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|Date / Time
|Wednesday May 23, 2018 @12:09PM
|The US Military is Funding an Effort To Catch Deepfakes and Other AI Trickery
|Friday December 08, 2017 @02:44PM
|'Nature' Editorial Juxtaposes FOIA Email Release With Illegal Hacking
|Friday June 09, 2017 @04:46PM
|DARPA Funds Development of New Type of Processor
|Sunday April 09, 2017 @12:32AM
|Electric Vertical Take-Off Aircraft Successfully Tested By DARPA
|Tuesday December 06, 2016 @10:05PM
|NASA Awards $127 Million Contract For Refueling Mission Spacecraft
|Tuesday October 11, 2016 @04:45PM
|US Military Is Looking At Blockchain Technology To Secure Nuclear Weapons
|Saturday August 06, 2016 @06:45PM
|'Mayhem' Wins $2M In DARPA's AI Hacking Contest, Draws EFF Scrutiny
|Saturday July 30, 2016 @06:50PM
|Famed Security Researcher 'Mudge' Creates New Algorithm For Measuring Code Security
|Wednesday July 27, 2016 @06:47PM
|US Government to Pay $2 Million for Automatic Hacking System
|Friday May 20, 2016 @08:37PM
|DARPA Extreme DDOS Project Transforming Network Attack Mitigation
|Sunday May 08, 2016 @05:35PM
|Lego Robots Crack Gesture-Based Security
|Monday April 25, 2016 @01:36PM
|US Wants Its Own Secure and Self-Destructing Messaging App -- And It's Willing to Pay
|Saturday April 16, 2016 @06:57PM
|Open Source Headset Enables New Mind-Controlled Devices
|Thursday April 14, 2016 @05:36PM
|DARPA's Latest Chip Is Designed To Be Bad At Arithmetic
|Saturday April 02, 2016 @10:49AM
|Refrigerator-Sized Machine Can Print Pills on Demand
|Monday March 28, 2016 @07:31PM
|DARPA's Latest Grand Challenge Takes On The Radio Spectrum
|Friday March 11, 2016 @03:52PM
|DARPA Wants Ideas On Weaponizing Off-the-Shelf Tech
|Monday March 07, 2016 @07:19PM
|U.S. Military Spending Millions To Make Cyborgs A Reality
|Friday March 04, 2016 @05:36PM
|DARPA Moves Ahead With Radical Vertical Take-Off Aircraft
|Monday February 29, 2016 @10:45AM
|Pentagon Research Could Make 'Brain Modem' A Reality
|Wednesday February 24, 2016 @12:49PM
|Boston Dynamics' Next-Gen ATLAS Sheds the Tether
|Sunday February 14, 2016 @11:49AM
|DARPA's Robot Ship Slated For April Unveiling
|Thursday January 07, 2016 @09:34AM
|Robot Mule Put Out To Pasture By Marine Corps
|Tuesday October 13, 2015 @10:31AM
|DARPA's ICARUS Program To Develop Self-Destructing Air Delivery Vehicles
|Friday February 13, 2015 @10:48PM
|'Google Search On Steroids' Brings Dark Web To Light
|Tuesday February 10, 2015 @02:04AM
|Boston Dynamics Introduces Their Newest Four-Legged Robot, 'Spot'
|Saturday February 07, 2015 @08:48PM
|DARPA's ALASA Could Pave Way For Cheaper, Faster Satellite Launches
|Thursday December 25, 2014 @12:03AM
|DARPA Wants Help Building a Drone That Flies Like a Hawk
|Tuesday September 16, 2014 @08:30AM
|DARPA Funds Harvard's Soft Exoskeletal Suit
|Thursday August 14, 2014 @02:28PM
|DARPA Uses Preteen Gamers To Beta Test Tomorrow's Military Software
|Friday August 08, 2014 @12:15AM
|IBM Creates Custom-Made Brain-Like Chip
|Wednesday July 09, 2014 @12:45PM
|A Brain Implant For Synthetic Memory
|Thursday June 12, 2014 @08:34AM
|Gecko Feet Inspire Hand-Held Spider-Man Paddles
|Monday June 09, 2014 @10:42PM
|IPMI Protocol Vulnerabilities Have Long Shelf Life
|Wednesday June 04, 2014 @09:09AM
|DARPA's Cyber Grand Challenge Offers $3.75 Million In Prizes
|Saturday May 24, 2014 @02:13AM
|DARPA Unveils Hack-Resistant Drone
|Friday May 23, 2014 @04:50PM
|Report: Samsung Building VR Headset For Its Phones & Tablets
|Saturday April 12, 2014 @03:36AM
|AT Black Knight Transformer Hits the Road and Takes a Hop
|Monday February 17, 2014 @08:33PM
|DARPA Training Cadets and Midshipmen As Cyber Warriors
|Sunday December 22, 2013 @11:11AM
|Japanese SCHAFT Takes the Gold at DARPA Robot Challenge
|Sunday September 08, 2013 @02:29PM
|Unboxing Boston Dynamics' DARPA-Ready Atlas Robot
|Friday August 23, 2013 @09:13PM
|Will the Headless Ape Robot Win the DARPA Challenge?
|Friday August 09, 2013 @07:29AM
|IBM Devises Software For Its Experimental Brain-Modeling Chips
|Friday June 07, 2013 @06:53PM
|When Will My Computer Understand Me?
|Saturday March 30, 2013 @01:24AM
|Making Robots Mimic the Human Hand
|Tuesday January 29, 2013 @01:56PM
|DARPA Seeks To Secure Data With Electronics That Dissolve On Command
|Saturday January 26, 2013 @09:05AM
|It's finally happening, laser turrets in our fighter jets!
|Wednesday January 16, 2013 @11:51AM
|DARPA Wants Distributed Network of Deep Sea Storage Units
|Friday January 11, 2013 @11:40PM
|DARPA Wants To Seed the Ocean With Delayed-Action Robot Pods
|Monday December 17, 2012 @11:29AM
|DARPA begins work on 100Gbps wireless tech with 120-mile range
|Wednesday December 12, 2012 @03:35AM
|DARPA foam fights internal bleeding
|Saturday December 08, 2012 @02:22AM
|DARPA drone has load placing arm
|Tuesday December 04, 2012 @06:22AM
|DARPA Hunting for Backdoors
|Thursday October 25, 2012 @07:06PM
|Virginia Tech's RoMeLa Answers DARPA Robotics Challenge With THOR
|Monday October 22, 2012 @01:18AM
|DARPA Funds a $300 Software-Defined Radio For Hackers
|Monday October 22, 2012 @12:42AM
|DARPA Funds A $300 Software-Defined Radio For Hackers
|Wednesday October 03, 2012 @01:35AM
|DARPA opens registrations for for first FANG challenge
|Wednesday September 19, 2012 @12:42PM
|DARPA Unveils System Using Human Brains For Computer Vision
|Wednesday September 19, 2012 @12:30PM
|DARPA combines human brains and 120-megapixel cameras
|Tuesday September 18, 2012 @12:13AM
|100 Year Starship Symposium Concludes, Politicians Attack
|Saturday September 15, 2012 @07:14AM
|Towards a 50% Efficient Solar Cell
|Thursday September 06, 2012 @05:12AM
|Cheetah robot outpaces Usain Bolt in setting new robotic land speed record
|Saturday September 01, 2012 @05:35PM
|DARPA's 'Phoenix' Program To Bring Satellites Back From the Dead
|Friday August 10, 2012 @06:20PM
|Meet DARPA's New Militarized Earthworm
|Tuesday August 07, 2012 @08:14AM
|DARPA Creates 0.85 THz Solid State Receiver
|Thursday July 26, 2012 @09:03PM
|DARPA Director Calls for Change in Tech Industry | Intel Free Press
|Tuesday July 24, 2012 @09:17AM
|Correcting the Record: the Government's Role In the Internet
|Monday July 23, 2012 @11:23AM
|Government didn't invent the Internet
|Monday July 23, 2012 @06:04AM
|The DARPA-Funded Power Strip That Will Hack Your Network
|Sunday July 15, 2012 @08:54PM
|DARPA Creates Machine Which Extinguishes Fires With Sound
|Thursday July 05, 2012 @04:07PM
|Feds Plan 'Fog of Disinformation' To Track Information Leaks
|Thursday July 05, 2012 @02:22PM
|Feds Look to Fight Leaks With 'Fog of Disinformation'
|Wednesday June 27, 2012 @09:09AM
|Pentagon's In-Orbit Satellite Recycling Program Moving Forward
|Wednesday May 23, 2012 @12:37PM
|DARPA Pays $3.5 Million For New TechShops and Secret Reconfigurable Factories
|Friday April 27, 2012 @12:43AM
|DARPA Aims to Reuse Space Junk
|Friday April 20, 2012 @05:59PM
|Hypersonic Test Aircraft Peeled Apart After 3 Minutes of Sustained Mach 20 Speed
|Friday April 20, 2012 @04:46AM
|Dual-focus eyewear to make augmented reality battlefield-ready
|Sunday April 08, 2012 @09:14AM
|Mitch Altman Parts Ways With Maker Fair Over DARPA Grant
|Tuesday April 03, 2012 @12:48PM
|Mitch Altman parts ways with Maker Fair over DARPA Grant
|Saturday March 17, 2012 @04:23AM
|Exclusive: Darpa Director Bolts Pentagon for Google
|Friday March 16, 2012 @05:16PM
|DARPA director leaving the Pentagon for Google
|Wednesday March 14, 2012 @11:59PM
|Pentagon Wants Disposable War Satellites
|Wednesday March 14, 2012 @02:29AM
|DARPA wants swarms of "disposable" satellites to provide almost-live images
|Wednesday March 07, 2012 @02:43PM
|Try Your Programming Skills In Space: DARPA Satellite Programming Challenge
|Monday March 05, 2012 @04:53PM
|DARPA-Funded "Cheetah" Breaks Speed Record For Legged Robots
|Wednesday February 08, 2012 @12:30PM
|DARPA's AlphaDog begins real world testing
|Thursday February 02, 2012 @09:22AM
|DARPA Works On Virtual Reality Contact Lenses
|Tuesday January 31, 2012 @07:33AM
|Apple verses Google innovation approaches
|Friday January 27, 2012 @04:43PM
|DARPA Funding A $50 Drone-Droppable Spy Computer
|Thursday January 26, 2012 @03:55PM
|Pentagon drafts kids to build drones and robots
|Saturday January 21, 2012 @12:00AM
|Pentagon To Crowdsource Weapons Software Testing
|Thursday January 19, 2012 @05:13PM
|Darpa + Makers + School = The future of innovation
|Monday January 09, 2012 @12:31PM
|DARPA Chooses Leader For 100-Year Starship Project
|Friday January 06, 2012 @09:49PM
|DARPA Chooses Leader for 100-Year Starship Project
|Wednesday December 07, 2011 @01:43PM
|DARPA seeks app developers for War App Store
|Friday December 02, 2011 @07:34PM
|San Francisco Team Wins DARPA's De-Shredding Contest
|Friday December 02, 2011 @08:22AM
|New 'Rubber Robot' Crawls Through Small Spaces With Inflatable Limbs
|Thursday November 10, 2011 @01:21PM
|DARPA Wants to Make Computers Adapt to Humans
|Thursday October 27, 2011 @03:23PM
|DARPA: Reconstruct Shredded Docs, Win $50K USD
|Thursday October 27, 2011 @02:58PM
|DARPA: Reconstruct Shredded Docs, Win $50K USD
|Saturday October 22, 2011 @12:20AM
|DARPA Proposes Ripping Up Dead Satellites To Make New Ones
|Friday October 21, 2011 @12:25PM
|DARPA working on grave-robbing Frankenstein satell
|Tuesday October 18, 2011 @12:25PM
|Real 3D Display; 3 Years Out?
|Thursday October 13, 2011 @07:02PM
|Apple's Siri As Revolutionary As the Mac?
|Thursday September 01, 2011 @05:59PM
|Ask Slashdot: Can You Identify This UAV?
|Thursday September 01, 2011 @04:02PM
|Please help identify this secret UAV Slashdot folk
|Wednesday August 24, 2011 @05:46PM
|Offering Funds, U.S. Agency Dreams of Sending Huma
|Thursday August 18, 2011 @07:05PM
|DARPA Hypersonic Vehicle Splash Down Confirmed
|Thursday August 18, 2011 @04:14PM
|DARPA Hypersonic Vehicle Splash Down Confirmed
|Thursday August 18, 2011 @09:48AM
|DARPA to Sponsor R&D for Interstellar Travel
|Friday August 12, 2011 @07:54AM
|DARPA lost second Mach 22 vehicle
|Thursday August 11, 2011 @01:21PM
|DARPA Loses Contact With Hypersonic Glider
|Saturday August 06, 2011 @08:51PM
|DARPA Commits To Funding Useful Hacking Projects
|Tuesday August 02, 2011 @05:36PM
|DARPA Developing Video Parser
|Monday June 06, 2011 @02:05PM
|Fighting Machines -- UK's AutoArmy
|Wednesday May 04, 2011 @10:55AM
|DARPA Building Futuristic Space Exploration Group
|Friday April 29, 2011 @08:29PM
|Space Telescope to track objects in GEO orbit
|Tuesday April 19, 2011 @08:02AM
|DARPA spends $20 million on homomorphic encryption
|Thursday April 14, 2011 @06:12PM
|DARPA's New Hi-Tech Telescope
|Friday April 08, 2011 @06:29PM
|Free DARPA Software Lets Gamers Hunt Submarines
|Wednesday April 06, 2011 @11:08PM
|DARPA Submarine Warfare game goes live
|Saturday March 05, 2011 @11:31AM
|Quadruped CHEETAH Robot To Outrun Any Human
|Wednesday February 23, 2011 @04:17PM
|DARPA Open-Sources Military Vehicle Design
|Thursday January 06, 2011 @02:39PM
|Military Set To Develop Smart, Robotic Cameras
|Tuesday November 30, 2010 @11:21AM
|DARPA funding memristor based AI
|Sunday September 19, 2010 @03:13PM
|U. Penn Super Quadcopter Learns New Tricks
|Saturday September 11, 2010 @12:37PM
|DARPA Wants To Control Soldiers' Brains
|Thursday September 09, 2010 @01:36PM
|DARPA Wants Extreme Wireless Interference Buster
|Thursday August 12, 2010 @12:52PM
|iPhone vs. Android Battle Goes To Afghanistan
|Wednesday August 04, 2010 @02:32PM
|Human Tests of Mind-Controlled Artificial Arm To Begin
|Friday July 23, 2010 @06:32PM
|Pentagon Workers Tied To Child Porn
|Friday July 16, 2010 @06:23PM
|DARPA To Turn Humans Into Batteries
|Thursday July 15, 2010 @01:11PM
|DARPA Issues Call For Computer Science Devotees
|Wednesday June 23, 2010 @01:22PM
|Petaflops? DARPA Seeks Quintillion-Flop Computers
|Thursday May 13, 2010 @02:39PM
|Stanford Robot Car Capable of Slide Parking
|Tuesday May 04, 2010 @10:43PM
|DARPA Working On Arthur C. Clarke Weapon Idea
|Thursday April 29, 2010 @02:40PM
|OLED Film Could Provide Cheap Night Vision For Cars
|Saturday April 17, 2010 @12:51PM
|At Last, Flying Cars?
|Saturday April 17, 2010 @11:49AM
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|Sunday March 14, 2010 @01:24PM
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|Saturday February 20, 2010 @12:09AM
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|Friday February 05, 2010 @03:35PM
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|Thursday January 14, 2010 @10:03AM
|DARPA Funds Research Into Suspended Animation
|Sunday December 27, 2009 @08:45AM
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|Tuesday December 08, 2009 @04:09AM
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|Monday December 07, 2009 @01:07AM
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|Saturday December 05, 2009 @12:00AM
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|Sunday October 18, 2009 @04:26PM
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|Sunday October 18, 2009 @10:20AM
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He made the switch but didn't have a backup in place other than Tim Tebow who Sparano did not want.
He made the switch but didn't have a backup in place other than Tim Tebow who Sparano did not want.
What he stated was a FACT. 22 year old or 32 year old doesn't matter in the NFL. It's called PERFORM because you never know when you'll get another chance. You have to make the most of your opportunities. Sanchez was given multiple opportunities, for which he f*cked up each and every time.
And even if you want to go that route, arguing that REX is to blame for your perceived lack of talent on offense, hanging Sanchez out to dry, you'd be wrong anyway. MIKE TANNENBAUM gathers the talent for the team. Rex Ryan COACHES the talent. You're twisting things here. Tell the truth.
THEN, after two years of being coddled, Rex Ryan decided it was time for him to take the training wheels off Sanchez. It was time for him to MAN UP. You've been given EVERYTHING a QB could ever want or need for the last two seasons. NOW it is time for you to do MORE with LESS.
Well, Sanchez responded by STILL being the same sh*t player he's always been all the while RAISING his turnover numbers.
Rex Ryan handled the Sanchez situation PERFECTLY. If you have a child and you are capable of giving him everything he/she could ever want, you would do so. So would I. But, you would want that child to show some RESPONSIBILITY in return. We are never given anything (including children and SANCHEZ) for free. There's always an expectation after you are given everything. That's called LIFE. Sanchez failed at it ANY expectation he's ever been given.
The defense was has been top ten for the last 4 years running. It was number 1 overall in 2009 and number 4 overall in 2010. Those are superlative numbers. The defense actually made Sanchez look a LOT better than he actually was over the last 4 seasons.
And since when did 10 things become the expectation of a good HC? Where do you come up with this sh*t? But what the hell, I'll do it anyway:
1) 34-30 record. A WINNING RECORD.
2) The number 1 defense in 2009. NO ONE better.
3) The number 1 running game in 2009. NO ONE better.
4) MULTIPLE playoff wins in 2009. Including beating Philip Rivers on the road
5) MULTIPLE playoff wins in 2010. Including beating Peyton Manning AND Tom Brady on the road. Those are the two of the best QB's in the game. You CAN'T get any better than that.
6) Doing MORE with LESS by winning multiple playoff games in 2009 with a team that was 9-7 and probably shouldn't have even made the playoffs if not for teams that had already secured their respective playoff spots. They beat teams with records of 10-6 and 13-3 respectively.
7) Top 10 defenses in every single season he's been in NY. Has BB EVER had top 10 defenses in 4 consecutive seasons? NO. Did Parcells? NO.
8) Making it all the way to the AFC Championship in 2009. Something NO ONE in their right minds would have ever thought possible in that year.
9) Making it all the way to the AFC Championship in 2010.
10) Doing all of the above while being on his FIRST Head Coaching stint EVER. Has ANY other HC done as much as Rex has in their first stints as HC? NO.
11) Only ONE losing season in 4 seasons as HC. Was BB able to do that in 5 seasons (one more than Rex Ryan has coached) in his first HCing stint? NO.
I could go on but I don't need to. You asked for 10 and I gave you 11. Even though it's absurd to even demand that much. It's a subjective matter.
So take your criticisms of Rex and cram them. Like I already said, you can b*tch all the live long day about Rex and it would be complete HOGWASH. Woody Johnson is keeping Rex Ryan as his HC specifically because of the things I just mentioned. And rightfully so.
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No one knows what mix of players coaches or organization will lead to winning in any sport, or not.
The previously thrice failed manager named Joe Torre that no Yankee fan wanted for example
Year 3 the ground & pound faltered , LT slowed down Greene was exposed for what he is an average back the Oline (Mangold injuries, Wayne Hunter) sprung leaks and lets look at the great weapons Sanchez had
1) Kerley - an inconsistent rookie
2) Plax - a good redzone target period, could not get open or run a route otherwise
3) Holmes - great when he got the ball, uninterested and pouted otherwise, plus D's doubled him making his much less effective
4) Keller, sure he was Sanchez's outlet who else could he throw to, plus with the lack of time he had , the checkdown was his best friend. But lets be honest Keller can't block a wet tissue not great for a supposed #1 TE.
Year 4 , do I even have to go there : Powell/Greene ground & pound - that's funny. Wr's Mardy Gilyard, Chaz Schilens, Clyde Gates , Stephen stonehand Hill(who by the way think will mature into a good wr).
Yes, its clear to see Sanchez has gotten absolutely everything he needed to succeed. While I don't want Rex fired he has to get his head out of his ass and realize games are won by passing today , all the rules favor a passing offense.
If Sanchez had been given any semblance of a passing offense the Jets may have made the SB in year 1&2 and might have had a fighting chance the past two years. Instead everyone wants to read the boxscores 2 ints and a fumble or listen to the media - Sanchez can't win the big game the to realize what the real problem is the offensive philosophy
What I asked you to do was provide a Top 10 list of the reasons why Rex Ryan is a good head coach today, and the right man to lead a rebuilding Jets squad.
Try again:
The Top 10 Reasons Rex Ryan Is The Right Coach For The 2013 Jets:
HINT: Things that are traits of a good head coach. Like clock management, timeout management, player development, drafting well, halftime adjustments, being proficient in all phases of the game, keeping the team on an even keel, locker room management, etc.
The onus is on you.
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Rex Ryan controlled the entire football operation utilizing Eric Mangini's players in 2009 and 2010 and put his 'stamp' on this team with his own roster in 2011 and 2012.
That's why you judge Ryan post-2010 and why you judge Sanchez pre-2011.
David Lee is being interviewed for OC.
This negates any faith anybody has for Rex Ryan. He still thinks the Wildcat is hard to stop. The guy is a DC in over his head who road the coat tails of Mangini's roster.
Enough with this crap. Half the "success" from '09 and '10 should be attributed to Mangini for assembling that roster.
And success is in quotes because I'm not a SOJF and I want to see this team win a Super Bowl at some point. Thinking defense first will do that today is beyond derp.
And those were our worst teams. But forget that, chief. How about you take a crack at the Top 10 list? Should be easy, I mean, for such a great coach.
The Top 10 Reasons Rex Ryan Is The Right Coach For The 2013 Jets:
The onus is on you to show how he's the right coach for this Jets team. No history lessons. Talk to me about the present.
It's 2013. Why is Rex Ryan the right coach for disaster of a team that he himself created? Ten examples of things that head coaches are good at and Rex Ryan excels at.
Stuff like: Clock management, playcalling, halftime adjustments, motivation, preparation, offense, special teams, picking players, developing young draft choices, etc. etc.
Let's have it. Top Ten. Let's go.
The Defense dropped a bit in 11,12. But ranked 5th and 8th overall is still pretty good. Especially when you have a qb who transformed his bad habits into being below average to bad last year, to the worst in the league this year. Im not going to waste my time looking it up but its a fact the D takes more series when the O is going 3 and out every other series, so ofcourse that gives opponents many more chances to rack up yards and points. Mark put the D in terrible field positions with his fumbles,butt or not, INTs, grossly off target throws on 3rd down. Losing 1 of the best defensive players in the NFL hurt a bit too..
Lol to the guy that said Mangini would have taken Jets farther.. He had his chances.. He didnt know how to run a defense, and didnt have the O doing great either.. We only won those playoff games because of D, not our wimp of a qb.. Rex does need help with the O, no arguement from me there. And has had two terrible OCs, and a terrible GM who could not form a winning fantasy team. Those who claim Rex isnt a well respected coach dont have a clue. Ask current and former players, Rex gets the most out of them.
Bottom line is you dont get anywhere in the NFL without a good qb. If you have a great D, you can get by with an average qb we all hoped mark would become.. He has regressed into the worst qb in the NFL. Even if we had the best defense in history it cant solve that problem. Its amazing we won 6 games with Mark Sanchez..
We removed the worst gm in the league who left us a big dump for next year.. If we remove the worst qb in the league, and replace them with just "average" we will be back in the playoffs with Rex. Hopefully we get a qb who is above average in a yr or 2 and can then can compete for superbowl.
I believe the SAR has two points...
1. The only success Rex has seen as a head coach is when his roster was built by the previous coach.
2. Over that 4 year span... The Jets statistical rankings have only gotten worse as he continued to mold the roster to his liking. Further that while Rex is one hell of a DC, what attributes have you seen in his 4 years that makes you believe he is the right man to coach this team going forward.
If I am reading you correctly, you feel over the past 4 years that you have seen things that indicate he is the right guy. He is just asking you to list 10 common traits found in quality head coaches that Rex brings to the table... I tried to do it in my head and failed miserably. I could only come up with the following:
1. Excellent Defensive philosophy particularly with regard to slowing down franchise QBs. I have seen his D stymie Rodgers and slow down Brady and Manning ( 2010 Playoffs)
2. Motivator. His players like him and play hard for him. You hear it in quotes from players and can see it on the field. Sure they lost the last three games this year but some of that is just that the fight was often so up hill due to our offensive offense.
3. He is not afraid to figure out his shortcomings and try to improve. While there is no way to know this for sure, I believe it! I see it in his eyes
That is all I could come up with...
I don't think he develops players well.
I think he is loyal to a fault.
He often fails at clock management.
Has lost the pulse of his team in the past.
Has relied to much on his defense often over evaluating and making poor offensive decisions as a result.
Poor roster management
Doesn't hold players accountable.
Has acted unprofessional in many instances.
to name a few....
He is going to be around for awhile... Hopefully Woody sees something in him many of us are missing. Howerver, nobody has been able to list 10 good reason why he is the best guy for the job... I would love to see that list!!!

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That is hard to say, because we all know our own defensive players so well (watching week after week). If I did watch another team as well, I might be able to compare. So of course we probably wouldn't trade our D for another, but that doesn't mean they're especially good. Let alone elite.
The stat that can't be underestimated is takeaways. It (our takeaway deficiency) may have not reared its head in the last couple weeks, but it (giveaway/takeway) is THE stat that probably most correlates with winning and losing. And it isn't a 2013 trend. We have been bad to woeful in this category since at least 2011.
We aren't even close to elite.


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January 27, 2012 > Fremont Unified School District Board meeting report
The following are highlights from the Fremont Unified School District (FUSD) Board meeting held on January 11, 2012.Community Leadership - Superintendent's Report:Superintendent James Morris briefly commented on several items:Two Fremont schools, Durham Elementary and Hopkins Junior High were selected to apply for National Blue Ribbon status, which is awarded to schools demonstrating dramatic gains for disadvantaged students.Mission San Jose High School music students returned from participating in the Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebration in London.The FUSD website has information for parents and students interested in the Magnet and Language Immersion programs available at certain schools in the district.Blacow Elementary School has a new bumper sticker: "Biliteracy... priceless!"School Board members Lily Mei, Larry Sweeney, Ivy Wu and Lara York, completed a course in the "Masters' in Governance Training" presented by the CA School Board Association.Community Leadership - Budget Update:Assistant Superintendent of Business Services, Micaela Ochoa, said that regarding the 2010-2011 school year, FUSD had previously set aside $8 million to cover any mid-year cuts. Now, the updated information is that Transportation will be cut by $1.2 million and revenue to the district reduced by an additional $500,000 in cuts, resulting in a $1.7 million reduction in revenue for the district.As for the 2012-2013 school year the Governor proposed tax measures on the November ballot that could bring in needed revenue. We'll know more about this by the next Board meeting.Oral Communications/Public Comment:Sherea Westra, a Fremont teacher who also serves as a Vice President of the Fremont Education Foundation, announced details of their upcoming fundraising event. This 10th annual "Excellence in Education Gala" will take place at the Fremont Marriott, on the evening of Friday, February 24. Proceeds will benefit the Innovative Education Grants Program. For more information or to purchase tickets visit www.fremont-education.org.Westra also took the time to express her appreciation to the Board and Staff, regarding the District's two "Literacy Coaches" who have provided invaluable assistance to the students and teachers. "They are truly effective and know their stuff," commented Westra.Consent Calendar -Public Comment:Rodney Clark, Executive Director of SAVE (Safe Alternatives to Violent Environments) spoke in support of the District adopting a resolution proclaiming February 2012 as Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention month. He stated that this is "a real issue and a real concern," and because of that, throughout the year, SAVE has been doing presentations on the subject in local classrooms. Last year SAVE served over 1,200 students, usually through their 9th grade Health classes. SAVE tries to bring to the students, an awareness of the differences between healthy and non-healthy relationships/interactions.Regular Board Agenda Item - Local Educational Plan Addendum:Due to the fact that FUSD has several subgroups of students, (Hispanic, African-American and Economically Disadvantaged), who are not performing as well academically, in comparison to other Fremont students, the district was notified earlier in the school year that it has been designated as a "Program Improvement" district. In light of that, FUSD was required to put together a team to research the problems and develop a plan of action to help ameliorate the situation.The completed plan will serve as an "addendum," to the District's Local Educational Agency plan. At the meeting, Kathy Ashford, Director of Federal and State Projects for FUSD, presented a nine-step plan to help the specific academic problems of low-achieving students.District parent, Hiu Ng commented, "The plan is good but how are we going to make it happen?"Trustee Lara York echoed the sentiments expressed by Ng and suggested, "We need to let everyone know and get the support of teachers and parents." York also suggested that perhaps 180 teaching days were not enough to accomplish all that the District is expected to be doing during a regular school day.Board Vice President Ivy Wu stated, "This is a comprehensive plan. No guarantees we can do this, but I have confidence in our staff."Lily Mei, the Board President added that 85 percent of all the school districts in California are in "Program Improvement," so Fremont is not alone in this process.After further discussion, the motion to accept the addendum was approved unanimously by the Board. This plan will be sent by the January 23 deadline to the State, after which time implementation would begin.Regular Board Agenda Item - Junior High & Senior High Course Catalogs:Director of Secondary Education, James Maxwell introduced the new 2012-2013 course catalogs, which are in the process of being finalized. The catalogs will now indicate at which school specific courses are taught, making it easier for students and their parents, when selecting classes. Additionally, seven new courses have been added and the ROP schedule is included in a more readable format.Regular Board Agenda Item - Budget Development Calendar:Yearly in January, after the presentation of the Governor's budget proposal, the District develops its own Budget Calendar, based on the important tasks to accomplish and deadlines to be met. Assistant Superintendent of Business, Micaela Ochoa explained, "The Budget Calendar begins in January and runs through September when we close books for the current year and do planning for next year. It helps to better understand what goes into this process."Regular Board Agenda Item - Facilities Bond Consultant Contract:Various school site facilities are in need of updating or repair and following up with earlier Board meeting actions, a comprehensive needs assessment was authorized to create an overall detailed Facilities Master Plan for the district.But to support the costs of the facilities' upgrade and in consideration of what can be done to meet the funding needs, the FUSD Staff recommended that a new facilities bond be brought before the voters.The first step would be to conduct a poll of Fremont voters to explore their reactions towards a facilities bond. In line with that, the Board was asked for their approval of a contract for the consulting firm of Godbe Research.In attendance at the Board meeting, Brian Godbe explained that the survey would be similar to the one completed for the recent Parcel Tax. When asked about the procedure, he explained that a telephone survey would be initiated, with the questioning process expected to last 15 minutes. The firm's consultants would attempt to call 20,000 Fremont residents of which the likelihood would be reaching 3,000. Then from the 3,000 they would realistically hope to have a minimum of 600 completed surveys.The end of February would be the target date for the telephone survey to begin. In order to be able to have a facilities bond added to the November ballot, the deadline is August 10. The 75-word ballot document would have to have its wording finalized by the end of July at the latest. Prior to that, there is the need to communicate information to district parents, staff, and the community.Discussion ensued and it was stipulated by the Board that the contract would not exceed $30,000. (The budget source for the funds is the Unrestricted Ending Fund Balance.) After the motion was made, the contract with Godbe Research passed unanimously.


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Over the past few months i've researched if the SGI Indy emulation in MESS is usable and if there is a real possibility of getting this driver into a complete working state.
This means that the machine should be capable of running IRIX in some form or flavor straight from a disk image or installed via CDROM up to running the desktop.
The CPU emulated should of course match a real CPU-option inside an indy.
Indy emulation started to appear in MESS0144u5 by virtue of a coding spree by a user called Arbee and Ryan Holtz (Mooglyguy) in april 2005, as stated here http://rbelmont.mameworld.info/?m=200504
They have published emulation code for the wd33c93 and newport XL graphics as well as the central Indy MC controller and HPC3 peripheral controller.
Because the Indigo2 shares many common features with the Indy, they are now sharing the same driver in MESS.
From MESS0145 to MESS0147 the indy and indigo2 emulation is functional up to and including booting the PROM, displaying graphical output and responding to keyboard input. You can go into prom, print 'hinv' and 'printenv'.
The working emulated systems are:
ip224613 : Indy R4600PC 133MHz, 128MB Memory, 24 bit newport, B6 PROM sept 28 1994
ip225015 : Indy R5000PC 150MHz, 128MB Memory, 24 bit newport, B10 PROM feb 12 1996
ip244415 : Indigo2 R4400PC 150Mhz, 128MB memory, 24 bit newport, B PROM sept 16 1993
ip204415 is a non-working emulation of the R4400PC 150MHz indigo. The console outputs:
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Can't determine CPU speed
Running power-on diagnostics...
Initializing tod clock.
setting secs=0 min=0 hour=0 day=1 month=1 year=0
Keyboard/Mouse diagnostic *FAILED*
Check or replace: CPU board
There also is no emulation driver for the Indigo1 Entry LG1/LG2 hardware yet.
This is the cool testing stuff so far...
Some notes i've collected:
- MESS swapped the designation for the roms and the Indy/Indigo2 systems: it uses ip22xxyy for the Indy and ip24xxyy for the Indigo2, but the systems true ip hardware/software designations are ip24/ip22 for the Indy and ip22/ip22 for the Indigo2.
- PROM cannot accurately determine the clockspeed and displays 16 MHz for all CPUs.
- All CPU's are being emulated without L2 or Secondary Cache. In MESS the MIPS3 emulation does not seem to have code to support the secondary cache controller for the R4000/R4400 cores. The actual QED R4600/R5000 MIPS designs do support secondary cache but lack hardware control on the die, so this is externally provided via ASICs on the CPU-board for the SC models. AFAIK documentation for these ASICs have not been released, so they cannot be emulated.
- With MESS0148 keyboard input was lost, so interaction with the PROM was not possible. This regression continues up to at least MESS0168. I have not tested MESS0171 yet, but the sgi.cpp and indy_indigo2.cpp code shows no significant changes.
What needs to be done is the following:
- Get w33c93 SCSI DMA back on track so that we can boot with CDROM images again. We probably need to include code for linked lists in w33c93 driver
- Get VDMA on the MC coded. There is a code example in vdma.ps to get people started.
- Add Semaphore registers on the MC
- Keyboard emulation needs to be better
- Check Newport driver state. It should be nearly finished, but maybe there are commands missing.
- Also check if the Newport driver can emulate an XL8 instead of an XL24
- Check Dallas EEPROM save and restore. It should be possible to handle EEPROM settings from a file
- Fix proper initialisation of the MC registers. currently upon power-cycle every register is initialized to zero, but it has a defined state, see mc.ps
- Check/Fix PROM settings for the CPU, it can be read by the MC so it should be correct.
- Need some form of HAL2 device support, otherwise we have no sound on the emulated Indy/Indigo2
- VINO and the INDYCAM ae not supported. VINO is documented, but you need a PC/machine with video in signal, and the INDYCAM interface has no documentation.
- Need CHD images from an Indy with R4600PC or R5000PC XL24 IRIX 5.3 6.2 or 6.5 installation. Should not be too difficult to make, if you have the exact hardware/PROM/GFX combination.
- Also need CHD image of an Indigo2 R4400 XL IRIX 5.3 6.2 or 6.5 installation. Should be doable but Indigo2 XL cards are uncommon.
Well, i'll start with VDMA. I'll let you know in what millennium i will finish
/usr/include/sys from a recent IRIX 6.5 install.


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[...] at the moment it's hardly going to lure people away from even Windows 7.
Not only that, but it will give Android a bad reputation. And given that people usually stick with what they know and rarely (if ever) check alternatives, it might be a long time before they try Android again.
Heck, Apple switched to a Unix core for their OS almost a decade ago and I still talk with people who think Mac OS 9 when they hear about Macs.
Not only that, but it will give Android a bad reputation
Why? The masses aren't likely to even hear about this netbook should it be a commercial failure (which is most likely), and the techies know better than to expect a smartphone OS to work for netbooks. So if anything, this will give Acer bad reputation.
Android needs to get their act in gear quickly
This doesn't have a damn thing to do with Android. Android was not made for laptop computers. Properly implemented on a cell phone, MID, or PMP, Android runs exceptionally well, is intuitive, powerful, and fun. Acer is the problem here. I don't understand why companies take something like Android or Linux and implement it so poorly as to be practically worthless. Seriously, if you're going to do it, do it right.
Look at Apple, they took BSD and made it into something beautiful (not that it wasn't beau
True, an OS that takes many attempts and several years to get it right will never make it in the marketplace.
Yes, MS DOS and MS Windows were such flops.
So which mobile phone OS (not Moblin or Chrome OS) will they be running on their netbook as an alternative?
Huh? I've never had a problem since windows 2000 with hibernation or sleeping. I did have issues with windows 7, but the damned card reader driver wouldn't release. A proper driver fixed all my issues. In my experience hibernation in linux is basically like russian roulette. It has never worked for me, personally, but I kind of gave up trying a year or so ago. Wait a second. I'll try it in a VM on virtualbox 3.08....wow...it worked. Its about time. Wish the virtualbox tools would work under 9.10......
I do and not just with Windows XP. Mac OS/X (10.4) had occasional issues restoring connections after wake up too. In fact with XP on our Thinkpads at work, freeze ups related to docking/undocking and hibernation are a daily occurrence.
Whether it is a problem with drivers, background apps or the ACPI or any other problems, it is something that needs to be fixed. If hibernation and/or sleep are seen to be reliable they will be used more often instead of shutdown so the need for something like the solut
People tend to talk. Stuff usually lasts your generation + some of the next.
Look at diesel engines. GM so farked up their implementation that everyone thinks they're slow, smokey, smell and can't start it the winter. Meanwhile Europe has 50+% diesel adoption.
I STILL get people (and young people that don't even remember the 70s) that tell me diesels can't start in the winter. I ask them how they like my 1998 TDI that is sitting out in the parking lot and they're floored. I tell them that my previous car was a 1986 diesel. Anemic as shit with no turbo but I was getting 50 MPG before Toyota even thought of a hybrid. Not to mention I can run it on any heavy oil from JP-1 to the shit that comes out of your deep fryer.
Anyone that has tried Linux in the past and found it too difficult has passed that knowledge on to their friends. "Linux doesn't do X" even though X was solved 3 years ago. Android has given a good name to Linux such that they don't know that it is. If Android screws up then someone big (as big as Google) is going to have to come up with another name for it.
No, I think so many users insistence on MS products has to do with another slashdot story: The Science of Irrational Decisions [slashdot.org].
Professor Ariely describes some experiments which demonstrated something he calls 'arbitrary coherence.' Basically it means that once you contemplate a decision or actually make a decision, it will heavily influence your subsequent decisions. That's the coherence part. Your brain will try to keep your decisions consistent with previous decisions you have made.
They are just stuck o
Lets see.
From the complaint that's there, it sounds like simply fixing the market (aka enabling) will take care of 90% of the problems. this of course assumes customer firmware can make nice flavors of android for this purpose.
meanwhile, I thought google was making their own chromeOS anyway, which wasn't a smartphone OS (as below).
Nice editorializing - "Even Windows 7?" Cheap shot - you can do better than that, Slashdot
Look, if we as a community can't even get some cheap shots in on the new OS how will we ever stay on "Big Steve's" Christmas Card list?
Just go to Japan and eat this
http://www.electronista.com/articles/09/10/21/microsoft.promos.win.7.with.bk.deal/ [electronista.com]
They finally found a way to talk to me
Slashdot is diverse enough that we insult every OS.
The Slashdot community doesn't pretend to be unbiased, and why should it? The important thing is that you, as a reader, be able to interpret and understand what others say.
"Opinion for anti-MS nerds" perhaps? There are plenty of nerds who aren't religious about hating "M$" and appreciate cool technology wherever it comes from.
Maybe slashdot should change their slogan to "opinions for nerds" then
If Slashdot has to then Fox News has to as well!
I openly dare you to substitute "Fox News" for "slashdot" and e-mail this to Rham Emanuel. Just to see how many watch lists you end up on
Nice editorializing - "Even Windows 7?" Cheap shot - you can do better than that, Slashdot
I don't think the editors of Slashdot can do any better.
Just the other day they made it sound like Windows 7 was uninstalling google toolbar and iTunes but it turned out that Windows 7 reinstalled it after the update. The person who made that comment in the story said it was the best Windows upgrade he had ever gone through.
If you had just read the title and/or summary it would seem like Microsoft was purposefully uninstalling competitors software when it wasn't even remotely the case.
As a note from personal experience.
Going XP 32 bit to Win 7 64 bit - The "export your files and settings" thing actually WORKS now. Fresh install, reinstall office and firefox, import the previous settings all worked flawlessly (including ALL my FF add ons...). Most painless Windows upgrade I can remember.
iirc, google do not allow the android app marketplace, or their services app, one a android device that they have not certified.
yep i know, it reeks of cupertino, but then the android head is a former employee of that place...
It's a plot! Redmond is secretly paying off Acer to do this, so that they can give Android a bad rap and save Windows CE. I have proof but I can't take my tinfoil hat off right now....
Or Acer is using this to negotiate a better deal with Microsoft and doesn't care whether Android succeeds or not. I'm beginning to think Asus did the same thing. Why would they use such crappy distros if they were serious. I am not a big fan of Ubuntu, but it is far more polished than Xandros or apparently Android are.
Android was designed from the beginning to work across a variety of devices from phones to set-top boxes to netbooks.
It is arguable that this was included as a hat tip to the Acer deal.
From the article:
"Indeed, where Android's browser makes sense on a smartphone's touchscreen, it just doesn't translate here. The process of clicking and holding the left mouse button, while pushing up to scroll the page down, seems clunky and counter-intuitive,"
Gosh, they took an OS designed for a touchscreen and tried a simplistic hack to make it work with a touchpad... and this isn't easy to use? Well, duh. This says nothing about Android and everything about the marketing folks that messed up.
I know they aren't your words, but it is "scrolling" as we know it that is counter-intuitive, at least to anyone who's ever seen actual scrolls, even if only in the movies.
As we all know (right?), the only intuitive user interface is the nipple; the rest is all learned:
http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/2002/08/nipple.html [greenend.org.uk]
Although... one can argue that a UI is intuitive by virtue of being easily learned, which it is by being similar to a UI you expect your users to already know.
i.e. the Karmic UI will be intuitive (by my new definition) to Jaunty users. And (at least partially) to GNOME users from other distros.
They should have used a touch screen in the netbook. There are touch screen netbooks out there (dell latitude 2100 for one. There are touch screen replacement screens for other models if you wanted to hard hack a touch screen in). Acer should have just made a model with the touch screen as the display for the android netbook.
maybe try it out for yourselves, and exercise some independent thought for once?
This is slashdot. We don't do that around here anymore, you must be new here.
Isn't this the same old story we keep hearing? This F/OSS OS isn't ready for primetime, etc, no better than Win xxxx
First impressions matter.
Android as the "fast booting" Linux mini-OS had little to offer when compared directly to Win 7 Starter Edition installed on a mediocre entry level netbook.
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade Family Pack (3-User) [amazon.com] $150 I believe this is a first for Microso
the lack of a proper Marketplace,
Do you mean you can't connect to ebay, craigslist, or google shopping? What is a marketplace in relation to an operating system on a computer?
the poor implementation of both the inbuilt browser and Firefox
I presume this means built-in browser?
and the general pointlessness of it all
When did things need to have a point to be featured on slashdot? It wasn't that long ago there was a front page story here about running linux on the kindle. Though if you want a point in the general sense, try:
in its current incarnation as a quick-boot alternative
Because that is probably all the more point a lot of people need from it.
The Kindle runs Linux. The impressive thing was setting up a chroot and installing Ubuntu in full on the device.
It was also fairly useful, as it enabled certain features that you couldn't get off a normal Kindle.
Do you mean you can't connect to ebay, craigslist, or google shopping? What is a marketplace in relation to an operating system on a computer?
App Store, I presume.
>> the lack of a proper Marketplace,
> Do you mean you can't connect to ebay, craigslist, or google shopping? What is a marketplace in relation to an operating system on a computer?
The capital "M" means it's a proper noun. It's referring to Android Marketplace.
And the Win 7 Marketplace is where ?
Here [windowsmarketplace.com].
Yes, that is a Microsoft site. No, it doesn't sell anything other than Microsoft products.
Do you mean you can't connect to ebay, craigslist, or google shopping? What is a marketplace in relation to an operating system on a computer?
It's kind of like the functionality provided by apt-get, but only you have to pay for everything. And it's shiny.
Incorrect. I'd say 90% of the apps worth getting are free. And all apps overall about 98-99% are free. I've only paid for a few, most notably the nesroid NES emulator on my G1. Unlike the user-unfriendliness of the command-line-based apt-get, the Marketplace is a point and shoot affair that doesn't require special keys or repositories to be added just to get an app.
Be careful about spreading misinformation, it makes you look like a clueless idiot. Par for the course, I guess, for most of the cute little
Most of the apps in the "Android Marketplace" were free? They probably did come from apt-get. Apt-get has plenty of GUI front ends. I don't understand your "user unfriendliness" comment. You just tell it what you want. If you want to install the superkitten package, you would type "apt-get install superkitten" You only think it is hard because Microsoft marketing says so.
Anyway, "user unfriendly" is a subjective term and varies depending upon the user. I had two strokes, and the constant pop-ups and nonse
I presume this means built-in browser?
No they meant "inbuilt browser", note the co.uk domain... not everyone speaks English like we do in America. Grammar nazi fail.
but at the moment it's hardly going to lure people away from even Windows 7
From the reviewer's POV Win 7 Starter Edition looks pretty damn good.
The burning question, though, is why anyone would opt against booting into Windows 7 in the first place. Cold booting does admittedly take about three times as long as Android...but waking from hibernation takes a mere 20 seconds, just five seconds longer than the quick OS.
Windows 7 might feel a touch more sluggish than XP Home...but its refinement and ease of use come as ample reward, and importantly it suffers none of the aggravating limitations of its Google-powered rival.
As it stands, novelty merely serves as a brief distraction from the D250's competent, but unremarkable charms. We still hope future updates will reinstate the marketplace and make more of Android's obvious potential, but there are much better netbooks available for less.
The Verdict:
Google's Android OS provides a disappointing distraction from an otherwise average netbook
It'll be interesting to see if 7 can repeatedly enter and exit hibernation without going wonky. I know a few people said they could get XP to do that, but it really only worked on a pristine system and even then would fail after hibernating more than once or twice.
I'd be even happier if their suspend worked reasonably well. My mac notebook resumes from suspend in just a few seconds (if that) and is always usable before I'm ready to use it--and when doing so it is 100% reliable when doing so no matter how
I can't believe I've never seen a video of a side-by-side comparison of Windows and Mac doing the standard things--booting up, suspend, hibernate, restore, low stress battery runtime test, high use battery runtime test...
You put your audience asleep.
Without having proved much of anything really.
There are just too many variables - in hardware, software, usage patterns, operating environments and so on.
The simplest and cheapest way to extend battery life is with a heavier battery pack.
The "instant on" browse
How do you usually convince the mac to hibernate? Usually you have to pull the battery or let it drain all the way--is there some trick I don't know?
Also, you're right about it being different, but I have almost never seen a PC (out of dozens) that can stand more than 4-5 suspend/resumes or 2-3 hibernates, and I've never seen a mac (out of 5 or 6) that has a problem with it.
I am fairly careful about not opening the lid until the light is winking though--I think I saw someone have a problem with closing the
What I don't get is the choice of BOTH OSes on this thing. If you read the specs [pcpro.co.uk] this thing is maxed out at 1Gb, which makes it a poor choice for Windows 7, which most reviews I've seen set 2Gb as the "sweet spot" for that OS to really perform, and Android? WTF? A mobile phone OS? Neither choice makes any sense at all. If they wanted a "quick boot" like we see in certain motherboards they should have put an embedded Linux in a ROM and went that way.
So to me this whole thing makes no sense whatsoever. Windows is being starved for RAM, and the Linux based OS is running on a platform it was never designed for, and which they apparently didn't bother to really tweak it for, although I doubt all the tweaks in the world will turn a phone OS into a Netbook OS. The only thing I can figure is some marketing genius got caught up in the buzz behind both OSes and said "Hey, if Android and Win7 have buzz, we can put out a Netbook with BOTH and get double plus buzz!" but as we have seen time and time again playing buzzword bingo usually ends up a giant can o' fail, as we can see here.
What I don't get is the choice of BOTH OSes on this thing. If you read the specs this thing is maxed out at 1Gb, which makes it a poor choice for Windows 7, which most reviews I've seen set 2Gb as the "sweet spot" for that OS to really perform, and Android? WTF?
The install is Windows 7 Starter Edition. Two steps down from Home Premium.
It STILL doesn't change the "sweet spot" anymore than putting "Vista Capable" on the 1.8GHz Sempron with 512Mb of RAM I'm staring at right now makes it a good machine to run Vista Basic on.
Look, we ALL know the score here, right? I mean we ARE all geeks and nerds here, hence the "New for nerds" tag at the top of the page. With nearly 15 years of experience I've had more than enough time with Windows OSes to know where the "sweet spot" is and the peril one is in for if they ignore it. For anyone that cares t
What I don't get is the choice of BOTH OSes on this thing. If you read the specs this thing is maxed out at 1Gb,
it is claimed that it is the same hardware as the D250 (which I have) which means it is expandable to 4GB using the new 4GB DDR2 SODIMMs. Tested and working on D250. I'm hoping that the AOD250 software loads on my D250, which I put some low-latency DDR2 into (it's got 2GB, which it what it came with.)
Sorry, but I think your "even Windows 7" swipe is silly. As much as I love *nix and like to poke fun at Microsoft (I grew up on SunOS, HP-UX, IRIX, and Linux), I find Windows 7 to be a delight to work with (I run RC1 at home on two systems, an old P4 system and a newer Core 2 Duo). I would love to see a good desktop version of Linux, but Gnome, KDE etc. are just not polished enough (yeah, yeah, Ubuntu is pretty nice and all, but the desktop is still klunky). As a developer I miss the power of the command l
The above poster was offended you weren't using his "one true" Operating System(tm).
Why don't you just run those command line tools on Windows?
I do use Cygwin occasionally, but it is slower than molasses and escaping of strings involving \ can be a nightmare. I'd be happy to learn of a better alternative.
I use http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ [sourceforge.net]
Try OS X. Apple managed to put a solid GUI on a *nix base a LONG time ago. you can pop open a terminal window and "bash" away any time you want. When I first saw OS X, I thought it would be the catalyst that provided inspiration to the Linux community, leading to a golden age of Linux interface design. Turned out, not so much. There have been improvements, of course, but progress is slow.
The pointless MS astroturfing for win 7 seems fairly blatant around slashdot today. You would be like number 20 on this topic alone, that has not contributed anything other than to stroke MS.
MOD these suckers!!!!
Perhaps, just perhaps, you know Windows 7 isn't quite as bad as many anti-MS people would like it to be? Perhaps people actually like Windows?
Android: An android is a robot or synthetic organism designed to look and act like a human.
I suppose it is supposed to infer a humanistic or human centric intuitive interface.
However it: Doesn't look like a human. Doesn't act like a human. Isn't a robot.
At least Ubuntu is a philosophy and Windows can count and describes a feature.
Of course what the hell do apples or Macintosh's have to do with anything I do not know.
Of course they have they have the best name of the bunch (ignoring leopards and tigers etc).
Oops forgot a "=" rather than "+"
a) I don't edit
b) none of my programs actually work and I only comment in my mind.
c) I don't care
A Macintosh is a juicy delicious Apple. And no, juicy and delicious are not homosexual adjectives.
(Sex) Android is what the Google executive asked for, but he only had software engineers, so a mobile OS was the best they could do.
Windows on the other hand, is a generic name of an OS construct--depending upon if you count the GUI components and the browser as part of the OS. It is like naming a car "Steering Wheel" or an airplane "Wing" or naming a company after the CEO's penis. It's just silly.
...a Windows PC company tarnishes Linux reputation by pre-installing something that is not Ubuntu on a consumer device.
"...a Windows PC company tarnishes Linux reputation by pre-installing something that is not Ubuntu on a consumer device."
That's why we should discourage bundled Linux installs. No one gets it right, Linux users already know what they want, and most Linux installs are easier than installing Windows if the hardware is supported.
What would be useful is to be able to conveniently buy prebuilt computers with no OS installed.
Do you have some mental disease that reduces your reading comprehension to the level one should expect from a three years old, or are you intentionally distorting the point that I have expressed in the most unambiguous form possible?
Everything would work just fine if they installed a distribution specifically designed for this purpose -- Ubuntu.
Do you guys not see the massive MS astroturfing going on in this topic, not to mention the original article?
People please?
Is slash getting a paycheck for this one?
Loose bits sink chips.


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|2007-01-28, 11:31
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AKB48 (Akihabara 48) is an all-girl idol group (age 12 23) consisting of two teams of 20 and 16 members respectively. The idea is idols you can go and see why they have daily performances in their own theatre in Akihabara, Tokyo. The man behind the project, Yasushi Akimoto, was involved with another all-girl group, Onyanko Club, back in the 80s.
It may be a cheap trick to put teenage girls in school uniform on stage, but I must admit that I like them.
|2007-02-08, 16:21
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I could not help but linking to a couple of small pieces as well. No more posts though from me, until someone shows interest.
AKB48 will have a massive release in March with six albums and five DVD with live recordings from their own theatre. The limited edition DVD-box is already out-of-print at CD Japan, but can still be ordered at Amazon.
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|2007-03-19, 20:45
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Lol i love this group. Can you link me some music instead of the youtube videos? Im trying to look for "Cinderalla can not be swindled" or w/e, and aitakatta. keep me posted on the current AKB48 events aswell. Thanks.
EDIT: Nvm, didnt see the sticky. I just joined. Sorry.
|2007-03-20, 19:09
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And then we are two... AKB48 performs music and some voice acting in the upcoming anime OVA series ICE, with Akimoto as original creator and directed by Makoto Kobayashi. Judging from reactions to the gentlemens earlier anime project, the movie 6 Angels, I would not expect too much from this one. There is also some information about what seems to be a live action movie about a song that kills (?), involving AKB48. If it is true it is probably corny, but I have a tendency to like that kind of stuff.
|2007-03-29, 15:33
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The six albums and five DVD released in March both cover different sets of songs that AKB48 performed at their own theatre in 2006. The albums have the studio versions of the songs, and I am pleased to say that I like all the albums.
The DVDs are live recordings and it is nice to have the opportunity to see them perform (I love the Mondrian-dresses). My only disappointment is team As third set. For some reason (maybe the wotas screamed too much ), some of the live songs are replaced with studio recordings (or that is what it sounds like). I did buy the DVDs to see and HEAR them perform live, not to watch music videos. For the future, I hope this DVD was an exception.
|2007-03-29, 16:11
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Speaking of Onyanko Club (Kitten Club) (see my first post), you may enjoy their 1985 hit Sailor Fuku wo Nugasanaide (don't make me take off my sailor uniform).
|2012-01-08, 06:05
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Location: Half Australia, Half Tokyo, Bits and pieces in US
AKB 48 thread
I didn't have time to go through all the older threads to see if there we any previous ones, so please merge etc if there are any..
So, I just recently became interested in AKB48.
Since they are gong to start their own anime series too, I thought it would be cool to have a thread about them.
Who are your favourites?
What songs do you like?
And what do you think of them in general?
Seems like they currently have a google plus service where al their posts are being translated in to multiple languages, so it makes it easier for fans to follow them.
For too find our members google plus account, go to the official website profile section!
|2012-01-08, 07:30
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Philippines
Age: 41
This thread could've been posted here:
I got recently started on the world's biggest pop group after the announcement of AKB0048 (which, of course, will be directed by Kawamori).
At the moment, thanks to a fellow living in Hong Kong, I'm going for Mayu. Songs? First nice one was River, followed by Heavy Rotation.
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|2012-01-08, 07:37
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Join Date: Oct 2004
Age: 38
I'm no fan of AKB48 but, as mentioned in an other thread, I know them through the Rina Nakanishi incident.
Though this happens ages ago and many fan express shock (and to some extent, delight) at her change of occupation, I still like a first hand account at what do the fans actually think of her stunt. Especially now that she manage to drag her sister along for the ride. Speculations are rift even today as to the motive behind her act.
Lastly, I believe there will not be a repeat of what Nakanishi did. The management will see to that.
|2012-01-08, 07:47
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: England
Age: 24
Who are your favourites? Watanabe Mayu, Ota Aika, Itano Tomomi ~ and more ~
What songs do you like? All the singles, and a lot of stage songs!
And what do you think of them in general? Amaaazing ~ I am a hardcore AKB fan.
|2012-01-09, 09:43
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Location: Half Australia, Half Tokyo, Bits and pieces in US
The recent release of the pron video with her and her sister co-starring somehow made the whole going to porn thing make it seem worse...
I personally feel sad that Oku Manami and Erepyon left the group so early.
i was watching the 2011 Jan documentary and the more I watch the more addicted I get to the whole concept.
The scary thing is, you dont need to have a favourite person or song, but the concept is so entertaining.
I was a avid American Idol fan, but maybe I am going to just be a full on AKB fan from now...
Maybe 2012 will be a year of graduation from many of the main members... Let's see
|2012-01-09, 10:43
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Location: Philippines
Age: 41
Let's look forward with this nice news instead:
Anyone who hasn't heard of the girls, well, it's best that reading the manga AKB49: The Rules Against Love is an excellent introduction for non-fans into their world, as to how things work within the system, and how much it takes for one's star to shine right there.
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|2012-01-10, 09:47
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Age: 38
In short, she had grown from a very cute girl to one very attractive lady. Though I wonder about those cuts on her left wrist that was always masked by a hairband throughout her skin flick....
|2012-01-12, 10:05
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Location: Philippines
Age: 41
Of course, as Japan (and may be true in most East Asian countries) seems to have a mind-boggling number of people presenting themselves as stars (in any way they could, even gravure or AV), it's quite a very fiercely competitive, political environment -- sink or swim, do or die -- and whoever comes out on top will be remembered for a very long time.
Even then, however, I take the gossip about the girls with a pinch of salt; they're still human to me.
|2012-01-12, 11:36
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: U.S.
Exactly, besides being a AV actress isn't that big of deal really and is still more media driven than anything.
Many top AV star are also actresses in late night idol dramas. Some manage to become prime time celebrate as well. The passed Iijima Ai was one good example.
Besides, she left AKB before the group really took off in 2009 and frankly, other than a handful of member like Oshima Mai not many former/graduated member are still prominently around music and variety scenes.
I wasn't a fan before but after seeing some of their members in different TV programs, they started to got my attention and before long I become a fan.
As for favorite members, I liked Atsuko Maeda and Yuko Oshima first through their drama appearances. Then Tomomi Itano through Kamen Rider W. The AKB drama Majisuka Gakuen got me hook on Mayu Watanabe and Mariko Shinoda. Then I saw Haruna Kojima and she is just hot. Finally I see Minami Takahashi in various variety shows and loved her personality.
And that's how I become fans of pretty much all top members now.
But as really, East Asia is now in a full girl pop group craze. AKB48 is every where and they even have affiliates in other East Asian countries now, combine with Korea's Girls' Generation and leg powers of KARA, these three groups are dominating the East Asian music scene on the female side.
|2012-01-13, 12:07
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Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Half Australia, Half Tokyo, Bits and pieces in US
The amazing thing about AKB is that you end up being a fan of multiple girls.
In Johnny's groups you have one favourite and you stick to it, so being interested in most top members and the group as a whole is a totally new experience for me.
I also think Akimoto Yasushi is ingenious in making use of tools around him to generate more buzz and addiction.
Who knew google plus will become this interesting for the fans and the members themselves.
The most important lesson I learned from AKB is that you should take every opportunity seriously because you never know what can generate exposure and success. Right now my new interest is Sakiko (who plays the piano). Hope she really does get to release a piano album from Pony Canion
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Surprise Performance Given By Paul McCartney in New York City's Times Square
Paul McCartney thrilled a lunchtime crowd in the heart of New York City on Thursday afternoon when he played a surprise mini concert in Times Square. The former Beatle delivered an energetic four-song set that featured only tunes from his about-to-be-released album, NEW.
Playing on a makeshift stage set up in a converted trailer, Sir Paul and his longtime backing band performed rousing renditions of NEW's title track, lead song "Save Us," "Everybody Out There" and the particularly Beatles-like "Queenie Eye." Before kicking into the final tune, McCartney thanked the crowd for being a lovely audience and then revealed apologetically that that he'd only been given 15 minutes to perform.
The fans who caught the performance ranged from children to senior citizens, and while some seemed disappointed that McCartney didn't play any of his classic Beatles songs, there was a general feeling of excitement about the rock legend playing an impromptu set in the middle of the Big Apple.
The show comes just a day after Macca and his group took part in another surprise New York City event, a 90-minute Q&A session and concert at Frank Sinatra School of the Arts in Queens. That event will be streamed Monday on Yahoo.com at 9 p.m. ET. NEW will be released on Tuesday.


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There was no stopping the red-hot Rocky Mountain College Battlin' Bears in last night's Frontier Conference Championship, held in Montana Western's Straugh Gymnasium.
The 68-52 win was the fifth straight for the Bears and their third straight on the road. They took down the third seed, Westminster, 75-68 in the first round and top-seeded Lewis-Clark State 79-72 in the semi-finals.
Rocky opened the game with a Matt Strickland three-pointer and quickly held a 13-6 lead. Montana Western went on their own run to tie it up at 13 on a Kris Collins long ball. Rocky held a slight lead until Collins got a steal and sank a pull-up three at the 8:01 mark.
A Jordan Overstreet steal and basket put the Bulldogs up 24-21. The three-point lead would turn out to be their best of the night. After keeping it close until the 4:21 mark, Rocky took a 10-2 run into halftime to hold a 36-28 lead.
The second half started with two Rocky baskets followed by a Kris Castro three that put the Bulldogs within nine. From there it was all Rocky Mountain. The Bears would increase their lead to as much as 18 while never dropping it into single digits. Rocky was crowned Frontier Conference Champions with a 68-52 victory.
Montana Western shot a dismal 33 percent (22-67) from the field, 19 percent (6-32) behind the arc and 33 percent (2-6) from the free throw line. Rocky fared much better with their 52 percent (28-54) on field goals, 37 percent (7-19) on threes and a perfect five of five from the charity stripe.
Overstreet was the only Bulldog to reach double figures with his 15 points off the bench. Tyler Miller, Maazin Butler and Collins each chipped in eight. Vince Turk pulled down seven rebounds, Castro had three steals and Gabe Rucker and Miller had five assists apiece.
Rocky was led by Don Parham with 15 points, six steals and six assists. Malachi Roberts put up 18 points while Joel Barndt had 11 to go along with eight rebounds.
The win earns Rocky (21-12) an automatic berth to the NAIA national tournament, which will be held March 13-19, in Kansas City, Mo. The Bulldogs (22-9) will have to wait until tonight to find out if they will receive an at-large bid.
The NAIA is providing a free live selection show with graphics to reveal the 32-team bracket for the 76th Annual Buffalo Funds-NAIA Division I Men's Basketball National Championship. The men's bracket will be announced immediately after the women's at approximately 7:15 p.m. on www.NAIA.org.


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Dr. Debra Teachman Named Vice President for Academic Affairs
Southern West Virginia Community and Technical College today announced that Dr. Debra Teachman has been named Vice President for Academic Affairs and Student Services. Teachman joins Southern from New Mexico State University Alamogordo, where she served as Vice President for Academic Affairs. "Dr. Teachman embraces Southern's values and is fully committed to helping our students succeed," said Joanne Jaeger Tomblin, First Lady/President of Southern West Virginia Community and Technical College. "Her enthusiasm, leadership, past experiences, and focus on innovation will enable us to enhance our already outstanding instructional programs, responsiveness to our community, and yield exciting new opportunities for our students." Her responsibilities at New Mexico State University Alamogordo included the oversight of all instructional programs, developing and maintaining community and statewide partnerships in instructional programming, fundraising and supporting the coordination of academic advising and admission/registration processes for the college. At NMSU-Alamogordo, Teachman is credited for successfully coordinating college and community efforts with legislative committees and with the NM Higher Education Department, resulting in planning funds for the Advanced Technology Center for Career/Technical programs in Automotive, Welding, Renewable Energies, HVAC, and Building Construction. Teachman also served as Interim CEO/President of NMSU-Alamogordo during a particularly difficult rebuilding period at the institution. Teachman's career includes serving twenty -three years in higher education. Six of those years were spent at Marshall University in Huntington, WV as an Assistant Professor in English. Teachman says she welcomes the opportunity to return to West Virginia. She earned her bachelor's degree and master's degree in English from Northern Illinois University. She followed that with a doctorate in English from the University of California –Davis. "My life's mission matches the mission of [Southern]. I am focused on and dedicated to providing strong, high quality educational opportunities to students who may otherwise be unable to pursue them, and to supporting the communities I am a part of through development of a strong, well educated workforce that has the skills and knowledge needed by those communities," she said. Teachman's appointment will begin in November. Southern provides accessible, affordable, quality education and training at each of its four campuses in Boone, Logan, Mingo and Wyoming counties and its Lincoln County High School location in Hamlin, WV. For further information visit www.southernwv.edu or call 1-866-SWCTC1.


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text: Online soldiers have a few more reasons to squad up in Battlefield: Bad Company 2 today, as a somewhat new map pack has arrived on consoles and PC. VIP Map Pack 4 adds new modes to current Bad Company 2 maps Atacama Desert and Port Valdez. In Atacama Desert players can now partake in "Rush Mode," jockeying for position on the sandy wasteland. Conquest fans will now be able to fight alongside allies on Port Valdez, where U.S. command must defend the harbor from a Russion onslaught. BOOM video 5707 PC players will have the content freely patched into their current game, while console players with new copies of Battlefield: Bad Company 2 who have already registered their included VIP code will be able to download the new variations. For console soldiers who have yet to register their VIP code, we ask, "What are you waiting for?"


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Conference Services
General Overview
Where is Conference Services located?
The Conference Services Office is located in the American River Courtyard and is open everyday of the week (during the summer conference season) June 6 - August 6.
How can I contact the Conference Services office?
- Conference Services Office 24/7 - 7 days a week: (916) 278-4982
- June 6 - Aug 3, 2016
How do I get mail and/or packages delivered to me?
To have mail and/or packages delivered to Conference Services, address mail/package as:
Conference Group Name
Guests First and Last Name
California State University, Sacramento
Conference Services
6006 J Street
Sacramento, CA 95819-6067
There is no weekend package delivery.
- Check-In Time: 10:00 a.m., or later, and Check-Out is 11:00 a.m., unless requested prior and approved, and may be subject to late fee.
- All buildings are designated "non-smoking". Smoking is not allowed in any building or within 20 feet of any building entrance. There is a significant room recovery fee for guests who do not comply in order to cover the extensive cost of restoring guest rooms to a smoke-free condition.
- All buildings are air conditioned for guest comfort.
- All rooms are carpeted and furnished with extra long twin-size beds, desks, chairs, dressers, and closets and/or wardrobes.
- No pets are allowed.
- Traditional Halls consist primarily of standard double rooms (double occupancy) as well as a limited amount of single rooms that share a community bathrooms on each floor. Community bathrooms are on each floor and consist of toilets, private shower stalls and wash basins and they are cleaned daily by the housing staff. Many groups with younger guests prefer this style of building as they are easy to monitor and build community. In addition, Traditional Halls are the least expensive housing option!
- The American River Courtyard offers apartment style suites that vary from a one-person studio, to our double occupancy 2 bedroom/2 bath suites (sleeps 4 total), as well as our single occupancy 5 bedroom/2 bath suites (single occupancy bedrooms). Each suite has its own bathroom, kitchenette (no kitchenware) with full size refrigerator/freezer, microwave, sink, garbage disposal, living room with 3 piece sectional and coffee table and each bedroom can be locked to ensure privacy. This style of building offers the most private housing option, and is preferred among most adult groups. While the cost is higher than the Traditional Halls, the privacy and quality of housing can be worth it.
- Laundry facilities (debit card operated) are located in each building, as well as a community kitchen and vending area in each hall.
- Buildings are secured 24 hours a day and the room key will allow access through outside and individual room doors.
- Live-in professional and student staff (on call 24 hrs/day)
- INTERNET IS NOT INCLUDED - An Internet Log-in and password is required and can be purchased for $10.00 for each individual person and good for duration of stay. Log-in gives both Wi-Fi access and direct room connection to wall outlet with use of Ethernet cable from laptop to wall. (Individuals must supply own cable).
- Basic furnishings are provided, but this does not include kitchen utensils, dishes, pots, pans, coffee pots, televisions, alarm clocks, wake up service, cleaning supplies, or decorations. Please be aware that this housing does not offer all of the amenities of a hotel.
- Iron and Ironing Board are available to check out at the front desk during regular business hours. 1 hour maximum and can be checked out with Drivers License.
ADA Room Availability
A limited amount of modified accommodations for person with disabilities are available on the first floor of each building. No guarantee can be made for the number of rooms available and limited availability per group assigned per hall. However, if any rooms are available they may not be within the same building to which the group is assigned. Conference Housing must be informed in writing of any need for ADA accommodations no later than thirty (30) days prior to the conference start date.
Recreational Amenities
- The residence hall complex has several recreational facilities including a gated swimming pool/picnic area, tennis courts, basketball court and grass quad.
- Lifeguard service is not provided. Groups must provide supervision at all times.
- Recreation rooms in each building include televisions, pool and ping pong tables as well as snack and drink vending machines. Pool table and ping pong equipment, etc. are available to groups.
- Additional equipment (i.e. volleyball sets) can be rented from Peak Adventures on campus. Groups may call (916) 278-6321 for more information.
Linen Service
- Bed linens and towels are provided when requested in the contract. Linens will be stacked on end of bed prior to arrival unless other arrangements are made.
- For guests staying longer than a week, linen exchange service can be arranged. Daily linen exchange can also be arranged for an additional fee. Please request these services prior to arrival.
Dining Service Options
- A variety of convenient meal services can be contracted through the University Enterprises, Inc. Campus Dining Service including breakfast, lunch, dinner, and special events.
- The Dining Commons provides quality food service in a clean and pleasant atmosphere.
- For specific questions regarding meal services, please call (916) 278-6971 or visit website: www.dining.csus.edu/dining-commons/summer-conferences/
- All vehicles parking in the residence hall lots must have a valid parking permit.
- PARKING PERMIT PRICES (Subject to Change) - $6.00/daily permit and $14.00 weekly permit.
- Permits should be requested in advance.
- Permit rates vary based on duration.
- Any permits not issued to participants should be returned. Unused permits will not be charged to group. Portions of partially used permits cannot be refunded.
- Permit machines can be found in various campus locations including the residence hall parking lot.
- No camping or occupied motorhomes or RV's are permitted in campus parking lots.
- For more information you may call: University Transportation and Parking Office at (916) 278-7275 or visit their website: http://www.csus.edu/utaps/
Meeting Facilities
- Meeting areas are limited to study and recreation areas in each building.
- If necessary, additional chairs, tables, etc. can be requested from campus on your behalf for an additional fee.
- Reservation of meeting facilities is subject to availability.
- For additional meeting space on campus, groups are encouraged to contact Space Management on campus at (916) 278-6507.
Audio/Visual Equipment
- Equipment arrangements can be made through All Things Video (916) 973-9100.
- Groups are responsible for picking up and returning equipment.
- Room keys will allow guest access to their building as well as their individual room and the complex pool area.
- Guests should carry their room key at all times.
- Conference participants are asked to lock their doors when they are not present.
- The replacement charge for a lost key/access card is $30.00.
- Arrangements can be made for coordinators to utilize floor/building master keys (traditional halls only). If lost, the charge varies depending on type of master key.
Phone Service
- Conference groups staying in the residence halls may order short term telephone service through the Conference Housing Office.
- Telephone set provided, Free Voice mail service and free on-campus calls.
- Groups will need to provide their own calling cards to make any outgoing local or long distance calls.
- Phone Activation Fee............................$125.00/per line
- Ask for a Telephone Service Request Form if your group is interested in phone service.
- There are no pay phone available within the Residence Halls, Cell phones may be used.
Personal Property
- The University does not assume responsibility for personal property of group or individual participants.
- Personal items left after the group's departure will be inventoried and held at the Conference Services Office for up to (5) days. At the end, all unclaimed items are donated to charity.
Bath Facilities
- Typically, men and women are housed on separate floors with common bath facilities for each gender. Communal Bathrooms have separate individual showers (no tubs).
- Alcoholic beverages are prohibited in all public areas of the complex including corridors, foyers, lawns, pool, etc.
- Alcoholic beverages are not permitted in any areas occupied by minors.
- Alcoholic beverages are prohibited without prior written request and approval.
- Containers allowing large quantities of alcohol to be consumed (i.e. kegs, etc.) are not permitted.
- Groups should provide an on-site contact person responsible for message service, emergencies, lock-outs, etc.
- Conference groups will be responsible for the supervision of participants at all times.
- A minimum of 1 live-in chaperone per 10 conference participants who are under the age of 18 must be provided.
- Groups utilizing the swimming pool facilities must furnish appropriate supervision at all times.
- Policies regarding conduct are established with regard to state and federal laws as well as University regulations.
- Conference housing agreements are issued based on the assumption that all program participants, regardless of age, will abide by these guidelines and are expected to display appropriate behavior at all times.
- University reserves the right to terminate housing for participants and/or conference groups should they violate University regulations, federal, or state laws.
- Groups are asked to respect the needs and program of the other groups residing in the complex.
- Amplified sound systems may not be used in complex except by specific arrangements.
- Furnishings should not be moved from their original location without permission. This includes game tables, pool tables, picnic tables, etc.
- Window screens are not to be removed.
- Throwing objects out of/at windows or off balconies.
- Nothing should be fastened to interior or exterior walls without specific approval.
- Resident hall facilities should be left in good condition. Any damages caused by a group will be billed on final invoice.
- Excessive trash will result in additional housekeeping and/or grounds-use charges.
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text: As a non-Chief fan, I loved to see Derrick Thomas play. Elected to his first ProBowl in his first season and had 8 ProBowls after that. He is one of the best defensive players in NFL history and his death came way too soon. What I don't understand is why it's taking the HOF morons so damn long to induct him, but then they have yet to put Art Monk in there as well.