billion years to withstand extreme fluctuations in temperatures, oxygen levels, pressure and other atmospheric changes. Through computerized modeling and analyses of theserare microorganisms and proteins, UH researchers hope to discover genetic patterns that hold the key to important new therapeutics and diagnostics and tremendous leaps in biotechnology.
IBM and UH researchers will also collaborate on projects of mutual interest. These projects may include research into the Hawaiian Archipelago, which is home to thousands of plant and animal species, including many novel microorganisms.
"The University of Hawai'i is becoming a leading institution for genomic research," said Ajay Royyuru, manager of IBM Research's Computational Biology Center. "IBM has been the university's technology partner for more than 10 years. We hope that this SUR award and our expanded collaboration will open doors to new scientific discovery and enable both organizations to draw on complementary strengths, including IBM's extensive research expertise in computational biology and high-performance computing, to advance life sciences research."
IBM's Shared University Research (SUR) program awards computing equipment (servers, storage systems, personal computing products, etc.) to colleges, universities and institutions of higher education around the world to facilitate research projects in areas of mutual interest, including: Life Sciences, Grid Computing, Autonomic Computing and Deep Computing. The SUR awards also support the advancement of university projects by connecting top researchers in academia with IBM Research personnel, along with representatives from product development and solution provider communities. IBM awards approximately 50 SUR awards per year worldwide.


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GNK Dinamo Zagreb striker Fatos Beqiraj is convinced the Croatian title holders will continue to improve having secured their place in the UEFA Champions League play-offs. FC Sheriff captain Miral Samardžić, meanwhile, was rueful his side made so many mistakes in Wednesday's 4-0 defeat, which completed a 5-0 aggregate loss.
Fatos Beqiraj, Dinamo forward
We are under pressure.
We have been playing really badly but we have a unified team. We got a valuable win tonight which guarantees the Europa League at least but that is not our goal – we would like to qualify for the Champions League. Now we are waiting. We will see who we are going to play and we will try to go through.
Of course we will improve – we showed that in this match. In every match we try to improve, so we will see. I think I'm improving. You know I need time to get in form, but I scored in the last two matches, so I am happy with that. The most important thing is that we qualified. The atmosphere inside the stadium was fantastic. Now we have to get a good rest and move on.
Miral Samardžić, Sheriff defender
Impressions? What can I say, Dinamo deserved to win. They played better than us. There were lots of mistakes today and they took every chance they had so deserved to win. It was not good for us, nothing went well and we deserved to lose.
I don't think they are that much better than us, but we made lots of mistakes and they made the most of everything. However, I really don't think the 4-0 scoreline reflects the real difference between the teams because they are not that much better.
That said, Dinamo are a good club and I know them from when I played in Slovenia. They play in the Europa League, if not the Champions League, nearly every year. As for our ambitions, we have two more matches and we will try to qualify for the Europa League. We should step back, have a little talk and reflect on what happened today, that's it.
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Science, math and engineering afterschool programs in two southern New Mexico school districts will benefit from a $4.78 million grant.
New Mexico State University's STEM Outreach Center plans to work with the Gadsden and Las Cruces school districts to expand the afterschool programs.
Over the next four years, the grant will supply $880,000 per year for Gadsden schools and $315,000 per year for Las Cruces schools.
The university says thousands of students benefit from the afterschool programs each year. Director Susan Brown says students who participate are testing higher in science and math on standardized tests.
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NORTH ATTLEBOROUGH — Pick up the money first, then the cards.
Never pay a winner with chips another player has just lost.
And "if it lays, it plays." Do not let players touch their wagers once a deal begins.
These are cardinal rules of dealing blackjack, drilled into students in the inaugural class of the New England Casino Dealer Academy, a private school founded in the Emerald Square Mall by two Rhode Island entrepreneurs, Joe Tutalo and Michael Tassoni, to capitalize on the emerging Massachusetts casino industry.
Their students, such as 59-year-old retiree Stasia Peters of Attleboro, also hope to cash in on the industry, with jobs.
"This is an opportunity to strike when the iron is hot," said Peters. "They're going to want people who have some ability. Plus this gives me retirement opportunities in other states, if I want to go south."
People like Peters will be one measure of success for the Massachusetts casino industry, which is expected in the next several years to produce thousands of jobs at as many as three resort-style casinos and one slot machine parlor. The promise of new jobs in the aftermath of the Great Recession was critical to the successful 2011 effort on Beacon Hill to legalize Las Vegas-style casinos in Massachusetts.
After a career as an educator, Peters hopes to supplement her retirement income by dealing cards.
Ray Gomes of Providence said he was laid off as a postal carrier about 18 months ago and is still looking for work. He has tried to expand his prospects by taking community college classes in tech support and is expanding again by learning to deal blackjack.
"It's real hard," he said of the job search. "Seems like nobody's hiring, and the people who are hiring are looking for a lot of qualifications that you don't really have."
Gomes, 27, and his wife are "just, just making it right now," he said, with his unemployment benefits and her work as a day-care provider. "I have to find something."
He attended a job fair at Twin River slot parlor in Rhode Island and has already submitted an application. "I'll apply to Foxwoods, Mohegan Sun," he said. "And I'll wait to see what casinos open here in Massachusetts."
After a few days of class, Gomes was still trying to master shuffling multiple decks, and learning proper habits, such as using the left hand to pay the winning players on the left side of the table, so as not to turn his back to the players on the right side.
Tutalo, a former pit manager and supervisor at Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun, had the idea of opening a casino dealer school about three years ago, as momentum built toward expanding gambling in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. His business partner Tassoni is the school's president. They have investment partners who helped provide the $400,000 they needed to open the school. The dealer academy is licensed by the state Division of Professional Licensure, though the state gambling commission has not yet set minimum training standards for casino dealers. Tutalo said he is confident his classes will exceed whatever standards the commission may establish.
Students practice with authentic chips and on blackjack tables similar to any in a casino. They train 16 hours a week for eight weeks. The cost of the blackjack course is listed as $800 on the academy's website. Upcoming classes will cover roulette, poker, and craps, and the partners expect to add other games.
The initial blackjack course attracted about 60 students, who are split among three daily sessions, said Tassoni.
Early one morning last week, about 25 student croupiers dealt hands of blackjack to each other as Tutalo passed among the tables. He urged the students to deal the cards straight and neat, like setting a formal dining table.
"Being a dealer is prestigious," he said. "I want you to impress the player."
On the third day of school, mistakes were common. Tutalo interrupted a game when a dealer slid a $15 bet, three $5 chips, from a losing player to another player who had won $15 on the hand.
That's a major no-no.
Those chips the player just lost? "We call that dirty money," Tutalo said. "Never pay a winner with dirty money."
The loser's chips should be recycled back into the dealer's tray, and the winner should be paid from another stack. That preserves the sense of camaraderie among players, who tend to have more fun when they are united against the house.
People having fun play longer and tip their dealers better.
Tutalo showed the students how to accept a chip as a tip: "You say thank you very much ma'am, tap it on the table and throw it in the tip bag," he said. "That's how you will make your money."
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The review is one of a fascinating series of YouTube videos in which a teenage lad, who, while a bit whacky and precocious, seems very knowledgable and acts as commentator while his good-humoured mother tries out various operating systems as an intelligent new user. They have done dozens, from DOS and Windows 1.0 (worth seeing!) to Unixes, Linuxes, Windows 8, Chromium and MacOS. Each session is about 30 minutes. Don't be put off by the start of the video (I told you he was wacky), this kid really knows his stuff and makes insightful remarks while leaving his mother to work things out as a lone first-time user would need to.
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The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has extended an invitation to Burmese democratic movement leader Aung San Suu Kyi to visit Taiwan, the party said in a press release yesterday.
DPP Department of Foreign Affairs Director Liu Shih-chung (劉世忠) and DPP Legislator Yeh Yi-jin (葉宜津) extended the invitation to a delegation of the National League for Democracy, Aung San Suu Kyi's political party.
The DPP delegation was attending an annual meeting of the Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats (CALD) in Bangkok, which focused on Myanmar's democratic transition and climate change, on Saturday and Sunday.
The delegation expressed its utmost support of the Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who was placed under house arrest by the military junta between 1989 and 2010, Liu was quoted as saying in the press release.
If the world renowned politician agreed to the invitation, it would be her first visit to the nation.
The invitation coincided with US President Barack Obama's visit to Thailand, Myanmar and Cambodia and reflected the party's synchronized effort with the US to strengthen its relations with the Southeast Asian countries, Liu said in the press release.
DPP Chairman Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) has paid much attention to the dynamics of the US-China relations following the US presidential election and China's recent leadership transition, which could impact Taiwan's security and strategic options in the Asia-Pacific region, Liu said.
Su recently appointed the DPP representative to the US and is planning to establish a China Affairs Committee in the near future.


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Journal of Geological Education v. 43, p. 341-345
Abstract: Small-group cooperative-learning activities involving writing and/or oral presentations promote active learning in large lecture-based physical and historical geology courses. Goups include informal pairings of students for short discussions, writing peer-review groups of three to four students, and groups that work together throughout the semester on a variety of other projects. Writing assignments consist of ungraded in-class writing and graded short papers on a variety of geological topics. Oral presentations include debates, panel presentations, and skits. As students exchange ideas and work with one another in these activities, they are learning geology as well as improving their communication and collaboration skills. The learning communities that develop reduce the isolation many students feel in a large lecture class. To implement cooperative-learning, instructors should design activities that incorporate key elements of cooperative learning and are directly related to course objectives.
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HARTSVILLE, S.C. – The Coker women's tennis team captured their third consecutive victory and improved to 4-0 in Conference Carolinas play with an 8-1 win over Converse College on Monday afternoon.
Alyssa Blanchard (Columbia, S.C.), Cora Berna (Spain) and Stephanie Medley (Sumter, S.C.) all had perfect matches winning both their singles and doubles matches.
Blanchard and Medley had a nearly flawless 8-1 victory at No. 1 doubles, while Berna and partner Kayla Meermans (Pelion, S.C.) picked up a 9-7 victory at No. 2 doubles.
Then in singles play Blanchard and Berna each had 6-4, 6-1 victories at No. 1 and No. 2 respectively with Medley earning a 6-0, 2-6, 12-10 win at No. 3.
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The 18 members of Nevada's new state Commission on Homeland Security were named Thursday by Gov. Kenny Guinn - including a northern Nevada chairman and a dozen casino, medical, media and public safety representatives from southern Nevada.
The commission, set up by the 2003 Legislature, replaces a panel formed in 1999 that had operated in relative obscurity until the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington.
The new commission is chaired by Jerry Bussell of Reno, Guinn's homeland security adviser. The vice chairman is Jerry Keller, vice president of security for Wynn Resorts in Las Vegas.
Besides Bussell, the five other northern Nevadans on the panel include Reno Mayor Bob Cashell, state Adjutant Gen. Giles Vanderhoof of Sparks, Washoe County Sheriff Dennis Balaam, Nevada Association of Counties chief Bob Hadfield of Carson City and retired judge Larma Volk of Sparks.
Other southern Nevadans besides Keller include Clark County Sheriff Bill Young, Las Vegas Metro Lt. John Alamshaw, Henderson Police Chief Michael Mayberry, Nevada Broadcasters Association president Bob Fisher of Henderson, Richard Brenner of the Clark County Fire Department and Las Vegas Councilman Lawrence Weekly.
Other Las Vegas-area members include Dr. Dale Carrison, head of emergency medicine at University Medical Center, UMC nurse Maria Lipscomb, North Las Vegas special projects analyst Kimberly McDonald, Maureen Peckman of Schafer Company LLC Las Vegas, and Jack Staley, Southern Nevada Water Authority and Las Vegas Valley Water District.
The commission will determine how millions of dollars in anti-terrorism funds are distributed throughout the state and oversee various anti-terrorism initiatives.
Bussell had said in July that southern Nevada would get more seats on the new panel - after Clark County got less than one-third of a $6.7 million federal grant. The old panel had a majority of members from central and northern Nevada.


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BOSTON -- The two Democrats seeking the office of attorney general have said they would take significantly different approaches to the job, with Warren Tolman saying he would stretch the powers of the office into charged public policy arenas and Maura Healey saying she would use her years of experience within the office to uphold the laws.
"We fundamentally see the role of attorney general as quite different," Healey told the News Service after a joint appearance late Thursday on Greater Boston. She said, "Warren talks a lot about his days on Beacon Hill, but the job of attorney general is really one of chief law enforcement officer. You're not a political figurehead. There's a difference. And you're not the legislator in chief or the public policymaker in chief. You're the attorney general. You're there to enforce the law and to be the people's attorney, and that's what my experience is."
Tolman said he agreed they have completely different approaches and said Healey's statement that she wouldn't seek to intervene in the ongoing dispute within the Demoulas family over the fate of the Market Basket chain of supermarkets is a prime example.
"A perfect example is the Market Basket issue. You've got a significant negative impact on the economy. You've got employees that aren't getting paid. You got one company and two people that are causing it to fall apart.
In a half-hour segment, host Emily Rooney found general agreement between the two candidates on the need to implement the medical marijuana law effectively and their disappointment with the recent events in Ferguson, Missouri, where an unarmed 18-year-old black man named Michael Brown was shot and killed Saturday by an unidentified member of the largely white police force - an incident that led to protests, rioting and a crackdown by local law enforcement that launched tear gas and reportedly fired rubber bullets.
"What I see now is terrible. There should be accountability. There should be transparency," Healey said. "There was no need to withhold the name of that officer, and people are frustrated."
"This isn't the first time, and if we don't act it won't be the last," said Tolman, referring to a recent police chokehold death in New York City. He said, "Sunshine is the best disinfectant here, and we need to make whoever's accountable for these actions be accountable."
Healey said she had experience training law enforcement in civil rights and Tolman said he would use his leadership skills to bring together police and community leaders.
The Republican in the race, John Miller, who did not attend the program, has run on a platform of bringing greater professionalism to the office.
On the brewing Market Basket feud, Tolman said he wouldn't have waited weeks - as Gov. Deval Patrick did - before getting involved and pushing for an agreement, and Healey said she would make sure workers were not being mistreated, though she was wary of an AG inserting herself into the dispute.
"It's a time for leadership. And you don't wait. You don't try to search the statute and say, 'Oh, gee. Can I do this?' No. Often the authority comes with apparent authority," Tolman said. He said, "Whether you have the authority or not, they will listen."
"I don't know that we want an attorney general who's going to show up on people's doorsteps. Usually we do that when we have a subpoena in hand," said Healey.
While Healey said she would not support legalization of marijuana, Tolman conditioned his stance on that subject.
"Until I'm sure that there is no negative impact there and I'm sure that's it's not a gateway drug, I'm not going to be one who's going to be pushing for legalization in Massachusetts," Tolman said. Quizzed by host Emily Rooney, Tolman said he had used marijuana. Healey told the News Service she had used marijuana, too.
When a question came up about federal prosecutors winning convictions against three former probation officials, including the former commissioner, John O'Brien, for rigging jobs for applicants favored by lawmakers, Healey took the opportunity to distance herself from Beacon Hill and imply Tolman knew what O'Brien was doing.
"I know you were in the Legislature in the 90s and personally observed some of this," said Healey. She said, "I certainly bring an independence to this. I've not worked on Beacon Hill."
"I'm proud of my record on Beacon Hill. I served eight years up there," Tolman said. "I'm one of the most independent legislators in the last 50 years on Beacon Hill. I sued a sitting House speaker over funding for clean elections... I banned smoking in the State House over the objections of a chain-smoking Senate president."
No lawmakers have been charged in the probation case, and Tolman told the News Service he didn't see any of job-rigging while in the Senate and he left the Legislature the same year O'Brien became commissioner, 1998.
"No. Of course not. No. I don't know what she's referring to," Tolman said. He said, "If he becomes commissioner in 1998, I don't think he's doing what he eventually ended up doing, in 1998. I'm gone in January 1999, and frankly from July on I'm running for lieutenant governor full-time."
"I was just pointing out the fact that this kind of patronage, cronyism, isn't new to Beacon Hill and it's been going on for a while, decades, and I think we saw it on full display in this trial, recently," said Healey, who said she was not accusing Tolman of anything.
Tolman said he could use existing powers of the attorney general that he said were created by a 1998 gun law to require manufacturers to use fingerprint trigger locks on new guns in Massachusetts to deter theft. Healey supports the concept, but said the policy should be made by the Legislature.
"I think that it's difficult to get this legislation passed," Tolman told the News Service when asked why he didn't favor the legislative route. He said the Legislature had already passed a law giving the office the regulatory powers, and said to prevent accidental shootings by toddlers former Attorney General Scott Harshbarger had required gun triggers to be more difficult to pull in 1997, which was before the powers were codified in law.
"I agree with Warren that smart gun technology makes a lot of sense, and as attorney general I will work to mandate that through legislation," said Healey.


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Yale Wins Second Game 10-0 After Dropping Opener 4-1
FAIRFIELD, Conn. – Yale's hitters have struggled against Sacred Heart in recent meetings. That trend continued in the first game of Wednesday's doubleheader, but the Bulldogs broke out in a big way in the second game. After Nicole Sidor tossed a four-hitter to lead the Pioneers to a 4-1 win in the opener, Yale banged out 12 hits and cruised to a 10-0 victory in the nightcap.
Freshman Jennifer Ong had three hits in the two games, including a pair of doubles. Lexi Peacock went 2-for-3 in the first game, and Katie Yanagisawa, Ashley Sloan and Allie Canulli all had two hits in game two.
Yale (9-18) wasted little time getting on the board in the second game, scoring twice in the first inning. Yanagisawa led off with a single and moved to second on Sloan's sacrifice bunt. Ong then doubled home Yanagisawa, and Allie Canulli followed with an RBI single.
The Bulldogs added two more runs in the third. Sloan led off with a double over the right-fielder's head and scored when Nelson reached on an error. Ong then delivered another RBI double that made it 4-0.
Yale put it away with five runs in the fourth. McKynlee Westman started the rally by drawing a walk. Chelsey Locarno then put down a sacrifice bunt, and Westman beat the throw to second. Yanagisawa singled to load the bases, and Sloan followed with an RBI single to right. Nelson's RBI ground out made it 6-0, and Canulli added a two-run single. Holly Gutterud's single that scored Canulli capped the scoring.
The Bulldogs tacked on another run in the fifth. Virginia Waldrop led off with a single and was erased on Yangisawa's fielder's choice. Yanagisawa then stole second and scored on Nelson's double to the left-field fence.
Gutterud and Kayla Kuretich combined on a two-hit shutout for the Bulldogs.
In the first game, Sidor didn't allow a hit until the sixth inning, a leadoff single to Peacock, who advanced to second on an error. Ong followed with an RBI single. Nelson also singled in the inning but was left stranded.
The Bulldogs got the tying run to the plate in the seventh. With one out, Kelsey Warkentine walked. After the second out, Peacock singled, but Sidor retired the next hitter to end the game.
Jackie Manzer started in the circle for Yale and had three strikeouts. Gutterud pitched two scoreless innings of relief.
Sidor struck out eight for the Pioneers.
The Bulldogs return to Ivy League action this weekend, playing a four-game series at Dartmouth. Both Saturday and Sunday's doubleheaders begin at 12:30 p.m.
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I use the Seacam S45 viewfinder which once you have got use to it is very very good.
I did find it quite hard when I first started to use it but now its easy to use.
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Posted 09 August 2012 - 07:13 AM
I use the Seacam S45 viewfinder...
... I have to, because it takes my mind off the food that I can no longer afford to put on the table after buying a Seacam S45 viewfinder!
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Posted 09 August 2012 - 01:47 PM
This mirrors my last 3 years experience (with the Subal equivalent) - tried a 180 recently and it just felt ... wrong!
I use the Seacam S45 viewfinder which once you have got use to it is very very good.
I did find it quite hard when I first started to use it but now its easy to use.
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Posted 11 August 2012 - 06:57 PM
If shooting along a reef or macro/muck I find the 45 is the way to go. It lets me control my buoyancy and hover more effectively when close to the bottom (no I don't think it is ok for photographers to lay all over the reef/substrate to steady themselves for a shot!). You don't have to get behind the camera as aggressively to frame the shot.
I think the 45 is the best all around viewfinder. I shoot the D700 on a Hugy housing and the viewfinder does not interfere with the LCD.
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How did you go with the new viewfinder?
Hi John...
Sorry for the delayed reply... I should have followed up with this.
So since I got this thing, I have added about 75 dives using it. As many of you pointed out, it did take some getting used to, but now that I am, I love the thing. A couple of observations though...
I think it's important to "use" the 45 as much as possible. It really took a bunch of dives to get to the point where framing with it was second nature. Prior to this, there was a lot of "hunting", especially with macro. This is also an issue with those "action sequences...". If you are trying to frame and shoot quickly, you're likely to poke yourself in the mask a few times before you realize this thing is hanging out.
On the upside... Midway through a liveaboard trip a couple of weeks ago, I commented to my wife that I had yet to crop an image. My framing was much more to my liking that when just using the regular eyepiece, where I had a tendancy to have my subject too high in the frame.
Also, the magnification and more clear image is really nice. It doesn't matter if I am shooting WA or macro, the benefit is immediate.
On one dive a while ago, I was hurrying a bit to get my system together, and decided to skip the few minutes it would take to install the 45, so shot with my regular eyepiece. What a mistake...
And finally, one observation from my "up north model/buddy"... He had trouble figuring out when I was shooting, because my face was pointing down. He just figured I was just fiddling with the camera. You would think that the dual 160s firing in his face would have been a clue. Great diver he is, but apparently not too bright!
Anyway, this thing gets my seal of approval, and I highly recommend adding it to your kit, unless you are an infequent shooter, as others have said.
Edited by Stoo, 12 August 2012 - 11:21 AM.
Posted 12 August 2012 - 01:04 PM
Thanks for your reply. I have ordered the part and should be receiving it today.
It is funny how you say you need to be using it to get used to it. I have been out of action for a couple months waiting for a drysuit to be manufactured. This weekend was my third time back in the water and to be honest I have been struggling a bit with everything, but I am blaming the drysuit!!!!!!
I must say I look forward to not shoving my reg in the sand using the viewfinder...
Will post again once I have taken it for a spin!
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Posted 19 August 2012 - 02:50 AM
It was quick and easy to attach to the housing however I was a little surprised how twisted the o-rings were from the factory, I suppose you are meant to lube them first anyhow so that does not really matter.
I took this pic of a Banjo Ray which would have been a pain without the VF and I did not have to pick sand out of my reg afterwards!
Posted 11 June 2014 - 01:20 PM
How did you go with the new viewfinder?
Sorry for the tardy reply... But what's a couple of years....
I've come to regard the 45 as one of my most cherished pieces of camera gear. I use it on every dive and it's the best thing since sliced bread. I shoot mostly wrecks locally, then the usual stuff when on vacation, but it works well for both. It does take a few dives to get the hang of it, even after a few weeks out of the water, but I just love the thing!


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Ten Columbia University student-athletes were named to the 2018 Winter Academic All-Ivy League Team, league officials announced on Tuesday afternoon.
Minneapolis, Minn. - Columbia senior diver Jayden Pantel capped a phenomenal career with pair of finishes at the NCAA Championships this weekend. Pantel placed 26th overall in the platform dive on Saturday with a career-best score of 308.80 points. He also posted a 43rd place finish in the three-meter dive with a score of 302.90.
With the highest three-meter dive finish in 18 years by a Columbia diver, Jonathan Suckow capped a sensational rookie season with a 25th-place finish behind a score of 340 pts. at the 2018 NCAA Men's Diving Championships on Friday, March 23.
For the first time in program history, Columbia diving will send two qualifying divers to the NCAA Men's Swimming & Diving Championships on Wednesday, March 21 Saturday, March 24 at the Jean K. Freeman Aquatics Center on the campus of the University of Minnesota. Regining 1M & 3M dive Ivy League Champion Jonathan Suckow will compete in his first NCAA Championships, while Jayden Pantel makes a program record fourth-consecutive appearance.
Piscataway, N.J. Columbia senior diver Jayden Pantel capped his final NCAA Division I Zone A' Diving Regional Championships on Wednesday, March 7 with a remarkable final that propelled a fifth-place finish in the platform dive. With a combined tally of 653.45 points, Pantel becomes the first diver in program history to qualify for four-consecutive NCAA Championships.
Columbia announced that women's track and field's Sarah Hardie and men's swimming and diving's Jonathan Suckow were named Student-Athletes of the Month for February.
Jonathan Suckow returned for day two of the NCAA Zone A Regional to post another NCAA Championships qualifying performance at the Rutgers Aquatic Center on Tuesday, March 6. Suckow combined for a score of 685.60 in the one-meter dive for a third-place finish, earning his second automatic bid this season.
With the second-best score of the afternoon at 789.20, Ivy League champion Jonathan Suckow secured his first trip to the NCAA Championships on Monday afternoon at the diving zones in Rutgers Aquatic Center. The first-year diver joins teammate Jayden Pantel as the second diver in program history to qualify in their inaugural seasons.teaser
Columbia diving will spend the next three days at the Rutgers Aquatic Center, March 5-8, competing in the NCAA Zone A Championships for a chance to qualify for the 2018 NCAA Swimming & Diving Championships.
The Columbia swimming and diving teams were among 688 collegiate programs, recognized by the College Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) as a Scholar All-America Team for the 2017 fall semester.
Piscataway, N.J. - Joseph Lozano clocked in with a winning time of 1:59.74 in the 200 breaststroke to capture his first ECAC Championship title on the final day of the 2018 ECAC Men's Open Swimming & Diving Championships on Sunday, Feb. 25. See below for more highlights of Columbia's performances
Princeton, N.J. - While setting a program record for the fifth time, Jonathan Suckow took home three-meter dive crown with a score of 447.80. The victory gives the first-year the Ivy League diving sweep after winning the one-meter dive on Thursday night. The sweep marks the third-consecutive for Columbia diving and its eight-straight crown in three seasons. Suckow was named Ivy League Diver of the Year and joins previous four-time champion teammate Jayden Pantel who posted a third-place finish today in the three-meter dive with a score of 361.80. Pantel was also awarded The Ron Keenhold Awrd, given to the Ivy League's career high point diver.


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I know better than to ask for information or opinions about a future event, but here is an exception.
In another thread I mused about a small time application for classic JBL cone transducers after the apparently expected end of cone kit availability. My question is, what do YOU think will happen and what would you personally do if/when factory cone kits are NLA (No Longer Available)? Do you think quality third party suppliers would emerge? What would you do if they do not?
The application I suggested, while not common, would have the advantage of rendering the classic transducers the equal of the best contemporary offerings for that particular application. I mention this in anticipation of a barrage of responses, welcome here for sure, telling us to get over it and buy the newer, better stuff.
I expect replacement diaphragms for compression drivers and tweeters are another question altogether.
I might also ask how soon the great NLA might come to pass. Speculation and inside information welcome!
I have often wondered if the numbers of the units out there (do we have all the speakers not already in landfills?) would be too small, in the great scheme of things, to interest any entrepreneurs offering high quality. We are all hoping for another Great Plains Audio, but is that realistic, especially with JBL, unlike Altec, still out there?


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The parting of Linux and Mono: So now, there's a whole lot of .NET developers out there who are wondering what they are going to do with all their experience. If I were a smart aleck, I would suggest they come to the Dark Side of Linux and work on Mono (and yes, we also have cookies). True, that is indeed my standard mode of operation, but in this case I must suppress my natural smart-assery because I am not sure where Mono stands with Linux.
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The Daily Freeman (http://www.dailyfreeman.com)
Wednesday, February 12, 2014
Ten to 14 inches of snow could fall in the Mid-Hudson Valley, with up to 18 inches possible in the Catskills, between Thursday and Friday mornings, said Ian Lee, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service office in Albany.
A winter storm warning will be issued starting at 7 a.m. Thursday and ending at 10 a.m. on Friday.
He said the system is anticipated to arrive Thursday morning, with the heaviest snowfall arriving just in time for the evening commute. He said he expects the snow to persist throughout the night until the storm diminishes after Friday's morning commute.
The storm appears to be hugging closer to the coast which will bring a possibility for higher snowfall amounts to the entire Mid-Hudson Valley, and a chance of sleet for portions of Dutchess County, he said.
Lee said temperatures should range from around 30 degrees in valley to approximately 25 in higher elevation locations.
Snowfall rates of one to two inches could be possible during the evening and night hours making for low visibility and treacherous travel conditions, National Weather Service meteorlogist Tom Wasula said.
Wind is not anticipated to be a huge issue with this storm, but winds of 30 miles per hour, especially in western Ulster and western Greene counties could create blowing snow conditions, he said.
He cautioned people to limit travel during the storm to necessary travel for work or emergencies.
As the storm approaches, local agencies are coping with a growing salt shortage.
In the city of Kingston, a snow emergency is scheduled to begin at 7 a.m. Thursday and remain in effect for 48 hours, unless otherwise posted
Michael Schupp, superintendent of Public Works for the City of Kingston said plowing efforts will focus on "priority routes" like Broadway, Albany Avenue, Washington Avenue, East Chester Street and Foxhall Avenue.
"Depending on the intensity of the snow, we'll plow as needed," he said. "Road salt is scarce, (so) we'll be conserving usage and saving it for the main routes,"
He cautioned city residents that crews can't plow every street at once.
Schupp said residents should plan on only having recycling pickup Thursday because garbage truck drivers are being reallocated to drive plow trucks.
He said he anticipates garbage pickup to resume Friday. The transfer station will be closed tomorrow as well, he said.
Citi Bus will run a winter schedule as long as roads are fit, Schupp added.
"Most of our residents have been complying with the snow emergency rules," he said. "As long as they get their cars of the street and we get the snow pushed back it makes life easier for everyone."
Salt at the Ulster County Department of Works is also in short supply.
"We're desperately trying to get enough salt," Ulster County Department of Public Works Commissioner David Sheeley said "We're going to go to a sand salt mix to extend our salt supply," he said.
He said preparations are being made to equipment as the storm approaches.
"We should be in pretty good shape," he said.
Steve Peterson, Deputy Director of Emergency management and communications at the Ulster County Emergency Services Center, is closely monitoring weather reports.
"We're waiting for further word from the National Weather Service, monitoring the situation, and taking the appropriate action as needed," he said.
Peterson said there are no plans to open shelters at this time, but he said shelters could open as the storm develops.
According to a release from Duthcess County Communications Director, Colleen T. Pillus, the County is prepared for Thursday's storm, but they have announced the cancelation of Dial-A-Ride and Flex transit service on Thursday.
In the village of Catskill a snow parking an enforcement plan will go into effect on Thursday at 8 a.m, according to a release from the village of Catskill Police Department. Police said vehicles should be parked on the even side of the streets 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. and the odd side from 8 p.m. to 8 a.m. Friday. Residents should continue to switch sides until snow is removed, police said.
Police said there is no parking on Main Street between Greene Street and Summit Avenue starting 8 p.m. Thursday. Residents who normally park on the street should use municipal lots, police said.
At least one group of folks, local hardware stores, are excited about the storm.
Scott Ward, the store manager at Williams Lumber in Rhinebeck, said his store has been busy as residents come in to pickup snow shovels and salt, which are becoming scarce because of a large number of winter storms in the south.
He said he's restricted customers from buying salt in bulk quantities so everyone has a chance to purchase salt.
"Snow shovels are selling very well, and we're putting more together," he said. "We got a bunch of roof rakes in stock today, and we didn't even keep them in stock long enough to put them on the shelves here.
Fran Caprotti Floor Manager of Herzog's Home Center in Kingston Plaza said the store was very busy with salt and wood pellets being the hottest sellers.
"The salt is starting to get into low supply because of all of the storms in the south," he said. We're trying to avoid bulk sales so everyone has the opportunity to get some.
Another thing that is in short supply are snow blowers and shovels he said.
The manufacturers have shifted to making spring products," he said.


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A couple from Ledyard got married this afternoon in front of their home that was destroyed in a fire last week.
Last Monday, Megan Hunley and Brian Osborne were forced to run from their burning home with nothing but the clothes on their backs.
Brian thought the ring that he bought months ago was gone, but on a long shot he asked a firefighter to go back inside and look.
The firefighter found the ring in the bedroom beneath a pile of rubble. The box was burned, but when he brought it out the ring was found to be untouched.
There was no white dress or fancy flowers at the wedding, but there was a ring and that's all that mattered to them.
"I wouldn't want it any other way. All that other stuff is materialistic," Megan said.
Although Megan didn't know it, the ring was bought months ago, but Brian was just waiting for the right time. Neither of them thought that a fire would be what brought them together.
"I don't think we imagine this, I don't think anybody imagined this," said Megan.
Megan and Brian exchanged vows surrounded by family and friends less than a week after their home was destroyed.
"I cried because it makes you wonder why of everything, you know, why of everything did this make it?" Megan asked.
Instead of wearing a white dress, Megan wore her sweat pants and Brian wore a t-shirt. These were the same clothes that the couple was wearing when they ran from the fire. It was a reminder to never look back.
"It's all symbolic, we look at it like after everything we've been through, why wait. You never know what's going to happen, you never know what's going to happen next," said Brian.
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Scottish Premiership: Post-split fixtures announced as battles at top and bottom heat up
The post-split fixtures have been released by the Scottish Premiership as battles at both ends of the table intensify.
Last Updated: 10/04/14 2:07pm
With the title already secured Motherwell, Aberdeen and Dundee United are all battling to secure second place in the table and Europa League qualifying matches.
Motherwell have home advantage against champions Celtic in first match after the split on 19 April, live on Sky Sports, but travel to Dundee United the following week before ending their campaign at Aberdeen on Sunday, 11 May.
Dundee United end the season at Celtic Park and host Aberdeen the week before, live on Sky Sports, while the Pittodrie side will be looking for a third straight win against Neil Lennon's team on 3 May.
Hearts are certain to drop into the Championship next season, but the fight to avoid the relegation play-off spot is intensifying.
While any one of five teams could still finish second from bottom, St Mirren, Partick and Ross County are currently in most danger.
County end their campaign away to Partick and the Highlanders also travel to play St Mirren on 3 May, with Danny Lennon's team playing at Firhill on Friday, 25 April.
Hibernian are by no means safe from the play-off spot and they will host Hearts in what could be the final Edinburgh derby on Sunday, 27 April.
Selected Scottish Premiership post-split fixtures:
Friday, 18 April:
Inverness CT v Aberdeen
Saturday, 19 April
Hearts v Ross County
Kilmarnock v Partick
Motherwell v Celtic
St Johnstone v Dundee Utd
St Mirren v Hibernian
Friday, 25 April
Partick v St Mirren
Saturday, 26 April
Aberdeen v St Johnstone
Dundee Utd v Motherwell
Ross County v Kilmarnock
Sunday, 27 April
Celtic v Inverness CT
Hibernian v Hearts
Saturday, 10 May
Hibernian v Kilmarnock
Partick v Ross County
St Mirren v Hearts
Sunday, 11-May
Aberdeen v Motherwell
Celtic v Dundee Utd
Inverness CT v St Johnstone


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CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Corruption accusations and insults are flying between allies and opponents of President Hugo Chavez nearly two months after the Venezuelan leader disappeared from the political stage to undergo cancer surgery in Cuba.
Analysts say the increasingly heated attacks between the two camps could be a preamble to a bruising campaign ahead of a possible new presidential election this year.
National Assembly President Diosdado Cabello on Tuesday night accused three lawmakers in the Justice First party of involvement in corruption.
Opposition leaders responded on Wednesday by saying that members of the party are totally innocent and that senior government officials are the ones who have enriched themselves during Chavez's 14 years in office.
Political analyst Jose Vicente Carrasquero said Chavez's camp is trying to "demoralize the opposition" and hurt it politically ahead of a possible presidential election. A new vote would be called within 30 days if Chavez were to die or step down from the presidency.
By raising corruption claims, the government is also seeking to deflect attention from problems such as shortages of some staple foods, a weakening currency and rampant violent crime, said Carrasquero, a political science professor at Simon Bolivar University in Caracas.
"They need to position themselves as winners, and at the time go about presenting the opposition (in a light that suggests) it's going to be defeated in an election," Carrasquero told The Associated Press in a telephone interview.
Opposition politicians have responded to the government's verbal attacks by stepping up their own accusations and rhetoric in an apparent bid to show they remain a united political movement that won't bow to threats by Chavez's lieutenants.
Opposition leader Henrique Capriles, who lost to Chavez in October and is considered the most likely candidate to run in a new election, responded to the accusations against his Justice First party by calling the National Assembly's leader "Al Capone" in a message on his Twitter account.
Cabello answered by likening Capriles to another crime boss, the late Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar.
"What they want to do here is come after me. What they want here is to demoralize you all," Capriles told supporters in a televised speech Wednesday. He said the government's accusations aim to scare away private businesspeople from making campaign donations to the opposition.
The opposition has accused Cabello of corruption for his handling of the Miranda state governor's office between 2004 and 2008, though he never faced any charges. Capriles reiterated those accusations and then charged that after he defeated Cabello in the 2008 gubernatorial vote, Cabello's group stripped the office of everything of value, down to its lamps and toilets.
"This is the most corrupt government that there has been in the history of our country," Capriles said.
Before he traveled to Cuba on Dec. 10, Chavez designated Vice President Nicolas Maduro as his chosen successor and said that if his illness were to force him from office, Maduro should run in a new election to take his place.
During Tuesday night's session, which was peppered with insults and a few curses, Cabello showed copies of checks purportedly revealing payments received by opposition lawmaker Richard Mardo. He also accused opposition lawmaker Gustavo Marcano of operating a parallel payroll when he was the mayor of a town in eastern Venezuela.
Cabello then replayed a video of opposition lawmaker Juan Carlos Caldera receiving money from a businessman. That video, which previously surfaced before the country's October presidential election, had prompted Capriles to fire Caldera from his position as an aide. Caldera has denied that the money was a bribe.
Pro-Chavez lawmaker Pedro Carreno said a legislative anti-corruption committee will send a report to the Supreme Court to determine if the accusations warrant lifting the politicians' immunity as members of congress so they can be charged and tried.
Foreign Minister Elias Jaua joined in, saying those in the opposition party are a "band of stuck-up crooks."
Tensions between pro- and anti-Chavez politicians appear to be on the rise. In late January, the opposition accused pro-Chavez lawmaker Claudio Farias of punching opposition lawmaker Julio Borges in a hallway of the legislative palace. Cabello at the time called for calm but also said that "we aren't going to put handcuffs on our deputies."
Other opposition leaders called the government's latest corruption accusations a farce, noting that a former case against Marcano had been dropped by a court two years ago.
Mardo said he did nothing wrong, and also claimed that one government representative had told him if he defected to the pro-Chavez camp, the accusations would be quietly set aside.
The verbal sparring has erupted amid uncertainty about Chavez's condition.
The 58-year-old president hasn't spoken publicly since before his Dec. 11 surgery for an unspecified type of pelvic cancer. In recent weeks, speculation has grown that the government could be preparing the ground for a new election.
Adding to such speculation was the government's debut this week of a newly designed baseball cap emblazoned with the colors of Venezuela's flag. Maduro, Cabello and other top officials donned the yellow, blue and red cap during street demonstrations Monday, and the vice president called them "revolutionary caps."
However, the cap is very similar to one worn by Capriles during the past presidential campaign. Capriles responded by posting a photo of his cap on Twitter and saying: "They'll never be able to expropriate it."
During Tuesday's congressional session, some lawmakers from both sides wore the flag-design caps, trying to claim the symbol as their own.


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1. Re: static noisethe_wine_snob Apr 4, 2012 9:48 AM (in response to givingupusa)
Background noise, from many sources, can be problematic, though with some work, some background noise can be eliminated, or at least diminished. Everything depends on the frequencies of the noise vs the frequencies of the Audio, that you wish to keep. This ARTICLE gives some tips, and they might be helpful. Success depends so much on what you have, and what you need.
Good luck, and hope that some of those tips are helpful.
2. Re: static noisePeru Bob Apr 4, 2012 1:37 PM (in response to the_wine_snob)
Sometimes a very low level of music background can mask some of the noise.
3. Re: static noisethe_wine_snob Apr 4, 2012 5:44 PM (in response to Peru Bob)
I have used that on occassion, and it CAN be very effective.
Good tip,
4. Re: static noisegivingupusa Apr 6, 2012 9:01 AM (in response to the_wine_snob)
I read the article and I think I will try and add some soft music. It's not a professional video, it was just of friends of mine. Again, thank you for all your advice Bill.