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Sauwelios wrote:I also still want to get Rise of the Tomb Raider (on PS4 or 360) and Arkham Knight, and have preordered The Last Guardian. [...] Dishonored was great, too.
Ultimate Philosophy 1001 wrote:Metroid prime 1 and 2 is the best game ever made.
Its got a perfect blend of combat and puzzles.
I played a tomb raider demo once, wasnt as good as metroid prime, Tomb Raider's atmosphere reminded me too much of a cheap B movie. James Bond and Indiana Jones were made as a deliberate mockery of B movies, and that is why they have a better atmosphere than actual B movies. The only B movies that are any good are movies with an urban setting.
The second reason the tomb raider franchise isn't that good is because it doesn't actually make you feel like a female. In Metroid prime you actually feel like a female. Tomb Raider is rather bland.
I played a top-down version of Tomb Raider but it was rather bland. The intro cutscene wasn't even animated, just cardboard cutouts saying generic scripts. It somehow got a 4/5 rating but I don't know why. The maps were bland and procedural looking, and the game had no substance felt like a chore. You could easily exploit AI by finding a ledge and jumping on it, then the enemies could not hurt you.
James Bond goldeneye was a good game but I were to make a remake I would add a trap system, because in the movies there are a lot of traps and not non-stop gun shooting like in the games. The James Bond goldeneye remake for the XBOX 360 was very bad, it was actually worse than the goldeneye remake for the Wii, which was more good than it was bad. The XBOX 360 goldeneye was bad because I played the demo and it had no puzzles, just repetitive call of duty style point A to Point B gameplay.
Yeah, I never played that spin-off. And in any case, to me Tomb Raider is about being alone (after all the enemies are dead) in a tomb or temple or the like and especially wall-scaling through it (I also loved this in Assassin's Creed 2 and Prince of Persia Sands of Time, 2008, and The Forgotten Sands). Anniversary and Underworld even made shimmying fun by allowing you to go faster by tapping a button (meaning both interactivity and speeding up of what's otherwise just lamely holding a direction). For some reason they took that out with the reboot...
I liked Goldeneye back in the day, especially the first level, but after Deus Ex I cannot go back to such unstealthy FPSes.
MagsJ wrote:Mahjong and solitaire..
Pandora wrote:MagsJ wrote:Mahjong and solitaire..
Moonlight Mahjong!
I loved playing nvChess, they had really cool graphics, but they don't have an app for it.
Witcher 3 - Blood and Wine wrote:Geralt: Silk kerchief. Monogrammed d.l.C. A noble's accessory, clearly.
Amorphos wrote:i am struggling to find first person games either shooters or rpg, many like witcher is 3rd person. nothing matches skyrim or fallout 4 - that I have found. nor anything like them. any ideas people?
AutSider wrote:The comparison seems to be that they are both rather dark (Gothic less so), that they have a similar combat system (Gothic's is clunkier, apparently), similar open world design with focus on story instead of sandboxing, and that they are both difficult and challenging.
Amorphos wrote:i am struggling to find first person games either shooters or rpg, many like witcher is 3rd person. nothing matches skyrim or fallout 4 - that I have found. nor anything like them. any ideas people?
It feels like the game is against you, especially at first. You will die, countless times. You will imagine satisfied game devs. You will get better and you will defeat the most demoralizing foes. You will feel like a boss. And you will be, because you learned everything the hard way and learned it well.
The fantastic thing is the story that develops in the player's head as you become familiar with every odd corner of the world, the haunt of every enemy, his movement & attack patterns. You won't progress until you appreciate these things. As far as plot, all you'll get are a short intro sequence, fragments of conversation, and minimalist lore that the developers never push in your face. Still, the world feels alive. And it does feel like the player has some forlorn purpose there.
WendyDarling wrote:Sauwelios,
Changing platforms to play a great game is not a question for a die hard gamer. Just sayin'.
WendyDarling wrote:Amorphos,
Might & Magic VI-VIII, inspired the Elder Scrolls series indubitably, (PC-Windows 2000, ME, or earlier required) unless you download from GOG, but the old discs play much smoother on old systems. Old games are why I still have an old, gaming-only PC and Win.95. If only I'd kept my Atari package, that would be a blast about now.
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Even when the Milky Way can be observed by the naked eye from dark places at night, because of our position in the Galaxy, we can actually only see our closest neighborhood. Dust, gas, and stars block the light from other places of our galaxy and thus we are not able to observe far into the bulge, at least in the "visual" part of the electromagnetic spectrum.
VISTA, the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy, is optimized to detect the near-infrared emission of stars, which can travel further through the dust. This fact, along with its privileged site on the Southern Hemisphere, will allow us to map the Bulge with improved detail and perspective.
Previously, all-sky 2 dimensional maps in near-infrared wavelengths have been done with single epoch data. Otherwise, multi-epoch observations have been carried out for specific small field of view targets on the bulge and disk. The VISTA Variables in The Via Lactea (VVV) public survey will perform wide FOV multi-epoch observations of the Galaxy's bulge and part of the disk, providing the astronomical public community with a high resolution 3-D (or 4-D if you include the time dimension) map of the bulge.
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- January 2012. VVV DR1: The first data release of the Milky Way bulge and southern plane from the near-infrared ESO public survey VISTA variables in the Vía Láctea: The ESO public survey VISTA variables in the Vía Láctea (VVV) started in 2010. VVV targets 562 sq. deg in the Galactic bulge and an adjacent plane region and is expected to run for about five years. We describe the progress of the survey observations in the first observing season, the observing strategy, and quality of the data obtained. Link to the ADS entry.
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- February 2010. The VISTA Telescope has started the observations for the public surveys, including VVV! The quality is amazing and a good example is shown in this Bulge's image: gas, dust and even a globular cluster (Palomar 6) are clearly visible and approx. ~106 point sources are resolved. This image was made using VVV data from bands J, H and Ks. We made use of some of the Astromatic.net pipeline suite's algorithms[1].

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text: And last month marked the 30th anniversary of my moving out having taken residence in December 1969. But to sort of bring this back to topic, when I saw Jo Ann Kelly perform in Southampton in 1990 one of her remarks to me was, "you lived in Charlie Gillett's basement flat surrounded by lots of books and records". My problem today is not the 5000 or so blues LPs/EPs/45s (which have remained static since 1989 when I left London) but the books/magazines/papers etc which grow at an alarming rate. I'm told that my house resembles a cross between a library and a newsagent!Charlie wrote:By the way, although I use the word office, it's the two-room basement of my house, formerly the abode of forum contributor Alan Balfour.


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TAMPA, Fla. - Yankees general manager Brian Cashman says he doesn't know if injured captain Derek Jeter will be available to play for New York on opening day.
The shortstop received an anti-inflammatory injection in his surgically repaired left ankle and missed his second straight spring game on Wednesday.
"At this stage, I just don't know, so all I can do is acknowledge it's a possibility," Cashman said when asked if Jeter would be ready for opening day.
Cashman says he doesn't' know when Jeter would resume playing in spring games. The shortstop was removed from the lineup against Philadelphia on Tuesday for "precautionary" reasons because his ankle felt stiff.


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A day after a collision involving a bus carrying high school students and a FedEx truck left 10 people dead, officials began to identify the victims as investigators tried to determine what went wrong on the Northern California highway -- a process that will likely take more than three months.
California Highway Patrol officials and other public safety personnel said at a news conference Friday morning that nine people died at the scene of Thursday's crash and a 10th victim died at a hospital. Those killed included five students and five adults who were traveling to Humboldt State University for a campus visit.
Thirty-one victims were hospitalized after the crash. Their injuries ranged from critical to minor, CHP officials said.
The bus was one of three transporting students to the Humboldt campus, and authorities said they are examining "all vehicles involved" in the crash. A car -- described as a Nissan Altima -- also was struck, but authorities are attempting to confirm details about the vehicle's involvement in the collision.
The two occupants of the sedan suffered minor to moderate injuries, according to the CHP.
It remained "unclear" whether the FedEx driver fell asleep or experienced a mechanical failure on the vehicle, CHP officers said Friday.
The side windows of the tour bus would not open as passengers tried to break out; the rear windows did open, investigators said.
A final report on the crash might take up to six months, according to the CHP.
"Since these are such in-depth, detailed investigations, we don't expect to have a final report for a minimum of three months, 90 days," said CHP Lt. Scott Fredrick. "It could take as long as six months depending on what the investigation entails."
The update comes as coroner's officials confirmed the identity of a crash victim -- 26-year-old Arthur Arzola, a Humboldt State University admissions counselor based in Los Angeles. He was described as a counselor with a "passionate commitment to helping low-income and first-generation students get into college."
Another crash victim was identified by family members Friday as 18-year-old Adrian Castro, a student at El Monte Union High School. Two other students from the high school who were on another bus were hospitalized.
A mother who spent 24 hours after the crash wondering whether her daughter survived confirmed Friday night the twin teen, Marisa Serrato, died in the crash.
Two chaperones, a newly engaged couple, also died in the fiery bus wreck.
"These are lives lost just as they were beginning to be transformed," said Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti at a mid-day news conference.
Sheriff's officials said they will rely on dental records and DNA tests to determine some of the victims' identities because of severe burns suffered in what passengers described as a ball of fire that raced through the bus.
The burned wreckage of the tour bus remained at the crash site Friday morning on Interstate 5 near Orland, about 90 miles north of Sacramento. About 40 passengers -- including 19 Los Angeles Unified School District students -- were on the bus when a FedEx tractor-trailer veered across a grassy highway median and slammed into their bus in a fiery wreck, authorities said.
- More Coverage: CA Bus Crash
Passengers described a "surreal" scene as people kicked out bus windows to escape the fire and smoke after the crash.
"I looked forward to the bus and I just see fire," said student Karmin Aguilar. "Just fire, a ball of fire."
Two other buses that were part of the campus trip were not involved in the crash.
An autopsy will determine whether the driver of the FedEx truck had a medical condition or was deceased before the accident. The bus belonged to Silverado Stages, a tour bus company based out of San Luis Obispo.
Silverado Stages is one of the largest charter bus companies in California. It has a good safety record, though the company had two crashes in the last three months, according to Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration records.
FedEx, however, has been involved in 171 accidents in California -- five of them fatal -- in the last two years, according to safety records.
A FedEx spokesperson confirmed Friday that the vehicle involved was a freight tractor pulling two trailers. The truck is company owned and operated, the spokesperson told NBC4.
The National Transportation Safety Board sent a team to investigate.
"Every piece of paper associated with this will be looked at," said Eric M. Weiss, an NTSB spokesman.


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Which Instagram celebrity has garnered 2.1 million followers, gone backstage at a Demi Lovato concert, and snapped a picture with Taylor Swift at a Grammy Awards after-party?
Marnie the Dog.
Instagram-famous pets attract the attention of social media users around the world, gathering thousands of likes on each adorable picture. Like many celebrities, some of these furry friends were not born into fame, but rather rose from unlikely circumstances.
Marnie the Dog is one of these famous canines who began life in an animal shelter. Marnie's owner, Shirley Braha, was browsing through the animal adoption site Petfinder when she spotted Marnie.
"Marnie's condition when she was living in the shelter was not that fantastic," Braha said. "She had stomach worms, was really dirty, and seemed sad. I felt guilty leaving her there so I took her home."
After a thorough grooming and some time to settle in, Braha got to know Marnie's personality and began posting photos of her dog on her personal Instagram. Once a friend with 10,000 followers posted a photo with Marnie, the pup's following grew rapidly.
Marnie, adopted at age 11 as a senior dog, poses with celebrities and entertains followers with her cute photo-ops.
"A lot of these older dogs have a harder time getting adopted," Braha said. "It just seems like the right thing to do would be to go help an animal."
Marnie is not the only canine that emerged as a social media hit from humble beginnings. Instagram-famous dog Popeye the Foodie began life as a stray on the streets of Los Angeles when his future owner Ivy Diep found him. Diep quickly discovered how much her new pet enjoyed going out with her, so she began bringing Popeye to pet-friendly restaurants. When a friend pointed out how photogenic Popeye is, Diep began brainstorming ideas for an Instagram account.
"I wanted to do something different and it just clicked: how about a dog foodie?" Diep said. "A lot of people call themselves foodies … [Popeye] can be a foodie too!"
Popeye can be spotted at restaurants all around Los Angeles, posing with gourmet meals and desserts in photos that get thousands of likes. While Popeye was not adopted, Diep acknowledges that she would always promote adoption as the first choice for people looking to get a pet.
"We're trying to get the point across that you can find a wonderful dog out there," Diep said. "Just to show that, hey, this dog that might not be in its best condition at the moment … can blossom with a little bit of love and care."
Businesses are also looking to join in on the success of social media-famous animals, with advertisers reaching out to the pet owners for opportunities to promote products. Popeye the Foodie has been featured in sponsored posts by companies such as Burger King, American Express, and Honda.
Along with these advertising opportunities, famous dogs living lavish lifestyles have the power to make a difference. Marnie the Dog, for example, recently became a therapy dog at Children's Hospital Los Angeles.
"I have this dog that makes people so happy," Braha said. "It feels like it's a really good use of my time and Marnie's time to bring a little bit of happiness to these children who are in situations that no one should ever be in."
Organizations such as the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) encourage adoption and utilize the social media presence of famous adopted dogs to spread that message. Joey Teixeira, senior manager of planned giving at the ASPCA and owner of Instagram-famous dog Mervin the Chihuahua, recognizes the impact that adoption can have on the lives of animals and their owners.
"We really just focus on making the right match, trying to work with people to remove those barriers [to adopting]," Teixeira said. "When you adopt, you're not only gaining a new family member, but you're also saving a life."
Mervin first arrived at the ASPCA shelter emaciated, missing his teeth and in need of care. Now, three years after Teixeira adopted the chihuahua, Mervin has come into his own and puts smiles on the faces of his Instagram followers.
"Once he got into a loving home, he was able to really come out of his shell and become his true self," Teixeira said.


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Action for Animals recently found out about geese being killed at Lake Sammamish State Park. Read on for details and how you can help stop this in the future.
A few weeks ago Washington State Parks used USDA Wildlife Services to kill geese at Lake Sammamish State Park. They didn't give the public any notice or any opportunity to comment.
USDA Wildlife Services cruelly rounds up geese when the adults start to molt and can't fly. USDA then herd the adults and babies into pens. If they are still doing what they did in the past when they were killing geese in the Seattle parks, the geese are shoved into gas chambers in the back of the USDA trucks.
The gas chambers weren't designed for large birds like geese. The chambers are too small for the geese to stand upright prior to being gassed to death. Multiple geese are stuffed into the chamber at the same time while frantically struggling and trying to escape. Of course this is all done under a cloak of secrecy, so people are unaware of what's being done or how.
There are many humane alternatives that work well when used together. Killing the geese only creates a temporary solution, because other geese will move in, resulting in an endless cycle of killing.
Geese at all of the Washington State Parks are in danger. If they are killing geese at Lake Sammamish State Park, they are probably killing them in the other state parks as well.
Please contact officials at Washington State Parks and tell them to stop the endless cycle of killing and to come up with a focused well thought out, comprehensive plan that uses humane alternatives. Killing is unacceptable and we must do a better job of sharing the earth with wildlife.
Rich Benson
Lake Sammamish State Park Manager
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Andrew Fielding
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text: Mohammed Jamjoom and Samira Said, CNN.com, 18.09.2013 A leading opposition figure in Bahrain has been jailed after being charged with "inciting and advocating terrorism," Bahrain's Public Prosecution Office said. Activists in the tiny Persian Gulf kingdom, however, insist the charges against Khalil Al Marzooq are politically motivated and accuse the country's leadership of attempting to stifle dissent. Al Marzooq, secretary general of Al-Wefaq, the main Shia opposition party, was arrested Tuesday after being interrogated about a speech he delivered last week. According to BNA, Bahrain's official news agency, he was summoned to a police station, questioned and then referred to the Public Prosecution Office. In a statement, the office accused Al Marzooq of being "affiliated with the terrorist organization" and added that he had been "speaking at many forums, inciting and promoting terrorist acts, advocating principles which incite such acts, supporting violence committed by the terrorist coalition, and legally justifying criminal activities." Taher Al-Mosawi, the head of Al-Wefaq's media center, says that Al Marzooq did not incite violence and that Bahrain opposition parties are suspending participation in national dialogue. Al-Wefaq called the government's actions in regard to Al Marzooq "reckless" and "a clear targeting of political action in Bahrain." The party added in a statement that it believes his detention is, in part, a reaction to a European Parliament resolution passed last week regarding the human rights situation in Bahrain. That resolution called for "the respect of human rights and fundamental freedoms in Bahrain" and urged Bahraini authorities "to immediately end all acts of repression, release all prisoners of conscience, and respect the rights of juveniles." European Parliament member Marietje Schaake told CNN that "the lack of progress in terms of dialogue and reforms towards the rule of law and respect for human rights in Bahrain continue to be of great concern to the European Parliament." Schaake spearheaded the effort to get the resolution passed. "For the sake of the well-being of all people in Bahrain," she said, "and for the future of the country, the crackdown on peaceful demonstrations must end. The blanket ban on assembly in Manama is not helping reconciliation, either." Bahraini opposition activists say that Al Marzooq's arrest is just the latest in a country where many prominent dissidents have been jailed in the past two years and that it only underscores how tense the situation remains in Bahrain. In February 2011, at the height of the Arab Spring, Bahraini citizens, spurred by successful uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, demanded democratic reforms and other changes in the way the country was run. Anger from the majority Shiite population was directed at the ruling Sunni minority. But Bahrain's uprising failed to gain the traction of other regional revolutions after a crackdown by authorities in the tiny island state, backed by troops from nearby Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Demonstrators say authorities killed dozens of people and arrested, tortured and imprisoned hundreds of others. Opposition leaders have tried to keep the protest movement alive.


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Sensitivity of global terrestrial gross primary production to hydrologic states simulated by the Community Land Model using two runoff parameterizations. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. :n/a-n/a.. 2014.
Toward verifying fossil fuel CO 2 emissions with the CMAQ model: Motivation, model description and initial simulation. Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association. 64(4):419-435.. 2014.
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Dozens of laid-off workers from Nitto Technology Co and Wintex Corp, along with labor association representatives, protested outside the Executive Yuan and the Council of Labor Affairs (CLA) yesterday, accusing the companies of illegal labor practices and urging government officials to help the workers.
The protestors said that Nitto had violated the law by forcing workers to sign unfair unpaid leave agreements and canceling shifts in order to lower employees' average salaries and severance pay.
The company has taken advantage of a loophole in the Mass Labor Layoff Protection Law (大量解雇勞工保護法), which penalizes firms that lay off more than 20 workers at a time, they said. The company split the layoffs in three, making no more than 20 workers a day redundant last Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday to avoid penalties, the workers said.
The workers held up banners and signs that said "Nitto exploits workers" and "Japanese businesses throw Taiwanese workers out of jobs," while shouting "black-hearted business" and other phrases.
"[Nitto] told us [we had to leave] three days before the Lunar New Year started, and that we would get no year-end bonuses. All of this, we accepted. But we were on unpaid leave almost every day in January," said a former employee surnamed Fang (方), who was in charge of inspection and packaging.
"The [council] has only said it would send a letter to the company to emphasize the regulations. Basically they are on the employer's side," Fang said.
Nitto's Web site says the Japanese firm has two factories in Tainan County processing liquid-crystal-display panels.
Its workers said that the global financial crisis had set off a chain reaction, causing losses at the company, which supplies major brands such as Chi Mei Corp.
Wintex employees were protesting the sacking of about 600 workers in Taoyuan, Taichung and Kaohsiung in December.
Wu Liang-chi (吳良企) demanded the government investigate Windex' claim that its declining business left it no alternative but to lay workers off.
"If the company has experienced a decrease in orders as it said, why did it purchase large-sized industrial machines every month and why did it expand its investments in China and India? Why did it not lower an executive's salary, which would be enough to cover the cost of hiring 25 workers?" Wu said.
"The management of the company hasn't been able to give a clear account of why we were laid off, while it asked other workers to work a night shift because of a continuous flow of orders from HTC Corp, Nokia and iPod."
Executive officer Liu Shiao-wen (劉曉文) received the petition from protestors on behalf of the Executive Yuan with a promise to have the appropriate departments take care of the issue.
Council statistics released last month showed that about 200,000 people were on unpaid leave — a majority of them in the manufacturing industry. The average number of days of unpaid leave taken by workers is four days a month.
More than half of the workers on unpaid leave were from large companies with more than 500 employees.
"The Council of Labor Affairs should have an explanation for the unpaid leave situation, and whether [the company] violated the law on mass layoffs," said Huang Yu-te (黃育德), secretary-general of the Tainan County Confederation of Trade Unions.
"We hope the council can offer a reasonable explanation so that all other workers' rights are protected," he said.


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How to Close a Windows Program on Your Laptop
When you are through with a Windows program, close it to save computer resources. Closing a Windows program removes its window from the screen and the taskbar, and removes the program from memory. Before you close down a program, you should save any documents you have open in it.
Sometimes, you can close just a document window, and not the program. For example, you might be working in Microsoft Word and want to close a particular document, then keep working in Word. You should save that document before closing its window if you want to save the changes you've made.
First save any open documents.
Typically you choose File→Save to save an open document, although in recent Microsoft Office programs, you click the Office button in the upper-left corner and choose Save As. Use settings in the Save dialog box that appears to name the file and also specify which folder to save it to.
If you have multiple documents open and you're closing a program, repeat this step to save each document.
Perform one of these actions to close the program or just the document window.
Click the program window's Close button in the upper-right corner of the window to close the program. To close just the document window, click its Close button instead, which is often located just below the program window's Close button.
Press Alt+F4 to close an active open window. This typically closes just the current document window unless there's only one document open, in which case, it will close the application window too.
Choose File (or click the Office button)→Close to close just the current document window.
Choose File→Exit to close the program and all open document windows.
The window closes. If you haven't saved changes, you see a dialog box asking whether you want to save the document(s).
If a dialog box appears, click Save or Don't Save, depending on whether you want to save your changes.
You can also click Cancel to cancel the close operation and return to the program window.
You don't have to close an application to open or switch to another. To switch between open applications, press Alt+Tab and use the arrow keys to move to the application (or document if multiple documents are open in an application) in which you want to work.


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Doors open at 10:45 AM. Doors close at 10:55 AM.
All classes are held at 112 W. 27th Street, between 6th and 7th Avenues. All Yogis will be met in the lobby of the building before each class and directed to our studio. Please do not enter the elevator wandering the building looking for us. We'll find, meet and greet you in the lobby. Please bring a yoga mat, towel, and water. Thank you.
Latecomers will not be admitted.
Class fee: $20/$10 with student ID
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Digia Committed to Thriving Qt Ecosystem
Following the recent announcement that Digia will be acquiring the complete Qt business from Nokia, Digia has set out its plans in a letter to the KDE Community.
Digia Director of R&D, Tuukka Turunen, sets out their aims of securing the future of Qt as the best cross-platform development framework and seeking greater cooperation with KDE and other partners in the Qt ecosystem.
The full text of the letter is reproduced below.
It is great to hear Digia's commitment to Qt and the Qt Project. As lined out in a previous statement by KDE e.V. we are going to continue to rely on Qt, protect Qt's freedom and contribute to it. Representatives of the KDE Free Qt Foundation and Digia will soon get together to discuss details of Qt's transition from Nokia to Digia.
What was really acquired?
Did Digia acquire all the Qt IP? The right to decide what goes in the Free Qt release? And the Qt Commercial patchset be merged into the Free Qt releases?
If the answer is yes to all, then it's time to celebrate.
By Anonymous at Thu, 2012/08/09 - 8:42pm
> The right to decide what goes in the Free Qt release?
What do mean by "Free Qt release"? The official open source release of Qt has been maintained by the "Qt project" for some time now. See qt-project.org
> And the Qt Commercial patchset be merged into the Free Qt releases?
Digia has been merging bugfixes from the "Qt commercial" release into the official Qt project tree all the time. Of course, the Qt project is independent and has its own review process, so there may be a time gap until a patch is accepted.
By Anonymous at Fri, 2012/08/10 - 6:19am
right to decide what goes in the Free Qt release?
"The Qt Project is a meritocratic, consensus-based community interested in Qt.
Anyone who shares that interest can join the community, participate in its decision making processes, and contribute to Qt's development."
This is less about companies than people and their knowledge-area, acceptance and concrete code contributions. The whole governance model is based and focused on solutions to problems, on people. Digia now has more influence but they have less control over whatever rights and contracts than that of the Qt developers who are part of the Qt community, people who are very good at what they do and who are working in the best interest of Qt.
Like in the past, there will be conflicts, but--like in the past--they will be solved. Compared to before with Trolltech and Nokia, the whole Qt-project has been moved (some time ago already) to that new collaborative governance model. Let's drive Qt forward together :)
By Anonymous at Sat, 2012/08/11 - 7:32am
it's simple
All those spots in Qt that say Copyright XXYY Nokia will now say Copyright XXYY Digia.
By eean at Tue, 2012/08/14 - 6:12am
Super über mega great, pure awesome
Qt rules and Digia is great. This is going to be so awesome. KDE will rule the world.
By Anonymous at Thu, 2012/08/09 - 9:11pm
cautious kudos
kudos to Digia for taking the time and having the mindset to addressing the KDE community.
I, for one, welcome our new cute overlords, may our relationship thrive and the benefit be mutual.
By Anonymous at Thu, 2012/08/09 - 11:20pm
A bright future
I feel that KDE has a bright future now that Digia has aquired Qt. Clearly, Digia is committed to Qt. And I love their renewed focus on the desktop. Welcome Digia!
By Anonymous at Fri, 2012/08/10 - 6:46am
Thanks to Nokia as well
On the other hand, many thanks to Nokia as well for investing a lot into Qt for years.
I hope the CLA can be loosened up a bit in the (near) future. That still holds many contributors back from participating to the Qt Project.
By Laszlo Papp at Fri, 2012/08/10 - 8:26am
"thanks to Nokia as well for investing a lot into Qt for years."
i doubt QT 5.0 would be where it is today with Nokia pumping resources into the project over the last three (?) years.
By Anonymous at Fri, 2012/08/10 - 11:08am
Yes, thanks Nokia
Nokia may have given up and dropped every Qt-based product, but they did invest in Qt when it was needed, and put a lot of money into making Qt better, and making Qt5 awesome.
By Anonymous at Fri, 2012/08/10 - 8:53pm
Qt-kdelibs merge? | Very good news for the KDE/Qt ecosystem!
Wow, that sounds really great! Thanks to Digia (and Nokia)!
The recent news around Jolla/the Mer Project and Qt make me hope that the already presumed dead MeeGo/Openmoko dream is more alive than it was for a long time: A cross-device GNU+Linux-based FOSS ecosystem (http://www.micuintus.de/2011/02/12/the-death-of-the/).
And I do think it is a good thing for a cross-platform toolkit company like Trolltech (which is currently called »Qt Development Frameworks« AFAICS) not to belong to a single (or dual) platform vendor like Nokia. Imho the much wider focus of Digia (desktop, RTOSes, iOS/Android) is a huge benefit for the Qt project.
Now does this letter to the KDE community mean that Digia is actually in favor of the kdelibs->Qt merge, which was suggested around two years ago (http://www.osnews.com/story/23975/Should_kdelibs_Be_Merged_with_Qt_/)?
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Question: I'm getting ready to embark on a house hunt here in Los Angeles. Beyond dealing with the particulars of finding a place to buy, which is treacherous enough, I'd like to get a headstart on the remodeling. Obviously, I don't have specs for my new digs to really plan anything out, but I'd like to gather some ideas of how I'd like my future space to be organized. I know I should be consulting design magazines, but which ones? Please keep in mind that I'm a total design novice with absolutely no budget. Is there a good resource for someone like myself who's just starting out? What kinds of things should I keep in mind as I try to visualize my TBD home? And how do I reconcile my future design aspirations with my current house hunt? I know these are fairly wide and far-reaching questions, but any advice on these matters would be greatly appreciated as I'm starting from scratch.
— Milla
Answer: Milla, congratulations on embarking on home ownership.
First of all, as this is Los Angeles, why not be on TV while you search for your home? A new show called "Good Buy?" is looking for people about to embark on a home search, and it's being shot in L.A. What do you get? A free evaluation of the homes you're considering buying. And since the market is so slow right now, you'll have time to evaluate homes in a leisurely manner without getting outbid! Read "Good Buy?" FAQs. And there's always the good old "House Hunters" TV show, which is also looking for home buyers to be on TV. You can fill out a "House Hunters" application here.
Before you do that, though, I think it's very smart to start looking at magazines now, before you look for a house to buy. And here is an exercise I've learned from several talented L.A. designers.
I suggest you get a wide range of magazines and tear out pages whenever you see something that strikes you as cool, amazing or beautiful. Also, tear out pages that make you think: "How awful!" Give your assessment no more than a few seconds. Don't sit there, at this point, and study the rooms. Just glance, react and tear.
Get your two stacks of pages going. After you're done, study the two stacks slowly and carefully. You'll start to see some similarities. For instance, you might notice that all the pages in your "awful" pile have wrought iron. Or it may be all the pages in your "wonderful" pile have wrought iron. You'll see colors and shapes and materials in common.
I believe if you do this exercise (do it, rather than just think about it), then you will have a knowingness when you go to look at homes for sale. I just read a survey of people and their regrets when remodeling, and one of the most common regrets was not doing enough research in advance. This research will help you buy the house that is consistent with your future dreams.
What kinds of magazines? You might want to pick up Elle Décor, Architectural Digest, Dwell, Traditional Home, Home magazine and anything else that catches your eye.
After you buy your home, it should then be leaning toward the style you like, and you can find economical ways to expand on that beauty.
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The running fight between U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice and congressional Republicans escalated Tuesday, with key senators vowing to block Rice's nomination if President Barack Obama ever decides to pick her as his next secretary of state.
Rice headed to the Capitol on Tuesday morning to meet with three key GOP voices on foreign policy and discuss the deadly Sept. 11 attacks in Benghazi, Libya. But despite some softer rhetoric from Republicans over the weekend, the meeting ended badly, with Sen. John McCain and two other GOP senators saying they were "significantly troubled" by Rice's explanation of the attacks.
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( Also on POLITICO: Rice: We didn't intend to mislead on Benghazi)
Acting CIA Director Michael Morell also joined Rice at the meeting, but the senators focused their fire on Rice, who has faced constant criticism from Republicans over the Benghazi fallout.
"The concerns I have are greater today than they were before, and we're not even close to getting the basic answers," Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), joined by McCain and Sen. Kelly Ayotte (N.H.), told reporters after the closed-door meeting. "I would place a hold on anybody who wanted to be promoted for any job who had a role in the Benghazi situation."
Ayotte also vowed to hold up a Rice nomination until the administration provides clearer answers.
"Absolutely, there will be a hold," Ayotte told reporters Tuesday afternoon after her meeting with Rice.
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Rice came under fire from Republicans after she took to five Sunday morning talk shows on Sept. 16 and incorrectly described the attack as the result of a spontaneous demonstration spurred by an anti-Islam Internet video. In fact, the Sept. 11 assault that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans was determined to be a premeditated terrorist attack.
Rice issued a statement later Tuesday after the meeting with Republicans and subsequent negative news coverage.
"Neither I nor anyone else in the administration intended to mislead the American people at any stage in this process, and the administration updated Congress and the American people as our assessments evolved," Rice said.
White House press secretary Jay Carney said Rice wasn't to blame for the talking points she dished on Sunday shows following the attacks.
( Also on POLITICO: White House defends Rice)
Carney said: "There are no unanswered questions about Ambassador Rice's appearance on the Sunday shows and the talking points that she used for those appearances that were provided by the intelligence community."


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OAKDALE, Calif. (AP) -- Authorities say a shirtless man who allegedly stole a transit bus from a San Francisco terminal drove it 100 miles before being arrested.
California Highway Patrol officers put down road spikes to flatten the tires and get the bus to stop on Friday.
The driver faces charges including reckless driving, failure to yield, and grand theft.
Alameda County Transit spokesman Clarence Johnson tells KPIX-TV that the bus was outfitted with a GPS system which allowed authorities to track it.
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We are under way for the latest AG debate at the Greene Space at WNYC
The five candidates greeted each other warmly on stage. They were together last night as well.
Eric Schneiderman's dad is a major donor to WNYC, Brian Lehrer discloses prior to the start.
Then asks, "What does an AG do?"
Schneiderman: The AG has a duty to speak out for those that can't speak out for themselves." You defend the state but be an advoacte for people who cant advocate for themselves.
Rice: The AG levels the playing field for everyone, raises reproductive rights, reforming Albany.
Brodsky: Gives a history lesson says, "I think it needs another transformation." Office needs to be lawyer for families across state.
Lehrer asks what they would do differently from one another
Brodsky: mortgage fraud
Rice: medicare fraud
Coffey: I am the only one here truly independent. I am in the thick of this race despite no backing from labor unions
Schneiderman: Decentralize office, whisteblowing for public corruption
Dinallo: I transformed agency into powerhouse that it is today. Mentions consumer fraud, kitchen table issues.
Henley asks Rice about how she would not defend laws she does not find ethical, like same sex marriage ban:
Rice: There are times you have to take a courageous stand. Cant defend a law that is at its core unconstitutional.
Brodsky: Rice's idea is an extraordinarily dangerous. Can a pro-life AG choose not to defend reproductive rights?
Rice looks irritated. Coffey reiterates Brodsky. Dinallo is closer to Rice.Schneiderman says job one is defending the state, "We don't have the ability to pick and choose," says he would have been forced to defend Rockefeller drug laws.
Rice: AG is the guardian of everyone's civil rights. Duty bound to stand up and say this is wrong, when a law is wrong. Calls her stand courageous.
Azi asks, the state Dem Party calls Albany "a swamp of corruption." How would you clean it up
Coffey: New powers for the AG. Full disclosure of outside income for legislators, no loophole for trail lawyers, like Schneiderman wrote into a law under pressure from his trial lawyer leadership.
Schneiderman: That charge is ridiculous. Sometimes you get half a loaf when you are negotiating bills. Citizen's Union endorsed me. Pledges to go after non-for-profits. Says there is lot that can be done to go after corruption even without
Coffey: Senator you have your fingerprints all over installing Pedro Espada as majority leader. The man is an embarrassment to the state
Schneiderman: Espada came back to the Democratic majority with his tail between his legs. I am the only one who has endorsed Espada's opponent, Gustavo Rivera.
Brodsky: Tries to bring discussion back to Azi's question. Doesn't like the phrase Day 1, since it was Spitzer's. Pledges to refrom MTA, tax system, utilities.
Rice: Says she would be best at reforming Albany, "Because I am not a part of Albany."
Dinallo: The issue is outside business interests of legislators. Legislators will never pass a law giving us jurisdiction over them. Governor must give us the power
Lehrer asks Schneiderman and Rice how they can be independent when they are in the thrall of labor (ES) or Shelly Silver's law firm (Rice)
Schneiderman: Everyone wanted those endorsements. I am proud of support of labor
Rice: Silver is supporting Brodsky. 1199 only met with Schneiderman.
Brodsky: We are in a fiscal crisis because of Wall Street. Why are we pounding on labor. I have more labor support even than Schneiderman. Schneiderman is running on fringe issues like civil incarceration of sexual predators.
Schneiderman: Freedom of choice, green groups are my coalition. They are not fringe.
Lehrer asks about Park 51
Brodsky: There is a social fabric that as political leaders that says we should be able to work things out. The views of the families of 9/11 must be included. The donors will be public. I, as AG, as would any AG, will look at that list of the donors
Coffey: Prefaces all of his remarks by saying, "This is Sean Coffey." Smart move, since this is a radio debate.
Dinallo: I understand high emotions around this, but I believe we should stop talking about this.
Rice: The freedom to practice religion is sacrosant
Schneiderman: Prejudice is on the rise.
Brodsky: This is not about religious liberty.
Time for them to ask each other questions
Rice asks Schneiderman to release his tax returns. Says he has put nearly $500,000 into his own campaign over the past week.
Schneiderman: I will release my tax returns by the end of the week. I did make a lot of money at a private practice attorney. I have sponsored disclosure bills.
Dinallo asks how could Schneiderman investigate the Senate as a former Senator.
Schneiderman: I appreciate all the attention I have been getting as my support has grown, but says Dinallo is wrong to say he couldn't investigate Senate as a former Senator.
Coffey says Schneiderman is getting so much attention because he is putting on clothes of a reformer "and they don't fit." Says he is in thrall to trial lawyers, talks talk but doesn't walk walk. Asks to see Schneiderman's unredacted financial disclosure
Schneiderman: I never heard a word about reform in Albany from you until you decided to run for attorney general
Henley asks a campaign finance reform question about LLC loopholes
Schneiderman: I have been sponsor of legislation to close that loophole.
Rice: The loophole should be closed. Half of my donors have given under $100.
Dinallo: The loophole should be closed. Calls the situation "horrendous."
Coffey: Schneiderman has received over a $1 million for labor PACs and LLC's.
Brodsky: "Everyone here is for reform and nothing happens, except authority reform which did happen." Next AG will have to know how operate in political arena
Dinallo is asked what the best and worst thing Cuomo did. He says worst is flipping investigation of Paterson to Judith Kaye
Rice says worst thing Spitzer did as AG was be a hypocrite.
Lehrer confirms that Rice would have prosecuted Spitzer on prostitution. Brodsky asks on what basis, since crime happened in Washington D.C.
Closing statements:
Schneiderman talks about fighting for justice. "I have never backed down…my leadership has been recognized" by Times, Observer, Times-Union
Coffey talks about his biography as the son of immigrants, in the Navy. "Taking on the dysfunction of Albany is my next assignment." I am the only one running that doesn't owe anyone anything.
Brodsky says the office needs to be transformed into lawyer for neighborhoods and families. Mentions Jet stadium, authority reform.
Rice talks about being the 7th of 10 children, with four older brothers, gives a look to the four men on stage beside her. I did not go to a high-price law firm.
Dinallo says "I am the only candidate who was actually at the attorney general's office. Talk about his work investigating Wall Street, says "I wa country before country was cool."


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Rihanna has yet another feather to add to her studded cap. After tearing down London Town with her River Island collection, delivering steamy ads for Armani Exchange and glamorizing small screens with her Styled To Rock TV series, the bad gal will now take over high-end designer Balmain for its spring/summer 2014 campaign.
The brand's creative director, Oliver Rousteing, hailed her an "icon."
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Using E-Newsletters to Maintain Contact
E-newsletters (or electronic newsletters) have emerged as a popular format for frequent communications with customers or hot prospects. Like print-based newsletters, e-newsletters contain news, tips, and information of interest to an organization's target base. But e-newsletters have important distinctions that allow you to do the following:
- Avoid printing or postage costs. You can and should spend money for top-notch design, but saving money on printing and postage is one perk of moving to electronic publishing that your wallet will thank you for.
- Collect data about reader behavior. If you have the IT capabilities and will post most of the newsletter content on the Web (connected to your e-newsletter with links), you can track the clicks-through to measure the popularity of your material. The more sophisticated tracking technologies can even record the length of time readers spend on each article! With this kind of feedback, you'll know where to invest your time writing subsequent issues, be it to create tips, stories, case studies, new product descriptions, and so on.
- Take a "here today, gone tomorrow" approach. When you get a printed communication, the quality of the paper and the way your content is printed are part of the message. Yes, e-newsletters speak through graphic design, but that design no longer has the material heft of print. E-newsletters are short-lived. On the downside, they communicate less commitment on your part than print newsletters; on the upside, they can be much more casual in tone, allowing you greater rapport with your readers.
Understanding the function of e-newsletters
With e-newsletters, you have two broad categories of potential readers: current customers and prospects with whom you've made substantial previous contact. Their needs (and your place in the mix) are different enough to merit some thought.
- Current customers: They've already bought something from you, but you still have plenty to sell — from additional products and services to maintenance of their existing orders. The desires of current customers take different shapes:
• An emotional attachment to your brand: Some products — such as motorcycles, collectible statuettes, luxury cars, or recorded music — really get people fired up. For those audiences who just can't get enough information about the objects of their devotion, an e-newsletter builds loyalty and serves as a terrific way to introduce related products and services.
• A need for current, industry-specific information: Many purchasers of complex business products, like enterprise resource planning software or benefits management services, yearn for accurate, up-to-date information about your product or about their industry. Your e-newsletter can meet their educational needs and reinforce your position as a wise advisor and trusted resource.
- Prospects who have been previously contacted: For those purchases, especially in a business environment, that are expensive or require approval from several people (or both), the sales cycle between contact and closing can take as much as a year or more. The initial lead becomes one part of a long process that may require numerous meetings, proposals, and other efforts. In this context, the e-newsletter can be an excellent way of keeping your prospect informed and maintaining the lines of communication.
Good e-newsletters represent a serious commitment of time and talent. If your product is simple or doesn't inspire a desire or need for in-depth information, the e-newsletter is probably a waste of your resources.
Developing content for e-newsletters
The content for e-newsletters can be similar to print newsletters. But the speed with which you can produce and distribute the e-newsletter gives it a whole new level of timeliness, allowing you to respond forcefully to current trends and late-breaking developments in your business or industry.
Many of the most successful e-newsletters build each issue around one lead article (frequently used as the basis for the subject line) and fill in the holes with shorter, subordinate material.
Stepping out with lead articles
Your lead article is your e-newsletter's big story, both in content and in length. Here are a few ideas for material:
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Controlling Workers Compensation Costs with Statistical Modeling
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- How-to: Similar to the advice article, the how-to gives explicit information on solving problems, facing challenges, or just having fun. A how-to article is an outstanding way to encourage customers to try alternative uses for your products or services that they may not have considered before.
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- Case studies: The next best thing to reading about yourself is reading about people like you. Case studies, brief reports about how someone used your product or service to solve a problem or improve her business or life, give you a chance to build real-life drama into your e-newsletter while demonstrating how your business works in action. For example:
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Filling in the gaps with additional material
Round out your e-newsletter with shorter pieces that accompany the lead article. Consider these options:
- Customer features: They keep you in business, so make your readers the stars. Create a regular feature that profiles one of your customers in each issue. In addition to flattering the people you write about, you're showing your customers and prospects how important they are to you. For profile subjects, ask your sales people to identify happy customers who would be willing to cooperate.
- Product updates: Tell your readers when they can expect to see your latest products or newest services. Similarly, you can write about new features appearing on your Web site, new regions or areas in which you're doing business, or important new clients.
- Events, conferences, and seminars: Let readers know about your organization's upcoming appearances at events, speaking engagements, association meetings, conferences, and other gatherings. Even if readers choose not to attend, announcing appearances reinforces your company's status as a significant presence in its field.
- Reminders and general information: Don't forget the nitty-gritty —reminders of how people can contact you, make orders, contact service support, and other mundane yet important info that deserves repeating.
- Teasers and forwards requests: You build anticipation for your next issue by telling readers what to expect in the previous issue. For instance:
In next week's issue, "10 Tips for Streamlining Your Product Development Process."
And if you'd like the recipient to share your newsletter with colleagues or friends, say so:
Please forward this newsletter to other members of your organization.
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A federal judge ruled that Walter Isaacson, the author of Steve Jobs' official biography, won't have to surrender his interview notes in a class-action lawsuit over an alleged e-book price-fixing conspiracy.
The decision came earlier this month after plaintiffs subpoenaed Isaacson to give up his notes to help bolster their case that the late Apple founder helped create a conspiracy with publishers to battle Amazon. Several passages in the biography seemed to address the controversy and the plaintiffs wanted more confirmation. His lawyer requested that Isaacson be given journalistic protection and not be forced to turn over his notes or other materials.
On July 20th, U.S. District Court Judge Denise Cote agreed that Isaacson did not have to turn over his source material, but did say that the plaintiff's lawyer could try to prove the source material was non-confidential.
Steven Berman, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, argued that the reporter's privilege shouldn't apply because Jobs didn't ask for confidentiality and said that Jobs wasn't silent about e-books in other media interviews (notably with Walt Mossberg from AllThingsD.)
It seems to us that if Berman already has the information from other sources, then why does he need Isaacson's notes? We think because he wanted to see if Jobs said anything else not on the record, but according to Isaacson's attorney, that's not the case. In short, Berman is using Isaacson as his personal private investigator, but Isaacson does not have to comply.


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Electronics Production | July 26, 2006
RS Components moving into high end segment
RS Components is the first catalogue distributor that has moved towards high end products.
RS Components is adding nearly 2,000 product lines in wireless and displays, which are often the arena of technical distributors as they tend to require high levels of support. "This launch positions RS as the first catalogue distributor to offer these high-end products," claimed Richard Eden, market developer manager at RS told electronicsweekly. "We do not expect to play in high volume, but we want to support design and R&D," Eden told electronicsweekly. The new high end products include ZigBee, RFID, AM and FM narrow band, W-LAN, GPRS and GPS. "With growth rates of up to 50 per cent, is a really compelling market for us," Eden told electronicsweekly.
HZO unveils larger HQ in North Carolina HZO, known for protective nano coatings designed to help electronics withstand corrosive liquid environments, held an open house at its new headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina this week.
Luminator Technology relocates some production to Texas Luminator Technology Group has relocated production of its Apollo Video Technology RoadRunner mobile video security solutions to Luminator's headquarters in Plano, Texas.
Kurtz Ersa invests heavily in development to stay on top With more than 30 percent of its employees involved in research and development, the company is making sure that it is able to respond to its customers needs at all times.
BMW's new battery cell centre to handle everything from material to prototyping The BMW Group is looking fortify its position in the world of electric mobility and has pooled its many years of experience with battery cells and extensive knowledge in the field in a new Competence Centre.
Sponsored content by EsemdaContract manufacturer Esemda opens new facility in Vilnius and expands EMS The new facility has been built with reserved space for future expansions. As Esemda constantly grows, it is of great importance to be able to rapidly increase production capacity in large volumes.
Cicor selected as production partner for drug delivery system Cicor announces that it has won a major new customer in the medical technology sector, one of the company's strategic target markets.
Keysight, FormFactor and CompoundTek to collaborate Keysight, FormFactor and CompoundTek, have formed a joint plan to provide an advanced photonics on-wafer testing solution to include automated alignment, simultaneous optical-optical and optical-electrical device tests.
Wireless Telecom buys Holzworth Instrumentation Wireless Telecom Group Inc. has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Holzworth Instrumentation Inc., a Boulder, Colorado-based provider of specialty phase noise analyzers and signal generators.
NCAB Group acquires Altus-PCB in USA Altus-PCB is a full-service supplier of PCBs based in New Jersey, USA, that has a business model similar to NCAB's. Tee US company has a high level of technical expertise and sells mainly to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs).
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The studios' battle against copyright theft often gets compared to fighting a hydra-headed monster.
The same may be true for their pursuit of the next big revenue source. The moment they think they're on to something good, some startup comes along and threatens to undercut them.
The latest menace is a company called Zediva, which has seemingly threaded a needle through a copyright loophole in a way that undermines the windows that Hollywood has set in place to reap big returns from licensing movies to streaming sites.
Here's how Zediva works: A customer signs up to the site online, picks a recently released DVD movie, and gets the movie streamed from one of many of the company's players. In other words, the customer rents the DVD, controls such things as stop, start and pause, but it's the company machines that are playing the disc. The company does all this without permission of the studios, which it says is akin to what those brick-and-mortar video stores do. "It is exactly the same as if you are at home watching with your own DVD player," says company CEO and co-founder Venky Srinivasan.
Yes, it is somewhat low-tech, and a wave of publicity in recent weeks has forced the company to close registration as it builds out. Save for underestimating initial demand, "we are quite optimistic we can keep up with capacity," Srinivasan says.
Execs are certain they can keep up. What is not certain is whether it is legal.
Neither Zediva nor the MPAA is commenting, but they each have sent curious reporters to a list of experts. So it can't come as much of a surprise that some believe they are on sound legal footing and others believe they are not, which seem like just the ingredients for litigation.
The argument against Zediva centers on the idea that what it is doing is transmitting a "public performance," a right reserved for the copyright owner of the title.
Among the opinions cited is a 1984 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals decision having to do with a video store that set up a series of exhibition booths where customers could watch movies in the store.
It is hard to fathom that there was a time when there actually was a business in such in-store exhibition, but it was enough of a concern of studios to want to shut it down. And that the court did, finding that even though the video store had only one copy of each film, "it shows each copy repeatedly to different members of the public."
Attorney Robert Garrett of Arnold & Porter in Washington sees parallels in Zediva's situation. "The bottom line is, I don't think this is legal. Don't think they can do this without the consent of the copyright owner," he said.
The "first sale" doctrine in copyright law gives the company the ability to rent out these movies without studio permission. Jason Schultz, assistant clinical professor of law at Berkeley, cites a 1987 9th Circuit decision involving a hotel that provided videos for viewing in rooms with hotel-provided equipment. While the studios argued that the hotel rooms were "public," the court, admitting that "technology has often leapfrogged statutory schemes," disagreed.
But there's also the more recent 2008 Cablevision case, in which the 2nd Circuit ruled that Cablevision didn't violate copyright with its remote storage systems. Instead of a set-top DVR, the company operated them from a remote location. The court ruled on several factors, but among them was that Cablevision's technology did not create a public performance because it only makes "transmissions to one subscriber using a copy made by that subscriber."
"I think (Zediva) is in a gray zone," Schultz says. "I think that they have good arguments that what they are doing is legal, and I would bet that they would end up winning in the end, but it is a close call."
If studios sue and win, they also could savor in victory, but they'd yet again be in the position of trying to shut down a tech upstart. And just like piracy, they can be sure that it won't be too long before there's another beast to slay.
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I have been ok, although my weekend has been hectic. My first (and only – for a while) blog sale will be up later on today 8pm GMT time (I think its about 3pm in New York – click HERE to see what time the blog sale will start in your neck of the woods).
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Dec. 30, 2006
SAN JOSE, Calif. - The Santa Clara women's basketball team capped off its non-conference season on a high note Saturday night, defeating the San Jose State Spartans 71-59 at the San Jose State Event Center. With the victory, the Broncos also gave Santa Clara an all-important three points in the Rivalry Series battle between the two schools, upping SCU's lead in the annual battle to 15.5-3.5.
Santa Clara (8-7) will begin West Coast Conference play when the team returns to action on Sunday, Jan. 7, traveling to Moraga to face the Saint Mary's Gaels in a 2 p.m. battle.
Chandice Cronk and Ashley Graham teamed up once again to lead the Bronco scoring effort, posting 15 points apiece. For the second straight game, all of Graham's points came from beyond the arc, as she hit five of her eight attempts, and also passed out eight assists. The Broncos, who led the nation with 139 three-pointers coming into Saturday night's game, made 13 on the night, eight of those coming from Graham and Cronk.
"Ashley and Chandice are a great duo and I would put them up with anyone in the country when it comes to shooting," said head coach Michelle Bento-Jackson. "They give us a lot of stability and it boosts the team's confidence when they are shooting well."
"Ashley played a phenomenal game on both ends of the floor tonight," Bento-Jackson continued. "She had a tough defensive assignment tonight and she did a great job."
Kasey Monteith and Anna Martin each scored 10 points to round out the four Broncos scoring in double figures.
The Spartans, coming off of a win of their own against Pacific, their first of the season, took an early lead over the Broncos, as Alisha Hicks and Myosha Barnes carried SJSU to an early 15-11 lead.
Santa Clara would recover soon enough, as five points from Cronk made it a one-possession game, and a three-point play from Monteith with 12:01 to play in the first half pulled SCU even. The Broncos then took their first lead of the game, and subsequently would never trail again, with 11:38 left in the half following a Graham three.
Things stayed close for the rest of the half, as the Broncos, behind five more points from Cronk, stretched their lead to 30-23 at one point, but then allowed the Spartans to close the gap near the break. Two Jaime Hall free throws got the Spartans to within one at 32-31 just before halftime, but Jen Gottschalk's free throws in the final minute gave SCU a 34-31 lead heading into halftime.
Gottschalk scored nine points and grabbed seven rebounds in 25 minutes Saturday, showing that she is fully recovered from a back injury that forced her to miss all or parts of Santa Clara's last four games.
"It's no question that having Jen back has helped us," Bento-Jackson said of Gottschalk's presence. "Every single night she can give us consistency, both on the boards and from a scoring standpoint. She did a great job for us tonight."
Santa Clara re-asserted its power at the start of the second half, as Cronk's jumper and Gottschalk's three to begin play gave SCU an eight-point lead at 39-31. Although San Jose State recouped three of those points to get within five, Graham responded with a three and Ashley Gonnerman added a jumper to extend the lead to 10 at 44-34.
From that point, the Broncos built their lead up again, as another three from Graham put the Broncos up 51-38 with 12:57 to play. But a game Spartans squad made one more effort, as Alisha Hicks' three-point play with 8:59 left whittled the SCU lead down to five at 54-49, but that was as close as the Spartans would get. Santa Clara, behind a pair of threes from Martin, immediately ran off 11 straight points in the next two minutes to put the game out of reach.


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