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Completely updated for C# 3.0 and the .NET 3.5 platform, the new edition of this bestseller offers more than 250 code recipes to common and not-so-common problems that C# programmers face every day. Every recipe in the book has been reconsidered with more than a third of them rewritten to take advantage of new C# 3.0 features. If you prefer solutions you can use today to general C# language instruction, and quick answers to theory, this is your book.
C# 3.0 Cookbook offers a new chapter on LINQ (language integrated query), plus two expanded chapters for recipes for extension methods, lambda functions, object initializers, new synchronization primitives and more. The new edition is also complemented by a public wiki, which not only includes all of the C# 2.0 recipes from the previous edition unchanged by the release of C# 3.0, but invites you to suggest better ways to solve those tasks.
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Jay Hilyard has been developing applications for the Windows platform for over 15 years and for .NET for more than seven of those. He has published numerous articles in MSDN Magazine and he currently works on the New Product Team at Newmarket International in Portsmouth, NH.
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Amazing book
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from Mexico
This book shows you how resolve common problems and the best way to do it... You must understand the theory because the book is about the hows not the why's?.The only problem is this is a 3.0 version we need the new one!!!
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Handy book, sample code is much better..
By Peter Moss, P. Eng.
from Toronto, Canada
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It is an ok book. I bought it from a local bookstore and I'm going to return it.Nothing special here. List of common problemsand the corresponding code samples.Download code samples and this book is obsolete.
Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend
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A fine book for professionals
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This is a very nice book either if you are an intermediate or exprt level programmer. Many advanced concepts of .net programming are delat in an explanatory manner like class and structures, collection, diagnostics, excption handling, regular expressions, security and threading are explained in a very good manner. I would say this book is single source of advanced c# reference for any level of progmmer.
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where's the example code
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I had a hunt for the code and found it here...http://examples.oreilly.com/9780596516109/
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excdept for one thing. on page xviii it says "the sample code is available from the books catalog page at http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596516109/"well please go to that link and someone tell me where one would find the sample code? there is nothing on earth i hate more than someone providing a general link promising available information and it's just not there or it's buried under some golbergian course of discovery within the site. Well... can you provide a link to the sameple code please????
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"Obviously there are going to be opportunities in pre-season, and in training every day so I'm looking forward to working hard and doing as well as I can in an Arsenal shirt.
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|If you are only getting spark to a few cylinders by checking each with the timing light then you have a problem in the distributor as each wire should make the timing light put out a signal. First off, I don`t know what year vehicle you placed it into, but the HEI must recieve a 12 volt signal, so check the power wire running to it for 12 volts constant. If that checks okay then it could be anything in the distributor from a bad cap to bad wires to a coil, pickup coil or module going south.
Well, it's kinda time to go back to ground zero and start checking things.
You say you changed cams?
1. Are the timing gears set up correctly?
2. Are the valves too tight? Loosing compression?
3. Is the dist. installed with the rotor pointing to #1 wire when the engine is at TDC on #1 cylinder?
4. do a compression test. ALL low would make me re-visit the cam/chain install. Some high and some low would tell me to re-ck the valve adjustment.
5. Did you loose the ground to the HEI? Crappy spark will cause a timing light to not work, or work sometimes.
6. Is the HEI a known good unit?
7. Was the engine a known good unit? LOL
Just things to check. Sometimes it's good to go back to square one and see what got missed.
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Im so lost. just put a 327 out of my camaro I sold into a Truck, I changed the cam . Ive had it running twice, but now I cannot get it to run and the only header tubes warm like thier firing are 3 and 4. im running an HEI with 8.8 wires I cleaned all the plugs and gapped them At .35 and if i pull #1 it has a spark but for some reason i can run my time gun off 3 but not 1 what the *&%( is going on with this thing im lost.
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|i know this thread is dead. but i dont recommend using a zip tie. the zip tie can thrash the 3m tape and make it hard to remove with the fingers. i suggest using 30+ lbs test fishing line. the line will will get underneath the 3m tape much easier and lift the tape from the paint.
I'll add this to the HOW TO ARCHIVE.....
I know exactly what you mean, what a PITA those were to get rid of. My fingers are still have 'scars' from rubbing the tape that didn't come off back and forth to get rid of it. Sucks.
(HOW-TO) Removing those pesky 3M-tape VentShades from your car.
Words from the wise: Don't EVER get the VentShades that stick to the car with 3M tape! Get the in-channel versions that clip into your window with no tape. It took me forever to get all the residue off my car. However, since I couldn't find a good walkthrough on the internet at all, I am writing one for all you people who have VentShades on your car and are scared to take them off.
Here we go.
Items I used:
- 1 long plastic zip-tie
- 2 small rags/washcloths
- a blow dryer
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- 1 can of 3M residue/wax remover. I got mine at Advance Auto Parts.
First, plug in the heat gun and get the VentShade's glue nice and warm/hot. Just evenly heat the VentShade up until it's warm to the touch. Be careful not to overheat it, the heat through the glass could cause damage to your tint if you aren't careful.
Once the VentShade has been heated, take the zip-tie and slide it between your car and the Ventshade. You're going to "floss" between the car and the VentShade to seperate them. When you do this, be sure to have the smooth side of the zip-tie against the car and the ridged side against the Ventshade. You don't want to mess up your window trim in the process. You can also use any other material that will floss between them, but zip-ties work great.
Take your time flossing, gradually making your way from the front to the back of the window. When the whole VentShade is seperate from the car, use the heat gun to soften up the area glued to your door pillar and simply pull it off.
After you have completely removed your Ventshade, roll off as much glue residue as you can with your fingers. This will make the next step easier.
After you have removed as much residue as you can with your fingers, moisten a small area of your washcloth with the 3M Residue Remover. Starting at the front of the window, slowly saturate the residue with the 3M Remover. Do about 7 inches at a time and move the cloth back and forth very slowly. After you repeat this for about 30 seconds, flip the cloth over to a dry side and strongly scrub the residue off. Use fast back and forth motions until the majority of the residue is gone. If you still see some stains on the trim, don't worry about it yet. As long as the area is mostly smooth and glue-free.
Repeat this process until the trim is completely free of residue. Also, be sure to use a lot of elbow grease on the door pillar, as this can be the trickiest spot to remove the glue. You will probably have a slightly noticable mark on it permanentally from where the glue was.
After the residue has been removed from the door pillar and trim, re-moisten the cloth with 3M Remover and strongly go over the trim and pillar, scrubbing back and forth with the cloth. Keep doing this for approximately a minute. When you finish, the glue/residue should be mostly gone. Go over problem areas repeatedly until the glue is gone or almost invisible.
Repeat for the other doors. Your car should be Ventshade-free and the nastiness should be gone! I Armor-Alled the trim, wiped off the car with a clean cloth, and Windexed the windows (which will get filthy) after I finished to get it nice and shiny.
Here's a few more things to remember:
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- Keep in mind that while this will eliminate most, if not all residue, you may or may not have visible marks from the VentShades. I had mine on for exactly one year, and I barely have any evidence that they were there (just a smear on the door trim, which I may paint gloss black).
- Be sure to wash the area after you finish to avoid any chemicals staying on the car.
Anyway, I hope this helps someone out there, I know I really could have used this. But I'm glad I did it, because now I don't have those cheap pieces of crap glued to my Focus! :D
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wow no answer...
I think it's important to note here that postmortem01 has shut down his site and has written me personally saying that he will no longer be producing replica guns.
That is very very unfortunate!
I was really looking forward to acquiring one of these bad boys for my costume. His price was a little high but seeing the end product, I thought it was reasonable for the quality.
I hope he didn't get into any legal trouble.
I agree
postmortem01 - if you read this - good luck to you and remember - no matter how busy you are, try to have a little fun
Oh man. I even have the money waiting.
oh man! i cant beleve i missed out on geting one of those.
im still sad
Yeah. I know... I'm sorry guys. I am super busy right now. I am almost completely caught up on my order but it's REALLY hard to catch up. I have my friend pouring parts for me and shipping them. I am making other parts. It's just a bit too much work for me right now. On top of the side stuff, I am working 80 hour weeks. It's tough. I am beat up tired!
Who lives in California? I have a lull coming up here in a week or two. I will pour up some Webley if someone will come to the shop and help me trim them.
It is very important that I complete my past due order first though. I will be up to date in 2 days.
Sorry about the dangled carrot. I still need to get scopes and accessories to mold.
Anyway...Sorry about that guys.
Best regards,
P.S. I'll check the forum more often. Like I said, I am just really really busy.
Well being busy is much better than not. Glad to hear you are ok though. At least you know where to come to get work if you slow down.
Heh. It's funny, I didn't know that anyone was interested in the Webleys. I've never gotten email asking about them. Then, I checked my private messages...Holy cow! I had no idea.
Anyway, the truth of the matter is that I'd love to produce the Webleys for you guys. I will try and get the pricing down. I told TK409 (chris) that I will bring Sci-Fire back online by late November. The idea is this...I will only be selling stocked items so that I won't get behind in orders and **** people off. Believe me...people are pissed off at me right now. Delivery has been a serious issue due to my real job schedule. We are into production on War of the Worlds and Pirates 2&3 now. It's very busy.
ya that was me (DSB144) who sent you the email. and by the way. me happie agian lol
Take your time. We all have real world jobs and all pretty much understand. Bringing the price down will definately help some of us acquire one of these but like I said, you can't rush perfection. I am just happy to find out that it wasn't some sort of legal issue and that you are doing well man.
Let us know because you know we are always here.
Too bad I am not closer or I would offer to help you out.
how much does he want for one?
Because this is Postmortem's project, I will let him tell you what his asking price is or was. I know what he quoted me but I am not sure if that was the final price he was going to go with. It is best to e-mail him for the pricing or PM. I can tell though that it may be a while before we see this come to fruition.
As I said before though, you can't rush perfection!
I heartily agree with you sir
I don't know about perfection but rushing is normally not a good thing.
By the way, I'm going to be selling my old fiberglass helmet on ebay. its unweathered so if anyone is interested stop by.
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Three officers who work with missiles at the 91st Space Wing at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota, fell asleep while holding a classified "code component" — a hardware dev ice containing the codes needed to activate the control system for Minot's intercontinental ballistic missiles. The device, kept in a locked case, installs the codes that allow the missile launch control center to command the ICBMs in the missile silos. One piece of hardware is installed and the old one is removed, somewhat akin to changing hard drives in a computer. Four officers had completed the process of changes the codes for the system underground in the launch control center and returned upside to the large living center which contains a kitchen and bedrooms. Like Goldilocks, they went to some beds and fell sound asleep.
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Man I tell you what,,,This gun is just too sweet! The trigger and the ported barrel are very,very nice.
Here is the story,,Got up in the stand around 6:00 PM and set there until 7:00,,,that's when the first group of hogs came out from the very back of the field. There must have been ten in the pack. We had the corn spread out in a small field any where from 60-85 yards away from the stand, so I waited on them to get a little closer.
I picked out the largest sow in the bunch and let that sucker rip! Boom,,,on the ground doing the "Horizontal Dirt Dance". Most of the hogs ran off except one very small one that stood there watching the one on the ground,,,cocked the hammer,,,,BOOM!,,,Missed it.
Well I thought with such an early shot Ill have a chance at some more later on.
Sure enough, at about 8:05 three more came out of the same area that the last ten came out at. (This was in the very back of the field) I was ready because I thought that when one of them saw the dead one on the ground they would spook. The lead one did stop and run to the back of the bunch, thats when the second one in the pack hit the ground,,,,BOOM!,,,"Horizinal Dirt Dance" again! (This is the smallest brown one on the tail gate)
With the third set of hogs coming out about 15min later,,It looked like two or three of them that was around 250lbs each. I couldn't tell because they came out into the field pretty close to me in some tall weeds and small pines. I couldnt get a real good shot other than the tops of there backs,,,,so I let it rip again,,,,BOOM! I saw some jumping around but couldnt tell what was going on,,they were gone. Im sure I hit it but didnt know how low the shot was.
Well when my hunting buddy showed up, I told hem what had happened. The first two I shot were laying in the field,,but the last one ran off in the bushes. He didn't go but about 20 feet out of the field,,,,and was no where around 250lbs,,,,Ha-Ha-Ha,,,more like 40lbs. Man,,,those scopes will fool'ya.
My buddy had plenty of hogs come into his stand,,,and did get a shot with the bow,,but we couldn't find a blood trail.
I had a great time last night!!! Back at it next Thursday afternoon!!!!!


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As one lawmaker said in reacting to the Bush request: "This late in the process, it is hard to say why the Bush administration would suddenly be coming up with a new plan unless their purpose was to delay legislation." Right wing pundits enjoy casting Democrats as failing to "support the troops" but have never uttered a word of complaint about Bush administration failures to have a fair system of evaluating those wounded in combat. Nor have they praised Democratic legislators for stepping in and devising a fair system of evaluation. Exactly, who is "supporting the troops?"


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Four years of college and plenty of knowledge,
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Granted, Princeton is a puppet in a Broadway musical comedy, so it would be easy (and perhaps sensible) to discredit his lament. But even though he's less than human, Princeton voices more than common concerns among students considering or declaring a major in English: What will I do when I graduate? What kinds of jobs can I get with a B.A. in English?
Despite its wide spread sentiment, there is more comedic value than truth in Princeton's complaint. A degree in English is far from useless – English is one of the best majors to prepare you for success in a wide variety of career paths (or blazing new ones). To all those who doubt the value of an English major, the Department would like to say: "au contraire" (see how rich and flexible English is, seamlessly incorporating entire phrases of other languages)…
So, what can you do with an English major?
The Wittenberg English Department (with the help of Wittenberg Career Services) has compiled a list of internships that can help you start exploring what's behind the many professional "doors" an English major will open for you.
Human Resources:
Clark County Department & Family Services
Clark County Jail
Springfield City Schools
Wittenberg Office of Communications
Wittenberg University New services & Sports Information
News and Media:
New Carlisle Sun-Enon Messenger (New Carlisle)
Springfield News-sun (Springfield)
WHWO-TV (Toledo)
The Torch (Wittenberg Student Newspaper)
WCMH NBC4 (Columbus)
WKEF/WRGT (Dayton)
Publishing and Creative Writing:
Dreamtime Publishing South Pasadena, FL)
Mazer Creative Services (Dayton)
Wescott House (Springfield)
Arts and Education:
Springfield Arts Council
Springfield Museum of Art
for a printable list of internships English majors have done for credit while at Wittenberg


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By Caroline Valetkevitch
NEW YORK (Reuters) - This earnings season, the U.S. technology industry is in an unusual position - dragging corporate America down, rather than lifting it up.
Wall Street expects the tech sector's fourth-quarter earnings to be down 1.1 percent from a year ago, the first drop since the third quarter of 2009, even though overall S&P 500 profits are still forecast to show growth, according to Thomson Reuters data.
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Tech stocks have struggled recently and further weakness could dent the bullish 2013 forecasts many strategists have for the U.S. stock market. But some investors and analysts say weak fourth-quarter numbers have already been baked into many tech stock prices and valuations are attractive.
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Within tech, "you're finding a lot of cash-rich companies trading at reasonably cheap multiples. So to value investors like us ... it starts to seem intriguing," said Eric Kuby, chief investment officer at North Star Investment Management Corp in Chicago, whose firm owns Microsoft Corp and Intel Corp.
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It's really hard to complain about my work week right now. As I write this blog, I'm sitting in the Congress Center in Düsseldorf, Germany looking out over the Rhine River. As an aside, in Germany it is the Rhein River, and I have a historical connection to this body of water. My surname, Amrhein, translates (loosely) to 'on the Rhein'. It does not take an expert in genealogy to conclude that I have ancestors who at one time or another lived very close to this important German waterway.
|Okay, putting the family tree aside for a minute, there is a good reason that I am in Düsseldorf this week. The city, and specifically the Congress Center, is playing host to the IBM European WebSphere Technical Conference. I am here presenting sessions that include a WebSphere CloudBurst overview, a WebSphere CloudBurst hands-on lab, and an up-close look at one of our internal team's use of the appliance. I have done each of these sessions once so far, and attendance was great, audience participation high, and feedback forthcoming. I am hearing and seeing the same thing in other sessions, which is of course, ideal for us presenters.
|Now, to focus in on WebSphere CloudBurst for a bit, it seems that I am hearing a recurring question this week from the mostly European audience: "Why is WebSphere CloudBurst delivered as an appliance?" I am sure that I addressed this question in a previous blog post, but I believe it bears revisiting. There are various reasons I could give for the appliance form factor, but I like to distill all of that down into three major reasons: Consumability, Performance, and Security.
|From a solution consumability perspective, nothing beats the appliance approach. WebSphere CloudBurst is an integrated hardware and software solution that delivers a specific set of function. You do not have to install software, procure and maintain storage for resources on the appliance (images, patterns, scripts, etc.), and maintain software components over time. You simply drop the appliance in to your data center, perform a one-time initialization, hook it up to the network, and you are ready to start leveraging WebSphere CloudBurst to build out your private cloud. While there is definitely work to setup the cloud infrastructure that WebSphere CloudBurst deploys environments to, we can completely eliminate a significant portion of solution implementation lead time by delivering everything you need in the appliance.
|The performance benefits of an appliance approach are a natural result of building an integrated hardware and software stack. Design and development teams provide optimizations in both the hardware and software based on the fact that both the hardware and software have intimate knowledge of each other's design. In other words, this is not a 'least common denominator' tuning approach. Rather, the integrated design leads to enhanced performance for the specific set of functionality provided by WebSphere CloudBurst.
|Finally, appliances enable us to deliver a very hardened, secure device. We provide private key encryption of every resource stored on the appliance. That private key is unique to each appliance and cannot be modified. In addition, the physical casing is tamper-resistant. If someone removes the casing, a 'Get Smart' style kill switch puts the appliance in a dormant state. You must send the appliance to IBM so we can reset it before further use, thus providing an additional layer of physical protection on top of the encryption. These security features, plus more, like a shield that prevents anyone from executing code on the appliance, come right out of the box and require no end-user configuration activity. In this way, you can simply focus on leveraging the user security and access controls provided by WebSphere CloudBurst.
|If you had any questions on the rationale behind the appliance form factor of WebSphere CloudBurst, I hope this helps. I am off for now... back to the conference and the wonderful city of Düsseldorf.
|-- Dustin Amrhein
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Sunset BoulevardFriday, September 23rd, 2011
Sunset Boulevard
I watched Sunset Boulevard over a year ago. It's still fresh in my mind as one of the best movies I've seen. There are a few scenes in particular I remember, the same few everyone knows: Gloria Swanson (as Norma Desmond) dramatically and deliriously descending the staircase, announcing she is ready for her close-up. Plus, I vividly recall William Holden floating face down in the pool, and the scenes shot on the lots at the Hollywood studios. But it's really the atmosphere that sticks, the spooky, shadowed, faded Hollywood noir that director Billy Wilder and Co. present. The movie is a classic but it feels modern. In screenwriting class I remember wishing I could write a script as cleanly as Sunset Boulevard. I will never be able to, but at least I can watch this movie over and over and pretend I could. As Norma Desmond said, "No one ever leaves a star." Sunset Boulevard will not be leaving my memory anytime soon. And if anyone can name Norma's car in the movie (including the model) without looking it up, I will give him or her three dollars.
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I prefer this Mk3 GTI
No, but in all seriousness, The MK3 is incredible and I would rather have it than any ferrari, porsche etc.
pardon my 'merican
Barf. Why do people do that? It's awful.
- mikey
"It's not a real build until there's Plasti Dip involved."
A1. Light, faster then all gtis until the 5 (second favorite). A nice A1 with single rounds (we even got a factory GTI in Canada in 78) the plaid interior and some nice light wheels and good suspension setup pretty much summarizes what these cars are about.
A2 - Best combination of light weight, tossable handling, and comfort.
A1 - Light and fun to drive. Easy to fix.
A4 - Looks timeless, can be made to go fast in a straight line (but interior falls apart and is mostly a pig)
A6 - Corrected most of the A5's flaws, but still doesn't look very Germanic. Pretty damn heavy.
A5 - Drives better than A4, but looks Japanese. Heavy.
A3 - Never cared for these. The VR6 is a boat anchor and the 2.0 8V is barely adequate. The car also looks like a Mk2 with a gland problem.
- mikey
"It's not a real build until there's Plasti Dip involved."
This isn't your normal skyline. This motherfcker is the skyline God would drive if he wasn't busy doing God sh*t like making tsunamis and crap. Its set up to go fast, and go fast sideways. Who doesn't like to get sideway?! Terrorists, thats who. Are you a terrorist? No? Then you need this car.
A2 generation ftw
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the a2 was my first love- it was light and handled like a go cart... in this shell even the 8v was peppy
the a4- much improved styling over the a3, last generation before they got hella fat, 1.8t- DAT ENGINE!
i have high hopes for the a7 and if they get it right it will be my first new car purchase
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
Definitely MKIIIs. They were the last of the cars consistently under 3k LBS. Also, IMO, the last of the cars with a truly connected feel. Not saying they are great drivers cars, because they really aren't, but they do a lot of things well where the MKIV and later cars feel a little "video-gamish" to me where the MKIII and earlier cars are straight analog and a little disconnected.
Also, the interior is simple enough that it aged well and doesn't make you feel like everything in the car should have a sepia hue to it, like the older cars.
Close second is, of course the MKII, but I don't love 16 valves. I'd swap that **** for a VR in NY minute. Then again, those MKIs have been steadily growing on me...
I'm really just here for the pancakes.
I'm Sorry Hachi... I love you.
The MKV front-end styling is it's only drawback. It is a bit awkward, but once you get used to it, it's okay.
I hated the MKV at first, then grew to like it a little more, then bought a 2.5 Jetta, and had such fond memories of it, I eventually got another MKV, this time minus a cylinder and plus a turbo.
- mikey
"It's not a real build until there's Plasti Dip involved."
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Buy my wife's old laptop!
MK1 -- because the original is also the lightest and the rawest -- so it gets my vote.
However, the MK2 is a better car, while still being extremely fun. It rides on one of the best FWD chassis before cars became fat pigs and driver assist controls ruled the day.
I'm really just here for the pancakes.
I'm Sorry Hachi... I love you.
Anyone that says the mkiii's should literally be banned from the vortex!!! The right answer is mk2, or anyone other then the mark 3's. You cant be taken seriously if you think the 3rd gen gets your vote; go punch yourself in throat for me. I dont know any of you that are representing mk3 as the best gti, but i bet you also like your cars with 2 pedals.
MkV for me. Body style and interior feels nice to be inside.
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I have been feeling pretty positive about Reggie Bush 's chances to play Sunday against the Redskins, especially after he practiced Friday. But Pro Football Talk's Mike Florio's is here with a potentially huge bucket of cold water for Bush's fantasy owners.
Florio writes that he's been told by a league source that the Lions "want [Bush] to be available for the long haul, and so they're inclined to give him a week off to heal before putting him back in harm's way."
Bush is listed as questionable on the injury report because of a left knee injury.
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I think how to deal with Bush is simple: If he's active Sunday morning, put him in your lineup unless you are absolutely stacked at running back. The matchup versus Washington's last-ranked defense is just too good, even if Bush sees a few less touches. And if Bush plays, it's still OK to start both him and Joique Bell in certain situations. Bell would be a nifty flex option, more so in PPR leagues. If Bush is inactive, Bell would be an RB2 lock with a lot of upside.


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Let Gays Have Marriage; We're Not Using It – updated
posted at 3:41 pm on April 22, 2009 by Laura Curtis
The current pseudo-scandal over Carrie Prejean's views favoring traditional marriage should be very instructive for social conservatives. Dissent will not be tolerated. She had the temerity to express a view that even ten years ago was considered entirely unremarkable: that marriage is exclusively a union of a man and a woman.
But in the midst of the outrageously outrageous outrage by the leftist thought police, and the return shrieking of social conservatives (religious and otherwise) let's review how this even became an issue. It's not because of the Radical! Homosexual! Agenda! that the AFA and others warn you about in their fundraising emails. It's because of us.
If you put something out with the trash, the police can search it without a warrant. Anyone walking by can take it. Although it's still on your property, it's not really yours anymore; you've relinquished your claim to it. And that's exactly what we've done with marriage. We might as well let gays have it. We're not using it.
There are four elements of the marriage crisis:
* Marriage: The marriage rate has plunged 50% since 1970. If the same percentage of couples were marrying now as in 1970, there would be a million more marriages a year – 3.3 million marriages, not 2.2 million. Those who have never-married aged 30-44 have tripled from 6.8% in 1970 to 20.4% in 2005.
* Divorce: Half of all new marriages end in divorce. There have been 42 million divorces since 1970 hurting 40 million children. One quarter of all adults age 18-35 have grown up in divorced families.
* Cohabitation: The number of unmarried couples living together soared 12-fold from 430,000 in 1960 to 5.4 million in 2005. There are only 2.2 million marriages a year. Thus, cohabitation has become the dominant way male-female unions are formed. Couples who marry after living together are 50% more likely to divorce than those who did not.
* Unwed births: Out-of wedlock births jumped from 5.3% to 37.4% or from 224,000 to 1.5 million children from 1960-2004. Cohabiting couples are as likely to have a child under 18 as married couples (41% vs. 46%).
And for my fellow Christian conservatives: we haven't got a moral leg to stand on. Our divorce rate is identical to the national average. We allow our churches to be used as elaborate stage sets for bridezilla productions, often with just pro forma premarital counseling or sometimes none at all. When our fellow church members get divorced, we do not counsel them adequately. We fail to create a culture of marriage in our youth and twenty-somethings. We have shown massive disrespect for marriage. When we demand others respect it, it's not surprising that we're not taken seriously.
Gay marriage is going to be a fact of life. So is polygamy, because the arguments for gay marriage easily carry over to support it. That's already coming to a court in Canada. Given a bit more time, society will accept it, and a court will find a reason to allow it, first in Canada, then here. In London, they can't even bestir themselves to fight against forced marriage in any serious way. In a multi-cultural society, marriage means whatever people want it to mean, and complaining about that is "intolerant."
Where we need to focus our attention at this point is making sure that newly created "human rights" don't overtake our right to speak and act as we please. We need to make sure people are free to refuse work on same sex ceremonies unlike this New Mexico Christian photographer who was required to pay an over $6600 fine. We need to make sure that American pastors can't be subjected to show trials, forced to renounce their faith and suffer big fines for repeating what the bible says. In short, we need to get busy making sure that dissent WILL be tolerated. Because considering the reaction to Carrie Prejean's polite dissension, it soon won't be.
UPDATED: R.S. McCain's article at The American Spectator from earlier this month, Marriage: A Hill to Die On, is well worth a read. (h/t Riehl)
I don 't precisely fit into any of the categories he provides for conservatives who have given up on the issue; I guess the closest fit would be "unprincipled cowards and defeatists." 😉 Perhaps so. But I'm more demoralized by how our side treats marriage than by the left's victories to expand its definition. And I'm concerned enough about what our postmodern, multi-culti society is willing to tolerate in terms of squelching dissent and debate that I think we need to turn most, if not all, of our attention to defending freedom of speech. McCain makes the case that the marriage battle is still winnable. I hope he's right and I'm wrong.
Instalanche! Thanks very much for the link! Welcome and do read R.S. McCain's response to this post, it's excellent.
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As I said in my last entry, I was in Amsterdam for ECLM 2011, once again smoothly organized by Edi Weitz and Arthur Lemmens, but this time under the aegis of the Stichting Common Lisp Foundation (of which more a bit later). After leaving the comfortable café, where Luke and Tobias (along with a backpack's worth of computing equipment on its way to visit St Petersburg) eventually turned up, it was time to go for the Saturday evening dinner, held at Brasserie Harkema. In the olden days, when I had time to do a certain amount of public-facing Lisp development, I got used to receiving the adulation of a grateful public – this time, at the dinner, I happened to sit next to someone called Lars from Netfonds. "Hmm," said something at the back of my mind, "that rings a bell." Lars who? Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen. My inner fanboy went a bit squeee – even to the point of explaining what gmane was to a third party in his presence. Still, it was nice to be able to say a heartfelt "thank you" in person to someone whose software has saved me time and a certain amount of embarrassment. Other topics of conversation at the dinner included a discussion with R. Matthew Emerson (of Clozure) about the social aspects of Free Lisp development, a topic on which I have written before; contrasting the attitudes and experiences of contributors and users (small and large) of Clozure CL and SBCL was interesting. It was also nice to be able to talk about Lisp-based music analysis, synthesis and generation programs; reminding myself that I do still know about that landscape enough to fill people in.
The meeting itself, as others have observed over the years, is only partly about the talks: a substantial part of the goodness is in the chats over coffee and lunch. Edi and I reminisced about meeting in the venue, Hotel Arena, at a precursor to ECLM (in autumn 2004, I think... I certainly remember being approximately penniless, just after starting my first job); other people present then (as well as Arthur) included Nick Levine, Luke Gorrie, Peter van Eynde, Jim Newton, Pascal Costanza, Marc Battyani, Nicholas Neuss... many of whom were around for the rematch; a total of 95 people registered for the meeting, and the hall (part disco, part church) for the talks felt pleasantly full.
Of the talks, I was most interested in the material of Jack Harper's talk, concerning some of the constraints involved in building a product for (human) fingerprinting, and asserting that using Lisp in this product was not a problem. (Favourite quote: "batteries are complicated things"). I was a little bit disappointed that few of the speakers actually interacted with any code at all (Luke may claim that writing his slides in Squeak Smalltalk counts, but I beg to differ); in fact, Paul Miller of Xanalys was the only one of the speakers spending substantial time demonstrating anything related to the subject of the talk – and that only because the canned demo movie refused to display on the projector. Luke's talk appeared to go down well; the obvious first question came and went, and there were some more interesting questions from the floor. Star of the show was Zach Beane's talk about quicklisp; I spend a lot of time presenting or watching presentations in each of my capacities, and it's nice to have a refreshingly different (and deadpan) delivery, with good use of slides to complement the spoken content. I hope that he's right that his personal scalability will not be taxed, and that volunteers will find ways to assist in the project by taking ownership of particular tasks.
While Hans Hübner may have attempted to be controversial in his opinion slot about style guides for CL, the real controversy for me was Dave Cooper's announcement of the Stichting Common Lisp Foundation. Now, the Foundation has clearly done one thing that is helpful: provided legal and financial infrastructure so that the financial risk of hosting an ECLM is not borne entirely by two individuals; the corporate entity can potentially, after acquiring a buffer, provide the seed funding needed and, if necessary, absorb small ECLM losses (not that I believe there has been one, but hypothetically) through other fund-raising activities. On the other hand, when I asked the question as to how the Stichting CL Foundation would aim to distinguish itself from the ALU, the response from Dave Cooper was that the only difference would be that the foundation would focus on CL, where the ALU's remit extends to all members of the Lisp family. Such a narrowing of focus is, I think, potentially beneficial – indeed, when going through my email archives to look for the date of the 2004 meeting, I found a lucid rationale from Dan Barlow explaining that he had chosen to make CLiki's focus specifically DFSG-free Unix Lisp software in order to promote a sense of cohesion (rather than being motivated primarily by a strongly-held belief about the inherent superiority of DFSG-licensed software). But I don't think that the ALU's only weakness is that it spreads its Lisp net too wide: I think it has lost track of what it as an entity wants to do beyond perform a similar function for the ILC as Stichting has performed for the ECLM; Nick Levine, in his talk about how to find Lisp resources, observed that the ALU has a valuable piece of real estate – the
lisp.org domain – which does not seem to be used to grow or meet the needs of the Lisp community, whether Common Lisp specifically or Lisp more generally. I found it a little sad that, Edi and Arthur aside, the overlap between the ALU board and Stichting CL Foundation directors is 100%.
After the longer talks came the lighting ones, and I took the opportunity to repeat my talk and demo about swankr, my implementation of the SLIME backend for R, from the European Lisp Symposium in April. Erik Huelsmann announced ABCL 1.0, a far better milestone to announce at the ECLM rather than my sneaky announcement of SBCL 0.9 (six years ago!? Doesn't time fly! Also, what ugly slides...). And after some more lightning (and less-lightning) talks, it was time to wrap up with drinks, dinner, and good conversation.


text: The problem is that (as someone else said) that would have made him look guilty. And, even with a passport (which I am sure he had - as I remember him visiting Knox in Seattle) he would need a visa for an extended stay, anywhere. I don't think running would have helped him. As Coco already said, after hours of intense police interrogation, plenty of people have admitted to things they didn't do. They may have overtly admitted or implied guilt. But, police can ask questions in a manner that can be confusing and/or manipulative, to get an answer they want. The Italian police screwed up the crime scene, the DNA was not the only thing that was compromised. They wanted a conviction and probably didn't care how they got it. And I don't say this lightly, seeing as how everyone here knows how much I love Italy.


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Hello everyone, so I am currently saving up for a WRX. Preferably a blob eye WRX (2004-2005)
I am going to college in September (don't know where yet) and I plan on purchasing it the summer after my Freshmen year.
I have $1700 saved up as of right now. I plan on getting a job around May and working all summer, and working in college.
How much do blobeye WRX's go for? I have seen like $9000 around Chicago, Illinois and that frustrates me because I might not have enough money.
*On a side note, if anyone knows a great job opportunity for me, that would be great. I heard that Best Buy will pay me 9.50 an hour so I might work there.
And which WRX is the best for my situation? Bugeye? Hawkeye? Etc?
I would love to own an STI but that is just way too far past my budget. Thanks for the help in advance!


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Matthew Grzywinski, 34, and Amador Pons, 36, weren't officially a firm when they submitted design proposals for a hotel project on Manhattan's Lower East Side, but that didn't stop the two 20-somethings from winning the large commission. "We put together the proposal with the developer not knowing how young we were," Grzywinski says.
The resulting project, Hotel on Rivington, is a 27-floor glass tower with luxe interiors and a window wall system that blurs and diffuses the building's orthogonal steel grid, one magazine wrote. Despite pursuing separate interests after college (where they met), the Rivington job reunited the duo and signaled their potential, leading them to launch Grzywinski + Pons.
Today, the firm does a variety of architectural work, but it's very interested in designing building types that interact with the public such as education complexes and hotels. Still, about 50 percent of its work is residential, including multifamily and single-family homes. The partners are interested in beautiful buildings, but they're also cognizant of the things around their projects. "We try to pay attention to context in our work," Grzywinski explains. "We use materials that are unapologetic, honest, and those that will age well with patina."
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Intel Raises the Curtain on Poulson
At the Hot Chips conference last week, Intel disclosed additional details about the upcoming Poulson Itanium CPU due for shipment early next year. For Itanium loyalists (essentially committed HP-UX customers) the disclosures are a ray of sunshine among the gloomy news that has been the lot of Itanium devotees recently.
Poulson will bring several significant improvements to Itanium in both performance and reliability. On the performance side, we have significant improvements on several fronts:


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My husband's story began in 2003. He was 18 years old and decided to get his hair cut. While getting the hair cut, his aunt noticed a mole on his neck that was black. He had thought it was a pimple and ripped it off. He was sent to the dermatologist and a biopsy was done. The results came back it was Stage III malignant melanoma.
He was referred to The James Cancer Hospital in Columbus, Ohio right away. He had two surgeries to remove almost 30 lymph nodes and the cancer itself within a two month time span. In June of 2003, he started Interferon treatment. One of the medicinces that he was on, Compazine, made him have a muscle spasm which ripped his sutures out of his neck and made his body contort. He had to pack his neck for months to get it to heal. Along with the lymph node removal, the doctors were worried about his thyroid. After his neck was healed, he went back in to have his thyroid completely removed to make sure it was not cancerous, which it wasn't. He has done radiation as well as the interferon, both which were completed around 2006. He now has to take Synthroid for the rest of his life because of this. He went for his check ups, and we were thrilled when his doctor said he only needed to see him once a year.
We were married in 2007, and everything seemed fine. About a month before his annual appointment in 2008, we got a letter stating that his oncologist (who was also his surgeon) had unexpetedly passed away and he would have to wait until the new doctor came. Our first experience was horrendous and we decided to look for another oncologist. After no luck, we went back for a check up because his regular physician told him he needed to (this was in 2012). He went and did scans, and everything was great. We were also expecting our first child in October, so things were pretty crazy. We welcomed our beautiful baby girl and our life felt complete.
In November of 2012, my husband came in from being outside and started coughing. He coughed so hard he started coughing up blood. He was rushed to the E.R. and a CT scan was done. The doctors found a 4cm mass in his right lung, and he was sent to the James again. He now has been diagnosed with Stage IV metastatic melanoma, and he has the BRAF mutation. He is taking the Zelboraf, but just yesterday started coughing up blood, so he was rushed to the James again. He had a scope done, and the tumor was lasered through because it was blocking his airway. We are awaiting further information now. He is fighting for me, and for our almost 7 month old daughter, and he is only 28 years old. He is my hero, although I'm sure if I told him that he would laugh at me. We are in this fight together, and I've told him he is not allowed to give up because our child needs her father around for as long as possible. I am blessed to be able to share his story.
Re: Jesse Coykendall(5/6/2013 - 4:35pm)
Please know Jesse will be covered in prayers, as well as you and your daughter! I, too, have melanoma. This is a fight everyday of our lives here on this earth! God has given me strength through this, and I pray he will give your husband, Jesse, the strength as well!
God Bless you!
Re: Jesse Coykendall(6/14/2013 - 8:31am)
I hope your husband continues to fight and stays positive. I too have melanoma and mine has spread to my brain. I was first diagnosed in Feb 2010 when I had a mole removed (ay my request- doctor said it was fine but biopsy came back as melanoma!) It had already to my lymph nodes in groin which I had all removed, and then the melanoma came back in original spot a year later and it was surgery again. Now I too have started to taked Zelboraf and am now on my 3rd month of treatment. the brain tumours were diagnosed in Nov 2012, and have been onn steriods and had stereotatic radiotherapy, and now zelboraf. I continue to fight for my children, aged 13,11 and eight. It's hard, but I wish your husband all the best. I am 40 years old.
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I have tears in my eyes just reading your story... Your life! I can't even imagine the pain you feel not only to lose your husband but your little babies father! It's just not fair! Your husband sounded like a very brave man. u hope he lives on through y'all's child and you find comfort!


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Washington • The Federal Emergency Management Agency will offer more than $1 million in aid to help cover damage caused by a Sept. 11 flood in Santa Clara.
Heavy rains triggered a deluge in the Washington County city and breached a dike on a retention pond, causing some $3 million in damage, officials said. FEMA said Friday that the $1 million payment is three-quarters of its share of the damage due to the failure of the Laud Retention Dam.
The total doesn't include repairs to the dam itself that will be covered by FEMA, the agency said.
"The Santa Clara flood shows that flooding can happen anywhere," Gary Stanley, FEMA's federal coordinating officer, said in a statement.
FEMA says its total contribution to fix the damage is expected to more than double after dam repairs are completed.
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Posted by Andrew Bartels on June 29, 2010
TECH DYNAMICS: Last Friday, June 25th, the US House and Senate reached agreement on a financial reform bill, which is likely to pass and be signed into law.* At first glance, this legislation has nothing to do with the IT industry directly. But buried in this bill is a provision regarding debit card fees, which could serve as a model for how end users of software could bring about a change in something that is very important to the economics of the software industry — software maintenance fees.
Now, software maintenance fees have been one of the givens in the software industry in perpetual license deals. Typically set at 18% to 22% of initial license fees, they are fixed in stone. An enterprise software buyer can try to negotiate a discount on a license fee; a really smart one can negotiate a deal where the maintenance fee rate is applied against the discounted license fee, not against the list license fee. But software vendors rarely discount maintenance fees.
Why? Established software vendors depend heavily on maintenance fees for the bulk of their revenue. Almost half (49%) of SAP's revenues and Oracle's applications revenues in 2009 came from maintenance fees. Oracle's middleware business earned 55% of its calendar 2009 revenues from maintenance fees.
And yet maintenance fees are one of the biggest sources of complaint from enterprise software buyers. Every so often this dissatisfaction breaks into the open. SAP faced massive client unrest when it raised maintenance fees for most customers during 2009. SAP tapped the biggest vein of resentment about maintenance fees: fees on old software. Old software is the crux of the problem with maintenance fees: It tends to be stable and therefore requires little support.


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My foundation female was a West German working x show cross. I could not have been happier with her.
SG Olivia vom Reichtal
She was my first SchH dog and I took her from 7 week old puppy to 3x SchH3 IPO3 without ever failing on the SchH field, she also earned many other titles as well as her SG show rating, breed survey, she did a ton of demos and other things that were great PR for the breed. More importantly she produced several kids/grandkids who were police dogs, SAR dogs, service dogs, SchH dogs, performance dogs and great companions. She also had siblings that were titled in SchH and worked as police dogs.
I bred her (and her daughter/granddaughter) back to working line stud dogs. I have toyed with the idea of breeding her granddaughter or one of her great granddaughters to a particular show line male that I really like... or maybe one of his 1/2 working 1/2 show line sons that is coming up.
both our dogs are WL SL mix. the first one, female red sable wasn't planned. wife just loved her looks. turned out to be a perfect dog, easily passed CGC under a year. she's a little aloof towards human strangers. she'll growl if a stranger just walk up and sticks their arm in her face. we were so pleased we got another from mix from the same breeder, the tan sable. he is the opposite towards strangers. both great dogs.
I think what these cute pictures and stories show are beautiful dogs involved successfully in a wide variety of activities. Here are a couple of my full sisters..Sire Show Line/dam Working line, great active dogs, wonderful with children, they both love swimming, fetch, settle great in the house.
Strauss is a WGSL/WL/AmLine cross. Best dog I've ever had
And that's quite a thing for you to say my dog is nervy when you've never actually met him. I guess all my trainers who love him and all the compliments I get on how calm and well behaved he is are lies! And I guess he's just pretending when he has no reaction to fireworks or gun shots.
And someone jumping on the all showlines are nerve bags wagon, to me is just showing their ignorance of the breed.
|If I used your logic Blitz then all working lines are neurotic nerve bags because the ones I've been around are very far from being stable dogs. But I don't base an entire breed/line off of one dog or a small handful of dogs I've met.
|Meh, in my dog's case the nerve issues came from the working side. I suspected it going into the breeding which is why I originally did not accept the offer to keep back a puppy. I already knew going in that my male needs a really strong dam to keep the defense and aggression in check. What I suspected was confirmed by other people I know who have worked with/trained with and boarded the female. In the end I took a gamble and changed my mind, took the puppy with an open mind, as a puppy I could train for a friend who is contemplating adding another GSD but does not want a baby puppy. I got attached to him and like what I see for my sports other than Schutzhund. But yes it can be a gamble, not because the show line is diluting the working line but because in general if you don't have a REALLY good working knowledge of both pedigrees, it's very hard to predict how they will interact with such an extreme outcross, can be hard to predict even when you do. Like I said, in my case the bitch was not strong enough to maintain the temperament I like about the male, at least as far as working traits or doing protection sport. Other than that, the puppy is fine. In fact one of my vets says he's the most stable tempered GSD he's ever seen and was trying to buy him off me. HE also had the best hip and elbow prelims I've ever had for my dogs which is important to me since he's my next performance/competition dog. He's not bad tempered by any means, but is not the level of strength and forward aggression I would expect in a dog that is seriously being titled in IPO and considered a breeding prospect. I actually expected him to be sharper and more of a spook, but he's turned out quite nice. I take him all over and he's quite social with other dogs and people, but his confidence took some developing. At 8 weeks he was not the puppy that's leading the way or jumping into the thick of things, he's the puppy that's genuinely curious and not going to leave but going to wait for his brother to try it first
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Dont do it.. Worst dog I ever owned was SL/ WL cross. All the suspicion and aggression from the working side came together with the less then stellar nerve base in the show side.
Most people seem to think this will lead to the best of both worlds but in the majority of cases it does not.
Cute pictures aside most of these crosses have less then stellar nerves/drives imo.
Too bad he's got IPO3 and FH being such crappy nerve bag. I'll base my opinions off my own successful experiences, rather than others who would sooner quit because they might actually have to work a little to bring out the best in the dog.
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Dont do it.. Worst dog I ever owned was SL/ WL cross. All the suspicion and aggression from the working side came together with the less then stellar nerve base in the show side.
Most people seem to think this will lead to the best of both worlds but in the majority of cases it does not.
Cute pictures aside most of these crosses have less then stellar nerves/drives imo.
My two year old intact male, Varick, is DDR (sire is pure DDR) and West German show line (dam is WGSL/DDR cross).
He is 26" tall, 85 lbs lean.
Dark Sable, standard coat.
Medium prey drive and tug drive
Very high ball drive
High defense drive
Aloof towards strangers
Confident with loud noises (gun shots, fireworks, etc )
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Archers need for club in centrail PA
The CSLC is looking for arcchers to bring life back to the club. Two ranges are in place club house ready all we need are archers. Located out side Williamsport ,PA we are located 6 miles from Walmart on RT 87 north. the club was the Susquehanna bowmen of the consoildated Sportmens of Lycoming County. We do not have a in door range we did have a 3-D corse but has to be rebuilt as we can have the club grow. We do have a 14 target mountain range that we hope to reopen with a little work this spring. with more members the more we can inprove the ranges. I love archery and have just put in charge of the rebuilding of this part of the main club. If you have more Questions please call 570-435-5480.
thanks Gary
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I'm an avid user of Mac computers and I use Logic Pro! Love that piece of software. However the recent updates from Apple didn't impress me so much, well after Steve Jobs wasn't around anymore.
Then I was playing with a PC desktop that I barely used in the studio and I found it quite nice. The new windows OS that works with Nokia Lumia phones seems to really impressive.
In your opinion, will Windows take over Mac? Then I have to switch to another software from Logic Pro.
I figured it would be the exact opposite! Windows has dominated in the personal computing and back office market for years now, but have certainly not been leaders in the surge of mobile solutions, and I honestly would be surprised if the Surface tablets make much dent in the popularity of iPads.
Nope. I think Mac will still reign supreme in the end. I worked with Apple for years and the roadmap is awesome. Constant and consistent vision, innovation and dedication to making higher standards the norm are what will continue to make the experience with their products superior in comparison. It's not just that they are first to release new technologies. It's that these ideas are born in their labs and within their development networks.
Windows, and MS in general, are becoming better at releasing follow up devices and software. But it's not fluid for long. Too many things build up and work against them in the end. I cannot think of a single product they have introduced in the last decade that did not pale in comparison. They should continue to push hard against the competition in the gaming world. What they have accomplished with Xbox is far more promising (IMO) for them than products like Windows, Zune, Docs.com, Surface, Mediaroom, Kin Studio, Courier etc. (Do you even know what some of these products are?)
If anyone will take a serious run at Apple it will be Google. They have the money and growing resources to do it. BUT , they have one of the biggest problems that MS also has. They license there OS/software. Hundreds of different mobile devices, thousands of different developers… this has lead to an inferior experience for Android users. I can say this from having both iOS devices and Android. There is no comparison. There are too many small variable that come into play. Just look at the comments for ANY app download in their marketplace. They can't even get all the phones to run the same version of the OS. Perhaps with time it improves, but the standard has already been set by Apple.
Apple has this locked down. They deal in cash and new ideas. They develop their own experience, not just hardware and software that work flawlessly (mostly) together. They have a serious leg up on anyone joining the game this late. They are not only the best at what they do, but they are also heroes for a lot of the most brilliant minds in the field. Their ability to recruit and maintain the right people to further Steve's mission is unsurpassed at this time.
I am a mac user and love my mac…. but I am not sure apple will continue to be reign supreme. I also edit video and was appalled at the latest release of FinalCut. They announced to the world that they were abandoning the professional video market.
Also I was recently on a college campus and saw tons of college kids on their phones – out of at least 50 kids, only 3 or 4 were using iPhones.
Mac and PC user here, supporter of both.
I think Ohmlab's key quote about Microsoft here is:
"Do you even know what some of these products are?"
Apple have the most amazing marketing campaigns ever. You throw a Microsoft product into their hands, let's take the recent Surface for example, and I'd bet my house that journalists and the public would be drooling over it. That of course is something that is 'earned'. Microsoft have never been good at selling their products, and there is still the consumer-end lack of trust because of the Vista debacle.
I'll second Tim's report on Final Cut X. Every editor I know has switched editing platforms. A great shame because Final Cut Pro was really onto something. It would not surprise me if the next version of Logic becomes Garageband Pro X. Logic is good but it has progressively fallen behind the field ever since Apple bought eMagic. It was a superior product when Apple first purchased eMagic, but now that playing field is more level than it has ever been on that front. But now we're talking about software, and so…..
....I also think it's worth pointing out that Microsoft are really a software company that dived into hardware. Apple are really a hardware company that has dived into software. It's quite silly to compare the two IMO , but we do it anyway because it's always a fun topic of debate! The only real hardware success Microsoft has had is with the Xbox. Miraculous considering the amazing success of the Playstation 1/2.
And yet, there are still so many flaws with even the current XBOX (mostly limitations on the game development side) I won't bore you with it all. They have a lot to improve!
I think someone said it best when they stated that Apple are the best at bringing new ideas to the market, of that there is no question. In the quest of being the first to market though, they leave out functionality and options that they only address in later revisions of the product. These revisions and functionality options are almost always addressed by rivals, but the problem is it's too late. The early bird catches the worm. Apple have a way of telling you that you want and need something even if you really don't, most other tech developers honestly couldn't market an orgy in a brothel….
Their products are considered superior in comparison, because when they are released, there is nothing to really compare them to, or at least that's the PERCEPTION they give. They may very well actually BE superior!!! But it sure helps when the general public perception before it even gets into their hands is that it's superior.
To be honest, I think it's a shame that Apple and Microsoft are separate companies. I feel like, and Steve Jobs admitted this himself, that they have much to gain from fusing the ideas and philosophies both companies have together, but it will never happen.
Finally, anyone who is extolling the virtue of one company over the other in the gigantic technology space is really missing the point. It honestly doesn't matter which is better. The more options the consumer has, the better. I'm not bashing either Microsoft or Apple here, both bring a lot to the table in many different ways. Both companies have gone through cyclical periods of success and failure, and I expect that to continue and for neither to 'reign'.
I'd like to see another OS pop up at some point. Right now the competition is quite nice now with Win7 and OS X being pretty darn good as of late.
Like Gareth said though "The more options the consumer has, the better." I hope neither wins and more enter the space. Maybe Amiga can make a comeback?
I'll be pretty honest. I've never heard of Amiga before. hahaha. Maybe because i've always been a musician. Not so much of a tech geek
If the question is about operating systems; Mac wins with user experience, PC wins for software support. Have you seen Valve's Source Film Maker?? That's the future of making music videos… won't be supported on Mac for a while as usual.
If the question is about Microsoft Vs. Apple, I'm pretty sure we're moving (as a collective consumer market) towards 1984 with Apple – like it or hate it – it's happening.
I've worked in Apple's corporate office (this was a few years before Steve Jobs passed), and they have an inspiring work atmosphere to say the least; with my experiences there, it was clear the company was healthy from the inside out, and their products and work consistently supported this. They treat their employees like gems, and offer amazing wellness opportunities.. they are consistently breeding quality, healthy individuals with a shared vision – I think it's a no brainer that Apple will be hanging out for a while. I don't care who takes over who – I just hope they continue to produce quality products.
I love Windows so much but I hope both company improve their products more and more.
I think apple will continue to be king, as a editor on a mac, I didn't really like FCPX when they first released it, but over time now it has had great pro features added to it, and is great if you have a DLSR workflow, (i do)
I have to think that since windows does not really have any great exclusive programs for editing (this is from a video production guys standpoint, maybe they have exclusive's for audio i don't know) to speak of, cough windows movie maker cough i think people will go for the mac with the same programs they could run on windows (Adobe, Autodesk) since the experience is better,
I mean, the help part of the menu bar that follows me through all my applications is great.


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Headed off to Moomaw to catch Mr Big tonight, then back home this weekend to make some bundles, then Dove Hunting on Labor Day
Swamp, could you go over Duck Physics or better yet Dove Physics for us. Its been a while and I'm afraid I wont know what to do when I hear the tender bittle whistles. Does a 20 guage kill birds like a 12 guage, ive hear people say so but theres just no way


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The first Harvard University joint recruitment event in Santiago, Chile will take place at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. The event will provide an opportunity for a select group of highly talented prospective applicants to learn more about graduate programs at Harvard. It will be a chance to examine how professional aspirations can be matched with more than 70 programs of advanced study in the seven schools represented. To register, please fill out this form: https://apply.gse.harvard.edu/register/chile