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Opposite ends of the spectrum in this blog post, let's start with the positive.
Rory McIlroy's eight shot win at the US Open last week was a thing of beauty. Any lingering effects from his Masters collapse in April were nowhere to be found. It was good for him, and for golf, that he had such a week.
I take issue with the fact that people chose to rip Congressional for being too easy. Where were these people when Tiger Woods crushed the US Open field by 15 at Pebble Beach? Give credit to McIlroy for being better than everybody else for the tournament. The course was soft, and there for the taking. For EVERY PLAYER. McIlroy did it better than anyone else, including Jason Day, whose -8 total would have won 26 of the previous 30 US Open's.
Now, before we anoint McIlroy as "the next one," let's keep some names in mind. Andy North, and Scott Simpson. Both winners of major championships, accomplished golfers, but far from what many would consider legendary. I'm not ripping them, just comparing. McIlroy owns one major. Will he win more? Probably, but let's not get ahead of ourselves. The benchmark for this current generation of golfers is still one Eldrick "Tiger" Woods.
Turning to the bad, the North Carolina football program has 90 days to respond to the NCAA's Notice of Allegations it received on Tuesday. Amazing that Butch Davis seems to come from the documents unscathed. That just leads me to believe that he truly knew very little (if anything), based on what the NCAA and UNC investigations uncovered. Either that, or he has a great poker face. This still leads me to a difficult area.
How does the Head Coach of a football team not know what his players are up to? On this point, I am talking about the trips and benefits, not the academic issues. Those are separate. The Head Coach is the guy, ultimately, in charge. To Davis' credit, he accepts the blame, but how will he follow up on that? I'm not taking a shot at the school here, just pointing out that these allegations are serious business. This isn't something that will go away overnight. The University MUST be proactive, and openly proactive in how they show the NCAA, their students, and their fans how serious they are about keeping all programs clean and above board. I think they almost need to go out of their way to show folks they mean business.
UNC alums that I know (and some I work with), were very embarrassed by this scandal. Some have even called for Davis to be removed (which I don't think will happen). The guy who is under the most pressure in this is Director of Athletics Dick Baddour. It's on him to oversee what should be an in-depth look at how to get the schools athletic programs cleaned up. Mind you, it's not all of them, but still, the investigation needs to reach ALL student athletes. Again, this is serious. It needs to be addressed that way. I am confident it will be.
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Tuesday, February 13, 2007
What's the definition of 'news'?
Talk to the hand, I said.
And it's not like it's a slow news week. I don't have any theories about why they might do this, but would love to hear other people's, if you have them.
26 comments:
- mindlessmunkey said...
I've got one word for you, Kim: BOGANS.
It's the same reason the Jayden Leskie case still gets dredged up at every available opportunity, ten years after the poor kid got killed. People in this country love a good bogan melodrama/mystery.
Also, these glorified human-interest stories provide something to be provoked by and opinionated about, without having to actually confront the more serious issues facing the world.
- 7:06 am, February 14, 2007
- &Duck said...
Yeah, I second that emotion. Nothing Australians like more than a good scrag.
- 7:24 am, February 14, 2007
- comicstriphero said...
It's like Neighbours on crack.
- 8:37 am, February 14, 2007
- Fyodor said...
I was going to come up with a schmancy-pants pseudo-intellectual theory, but Ducky's just blown that out of the water with her inimitable cuttingthroughfulness.
Feckit, I'll tell you anyway, as I'd mentally typed half the bloody thing while reading your post.
Apart from the "Sequel Effect" (i.e. she was news-worthy before, so she's front-page material now, c.f. Sophie Delezio) I put the bizarre fixation on Shhhchhhhappppellle down to the irresistible journalistic tension between the "Damsel in Distress" trope (with the added racial/ethnic twist/frisson: WHITE damsel in distress with DARK men!) and that nagging suspicion she may just be another dopey drug-mule, albeit with drawn-on eyebrows that give her the perpetual appearance of a bunny in headlights*.
On the one hand journalists know that innocents in peril is guaranteed melodrama-fodder, as mindlessmunkey notes, but they (and we) know deep down that her story is at least a little dodgy.
Plus, virtue is lauded in the abstract, but typically hated in person: there's a tremendous amount of Schadenfreude out there about the travails of our favourite bogan. The journos thus get to play between the madonna-whore extremes. This latest scrag is obviously playing to the latter.
* Honestly, What. The. Fecking. Feck. is it with women and eyebrows? Would you just leave them alone, FFFS?
- 8:39 am, February 14, 2007
- The Devil Drink said...
Because it's fun to speculate and moralise on the drug use of others? Because it's a twist on the old one-smoke-and-you'll-croak marijuana paranoia we've all known and laughed at manically on our lounges? I'm still waiting for someone to say that they didn't inhale, tho'. Go ahead Mercedes, make my day.
Comicstriphero, if you want to see Neighbours on crack, rent out Idiot Box. 'Get a dog up ya': heh.
Fyodor: here are a few letters to improve your as-yet PG rated cussing:
Keep it real.
- 9:35 am, February 14, 2007
- Anonymous said...
supporters of Schapelle head to www.schapellecorby.com
there are a bunch of good people at that site
- 9:41 am, February 14, 2007
- Pavlov's Cat said...
Wow. That is one classy bunch of theories, folks. And probably all true.
Fyodor's postcolonial take is particularly convincing. A Passage to India for Hun readers. Ew.
My usual take on 'Do you think s/he did it?', whether applied to Our Schapelle or Our Lindy or Their O.J. or whoever, is 'I don't know, I wasn't there' -- particularly these days when truth, as per the Gideon-Haigh-on-Google argument, is decided by popular vote (in an online Anna Nicole Smith item yesterday: 'Did she die of an overdose? Yes/No VOTE'). Having said that, however, I think the phrase 'nagging suspicion' is kind in this particular case.
Fyodor's last paragraph made me laugh out loud for quite a long time. Unfortunately for many of us, the eyebrows, they look bad also when we do leave them alone. But it is very easy to screw up eyebrows, as with cutting your own fringe.
- 9:44 am, February 14, 2007
- Pavlov's Cat said...
Except for Anonymous. But I'll leave that there in case anyone wants to.
DD, Mercedes has already sort of said that.
Love the U's. It's like Scrabble for Potty-Mouths.
- 9:46 am, February 14, 2007
- The Devil Drink said...
Obviously I'm not reading the drug news closely enough, I'll have to rectify that. To the dedicated news.com Schapelle feed, post haste! (Scrabble for filthy minds, by the way? You've obviously never played the game with early teenagers).
By the way, Fyodor: for the gratuitous use of the word 'trope' I sentence you to an extra five years in the Critical Studies/Eng.Lit purgatory, where you'll expiate your sins in a cleansing fire of textual analysis. Don't worry, it's not that bad. At least you don't have to actually read stuff.
- 9:59 am, February 14, 2007
- Pavlov's Cat said...
Nope, he can say trope. Not gratuitous, IMO. Le mot juste.
Devil Drink, have you actually been through the English/Cult Studs purgatory of which you so unkindly speak, or do you just believe everything the anti-Humanities brigade is saying?
Or are you IN the anti-Humanities brigade?
Ungrateful of you, if so. They/we have made a major contribution to your ongoing influence on human life and happiness.
- 10:08 am, February 14, 2007
- The Devil Drink said...
Being an anthropomorph, and thus having no birth certificate, I'd certainly not be allowed to enrol at any decently run university (though I understand I could probably wangle my way into a full-fee MBA course if I wanted). At the same time, being an anthropomorph, I'm very grateful for humans who can extract meaning out of any set text. Oh, I'm very definitely pro-humanity, and pro-Humanities, have no fear. I encourage all of the pleasant vices, up to and including a bit of extra-curricular jargon.
Forgive me, PC, your blog, your rules.
(But if you think five years for 'trope' is bad, you should see what the punishment is for anyone who uses 'marginal utility' outside an economics tutorial.)
- 10:30 am, February 14, 2007
- Pavlov's Cat said...
Plenty of anthropomorphs in all the universities I've had anything to do with, I can tell you. Also, the phrase 'been through' can be interpreted in a number of different ways.
- 10:40 am, February 14, 2007
- R H said...
mindless, and duckperson, child murder is just a glorified human interest story, a melodrama? That's all? Are the Chamberlains bogans? Is Lindy a scrag?
Bogans have a word for you too.
Would you like to hear it?
- 11:15 am, February 14, 2007
- Fyodor said...
You're in fine mettle today, TDD.
"Keep it real?" Um, dude? I'm an evil clown from a cartoon, named after an epileptic Russian gambling addict and suffering desperately from chronic superiority complex. Try keeping THAT real, budweiser.
In superfluous defence of my Hiberno-Anglicisms, it's my caprice to flit from Hiberno to Anglo as the whim takes me. You might say it's the fault [in more ways than one] line in my character. Moreover, there is an in-joke there for Mme. Pavlova that was not discernible to you.
If it's more "mature" Fyodorflava you're after, I'm sure you can find some in Fyodor's Greatest Shits via the noble art of Google-Fu. I don't do vulgarity on command, even for master practictioners such as yourself.
"By the way, Fyodor: for the gratuitous use of the word 'trope' I sentence you to an extra five years in the Critical Studies/Eng.Lit purgatory, where you'll expiate your sins in a cleansing fire of textual analysis. Don't worry, it's not that bad. At least you don't have to actually read stuff."
Ooh, you know how to hurt a guy. As PC noted, the fact that you didn't grasp that my use of "trope" was not just juste [say that five times quickly], but à propos and thoroughly apposite, suggests to me that you might do with a little literary theory yourself. Reading Goethe over and over again doesn't count either.
- 11:37 am, February 14, 2007
- The Devil Drink said...
"Ooh, you know how to hurt a guy."
That hurts. This is what it sounds like when devils cry...
Oh, the extra F? Ummm, yeah. The Mongolian ambassador called, they want their clusterfeck back.
I think you're wrong about schadenfreude, by the way. It's less guilty joy than prurient fascination. You know, the question everyone asks themselves: 'what if they'd found my four kilos of boogie-board bag grass'?
- 12:04 pm, February 14, 2007
- Fyodor said...
"'Ooh, you know how to hurt a guy.'
That hurts. This is what it sounds like when devils cry..."
You sound bitter, Victoria.
"Oh, the extra F? Ummm, yeah. The Mongolian ambassador called, they want their clusterfeck back."
Are you The Devil Pedant today, or what? Feck you and the witch you rode in on, Beelzebubbles.
"I think you're wrong about schadenfreude, by the way. It's less guilty joy than prurient fascination. You know, the question everyone asks themselves: 'what if they'd found my four kilos of boogie-board bag grass'?"
That's very generous of you, Devil Dude, I wouldn't have thought you'd be so optimistic about human nature.
However, as most Australians (I'm guessing here - you'd know better than me) DON'T carry 4kg bags of Mary-Jane into Indonesia, I'd suggest that their fascination has very little to do with empathy, and more to do with the spectacle and opportunity for judgemental infotainment. There's a definite whiff of schadenfreude in the enjoyment of many in this bogan melodrama.
- 12:41 pm, February 14, 2007
- Pavlov's Cat said...
Anyway, DD, textual analysis is the one where you do have to read stuff. Sadly, it has gone out of fashion. I say 'sadly' because I always enjoyed it more than the 'Take this apart five different ways ideologically, pirouette self-righteously, and never mind that you can't write for toffee yourself' school of literary criticism. Ideally they would coexist with the bad bits of each removed, but they have been constructed (sorry) as mutually exclusive, quite wrongly in my view.
The word Schadenfreude is following me around lately -- it came up in a class last week. I remember explaining it to another class many moons ago, the week that Ayrton Senna was killed, by saying it was probably how Alain Prost was feeling at the funeral.
On the Anglo-Hibernian thing, I'd make a joke about ffecklessness but there is nothing ffunny about that. Um, or so I hear.
- 12:44 pm, February 14, 2007
- The Devil Drink said...
'However, as most Australians (I'm guessing here - you'd know better than me) DON'T carry 4kg bags of Mary-Jane into Indonesia'...
Not the smart ones who know the cheapness of the stuff in Indonesia, don't, certainly. Travellers: it pays to do your research and plan ahead.
In any case, when it comes to bogan decline-and-fall morality tales, after all, who hasn't worried about their stash? Who hasn't wondered what their relatives'd say about them if they were arrested on TV? Who hasn't had their only child eaten by a dingo in central Australia? You know, in your early 20s when you were telling your parents you were 'experimenting'?
- 12:53 pm, February 14, 2007
- Pavlov's Cat said...
Youse are gonna get me in trouble if you keep this up.
- 2:26 pm, February 14, 2007
- Anonymous said...
The Schapelle family are really well known for scoring off in QLD!
- 4:43 pm, February 14, 2007
- Fyodor said...
That's not all, Nony. Apparently Shhhcchapppellle is ALSO a lesbian lipsniger. Tell your friends.
- 4:48 pm, February 14, 2007
- Bernice said...
Can I add - Reasons For:
1.How could anyone be that stupid?
2. Kath & Kim factor (see above)
- 6:57 pm, February 14, 2007
- audrey said...
It's all just a bit embarrassing really. Do we need to know that Jodi Power has gone into hiding because she fears for her life? It's a bit like a terrible teenage poetry website where occasional enemies/mostly friends write tropes to each other declaring their love/hatred. Not that I ever spent a good amount of hours reading such rubbish while I should have been working, no sirree.
You know that it's true/
Why do you lie?/
When you/
had cocaine/
and smoked/
- 2:20 pm, February 15, 2007
- hasarder said...
That's strange.
I get all my news off the ABC website, and I don't know what the hell you're all talking about! THey haven't mentioned Schapelle all week!
Serves me right for renouncing the telly and the radio.
- 3:10 am, February 16, 2007
- hasarder said...
And surely you know the rules of journalism?
Close to home ranks higher than further away. Single person ranks higher than faceless millions. Something that people can argue about ranks higher than plain facts.
So, for example, a dog getting run over by the person he bit, in the town where you live, will be further up the news ranks than thousands of people dying overseas in a freak accident.
- 3:17 am, February 16, 2007
- Pavlov's Cat said...
It's having the radio on in the car that does it. (Radio National though -- and there were Schapelle & Co at the top.)
Yes, I've heard that journalism theory expressed as 'Nothing important ever happens further away than a donkey ride.' But by that criterion, surely there was more important stuff happening in Australia this week (ie even closer to 'us' than Indonesia) than what Jodi said about Mercedes?
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マウスコンピューター / G-Tune ★ デザインと高性能を両立、価格も安めで、ここ10年で急成長したメーカー。 ドスパラ (Dospara) ◎ 高性能なデスクトップを安く手に入れたいなら定番の1つ。 日本HP (ヒューレット・パッカード) ◎ デザイン重視の個人向けのモデルが中心。ノート 、スリムデスクトップが得意。 DELL (デル) ○ 安さで勝負。デザインや追加機能よりもコストパフォーマンス優先。 Microsoft(マイクロソフト) ○ Windows の会社。2012 年から 2in1 モデルを販売し、急速にシェアを拡大。 Lenovo (レノボ) △ 中国のメーカーで安い。ビジネス用が中心で、堅牢さと安定性を重視。 Apple(アップル、Mac) * 独自規格。ソフトや周辺機器は専用品が必要。デザイン等に優れるが高価。
Carnegie Mellon University
GAO Forum on Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Implications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Policy and Research
耐震構造 制振構造 免震構造
RYNO Motors
По словам Эллы Памфиловой, около двух часов ночи сайт ЦИК подвергся DDOS-атаке. Ранее о кибератаках на российские сайты, в том числе ведомств, сообщали в «Ростелекоме» и Минкомсвязи.
Un compteur communicant est un compteur disposant de technologies dites AMR (Automated Meter Reading) qui mesure de manière détaillée et précise, et éventuellement en temps réel, une consommation d'électricité, d'eau ou de gaz. La transmission des données s'effectue par ondes radio ou par courants porteurs en ligne (CPL) au gestionnaire du réseau de distribution chargé du comptage. Les compteurs communicants servent à produire des factures sur la consommation réelle, à repérer des gaspillages, des pertes en ligne ou les postes qui coûtent le plus au client. Ils peuvent éventuellement l'informer de microcoupures ou de pertes des réseaux électriques. Si le compteur est en outre « programmable à distance » et … Continue reading
Kristin Burnham
Imagine sitting in your car in a drive-through, just after ordering a cup of coffee. As you wait for the barista to make your drink, a stranger opens your passenger door, reaches for the gas pedal, and floors it. Your car is burning gas quickly and could be sustaining damage to its engine. Now imagine that the car is your computer, and the stranger is code running in your Web browser. Congratulations, you're a victim of cryptojacking, a relatively new method of mining cryptocurrency that involves harvesting an external device's processing and electrical power to perform transaction-validating cryptographic calculations. As cryptojackers leech power from and compromise site visitors' hardware, they … Continue reading
Kathleen Fisher
Securing code for cars is not impossible. There's a ton we could do to make cars more secure. The tech exists; it's more a question of the will.
The Boeing EA-18G Growler is an American carrier-based electronic warfare aircraft. The Growler's electronic warfare capability is primarily provided by Northrop Grumman. The added electronics include AN/ALQ-218 wideband receivers on the wingtips and ALQ-99 high and low-band tactical jamming pods. The ALQ-218 combined with the ALQ-99 form a full spectrum electronic warfare suite that is able to provide detection and jamming against all known surface-to-air threats.
John Leyden, Chris Williams
A fundamental design flaw in Intel's processor chips has forced a significant redesign of the Linux and Windows kernels to defang the chip-level security bug. Programmers are scrambling to overhaul the open-source Linux kernel's virtual memory system. Meanwhile, Microsoft is expected to publicly introduce the necessary changes to its Windows operating system in an upcoming Patch Tuesday: these changes were seeded to beta testers running fast-ring Windows Insider builds in November and December. Crucially, these updates to both Linux and Windows will incur a performance hit on Intel products. The effects are still being benchmarked, however we're looking at a ballpark figure of five to 30 per cent slow down, … Continue reading
Morgane Tual
L'être humain est-il menacé par la technologie ? La machine risque-t-elle de le dominer ? Fantasmes ou réalité ? L'emploi menacé ? Des données biaisées ? Vers un « piratage » de l'esprit humain ? Interdire les armes autonomes ? Tous surveillés ? Comment protéger les données personnelles ? Expliquer l'inexplicable ? Responsables mais pas coupables ?
Problems involving combinatorial and continuous optimization are ubiquitous in our modern life. Classic examples include lead compound optimization in the development of medicine, frequency band and/or transmission power optimization in wireless communications, sparse coding for compressed sensing, Boltzmann sampling in machine learning, portfolio optimization in Fin Tech, and many others. Most of those problems belong to the non-deterministic polynomial (NP), NP-complete, and NP-hard classes in complexity theory and require exponential resources as the problem size increases. The QNN exploits quantum parallel searching at below OPO threshold, collective symmetry breaking at OPO threshold, and exponential probability amplification of the solution state at above OPO threshold to address this limitation.
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Virginia Tech, Ford
Greg Nichols
AI is spreading to the enterprise at a phenomenal rate. According to a global survey of 260 large organizations, a data and analytics company, 80 percent of enterprises are investing in AI and one in three "believe their company will need to invest more over the next 36 months to keep pace with competitors." Let's get this out of the way: What is AI? Like "Big Data," it's a buzz phrase and technology category that's at once alluring and elusive. In general, enterprise AI includes things like machine and deep learning, voice recognition and response, Robotic Process Automation (RPA), automated communications and reporting, predictive analytics, and recommendation engines. If you're … Continue reading
Andrew Ng
Acme Portable Machines
The DuraPAC Pro is a powerful and robust portable computer suitable for tough environments and mobile applications. The aluminum and steel construction allows for it to be both lightweight and rugged. The steel design maintains the ruggedness and integrity of the model while at the same time, the aluminum allows it to be lightweight.
Florin-Constatin Mihai, Maria-Grazia Gnoni
E-waste Management as a Global Challenge (PDF file)
Martin Untersinger
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Boston Dynamics
Chromecast は、テレビの HDMI 端子に差し込むメディア ストリーミング デバイスです。お気に入りのテレビ番組、映画、音楽、スポーツ、ゲームなど、さまざまなコンテンツをモバイル端末からテレビにキャストできます。 Chromecast は iPhone、iPad、Android スマートフォン、Android タブレット、Mac または Windows 搭載のノートパソコン、Chromebook に対応しています。 20 万本以上のテレビ番組や映画、3,000 万曲もの音楽、さらにラジオ、スポーツ、ゲームなどからお好きなコンテンツをお楽しみいただけます。
Steve Lohr
Watson, can you grow into a multibillion-dollar business and become the engine of IBM's resurgence? IBM is betting its future that the answer is yes. Its campaign to commercialize Watson, the company's version of artificial intelligence technology, stands out, even during the current A.I. frenzy in the tech industry. IBM has invested billions of dollars in its Watson business unit, created at the start of 2014, which now employs an estimated 10,000 workers. ** At the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Watson was tested on 1,000 cancer diagnoses made by human experts. In 99 percent of them, Watson recommended the same treatment as the oncologists. In 30 percent … Continue reading
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Mohammad AQib
A user would never like to enter its data or information in the website if he/she feels that it would be insecure. Any unauthorized access may lead to identity theft which may subsequently lead to dire consequences. So the main problems associated with the website can be named as: 1. Loss of control: The user has to rely on the provider to ensure data security and privacy, resource availability, monitoring of services and resources. 2. Lack of Trust: Trusting a third party requires taking risks. Basically trust and risk are the opposite sides of the same coin. Some monitoring or auditing capabilities would be required to increase the level of … Continue reading
Surrey NanoSystems
A whole range of products can now take advantage of Vantablack's astonishing characteristics, thanks to the development of a new spray version of the world's blackest coating material. The new substance, Vantablack S-VIS, is easily applied at large scale to virtually any surface, whilst still delivering the proven performance of Vantablack. Vantablack's nano-structure absorbs virtually all incident light, enabling the performance of precision optical systems to be optimized. The material's developer, UK-based Surrey NanoSystems, has mimicked the performance of its original Vantablack with a new version that can be sprayed onto objects, rather than deposited using a chemical vapor deposition (CVD) process. Vantablack S-VIS greatly widens the potential applications space, … Continue reading
Aaron Sheldrick, Minami Funakoshi
Five years ago, one of the worst earthquakes in history triggered a 10-metre high tsunami that crashed into the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station causing multiple meltdowns. Today, the radiation at the Fukushima plant is still so powerful it has proven impossible to get into its bowels to find and remove the extremely dangerous blobs of melted fuel rods. The plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) , has made some progress, such as removing hundreds of spent fuel roads in one damaged building. But the technology needed to establish the location of the melted fuel rods in the other three reactors at the plant has not been developed. The … Continue reading
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Defense Industry Daily
The USA's MIM-104 Phased Array Tracking Radar Intercept On Target (PATRIOT) anti-air missile system offers an advanced backbone for medium-range air defense, and short-range ballistic missile defense, to America and its allies. This article covers domestic and foreign purchase requests and contracts for Patriot systems. It also compiles information about the engineering service contracts that upgrade these systems, ensure that they continue to work, and integrate them with wider command and defense systems. The Patriot missile franchise's future appears assured. At present, 12 nations have chosen it as a key component of their air and missile defense systems: the USA, Germany, Greece, Japan, Israel, Kuwait, The Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, South … Continue reading
Fraunhofer Institute
When it comes to deciding whether or not the whole of the ball passed over the line, the human eye can be inadequate. Our GoalRef™ goal-line technology supports referees by informing them immediately when a goal is scored. In answering the question of 'Goal or no goal?', FIFA will in future be turning to the GoalRef™ goal-line technology developed by the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS. After successfully completing a demanding certification process, the GoalRefTM system was officially licensed by FIFA in November 2012, which means it is approved for use at official football matches. Since GoalRefTM produces a reliable decision immediately, it does not interrupt play or alter … Continue reading
Andy Greenberg
I was driving 70 mph on the edge of downtown St. Louis when the exploit began to take hold. Though I hadn't touched the dashboard, the vents in the Jeep Cherokee started blasting cold air at the maximum setting, chilling the sweat on my back through the in-seat climate control system. Next the radio switched to the local hip hop station and began blaring Skee-lo at full volume. I spun the control knob left and hit the power button, to no avail. Then the windshield wipers turned on, and wiper fluid blurred the glass. As I tried to cope with all this, a picture of the two hackers performing these … Continue reading
cocoa motors
Oliver Chanarin
Technology is always ideological.
U.S. Department of Defense
The Active Denial System (ADS) is needed because it's the first non-lethal, directed-energy, counter-personnel system with an extended range greater than currently fielded non-lethal weapons. Most counter-personnel non-lethal weapons use kinetic energy (rubber rounds, bean bags, etc.). A kinetic-based system has a higher risk of human injury, and its effectiveness varies in relation to the size, age and gender of the target. The Active Denial System, however, is consistently effective regardless of size, age and gender and has a range greater than small-arms range. The Active Denial System will provide military personnel with a non-lethal weapon that has the same effect on all human targets.
Margaret Atwood
Every technology we develop is an extension of one of our own senses or capabilities. It has always been that way. The spear and the arrow extended the arm, the telescope extended the eye, and now the Kissinger kissing device extends the mouth. Every technology we've ever made has also altered the way we live. So how different will our lives be if the future we choose is the one with all these robots in it? More to the point, how will we power that future? Every modern robotic form that exists, and every one still to come, depends on a supply of cheap energy. If the energy disappears, so … Continue reading
Centre for Process Innovation
Mary Landesman
Trojans have the same right on the system as does the logged in user. In other words, if the user can, the Trojan can. This includes deleting or modifying files, installing other software, uninstalling software, or sending sensitive password and login information to a remote attacker. Regardless of how the infection gets on the system, once installed, the system is under the control of the attacker. Often, the attacker will share the list of zombied systems with others, giving unfettered access to their collection of zombie machines by other ill-intended criminals. Attackers can also often simply scan for compromised machines, which often send a greeting of readiness to listening ears. … Continue reading
Stephen Chen
China has moved a step closer to creating a supersonic submarine that could travel from Shanghai to San Francisco in less than two hours. New technology developed by a team of scientists at Harbin Institute of Technology's Complex Flow and Heat Transfer Lab has made it easier for a submarine, or torpedo, to travel at extremely high speeds underwater. In theory, a supercavitating vessel could reach the speed of sound underwater, or about 5,800km/h, which would reduce the journey time for a transatlantic underwater cruise to less than an hour, and for a transpacific journey to about 100 minutes. However, supercavitation technology has faced two major problems. First, the submerged … Continue reading
Ellen Ullman
I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT TIME IT IS. There are no windows in this office and no clock, only the blinking red LED display of a microwave, which flashes 12:00, 12:00, 12:00, 12:00. Joel and I have been programming for days. We have a bug, a stubborn demon of a bug. So the red pulse no-time feels right, like a read-out of our brains, which have somehow synchronized themselves at the same blink rate. But what if they select all the text and / hit Delete. / Damn! The NULL case! / And if not were out of the text field and they hit space / yeah, like for / … Continue reading
Jodi Kantor
Like increasing numbers of low-income mothers and fathers, Ms. Navarro is at the center of a new collision that pits sophisticated workplace technology against some fundamental requirements of parenting, with particularly harsh consequences for poor single mothers. Along with virtually every major retail and restaurant chain, Starbucks relies on software that choreographs workers in precise, intricate ballets, using sales patterns and other data to determine which of its 130,000 baristas are needed in its thousands of locations and exactly when. Big-box retailers or mall clothing chains are now capable of bringing in more hands in anticipation of a delivery truck pulling in or the weather changing, and sending workers home … Continue reading
Sales of Fuel Cell sedan will begin in Japan before April 2015 where hydrogen stations are in place. Preparations are underway for sales to begin in the US and Europe during the summer of 2015. It is a vehicle equipped with a "Fuel Cell" that generates electricity through the chemical reaction between hydrogen and oxygen to power the motor driving the vehicle. Hydrogen, which replaces gasoline as fuel, is an environment-friendly energy source that can be produced from various raw materials.
Mark Weiser
The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it.
paizaとは、オンラインのコーディングテストを受ける事で、書類選考なしに面接・会社見学可能な求人企業が見つかる転職サービスです。paizaのコーディングテストは Java, C, C++, C#, PHP, Ruby, Python, Perl に対応しており、より実務に近い試験になっています。 IT/WEB開発エンジニアに特化 エンジニアとしてスペシャリストキャリアを目指す方に特化した求人サービスを展開。 コーディング力をスコアリング Paizaのコーディングチャレンジでスキルをスコア評価。スキルの強化ポイントを把握。 効率的なマッチングの仕組み コーディング評価結果を元に、求人企業様が求めるスキル基準と効率的にマッチング。
DatabaseとGeometry(幾何学)の頭文字をとってデージー・テクノロジーズとしたのが当社の由来です。 『ビジネスアプリによるデータ処理「D」と、CADの図形処理「G」 というふたつのIT分野に特化して会社を運営したい』という思いが込められています。 弊社ではオブジェクト指向技術に基づいたシステム実装技術を得意としており、 多くのプロジェクトで大手企業からも高い評価を得てまいりました。 日本のIT産業において高まる開発案件の需要に対応すべく、2012年度までの5年計画として 1>受託開発体制の強化 2>アウトソーシング事業の確立 3>革新的パッケージの開発 これら三本の事業柱を加速度的に成長させます。 得られた財政基盤を基に、新規事業にも積極的に投資していきます。
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Solid Concepts
3D Printed Metal Gun by Solid Concepts
Erik Schechter
Weighing only 16 grams, the Black Hornet looks like a tiny toy helicopter. But it's really a nano-size piece of military hardware unlike anything on the battlefield today — experimental robot flies and hummingbirds not withstanding. The PD-100 Black Hornet Personal Reconnaissance System, unveiled to the American public for the first time last week at the Association of the United States Army Expo in Washington, D.C., is a drone (actually, a pair of them) that a soldier can carry and operate as easily as he or she would a radio.
HyperStealth Biotechnology Corp.
Successful testing yesterday with our Quantum Stealth (light bending material) covering a UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle). The UAV was able to taking off, fly a course at high speed, return back and land, repeating these tasks multiple times without any apparent change in the flight characteristics of the UAV. Currently only special authorized groups in the Canadian and U.S. militaries have access to the material and Quantum Stealth has been classified by both countries …
Antonov Company
Mriya has set up 240 world records including transportation of the heaviest cargo with mass of 253 tons, the heaviest single peace of cargo with mass of 186,7 t as well as the longest cargo having length of 42,1 m. But the main thing is that Mriya serves people reliably. The airplane repeatedly participated in humanitarian operations. Thus in October, 2009 the AN-225 performed several flights on delivery generators to Samoa. They were necessary for renewal of work of Satala electric station damaged by tsunami. Only spacious cabin of the AN-225 could accommodate ten 12-tons generators at once. Each of them was as large as 6-meters container.
Alan Webber
In the end, the location of the new economy is not in the technology, be it the microchip or the global telecommunications network. It is in the human mind. You can't judge great teachers by their looks. Or their English. Or their profession. Or their education. Or where they were born, where they live, how they dress, how much money they make.
Julia White
We have one billion users of Office. You can't expect them to change every day.
Quentin Hardy
Every day, millions of office workers prepare memos and reports using scissors and paste, and store data on floppy disks, though they have plenty of digital memory in their computers and the cloud. Smartphone-toting executives have their mail dumped into in-boxes, one corporate message atop another. They are not using these objects, of course, but clicking on the pictures of them in popular word-processing programs like Microsoft Word or Google Docs. The icons linger like vestigial organs of an old-style office, 31 years after IBM's personal computer brought work into the software age. They symbolize an old style of office software, built for the time when the desktop computer was … Continue reading
Harold G. White
Space has been expanding since the Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago. And we know that when you look at some of the cosmology models, there were early periods of the universe where there was explosive inflation, where two points would've went receding away from each other at very rapid speeds. Nature can do it. So the question is, can we do it?
Anatoly Zak
Russia's Proton rocket crashed less than a minute after its liftoff from Baikonur, Kazakhstan on July 2, 2013. The rocket started veering off course right after leaving the pad, deviating from the vertical path in various directions and then plunged to the ground seconds later nose first. The payload section and the upper stage were sheered off the vehicle moments before it impacted the ground and exploded. By July 9, it is transpired that investigators sifting through the wreckage of the doomed rocket had found critical angular velocity sensors, DUS, installed upside down. Each of those sensors had an arrow that was suppose to point toward the top of the … Continue reading
Dan Brown
(Your novel raises the question of whether technology will save us or destroy us. Which do you believe?) I believe science will save us…although I tend to be an optimist. Obviously, science has wonderful potential to control disease, create new fuel supplies, engineer efficient food sources, and even allow us to migrate to new worlds. The problem, of course, is that every technology is a double-edged sword. The rocket engine that carries the space shuttle can also carry warheads. The medical breakthroughs that can eradicate disease–genetic research, for example-if misused, can bring about the end of the human race. The question is not whether or not science will expand to … Continue reading
Recent studies on the functional morphology of fins of fishes show a surprising biomechanical effect of the fin rays. The bionic implementations of these constructions led to shape-adaptive wing profiles and flow control devices. The functional principle has been patented as "Fin Ray Effect" and a line of products based on this effect is currently being developed.
The U.S. Army Research Laboratory
The U.S. Army Research Laboratory's (ARL), Army Research Office's (ARO) initial concept of exploring DNA as a tagging and tracking method has led to the discovery of an optical scanning technology that can identify counterfeit electronic components before they are integrated into Army materiel. The technology also provides the capability to identify and track materiel in the absence of external tags or barcodes. This timely discovery will help address a significant challenge within the Army and DoD: the presence of counterfeit electronic components in military equipment.
Микоян МиГ-35
New modifications include the newly rolled-out Phazotron Zhuk-AE active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar. The Phazotron Zhuk-AE AESA radar offers a wider range of operating frequencies, providing more resistance to electronic countermeasures (ECM), more detection range, more air and ground targets detected, tracked and able to be engaged simultaneously. The radar is thought to have detection range of 160 km (86 nmi) for air targets and 300 km (160 nmi) for ships.
Northrop Grumman
Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance – better known as C4ISR. From leading-edge microelectronics to the largest, most complex system-of-systems in the world, Northrop Grumman's C4ISR breadth, depth and ability provides first responders, intelligence gatherers, decision-makers and military personnel on the front lines the tools necessary to act with speed and confidence.
Carlo Kopp
Aerial combat in the coming decades will be dominated by players who have command of information over their opponents, and are able to exploit that advantage offensively. Information has become the new high ground in the game of aerial combat. Globally, and especially in Asia, this has been reflected by sustained high levels of investment in capabilities historically operated only the US and NATO nations, such as AWACS/AEW&C and networking of combat aircraft, AWACS/AEW&C and ground based surveillance systems. Concurrently we have observed strong investment in counter-ISR systems, intended to render AWACS/AEW&C impotent. Such systems include very long range air to air missiles such as the Russian R-37/AA-13 Arrow and … Continue reading
Steve Scherer
Italy's 5-Star Movement, led by comic Beppe Grillo, wants to scrap the country's planned purchase of 90 Lockheed Martin Corp F-35 fighter jets and use the savings to help boost the struggling economy. Eliminating the purchase of the fighter jets would save Italy a total of an estimated 10 billion euros but it would leave the Air Force and the country's new aircraft carrier with an outdated fighter fleet. The troubled F-35 is seven years behind schedule and 70 percent over early cost estimates, and orders for the super technological new jet have been cut during an economic crisis that has shrunk defence budgets worldwide. Last year, Italy cut its … Continue reading
Lt. Col Tom McIntyre
We initially planned for a nine-month mission, which we are roughly at now, but we will continue to extend the mission as circumstances allow. Keeping the X-37 in orbit will provide us with additional experimentation opportunities and allow us to extract the maximum value out of the mission. We are learning new things about the vehicle every day, which makes the mission a very dynamic process.
Google Glass consists of a small display situated on a frame that resembles eyeglasses. It is connected to a camera, microphone and bone-conducting speaker. Glass pairs with your smartphone wirelessly using Bluetooth, but also can use Wi-Fi to access the Internet. You can use your voice or your finger to get it to take photos, record video, initiate video or voice chats, send messages, search Google and translate words or phrases. Google's being a bit coy about the ship date for this groundbreaking wearable computer. However, while qualifying early adopters are paying $1,500 a pop for the privilege of owning it first, we're told that it will become more widely … Continue reading
クロスループは、インストールして接続ボタンを押すだけで、どんなに離れていてもインターネットが接続されていれば画面共有を行い、相手の画面上から相手のパソコンを操作する事が出来るようになるソフトウェアです。 主に現在は、仕事上、家族同士や友人同士のパソコンサポート用に利用されていますが、何にご使用いただくかはお客様のアイデア次第です。 使用可能な言語は日本語を含め、21あり、190カ国の皆様にご使用頂いています。 また画面共有に使用される通信は128ビットのBlowfish技術を用いて暗号化されていますので、また起動のたびに、アクセスコードが変わり、そのアクセスコードを相手に教えないと接続出来ないしくみとなっていますので、セキュリティは万全です。 また、ポートの開放は不要です。
Jinha Lee, Cati Boulanger
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Hello to anyone! Just decided to write a small tutorial series about developing ANE for Adobe AIR for iOS. I'm not strong Objective-C developer so I can't code by one hand, but my tries always awarded by working solutions.
Disclaimer: I'm not a native English speaker. Please sorry for my grammar. You can always write correction in comments.
First that we must to have it's OSX and installed xcode. Maybe someone have Apple computer and someone don't have – this is not so critical because you always can use hackintosh. In my case it's Windows with installed VMWare with unlocker that allow to install OSX.
Before we go down inside of world of ugly and impossible (just on first look) Objective-C – let's try to understand how Objective-C collaborate with Adobe AIR.
AIR it's a usual native application for iOS. This mean that we can access to anything that you can reach from any other application that was developed in Objective-C.
Architecture of extension looks like this (also for the rest OS that can support AIR and not only iOS):
All rendering done inside window that can be accessed from Objective-C. This mean we can place own UI over and under Adobe AIR. In some manner it's like default Flash display List. Sure I simplified my description but this don't change work flow. In this tutorial we will not to work with User Interface but now you can understand that is possible.
Let's begin our practice!
I want to start from the simplest thing – number near application icon. It have default name in iOS – badge. Pretty useful thing if we want to inform user about something inside our app or just take it attention. In games this mostly used just for attention.
Step 1: Required files for developing ANE
Download latest Adobe AIR SDK and unpack it somewhere. Go inside \include folder and locate FlashRuntimeExtensions.h file. It's contain methods header that we can call from our extension and it will provide data transport between native side and AIR.
Step 2: Project creation and configuration
Run xcode and create project using Cocoa Touch Static Library template. This something like DLL on Windows but just for OSX;
Press Next and fill all fields. This will not affect on anything:
Than you required to select (or create) a folder where your project will be created:
I'm created folder and select. Select our project BadgeANE and inside project settings we must setup Targeted Device Family: iPhone/iPad and select minimum iOS version. I selected 4.3.
Now we must add to our project FlashRuntimeExtensions.h file with headers from AIR. On the left side select context menu as on image:
At now we must select exact file. You don't required to change this settings. Just go next.
On this step we are done.
Step 3: Writing extension header *.h file
Press once on BadgeANE.h at the left side and write this:
#import <Foundation/Foundation.h> #import "FlashRuntimeExtensions.h" @interface BadgeANE : NSObject @end void BadgeANEContextInitializer(void* extData, const uint8_t* ctxType, FREContext ctx, uint32_t* numFunctionsToTest, const FRENamedFunction** functionsToSet); void BadgeANEContextFinalizer(FREContext ctx); void BadgeANEExtInitializer(void** extDataToSet, FREContextInitializer* ctxInitializerToSet, FREContextFinalizer* ctxFinalizerToSet); void BadgeANEExtFinalizer(void* extData);
I don't see a reason for detailed description of this part. Just let you know that here we describe exported method that AIR require and make data transport available.
If you never developing on C-like languages – you may be was shocked. But it's not so scary. On the left side we have object type and on the right side – variable or method name.
For example from code above:
void BadgeANEContextFinalizer(FREContext ctx);
In ActionScript 3 this is the same:
function BadgeANEContextFinalizer(ctx:FREContext):void
Before ContextFinalizer and etc. you can see BadgeANE. You can change BadgeANE to anything that you want because in the future this must be used in extension descriptor. But you must note that if someone develop extension with the same export methods – native extension will not work. I strongly recommends to use unique names for this methods that can't be used in other extension.
Also I don't suggest to use underscore in this methods names because this will fail on compiling or ANE became unusable.
Step 4: Developing body of extension in *.m file
We just finished with the headers. Now let's begin to develop extension code.
Click on BadgeANE.m from the left and add this code after @end:
void BadgeANEContextInitializer(void* extData, const uint8_t* ctxType, FREContext ctx, uint32_t* numFunctionsToTest, const FRENamedFunction** functionsToSet) { *numFunctionsToTest = 1; FRENamedFunction* func = (FRENamedFunction*) malloc(sizeof(FRENamedFunction) * (*numFunctionsToTest)); func[0].name = (const uint8_t*) "setBadgeNumber"; func[0].functionData = NULL; func[0].function = &setBadgeNumber; *functionsToSet = func; } void BadgeANEExtInitializer(void** extDataToSet, FREContextInitializer* ctxInitializerToSet, FREContextFinalizer* ctxFinalizerToSet) { *extDataToSet = NULL; *ctxInitializerToSet = &BadgeANEContextInitializer; *ctxFinalizerToSet = &BadgeANEContextFinalizer; } void BadgeANEExtFinalizer(void* extData) { } void BadgeANEContextFinalizer(FREContext ctx) { }
In this code I must tell only about most largest method – BadgeANEContextInitializer. This methods it's a core of extension. When you initialize extension – it's called.
Here we describe how many functions our ANE will service:
*numFunctionsToTest = 1;
Fill up array with our data:
func[0].name = (const uint8_t*) "setBadgeNumber"; func[0].functionData = NULL; func[0].function = &setBadgeNumber;
Name – it's string value that we calling from AS3 as method name, functionData it's context data that we not require and at least we setup reference to C function that must be called.
Now we must define setBadgeNumber method. Because we must to work with a whole application – we must import some header because badge it's part of User Interface.
Scroll up and after import of BadgeANE.h just add UIKit.h and FlashRuntimeExtensions.h:
#import "BadgeANE.h" #import "FlashRuntimeExtensions.h" #import <UIKit/UIKit.h>
Now go down to @end and add this code after:
FREObject setBadgeNumber (FREContext context, void* functionData, uint32_t argc, FREObject argv[]) { @autoreleasepool { int32_t int_badgeNumber; FREGetObjectAsInt32(argv[0], int_badgeNumber); [[UIApplication sharedApplication] setApplicationIconBadgeNumber: (NSInteger)int_badgeNumber ]; return nil; } }
Why you must to use @autoreleasepool – I described early one week ago.
After here is all understandable. We create int_badgeNumber variable with type of int32_t. After that we get first object in array of data that we sent from AS3 argv[0] and put it to int_badgeNumber.
Now I must describe detailed. Our AIR application – it's native application with access to any features of native side. This access can be reached via sharedApplication, that exactly is whole app UIApplication. This is something like Stage from Flash Runtime that can be reached everywhere but can be only in a single instance.
After this we may update number on the badge.
Because we currently writing using C with Objective-C mix – we must convert int32_t type to other type that Objective-C know. In our case it's NSInteger, because setApplicationIconBadgeNumber in sharedApplication required exactly NSInteger.
If we could do this in AS3 you can see it how:
function setBadgeNumber(ctx:FREContext, functionData:*, argc:int,argv:Array):FREObject{ var int_badgeNumber : int; Utils.FREGetObjectAsInt32(argv[0],int_badgeNumber); UIApplication.sharedApplication.setApplicationIconBadgeNumber(badgeNumber:int); return null; }
At the end of method we must return something because this required by FlashRuntimeExtensions.h. We don't any data to return so just return nil.
Now we must to develop one more method that will return to AS3 side our badge number. Sure we can remember it inside AS3 but what if user closes app? Store it to the device drive? Definitely not! Let's add new method after @end
FREObject getBadgeNumber (FREContext context, void* functionData, uint32_t argc, FREObject argv[]) { @autoreleasepool { int32_t int_badgeNumber = (int32_t) [UIApplication sharedApplication].applicationIconBadgeNumber; FREObject returnValue; FRENewObjectFromInt32(int_badgeNumber, &returnValue); return returnValue; } }
Also here is AS3 code-like so you better understand it:
function getBadgeNumber(ctx:FREContext, functionData:*, argc:int,argv:Array):FREObject{ var int_badgeNumber : int = int(UIApplication.sharedApplication.applicationIconBadgeNumber); var returnValue: FREObject; Utils.FRENewObjectFromInt32(int_badgeNumber,returnValue); return returnValue; }
At now we have 2 external methods inside our extension – setBadgeNumber and getBadgeNumber. Now we must update our code so AIR will know about new method. Go to BadgeANEContextInitializer and edit numFunctionsToTest value. Change 1 to 2. Now we must add into array new method. Go down and add this code:
func[1].name = (const uint8_t*) "getBadgeNumber"; func[1].functionData = NULL; func[1].function = &getBadgeNumber;
On this step we finished with Objective-C programming.
Step 5: Compiling
Let's compile our library. But before we required to configure two items- switch to iOS Device build target instead of Simulator target and turn on Release compiling and not Debug.
Switching to iOS Device is pretty simple:
In this panel just select iOS Device. If you don't do this – your ANE will not work on real device,
Second items it's enabling Release build scheme.
Inside each build type you must select Release configuration, and not Debug:
Now go to Product >Build and wait for compiling is finished. During our compilation is everything fine but one error is occurred. It's Test target build.
Just press on it and delete it. Than do again Product >Build. In this case we compiled extensions without any errors and we received our libBadgeANE.a library. Click on it and press Show in Finder.
Step 6: Developing AS3 side
Compile this source code. I'm doing this in Flash Builder 4.7. You must let know compiler that you require AIR classes, because if you compile SWC just for usual Flash – you will not reach ExtensionContext class:
package gamespoweredby.com.ios { import flash.external.ExtensionContext; import flash.system.Capabilities; public class UIApplication { private static var _context: ExtensionContext; private static const EXTENSION_ID: String = "gamespoweredby.com.ios.UIApplication.badge"; public static function set applicationIconBadgeNumber(value:int):void{ if ( isSupported() ) { _context.call("setBadgeNumber", value); } } public static function get applicationIconBadgeNumber():int{ if ( isSupported() ) { return _context.call("getBadgeNumber") as int; } return 0; } private static function createExtensionContext(){ if ( _context == null) { _context = ExtensionContext.createExtensionContext(EXTENSION_ID, null); } } private static function isSupported():Boolean { if ( Capabilities.manufacturer.indexOf("iOS") > -1 ) { createExtensionContext(); return true; } return false; } } }
Now we have BadgeANE.swc and almost there!
Step 7: Preparing extension descriptor file
Our extension will have ID gamespoweredby.com.ios.UIApplication.badge. Always create unique ID, so this can protect you from other extension collision. In most cases this is third-party extensions. Better to edit your own because you have own sources.
In our working folder Badge ANE Tutorial you must create bin folder and put there descriptor.xml file with content:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <extension xmlns="http://ns.adobe.com/air/extension/16.0"> <id>gamespoweredby.com.ios.UIApplication.badge</id> <versionNumber>1.0.0</versionNumber> <platforms> <platform name="iPhone-ARM"> <applicationDeployment> <nativeLibrary>libBadgeANE.a</nativeLibrary> <initializer>BadgeANEExtInitializer</initializer> <finalizer>BadgeANEExtFinalizer</finalizer> </applicationDeployment> </platform> <platform name="default"> <applicationDeployment/> </platform> </platforms> </extension>
As you can see – we want to utilize two platforms – iPhone-ARM and default. This mean that our real device will use it's extension and for the rest we (default) use nothing and during testing on desktop we will not receive any errors like our platform do not have appropriate extension.
There is two way of developing for default platform – it's developing separated SWC and using same SWC as device use but with calls avoiding. We just done this via isSupported() above where we check if on iOS we are.
Pay attention on two fields initializer and finalizer. Exactly this fields are used by Adobe AIR when it's determinate which of fields will be used inside *.a file for initializing during context creating createExtensionContext and after finalizing after dispose() is called. The last one we don't write in AS3 because we don't use disposing.
Step 8: Compiling extension
Time for compiling our ANE and receiving some pleasure from it's working state.
1) Inside bin folder place libBadgeANE.a and BadgeANE.swc that we done early
2) Using any text editor create Shell script. I will use Xcode for this
After this xcode will offer to create the file. I named it Script.sh. Just press Ok and you will see it on the left side
3) Open it in Finder:
4) Drag Script.sh inside Badge ANE Tutorial\ and delete if from the project.
5) Now we must edit it using Xcode:
6) Put downloaded early AIR SDK inside Badge ANE Tutorial\ with folder name AIR_SDK, so we can fast add it path to the Shell script.
7) Go back to the Script.sh and write this code insde:
#!/bin/bash ANE=$"BadgeExtension.ane" SWC=$"BadgeANE.swc" LIB=$"libBadgeANE.a" IOS=$"library.swf libBadgeANE.a" DEFAULT=$"library.swf" AIRSDK=$"/AIR_SDK/bin/adt" clear echo "" DIR=$"$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" && pwd )" ADT="$DIR$AIRSDK" echo "Unpacking swc..." cd "$DIR/bin/" unzip -q -o "$SWC" rm $"catalog.xml" echo "Compiling..." "$ADT" -package -target ane $ANE descriptor.xml -swc $SWC -platform iPhone-ARM $IOS -platform default $DEFAULT echo "Finished!"
8) Run temrinal Applications > Utilities > Terminal
9) Inside terminal window write chmod 777 and drag and drop Script.sh. This action is required so we can grant access for Shell script execution under our user
After you dropped the file – terminal will add full file path. Now just press Enter. It's one time action for this file.
10) Let's check Script.sh. In the first lines we have some variables, that have path to AIR_SDK/bin/adt application, name of BadgeANE.swc file and name of compiled extension – BadgeExtension.ane. Strings IOS and DEFAULT it's a path to files that we must to include for our extensions. In this tutorial we will not change anything. Using default terminal everything must work as expected.
Inside Badge ANE Tutorial\bin\ you must have:
– BadgeANE.swc
– descriptor.xml
– libBadgeANE.a
11) Drag and drop Script.sh into terminal and press Enter.
12) After Shell script is finished you will see new files inside your bin folder:
– library.swf
– BadgeExtension.ane
Now we finished with Native Extension development.
Step 9: Testing of Native Extension
Create any project on and test this on real device:
UIApplication.applicationIconBadgeNumber = 7;
With a first access request to badge API – iOS will request access from user:
After user grant access – you will see badge on your icon:
If you want to remove badge – just pass zero value:
UIApplication.applicationIconBadgeNumber = 0;
According to our code we can request current badge value using getter:
c.text = UIApplication.applicationIconBadgeNumber.toString();
You must note that if user not granted access – our API still works but you will not see any changes on your icon.
This tutorial is finished. Thanks to all who meet this useful.
The project including ready to use binary in my dropbox.


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It's first effort is developing a response letter to the Seattle office of Planning and Community Development's rezone map that would complement Mandatory Housing Affordability requirements being put in place by the city.
Part of the city's Housing Affordability and Livability Agenda is Mandatory Housing Affordability, where developers in certain areas of the city will have to either provide affordable housing units in their developments or make a payment in lieu of units that would be used for future affordable housing. An incentive for developers are rezones across the city that would increase allowable building heights — many at 10 feet or roughly another floor.
PPUNC first addressed the First Hill/Capitol Hill Urban Center rezone map at its Oct. 17 meeting, where it was introduced by Janet Shull with OPCD.
Capitol Hill Housing senior planner Alex Brennan accepted the task of drafting a recommendation letter, which he shared during Monday's PPUNC meeting.
There is concern in the Pike/Pine corridor, where a conservation overlay exists, that developers won't have an incentive to preserve historic structures if there is an upzone there. The Pike/Pine Conservation Overlay District allows developers to increase the height of a project by one story — from six to seven stories — if it preserves the facade of an original structure.
If the MHA allows buildings in the overlay district to go up to seven stories, the incentive might not be an effective tool, Brennan said, because the current building code requires anything above seven stories to use more costly concrete or steel. If there is no incentive, the concern is that older character structures won't be worth saving to developers.
"I think you're flagging the exact right problem," said developer Maria Barrientos, who agreed clarification is needed.
The Capitol Hill Land Use Review Committee draft letter — which could be amended as a PPUNC statement only — encourages the city to change the building code to allow mixed wood frame and concrete construction above eight stories, which is already being considered.
On Broadway, north of East Pine, rules allow for building heights of 65 feet, but only if residential use occurs above 40 feet. The draft MHA rezone map would increase the maximum building height to 75 feet and remove the residential requirement of up to 40 feet.
The draft letter identifies this change as a benefit to Broadway retailers, because it would allow more office buildings to be constructed, and with it workers that become customers.
"It's something that businesses on Broadway have been asking for for a long time," Brennan said.
The review committee letter supports increasing zoning form Low-rise 3 to mid-rise around the Capitol Hill light rail station, encouraging expanding the mid-rise zoning further north and east of the Capitol Hill Station Area Overlay District boundaries.
Capitol Hill Housing Board chair Cathy Hillenbrand, who had chaired the Capitol Hill Champion volunteer group that represented community interests during light rail development, said expanding mid-rise zoning would require sufficient community outreach. Many neighbors to the light rail station, which will soon enough include 400 housing units across four transit-oriented development sites, were bothered by the station overlay decision.
PPUNC/CHLURC also recommends in its draft letter that upzoning take place in current LR3 areas along the future Madison Bus Rapid Transit line. Mid-rise zoning would encourage more residential density near transit, Brennan said.
The draft letter notes added incentive programs often come with upzones, in the past and also with a new University District plan. Such programs would be of interest in Capitol Hill, the letter states.
Brennan said the letter will require further revisions before being submitted to the Office of Planning and Community Development.
The city is holding a HALA meeting to discuss affordable housing and zoning changes across Seattle through January. A central neighborhoods meeting is slated for 6-8 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 10, at Optimism Brewing, 909 E. Union St. That will include First Hill/Capitol Hill, 23rd and Union-Jackson, Eastlake, Madison/Miller and Upper Queen Anne urban village maps.
Find out more at www.seattle.gov/hala or hala.consider.it.


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