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Aug 20, 2009, 11:03 #1
Gif question about repeat vs. non-repeating images...
I have some links in my header of my website that I'm trying to make more attractive by using a tiny gif file that adds visual affect. This gif file is supposed to work like this:
When the user hovers over the image and or link, the image is supposed to display a motion after which the remaining 2 layers of the gif image are supposed to repeat. Keep in mind that the final moment which the mouse remains hovered over the image, it is not in :active mode, but still, in :hover mode.
Can this be done? Have a gif that has only 2 or so images within the entire gif file only repeat while the others are cycled through only once?
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No. The only control in animalted gifs is the delay betfore switching to the next image in the loop. When you display an animated gif it starts looping and keeps looping for as long as it is displayed. The only way to start and stop the looping is to switch it for a completely different image.Stephen J Chapman
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Aug 20, 2009, 12:46 #3
Gotchya, but let me ask you this then:
Let's hypothetically say I have an image of a light switch. When I hover over the image, I want the image to look as if the switch is being flipped, however, as the mouse cursor remains over the switch, I would then want the switch to repeat changing colors between 2 different colors (so far, I would prefer to use a background image somehow).
How could something like this be done? I'm thinking that Java Script would be used somehow, but if not with Java Script, then I have no idea unless there's some CSS I could apply... That's the reason I was hoping I could just set my gif up to somehow only repeat a certain few last frames / images to repeat indefinitely.


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Julius Peppers Confirms Leaked UNC Transcript Was His; Says No Fraud Took Place
Still not sure what the big deal is, but the transcript above we now know was Julius Peppers transcript from when he was at the University of North Carolina.
They should have never been leaked and as long as he was eligible it doesn't matter that he wasn't a very bright student.
You don't have to be Pre-Med to know how to rush the quarterback.
Former North Carolina football star Julius Peppers confirms it was his academic transcript that was posted on the university's website and insists there was "no academic fraud" with it.
The Chicago Bears' defensive end released a statement Saturday through his agent calling it "an upsetting and challenging week for me" after a link to the transcript surfaced earlier this week. He says he's disappointed his privacy was violated.


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Anyone who would slog through all those one question per page pages has a two digit IQ, disqualifying them for either term "nerd" or "geek".
One of my recent journals asked what is a nerd? [slashdot.org] I don't think anyone at InfoWorld qualifies for the title.
15. Related to quantum mechanics, what is the term for the observation that some physical quantities can be changed only by discrete amounts, or quanta?
The answer IS quantum mechanics (or quantum physics) and not, as they suggest, "multiples of planck's constant".
Mine's two digit...in hex. The first digit is a letter, and so's the second one
Anyone who would slog through all those one question per page pages has a two digit IQ, disqualifying them for either term "nerd" or "geek".
The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?
What geek willingly goes to InfoWorld?
20 years ago I had a free subscription to it. It was fun to read Notes From The Field. Quite a lot of the rest was just technology companies tooting their own horn and InfoWorld only too happy to print it and accept the advertising $.
What website doesn't know how to implement working radio buttons?
Seriously, I look at the first question, and it's like they expect me to remember the answer or something. How am I supposed to take the test and then share the results on Facebook?
Also, this seems to be less a "Geek IQ" quiz and more a "IT terminology quiz with the occasional splash of science-fiction knowledge questions" quiz.
You could have five fingers and count in binary the number you get right. There are only twenty questions.
You could have five fingers and count in binary the number you get right. There are only twenty questions.
Great idea until your co-worker punches you at correct answer number 4.
Is see FOUR fingers!
Only because you know you're going back to the fish in your office.
How am I supposed to take the test and then share the results on Facebook?
You're on Facebook? Turn in your geekcard now.
You're on Facebook? Turn in your geekcard now.
How else are we supposed to meet girls? We can't talk to them IN PERSON!
Yes, it's a useful social tool. The age of geeks being socially awkward recluses is long over.
Anybody try reading articles from the site?
No, I could tell just from the slashticle it was a complete waste of time.
Ookaaay... exactly what does knowing obscure trivia about shows from 50 years ago have to do with IQ? I could see it as a geek score for bragging rights, or a hint if you might want to have a professional look into whether you've got Asperger's, but IQ? Seriously?
Actually I reasoned few of the correct answers by elimination (the GUID one for instance), so I got a bit of pleasure from the test. Overall score not impressive, of course, I am lame Windows user. One of the older quizzes (2008 or 2009, can't remember) was pretty interesting though...Also noted that reading
Incorrect as it is, "IQ test" has come to mean a test of knowledge and fact rather than one of ability.
Even worse, I'm sure this is not going to show up as a bell curve with the median being a 100 score.
So, rather than testing intelligence, its testing trivia, and rather than being a bell curved test its basically a "top 50 list" or whatever.
I would assume, not being to load the quiz, that its not going to be actual geeky questions, its going to be all about mass media references to geeks, which is a population that generally doesn't care very much about the mass media or its vapid opinions.
It would be inter
"what color is RMS's beard?"
That's a trick question as it depends on what he has been eating recently. Bazinga!
"Sample some extra-class ham radio exams, some CCNP cert BGP questions, some organic chemistry questions, some "end of chapter" questions from Knuth and Feynman's Lectures, mostly selected because I'd ace those, but they're not a bad start."
That would still be a knowledge and not aptitude test. You've simply changed the trivia topics.
An aptitude test would require deriving the answer with the prerequisite knowledge and data provided in the question.
So it should be about not putting the round peg in the square hole? Damn you geography! Damn you all to heck!
Not really. Or not outside of the bizarro world of Internet marketing.
Actual IQ tests still at least try to measure certain kinds of mental aptitude. While some degree of knowledge are unfortunately inherent in being able to even ask the questions, much less answer them (e.g., someone has to be familiar with rectangular blocks before you can ask them to count blocks in a picture), that was never the focus of actual IQ tests. How much you know about some obscure subject -- be it Star Trek or Victorian novels -- is just not part of the definition of IQ.
However the notion is increasingly MISUSED to basically mean "whatever way we can play on your insecurities and need to reassure yourself, to get a click out of you". This can mean knowledge of trivial things, or even things completely unrelated to intelligence, like optical illusions, deliberately ambiguous pictures, paraeidolia, or whatever.
When you see stuff like "93% of people can't tell whether the ballerina rotates to the left or right" on some "IQ Test" ad (you know the kind I'm talking about), it doesn't really mean that the definition of IQ or of IQ Tests has changed. It just means that some dishonest marketers are aiming exactly for the kind of idiot who'd (A) not realize it's a stupid scam, and (B) is insecure enough to actually want some website to pat him on the head and tell him that he's so smart after all.
It's not really all that different from preying on some people's sexual insecurities to sell them penis enlargement pills.
Don't get me wrong, I'll be the first to say that IQ is pretty meaningless for anything except taking an IQ test. But still, it at least means that. Memorizing trivia that's fully useless to anyone and for anything else than a trivia contest, is just not the same thing as high IQ.
I'll be the first to say that IQ is pretty meaningless for anything except taking an IQ test.
Why all the hating on symbolic manipulation, logical reasoning, and pattern recognition? That seems to be the backbone of trash talking the concept of IQ tests, I've always wondered why. I find symbolic manipulation, logical reasoning, and pattern recognition very useful, profitable even. I would predict that the loss of those skills would be a pretty severe blow to my lifestyle and intellect. I know there are many more categories in Cattell-Horn-Carroll theory but those three are usually by far the lea
Actually, I've yet to see anyone who says that logical reasoning flat-out is unimportant. (Except when you apply it to their Bible or Quran, I guess.)
What is the actual objection is that the ways used to measure it, actually measure more whether you trained the application of that exact measuring method, than a more general ability to use logic in the real world or in a real world job. It's, if you will, like I were to measure your mental abilities by your gear-score in WoW. Sure, it can be argued that you
It's just being measured badly.
Yes a good indication of measurement failure is poor correlation in predictive studies. Except that doesn't happen. If it were not so effective, it wouldn't be used so much, wouldn't be so interesting...
I will credit you that my Flynn effect theory was pretty lame. The alternative is even more bizarre. Instead of getting smarter, people are magically getting better at tests... hmmm. Whatever it is the tests are measuring, people are getting better at it at a rate not seen in other non-IQ tests and does
There are definitely gimme internet tests but they aren't all that way. I received the same score when tested online as I received when tested in high school.
They should just call it GQ, "Geek Quotient".
Yeah, I could live with it being just GQ. Even Geek EQ, I suppose. It's just "IQ" that seems horribly misused IMHO.
Yeah, I could live with it being just GQ. Even Geek EQ, I suppose. It's just "IQ" that seems horribly misused IMHO.
Of course, that quiz needs to be a *lot* larger if they're going to claim a general "geek score".
Take the Bozeman question, for instance - as written, 5% of your mark boils down to "are you a Next Gen Trek geek?". (I happen to be one, but such is.). You could easily be a SW fan. Or BSG or Firefly or B5. Heck, you might be a Trek fan and prefer DS9. (Or be young enough to grow up with Voyager and not know how badly you have it).
If you're not detailed up to at least "geek code" standards, I'd say you're not t
I guess it should be the "Geek Quotient" rather than the "Geek intelligence quotient"... but then again, you really expect a lot from infoworld writers if you expect them to know what words IQ actually stand for.
"Geek IQ" is a polite synonym for mastering alternate life pursuits not entirely like living. However, such a test ought to know the difference between nerd IQ and geek IQ.
The question about "Heroes" is the moral equivalent of the birthstone questions in the science category of the original Trivial Pursuit.
Every category had some bird food. In Sports, you just keep picking Bath Ruth or Mohamed Ali whenever they come up, you'll get one eventually. For a science ignoramus, the closest surrogate to low-han
If you get to the results page, you failed the test. No one sits through a painfully slow survey that requires a complete page reload (including new ads) every time you answer a question. I got to 2 questions before I bailed, so I figure I am middle of the pack. If you didn't click the link in the first place, you are a genius. 3-5 questions and you are slow but employable. 6-10 and you should probably stick with help desk duties. 11-19 and you should seek professional help. Go all the way, you should post out for the management opening.
How do we rate your Geek IQ if you didn't find the Print Page?
http://www.infoworld.com/print/178807 [infoworld.com]
1 Page and not an ad in sight!
Print pages are a beautiful thing.
Plus it has all the answers right there, so you've no excuse for not scoring 20.
NB When I tried the print page two hours ago, I got the answers to the first question (but not the question) with radio boxes by three out of four, followed by a button with no text, and some header and footer guff. I think it was quite reasonable to assume that they'd bodged the print page completely, although now it seems that it was merely slashdotted.
How many points do I get for knowing how bad InfoWorld usually is, and coming to the comments section to find someone who'd posted the print page?
You win one Schrodinger's Cat. Maybe.
If you didn't click the link in the first place, you are a genius.
Sweet! I saw that the link went to InfoWorld and had questions about Windows shit and said "fuck that, I don't need you to validate my geekiness with your 3-paragraph ad-laden web pages."
No one sits through a painfully slow survey that requires a complete page reload (including new ads) every time you answer a question.
Yes they do, but they're not geeks, they're idiots.
Question 8: In the TV series "Heroes," Hiro flashes forward
doesn't seem to fit in the realm of truly geekworthy
Never even heard of the series (do I fail because I don't watch television?), but if it's related to Hiro Protagonist from Snow Crash I'd say it's fair game. If you can count zero experience with cyberpunk, then you don't really qualify in my book. (You pass if you caught the pun, or play on words, in the last sentence). You don't have to like it, but you should at least have tried it. After all, Gibson could give anyone a migraine at first inoculation, but Stephenson is a pretty good initial choice.
ps -
ps - Did anything of Stephenson's make it to the screen?
Fiction? No, or, not yet. Nothing even close. I don't mind, I don't really want to see crytonomicon turned into a hollywood action movie. I'm not sure if Snow Crash could even be turned into an action movie, and the era of "the internet user interface is like a drug trip" has kind of passed out of style since '98 or so.
Non-fiction, well, yeah, if you count closely derivative works, or basically ripoffs of his stories. No, if you are strict about requiring him listed by name in the credits or him having
and the era of "the internet user interface is like a drug trip" has kind of passed out of style since '98 or so.
Hmm let me rephrase that, even trying to convince people they will interact on the internet using the Second Life interface has gone out of style. Not just the interface itself, but even trying to convince people its an area worthy of consideration.
Segmentation fault
(core dumped)
Got the technical stuff easily, but the contemporary stuff of media creating - meh.
Is that ironic, or just sad?
Geek test fails the Geek test.
This. Seeing that I had to keep track of my own answers made me close the page.
This is 2011, come up with something better.
I don't even make it onto their scoring chart, and yet somehow I doubt you'd find anyone who knows me that doesn't think I'm a geek.
The problem with being "geeky" is that geekiness involves specialization, and let's face it, I don't know anyone who specializes in the Infoworld direction.
Isn't this pretty much the opposite of an Geek IQ test? This tests knowledge (to be nice) or trivia (to not be nice), whereas an IQ test would test reason, logic, problem-solving.
I'll just come back in a while, when there are more comments bitching about the answer choices. Then I can go over there and ace the thing
I took the test and scored 3.14159265
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15. Related to quantum mechanics, what is the term for the observation that some physical quantities can be changed only by discrete amounts, or quanta?
The answers are just stupid. None of them (even the "correct" one) is a technical term. The actual correct answer would have been "quantisation" (or "realizing that quantisation is necessary").
18. When Kelsey Grammer appeared on "Star Trek NG"...
It's Star Trek TNG, not NG. Wikipedia and Memory Alpha agree with me (eg. there's a redirect on Memory Alpha to the correct page from "TNG" but not "NG"), though NG appears to be used sometimes by a few people.
Bunch of random questions about ancient technology, old TV programmes, Nicknames for old versions of OS's and some new tech
but everything the real Geeks either never knew, or have forgotten
Not a Geek text
Yeah, I found the question selection to be pretty silly, too. It was pretty much just a bunch of obscure things you'd google nowadays. Even the TNG reference I mentioned was obscure--that captain had about 12 seconds of air time at the very end of that episode.
I got 12 of the last 15 correct after missing 4 of the first 5. I'm not sure if that meant the author got lazier or I got better at spotting the wrong answers.
well, obviously they were just trolling.
or they're just being infoworld as infoworld is. you know, because it's so fucking hard to hire geeks.
Actually, the correct term would have been "normalization of probability measures on a Hilbert space" (the sum of all probabilities has to add up to one).
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Yes, and I can interpret it without the guide: 5 points
Yeah- I remember that/ Oh, God, I thought we were done with that nonsense: 3 points
What?: 0 points
Is that HTML?: Go away
.. the only winning move is to choose not to play.
I tired of flipping through the questions and keeping track on my own of my score, while laughing at the auto-text that said I picked this or that when clearly I could not pick a damn thing without a frakkin radio button to poke, so I wrote a script to take the test for me, consulting wikipedia and (proud of this one!) the RFC library for answers. Eventually, I edited the script to filter out all future references to infoworld from my slashdot feed, and to extend a robot arm and hand from my monitor and sla
[google.com]http://www.google.com/search?rls=en&q=nerd+test&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 [google.com]
seriously though, I haven't bothered to fill any of them up since I was 18 and.. well too white and nerdy, obviously.
Start on page 25 and answer the questions in reverse order.
For reasons that cannot be fully explained you may end up with a much higher score using this method.
Thanks for mentioning Infoworld in the summary. Otherwise, I might have actually visited the link.
My time is valuable.
I won't click 10 times to read something that could have been put on a single page.
Not photo essays, top 10 lists, bottom 10 lists, quizzes, nada.
If it's not all on one page I just click the big X.
Sheesh slashdots collective panties really are in a bunch today.
So much nerdrage over a lame quiz - don't you all have something better to complain about? (obviously I don't)
When they started asking windows related questions. No geek with any kind of self-respect would answer those.
Also, not an IQ test, just a stupid quiz.
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Saturday, June 20, 2009
The Price is Right (1972)
Posted by Kliph Nesteroff at 12:00 AM
Labels: 1972, bob barker, Commercial, game show, johnny olson, mash, new dick van dyke show, Price is Right
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Is this possibly the first ever episode of the Bob Barker hosted "Price Is Right"?
- June 26, 2009 at 11:13 PM
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The fourth but from the first week.
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- MrCachet said...
LOL Does he point at bookworms?
- May 26, 2011 at 9:40 AM
- Alpha Monkey said...
SO handsome! Please tell me his name is Baskerville.
- May 26, 2011 at 10:46 AM
- Michael said...
The shelter tells me his old name was Nico, not sure if that will stick or not. I was thinking of naming him Mark; my other dog's name is Book.
- May 26, 2011 at 10:47 AM
- Highpockets said...
Nice socks. I suppose Shelf is out of the question.
- May 26, 2011 at 11:30 AM
- The Bunny said...
Very cute! Looks like a mixed breed? The coat looks kind of brindle but also a little shepherdy? Very sweet boy. Big paws though. How old?
- May 26, 2011 at 12:37 PM
- Michael said...
Yes, he has a fantastic brindle coat. Soo soft.
I don't have much of a guess on breed, maybe mastiff/pit/something?? :)
He's about three or so.
- May 26, 2011 at 12:40 PM
- ollie1976 said...
- May 26, 2011 at 1:25 PM
- Secret Admirer said...
Love the idea of calling him Mark. I really like his colouring such a fine looking gentleman
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As you can clearly see from the picture below in the Detroit News Zack Novak is playing with NO legs.
Michigan beats Indiana playing with a paraplegic most of the game
How do people get these shots? I mean there's this, then the ones were THJ removed his head from all photos
a levitating paraplegic, no less!
you don't need legs when you've got GRIT
I have no clue about photography, but maybe someone who does can shed some light on how that is possible. Is there some extent of Photoshopping that goes into newspaper photos and they just messed this one up?
Maybe I'm wrong here, but Novaks legs just happen to be behind his body when the picture was taken. You can see one of his shoes up by the IU players shorts. Took me a few seconds to put that together. I figured it was photoshopped at first. Awesome picture, nonetheless.
Basically, they're not supposed to do any more than they need to do in order to convert the raw file captured by the camera into a JPG or a print-ready image. The photographer would certainly get in a lot of trouble for removing legs. I think HartAttack20 has the right idea.
(You do see editorial photos that have been manipulated, which is justified by the fact that they're editorial. It can be controversial anyway.)
Double amputee would probably be more accurate.
The title of the post seemed a bit quesitonable but the picture is pretty funny (he kind of looks like a hovercraft)!
Looks like photoshop to me. I didn't watch the game so I will more than likely be off, but why is Novak on the ground when it looks like the IU play has full and utter control of the ball? Is this the new dive defense I keep hearing about?
He is on the ground like that because he has no legs, stop being so insensitive to the legless people.
They did it to themselves.
It's still there.
And when you zoom in on it, it doesn't even look like he was originally in that picture.
He looks like Slimer.
Stick rug fringe on each end of him and he could be the fricking carpet.
If you go to the website & take a look at the blown up version of the photo, you can see what appear to be Novak's black shoes just over his left shoulder. I'm thinking that it's not actually photoshopped, just a really weird position that only someone like Zack Novak could twist themselves into without shattering their spine.
I believe you are correct. It just looks very, very strange at first blush.
So how many stolen bases did Novak wind up with?
or a shirt or anything else from the site:
I think I need the playing cards...
It's almost like the game is too easy for Novak, so he decided to increase the degree of difficulty by doing push-ups while guarding IU. And these weren't just the normal push-ups, these were the jump up and clap your hands style push-ups, all while having no legs. I'm impressed.
First, there would be absolutely no reason for either the photographer or the News to engage in fakery; their professional credibility would be at stake. If it were photoshopped, whoever did it or authorized it would probably lose their job.
Second, I've looked at the photo carefully, and there are none of the telltale signs of two photos being merged. In particular, look at Novak's hair—one of the hardest things to do in photo retouching is dealing with hair against backgrounds, and you can see individual strands of Novak's hair. I'm not saying it would be impossible to do, but it would take time and therefore money.
Why would you assume that a Detroit newspaper cars about professional credibitily? Oh wait, we're talking the News not the Freep.
Wait... So Novak does in fact have no legs?? What an athlete.
I came to this thread expecting a bad, tasteless joke.
I really liked the title now.
Missed the game, but knew there was controversy about Horford playing... Glad to find he didn't burn his medical redshirt only to do more damage.
Now I finally understand why they say Zack is physically limited.


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Always on always turns me off.
The main problem I see with this is the ability to lend games to friends, or have friends lend games to me! This is what hooked me in with COD 4 and the reason I purchased an Xbox. My mate lent me his copy for a day and boom I was hooked.
That wont be happening again I guess....
How was it the reason you bought the console? If he lent you the game without having the console, how on earth did you play it?
I had a mate staying at my house with an Xbox. I used this to play COD 4 and decided to buy my own xbox and COD 4 game.
Score:4, Informative?
"I did not know that you need a console to play a game. I will mod this up."
I think the idea is that if you want to try a new game, they would rather you just download the demo or whatever instead of borrowing disks. It's becoming increasingly common to get demo access for all kinds of new releases.
So, on paper, I agree with your statement. I just don't think it's as big a deal as people think. Now the guys in the middle of nowhere with crappy internet connections have something to complain about, but their beef should be with their ISP anyway.
I think their beef should be with DRM. Demos only allow you play up to a certain point.
It's worse than that, because of online activation for multiplayer me and my girlfriend can't both play online with games that use this technique. They expect two people in the same household to buy two copies of the game to both be able to play online even if one of the discs isn't even in use at the time because activation gets tied to your account and we have separate accounts so we can play different things at the same time on each console.
That depends. If it is on the xbox the game was registered on then no, since it is registered to the box and the accounts dont matter. On a non registered xbox then the account it is registered to is what mattered then maybe depending on the game.
You are probably right in surmising that there is a way around many objections being made.
The real question is why we should have to pay them so we can jump through their hoops?
The answer to that is because people buy console games and accept a locked down platform. Having game companies make use of their advantages on this platform to control your access to what you have bought has always been a "feature" of consoles. It is one reason I don't waste my money on consoles for gaming.
I picture Microsoft stuck with a warehouse full of them until the laughing from their peers and loss of profits force them to change their suckass firmware.
Par for the course for Microshit. Misguided leadership as per usual.
It might make Joe Sixpack realize something when instead of taking about 10 titles in for his $10.00, that he gets nothing. Even the little cash coming back from used games denied may be a game-changer.
At least with the used game market now, people get something, even if it is $5, for bringing in used games. The psychological factor of "once its bought, its bought" may be a hurdle that causes people to either hesitate on buying titles, or buy them on Windows.
Of course, there will be the fact that one has
I don't get the anger here. Valve have been doing this with Steam sales for ages. You can't even give away an old game on Steam; it's locked to your ID. You can't even remove it from your game list.
I think this is a dick move by MS.
It's just a rumour at the moment. I'm gonna wait until details are confirmed before deciding to buy it or not.
No new console for me then *shrugs*
I already dropped out of modern console gaming due to DLC bullshit. This just sounds like suicide on their part to me.
Give me PCs and emulators and go fuck yourself until you can provide a good product again, game companies.
These kinds of decisions are obviously going to piss off customers. But Microsoft clearly feels they are untouchable.
This might be understandable if they weren't currently the not-so-proud parent of a dismally failing tablet, a disaster of an operating system and a serial failure in the online space.
One would think that just maybe they should approach customers on the basis of what the customers want, and not what some repeat-disaster of a CEO thinks is good strategy.
This will be the year of the "upset" IMHO. Ouya and Steam look set to overthrow the aging behemoths. I look forward to healthy competition.
My wife was hounding me for a while because before we had gotten married I borrowed some money from her that she was planning to buy a PC with for Diablo 3 when it came out, so... I got us both gaming PCs..... my first in years
The consoles have all been collecting dust ever since. It killed a few game series, just because buying a controller isn't that high on my list and third person running around games suck on kb and mouse... but the experience is better too.
Its not so much about graphics, my PC blows them away, but its also a lot newer, so thats understandable.... and thats kind of my thing... I can upgrade it.
The tradeoffs are simple. Consoles are consistent. Games are written to their specs for years. If a game says "Xbox360" there is no question, it will work on my Xbox360.
The downside, no upgrades untill the next version comes out. Performance has always been far behind PCs (a friend was over and saw my wife playing skyrim and he was shocked at how short the loading screens were compared to his console).. and as great as controllers are for some games (3rd person and games with simple rough mechanics) they are decidedly inferior to keyboard and mouse for anything remotely FPS, and when you look at the recent FPS RPGS like skyrim and Fallout....one word.... autorun.
Of course when I put a PC together, I can't seem to do it for less than 3x the cost of a console, but, I know the lower end of the market is perfectly fine at this point and, based on the last gen of consoles, at about the same price.
Thats the real kicker. When a console is $100-200... thats one thing... when it converges on the price of a low end gaming PC.... which can be used to do so much more, its hard for me to justify the console.
For me the balance is just so far tipped towards PC; I just can't justify another console.
... unreliable internet connection (most of the world) this will make it unusable.
We don't need proof, unsubstantiated blog entries will suffice!
And when you RTFA(s) you see that most of the
The original source for the story - not the third hand one provided here - is Edge magazine. While this seems far fetched, they don't tend to post hardware rumours unless well-substantiated. I don't think they've run a story like this since they got the scoop on the GBA SP a decade ago.
to get themselves out of the console business again
Valve's Steam Box may give these guys a run for the money.
Of course, these rumors may only exist because of Valve's entrance into the market.
Steam games are already tied to an account, so I can't see how a Steam Box would be any kind of savior here...
Or until someone hacks it with custom firmware so it won't need an internet connection to play games.
Although that seems silly.
I think the worst part is that this may work as a business strategy. I wonder if it opens them up for a lawsuit, though.
I can't imagine any legal grounds anyone would have for a lawsuit, in this instance. You can sell or trade or give away your games all you want, leaving the first sale doctrine intact. The fact that the game no longer works for the poor guy who bought it isn't Microsoft's problem since they aren't obligated to provide support for used products.
In reality, there will probably be a way to "unlock" a used game, by paying a fee through xBox live or whatever. It identifies a game disk is already tied to an ac
I can't imagine any legal grounds anyone would have for a lawsuit, in this instance. You can sell or trade or give away your games all you want, leaving the first sale doctrine intact. The fact that the game no longer works for the poor guy who bought it isn't Microsoft's problem since they aren't obligated to provide support for used products.
It won't work in the E.U., given current rulings of the European Court of Justice. It explicitely ruled that making available a permanent copy of a software to a customer for a fee is a sale (independently of the name in the contract, just naming it "license" doesn't make a difference), and thus the First Sale Doctrin applies. The copyright holder is not allowed to oppose such a seal, and technical means to render a resold copy unusable will probably be seen as an opposition of the copyright holder to a sale -- thus making them illegal.
The ruling [europa.eu] goes even further:
Therefore the new acquirer of the user licence, such as a customer of UsedSoft, may, as a lawful acquirer of the corrected and updated copy of the computer program concerned, download that copy from the copyright holder's website.
I can't imagine any legal grounds anyone would have for a lawsuit, in this instance. You can sell or trade or give away your games all you want, leaving the first sale doctrine intact. The fact that the game no longer works for the poor guy who bought it isn't Microsoft's problem since they aren't obligated to provide support for used products.
That won't fly in AU. Goods must be fit for purpose, and second-hand sales do not erase the manufacturers responsibility. A quick reading of the consumer guide seems to say you could buy it second hand and then demand a full refund from the manufaturer if it didn't work due to a manufacting defect. The interesting challange would be to get disabling DRM defined as a fault with the goods.
Link to the guide for those interested: http://www.consumerlaw.gov.au/content/the_acl/downloads/consumer_guarantees_guide.rtf [consumerlaw.gov.au]
Everyone complains about changes like this, where games are tied to accounts that can't be resold or traded, but in the end, people will still keep buying the games and consoles. It's basically only going to cause problems for used game shops, like Game Stop. I'm sure they'll work out some kind of method with the publishers and/or manufacturers to sell used games with new activation codes or somethings.
Long story short, the used game market will continue to exist, although it will be a bit less lucrative
so heavily encrusted with DRM that it will get in the way of playing games I have purchased.
I wouldn't be feeling so high and mighty in your position. PC gaming started the trend of restrictive DRM and is starting the trend of requiring always on internet (Sim City for example). Even Steam which is held us as the best there is when it comes to a basis for DRM systems, and generally pretty well defended on here, doesn't allow you to transfer ownership or 'lend' games.
If the DRM on the Xbox is put a one us
People keep forgetting that the reason people like Steam is because they provide a service in exchange for you giving something up. If you buy your games with a Steam account, you get them integrated with social features, achievements, cloud saves and settings, automatic updates, and most importantly, brain-dead simple moving to new computers.
That's without all the "good faith" things people have come to expect from Valve like frequent deep sales, new platform support, etc.
Meanwhile, you can be damn sure your new Xbox game will be strictly less functional than before, not a trade off. The problem is the one-sidedness.
People keep forgetting that the reason people like Steam is because they provide a service in exchange for you giving something up.
Why give up anything? They could easily get rid of the silly DRM and give people all the other features as well. You could choose whether or not the tie the game to Steam.
The best games to buy are the ones which use SteamWorks if available, but let you run them outside Steam. There's a list of games which don't care if Steam is running on the Steam forums. Support those developers to send a message
Steam has many parts. There's the distribution, which may sometimes send you an encrypted binary before official release. Once decrypted it may be DRM-free. Then there is the online/social API which requires Steam running, but that's not DRM. Then some use SteamWorks as DRM, and need you to verify online that the game belongs to your account.
PC gaming started the trend of restrictive DRM
Nope, that was Nintendo in 1985 with the Checking Integrated Circuit that ran 10NES. And even before that, there were funny disk formats used by Commodore 64 and Apple II games.
Halo 5? Wow, I wonder what you have to do in *that* game!? (hint: shoot aliens...)
And what are they supposed to do? Race Penguins in go-carts? Grow things on their Farm and sell them at the Market? Save a Princess from an Ape?
Don't bag on a franchise for sticking to formula, it's what the audience wants.
I just bought DeadSpace 3 for my PS3 yesterday and love that it's essentially the same as 1 and 2 and hope to see a DeadSpace 5 and would expect it to be the same thing all over again as well. Because. It's. What. I. Want. To. Play.
The same things that got you to buy a PS3 and 360 when you had a PS2 and Dreamcast?
So when the reveal happens, and it turns out one or both of them do require always-on internet.. perhaps we should just kick up the same kind of mess that got SOPA kicked out of everything. That brings things into public opinion.
Though I doubt we'll have support from as many websites as we did back then.
The same GameStop that does its best to sell that "CoD kid" preowned games over new? Yeah, they'll be jumping at the chance to sell "Madden 2014 GameStop Can Eat It Edition".
Currently, STEAM is sued in Germany for not allowing re-selling of things bought on STEAM. This will likely be escalated. If MS thinks angering consumer protecion agencies in the EU is a good idea, they may find out that they are wrong.
And you believe that MS wouldn't Kowtow to these people why? Worse comes to worse, they leave resale on for country X, and publishers can choose (as they always have) if they want to allow sales of games in said country. Either the games industry or the country's lawmakers will blink and this non-issue will a bullet point in the history of video gaming, right between paying for online functionality and the death of video game physical media (aka precache).
Neither Microsoft or Sony have any interest in eliminating rental companies like Gamefly or resellers like Gamestop. What they do want is what the Publishers want -- Increased Revenue. It's well known that the Publishers have put pressure on Sony and Microsoft to restrict game resales because they don't get a dime of profit from 2nd hand sales.
Yes, Sony and Microsoft will be tying unlock codes to game systems to prevent play from 2nd hand owners. But what they don't tell you is that they will allow 2nd hand owners to BUY an unlock code via the Playstation or XBox stores for either unlimited or fixed duration (rental) game play.
So the question is not whether you can play a pre-owned game, because you will be able to, but whether or not game rental companies and game retailers can remain profitable with the added cost of the unlock codes in the mix.
Gamestop and Gamefly will work with this new system to include activation codes for rentals and pre-owned with the sale to make the customers life easier. I know that I already get all sorts of PlayStation Store redemption codes from GameStop when I pre-order Games or buy added DLC at point of sale. So an unlock code should not be that big a deal, since all it really is is a redemption code anyway.
In the end, I suspect that not much will change other than it might cost a bit more to own that 2nd hand game.
But that's just it. Publishers *do* get money from resale.
If I know I can pay $60 for a game when it first comes out, play it for a week or two and then sell it, I'll buy it opening day.
But since I can't resell it, I wait for that sucker to hit the bargain bin before I even consider it.
I understand what you are saying, and it's true. They also make money by friends lending out copies, or from rentals. There are many 3rd party channels that lead to sales.
The reality is that intangibles like "goodwill", "word of mouth" etc just don't make it into the all mighty spreadsheets that are the end all be all for corporate decision making. But "estimated annual lost revenue" from resale and rental channels does.
Please read this carefully:
Always-on internet and/or unable to resell or buy second hand games = no deal
I hope I'm clear.
A long-time XBox 360 player
Great move, so when your console dies (never happens, right?) you get to buy all your games again!
I don't think microsoft would be that stupid, the press would be all over them after the first console had to be returned because some part died.
You want to make a console like steam, no lending to friends and no used sales?
Well Microsoft, I can deal with that - I buy heaps of things on steam and I buy a heap of things on my consoles, so maybe we can come to an arrangement here,...
Only one problem is, the average price of games I buy on steam would be between 15 and 30$ and the average price of games I pay for on consoles is probably 40 to 50$, Steam games are _very_ regularly discounted to sensible prices.
So if you're willing to drop the prices of console games down to a similar, sensible level, then you might see me participate in this. but don't for a second think I'm signing up for this bullshit at 60$ US a shot for a game (and I KNOW you assholes will region lock it, so as an Australian, I'll be paying - 110$ US per game with no way for American friends to "gift" me the game at US prices and I paypal them)
You wanna have your cake and eat it too? Sure but I'm not participating if so.
Only $60 per game? I think you're forgetting about that whole DLC thing.
In the past, our legal rights have coincided nicely with what's physically enforceable. We buy discs / cartridges / tapes with games on, we play them, we sell them. With always-on internet connections comes a method by which the user of a product can be verified before it can be used, so now the letter of the law is at odds with what's practically possible - and people with lots of money (and even more at stake) will make sure that the law is changed (or rather "clarified") to reflect this.
Physical media it
If I can't own it, I'm not buying it.
The only reason why I own a 360 and PS3 is because I feel like I'm buying a game, and I therefore own the disk that it comes on. I can expect that disk to work in any other console, no questions asked. It's mine, and I can do as I please with it- I can play it whenever I want, trade it to whomever I want, borrow it to whomever I want, doesn't matter. It's mine. I paid for it, I own that disk.
Copyright laws be damned, I don't give a flying fuck about what passes for law in the USA these days. I don't care if I don't "legally" own the data on the disks. I don't even care if it's encrypted or not, as long as I can buy a console, plug it into the wall (sans internet), and expect it to work. This has been the case for nearly every console up to and including our current generation of offerings.
If they want to take that away from me, then fuck them.
Nothing irks me more then spending money on nothing. You think you're buying Halo 5 for the Xbox 720? Think again. You're giving Microsoft a wad of cash and hoping that they'll give you something in return, and if they do- that they'll let you play with it for long enough that you don't feel like you're being totally screwed when they inevitably take it away.
So really, me "owning" anything today is a huge stretch- but this kind of shit just iterates how little my rights matter to these corporations. You keep forcefully reminding me that I'm paying you for nothing tangible and nothing that I can permanently keep- damn straight I'm not going to buy into your newfangled bullshit. How do you think everyone would feel if car manufactures had the legal right to break into your garage and take away your car even if you paid full pop for it? I don't think that would fly very well. How come the same thing is OK for gaming?
The easy solution is to simply not buy the product if you think it's bad.
The easy solution is to simply not buy the product if you think it's bad.
We regulate businesses and proucts so that there are minimum levels of good in the world.
Ask yourself which is better for you and me:
1. Products that cannot be resold, thus violating the right of resale, and leading to a class action lawsuit
2. A regulating agency that prevents such a product from reaching the market
From a business standpoint, the first is better, as long as the settlement preventing harm from reaching the people remains the same.
I gonna buy me a wicked cool video card with the money I save from not buying a new XBOX 720. And have enough left over for a gaming keyboard with the cherry switches or maybe a new Naga mouse.
Fuck XBOX and their "always on". Why do I want to buy an underpowered console when I can have a PC so powerful that when I play Far Cry 3 I can practically smell the kimodo dragon blood?
Consoles are for pussies.
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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney was in Green Bay, Wis., on Monday.
Steven Senne, Associated Press
Romney faces question about Mormon faith
- Article by: STEVE PEOPLES
- Associated Press
- April 2, 2012 - 11:12 PM
GREEN BAY, Wis. - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney was questioned about his Mormon faith while campaigning for Tuesday's Wisconsin primary.
A Ron Paul supporter, 28-year-old Bret Hatch, asked Romney whether he agreed with a passage from the Book of Mormon that describes a cursing of people with a "skin of blackness." Romney's staff took away the microphone before the Green Bay man could read the passage.
"I'm sorry, we're just not going to have a discussion about religion in my view, but if you have a question I'll be happy to answer your question," Romney said Monday.
Hatch then asked whether Romney thought it was a sin for interracial couples to have children.
"No. Next question," Romney responded curtly.
Hatch was citing verses from Mormon scriptures which he argued called it sinful for blacks and whites to have children.
Such allegations are often made by critics who accuse The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints of racism and consider Mormon teachings heretical. The church barred men of African descent from the Latter-day Saint priesthood until 1978. Some Mormons may have heard verses from scripture cited in their communities as an explanation of why blacks were not allowed to become priests.
However, church leaders have said the origins of the prohibition are unknown. The church recently issued a statement from its offices in Utah denouncing racism and warning against what it called speculation about how the ban came to be.
"For a time in the church there was a restriction on the priesthood for male members of African descent," the church said. "It is not known precisely why, how, or when this restriction began in the church but what is clear is that it ended decades ago."
Romney often talks about the decade he spent as a volunteer Mormon pastor in the Boston area before becoming governor of Massachusetts.
Not long after Hatch's question, Romney reflected upon that experience.
"This gentleman wanted to talk about the doctrines of my religion. I'll talk about the practices of my faith," Romney said, noting that his service as a pastor helped him connect with people on "a very personal basis."
"Most Americans, by the way, are carrying a burden of some kind. We don't see it. We see someone on the street, they smile and say hello, but behind them they're carrying kind of a bag of rocks," Romney said. "I want to help people. I want to lighten that burden."
AP Religion Writer Rachel Zoll contributed to this report.
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BLOOMINGTON — From the opening draw to determine which weight would start the IHSA State Finals, it looked as though fate was against the Minooka Indians. The meet started at the 120-pound class, and though the bouts are ultimately determined in the circle, sometimes a slow start can dictate what happens between a wrestler's ears.
Minooka got two of Marmion's state champions in the first four weights, watched the Cadets bolt to a 14-0 lead and then cruise past the Indians by a 39-14 score in the quarterfinals.
"Starting at 20 obviously put them in a better position than us," Minooka coach Jeff Charlebois said. "But I tell the kids that they are only supposed to focus on themselves and the six minutes they are out there. Still, you're talking about 15-18 year old kids, and when they come out and see a couple of their buddies going down like that, they start thinking 'oh boy'."
Not only did Marmion have that going for them, coach Ryan Cumbee elected to bump up the first four weights, as well, and it paid off.
"They have good backups at those weights and can shift guys around," Minooka senior Corbett Oughton said. "I don't know if starting there (120) hurt us, but they do have depth there. The thing is that we're supposed to worry about our own matches at the time."
At 120, freshman A.J. Jaffe beat Shane Mart 3-0 and state champion Johnny Jiminez beat Bret Miller by technical fall 18-1 in 3:28. At 132, Jake Field beat Danny Ruettiger 7-4 in overtime and at 138 state champion George Fisher beat Mike McNulty 5-1.
"We were down at the beginning, but you're supposed to look at your opponent and do what you have to in order to win," Ruettiger said. "Yeah, they had tough wrestlers at the beginning, but I thought we did a good job of not giving up bonus points."
It was a point of emphasis for the Indians coming in.
"Giving up bonus points will get you," Oughton said. "We didn't give up a lot of bonus points, but we also needed to win some swing matches."
Ruettiger's swing match loss was tough because both wrestlers fought hard and two of the senior's OT points allowed came in the waning moments in the next to last 30 second period.
"We've harped on the kids about not giving up bonus points and they did well with that today. What did we give up, two bonus points in the first four weights?" Charlebois asked. "The overtime loss hurt. Winning swing matches was huge coming in too and that's what got us."
Ruettiger feels he let one slip away in the extra sessions.
"I should have stayed in a better position. If I could have pulled that out, it very well could have changed the momentum at the time," Ruettiger said. "I think the team wrestled pretty good today, though some of the matches could have gone better. But we wrestled tough and did what we could."
Carson and Corbett Oughton got Minooka on the board with its first points. Carson beat Trace Carello 4-1 and Corbett beat Matt Ferraro by tech fall 17-2 at 5:37. Just two more wins remained in the cards for the Indians, however, as Nathan Gunn beat Nathan Traxler 7-3 at 182 and at 220 Erik Velazquez beat Raul Jaimes 6-1.
Jeff Klank (160), Chris Hiscock (170), Josh Bouie (195), David Newman (285), K.J. Minor (106) and Andrew Potts (113) were also in the lineup, though suffering losses.
The Indians lose three seniors after this year to graduation in Ruettiger, McNulty and Corbett Oughton.
"We pulled through at the end of the year," Ruettiger said. "We regrouped and had a lot of people pick up the slack. We got stronger and made it back to the Elite 8."
After five straight trips to team state, it's now a goal the Indians have every year.
"We lose the three seniors, but when you look at our lineup, we had three freshman, four sophomores and four juniors out there today," Charlebois pointed out. "Now it's about getting back to work and letting these kind of disappointments fuel you next year."
Minooka finishes the dual season with a 14-8 record.
"I've had four great years with the team. This year we started with some injuries and things like that, but once we got everything settled, by the end of the year we were tough," Corbett Oughton said. "I look for this team to be back again next year. I'll be back with the team next year and be down here when they qualify for state again."
Marmion beats Minooka in state quarterfinals
BLOOMINGTON — From the opening draw to determine which weight would start the IHSA State Finals, it looked as though fate was against the Minooka Indians. The meet started at the 120-pound class, and though the bouts are ultimately determined in the circle, sometimes a slow start can dictate what happens between a wrestler's ears.


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Niccolo Machiavelli, in dedicating his book to Lorenzo de' Medici, urges the young prince of Florence to read his work and follow its advice. He also asks the prince to consider his bad turn of fortune (his exile from Florentine politics). Having made his case, Machiavelli goes right to the main focus of his work-how principalities can be acquired, governed, and preserved. Machiavelli identifies three main types of principalities: hereditary, new, or mixed. The hereditary principality passes down power through the ruling family. It is not difficult to maintain as long as the hereditary prince continues to rule as before. New principalities are created through military or civil acquisition. Mixed principalities (new territories added to an existing one) are of two kinds. If the new territory shares the same language and customs as the old one, the prince must extinguish the former ruling line and rule as before. If the new territory does not share the language and customs, the prince should either reside in it or set up colonies consisting of his own citizens or soldiers. Whether he chooses to reside in it or set up colonies, he must protect weaker neighbors, weaken powerful ones, and not let powerful forces enter his territories.
There are four ways a new prince can acquire a principality: by one's own arms, by the arms of others, by evil means, and by civil means. A principality that is won by a prince by his own arms is most secure. Machiavelli lists great princes who came to power through their own abilities: Moses, Cyrus, Romulus, and Theseus. They ruled effectively because they were all armed, unlike Savaronola, a Dominican friar who lost power because he did not take up arms. A principality acquired by the arms of others needs a prince with both fortune and virtue. Cesare Borgia is an example of a prince who came to power through fortune, but lost his power through an unfavorable change in fortune, even though he was a great leader and did almost everything right. Princes who come to power through evil means may gain power but not glory because of their conduct. Those who come to power by civil means (election by the nobles or the people) must remember to win the support of the people because they are crucial in times of adversity. Machiavelli also mentions the ecclesiastical principality with the pope as the ecclesiastical prince. In describing how the position of pope has come to wield much power, Machiavelli does not make a great distinction between a religious prince and a territorial prince.
Machiavelli identifies three kinds of armies: mercenary, auxiliary, and native. Since mercenary forces are hired hands that fight for a wage, they are unreliable in the face of battle. Auxiliary forces, or forces borrowed from an ally, are dangerous if they are victorious because the prince who uses them is under their obligation. Machiavelli strongly encourages every prince to use his own native troops. History has shown that princes who accomplished great things always used their own troops. In fact, a prince's sole activity is the art of warfare. He must always engage himself in the physical and mental exercises of warfare, especially in times of peace.
Regarding how a prince should rule and act, Machiavelli states that in an ideal world, it is virtuous for a prince to be good. But in reality, princes who distance themselves from ethical concerns and do whatever it takes for the benefit of their states rule best. Therefore, it is better to be parsimonious than generous, cruel than loving, crafty than honest. Machiavelli's general rule is to be as good as circumstances allow, but be willing to resort to any means necessary for the good of the state. A feudal prince must be wise in controlling the nobles and keeping the people content. Even fortresses are useless if the prince does not have the support of his people.
A prince gains esteem and glory through his courage. He must undertake great enterprises that allow him to display his abilities. When two neighbors are at war, a prince must never be neutral; he must take sides. The prince must have the wisdom to choose the least risky venture and act on it courageously. Wisdom is also needed in picking and satisfying his closest advisors and avoiding flatterers.
Machiavelli laments the decline of the Italian city-states and attributes it to the use of mercenary and auxiliary armies instead of native forces. In concluding that virtue, or abilities and fortune must come together for success, Machiavelli implores Lorenzo de' Medici to be the leader Italy has been waiting for-a prince to unite the Italians, drive the barbarians out of Italy, and restore his beloved nation to her former glory.


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Hi, would it be possible to add a confirmation dialog after you have pushed a button to report or delete a trap?
The way it is now its way to easy to report a trap by a fault.
If you could get a pop up asking: "Push 1 for Stationary, 2 for Mobile, 0 for Delete or Cancel" then it would not be so easy to report in something by error.
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I had a nice, cold gravel ride with Lenny tonight. While we haven't had any snow yet this year, we did get a bunch of ice. The paved roads were clear but the gravel roads were varied. Some areas were totally clear and some areas were pure glare ice.
Normally I had gravel road you would search out the smoothest part of the road. Tonight, the smoothest part were treacherous and the bumpiest parts were the place to be. In the rough areas little bits of gravel would protrude up through the ice giving great traction. I was really really pleased with how to tubeless tires performed on the Vaya. Running about 35 psi they had far better traction than I had any right to expect. The areas where gravel was in the ice was kind of like the inverse of studded tires–studded road. It was fun in a perverse and challenging way.
Where it was good, it was great. Where it was bad, it was
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METRO VANCOUVER - A teen girl was killed and three other people were seriously injured Wednesday morning after a motorcycle crashed into three girls crossing a street during lunch break at their Surrey high school.
Amarpreet Sivia, a 16-year-old honour-roll student at Princess Margaret secondary known for her big smile, was killed in the collision near 128th Street and 69A Avenue that happened around 11:30 a.m., just after the lunch bell rang. Sivia's family rents a three-bedroom basement suite from Balbir Sihota, who said Wednesday evening that Amarpreet was a friendly, quiet girl.
Sivia moved into the suite about two years ago and was the last of three sisters still living with her parents, according to Sihota.
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Friends mourning on Twitter remembered an engaging girl and a popular classmate.
"Last year I met such a sweet girl who had an absolutely gorgeous smile," user @ekooner16 wrote. "Rest in peace Amarpreet, prayers go out to the Sivia family."
Gurpreet Dhaliwal tweeted "I can't believe your gone amarpreet. didn't even let me say thanks for helping me learn how to swim, the last time we talked."
In an online profile, Sivia said she was an avid soccer and volleyball player who loved listening to music on her iPod.
"This summer I went to summer school, here at PM. It was cool because I made new friends from other schools," she said in the profile.
Local residents say the spot where the teens were hit is a particularly dangerous section of road, where Princess Margaret students often jaywalk across four lanes in the middle of a very long block to get cheap slices of pizza or a samosa during lunch.
"There's always a big problem with (students) crossing," said Cherenjit Dhillon, who owns a retail building near the crash site. "The kids don't have enough time to go to the traffic lights and cross."
A report sent to Surrey city council in 2011 that looked at the feasibility of turning the park next to Princess Margaret into a sports and cultural centre noted that 128th Street was a clear danger to pedestrians. It suggested that a new pedestrian crossing may be required if a centre is to be built at the site.
The three girls were outside of a marked crosswalk on 128th Street just south of Kwantlen Polytechnic University and Princess Margaret when the southbound motorbike crashed into them at about 11:24 a.m., according to Surrey RCMP.
Two people, including the male driver, were airlifted to hospital, one to Vancouver General and the other to Royal Columbian in New Westminster. The conditions of the driver and Sivia's two friends were unknown late Wednesday night.
The accident site was littered with the debris from the collision, including the yellow Yamaha motorcycle that hit the girls, as well as shoes, clothing, a purse and jackets. The entire area was blocked off to traffic for the afternoon as investigators surveyed the scene.
Heman Aggarwal of Aggarwal Health and Wellness Centre heard the crash from her business.
"One girl was severely injured," she said. "Another wasn't breathing at all. One girl was screaming for help."
Aggarwal also said students regularly cross the four lanes to get to restaurants and shops on the other side. "In their break time, a lot of them cross. But there's no crosswalk, nothing, nothing. It's the same every day."
Aggarwal also noted that bushes and trees in the traffic median provide a blind spot for drivers who might not see students crossing from the other side.
Hamida Rahman, a Grade 12 student who knew the girls well, said Sivia who died was very friendly and outgoing.
"I saw her this morning. She made everybody's day."
Rahman said the three girls were in many school groups. "They were very involved. They set a good example for everyone."
Another student, who was crying, agreed that the three girls were very popular and nice. "One was very funny."
Salma Abshir, a Grade 11 student at Princess Margaret, said the school was very quiet Wednesday afternoon and kids were very upset. "A few people were crying in class."
Late Wednesday afternoon, 21-year-old Devin Gill was at the scene staring dumbfounded at the wreckage. Gill lives nearby and said he drives an identical yellow 50th-anniversary edition of the Yamaha R-6 sport bike.
"I got a lot of calls asking if I was OK or not" immediately after the crash, Gill said.
He said he often noticed the driver's bike parked in Kwantlen's lot, but didn't know his name.
Kwantlen student Mike Hoffmann, 19, said people were talking about the crash all day in class. Hoffmann commutes daily to campus on his motorbike and saw the driver of the yellow bike involved in the crash park his bike in the university lot about twice a week.
Doug Strachan, a spokesman for the Surrey school district, said school officials are working with Surrey Mounties investigating the crash.
Strachan said once in classes, students were notified of the incident and counselling services were offered.
"Our sympathies go out to the families involved," Strachan said.
"It has an impact on everybody in the school community, some more than others, who knew the girls involved," he said, adding that additional counselling services have been made available to students.
"We're just making sure students know how to get support."
— with files from Surrey Now
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The Phils' offense exploded for nine runs in the last three innings, including two home runs, before defeating the Mets, 10-6.
The Phils explode for nine runs in the last three innings, including five coming in on a pair of home runs, as they defeated the Mets, 10-6.
The Mets took the lead in the first as, with one man on, and with one man out, David Wright hits an RBI double, knocking in Daniel Murphy, who had just walked, giving the Mets a 1-0 lead. The Phils tied the game up at one-all in the second as Ty Wigginton hits a lead-off home run, his fifth home run of the season. The Mets retook the lead in the sixth as, with one man on, and with two men out, Lucas Duda hits a two-run home run, his sixth home run of the year, scoring Scott Hairston, who had earlier doubled, giving the Mets a 3-1 lead. The Phils would retie the game up at three-all in the seventh as, with one man on, and with two men out, pinch hitter Carlos Ruiz hits a two-run home run, his eighth home run of the season, knocking in Brian Schneider, who had just doubled. The Phils would take the lead in the eighth as, with runners on the corners, and with one man out, Shane Victorino hits a sacrifice fly, scoring Juan Pierre, who had started the inning off with a single, then went to third base on Hunter Pence's single, giving the Phils a 4-3 lead. The Phils would take a commanding lead in the ninth as, with runners on the corners, and with one man out, Jimmy Rollins hits a three-run home run, knocking in pinch hitter Freddy Galvis, who had started the inning off with a walk, moved up to second base on Schneider's sacrifice bunt, 1-4, and then stopped at third base on pinch hitter John Mayberry, Jr's single, and Mayberry, who had just singled, giving the Phils a 7-3 lead. The Phils then added to their lead three batters later as Wigginton hits an RBI double, knocking in Pierre, who had earlier doubled, then was able to get back to second base on Pence's fielder's choice grounder to pitcher Chris Schwinden, avoiding the tag, giving the Phils an 8-3 lead, while sending Pence, who was safe at first on the fielder's choice, would stop at third base. The Phils then took a 10-3 lead as Victorino hits a two-run single, knocking in both Pence and Wigginton. The Mets began a rally in their half of the ninth as Duda hits a lead-off home run, his seventh home run of the season, and his second of the game, making it a 10-4 Phils' lead. The Mets then made it a 10-5 Phils' lead four batters later as, with one man on, and with two men out, Andres Torres hits an RBI double, knocking in pinch hitter Kirk Nieuwenhuis, who had just singled. The Mets then cut the Phils' lead down to 10-6 as Murphy hits an RBI single, scoring Torres. But that would be the final score as Jonathan Paplebon finally ended the inning by getting Wright to ground out, 4-3, for the game's final out.
Cliff Lee received yet another no-decision as he pitched six innings, giving up three runs on seven hits and two walks, while striking out seven. Antonio Bastardo (2-1, 1.84) got the win as he pitched a scoreless inning, giving up a hit, while he struck out one. Jose Contreras collected his four hold of the season as he threw a 1-2-3 inning, striking out two. Raul Valdes pitched two-thirds of an inning, giving up three runs on three hits. Jonathan Papelbon pitched a third of an inning, giving up a hit. Dillon Gee also received a no-decision as he went sixth and two-thirds innings, giving up two runs on six hits and a walk, while striking out five. Bobby Parnell collected his first blown save of the season as he pitched a third of an inning, giving up a run on one hit. Jon Rauch (3-4, 4.09) took the lost as he pitched an inning, giving up a run on two hits, as he struck out one. Tim Byrdak pitched a third of an inning, giving up a run on a walk. Ramon Ramirez pitched to three batters, getting none of them out, as he gave up three runs on three hits. Chris Schwinden pitched two-thirds of an inning, giving up two runs on two hits.
The Phils had fourteen hits in the game, with Jimmy Rollins (2 Singles, Home Run, 3 RBIs) and Juan Pierre (2 Singles, Double) leading the ballclub with three hits each, followed by Ty Wigginton (Double, Home Run, 2 RBIs) with two hits. Hunter Pence (Single), Shane Victorino (Single, 3 RBIs), Mike Fontenot (Single), Brian Schneider (Double), pinch hitter Carlos Ruiz (Home Run, 2 RBIs) and pinch hitter John Mayberry, Jr. (Single) having the other six Phils' hits. The Phils also had two walks in the game.
The Phils (27-25, 5th) have the day off.


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Thread: G5 keeps crashing
04-25-2004, 07:35 PM #1futerfasGuestG5 keeps crashing
My new G5 keeps crashing. When i look at the logs, i get this "PMU FORCED SHUTDOWN, CAUSE = -122" I seem to have this problem in there more then once. Any ideas?
First thing to try is repair permissions. After every software update, and about every 2 weeks: close all apps and log totally off. Log on, go in Finder, Applications. Utilities, Disk Utility. After the message -getting disk information- select volume (below the hard drive name -upper left corner). Just highlight it. Now look to the lower two things are there near the middle, verify permissions, repair permissions. Click repair permissions
04-25-2004, 07:54 PM #3futerfasGuest
I've tried that many times. I also got this:
"Dec 31 16:00:03 localhost kernel: ApplePMU:MU FORCED SHUTDOWN, CAUSE = -122
Dec 31 16:00:03 localhost kernel: ApplePMU::CLOCK RESET! PMU WAS PROBABLY RESET SOMEHOW!!"
Boot into single user Boot - hold command S and in the terminal you are then in type /sbin/fsck -fy and repeat until ********FILE SYSTEM CHANGED***** does not show It's alos possible the back up battery is dead
04-26-2004, 12:45 AM #5TylerMoneyGuest
it could be a ram problem...you might have gotten bad ram..not neccesarily the memmory chip being bad, but that it won't work right in a mac...for the mac doesn't like it....it only likes really good, specific memmory.
04-26-2004, 08:46 AM #6WilliSGuest
definately a power issue... i just dont know how to go about resetting apple's power management unit... um.. im clueless sorry... but try typing in your error on google and see what is said about it... ive seen a lot of talk about the -96 error on the xserves... and powerbooks... so maybe they will have a fix to the problem
btw, repairing permissions has never helped me... certainly not the solution to everything
infact... ive never once repaired permissions on my ibook for 3 years now... put that in your pipe and smoke it!
04-26-2004, 06:23 PM #7futerfasGuest
Called apple, that error message ment there was a HFS error and we fixed it.
I'd like to know how for future reference cause an error in the Hierarchical File System may be a big deal!
11-25-2005, 04:32 AM #9elreiuGuestPmu Forced Shutdown Cause = -122Originally Posted by futerfas
I'm having the same problem (PMU FORCED SHUTDOWN CAUSE = -122).
Please, could you tell some details about HOW you fixed the HFS-Problem?
You would help not only me but a lot of people because there are many who have this problem. I've been searching the www for hours and have tried different things like resetting the PMU - nothing helped. Your solution - if it is really one - seems very interesting to me!
Thank you, elreiu.
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I was having random shutdowns on my G5 dual 2.3, along with PMU forced shutdown -122 messages. After a couple of months of reading forum posts I stumbled upon a site
where I was able to clean my power supply unit, which it sorely needed, and have been running for 5 days without a random shutdown when I usually had 2 a day. I will continue to report on this success.
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Brian Anderson Traded to the Red Sox
Brian Anderson Traded to the Red Sox
July 28, 2009 by Stephen Kersey
On Tuesday, the Chicago White Sox and the Boston Red Sox completed a trade of struggling players. The Red Sox traded Mark Kotsay to the White Sox and Boston received Brian Anderson.
Anderson is a center fielder who never really put it all together for the White Sox. He's played parts of the last five seasons with the White Sox while showing minimal success at the plate. In fact, his .238 batting average this year was a career-best. He also has two homers, 13 RBIs and 25 runs on the season.
Considering that Anderson is still only 27 years old and scouts believe he has considerable natural skill, the Red Sox are gambling that he'll be able to figure it all out at some point in the relatively near future.
As for the White Sox, they are adding a veteran in Kotsay who should be able to help right away. He began this year on the disabled list and never could get into a rhythm. He's hitting just .257 with one homer and five RBIs in 74 at-bats. The 33-year-old has been in the bigs since 1997. For his career, he has 110 homers, 614 RBIs and 713 runs to go along with a .281 batting average and a .336 on-base percentage.
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The Philadelphia Phillies and Cleveland Indians agreed to a trade that would bring Cliff Lee to the NL East leaders along with outfielder Ben Francisco for four minor leaguers, according to major league sources.
Edge of the Cliff
Cliff Lee is moving to Philadelphia and a ballpark that tends to punish flyball pitchers. Lee has flyball tendencies (54.5 pct of balls in play), but when the ball goes into the air, he keeps it in the park. A look at the pitchers with the lowest flyball to home run percentage for pitchers with a minimum 900 batters faced (2008-09):
Player/Team HR/FB Pct.
Tim Lincecum, SF 3.3
Cliff Lee, CLE 3.4
Jair Jurrjens, ATL 3.8
Ubaldo Jimenez, COL 4.0
Mike Pelfrey, NYM 4.1
Triple-A right-hander Carlos Carrasco, Class A righty Jason Knapp, catcher Lou Marson -- the likely heir apparent to Victor Martinez -- and shortstop Jason Donald will be sent to Cleveland.
The trade is pending physical exams.
The Phillies weren't required to give up pitcher J.A. Happ or the three prospects they balked at trading for Roy Halladay -- outfielders Dominic Brown and Michael Taylor, and pitcher Kyle Drabek.
Asked in Seattle whether he felt the Blue Jays dodged a bullet by the Phillies acquiring Lee instead of Halladay, Toronto manager Cito Gaston noted that some of Philadelphia's top prospects were still available and said with a chuckle, "Yeah, I guess. Who knows? They may come back and get [Halladay], too. That'd be a pretty good staff there, wouldn't it?"
Lee, the 2008 AL Cy Young winner who turns 31 next month, is having another solid season for the Indians, posting a 3.14 ERA while walking just 33 in 152 innings. He will make $8 million in 2010 and then be eligible for free agency.
Lee, who was a guest on ESPN950 in Philadelphia Wednesday morning, was asked if he definitely plans to test free agency.
"That's where every player wants to be, so honestly, the closer I get to that point, the more likelihood I'm going to be testing free agency. But I still have a year and two months 'til then, so we'll see."
Lee would be the sixth Cy Young winner to be traded in the offseason or during the season following his Cy Young win. Last season, 2007 AL Cy Young winner CC Sabathia was traded by the Indians to the Milwaukee Brewers.
MLB Rumor Central
ESPN Insider has the updated buzz from the Major League Baseball rumor mill.
Lee gives the Phillies another top starter to join Cole Hamels. Hamels, who was MVP of the World Series and NLCS last fall, has been inconsistent this season. He's 7-5 with a 4.42 ERA, though he pitched well in a Tuesday night victory over the Diamondbacks.
The Phillies have a comfortable lead in the division -- seven games ahead of second-place Florida going into Wednesday's games. They've sought pitching help since No. 2 starter Brett Myers had hip surgery in June. Forty-six-year-old Jamie Moyer leads the staff with 10 wins, but he has a 5.32 ERA.
Francisco is batting .250 with 10 homers and 33 RBIs. He upgrades Philadelphia's bench, which has lacked a solid, right-handed hitter.
Jayson Stark covers Major League Baseball for ESPN.com. Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.
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5 great movies about making movies
- Article by: CHRISTY LEMIRE
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- November 21, 2012 - 2:23 PM
LOS ANGELES - Filmmakers love to make movies about making movies. Yes, it is a navel-gazing business, but crafting films about this craft is one more means of self-expression. We've seen several emerge this year alone, including the likely Oscar contender "Argo." And this week we have "Hitchcock," about the making of "Psycho," starring Anthony Hopkins as the master director.
So here's a look at five great movies about movies. We could have picked 10 and not even scratched the surface of this subject. And ... action:
_ "Day for Night" (1973): This is the first film I thought of when I began pondering this subject. Simultaneously educational and hugely entertaining, it's about the nuts and bolts of moviemaking — the title comes from the technique of shooting a nighttime scene during the day — as well as the fleeting sense of family that forms on a film set. Francois Truffaut obviously has great love for the profession he chose with all its chaos and egos, its boring stretches and wild creativity. He co-stars as the director of the film-within-the-film, the melodramatic "Meet Pamela," alongside a young, gorgeous Jacqueline Bisset. One of Truffaut's best, it won the Academy Award for best foreign language film in 1974.
_ "Sunset Blvd." (1950): The highs and lows of Hollywood stardom are vividly on display here: the glossy trappings of old-school power and glamour and the sad, decaying reality that sets in once a career dies. Many would call this winner of three Oscars Billy Wilder's masterpiece — my favorite film of his is still "The Apartment" — but it does feel incredibly relevant today in its depiction of an aging starlet's desperate, deranged need to be wanted and loved. Gloria Swanson is frighteningly unhinged as the once-glittering Norma Desmond, with William Holden's screenwriter character, Joe Gillis, famously narrating from the dead while floating face-down in a swimming pool. And "Sunset Blvd." gave us one of the most best-known (and oft-misquoted) lines in movie history: "All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up."
_ "The Player" (1992): One of Robert Altman's best, and a prime example of the late, great director's ability to keep all the plates spinning at once while making it look effortless. It's an inside-Hollywood satire mixed with a paranoid thriller and a dash of romance, all brought to life by one of Altman's typically massive, eclectic casts. Nominated for three Oscars, including best director and another for Michael Tolkin's sharp screenplay based on his novel, "The Player" finds Tim Robbins' studio executive receiving death threats from a writer whose script he rejected. The absurdity of the pitching process is presented in brilliantly understated fashion, and the art of the sly celebrity schmooze is just dead-on.
_ "Boogie Nights" (1997): An early Paul Thomas Anderson film — this was only his second feature — it includes all of the stylistic trademarks that would come to define the young auteur: virtuoso camerawork, sprawling energy, high drama and inspired soundtrack selections. It's set in the porn industry in the San Fernando Valley in the 1970s, so of course there are plenty of racy moments — Mark Wahlberg's Dirk Diggler is a big, bright, shining star, after all — but "Boogie Nights" is really about loneliness, longing and re-establishing an identity within a new family unit. Come to think of it, that's what this year's "The Master" from Anderson is about, too. Great performances all around from an excellent ensemble cast of Anderson regulars, including Julianne Moore, John C. Reilly and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
_ "This Is Not a Film" (2012): Acclaimed Iranian director Jafar Panahi made this documentary over a single day while under house arrest in his Tehran apartment. He'd been forced to stay there while appealing a sentence of six years in prison and a 20-year ban on filmmaking and conducting interviews with foreign press for openly supporting the opposition party in Iran's 2009 election. In just 75 minutes, it reveals itself to be a powerful statement about nothing less than the paramount importance of freedom and the driving urge for artistic expression. Panahi takes us through the latest script he was hoping to shoot — blocks off part of his living room with tape, acts it out, explains the motivations of the young woman who's his lead character. It is simultaneously depressing as hell and brimming with hope and defiance.
What are your favorite movies about movies? Share them with AP Movie Critic Christy Lemire through Twitter: http://twitter.com/christylemire.
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