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In other news, I just killed Revolver Ocelot in MGS. It was a really tough fight but I managed to pull it out. Can I get my own Slashdot article too?
In other news, I just killed Revolver Ocelot in MGS. It was a really tough fight but I managed to pull it out. Can I get my own Slashdot article too?
Shove over n00b, I just downed hogger!
In other news, I just killed Revolver Ocelot in MGS. It was a really tough fight but I managed to pull it out. Can I get my own Slashdot article too?
I kinda doubt that it impacted greatly the hobby of 2k+ people, so sorry, no.
To put in perspective how seriously the people involved (not me) take this stuff, the leaders of the disbanded alliance got on flights at 3am to meet in Washington DC (I believe) so they could pick up the pieces and start getting to work on putting together the alliance.
Why? Have they never heard of webcams and videoconferencing? Or just plain telephones?
It's a bit more than that. With sovereignty, you lose a large chunk of your internal economy and logistics. A lot of that will not have to be re-acquired, it will have to be rebuilt, from the ground up.
The reason BoB was able to hold on its central Delve systems was that sovereign systems are easy to defend. You have cynos, you have jumpbridges, you have reserves of capitals and super-capitals ready to reinforce. And it helped that Delve was a very rich sector, making it a perfect logistics base.
Those advantages are gone. They have to be rebuilt - and most ennemy corps will not stand idle while BoB regroup. Look at the influence map: BoB has started to reassert sovereignty in pieces, but there's already huge chunks of territory carved. Getting them back... is going to take months. Or a year. Or two.
The whole region is already seeing everyone and their mothers moving in to loot and pillage. More than just a strategic loss, they now have to deal with a large number of enemies and random neutrals coming to play in their space.
Also, the Band of Brothers name was claimed by the Goons, so they can't reform under it.
I don't play the game, but is what they did realistic within that universe?
I suppose a spy/saboteur/traitor is certainly possible, but in [alternate] reality could he have got away with what he did without putting himself physically at risk? Would not ships' crews, garrissons etc have some autonomous decision making such that thay might disobey strange orders?
As a former player, I can attest.
The game really has it's own politics.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvwk4QncSG4 [youtube.com] -- eve-files will melt under a slashdotting, it's been put on youtube. I should hope google can handle the load.
You know I have to admit, finding out that there is an MMO out there that supports this level of cooperation, strategy, and espionage is almost shocking. If I was heavily into games like I was a few years back I would definitely be checking this game out.
People are bitching up a storm about this, because it is basically an exploit of game mechanics. It takes you 24 hours to leave a corporation that you're in, it takes 24 hours for a vote and then 24 hours of notification before you can go to war, but you can apparently disband an entire alliance in an instant.
At the same time, one of the many sub-games in Eve is spying. A lot of people call it meta-gaming, in that a lot of it takes place outside the Eve client. It's a fact of life when playing the game, and
I'll translate it into a semi-realworld (fictional) scenario to help out...
"In the world of Business-Politics, the infamous Apple company has been dissolved. It seems that rival Company Microsoft had a [director level] spy in the holding corporation, and he stole money as well as Super-Computers and other assets. The spy then dissolved the company. 'One of Microsoft's stated motivations from their early days as a company was to punish what they viewed as the arrogance of Apple. If they've held true to that ideal, stealing the marketplace out from under Apple effectively means Microsoft has accomplished what they set out to do years ago.' As of 11:00 GMT, Apple lost all its Intellectual Property. (its patents are void now, trademarks are pointless, copyrights are invalid)."
Now if you can imagine the majority of Apple employees were living in their work cubicals when they found out. The next morning all apple employees were then promptly all shoved out into the street with little more than the clothes on their back. Linux and Microsoft gangs bum rushed into the area to quickly rob every apple employee as possible and quickly convert former-apple assets into new workstations and easy cash.
It's probably the biggest zerozero political upheaval in EVE's history.
I know what you mean. Here I am stationed in Iraq, I've got people going out every day who are possibly going to get really killed. We find explosives, get shot at, you name it. It's all VERY real. But there are enough people who are so totally insulated from this sort of thing that the EVE Online game is vastly more important to them.
On the other hand, this should spur someone from Darfur to post about the genocide there. Or one of the congo nations where life is so horrible.
What does it say about us as a species that there is such a range of lifestyles? On one end is the people where EVE Online takeovers might be the most important thing to happen to them all year. At the other end are refugees who get killed by the thousands and would have been starving and diseased anyway.
Is this disparity good or bad? Is there any limit to how much disparity is good? Would we be better off if everybody had similar worries and we were all about the same level on Maslow's hierarchy of needs?
It IS a game and it's enjoyable to participate in. There is probably a happy medium for how serious people should take games. On my last deployment I didn't have access to internet (or phones, or tv) so we played frisbee or came up with stupid pranks.
I think a lot of vets feel the way you do. They get back and go wtf is wrong with you people, arguing over childish things? Probably why so many vets become unsync'd with the society they grew up in. But it's probably better this way. Try to keep the innocent.. innocent. No need for my family to REALLY know how shitty the world truely is, eh?
Some people prefer to be mercenary bosses, pirates kings or wide corporations CEO in a virtual world instead of a pawn in real life.
My main problem with your argument is the phrase choice, "instead of". OK, great, they are all powerful in a virtual world, but this may be "while being" a pawn in real life. Or, this may be "while being" a powerful person in real life. As great as games are for escaping the mundane, you cannot escape real life forever. This is not a binary "instead of" situation.
I play games, but I don't let them interfere with my real life. I choose to make my life better. Do I disagree with your premise that people
To answer your question, no, of course the disparities that exist across the globe are wrong and unjustifiable. Of course, from experience we know that we can't remove disparity altogether; apart from anything else, not all humans are equally hardworking, intelligent, or physically capable and from that point of view it seems unreasonable that someone that works twice as hard should receive the same as someone s
Is this disparity good or bad? Is there any limit to how much disparity is good? Would we be better off if everybody had similar worries
without diversity creativity dies.
I do, however, agree that the level of human depravity you witness overseas should not be subjected to anyone.
I know what you mean. Here I am stationed in Iraq, I've got people going out every day who are possibly going to get really killed. We find explosives, get shot at, you name it. It's all VERY real. But there are enough people who are so totally insulated from this sort of thing that the EVE Online game is vastly more important to them.
On the other hand, this should spur someone from Darfur to post about the genocide there. Or one of the congo nations where life is so horrible.
I slogged through two tours in Afghanistan. It was five years ago, and I still don't really like to see news much. After 8 years of Army service deployed four times to such wonderful places (e.g. Bosnia), I feel like I've used up my capacity for dealing with brutal realities. I think it's good that some people have their silly little games to occupy them. Most people can't handle the shit you and I have had to see.
nothing in the summary connects to the real world at all.
It's always been like that. But this time, neither does TFA.
Most people I know who play Eve are fascinated by how into Real Life so many others are.
As of 11:00 GMT, BoB lost all its sovereignty (its outposts are conquerable now, cyno-jammers are offline, jump bridges are inoperable)."
God have mercy on our souls.
More importantly, cyno fields are the only way to move capital ships, since they don't fit through jump gates. If your cyno jammers are down, your enemies can jump in their Dreadnoughts, Carriers and Titans to put a hurting on your player-owned stations and other assets. They can also jump ships in to say, disrupt a large, but not so well defended mining operation that you used to run in very safe space. If the Goons planned this properly, this could devastate the economy of the former BoB corps.
In other words, if you have enemies with a large number of capital and other jump capable ships, losing your jammers means that you are very close to having your family jewels squeezed very hard. If I was the executor or one of the directors who spend the time to manage such a huge alliance, I would be feeling distinctly unwell right now.
GoonSwarm basically had this PR coup handed to them on a silver platter, they had done nothing themselves to make this happen.
What is known to have happened is that a player with full director access to the BoB holding corporation, Tinfoil, defected and asked GoonSwarm if they wanted full director access. They obviously replied in the positive, and eventually realized they now had access to the proverbial nuke button on their sworn enemies.
Speculation is rampant in the EvE community, though hard facts are hard to come by. Suggestions include that either this is a case of a hacked account, as the owner was supposedly on some form of military duty when this happened a few days ago. Another, less vocal, minority considers this to be a possible case of someone 'cracking' psychologically, possibly due to the player's military background.
Also, some people feel this event may be due to broken game mechanics, as it seem odd you can just nuke a large alliance into bedrock with a few mouse clicks and 2 minutes of work. Usually it takes either a director vote, or at least a 24 hour grace period, to perform drastic changes to corp policies and organization.
Summary: Not a spy, not GoonSwarm's work. Just a single unhappy defector undoing 4 years of work by some 3000 players in a few seconds.
Disclaimer: I play EvE Online, but am not a member of any of the major alliances in the game.
I think this is politics. Several carreers and even nations were ruined in less time in real life....
Yours, Martin
As someone who plays more traditional and structured MMO's, I find the idea that so much work can be reduced to ruins by one putz to be horrifying, especially given that games are supposed to be a way to escape the real-world.
I investigated further, like someone who just saw a massive train wreck, by reading the forums.
Goons seemed to have been given admin access to and archived the BoB forums as well, and have been posting juicier tidbits.
Having administered a "guild gone stale" in WoW, I can recognize the tone and content of the post. My conclusion is band of brothers had outgrown its purpose and was now as adrift and stale as GM.
The euthenasia of this massive organization will breathe new life into the game, but it may also drive a large number of these people who were screwed out of the game, making a huge dent in the userbase.
indeed it will... as BoB and basically become invulnerable in their core space - loosing sov breaks that
The euthenasia of this massive organization will breathe new life into the game, but it may also drive a large number of these people who were screwed out of the game, making a huge dent in the userbase.
You get a gold star!
There will probably be a few who quit over this, true, but I doubt many will... life in EVE is like that... BoB has a bunch of very dedicated and extremely skilled players in it... I'm betting they will regroup and try to take back their space... which will stir up all kinds of drama in itself.
EVE lives for drama. The game *IS* made by the players. 99% of the game content is made by the players... who is fighting who? what regions are 'hot'? who just screwed over someone else? The leader of BoB said, and it was true, that BoB has been providing the game with content since they formed and first took space. Missions and all the PVE stuff is just the ISK printing press to fund the "real" part of the game by supplying money to players to buy stuff. The production (crafting) part of EVE is massive and an integral part of the game. If you're flying a ship, it was made by a player (and you're always flying a ship). If you fit tech2 equipment onto your ship, it was made by a player. And yeah, you have to have miners to get minerals, people to tend moon stations to harvest 'rare' minerals, and someone to take all those things and manufacture stuff.
There's really no other game with the complexity and depth of EVE.
>> here's really no other game with the complexity and depth of EVE.
Except "Go".
A minute to learn.
A _lifetime_ to master.
Well... I meant MMO
GoonSwarm basically had this PR coup handed to them on a silver platter, they had done nothing themselves to make this happen.
When Kim Philby [wikipedia.org] defected, do you think the media at the time focused on how little effort the Soviets expended to get him on their side?
A coup is a coup.
This guy joined up as a spy, and decided to stay around because the Swarm was actually nice to him. People were friendly and helpful, unlike BoB where he barely got a 'hello' upon recruitment. He got tired of BoB's 'Serious Business' attitude and under-appreciation, and put the screws to them.
This whole incident has nothing to do with Goonswarm infiltrating BoB with spies.
The person responsible was "just" a disgruntled BNC director that wanted to go out with a huge bang and GoonsFleet (The Mittani, to be precise) just gave him advice on how to maximize the damage he'd inflict on his way out.
This story is rather incomprehensible to the rest of us. Could an EVE player explain some terms like sovereignty, ISK reserves, cyno-jammers and capfleet towers, please? Good thing that territorial control [massively.com] was explained...
The article also says
Once assured a place within GoonSwarm, Agamar proceeded to disband the Band of Brothers alliance using his director level access.
In a word, sudo
That's kind of oversimplifying things.
A lot of things require a vote of all who have director-level access...
But for some things, yeah it's basically sudo.
Or more precisely, being in
This story is rather incomprehensible to the rest of us. Could an EVE player explain some terms like sovereignty, ISK reserves, cyno-jammers and capfleet towers, please? Good thing that territorial control was explained...
The article also says
Once assured a place within GoonSwarm, Agamar proceeded to disband the Band of Brothers alliance using his director level access.
...but what powers does the director level access give you, exactly?
Sovereignty is a game mechanic which allows several other things to work. It's built by holding a solar system or constellation for a certain period of time, up to a month. Losing it means all of the things which rely on it to stop working (see below).
ISK is the currency in EVE (read gold). ISK reserves, therefore, would be money set aside for later - in this case I believe it was set aside for upkeep fees.
A cyno-jammer prevents cynosural fields from forming in the system. A cynosural field allows capital ships to move between systems, as capital ships are too large to use the stargates normal, smaller ships use. It's an important defensive structure - one of the main purposes of capital ships are to attack Player Operated Stations (POSs), which are used (among other things) to claim sovereignty.
"Capfleet tower" is a little ambiguous, but given the context I believe they're referring to the assembly arrays required to build capital ships. Due to their size, they can't be manufactured in the same places other ships are built - they require a special module, anchored at a POS (the hub of which is called a tower). The capital ship assembly array also requires sovereignty to work. Losing sovereignty means that all the capital ships that were being constructed have been put on hold. If sovereignty can be rebuilt, then those manufacturing jobs would resume, but that will be difficult because the systems are so hotly contested right now - it's likely that the assembly arrays will be attacked and destroyed.
A corporation director has very nearly all the abilities of a CEO - basically a guild leader with full access. Normally that means that one can expel other corporation members, directly manipulate the wallet (where all the corporation's money is kept), and so on. In this case, because the defector had director access in the executor corp (sort of the leader corporation of the alliance), he also had access to all the alliance management options - including kicking member corporations out of the alliance, and then closing the alliance.
I hope that helps clear things up.
I don't play EVE. But without commenting on its politics, it seems to me as an outsider that this sort of coup shouldn't be possible in any game designed to have interesting and engaging politics.
The game mechanics (sovereignty allowing construction of major infrastructure) is a proxy for a large government/business bureaucracy who maintains and runs the infrastructure. These guys are abstracted out of the game because they're boring.
In any real human political/business organization, if a leader turned tr
On the contrary, the fact that coups like this *are* possible is exactly what attracts that level of meta-gamer who bothers to spend years of their life building a corp/alliance. If things like this weren't possible, large old alliances like BoB would be fixtures in the game, immovable and unconquerable.
As it was, BoB nearly was invincible due to the network of alliance level infrastructure they built up. The ongoing war between goonfleet and BoB had taken on the character of WWI: static lines that don't move much. That's boring. It's like you and your PvP opponent have both got your tier 8 gear and are no longer capable of killing each other, so you don't bother to fight anymore.
No infrastructure was destroyed; but by disbanding the alliance, they lost sovereignty; by losing sovereignty, they lost infrastructure features that require sovereignty. BoB's core territory in Delve is now conquerable. That doesn't mean conquered--see the post above from a BoB member who's excited about the impending action. What'll happen now is that BoB's core support will have to man the Delve systems continuously and defend them long enough for sovereignty to reassert (about three month). It'll be a long battle where they'll actually have to fight, rather than sit behind their cyno-jammers.
This isn't a glitch. This is exactly why those serious players play Eve, because stuff like this happens.
If you want a real-world analogy, don't think of gov't, think of Enron, where a few key executives were able to build a house of cards that almost overnight put 55,000 people out of work when it all collapsed. It's large-scale, player-driven reversals like this that make Eve interesting for those people.
Not to me, though
sovereignty - ownership of solar systems
ISK - in-game currency
cyno-jammers - stops enemy capital ships jumping in to the system
director - has full access to everything about the corporation/alliance. Only the owner is above.
Ok, so 0.0(zero zero) space is basically lawless solar systems that players can do whatever they want in. This is where the game of EVE gets intense. Sovereignty is recognized by whomever has the controlling number of Starbases in the system. Starbases are structures you can anchor in the Orbit of moons. They are the first steps to living in 0.0 space. This is where your corporation will build from and use as a safe place until you can build/conquer an Outpost. They constantly burn fuel so your corpor
yes - the regions of Delve, Querious, and about 2/3rds of Period Basis were controlled by Band of Brothers - in some systems Sov was gained by an ally of theirs who also had atleast 1 starbase in the system when BoB's ability to claim sov was destroyed by being disbanded.
All of member corporations of the former alliance BoB are still there and their assets are - they're just no longer effectively invincible. BoB had created such and effective network of defense using super-capitals, cyno jammers, and jump
Everyone is acting like this spy has done a horrible thing. I say what they did was neither good nor bad.
It was just playing the game!
BoB had apparently stalled. They had become complacent and just had way too much stuff. So now they are forced to play the game again to try to regain their ground.
It's amazing how much this is like real life, with each side hating the other and thinking the other is wrong to the point that they do things that -could- be considered 'evil'. At least, if it wasn't a game.
Disclaimer: I am not a member of Goonswarm, but I live in 0.0 and am in an alliance that is part of their coalition
BOB should have been disbanded by CCP back when they were caught red handed with CCP Devs in their leadership handing them stuff like candy (the infamous T20 scandal). As has been proven by information "liberated" from their message boards, BOB leadership was WELL aware of what was going on.
Also, BOB was the king of metagaming, account hacking, etc, and to see them fall as a result of it is d
I am a member of Band of Brothers and the only thing this has caused is a renewed interest on the part of the Alliance.
For them to remove us they will need to remove all of our moon mining and sovereignty towers. We have hundreds of capital ships and around 2k people waiting for the morons to come running into the chainsaw.
All of this is a pain, but sovereignty is already ticking to regain control. They have a little over two months to destroy us, before we get sovereignty three to re-acitvate our jammers, bridges and whatnot.
Considering we have war supplies and motivation, they will not be successful and their chest beating is simply propaganda.
In the last 24 hours almost all of BoB and their allies have fallen back to Delve to get ready for the fight. Before we mobilized they were tooting their horns about taking stations and anchoring pos's, but when push came to shove they didn't wish to engage.
This is not newsworthy, but a "Blue Falcon" act by a friend of BoB.
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To the Editor:
I attended the Cortland town meeting March 25 and was wearing a "Russ Stokes for Mayor" sticker I had made. I was told, by the Town Clerk Cheryl Aldis, that I had to remove it. I asked why, because it was not a polling place, and was told that it was a government building. I then went over to Chief of Police and asked him if I had to do so and he backed up Aldis.
Filled with doubts, the following day I called the Governor, Attorney General and States Attorney's offices and behold … no such law. I promptly went down to the town hall and demanded a written apology from Aldis. Her response was I should write it myself. As I left, I placed a call to the police chief. The following morning I got and accepted an apology from him.
Now what is interesting about the meeting, you would expect Aldis to be seated at the table with the trustees taking minutes and doing roll call votes, right? Well you would be wrong. Aldis has an assistant who does that job.
If I was a trustee and it is budget time now, I would cut the clerk's budget and demand that she sit at the table and do her statutory job. The trustees are supposed to be the check and balance that keep the elected officials, well … in check. To the trustees, all I can say is wake up!
At the Candidates night Wednesday evening, candidate and trustee Chuck Lanning complained that communication is the worst he has seen in his 20 years on the board.
Russ Stokes also raised concerns about communication, numerous closed-door meetings and complained that his Freedom of Information requests, some pertaining to minutes to those meetings, have not been provided to him. Well, Aldis does not need a FOIA request to release and give copies of public documents. They should be willfully provided.
I do think Cortland needs new leadership from someone not presently on the town board. That person is Russ Stokes.
I have known Russ for 20 years and served with him as volunteer on the fire department. Russ will bring honesty and integrity to Cortland.
I encourage voters to vote for change; I'm just saddened voters have no choice for a new clerk.
Visit electrussstokesmayor.com for info.
Steve Vidmar

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Video At Home with Tim O'Reilly (Videos 5 and 6 of 6) 6
Timothy O'Reilly: ...and, like when you think about again going back to Uber, it shows you there are about six cars. You don't go I want that one that's six blocks away, that would be the old thinking. It's going to show me the six cars and I'm going to pick one. No, it's like it gives you that information but it has this background process of actually what's going on is it advertises you to them and then...
Timothy Lord: But the user is not in the smartest place to make that decision, it's...
Timothy O'Reilly: Yeah, that's right. So anyway I think the same is true in this area of programming tools, I don't think anybody's really applying or at least I don't know of anybody who's applying machine learning to helping people weed through what's the best way to do something but it would be a pretty interesting thing to try.
Timothy Lord: Now Tim let me ask you a question about a different big arc in the software world and I'll read this question verbatim, so you can answer it as you like: "Mr. O'Reilly, why didn't you join the free software movement back in the day and subverted the community with your open source initiative?" Sorry could not resist.
Timothy O'Reilly: That's alright. I would just say somebody has been reading too much propaganda. The notion that the open source movement subverted free software I think is just fundamentally wrong.
Timothy Lord: You're also guilty of supporting quite a bit of free software with your books.
Timothy O'Reilly: Oh absolutely, first off he's what I would say: that when I got into the world of free software, there was a huge universe of stuff that I was using and was exposed to and only a small part of it was represented by the free software movement. I used the X Windows system, the Web came along, all these things that seemed really, really important to me. And then, I mean, obviously going back to '84 it was UNIX. I was sort of an early UNIX user and UNIX was not at all free by any of the free software licenses but it had all the characteristics in terms of community and user contribution and that was the world that I grew up in.
So basically you go: somebody's coming along talking about a quarter of the world you live in and saying "Our quarter is the only quarter that matters." So for me when I organised what came to be called the Open Source Summit, it was fundamentally about why are you guys talking about Linux and GCC and Emacs and you're not talking about Berkeley UNIX, which was this huge vibrant community which you basically copied most of the work of. Why are you not talking about the Web, which was the greatest work of free software in our generation, you know put it into the public domain... Why are you not talking about Apache, so I just kind of went and talked about the rest of the world that I was part of. It's nothing to do with subverting or not joining the free software movement, it was just like saying: Why aren't you joining the bigger world? Why are you limiting the story to your political movement when there's this much bigger, more important movement that we have to recognize.
So for me, I thought of what I was doing as being more inclusive and recognizing more of the important threads, so the notion that I was sort of subverting or taking away this moral goodness, I look at the moral goodness of Tim Berners-Lee and the moral goodness of Richard Stallman and I go, I would actually take Tim Berners-Lee over Richard Stallman. And one of them basically said: I'm giving this to the world, make of it what you will and we see what happened, it was enormous value creation. And I think Richard created some value, but by attaching so much more moral baggage to it, he actually limited the effectiveness and I think, and a lot of my, sort of, you could say arguments with the free software movement over the years were more around: "Hey, you guys ought to be thinking about this other thing, like it's not – like I'm perfectly happy for them to do what they do and it's not like I don't think that there's a lot of really interesting stuff there.
But, for example, in 1999 when I said "Hey Richard there's a real challenge to your model" and that it really depends upon this notion that software is being distributed. And what I'm seeing is we're moving to a world where software instead has performed on the internet, and I have been on the board of Nutch which was an open source search engine that I'd seen and they were kind of saying, the code is open source, the license is open source but we can't get the scale because it's too big and too hard and we can't afford it, so it's really just the research project and Doug went off and he did Lucene instead and they did Hadoop, so he went on to other projects but I was like "Oh the world is changing" and so I'm saying to Richard, your license is don't touch Google. That's just a fact. That's just a fact because they're not distributing software and your licenses are – and he was like, well it doesn't matter because Google's not running on my computer and I go "well that's just not getting the future."
And then, I was literally trying to say I'm trying to help you guys think about this new world and instead they were like "You're bad, you're not supporting our movement" and I'm like "Screw you, I'm trying to help you by telling you where the world is going and that you have to think about these things" and I guess I would also just say that my fundamental belief and my fundamental goals have always been the creation of value and I think that when I look at the free and open source movement, I see more value creation that has come from the people who have put things out with more liberal licences. And if I look at the value – and again clearly Linux matters and GPL software matters, but stuff that's put out under the more liberal Apache or Berkeley or X-style or MIT style licenses or even more broadly public domain with the Web has created way more value for society.
Timothy Lord: It's got a lower viscosity, it can seep into more corners.
Timothy O'Reilly: Yeah.
Timothy Lord: Now speaking of moral baggage and the internet, a reader asks "What can we do to ensure that the internet remains open?" and asks if you can share some things that people can do to help keep the internet relatively open. There's a lot of chatter like should we pass laws? Should there be specific legislation that you think would be useful? Or what would you say for people who are on the internet and not running the routers to help ensure that the internet remains an open place?
Timothy O'Reilly: So I've always loved this passage from Lao Tzu, the Chinese philosopher, he said "Losing the way of life, men rely on goodness, losing goodness they rely on laws." And I've always thought that – the way I translate that is the way of life is the equivalent of science. It's like this is the way things work. So my argument going back to open source versus free software is not a moral argument, it's an effectiveness argument; when you give stuff away, these things happen. And so that's kind of like, when you drop an apple, it falls to the ground. What are the things that we can find out about software and the way it actually works, in the age of the internet and what the effects are and how can we base our policies on that.
And so always my sort of first recourse is to say: can we line things up with the way of life or with science? And so, a good example of that is, the emphasis I've always put in my thinking about open source on architecture, certain architectures are more supportive of inclusive behaviour than others, the internet being a good example, the web being a good example, but also again in the case of, like why did Apache work and Open Office not work so well. One had an extensible modular architecture, the other one had a big hairy ball of wax architecture. Why do I love UNIX/Linux? Because it has a modular extensible architecture and lets anybody add something to the party. And that was one of the reasons that it ultimately beats something like Windows - because people could innovate in that context. So that's sort of a way of life argument.
But there is also a goodness argument, which is what's good for society? How do we encourage people to do the right thing rather than let's make a law to make them do the right thing. And I've always been much more of a fan of encouraging people than of making laws. Hear my talks to create more value than you capture, work on stuff that matters. I'm kind of like trying – I think people want to be good, they want to do the right thing and sometimes you can encourage them more effectively than you can use laws. And so a good example of this in the current context is my thinking about privacy. There are a lot of people who are sitting there saying: oh we need new laws. And I go: well we actually have some pretty good examples of laws that were designed to ensure privacy, like HIPAA for healthcare privacy and it's pretty clear they're having unintended consequences that are really stupid.
So for example recently, New York Times front page article: 'Baby pictures on the walls of your paediatrician's office: cute but illegal.' It's like that's frickin' crazy, because it's violating patient privacy. And the parent gave them the picture to post on the wall but they didn't sign a release. That's where you go with laws. So like when I look at privacy I go: okay we can't think about all the consequences but what we can do is we can actually start to look for actual harmful behaviour. And we write laws that are very specific about the harmful behaviour. So you don't try to prevent people from doing something bad, you recognise when people do do something bad and then you deal with it.
And so in a similar way, like I look at my house: glass everywhere. Anybody who wants to break in, super easy, throw a rock through the window, turn that, turn that, turn the handle on the window, you're in the house. Why don't people do that? Well, we have laws because there are specific things that we prevent, and so much of the current thinking about privacy as well. We need to make sure that everybody puts bars on their windows. Now I don't want bars on my windows, I want to create a society where there are social norms that say: you don't do that thing and if you do, we punish you. And in a similar way I go okay so: what is it that we don't want people to do with our private data? Let's go figure that out. And then let's deal with that rather than saying "You can't have any of my data". So these are very broad brush things and that's again kind of like how do we think about keeping the internet free. Let's first of all like build architectures of freedom. And let's build technological support so that freedom is just the way it works. That's the first recourse. Second, encourage people to have social norms and they care about them. And then only in the third case go look for specific cases where there are harmful things and then laws that are as targeted and specific as possible.
Timothy Lord: That makes sense. Now it sounds like you're already talking sort of into what I'll try to make my last question for you here, which is that you have for years talked about the internet as a single system and talked about it as overlapping at least with a global brain, what are some implications of looking at the internet that way? Privacy is certainly one of them. Interconnectedness in general, what are some implications that you see? I'm thinking about the internet as a system. I mean it is a system, we all know that that's what it means, is the network of networks but what are some things that flow out of that?
Timothy O'Reilly: Well, probably the biggest thing that flows out of it is, it is a system that includes us, we are part of it. This goes back to when I first started writing about Web 2.0 back in 2004. The notion was that all the companies that survived the dot-com bust in one way or another were harnessing collective intelligence. And from as simple as Amazon has taken products from millions of sources and put them together. They're an aggregation point. But then how do they use comments to actually increase the intelligence and they actually used the comments and the flow and what people linked to and what people bought to actually show you, to help, in the same way as Google does to show you what is the most interesting result. And Google obviously did that, they basically used the input of their users to give you better search results, both in the original page ranked algorithm but then also all the ways that they mine the data. All the way down to something more modern like Waze, collective intelligence. Twitter, the aggregation of all of our 'in the moment' thoughts, kind of like thoughts flashing through the surface of the brain.
I think that the aggregation of human consciousness into a repository that we can build on is effectively civilization. And the next step in our civilization is, as that becomes digital how do we build new ways for all that collective knowledge, collective action, collective instinct, collective entertainment to kind of assemble and that is the twenty-first century. It's all about how's the network let us coordinate in new ways, think in new ways, build new kinds of collective products. And if you use that as a filter, you can say well, what ties together Wikipedia and Uber and new ways of network coordination, for example, you go, oh that's a really interesting filter to say: What's interesting?


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Senior center Gabe Ikard (Oklahoma), a three-time member of the Capital One Academic All-America® team, headlines the 2013 Capital One Academic All-America® Division I football team as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).
A four-year starter on the offensive line for the Sooners, Ikard has been selected as the 2013 Capital One Academic All-America® of the Year for Division I football.
Ikard, who graduated with his first undergraduate degree in multidisciplinary studies with a biological sciences theme, is currently working on a second undergraduate degree in human relations and has a perfect 4.00 G.P.A.
Named as a midseason All-American by USA Today, Sports Illustrated and CBSSports.com, Ikard has started all 11 games at center this season. He is a finalist for the Senior CLASS Award and the Campbell Trophy. He is also a repeat finalist for the Wuerffel Trophy. One of 16 National Football Foundation Scholar-Athlete Award recipients, he has not allowed a sack this season. Ikard is the leader of an offensive line that is blocking for a running attack that is ranked second in the Big 12 and 15th nationally while helping the Sooners post a 9-2 record..
A two-year captain, Ikard is a four-time Academic All-Big 12 honoree, a three-time All-Big 12 selection and a two-time All-American. The Oklahoma City, Okla., native has played in 50 career games for the Sooners, starting 48 times. He was part of a group of Oklahoma students who participated in a study abroad program in Ireland in 2013. He was also part of a group of OU students who traveled to Haiti on a humanitarian trip in 2012.
Ikard is one of two student-athletes who are repeat selections on the 2013 Capital One Division I Academic All-America® football first team.
Nate Boyer (Texas) joins Ikard on the offensive line of the Capital One Division I Academic All-America® Division I football first team.
Boyer, who earned his undergraduate degree in sport management with a 3.86 G.P.A, is in his first semester of the graduate program in advertising. He served in the Green Berets Special Forces unit before walking on at Texas in 2010 and was placed on scholarship in 2012. He serves as the long snapper for field goals, PAT and punts and has not had a bad snap in his career. The Dublin, Calif., native was the 2012-13 Big 12 Sportsperson of the Year and won the 2012 Disney Spirit Award, given annually to college football's most inspirational figure. He has helped No. 23 Texas post an 8-3 record.
Caleb Lavey (Oklahoma State) was named to the second team. The Celina, Texas, graduate student has a 3.37 with his undergraduate degree in Finance. He is currently working on his MBA while assisting the No. 6 Cowboys to an 8-3 record.
The 24 members of the 2013 Capital One Academic All-America® Division I Football first team have an average 3.78 G.P.A.


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In recent years, movie soundtracks seem little more than a ragbag of songs underpinned by a big-name hit that appears to have little relation to the movie. Face it, the only earth-shattering thing about Aerosmith's "I Don't Wanna Miss a Thing" (for Armageddon) was that it was their first #1 single. Other times, the "why the hell is this here?" factor is intentional, as with Huey Lewis's "Hip to Be Square" soundtracking the most violent murder of American Psycho. But sometimes, music and movies come together in harmony…
It can still happen. Hans Zimmer's Oscar-nominated score for Inception (2010) only came to life, the composer said, when he recruited guitarist Johnny Marr to add a brooding twang motif. But we're here for when guitar and guitarist is absolutely key to a vintage movie theme or even the whole soundtrack.
In no order of rating, here are just 10 great guitar themes.
Cameras, lights, guitars… action!
Movie: Superfly (1972)
Music: Curtis Mayfield
A classic case of a soundtrack eclipsing the film that spawned it, Superfly saw Curtis Mayfield at the height of his powers. Simultaneously joyful and mournful, Mayfield's title track, plus "Pusherman," "Freddie's Dead" and more make the Superfly album as addictive as the movie's subject matter. The '72 movie trailer – watch Superfly here – is dated, but the soundtrack remains superfine.
Movie: Paris, Texas (1984)
Music: Ry Cooder
Working only with producer Jim Dickinson and fellow guitarist David Lindley, Cooder's haunting score got to the heart of Wim Wenders' road movie's images of fragility and otherworldliness. Cooder played an array of slide instruments in different tunings throughout, yet Paris, Texas's main theme is so simple you never forget it. It's far removed from a "normal" soundtrack, but perhaps how a truly empathetic soundtrack should be? Cooder's The Long Riders and Last Man Standing also show how well he understands melding guitar music and movies.
Movie: The Graduate (1967)
Music: Paul Simon
Paul Simon's work for The Graduate is strange in some ways. Only one song, "Mrs. Robinson" obviously, was specifically written for Mike Nichols's movie but Simon's other guitar tunes fit the mood perfectly. Dave Grusin's subtle and jazzy orchestral score intertwines with Simon and Garfunkel's song snippets perfectly: the likes of "April Come She Will" and "The Sound of Silence" sound as if they were written for the movie, even if they were not. In its melding of "traditional" score composers and pop artists, The Graduate was a soundtrack watershed. Simon and Garfunkel's full version of "Mrs. Robinson" hit #1 on The Billboard charts in 1968.
Movies: James Bond series (from 1962… and still going)
Music: The John Barry Seven and Vic Flick
As with most movie franchises, James Bond themes are now about a big-name singer. Adele is tipped to be singing the "signature tune" to 2012's Skyfall, going where A-ha, Sheryl Crow, Rita Coolidge, Garbage and many more have all previously stumbled. Fact is, nothing beats the original James Bond theme, orchestrated in a rush by composer John Barry, with London session player Vic Flick providing the surf-inspired twang. It still appears in every Bond movie because it has to. Flick also played on other incidental themes in the Bond movies Dr. No , From Russia with Love, Goldfinger, Thunderball, You Only Live Twice, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Diamonds are Forever and License to Kill. Hear this oh-so-simple guitar riff, and you immediately think: "Bond: James Bond."
Movie: Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973)
Music: Bob Dylan
Dylan had a vested interest in his soundtrack for the Sam Peckinpah movie being good: he also acted in the movie, as the character Alias, and temporarily moved his family to Mexico for the task. Dylan's instrumental contributions aren't perfect – just as the film is flawed – but it is underrated. "Bunkhouse Theme" is a delicate instrumental, and the soundtrack did spawn one of Dylan's most enduring songs, "Knockin' on Heaven's Door." His first music for three years, the soundtrack for Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid proved the singularly minded Dylan could work across genres.
Movie: The Deer Hunter (1978)
Music: Stanley Myers/John Williams
Myers' "Cavatina" is classic example of a musical theme working in an incongruous context. Michael Cimono's The Deer Hunter, a gritty movie about three Vietnam vets' intertwining lives, hardly seemed ripe for a sweeping strings and classical guitar theme, but it worked. Australian guitarist Williams had recorded Myers's piece earlier in the '70s, but via the new Deer Hunter arrangement, it became a chart hit. It doesn't rock, but remains perfectly poignant in the context of the movie.
Movie: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
Music: Ennio Morricone
Italian composer Morricone is a legend of numerous soundtracks, but never more so than for his work on Sergio Leone's "dollars" trilogy, of which The Good, the Bad and the Ugly was the third and arguably the best. The "spaghetti western" guitar twang of TGTBaTU may have originally come from surf guitar, but it became its own style. This is not guitar-centric, but shows how well electric guitar can work in a dramatic orchestra and choir setting. The guitar motif is played by Bruno Battisti D'Amario, usually a classical player, but who once released a "killer sitar funk" track called "Hua Hua Rock." Go figure. A classic movie theme, and one defined by the simplest of guitar motifs.
Movie: Pulp Fiction (1994)
Main theme: Dick Dale
Dale's version of "Misirlou" pre-dated Pulp Fiction by decades, yet although it wasn't written for the movie it somehow encapsulates it. A traditional-influenced Greek song first performed in 1927 ("Miserlou," its original name, translates as "Egyptian Girl"), Dale's surf guitar version from 1962 is the perfect movie-intro rumble. Pulp Fiction is a rare example of a soundtrack of old songs somehow fitting perfectly. It's not often you hear an old Mediterranean song played surf-style and immediately think of John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson shooting people dead.
Movie: Shaft (1971)
Music: Isaac Hayes
Even more than Curtis Mayfield's Superfly, Isaac Hayes' Shaft soundtrack defined the "Blaxploitation" sound of the early '70s. Hayes agreed to write the soundtrack after being promised an audition for the lead role of John Shaft: the audition never happened, but Hayes kept his part of the bargain. The wah guitar is played by Charles "Skip" Pitts, who also played with Rufus Thomas and Albert King, among others. Great theme, great wah guitar, the Shaft theme remains badass. Can you dig it? Yes you can.
Movie: Young Guns II (1991)
Music: Jon Bon Jovi
Some may consider JBJ has a hack rock anthem writer. But he certainly came good on his first soundtrack. The movie makers for Young Guns II only asked if they could use Bon Jovi's "Wanted Dead or Alive": JBJ said yes, but suggested he then write the whole soundtrack. And he did. In an interview for Uncut magazine, Young Guns II star Keifer Sutherland said, "When Jon [Bon Jovi] joined the team for Young Guns II, we were all eating hamburgers in a diner and Jon was scribbling on this napkin for, say, six minutes. He declared he'd written 'Blaze of Glory,' which of course then went through the roof in the States. He later gave Emilio Estevez the napkin. We were munching burgers while he wrote a #1 song... Made us feel stupid."
And before y'all complain, the likes of The Beatles' A Hard Day's Night, The Who's Tommy and Quadrophenia, and Prince's Purple Rain don't really count… they are movies written to existing songs, not the other way around. Essentially, they are extended music videos.
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Nintendo has been quiet on North American plans for the 3DS right analog stick attachment that was officially announced in September. But now, a new trademark filing seems to give one more indication that the odd accessory will come to the west.
Siliconera reports that Nintendo has filed a trademark for "Nintendo 3DS Circle Pad Pro" in the West, alongside one in Japan for "slide pad expansion." The Circle Pad is Nintendo's name for the 3DS analog thumbstick.
This isn't really surprising; Capcom had previously spilled the beans on western plans when speaking about its upcoming game Resident Evil Revelations. But this news does give us one more reason to expect the dongle will come our way, and an official name to boot. Slap a "Pro" on the end and we might forget that it makes our 3DS look like it has a growth.


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Sheila Sharp, the new head of the Department of Community Correction, also said the old regime's policies "handcuffed" parole officials who were trying to respond to Freedom of Information requests from the public and lawmakers.
Top parole administrators said Thursday that the past leadership of Arkansas' parole and probation agency failed to properly and consistently share information with the public.
Sheila Sharp, the new head of the Department of Community Correction, also said the old regime's policies "handcuffed" parole officials who were trying to respond to Freedom of Information requests from the public and lawmakers.
Sharp took over as head of the department after former director David Eberhard retired July 1.
Sharp and the agency's deputy director of communications, Dina Tyler, appeared before the Joint Performance Review Committee at the Capitol on Thursday.
Discussion at that meeting turned from a newly proposed public-information policy to the release of emails in the case of Darrell Dennis, an eight-time parole absconder arrested and charged in a May 10 kidnapping and murder in Little Rock, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported (http://bit.ly/1fgPkVk ).
Dennis' case has prompted several ongoing legislative reviews, a review by the governor's office and an administrative investigation by the Arkansas State Police into parole policies and practices.
Citing a story in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette that showed a June 4 request by the newspaper received a handful of emails — while a similar request from legislators weeks later yielded at least 36 emails that were not handed over to the paper — Sen. David Sanders said it appeared that the parole agency broke state law.
"The previous director (Eberhard) clearly had a problem with following the state's Freedom of Information requests," said Sanders, R-Little Rock.
Sharp said the agency's proposed public-information policy would improve the flow of information. Sharp and Tyler are borrowing that policy from the state's prison system and modifying it for the Department of Community Correction.
"In my point of view, with both statutes in mind, if you did release one bundle of information and you found there was another bundle of that information, I believe you should have followed up that as well. You release all of it or none of it," Tyler said, according to the newspaper. "We have to walk a very narrow line between the right to know and security. ... That's what we want to do here."
Tyler said the custodian of the Department of Community Correction's records had given a few emails to the media, only to hand many more over to legislators later without going back to the media.


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I want users to be able to rate and review restaurants. This would mean that their ratings and reviews have to be inserted into the databse. This wouldn't be a problem. My question is, what is the most efficient and SEO friendliest way to show the ratings and reviews per restaurant.
Should I make a script that generate a page for each restaurant? Or should I have one page which gets the data from the database for each company (would that be SEO friendly).
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U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said, "This loan is an important investment in the people and future of Chicago."
The project will rehabilitate the current 95th Street Bus and Rail Terminal, which dates from 1969, with an expanded modern facility. Currently, CTA said it is moving the environmental review process forward on a plan to extend the Red Line past the terminal. The 9.4-mile Dan Ryan Branch of the CTA Red Line ends at the 95th Street Terminal.
As part of the CTA 2013-2017 Capital Improvement Plan, the Dan Ryan Branch is being fully reconstructed. Improvements to the terminal will mean better bus and rail connections and reduced travel congestion and delays. The project will enable CTA riders connecting to and from rail services to access multiple transportation options, including bus service, bike-and-ride and car sharing. Planned improvements will include increased lighting and security cameras, wider walkways, a pedestrian bridge to reduce potential collisions, full wheel-chair accessibility, improved bus maneuverability and other design amenities.
"This important investment will help replace a terminal built in 1969 with one that will better serve Chicago families and businesses well into the future," said Sylvia Garcia, chief financial officer and assistant secretary for budget and programs.
The construction site, which is over the median of the Dan Ryan Expressway, will require CTA to purchase a 2.3-acre parcel adjacent to the current terminal in order to serve as a staging area during reconstruction. Following completion of the construction, CTA may convert the stating area to a park-and-ride facility.
The loan will go toward the $240-million total cost of the project. The project also received a $20 million Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) grant in 2012 from the USDOT.


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2011-12 Borger News Herald Coach of the Year
Sanford-Fritch High School Girl's Basketball Coach Jason Hale was named the 2011-12 Borger News Herald Coach of the Year for leading the Lady Eagles to a 20-win season and a second place finish in District 1-2A.Hale is finishing his seventh year as a coach, which includes stops at Spade and Springlake-Earth before coming to Sanford-Fritch three years ago. Hale spent one year leading the Sanford-Fritch varsity boys before taking over the Lady Eagles head coaching position prior to the 2010-11 season.Hale doesn't have to spend too much time thinking about who has had the biggest impact on his coaching career, due to growing up as a coach's son. Hale said, "Obviously my dad is going to be the biggest influence because I was able to see first hand how the job needs to be done. But I will also say my time in Springlake-Earth influenced me on my approach to coaching girls basketball."Five years ago, the Lady Eagles varsity team struggled on the court and even endured a winless season. But since that winless season, the Lady Eagles have seen improvement, with Hale crediting former Head Coach Kerry Moss for laying the ground work for success the program is now experiencing. Entering the 2011-12 season, Hale said he expected to have a team with the capability to win 20 games, but the key was getting the players to believe it as well.On his approach to the 2011-12 season, Hale said, "We had seen a lot of improvement because the girls were willing to put in a lot of time and hard work in order to get better. The potential was there so from day one this season we had the goal of winning 20 games and making the playoffs."The Lady Eagles started the season winning a couple of games, but Hale credits how his team came together in a early season win over Borger as the point when they realized this year potentially could be special. Hale went on to say one of the differences between this year's team was how they learned to play through adversity and how to close out games and the Borger game was a great example of that. Hale said, " We had lost our point guard Jacy Judd to an injury during the game with Borger. Losing her probably should've meant we would of lost that game and struggled until we got her back. Instead the team found a way to come together to get the win in that game and continued to have success through district."One of the luxuries Hale enjoyed this year was having a team that didn't feature a dominant scorer or rebounder, but one where six different girls had the ability to step in and lead the team any given night. Hale commented, "When you look at our team stats for this past year, one of the things people will notice is we had six girls who essentially had similar stats. That made it hard when it came time to selecting who was going to get All-District honors, but it spoke to how well this team was able to gel and depend on each other to step up in every game."Winning 20 games and reaching the playoffs are milestones Hale takes pride in. But when asked what made this past season enjoyable Hale said it was seeing the team experiencing success, saying, "Most of the seniors on this team had never been able to experience what it was like to compete in the playoffs. So it definitely was nice to see that group be able to enjoy that experience."


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Ninth Annual Scholarship Dinner Brings UVM Students, Donors Together
- 04-18-2014
- By Jay Goyette
The University of Vermont raised nearly $8 million in scholarship support from alumni and other private donors last year, and Thursday night was the moment for grateful students to say "thanks."
Among the scholarship recipients attending was Kane Tobin, a junior enrolled in the School of Business Administration. Tobin is a 28-year-old U.S. Army veteran who served two deployments in Afghanistan as a helicopter crew chief and door gunner immediately following high school in Hyannis, Mass. College is a personal dream he wanted to pursue after fulfilling what he felt was a debt to his country, he said.
"Scholarship support speaks volumes about the university and the importance that the university places on supporting its student body," Tobin said.
Thanks to scholarship support from alumnus John Frank '79 and a Yellow Ribbon Scholarship awarded by UVM, matched by the U.S. Veterans Administration, Kane will be nearly debt-free when he graduates next spring. "On a personal level, it means that I am going to come out of school with less debt.... Receiving a scholarship drives me to work harder and to continue to be deserving of that gift."
About 130 students and 170 benefactors attended the eighth annual "Celebrating Scholarship" dinner, which brought donors together with the students who are benefiting from their gifts.
The event, sponsored by University of Vermont Foundation with President Tom Sullivan and Leslie Black Sullivan '77, was titled "Building the Future Together." It featured remarks by Sullivan, Mary Jane Dickerson, associate professor of English emerita and a long-time supporter of scholarships for UVM students and third-year medical student Raj Thakrar, a student member of the UVM Board of Trustees.
Dickerson, a long-time champion of diversity at UVM, established a scholarship in 2007 to support English majors. She read a "prose poem" she composed for the occasion that alluded to the long struggle for civil rights in America. She ended, poignantly, with the names of students who have benefited from her scholarship. "The list of names on the Mary Jane Dickerson Fund will far outlast me," she said. "Just as I had planned."
President Sullivan thanked the donors present on behalf of the university and the students. "A gift of a scholarship is truly a gift of a lifetime," he said. "Thank you for being our partners in making our students so successful — as students and well beyond as they leave us after graduation."
Medical student Raj Thakrar, a former Medical Alumni Association Scholarship recipient and current Austin W. Lane & Janet C. Lane Scholar, said his reaction upon learning that he would receive scholarship support was to think about what he could do to reciprocate.
"It was more than just financial aid that would lessen the burden for my mother," he said. "It was a catalyst for making a commitment to return the favor to this excellent institution." He said he made a gift to the university as soon as he was able and urged his fellow students to consider doing the same. "Give back," he said. "Your scholarship may not need to be paid back, but you can pay it forward."
Master of ceremonies for the evening was Richard Bundy, president and CEO of the University of Vermont Foundation.
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Last week we ran a story that detailed the final three unknown Nintendo Land attractions. Today we received a Wii U in the office and are able to capture glimpses of gameplay of the new Nintendo Land attractions based on F-Zero, Yoshi, and that lovable(?) Octopus from Game & Watch. While the video is only of what appears on the television, you tilt the gamepad to steer your vehicle, trace a path with the stylus for Yoshi, and use the analog sticks and tilt functionality to control your dancer. Also, we should note that tilting the gamepad affects the camera on the main screen so that is why the screen looks strange.
Watch the video below to see the respective attractions called Captain Falcon's Twister Race, Yoshi's Fruit Cart, and Octopus Dance in action.
Email the author Ben Hanson, or follow on Twitter, and Game Informer.


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INDIANAPOLIS – The last time Colts fans heard from
After visiting six-to-eight countries since then, Luck is back in Indianapolis and ready to roll as off-season conditioning starts Monday.
"It's something I think I did better this year than last year. Every year, hopefully (I'll) continue to do better in balancing that time. I know getting away from football is as important almost as making sure your mind's fresh and clear as the training aspect."
Luck cranked successfully during his second season, directing the Colts to an 11-5 record and a second playoff berth under his command.
From 2012, he increased his completion percentage by five points, his rating by 10 and helped the club set a franchise mark with 14 turnovers.
When asked his biggest lesson from last year, Luck reverted to canine analogy.
"We did a great job during the regular season of limiting turnovers, then I think (seven) interceptions in the post-season plus a couple of fumbles. You can't win consistently that way," said Luck. "I've sort of been chewing on that bone for a while."
Luck threw for 443 yards and four touchdowns as Indianapolis rallied from 28 points down in beating Kansas City, 45-44. He had three interceptions, then endured four the next outing in New England.
"As great as the Chiefs win was, you can't expect to win throwing four interceptions. You can't win consistently turning the ball over. We'll focus on that and all the other areas we can improve on."
Luck kept a rapt eye on off-season moves that swept some teammates away along with bringing new ones on board.
In consecutive off-seasons, he has lost two veteran wide receiver additions – Donnie Avery and Darrius Heyward-Bey – and now he has gained
"I haven't had a chance to throw with him. We've talked, though," said Luck. "He's a winner, a vet, a good football player. I'm very excited.
"Every off-season is key in building rhythm. That's one of the bigger focuses as a quarterback. (It's) either build on the rapport you have with guys like a T.Y. (Hilton) or Reggie. Also (it's) to integrate the new guys, sort of feel each other out football-wise. The work you put this off-season hopefully will pay dividends when the season comes."
Luck, no doubt, has kept tabs on Wayne, who accounted for 29-to-31 percent of Luck's career attempts, yards and touchdowns before injuring a knee last October.
"For the lack of a better word, he is a freak in terms health and what he can do at his age," said Luck. "(I'm) very excited for him to get back on the field. We all know he'll come back and produce probably better than he ever has."
Luck (click here for photo gallery) was at the Indiana Farm Bureau Football Center Friday hosting an event with Riley Hospital for Children at Indiana University Health.
Luck, three teammates and nine alumni players were among workers who helped put about 500 children through a 'Change the Play' fitness routine.
It is an eight-week health and fitness challenge Luck developed with hospital experts.
"I've always enjoyed being around kids. It's fun," said Luck. "Hopefully, they get a little enjoyment out of it.
"What's been great is seeing some of the college kids out here, Butler and Franklin and IUPUI. It's fun for everybody."


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Even though 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh opened the door for speculation about his quarterback situation, that doesn't mean Alex Smith is upset about it.
Harbaugh has stopped short of declaring a starter since Colin Kaepernick's precocious starting debut Monday, when starter Alex Smith was out with a concussion.
But in his first appearance with the media in a week, Smith said there were no hard feelings.
"In my opinion, if you can't be happy for your teammate's success, you're playing the wrong sport," Smith said, via Matt Barrows of the Sacramento Bee. "Go play tennis or golf or something. It's ridiculous, I think. That doesn't belong in team sports, in my opinion."
Smith has always been able to maintain good locker room relationships amid questions about who was starting, whether it was Tim Rattay or Troy Smith or Shaun HIll. But Smith and Hill were groomsmen in each other's weddings, evidence that it's possible to be a mature adult and a competitor at the same time.
As to his health, Smith said he still wasn't cleared for contact, and again practiced in a black no-contact jersey.
"I feel good. I feel really good," Smith said. "So I'm kind of expecting things to go well, . . .
"I tried to push it {last week] and went out and practice and I just wasn't right and the doctors didn't end up clearing me. I'm not going to get into the symptoms that were going on. Tried to push it earlier in the week and there were still some lingering things.
"Ultimately the decision came down to me and my health and was I OK. And I didn't feel like it was something to tough through and can't really tough out something like that. Hopefully, the doctor is going to clear me."
Asked if he thought the starting job would remain his if he was healthy, Smith replied: "I guess you don't expect anything. This is the nature of the game. The next guy steps up and plays well. That's part of the deal in this game. Competition is part of it as well. Don't know what's going to happen."
After what he's been through in his career to get to this point, the fact he handles uncertainty so well speaks to his character.


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Where to Buy a Bacon & Eggs iPhone 5 Cover Just Like Tool's Maynard J. Keenan's
Earlier this month, Maynard Keenan posted a photo on Puscifer's Instagram showing his brand-spankin'-new sleeve tattoo. Those that payed attention to these things probably noticed Maynard's feisty fried-egg and bacon iPhone cover, and thought to themselves: "Wow, I wish I could be cool like Maynard and have a fried-egg and bacon iPhone cover!"
Well, you can! After exhaustive research and personal expense, I have found the very cover that Maynard's phone sports in that photo.
Snatch one up for your very own from Amazon, and wait for the look on Maynard's face when he sees you in the crowd at a(n) [insert Tool/Puscifer/A Perfect Circle here] show, taking photos with what appears to be HIS iPhone! WIN!


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Coming off its first loss at home of the season the No. 6 Arizona Wildcats will look to bounce back when they host the USC Trojans in Pac-12 action at the McKale Center.
The Trojans nearly pulled off an upset of their own on Thursday before falling 98-93 on the road to Arizona State in overtime. The Trojans haven't rely been able to pick up any momentum in either the winning or losing direction of late trading wins and losses over its last four contests. USC is 8-12 with that including a 3-4 mark against league foes. The loss to Arizona State was the fifth in six true road contest for the Trojans who end this three-game road trip against UCLA on Wednesday.
It is that same Bruins that dashed Arizona's perfect mark at the McKale Center with an 84-73 victory over the Wildcats on Thursday. With the loss the sixth- ranked Wildcats are now 16-2 overall with both losses coming during their six conference matchups. After starting the season 14-0 the Wildcats have now split their last four contests. Next up for Arizona is a trip to the Evergreen State to do battle with Washington and Washington State in consecutive games.
Arizona earned a series sweep last season and has won five of the last six meetings with USC to increase its all-time series lead to 60-40.
USC forced the eighth and final tie of regulation to send the game to overtime against Arizona State on a buzzer beating 3-pointer from Jio Fontan. However the Trojans couldn't muster up enough offense in the extra session as they hit just 3-of-8 shots from the floor including misses on both shots from beyond the arc.
The 93 points that USC put up against Arizona State would be considered an offensive eruption for most squads and that is especially true for the Trojans. On the season USC, which scored a season-high in the loss, is just 10th in the Pac-12 in both scoring (66.1 ppg) and field goal percentage (.434). Fontan (9.2 ppg, 4.9 apg) really stepped out of his role as primary distributor to drop in 25 points against Arizona State. Normally it is Eric Wise (12.8 ppg), Byron Wesley (10.1 ppg) and J.T. Terrell (10.6 ppg) who have handled the scoring duties.
Arizona trailed by as many as 15 points against UCLA and never got closer than six points in the last five minutes in the loss to the Bruins. The Wildcats, who shot just 38.4 percent from the field in the contest, hurt themselves with turnovers as their 14 miscues led to 21 points for the Bruins.
The transfer from Xavier for Mark Lyons has largely paid high dividends for Arizona. The 6-foot-1 guard is scoring a career-high 15.2 points per game while matching a career best with 3.1 assists per game as both the leading scorer and distributor for the Wildcats. Joining Lyons in double figures on the season is athletic forward Solomon Hill (13.6 ppg, 5.7 rpg) and Nick Johnson (13.3 ppg) who is coming off one of his best efforts of the season, netting 23 points against UCLA. Led by Lyons, Hill and Johnson, the Wildcats have been scoring a healthy 75.6 points per game on 45.7 percent shooting this season. The Wildcats also own a massive advantage on the boards (+9.0), while outscoring opponents by nearly 13 points per game.


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With plucky notes and three-part harmony, the Song Birds mimic the call of a tweeting feathery flock. "And we're not too bad on the eyes, either," joked musician Savannah Norris-Jenkins, 30, of the North Side.
With plucky notes and three-part harmony, the Song Birds mimic the call of a tweeting feathery flock.
�And we�re not too bad on the eyes, either,� joked musician Savannah Norris-Jenkins, 30, of the North Side.
The Columbus quartet, which specializes in twangy Americana, merges old-time instruments with a modern aesthetic � ties that Norris-Jenkins said �strengthen the connections� between past and present.
And the band is well-connected, too, consisting of Norris-Jenkins, married members Jessi and Brian Maxwell and Jessi�s brother, Kris Sunderlin.
They�ll chirp tonight in the Grandview Heights Public Library. Norris-Jenkins spoke about the group.
Q: How did your band form?
A: Strangely enough, from a Craigslist ad in the summer of 2009. I had been searching for a project myself but had not been having much luck until I happened upon Jessi�s ad that specifically stated: �Creeps need not apply.�
I am only slightly creepy. Our voices clicked from the start.
Q: How would you describe your music?
A: Fun Americana that is rich with beautiful vocal harmony, catchy melodies and great musicianship.
Q: What inspired the type of music you play?
A: A combination of our musical backgrounds and strengths. My singing style is influenced by the soulful and smooth voices of artists like Patsy Cline and my love of harmony from the Beatles and the Everly Brothers.
Jessi and Kris are both fantastic musicians and singers that grew up in a house filled with great Americana music. And Brian is a quick learner and a whiz at coming up with great, inventive melodies.
Q: What fuels your songwriting?
A: Sometimes, we�ll pull from personal experiences to tell a particular story or provide some catharsis. Other times, we tap into our creative side for works of pure fiction.
We are always up for writing a good old drinking song.
Q: What�s the best quote you�ve heard about your band?
A: �... The Song Birds, a quartet whose driving rhythms are coated in sweet harmonies, much like a butterscotch dip-cone from the Dairy Queen. Dee-lish.� � Columbus songwriter Matt Monta.
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Do you want more music in your house, but don't want to run wires down the hall or through the walls to get it? How about sending music outside without having to trench your yard and pipe wires through conduits? Oh, and of course you want access to your digitally stored music collection and favorite Pandora stations, right? Then it's time to start shopping for a wireless music system. Here are some frequently-asked questions, with answers, about wireless audio, plus a roundup of some great products, many of which have been thoroughly tested by the Electronic House editors.
What does the term "wireless audio" mean, exactly?
Technically, an AM/FM radio is a wireless audio system, but today we generally mean a system that is wirelessly connected to the audio source and usually can play back music from the Internet. These products can be stand-alone players or components. Often they're wirelessly controlled as well via a smartphone or tablet app. Most of the products will still need power, so unless it's a portable product with a battery, then yes, technically you still need at least one wire to plug into a power outlet. Products like the Sonos Connect Amp, NuVo Technologies P200 player and WASP Audio LINK-Mount allow you to connect your own speakers. Others, like VOCO's V-Zone+, connect to another audio system via a digital or analog connection.
How is a system wirelessly connected?
Wirelessly, of course. Seriously, wireless is only part of the product. Some wireless music systems include an Internet gateway device that needs to be connected to your home Internet router or switch. The gateway wirelessly connects to the various receivers in the house (this is how both Sonos and NuVo work) which may or may not require additional speakers, or may be connected to other components, such as a home theater pre-amp or receiver. Other products use a smartphone or tablet, connected by Bluetooth or AirPlay, as their gateway to the Internet.
What kinds of audio components can be wirelessly connected?
The audio components that connect to a wireless music system vary depending on the specific product, and what you want to listen to, but most are capable of streaming music from Web-based services (such as Pandora, Spotify or vTuner) and locally stored music files from a PC, networked hard drive or smartphone/tablet. With the latter, Bluetooth and Apple's AirPlay are usually the wireless connection methods.
Some products are also able to connect to components, such as a CD player and an external hard drive (via USB or network).
Is a wireless music system better than a wired music system? If so, why?
This depends on what you want out of your music experience. Wireless isn't always better, but it's usually easier to install. Also, with streaming services, you have access to almost any music you can think of. However, few wireless systems can play high-resolution files (24-bit content support, a capability that the Wireless Speaker & Audio Association—WiSA—and its members are pushing forward), so if high-res is important to you, you should look into more traditional hardwired solutions. On the other hand, good digital signal processors (DSPs) and amp designs can enhance the audio quality of wireless audio systems. And if the system is connected to another audio system, like your home theater system, the external amp and speakers can have a great impact on the sound quality.
The performance of wireless audio systems also hinges on the quality of the network, which means network activity, network interference and bandwidth issues can all impact reliability. If your music source is an online app coming from a smartphone, then what happens when the phone leaves the room or runs out of battery power? You'll want to keep a phone charger handy.
Can a non-wireless product be converted into a wireless system?
Yes, somewhat. Nearly any audio device can be connected to a Bluetooth adapter or an Apple AirPort Express. This will facilitate wireless streaming of music to standard speakers. Unfortunately, this solution will yield a listening experience that will be sub-par to that of a wireless multiroom music system, but it's a good option for upgrading a single-room player to wireless capability for $100 or less.
Speaking of affordability, most of the products and systems we've listed on page 72 (go to the manufacturers' websites for more info) cost in the hundreds of dollars, not in the thousands like traditional speakers and audio components. They're scalable, too, so you can start with one or two pieces and add more products to fill your house as you go. There's a good reason more and more companies are riding the wireless audio wave. And it may be the right time for you to start surfin' too.


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Otonoha School is a nursery school that looks to develop children's relationship with nature and music. The symbol is a tree with musical note. Rice fields are left all around the city. In the surroundings, architects UZU made the floors connected to the fields of rice ear and the hills so that the children can climb and discover new viewpoints.
The children become familiar with how the Japanese staple food rice is grown through the school's scenic location. The youngest children will see the scenery of farming outside their windows from the room on the first floor every day. 2 year old to 5 year old children experience the farming with farmers in the neighbourhood. They plant rice, watch living creatures, harvest rice, make rice balls with their parents and have lunchtime parties.
Children are encouraged to 'feel the rhythm' when they play instruments at the school and they also feel the sound when they run together. A room on the second floor can be divided from one-room to twelve spaces by wooden partitions and lace curtains with various sizes and atmospheres.
The deck to the south connects to a big staircase and a green slope where one of the school teachers planted clovers. There is also a generous field for playtime. The inside and outside are connected and children travel through with a mixture of sounds such as the sound of instruments, the voice of children, the sound of wind in the field and insects.
Two artists were employed to add the softness of nature to the interior. The light and curtains are harmonised with the motion of wind and children. UZU concludes that 'everything around the environment becomes as one'.
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Hollywood. That's the new nickname for Charleston fishing guide Capt. Patrick Crawford, given to him by fishing buddies ribbing him about his role in the new reality television series "Top Hooker."
The show, which debuts tonight at 10 on cable's Animal Planet, pits 10 professional anglers against each other in unusual fishing challenges.
The first episode includes contests to see who can catch the most goldfish with their mouth, as well as the most tilapia with a landing net — while zip-lining over a lake.
In addition to the arguably dubious honor of being named the nation's "Top Hooker," the series' winning angler could take home $30,000 and a new truck.
Playing off its suggestive title, the show features anglers with over-the-top nicknames. There's a "Beefcake South African," "Bowfishing Babe" and "Sexy Spearfisher." Crawford is billed as the "Cocky Captain."
Though nicknames are nothing new for Crawford — years ago he was known as "Elvis" for the massive sideburns he wore at the time — participating in such a huge production certainly was.
The whirlwind experience began last fall, when after a long casting process Crawford learned he had landed a spot on the show. Only a week after getting the call, the Lowcountry captain left for California.
"We shot and filmed all over California," Crawford said. "We fished in freshwater, saltwater — you name it."
Because of the competitive nature of the series, Crawford and his nine fellow competitors remained cut off from family and friends throughout production. The digital blackout — no phones, no social media — was surreal, he said.
"For the first day and a half, I was feeling my thumb roaming around like I was using my phone," Crawford said with a laugh. "And then it turned into the most peaceful thing in the world."
Isolated, cast members lived and worked together throughout the shoot (Crawford can't divulge how long it took).
"We cooked together, we ate together," Crawford said. "It was a weird experience. You become really close with these people, because you have no other connection with the outside world."
And although the anglers were competing against each other — with presumably only one winner at the series' end — they became good friends and have since kept in touch, Crawford said.
"I still talk to everybody daily, believe it or not."
Crawford plans to be at Finz Bar and Grill in Mount Pleasant tonight, watching the debut with a big crowd.
"It's an open invite," Crawford said. "We've got the whole place to ourselves.
"Come by and laugh at me."
To learn more about Capt. Crawford, go to allurefishingcharters.com or call (843) 225-3474.
The black sea bass fishery opened Saturday for both commercial and recreational fishermen.
Federal fisheries managers truncated last year's fishing season after catch limits for the relatively small but easy-to-catch bottom fish appeared to be met. The move angered many local fishermen, who argued that sea bass appear to be more plentiful and larger than they've been in years.
New stock assessments backed up these claims, and managers recently endorsed a plan to double the current annual catch limit and possibly avoid more shortened seasons.
The recreational bag limit is five fish per person, per day, with a minimum size limit of 13 inches (total length). Anglers using natural baits to fish for any snapper-grouper species, including sea bass, must use non-stainless steel circle hooks. Both recreational and commercial fishermen also must use dehooking tools when fishing for bottom fish.
The state's clam season closed Friday and will reopen Oct. 1. Bacterial levels increase when water temperatures rise above 80 degrees, so shellfish harvesting is prohibited during the summer months.
South Carolina's oyster season closed May 15.
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|2003-11-04, 21:21
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Manila, Philippines
was it the last 5 minutes? i saw it some time ago and i can't remember it well but i distinctly remember that Mai was having her graduation in Kazahana...
either way, its just a special. nothing earth shattering happens. basically, a slice of life with the Kanon charaters all leading up to the final scene in the original Kanon series
actually, now that i remember it, you get this special DVD in japan if you BUY enough Kanon merchandise. something like 6000 yen worth or something like that.
|2003-11-04, 23:26
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It's not the last 5 minutes, it's more like what happens not-so-long-later - it's still Spring, and it was beginning of Spring at the end of the TV series, or it could be a year later, they never made it clear :P Kazahana is like an epilogue, a "what happens afterwards" kinda thing to close off the series.
Do note that there's tons of other Kanon stories out there still up for grabs, all on Drama CD - of course, won't make any sense if you don't understand Japanese, but there are some REALLY GREAT stories on those CDs.
|2003-11-05, 07:18
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Poof... time warp
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Manila, Philippines
wow, i was way off. i didn't realize it would be so expensive...
|2003-11-05, 08:08
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It gets better. You see, Kazahana is a "promotional campaign". Meaning the DVD isn't the only thing you can get. There's 3 "courses" you can take.
Course A is the DVD which requires most points.
Course B is a Drama CD, which requires less points.
Course C is a poster set, which requires the least.
Now, even if you buy all the merchandise they released that would count as points (all the DVDs, Drama CDs and audio CDs), you will NOT have enough points to get all 3 courses :P Meaning if you wanted to get all 3 of them, you'll have to buy multiple copies of some of the merchandise to get enough points - what would you do with multiple copies? Now we know how Japanese companies "promote" their goods :P
|2003-11-05, 14:05
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
To me Kazahana is a must have if your a Kanon fan.
It fills in some vague areas and kinda takes place between the end of the story and the last scene.
For me it just enhanced and completed an already excellent series. Some didnt like Kanon but for me it was one of the best anime's I have ever seen. I have never had an anime get me so emotionally involved or tear me up like Kanon did.
|2003-11-05, 18:41
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I do as I please... ¬_¬
Well i do agree with u on that.....Kanon is a GREAT ANIME.....its so touching..... but if there is another one that will get u even more emotionally involved...that must be
Kimi Ga Nozomu Eien.........if you guys havent seen this......U SHOULD NOW!!!!
so far im sure KGNE is the best of the best in triangle love drama kind.
|2003-11-05, 20:36
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|2003-11-07, 02:03
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tsubasa o sagashite
|2003-11-07, 04:20
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Yeah, there's only 1 Kazahana, no more. And just in case anyone is thinking of buying all the Kanon merchandise to get the Kazahana DVD, don't bother - the campaign ended December 2002.
As for selling them second hand, you can - but you're still loosing money :P
|2003-11-07, 18:13
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Rewrite of the Life
It is so what happens in the last episode except extended. If you noticed:
That when Yuuichi laughed at Ayu's new haircut that happened in the last episode when he first saw it. And in the special he saw it for the first time too so really it is an extended ending, but to my knowledge most of thsoie events do not occur in the game, like Makoto reappearing.
|2003-12-02, 03:36
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FileSystemWatcher Class
Assembly: System (in system.dll)
Use FileSystemWatcher to watch for changes in a specified directory. You can watch for changes in files and subdirectories of the specified directory. You can create a component to watch files on a local computer, a network drive, or a remote computer.
To watch for changes in all files, set the Filter property to an empty string ("") or use wildcards ("*.*"). To watch a specific file, set the Filter property to the file name. For example, to watch for changes in the file MyDoc.txt, set the Filter property to "MyDoc.txt". You can also watch for changes in a certain type of file. For example, to watch for changes in text files, set the Filter property to "*.txt".
There are several types of changes you can watch for in a directory or file. For example, you can watch for changes in Attributes, the LastWrite date and time, or the Size of files or directories. This is done by setting the NotifyFilter property to one of the NotifyFilters values. For more information on the type of changes you can watch, see NotifyFilters.
You can watch for renaming, deletion, or creation of files or directories. For example, to watch for renaming of text files, set the Filter property to "*.txt" and call the WaitForChanged method with a Renamed specified for its parameter.
The Windows operating system notifies your component of file changes in a buffer created by the FileSystemWatcher. If there are many changes in a short time, the buffer can overflow. This causes the component to lose track of changes in the directory, and it will only provide blanket notification. Increasing the size of the buffer with the InternalBufferSize property is expensive, as it comes from non-paged memory that cannot be swapped out to disk, so keep the buffer as small yet large enough to not miss any file change events. To avoid a buffer overflow, use the NotifyFilter and IncludeSubdirectories properties so you can filter out unwanted change notifications.
For a list of initial property values for an instance of FileSystemWatcher, see the FileSystemWatcher constructor.
Please note the following when using the FileSystemWatcher class.
Hidden files are not ignored.
In some systems, FileSystemWatcher reports changes to files using the short 8.3 file name format. For example, a change to "LongFileName.LongExtension" could be reported as "LongFi~.Lon".
This class contains a link demand and an inheritance demand at the class level that applies to all members. A SecurityException is thrown when either the immediate caller or the derived class does not have full-trust permission. For details about security demands, see Link Demands.
Copying and moving folders
The operating system and FileSystemWatcher object interpret a cut-and-paste action or a move action as a rename action for a folder and its contents. If you cut and paste a folder with files into a folder being watched, the FileSystemWatcher object reports only the folder as new, but not its contents because they are essentially only renamed.
To be notified that the contents of folders have been moved or copied into a watched folder, provide OnChanged and OnRenamed event handler methods as suggested in the following table.
Events and Buffer Sizes
Note that several factors can affect which file system change events are raised, as described by the following:
Common file system operations might raise more than one event. For example, when a file is moved from one directory to another, several OnChanged and some OnCreated and OnDeleted events might be raised. Moving a file is a complex operation that consists of multiple simple operations, therefore raising multiple events. Likewise, some applications (for example, antivirus software) might cause additional file system events that are detected by FileSystemWatcher.
The FileSystemWatcher can watch disks as long as they are not switched or removed. The FileSystemWatcher does not raise events for CDs and DVDs, because time stamps and properties cannot change. Remote computers must have one of the required platforms installed for the component to function properly.
If multiple FileSystemWatcher objects are watching the same UNC path in Windows XP prior to Service Pack 1, or Windows 2000 SP2 or earlier, then only one of the objects will raise an event. On machines running Windows XP SP1 and newer, Windows 2000 SP3 or newer or Windows Server 2003, all FileSystemWatcher objects will raise the appropriate events.
Setting the Filter does not decrease what goes into the buffer.
Note that a FileSystemWatcher does not raise an Error event when an event is missed or when the buffer size is exceeded, due to dependencies with the Windows operating system. To keep from missing events, follow these guidelines:
Increasing the buffer size with the InternalBufferSize property can prevent missing file system change events.
Avoid watching files with long file names. Consider renaming using shorter names.
Keep your event handling code as short as possible.
The following example creates a FileSystemWatcher to watch the directory specified at run time. The component is set to watch for changes in LastWrite and LastAccess time, the creation, deletion, or renaming of text files in the directory. If a file is changed, created, or deleted, the path to the file prints to the console. When a file is renamed, the old and new paths print to the console.
Use the System.Diagnostics and System.IO namespaces for this example.
public ref class Watcher { private: // Define the event handlers. static void OnChanged( Object^ /*source*/, FileSystemEventArgs^ e ) { // Specify what is done when a file is changed, created, or deleted. Console::WriteLine( "File: {0} {1}", e->FullPath, e->ChangeType ); } static void OnRenamed( Object^ /*source*/, RenamedEventArgs^ e ) { // Specify what is done when a file is renamed. Console::WriteLine( "File: {0} renamed to {1}", e->OldFullPath, e->FullPath ); } public: [PermissionSet(SecurityAction::Demand, Name="FullTrust")] int static run() { array<String^>^args = System::Environment::GetCommandLineArgs(); // If a directory is not specified, exit program. if ( args->Length != 2 ) { // Display the proper way to call the program. Console::WriteLine( "Usage: Watcher.exe (directory)" ); return 0; } // Create a new FileSystemWatcher and set its properties. FileSystemWatcher^ watcher = gcnew FileSystemWatcher; watcher->Path = args[ 1 ]; /* Watch for changes in LastAccess and LastWrite times, and the renaming of files or directories. */ watcher->NotifyFilter = static_cast<NotifyFilters>(NotifyFilters::LastAccess | NotifyFilters::LastWrite | NotifyFilters::FileName | NotifyFilters::DirectoryName); // Only watch text files. watcher->Filter = "*.txt"; // Add event handlers. watcher->Changed += gcnew FileSystemEventHandler( Watcher::OnChanged ); watcher->Created += gcnew FileSystemEventHandler( Watcher::OnChanged ); watcher->Deleted += gcnew FileSystemEventHandler( Watcher::OnChanged ); watcher->Renamed += gcnew RenamedEventHandler( Watcher::OnRenamed ); // Begin watching. watcher->EnableRaisingEvents = true; // Wait for the user to quit the program. Console::WriteLine( "Press \'q\' to quit the sample." ); while ( Console::Read() != 'q' ) ; } }; int main() { Watcher::run(); }
public class Watcher { public static void main(String[] args1) { Run(); } /** @attribute PermissionSet(SecurityAction.Demand, Name="FullTrust") */ public static void Run() { String args[] = System.Environment.GetCommandLineArgs(); // If a directory is not specified, exit program. if (args.length != 2) { // Display the proper way to call the program. Console.WriteLine("Usage: Watcher.exe (directory)"); return; } // Create a new FileSystemWatcher and set its properties. FileSystemWatcher watcher = new FileSystemWatcher(); watcher.set_Path(args[1]); /* Watch for changes in LastAccess and LastWrite times, and the renaming of files or directories. */ watcher.set_NotifyFilter (NotifyFilters.LastAccess |NotifyFilters.LastWrite | NotifyFilters.FileName | NotifyFilters.DirectoryName); // Only watch text files. watcher.set_Filter("*.txt"); // Add event handlers. watcher.add_Changed(new FileSystemEventHandler(OnChanged)); watcher.add_Created(new FileSystemEventHandler(OnChanged)); watcher.add_Deleted(new FileSystemEventHandler(OnChanged)); watcher.add_Renamed(new RenamedEventHandler(OnRenamed)); // Begin watching. watcher.set_EnableRaisingEvents(true); // Wait for the user to quit the program. Console.WriteLine("Press \'q\' to quit the sample."); while ((Console.Read() != 'q')) { } } // Define the event handlers. private static void OnChanged(Object source,FileSystemEventArgs e) { // Specify what is done when a file is changed, created, or deleted. Console.WriteLine(("File: " + e.get_FullPath() + " " + e.get_ChangeType())); } //OnChanged private static void OnRenamed(Object source, RenamedEventArgs e) { // Specify what is done when a file is renamed. Console.WriteLine("File: {0} renamed to {1}", e.get_OldFullPath(),e.get_FullPath()); } //OnRenamed } //Watcher
- SecurityPermission for calling members of ProcessStartInfo. Demand value: LinkDemand; Named Permission Sets: FullTrust.
- SecurityPermission for deriving from the ProcessStartInfo class. Demand value: InheritanceDemand; Named Permission Sets: FullTrust.