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EWEA requested the meeting after revelations that over ECU 14 million of Joule's renewable energy budget had been redistributed to fossil fuels and "rational use of energy." The redistribution resulted in renewables being allocated just 40% of the Joule budget -- even though the European Parliament and Council of Ministers had agreed that under the Fourth Framework Programme renewables were to get 60% (Windpower Monthly, October & November 1995).
"I am quite pleased with the outcome of our meeting," says EWEA chairman Ian Mays. "We are to be involved in setting priorities in the programme. We have agreed to meet at least twice a year to sit down and look at what we need." He and EWEA's Jos Beurskens met with Ezio Andreta, Director of Energy at the EC's research directorate, DG XII, and his assistant, Giancarlo Caratti, who has been involved in DG XII's wind section for a number of years.
"Dr Andreta is very keen to ensure that the next round is properly focused and this is very laudable," continues Mays. Both parties agreed to work together to ensure the programme had a clear industrial focus with well targeted proposals, appropriately formulated and assessed. "We were also invited to take part in formulating the programme under the Fifth Framework programme," adds Mays.
The redistribution of the Joule budget came about after officials changed their project selection procedure for the 1995 round of subsidies at the last moment. This resulted in a large number of renewables projects being suddenly discarded. Though not as badly affected as some technologies, wind energy lost some 25 projects to "rating harmonisation." In conducting this procedure EC officials have been accused of not only ignoring the recommendations of industry experts called in to assist with project selections, but also of tampering with the experts' evaluations.
The Commission has defended its selection procedure, saying that renewables projects were of too poor a quality to justify allocating the full amount of money agreed in the guideline budget -- though this statement has since been modified in relation to wind. Officials have also justified their actions by pointing out that the selection was approved by the Joule programme committee, made up of delegates from the EU's member countries.
Minister keeping watch
The willingness of delegates to go along with the EC's peremptory redistribution of the budget, however, has been sharply criticised in some quarters. In Denmark, research minister, Frank Jensen, has personally issued a sharp public reprimand to his two delegates, Flemming Øster from national laboratory Risø and Klaus Mandrup from the energy agency.
"The research ministry has pointed out to the two delegates that the funds earmarked for renewables but not used should have been reserved for use in the next round of support, otherwise there is a risk that funds will run out before the end of the programme. It is unfortunate that this point has apparently not been clear to the programme committee delegates who have accepted the Commission's procedure," he states.
Jensen's head of department, Knud Larsen, is even more outspoken in his condemnation. By their acceptance the delegates have "not followed a policy which has high priority in Denmark. It is also regrettable that our knowledge of these events has come from the press and not via direct information from the delegates," he told Danish national newspaper, Information.
Mandrup and Øster, in a written report demanded of them by the minister, justified their passivity by explaining that Danish projects had not been affected by the revised selection procedure. They further argued there was still time to correct the budget imbalance before the end of the Fourth Framework Programme which runs from 1994-1998.
Jensen's involvement was prompted not only by press reports, but also by a group from the Danish parliament's select committee on research, headed by Anni Svanholt from the Socialist People's Party. Following a meeting between the group and Jensen on November 15, she reports that Jensen feels unable to take the matter up with the EC because his delegates have already given their agreement to the ongoing distribution of Joule funds. Jensen says the EC has admitted a "procedural error" and he will be closely watching the next distribution of funds.
This, reports Jensen, will begin in January with the allocation of an extra ECU 25-30 million to renewable energy. The Joule programme committee is due to meet on December 5 to approve allocation of funds to a reserve list of projects and learn of the progress of an additional call for proposals referred to by Research Commissioner, Edith Cresson.
Svanholt is disappointed that Jensen declines to take the matter further. "It is clear from what he says that something is terribly wrong. In my opinion it would have been more reasonable if the minister had demanded that the whole Joule procedure should be started again. Reducing the priority given to support of renewables is a scandal," she says.
Meantime, Wolfgang Palz, previously head of the research directorate's renewables division, has taken up a new post as assistant to DG XII director, Henrik Tent. Palz has been named by his superiors as a central figure in the Joule funding controversy. They have suggested that he interfered in the evaluations of projects by outside experts with the result that projects were given higher grades than intended by the experts. The Commission's official explanation for introducing its "rating harmonisation" procedure was to correct errors in the grading. The involved experts, both on the technical and strategic panels, strongly deny they were influenced by Palz. They have also said the selections resulting from "rating harmonisation" do not reflect their original choices.

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General description: The Snake Card often denotes lies, a sort of betrayal, or at least jealousy. It could also mean another woman (mistress). When it comes to particular situations, Snake shows us that not everything is the way that it looks. But if a problem or deceiving situation is caught early, it can be removed ergo solved.
For quick interpretation use: lies, betrayal
General future: lies, traps, some difficulties on the road
Work: technical hitches, tricky problems
Love: jealousy, cheating
Time: seven days or months, July
Advice: Use your wit; Shed your skin!
Snake in combination with…
… rider (1): news about a problem; dishonest news; news from a woman
… clover (2): solution for a problem
… ship (3): problems with transport; journey with a woman
… house (4): dishonest family; house repairs
… tree (5): illness; (STD etc.); female doctor
… clouds (6): lost in a problem; problem causes confusion
… coffin (8): problems come to an end
… bouquet (9): problems are solved
… scythe (10): surgery; attack by a woman
… whip (11): seduction; abuse; fight
… birds (12): meeting causes problems; deception within a couple; compromise
… child (13): the beginning of a project brings dishonesty; a dishonest child
… fox (14): lies; betrayal; female rival (at work)
… bear (15): too much control; financial problems; dishonest boss
… stars (16): difficult project; dreams are deceiving
… stork (17): risky move; changing skin
… dog (18): dishonest friend; a woman with a dog
… tower (19): lawsuit; an independent woman
… garden (20): don't trust your social network; challenging event
… mountain (21): problems won't be solved for quite a while
… crossroad (22): avoiding a problem; multiple lies
… mice (23): destruction; major problems
… heart (24): cheating, affair, 'the other woman'
… ring (25): compromise; agreement; a committed woman
… book (26): investigation; woman is hiding a secret; mistress
… letter (27): a woman brings message; bad message
… man (28): a man with 'the other woman'; cheater
… woman (29): manipulative (sometimes also very intellectual) woman
… lily (30): sexual relationship; sick older man; affair
… sun (31): final success; the solution may cost
… moon (32): deception; a popular woman
… key (33): solution (for a woman) will come
… fish (34): business fraud; woman receives money
… anchor (35): insecurity; lack of trust
… cross (36): abuse; major problems; a woman with a major problem


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Welcome back to my Maui recaps! One of the first recommendations I received when asking for advice in Maui was to go to Surfing Goat Dairy. I had no idea what it was, but it sounded cool! We ended up building a whole day out of Surfing Goat and the surrounding areas as well as a trip up nearby Haleakala to see the crater.
Our first stop of the day was Surfing Goat Dairy, which was about an hour from our hotel in Kapalua. We pulled up and parked besides some baby goats and started walking the grounds. They have a gift shop, a small kitchen, and a few picnic tables in the guest area. We signed up for the first tour of the day and met the resident cat, Emma! Yes, that's her on top of the pergola in the photo below. On the tour, we learned all about the history of the dairy's name, the goats, the milking process, and even got to feed them. The tour ended with samples of a few of their goat cheese, and luckily, Hawaii is a full-pasteurization state, so I could try everything!Ocean Organic Vodka. We toured their grounds and learned all about how they make their vodka from sugar cane on their plantation and water from thousands of miles down in the Pacific Ocean. Unfortunately, I couldn't try the vodka and rum (Mike said it was good!), but I did get a sample a bunch of the fresh sugar cane.
Kula Bistro. They had everything from Italian to Hawaiian to seafood, so we tried a little bit of everything: Kula pork eggrolls, mac and cheese with shrimp, and penne alla vodka with shrimp and scallops. Everything was absolutely amazing!
Ali'i Kula Lavender Farm, just up the mountain in Kula. We honestly didn't spend a lot of time there, as we were already a little "toured-out" after the goat farm and distillery, but we walked the gardens and through the gift shop for a $3 per person admission at the gate. It was really pretty and definitely worth a short stop if you happen to be in the area.


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Our interviews show how technology is used to preserve ancient art. We also show how modern artists and architects incorporate new technologies to create wonderful, modern work.
St. Catherine's Monastery
The library of St. Catherine's Monastery, in Sinai, Egypt, has one third of the world's ancient books that were written more than 1000 years ago. The monastery was built in the year 550 by the Byzantian Emperor, Justinian, to protrect the Burning Bush and the Ancient Well of Moses.
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Panama's Biodiversity Museum
Frank Gehry's design of Panama's biodiversity museum is modern and unique. It is in the perfect location to see where two ocean meet. Our interview with Panama's Biodiversity Museum will be broadcast soon.
Stanford Jazz Festival, 2014
Ernie Rideout, Marketing Director of the Stanford Jazz Festival talked to us about this year's J
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Our interview with the great jazz guitarist,
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. Larry discussed his new opera, War and Peace which he composed based on Tolstoy's masterpiece.
War and Peace
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Dena Derose
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In this interview famed guitarist and singer
Brian Ray
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So Easy Rider
which was released by
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Crash Boom Bang.
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Brian reminisced about how he started working with Etta James when he was only 19 and how she encouraged him and recorded one of his songs, saying "I'll do anything for Brian." We also talked about his work with Paul McCartney since 2002, and his fascinating performances with Paul McCartney - we only had time to talk about two of these performances, the one at the White House when Paul McCartney received the Gershwin Award and the 2002 performance at The Super Bowl, which was the first time he performed with Paul McCartney..
The interview was broadcast in October, 2014 on KZSU and is available
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Pasquale Esposito
's New Caruso Documentary:
KZSU interviewed Italian tenor,
Pasquale Esposito
about the new documentary "
Pasquale Esposito Celebrates Caruso
" which he recently produced. The documentary was released in 2015 and is licensed by PBS. Mr. Esposito grew up in Naples, not far from where Enrico Caruso was born; he was always fascinated by Caruso, so he filmed this documentary in the area where Mr. Caruso lived and loved to sing. In this interview Mr. Esposito also discussed how he financed this documentary initially on Kickstarter, how technology is now helping him communicate more with his audience and his advice for young singers was to "study, study, study!"
Mr. Esposito also talked about his upcoming role in
Two Women
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in June, 2015. In Two Women, Mr. Esposito will sing La Strada Nel Bosco, a song that was famous in Italy during and after World War II.
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Notable Music and Arts Organization
, a non-profit organization that he founded to help increase cultural and arts understanding, The organization also helps singing students who qualify take voice lessons in San Jose, California with Mr. Esposito.


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Somali pirates have hijacked their first commercial ship in five years, after approaching the vessel and pretending to beg for water, officials said today.
The Aris 13, an oil tanker crewed by eight Sri Lankans, was boarded by two dozen armed men as it sailed near Somalia's lawless northern coast. The attack was the first successful hijacking since 2012, and will raise fears that a scaling-down of anti-piracy patrols has emboldened the buccaneers into action again.
Anti-piracy patrols run by Western navies have been drastically reduced in the past year so that ships can be re-assigned to cope with the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean and threats from Russia in the Baltic.
The Aris 13 was sailing with a consignment of oil from Djibouti to the Somali capital, Mogadishu, when it abruptly went into radio silence on Monday. John Steed, a Nairobi-based official with the campaign Oceans Beyond Piracy, told The Telegraph: "We know that the ship was approached yesterday afternoon by two skiffs . The captain reported the approach to his superiors, then the skiffs asked for water, and nothing more was heard. Then the ship disappeared, and the company responsible for it could not get through."
The ship is now anchored off the town of Alula, a former pirate base in Somalia's semi-independent Puntland region. It is understood that the gang who has taken have previously been involved in weapons-smuggling across the Gulf of Aden. It is expected that they will issue a ransom demand.
Somali pirates earned hundreds of millions of dollars from hijackings during their peak years of activity between 2008 and 2012. Hijackings then tailed off almost completely after commercial ships began routinely carrying armed guards, although the presence of the international anti-piracy fleet also had a deterrent role.
However, the Nato-led component of the force pulled out at the end of 2016, while the European Union-led component, EUNavfor, is now at a fraction of what it was.
Gerry Northwood, a former Royal Navy captain who commanded the UK counter-piracy force off Somalia, and who now runs MAST, a maritime security company, told The Telegraph: "Everyone knows that European navies are under pressure to conduct ops in the Mediterranean, Black Sea, and Baltic. That's not unreasonable, given the pressures to be elsewhere, and given the overall decline in piracy. But at the same time, the pirates aren't stupid - they will have been reading about the draw-down in forces, and also some reports that a lot of ships no longer think it's necessary to take armed guards. Therefore the pirates may be tempted to go back into business again."
He also noted though, that the hijacking might not be quite what it seemed. It was possible, he said, that it was "inside job" ordered by a disgruntled Somali contractor connected to the ship, or even a "staged" incident by Somali security officials to encourage the international community to continue generous funding of the government.
One source said this morning that the pirates had given an interview on Somali radio, in which they had claimed that the hostages were in fact British and Filipinos, and that the hijackers themselves were impoverished fishermen. The source described the claims as "pirate propaganda".


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The Belgian Gaming Commission has found that three games are in violation of the country's gambling laws. If the games are adjusted, the companies involved face fines of up to 1.6 million euros ($1.9 million).
A new site aims to rate games based on their microtransactions.
According to Belgian newspaper De Standaard, Overwatch, FIFA 18, and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive are all in breach of Belgian law. A report published by the commission describe the situation in these games as "disturbing," and says that these games are "particularly problematic for minors and gambling addicts."
To break the gambling laws in Belgium, games tested had to fulfil four conditions; they had to actually be a game; the player had to stake money (or something else of value, i.e. virtual currency) on the outcome of the lootbox; the outcome of the lootbox resulted in a profit or loss for the player; and chance has to play a part in the outcome. Among the four games tested, only Star Wars Battlefront II was found not to break the law, as it had removed its microtransactions after launch due to a significant backlash from fans.
The Gaming Commission also acknowledged that it had only investigated four games (Overwatch, FIFA, CSGO, and Battlefront II) and that the issue was likely to be more widespread. The companies behind the games found to be breaking the law will first be asked to consult with the Commission, but if the games are not adjusted, companies could face fines of up to 800,000 euros and a prison sentence of up to five years. That punishment could double if minors are found to have been put at risk by the practices.
The Netherlands' Gaming Authority also found four (as-yet unnamed) games to be in violation of their laws, and want the EU as a whole to work together on lootbox legislation. Several European countries, including the UK alongside those mentioned earlier in this article, have been investigating lootboxes for several months now.


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2 Kings 22—Good king Josiah leads in repairing the temple and the Law is found and read. Josiah repents and God answers.
- As you read verse 8, think about this: How was life and worship ordered without God's Word (think of the period during the Judges)?
- Why did Josiah tear his clothes (v. 11)? What does that mean and convey?
- From the context of verse 13, what is meant by "our fathers have not listened to the words of this book"?


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Should We Look For Another?
by David J. Stewart | May 2006 | Updated November 2016 | Click here for background music in new window
"And John calling unto him two of his disciples sent them to Jesus, saying, Art thou he that should come? or look we for another? When the men were come unto him, they said, John Baptist hath sent us unto thee, saying, Art thou he that should come? or look we for another?" —Luke 7:19-20
This is one of the most amazing Scriptures in the Word of God. John the Baptist had prepared the people for the coming of the Messiah. Jesus said concerning John the Baptist in Matthew 11:11a, "Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist."
Yet, we see this giant of the faith discouraged here in Luke 7:19-20. John had given his utmost to preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ. It was John who baptized Jesus in Matthew 3:14. It was John who proclaimed to the people in John 1:29, "Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world." John was a mighty preacher, and NOT a yellowbellied compromiser as are most ministers today. Jesus spoke the truth, saying it like it is. Today's shallow preachers are unwilling to suffer reproach for the name of Christ, unwilling to be put outside the gate with Jesus.
John the Baptist Preached Against Sin!
Lest anyone should think John the Baptist never preached against sin, one only needs to read Matthew 14:3-4, "For Herod had laid hold on John, and bound him, and put him in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife. For John said unto him, It is not lawful for thee to have her."
John preached against Herod's adultery and was arrested for it. John didn't limit his preaching to Jews. John didn't limit his preaching to believers. John didn't limit his preaching to poor people. No, if John saw a black kettle, he called the kettle black. John was no respecter of persons. John saw what he saw and spoke his mind about it. John the Baptist was a street preacher and he had no reservations about taking a stand against sin. We need John the Baptists today, to cry aloud against the woeful wickedness in America. How many Christians today are willing to be arrested for preaching against abortion or homosexuality? Not many!
Every Christian should take a stand against open public wickedness and sin.
Even the Best Christians Become Discouraged at Times
Despite John the Baptist's uncompromising stand against sin, and His genuine loyalty for the Savior, he became discouraged in Luke 7:19-20. John was now in prison.
I can here John saying to himself ... "I've given my very best to God, and look where I end up. I don't get it. I mean, God can do anything, and yet I'm rotting in this stinking prison cell. Jesus can perform all those miracles, but he can't get me out of prison. I thought He was my friend. Is this what I get for serving God?"
Notice again what Luke 7:20 states, "John Baptist hath sent us unto thee, saying, Art thou he that should come? or look we for another?" Wow! John was so discouraged that he even questioned weather Jesus was the Savior. He literally sent his disciples to ask Jesus if they should look for another Christ. This is amazing! The very man of God who presented Jesus as the "Lamb of God," is now wondering if perhaps he made a big mistake? Poor John, he was really having a bad time in prison. He wasn't singing in prison like Paul and Silas (Acts 16:25). John was discouraged.
Don't be too hard on John, he was just a man. Perhaps you have felt that way at times in your Christian life. It's very easy for us as believers to get upset with God, because we know what God can do. We know and believe that God spoke the world into existence with the very Word of His mouth (2nd Peter 3:5). Yet, it is easy to ask ourselves at times ... "why won't God help me or make my life better?"
I don't think John lost his faith while in prison, I think he was just discouraged. I don't think John ever doubted Who Jesus was; but rather, he wanted Jesus to know that he was discouraged. I think most genuine Christians can relate to John's situation. Many believers sincerely serve God, but things turn out bad. Instead of putting God on trial as the unsaved world does, we need to learn to trust the Lord. God is the Potter, we are the clay (Isaiah 64:8).
If the greatest man born among women can become utterly discouraged, then so can anyone.
"Speak the Word only"
Matthew 8:8 reads, "The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed." This man had great faith in the Lord, trusting the power of Jesus' Words alone. Jesus is the living Word of God (John 1:1-3,14; Revelation 19:13). The Bible is the written Word. It was the Word of God that spoke the world into existence (2nd Peter 3:5). So many times I have said to Jesus... "speak Thou the Word only." I want to have faith just as great as did the centurion. I don't need to see signs or proof from God of anything. I believe. I know that God can simply speak the Word from His throne and anything is possible. I pray and let my requests (Philippians 4:6) be made known to God and then I trust Him, for He knows what is best.
Isaiah 55:8-9, "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts." It is very true that God works in mysterious ways, i.e., they are mysterious to us. We often expect God to work in months or years; but, God often works in decades. Hindsight is always 20/20. Looking back over my life, I can now see where God was working, when at that particular time I couldn't see my hand in front of my face. The future is uncharted waters. We must learn to trust the heart of God when we can't see the hand of God. As an example: God is not mentioned at all in the Old Testament Book of Esther, but we see God's hand of providence working throughout the Book.
Keep Your Eyes On Jesus
Jesus had commanded Peter to come to Him on the water. Peter left the boat and began to walk on the water. As Peter took his eyes off the Lord and focused on the tempest, winds and raging storm, he sank into the depths of the Sea. Peter immediately did the right thing by looking to Jesus and crying out, "Lord, save me!" Amen and amen! Matthew 14:30, "But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me." And Jesus did save Peter!
I am thankful that God allows us today to see this moment of desperation in John the Baptist's walk with God. John looked at the prison walls, his confinement and the dire situation. John sank into desperation and frustration. If the greatest man ever born amongst women can become discouraged, then so can any of us. I have been there, and I know you have too. Maybe you are there now. I say to you, friend, as I would have said to John, "Yes, Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and you don't need to look for another." Suffering is a part of the Christian life. Romans 8:17, "And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together."
I am completely confident that John the Baptist would have recovered from his despair in a short time. But, things went from worse to worst (as they often do in people's lives). Jesus didn't come to rescue John. John was executed by Herod! God has His reasons. John even said in John 3:30, "He must increase, but I must decrease." It is important for believers to realize that things won't always get better just because we are Christians. Lazarus was the righteous man in Luke 16, but he was eating out of the rich man's garbage. In Acts 12, we read that Herod beheaded the Apostle James; but, Peter was delivered by an angel from prison. Of the 12 Apostles, 11 were martyred for preaching the truth.
We read in Proverb 24:16, "For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief." The only way to fall twice is if you get back up after the first fall. The heathen world doesn't even try to get up and live righteously for God.
Only a hypocrite, like many self-righteous Methodists, would claim that a Christian can live without any sins or faults. Sin is wrong, and we shouldn't sin; but, we are sinners, prone to rebellion and wrath. Everyone sins. A man may learn to live above reproach; but, NO man can live above sin. This is why the Apostle Paul exclaimed in Romans 7:24, "O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?" No Christian has God's permission to sin; but as sinful human beings we will sin. The best of Christians are still people, and the best of people are still sinners (Romans 3:10, 3:23).
May we as believers keep our eyes on the Lord Jesus Christ, as did Peter when he walked on water. When you trust upon the Lord, the impossible can happen.
Modernist Skeptics Today Tell Us to Look for Another Jesus
"For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him." —2nd Corinthians 11:4
The recent book and movie, The Da Vinci Code, attacks the deity of Jesus Christ. They tell us to look for another, claiming Christ is a fraud and a deceiver. The Jesus Papers claim that Jesus wasn't actually dead when He was removed from the cross. They tell us to look for another Savior, because Jesus wasn't really crucified to death for man's sins. The evil Gospel of Judas portrays Jesus Christ as a master con artist and schemer. They tell us to look for another, claiming that Jesus was no more than a great deceiver. This is what the chief priests and Pharisees called Jesus in Matthew 27:63, "Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again." Whom say you Christ is ... lunatic? liar? or Lord? The priests and Pharisees called Him a liar.
Modernists today are working relentlessly to assassinate Christ's character, and to discredit the truth of God's Word. To no surprise, every sin imaginable is flourishing in the wake of this evil—Homosexuality, abortion, gambling, alcoholism, adultery, fornication, murder, injustice, feminism, witchcraft, indifference, et cetera. Oprah Winfrey, whose show receives 15,000,000 to 20,000,000 viewers daily, said that Jesus couldn't possibly be the ONLY way to Heaven. Well the Word of God proclaims that Jesus is the ONLY way to Heaven... "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." Oprah is Hell-bound wrong! Don't let Oprah tell you to go find another Jesus in the New Age movement.
We DON'T Need to Look for Another!
I tell you, we DON'T need to look for another Jesus! All you need is the precious Lord Jesus Christ (Acts 4:12; 1st Timothy 2:5; Revelation 3:20). No John, you don't need to look for another. Jesus PROMISED in John 11:25 that anyone who believes upon Him will live forever... "Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live."
And again in John 10:9, "I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture." Either you believe that the Bible is God's Word or you do not. Unbelievers WILL be cast into the Lake of Fire, which is the Second Death... "But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death" (Revelation 21:8).
No my friend, you don't need to look for another Jesus, you'll find the true Jesus in the Word of God (which in English is the King James Bible). All other modern Bibles attack Christ's deity by removing the Word "Godhead" and by diminishing the deity of Jesus. For more information on false Bibles, please click here.
Also, please read the last Chapter in my book about Salvation, titled Misconceptions Concerning Christ. We don't need to look for another Jesus, we have Him in the Word of God (John 5:39). The Jesus' of the world is only a good man, a prophet, a great leader; but no more. In sharp contrast, the Word of God proclaims Jesus as the Christ (John 20:31), the manifestation of the Godhead (1st Timothy 3:16) and the Son of God (John 3:16).
The Word of God proclaims Jesus as Almighty God Who came in the flesh (Isaiah 9:6; John 1:1-3,10,14; John 8:57-59; John 10:33; Colossians 1:9; 1st Timothy 3:16; Revelation 1:8). Jesus is the Creator of the universe (John 1:1-3,14).
Thank Jesus for His grace and mercy and for the precious blood which He shed for our sins! No John, you don't need to look for another. JESUS IS, THE CHRIST, THE ONLY BEGOTTEN SON OF THE LIVING GOD!
John 20:31, "But
these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ,
the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name."
"Preaching is truth set on fire." —Dr. Jack Hyles
Did you know that you don't have to ask Jesus to save you? God has already told you how to be saved, that is, by simply believing that His Son died on the cross for your sins, was buried, and raised up from the dead three days later. Christ suffered on the cross so that we wouldn't have to suffer in a literal Hell forever. Amen! You don't have to bow your head to be saved. You don't have to pray. You don't have to do anything except believe that Jesus died on the cross for your sins, and make that your hope for Heaven!
Nothing Can Replace The Holy Bible!
". . . ye have PERVERTED the words of the living God. .
Jeremiah 23:36
Give Me Jesus!
(Above video sermon by Pastor Danny Castle - You don't want to keep your eye on others, because they'll let you down. They'll hurt you. And you don't want to keep your eyes on yourself, because you'll feel inadequate, a loser and a failure. Keep your eyes on Jesus!)
Salvation is not doing your best, it is having Christ's best put to your account through receiving Him by faith.
"Do all the good you can. By all the means you can. In all the ways you can. In all the places you can. At all the times you can. To all the people you can. As long as ever you can." ―John Wesley
Ye Must Be Born Again!


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|"The pain was so severe that it made me utter several moans. The sweetness caused by this intense pain is so extreme that one can not possibly wish it to cease, nor is one's soul content with anything but God. This is not a physical but a spiritual pain, though the body has some share in it -- even a considerable share."
| "Beside me on the left appeared an angel in bodily form . . . He was not tall but short, and very beautiful; and his face was so aflame that he appeared to be one of the highest ranks of angels, who seem to be all on fire . . . In his hands I saw a great golden spear, and at the iron tip there appeared to be a point of fire. This he plunged into my heart several times so that it penetrated my entrails. When he pulled it out I felt that he took them with it, and left me utterly consumed by the great love of God."
My awareness of her [becomes] intermittent. . . . It's as though I'm moving through her to something beyond her, beyond me. That's the religious part. She's a conduit, but then in that state, bodies become irrelevant, and in a way, she does, too, I'm embarrassed to say.
Jenny Wade, Ph.D. is a graduate of the Fielding Institute and has written much about consciousness studies and how varied levels of consciousness help transform and heal. She is a faculty member of the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. Based in California, she also works with Fortune 500 companies with a goal towards optimizing employee and organizational performance.
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NEW NET Issues List for 26 Oct 2010
Below is the final list of issues for the Tuesday, 26 October 2010, NEW NET (Northeast Wisconsin Network for Economy and Technology) 7:00 - 9:00 pm weekly gathering. This week we're upstairs at Tom's Drive In, 501 N Westhill Blvd, Appleton, Wisconsin, USA -- if there's a chain across the steps, ignore it and come on upstairs.
The 'net
1. Live Documents Challenges Google, Microsoft and Zoho http://business.rediff.com/special/2010/oct/11/spec-sabeer-bhatias-next-mega-project.htm "…The Live Documents service offered…InstaColl is already a big success in India especially among the education fraternity…Bhatia…was on a visit to India to sign a contract with the Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) for Live Documents. The company has also signed up with the Karnataka government, which will implement the use of Live Documents in all 300,000 personal computers in government offices across 30 districts…The product was developed with the help of just 30 people…all Indians, and all based out of Bangalore…At the core of InstaColl's Live Documents is Adobe's Flash technology, the reason why it is perhaps the only company in Asia to get nominated for the Adobe Max Awards…InstaColl's office productivity suite runs on both…Internet browser (cloud) as well as on the desktop…with 100 per cent feature compatibility with Office…Bhatia does not want to stop here. He is also working with a couple of "cool" product ideas for Sabse Technologies. Sabse already has a free video conferencing platform in the cloud, called SabseBolo. Besides, the company's consumer application 'jaxtr', which enables one to make free calls internationally from any mobile phone…"
2. What's Next for Posterous: Geo, Groups, Premium http://gigaom.com/2010/10/20/whats-next-for-posterous-geo-groups-premium/ "Posterous, the email-based blogging platform, emphasizes simplicity and ease of use, yet it keeps adding new features…We are on the WordPress* end of the spectrum, but people think we're micro-blogging because we're so simple…The company has some new features in the works: increased support for groups, premium accounts for businesses, proximity-based geoblogs, and a better bookmarklet to bring in outside content…" [do you use Posterous.com or scribd.com, or do you know people who do? – ed.]
3. CarWoo Takes the Cheap Suit Out Of Car Sales http://www.wired.com/autopia/2010/10/carwoo-takes-the-cheap-suit-out-of-car-sales/ "If you've ever contacted a car dealer online, you're familiar with the internet sales pitch: relentless phone calls and e-mails…CarWoo, aims to change that by connecting you with firm offers from dealers while preserving your privacy. The new service only helps out with new car sales right now, though the company says it may open up to used cars…Shoppers pay a fee to CarWoo and select the car they want…CarWoo will facilitate quotes from two to five nearby dealerships. Buyers are free to negotiate the final price…The process is transparent, and both the buyer and the dealers involved see all of the offers that come in. Buyers indicate how much they're willing to pay and sellers decide whether the offer is acceptable. Dealers can see the negotiations in real time and — if they are able — can undercut their competitors directly to offer the best price…CarWoo has about 3,200 dealers participating nationwide, with 50 more added each week…Because potential car buyers have to put down money up front, dealers can be sure the leads they get from CarWoo are customers who are ready to buy…Whether customers decide the service is worth a fee of $39 or $79 remains to be seen, but we can certainly imagine some weary souls with inboxes full of spam from dealerships might be interested in negotiating the price of a used car at their own desk rather than the sales manager's…"
4. ROME, a Content Creation and Publishing Tool for Virtually Anyone http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2010/10/introducing-the-public-preview-of-project-rome-a-content-creation-and-publishing-tool-for-virtually-anyone.html "…You…want to create an interactive report complete with video and music, spice up presentations with animation and interactivity, craft a visual email with self-created graphics, or design and publish your first website for the world to see. But, you don't know where to start…we're excited to offer a first look into Project ROME, an all-in-one content creation and publishing application for use at home, work or school*. It is intended for virtually anyone who wants to add the power of video, audio, photos, graphics, text or animation into everyday projects — from printed materials and presentations to digital documents and websites…Our goal is to make Project ROME so intuitive and fluid, that the technology doesn't get in your way of expressing ideas with video, audio, photos, graphics, text and animation…Project ROME is for those of us who aren't professional designers, but want to express our ideas in a more powerful way using digital content…Adobe is offering Project ROME as a free preview – a public beta. We invite you to check it out at http://rome.adobe.com...please tell us what you think. For teachers, we made a special version for you to try – Project ROME for Education…"
5. 100 Mbps DSL is Here & 800 Mbps is Around the Corner http://gigaom.com/2010/10/25/100-mbps-dsl/ "…a new breakthrough shows that it will only be a matter of time before DSL broadband crosses the 800 Mbps threshold…we are beginning to see the commercial availability of DSL that can deliver 100 Mbps…While fiber networks are better in the long run, most phone companies need to squeeze out more from their copper networks without losing too much ground to cable broadband rivals…Ikanos, a maker of broadband chips today introduced a new technology, NodeScale Vectoring, DSL access technology that allows connections at 100 Mbps and higher…the cost of deploying this technology is about a tenth of the cost of building a fiber to the home network…NodeScale technology allows carriers to eliminate the crosstalk that occurs on copper pairs when offering very high-speed Internet. The cross talk introduces noise in the network, which in turn limits the line quality and thus reduces the performance of the network…NodeScale essentially tames cross talk at the DSLAM level as opposed to line card vectoring which treats every line card as a separate crosstalk domain…"
6. Researchers to develop 1 Terabit Ethernet by 2015 http://www.zdnet.com/blog/emergingtech/researchers-to-develop-1-terabit-ethernet-by-2015/2397 "…current Ethernet technologies may not be able to keep up with the speed and bandwidth required for applications like streaming high definition video, cloud computing, and distributed data storage…researchers with the Terabit Optical Ethernet Center (TOEC) at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) are aiming for 1 Terabit Ethernet over optical fiber — 1 trillion bits per second — by 2015 and 100 Terabit Ethernet by 2020. Google, Verizon, Intel, Agilent Technologies and Rockwell Collins are partnering with TOEC…Today's networking equipment is hitting a wall as 100 Gigabits per second is implemented because of the amount of power needed to run and cool the required systems…Using energy-saving technologies based on photonics is the path forward…Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs report that optical transmission gear consumes more than a factor of 10 less than other network technologies such as cellular base stations and packet routers…"
7. LimeWire Is Officially Dead http://www.businessinsider.com/limewire-officially-dead-seeks-resurrection-2010-10 "LimeWire, which was once the iTunes of file-sharing software, is officially dead…the Lime Group received a permanent injunction (PDF here) this afternoon from U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood ordering it to stop distributing and supporting LimeWire…It's quite a downfall for a piece of software that was once found on one-third of all PCs worldwide…Earlier this month, the company contacted me to talk about plans for a forthcoming service that will launch with a different name…"
Security, Privacy & Digital Controls
8. Japan has national botnet warriors; why don't we? http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/10/japan-has-a-national-botnet-fighter-wheres-ours.ars "…the United States…more PC botnet infections than any other country in the world. Microsoft reports 2.2 million US PCs hijacked for cybercrime or distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks…government…measures ought to bear fruit in the next geological era or two. But in the meantime, how about we do what Japan did and set up a national botnet fighter?...Launched in 2006, it's called the Cyber Clean Center—a joint project of Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications and its Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry. Over sixty of Japan's Internet Service Providers work with the center, as do Symantec, Microsoft, McAfee, and six other security companies. Cyber Clean does the usual good stuff, trying to raise public awareness…But the Cyber Clean operation goes a massive step further than public education. It searches for bot-infected PCs, then engages in a series of "attention rousing activities" to get the user to realize that her computer has been hijacked…the project's latest "activity report" says that, as of August, it has collected almost 17 million bot samples and deployed over half a million "attention rousing" messages. An estimated 32.3 percent of users contacted actually go to their deinfestation page and download the relevant cleaning software, according to the organization. The campaign says it has counted 1,312,083 disinfectant downloads so far…"
9. Firesheep Extension Lets You Hack Into Twitter, Facebook Accounts Easily http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/24/firesheep-in-wolves-clothing-app-lets-you-hack-into-twitter-facebook-accounts-easily/ "…Developer Eric Butler has exposed the soft underbelly of the web with his new Firefox extension, Firesheep, which will let you essentially eavesdrop on any open Wi-Fi network and capture users' cookies…As soon as anyone on the network visits an insecure website known to Firesheep, their name and photo will be displayed" in the window. All you have to do is double click on their name and open sesame, you will be able to log into that user's site with their credentials. One word: wow…" http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/25/lazy-hackers-twitter-firesheep-boasts-100000-downloads-faceboo/ "…In roughly 24 hours, Firesheep has been downloaded more than 104,000 times, as would-be-hackers — or the merely curious— downloaded the Firefox extension to test the exploit…" http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2010/10/26/firesheep-usage-leads-to-idiocy.html "…In response to the rapid uptake of Firesheep, Jonty Wareing has just released a somewhat different tool called Idiocy. This acts as "a warning shot to people browsing the internet insecurely" by sniffing network traffic to see if anyone is visiting the Twitter website over an unencrypted HTTP connection; and if they are, it will hijack the session and automatically post a tweet to warn them that they are vulnerable. The tweets helpfully include a link to a page which explains what happened, and how to prevent it happening in the future…"
10. Every UK email and website to be stored http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8075563/Every-email-and-website-to-be-stored.html "…plans are expected to involve service providers storing all users details for a set period of time. That will allow the security and police authorities to track every phone call, email, text message and website visit made by the public if they argue it is needed to tackle crime or terrorism…The move was buried in the Government's Strategic Defence and Security Review, which revealed: "We will introduce a programme to preserve the ability of the security, intelligence and law enforcement agencies to obtain communication data and to intercept communications within the appropriate legal framework…Communications data provides evidence in court to secure convictions of those engaged in activities that cause serious harm. It has played a role in every major Security Service counter terrorism operation and in 95 per cent of all serious organised crime investigations…"
11. Bredolab botnet shut down http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002056.html "…The Dutch National Crime Squad has announced a major takedown…Bredolab is a large family of complicated, polymorphic trojans. They have been distributed via drive-by-downloads and email. Bredolab is known to be connected to email spam campaigns and rogue security products. And the size of the botnet was massive: over 30 million infected computers and close to 150 command & control servers…the crime squad has announced that they will be sending a warning to infected PCs…they will probably use the existing botnet infrastructure to send a program to all infected machines, showing them a warning…"
Mobile Computing & Communicating
12. TomTom, HTC team up on mobile navigation http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-20020144-94.html "TomTom and HTC…announced today that HTC Locations, the smartphone maker's new mapping and navigation service, will come preloaded with TomTom's "location-rich" maps…Since TomTom's maps will come preloaded, the companies are promising quick access to maps and locations…Though the TomTom maps and locations will be freely and automatically available on the phones, users who want turn-by-turn directions will still need to buy and download them through HTC Locations or HTC Sync…TomTom's maps and HTC Locations will also compete with the free Google Maps, which already has a home on many Android phones and other mobile devices…"
13. Windows Phone 7 Review http://www.anandtech.com/show/3982/windows-phone-7-review "…mobile wars have only just begun and despite the advantage enjoyed by Apple and Google, there is no end in sight. In another twelve months we will see fierce competition from HP, Microsoft and Nokia. There's a lot at stake, and no company is willing to give up the opportunity to own the next-PC market without a hell of a fight…Windows Phone 7 is a significant departure from anything Microsoft has ever done in the past, from a UI standpoint that is. In my opinion it's more beautiful than anything else on the market today - including Apple's iOS…Flipping through pages upon pages of square app icons just isn't the most efficient way to do it…When you unlock your iPhone or Android phone you're dropped into what's effectively your smartphone desktop. In iOS, that's just a collection of app icons with a 4-icon dock at the bottom. Android gives you more of a modern desktop with icons and optional widgets. Windows Phone 7 effectively drops you into the first layer of a start menu - that's your desktop…"
14. T-Mobile to debut tethering plan on November 3rd, $14.99 http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2010/10/26/t-mobile-to-debut-tethering-plan-on-november-3rd-14-99/ "…America's fourth largest carrier will begin to offer/charge for tethering on November 3rd. The Tethering and Wi-Fi Sharing Add-On, which will have a monthly cost of $14.99, will allow customers to use their smartphones as a tethered modem or Wi-Fi hotspot. Starting on 11/3, in order to legally share your device's internet connection on T-Mobile, you'll need: a 3G or HSPA+ capable device, an unlimited web plan of $19.95 or higher, and the $14.99 tethering add-on. The offering will be available to both postpaid and Flex Pay customers who meet the above requirements…"
15. Wi-Fi Direct Products Connect Without A Network http://www.informationweek.com/news/infrastructure/remote_access/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=227900741 "The first batch of Wi-Fi Direct products were formally certified Monday, launching a wireless technology in which devices will be able to communicate directly with each other without being on a network or without first connecting to a network access point…We designed Wi-Fi Direct to unleash a wide variety of applications which require device connections, but do not need the Internet or even a traditional network," said Edgar Figueroa, CEO of the Wi-Fi Alliance, in a statement. "Wi-Fi Direct empowers users to connect devices -- when, where and how they want to…Broadcom cited the examples of friends in a train or on a beach connecting seamlessly with each other without network assistance. Citing file transfer and gaming applications as possible apps, Nagarajan said mass-market adoption will "depend on the type of applications that make use of the disruptive connection mechanisms offered through Wi-Fi Direct…"
16. Ortustech reveals 4.8-inch 1080p display that puts Apple's Retina Display to shame http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/ortustech-reveals-4-8-inch-1080p-display-that-puts-apples-retina-display-to-shame-20101026/ "Once you see one, it's hard to go back from Apple's Retina Display, their super high-density touch panel for the iPhone 4 and iPod Touch…As pixel-dense as it is, it isn't full high-definition. Enter little-known panel maker Ortustech, a joint venture between Casio and Toppan Printing…Ortustech is showing off a doozy of a display this week: a 4.8-inch HAST (Hyper Amorphous Silicon TFT) LCD with a 160 degree viewinng angle, 16.8 million colors, a truly retina display caliber pixel density of 458ppi and… oh yeah… a 1920 x 1080 resolution…"
17. Walgreen's now selling a $99 Android tablet http://www.the-digital-reader.com/2010/10/26/walgreens-now-selling-99-android-tablet/ "…the Maylong M-150, a 7″ (800×480) Android tablet. It runs v1.6 on a 400MHz CPU and 256MB RAM. It has Wifi, a resistive touchscreen, speakers, microSD card slot, and it even ships with a dongle that provides 10/100 and USB ports. The product page lists that the M-150 ships with a full browser, reading app, Youtube, and a video player…"
Open Source
18. Asterisk 1.8 - Major Release Sports 200 New Features http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/asterisk/asterisk-18---major-release-sports-200-new-features.asp "…Asterisk 1.8 includes includes new security features, integration with IPv6 and extensive feature additions…if someone wants to develop a product or solution based on Asterisk 1.8, now is a great time to get in, because you'll get four years of support from Digium...The new ISDN features in Asterisk 1.8 are a big step forward for the European Asterisk community…Even without the ISDN enhancements, the pure performance jump in 1.8 is significant. We can save money on hardware because more calls can be handled by a single Asterisk installation…some highlighted new features in Asterisk 1.8…Secure real-time transport protocol (RTP) support—New end-to-end VoIP encryption of signaling and media to compliment the existing encrypted signaling support…SRTP support will…allow for government and financial deployments of the Asterisk platform…Calendar integration—Support for Microsoft Exchange, CalDav and iCalendar. This is a pretty cool feature. If for instance your Calendar has you listed as in a meeting, Asterisk can automatically send the caller to your voicemail…Channel event logging (CEL)—Enhanced call tracking and logging for better audit trail and billing purposes…Google Talk and Google Voice support—Inbound and outbound support for Google Talk and Google Voice calling…"
19. Ten reasons Linux is the best choice for kids http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/desktop-os/2010/10/17/ten-reasons-linux-is-the-best-choice-for-kids-40090466/ "…keeping our children's computers running can be a bigger challenge than sorting out the adults at work. But if you install Linux at home, you can avoid the headaches. That's because sound reasons exist for migrating young users from other operating systems…Viruses and malware…Youngsters are prone to opening and installing things they shouldn't. Because you can't watch them all the time, you can't know where they're getting those applications or attachments from…With Linux, this concern evaporates…Security…If you don't give your children the root password, they can't run with root privileges…Cost effectiveness…Age-specific tools…Netbooks…the Linux operating system is ideally suited to run on netbooks…Agile learners…Most kids will master the Linux operating system quickly…Learning opportunities…Open source suits education. It practically screams: "Open me up and learn…"
20. Most Touch Screen ebook Readers Run on Linux http://steamingopencup.blogspot.com/2010/10/most-touch-screen-ebook-readers-run-on.html "Want to go on an ebook-reading marathon for two weeks? You don't need an iPad. All you need is a decent touch screen ebook reader. They can last more than 10 days…E-ink displays, which most of these ebook readers use, consume less power, are less susceptible to glare, are less strenuous to the eyes, and most of all, cost much less than even the most basic iPad…why did I…leave the numero uno ebook reader on the market today - Amazon's Kindle - out of the picture. Because I find clicking buttons so outdated and flicking through virtual pages with fingers so cool…You know what else most of them have in common aside from the e-ink display? - a Linux-based OS…"
21. Google Engineer Builds Facebook Disconnect http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/20/google-facebook-disconnec/ "…Google engineer Brian Kennish, inspired by the most recent Facebook privacy and data debacles…decided to create "Facebook Disconnect" i.e. a Google Chrome extension that obliterates all Facebook Connect functionality and all traffic from third party sites to Facebook servers…Facebook Disconnect will "presumably" prevent the sending of data back to Facebook across the one million sites that use the Facebook Connect service…he created the extension to help quell his desire to delete his Facebook account…with absolutely no encouragement from Google or Facebook, despite the fact that he works for the former, "Nobody at Google asked or encouraged me to do so, or probably, even knows who I am…"
22. Google Ventures Invests In Local Deals Site Signpost http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/20/signpost-local-deals/ "…Google Ventures didn't just invest in a Groupon clone…Signpost…looks to help you find the best deals in your neighborhood…you'll find a listing of deals at restaurants, retailers, and other merchants located in your city (you can zoom in if you want to restrict your search to within a few-blocks)…unlike sites like Groupon, there are dozens or even hundreds of deals visible on Signpost at once, ranging from happy hour at your local bar to a 40% discount at a nearby spa…The site's biggest difference from Groupon, though, is the source of its deals: instead of having a salesforce reaching out to merchants, most deals are submitted by other users…if you notice that your local coffee shop is offering a two-for-one special on drinks, you can log onto Signpost and tell your friends. At this point there isn't much incentive to do this — you can earn karma points but can't exchange them for anything — but it sounds like Signpost has plans to encourage posting more deals down the line…"
23. Google Docs Gets Drag-and-Drop Support http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2371150,00.asp "…Google is making it a little bit easier to spruce up a document with the addition of a drag-and-drop option to Google Docs, which will allow users to pull an image directly from the desktop and place it on the page. "Google documents already has three ways to add images: you can choose them from your hard drive, add them by URL, and you can find them using Google Image Search…In January, Google launched cloud storage for any type of file that included up to 1GB of free storage…"
24. Business Photos Help Build Google Places/Maps Brand Identity http://searchengineland.com/business-photos-help-build-google-placesmaps-brand-identity-53925 "Google's effort to bring photographers to local businesses to capture interior and exterior images now bearing fruit…the images that its contractors have been collecting (all over the world) are now online…Users and potential customers who look online for local businesses can now see more high-quality photos that give them a sense of what a place is really like. The photos may include the storefront, decor, layout, merchandise, food, signage about hours and accepted payment types, and other items that help people learn more about a business…Business owners can also add their own images and video as well and Google continues to encourage them to do so…By building out your Place page with visuals and other relevant business information – such as hours of operation, offers and more – you'll help potential customers learn more about you and feel like they know what to expect when they actually walk through your doors…Google's push to enrich Places with images, reviews, Street View, video, and so on, is an effort to make Places the favored local consumer resource online and in mobile. A more complete set of data and information will also help them successfully compete for consumer attention with Facebook Places/Pages…Places Pages remain somewhat buried behind the "more info" link within Maps, although they do surface in SERPs for business name lookups…"
25. Google Groups Data To Be Destroyed! http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=308700 "I'm not sure what's worse here: the fact that some of my data is going to go away, or the fact that I found this out almost by accident…I find Google Groups to be very useful; it solves an important problem. I rely on it…So I was quite disturbed when I went to create a page within a group, and I came across this rather mildly-headlined Notice About Pages and Files…Notice the last line of the third paragraph: "In February 2011, we will turn off the pages and files features, and you will no longer be able to access that content…I suspect there are significant numbers of people who will discover it too late, the way Google is playing this one…you can save your data if you (1) find out about its impending doom and (2) move it to Google Docs or Google Sites. Both of these require action on your part, and if you don't act your data will quietly become unavailable (same as "destroyed")…"
26. Google Tests 1G-bps Broadband Network at Stanford http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Enterprise-Networking/Google-Tests-1Gbps-Broadband-Network-at-Stanford-University-244231/ "…Google struck a deal with Stanford University to build a broadband network fueling Internet speeds of up to 1G bps for 850 homes owned by faculty and staff on the campus…The search engine, which depends on fast broadband connections to ensure its applications serve consumers effectively, said in February it planned to test such networks in American communities serving 50,000 to 500,000 people. Google accepted applications from municipalities all over the country through March and will announce the winner or winners by the end of the year…"
General Technology
27. Apple Killed The CD Today http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/20/a-compact-death/ "…The CD and other optical discs, like DVDs and Blu-rays, are obviously going to live on for a while as a way to transport media. But make no mistake that today, with two unveilings, Apple has effectively sealed the fate of the optical disc in the computer industry. Soon, it will go the way of the floppy disk…I came to the realization that I had never once used the optical drive in my current MacBook Pro, and it was simply taking up a lot of space and was making my computer unnecessarily bulky…DVD to reinstall OS X and other software…has been replaced with a super-slim USB stick…flash memory cards…are already blowing DVDs out of the water when it comes to storage…we may see more drives like this one (which use much less plastic than typical USB flash drives — and appear to even use less plastic than optical discs)…soon the optical drives will start to fade out of existence…" http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/10/why-apple-saddled-the-macbook-air-with-gimped-cpus.ars "…the Macbook Air has been updated. But if you were hoping for enough CPU muscle in the new models to keep a bunch of Flash-addled webpages from bringing the entire portable to its knees, then you're going to be sorely disappointed—the Core 2 Duo is still with us in the new models. In fact, the 11" Macbook Air actually trails its predecessor in clockspeed, while the 13" model hasn't changed at all…"
28. Chinese Chip Closes In on Intel, AMD http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/26596/ "…The Loongson processor family (known in China by the name Godson), is now in its sixth generation. The latest designs consist of the one-gigahertz, eight-core Godson 3B, the more powerful 16-core, Godson 3C (with a speed that is currently unknown), and the smaller, lower-power one-gigahertz Godson 2H, intended for netbooks and other mobile devices…Intel's Xeon processor uses a 32-nanometer process…while the Godson 3B uses 65 nanometers, leading to significantly slower processing speeds. But the Godson 3C processor will leapfrog current technology by using a 28-nanometer process, although this will only increase its clock speed by about a factor of two…With its eight additional cores, this should make the 3C about four times as fast as the Godson 3B…China's Dawning 6000 supercomputer, originally slated for completion in mid-2010, will instead debut in 2011, using the Godson 3B…the Dawning supercomputer…could…rank on the Top 500 list of the 500 fastest supercomputers in the world…"
29. Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: "Mac OS X meets the iPad" http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/10/mac-os-x-107-lion-mac-os-x-meets-the-ipad.ars "…Jobs gave the first sneak peek at the eighth major version of Mac OS X. Codenamed "Lion,"…the new version will bring new features and innovations developed for its iOS mobile operating system…multitouch gestures, an app store, an app home screen, full-screen apps, auto save, and auto resume on launch…Jobs was careful to note that the Mac App Store won't be the only place to get applications—just "the best place."…To better manage currently running apps, Apple has combined windowed apps, full-screen apps, Exposé, and Spaces into what it calls Mission Control…Mac OS X 10.7 Lion will launch in summer 2011…"
30. The robot that reads your mind to train itself http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11457127 "…the Neural Systems Laboratory, University of Washington, hopes to take brain-computer interface (BCI) technology to the next level by attempting to teach robots new skills directly via brain signals. Robotic surrogates that offer paralyzed people the freedom to explore their environment, manipulate objects or simply fetch things has been the holy grail of BCI research for a long time. Dr Rao's team began by programming a humanoid robot with simple behaviours which users could then select with a wearable electroencephalogram (EEG) cap that picked up their brain activity…The team reasoned that giving the robot the ability to learn might just be the trick to allow a greater range of movements and responses…"What if the user wants the robot to do something new?...The brain is organised into multiple levels of control including the spinal cord at the low level to the neocortex at the high level," he said…To emulate this kind of behavior…Dr Rao and his team are developing a hierarchical brain-computer interface for controlling the robot…"
DHMN Technology
31. Houston Group Gets White Space Rollout Grant http://www.tvtechnology.com/article/107946 "…Technology For All (TFA) provides Internet service to Houston's working-class East End neighborhood using a variety of unlicensed spectrum ranging from 900 MHz through 5 GHz. Under a $1.8 million grant from the National Science Foundation, researchers at Rice University and TFA will develop and test custom-built networking gear as well as consumer devices that can use TV band white space frequencies and seamlessly switch between different frequency bands…While a Wi-Fi node can provide a higher data rate, a white-space node can cover a much larger area. The project will study how dynamic network architecture can combine these strengths…An ars technica article, Prof's bring free "Super WiFi to working-class Houston said the area where they plan to offer the service has five empty TV channels available…that may not be the case. The Show My White Spaces tool from Spectrum Bridge showed only one channel available for fixed devices: Channel 2. There are no channels for portable 100 mW devices, and only nine channels for 40 mW portable devices in Houston. If the Spectrum Bridge analysis is correct, TFA and Rice will need to get a waiver of the rules to allow fixed operation on one or more of the eight channels (four VHF and four UHF) reserved for wireless microphone use…I shifted the analysis to Beaumont, Texas (about 75 miles distant) and found two low-band VHF channels (5 and 6) that were available for fixed white space devices, and eight UHF channels that could accommodate 40 mW portable devices…"
32. Unlicensed Use of Wireless "White Space" "…In addition to the requirement that mobile phones, netbooks, tablets and other devices have access to the information needed to determine their position and consult an FCC-approved geographic database listing licensed broadcast spectrum users…in their area, the FCC reserved two vacant UHF channels for licensed wireless microphones and other low-power auxiliary service devices in all areas of the country…Cambridge Consultants…is developing a product called InCognito, a package of microprocessors, circuit design and software that makers of mobile phones, computers, set-top boxes and wireless base stations can use to enable their devices to find available white spaces by linking up to the free-spectrum database when it becomes available…Microsoft chose a different path, feeling "strongly" that a database lookup function was sufficient in lieu of a spectral-sensing capability…if the database indicates vacant white space in the area of a laptop or mobile phone, that device should be able to connect to the Internet via that white space without interfering with local TV stations or wireless mics…"
33. Nvidia Tegra 2 Has Ten Confirmed Design Wins http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/mobile/display/20101010132042_Nvidia_s_Tegra_Starts_to_Get_Popular_Among_Manufacturers.html "…tablets with Tegra 2 that have been announced include the Toshiba Folio 100, Malata SMB-A1011, E-Noa Interpad, Hannspree Hanns Mart, Viewsonic G Tablet, Mouse Computer LuvPad AD100, Notion Ink Adam and KNO tablet…LG Electronics has also announced that Tegra 2 will power its smartphones. Tegra-powered devices currently shipping include the Microsoft Zune HD and Samsung M1 portable media players and the Toshiba AC100 smart companion MID (powered by Tegra 2)…Tegra has a serious drawback, it does not include baseband processor functionality so to integrate more performance-related logic…Nvidia is not alone with its highly-integrated SoCs for advanced devices…Marvell, Samsung, Qualcomm…are already offering system-on-chip products with extreme performance for smartphones or tablets…"
34. What Rapleaf Knows About You http://gigaom.com/2010/10/24/what-rapleaf-knows-about-you/ "…Wall Street Journal's Emily Steel has written an in-depth (and excellent) expose…RapLeaf's privacy policy states it won't "collect or work with sensitive data on children, health or medical conditions, sexual preferences, financial account information or religious beliefs." After the Journal asked RapLeaf whether some of its profile segments contradicted its privacy policy, the company eliminated many of those segments. Segments eliminated include: interest in the Bible, Hispanic and Asian ethnic products, gambling, tobacco, adult entertainment, "get rich quick" offers and age and gender of children in household. RapLeaf says many of its segments are also "used widely by the direct-marketing industry today…Rapleaf knows your real names and email addresses…Rapleaf sells pretty elaborate data that includes household income, age, political leaning, and even more granular details…Politicians, both Democrats and Republicans, are using Rapleaf…When a person logs in to certain sites, the sites send identifying information to RapLeaf…RapLeaf installs a "cookie," a small text file, on the person's computer containing details about the individual (minus name and other identifiable facts). Sites…include…Pingg.com…About.com…TwitPic.com…"
35. Giving Yourself a Sixth Sense for Wireless Networks http://imakeprojects.com/Projects/wifi-heartbeat/ "…This project is for a small electronic unit that allows the user to sense the presence and relative signal strength of wireless hotspots. It can be worn as a pendant or carried in a pocket. It is "always on" and communicates the presence and signal strength of an in-range hotspot by way of sequences of pulses - like a heartbeat you can feel. The stronger and faster the "heartbeat", the stronger the wireless signal detected…"
36. DIY 2.4GHz Spectrum Analyser http://www.wireless.org.au/~jhecker/specan/ "This is a simple project that allows you to monitor the 2.4GHZ ISM band in your immediate vicinity. There many wireless devices available on the market now that broadcast in the 2.4GHz spectrum including Bluetooth, 802.11a/b ethernet (WiFi), Zigbee, wireless USB, cordless phones, wireless mice and keyboards and the humble microwave oven. Depending where you live in the world your government has allocated a roughly 80MHz block for transmitting all manner of data starting at 2.4GHz. It's getting a bit crowded in this band, especially if you live in a built up urban area. With this project you can monitor what's going on and figure out what channel to change your WiFi network to in order for it to keep working when your neighbor rudely sets up their wireless network on the same channel as you…"
37. Sensor network at Kew Gardens http://www.lkl.ac.uk/projects/vesel/index.php?q=node/97 "The wireless sensor network has been installed in a student plot at Kew Gardens, in which will be grown French beans and courgettes…This simple sensor network aims to harness agricultural intelligence to build a capable decision support system for farmers…Our particular implementation of such a wireless sensor network is innovative in two ways. We are working on interfacing it with other parts of the VeSeL resource kit, including fixed computers and mobile devices, to support local and remote monitoring and action. More broadly, these innovations designed initially for small scale contexts in the developing world could have applications in the developed world in terms of power conservation techniques and methods of data collection, storage and delivery in unstable communications infrastructure…"
Leisure & Entertainment
38. Netflix Accounts For 20% Of Peak U.S. Internet Bandwidth http://www.multichannel.com/article/458744-Netflix_Accounts_For_20_Of_Peak_U_S_Internet_Bandwidth_Study.php "Netflix represents more than 20% of downstream Internet traffic during peak times in the U.S…North American households use a median of 4 Gigabytes per month of Internet bandwidth, whereas in Asia-Pacific region the median is 12 Gigabytes…in North America the average time a fixed connection is active is 3 hours, whereas in Asia-Pacific it's closer to 5.5 hours…Netflix, which had about 16.9 million subscribers as of the end of September 2010, provides its "Watch Now" Internet streaming service on more than 100 devices…"
39. Target Unveils In-Store Facebook Photo Printing http://www.allfacebook.com/target-unveils-in-store-facebook-photo-printing-2010-10 "Grandma…can't log on to see your photos from last night (although that might be a good thing). Unless you decide to print them at home or struggle through an hour of trying to set her up with a Facebook account that she'll never know how to use on her own, Grandma will be entirely oblivious to your online existence. Until today. Target has just announced Facebook connectivity with their in-store KODAK photo kiosks…shoppers can now log on at the kiosk and browse their photo albums directly…All the KODAK kiosk print options…can be fully integrated with your Facebook photos…This comes on the heels of Facebook's recent decision to support photo downloads and allow high resolution photos, suggesting that something's afoot. Clearly, Facebook is setting themselves up as the premier photo utility for its casual users – why go to Flickr, for example, if you're already logged in to Facebook…"
40. Zynga worth more than Electronic Arts http://venturebeat.com/2010/10/26/is-zynga-worth-more-than-electronic-arts/ "…Zynga is currently valued at $5.27 billion on SharesPost, a secondary market, where Zynga employees can sell shares that they own in the private company. Redwood City, Calif.-based EA is worth $5.24 billion in public trading on the Nasdaq stock market…Many hope that Zynga will go public, but it hasn't done so yet…Starting with Texas Hold Em Poker, Zynga managed to grab lots of users on Facebook and figured out how to make money from a small percentage of them. Adopting the "virtual goods" business model pioneered by South Korea's Nexon for online games, Zynga charged real money to players for virtual currency, which was used to buy poker chips and other virtual goods in Zynga games…thanks to virtual goods sales, Zynga is expected to grab roughly a third of the $1.6 billion market for virtual goods in the U.S. in 2010…Zynga really took off in the middle of 2009 when it launched FarmVille, which is still the No. 1 game on Facebook with 57.4 million monthly active users…"
41. Cryptic to make Champions Online MMO free-to-play http://www.geek.com/articles/games/cryptic-to-make-champions-online-mmo-free-to-play-20101026/ "…Cryptic and publisher Atari have decided to switch to a free-to-play model for the superhero MMO. Revenue will be generated from an in-game store using real-world money converted to whatever currency the game uses. A subscription option will still exist, classed as "Gold status", which will allow access to additional content and features…The decision by Cryptic comes after seeing a number of other high-profile MMOs switch to the freemium model. The most recent of those has been Lord of the Rings Online and Everquest II…With so many MMOs switching to free-to-play you have to wonder if we will ever see a subscription-only MMO released again…"
42. Minecraft Halloween Update will feature fire-spitting squidlings http://www.geek.com/articles/games/minecraft-halloween-update-will-feature-fire-spitting-squidlings-and-hellish-new-underworld-20101025/ "…those who worry that developer Notch may have forgotten about his delightful voxel-based world-build game can rest assured that he's hard at work, plugging away at a new Halloween Update that is set to add not just six new block types… but an entirely new, ghost-filled dimension to the mix…The dimension is accessed through a player built portal, and once there, you will find yourself in a fiery, chthonic world made mostly of a red stone that, once ignited, will burn literally forever. That's problematic enough, but becomes even more dangerous when you add the new Ghast enemy type into the mix: polygonal squidlings that shoot fire at the player. Even if they don't fireball you, though, they'll surely hit some of the red rock that makes up this extra-dimensional world… at which point the entire tunnel you've dug will instantly turn into an inferno…"
Economy and Technology
43. Doxo Launches Paperless Billing Service http://www.businessinsider.com/doxo-2010-10 "Doxo, a Seattle-based startup that has been operating in stealth since 2008, is finally showing off its paper-free service for billing and other mailings…Doxo is a single dashboard for managing all of the banks, wireless providers, utilities, and other businesses that would otherwise send you snail mail every month. You can manually upload documents to Doxo, but the real value comes from Doxo's partners, which will send you bills and notifications electronically through Doxo…almost everyone still gets old-fashioned paper bills. The problem is that going paperless is a lot of work. You need to sign up for dozens of online accounts and remember when to check in with each to pay your balance. Doxo is…putting all of your online billing activity in a single location attached to a single username and password. Doxo will live or die by the businesses it signs up…Doxo is backed by Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos…"
44. Y Combinator is The Disruptor In The Valley http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2010/1108/best-small-companies-10-y-combinator-paul-graham-disruptor.html "Justin Kan and Emmett Shear watched their first startup, an online calendar called Kiko, implode…in 2006. They sold Kiko's scraps on eBay for $258,000 and wondered what to do with their lives. So the pair did the only thing they could think of: They went to see Paul Graham at his house in Cambridge, Mass…Graham sat them down and helped bang out a plan to create Justin.tv, now the Web's biggest portal for live video, with 31 million users a month…Graham is the father of Y Combinator, a startup-rearing juggernaut that's part incubator, part drill sergeant and part liaison to the investor class. Y Combinator--a computer term for a program that runs other programs--has fired up 200 companies since 2005…YC's three-month boot camp for startups, run twice a year in Mountain View, Calif., attracts 1,000 applicants for roughly 40 spots. Graduates are expected to emerge with a working product, customers and revenue. They also get a crack at pitching their ideas to investors on Demo Day…YC puts up $11,000, plus $3,000 per founder, for each company in return for a piece of pure equity of around 5%. That equity could be worth real money should the companies take off…Of the 36 startups in YC's recent class, ended in August, 30 have raised fresh capital, many of them over $1 million. "We didn't mean to invent this new model," says Graham, who at 45 has sandy hair and a youthful earnestness. "It all happened by accident…"
45. Ozzie's 'doomsday' memo warns Microsoft of post-PC days http://www.hpcwire.com/offthewire/Fusion-io-Creates-New-Technology-Alliance-Program-105386758.html "…Ray Ozzie's just-published memo is a "doomsday-ish" missive that calls on the company to push further into the cloud or perish…His "Dawn of a New Day" memorandum, which was dated Oct. 28, is an attempt to focus Microsoft's attention on the day when PCs will no longer rule consumer or business computing…If you do a tag cloud of the memo, you'll see he rarely mentions the words PC or Windows…The words that are most prominent," Miller noted, "are devices and services, and that shows that Ozzie believes the future will revolve around connected devices and continuous services." In a nutshell…Ozzie's memo spells out the time when the PC -- the foundation of Microsoft's 35-year-old business, particularly its lucrative Windows franchise -- has been replaced by a slew of simple, low-cost devices that are constantly connected to the Internet, and through that, to cloud-based services…tomorrow's devices…They're relatively simple and fundamentally appliance-like by design, from birth. They're instantly usable, interchangeable, and trivially replaceable without loss."…Ozzie's…telling Microsoft that it needs to look forward or you're not going to own the market in the future," Miller said. "He's trying to get Microsoft to start thinking about a day when the hegemony of Windows is a thing of the past…"
46. PayPal Introduces its Micropayment Solution http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/paypal_introduces_its_micropayment_solution.php "…PayPal, one of the most popular online payment providers, announced today the unveiling of a micropayment solution…the new product will offer low fees and a seamless integration that "lets consumers pay for digital goods and content in as little as two clicks…there are a couple of problems with selling cheap digital goods. For consumers, it's a matter of time and hassle, while merchants often have to contend with high transaction fees and lost sales…the new solution offers PayPal's competitive fee structure for micropayments, with pricing at 5 percent plus 5 cents for purchases under $12. A number of companies have already signed on, including Facebook, Autosport.com, FT.com, GigaOM, Justin.tv, Ooyala, Plimus, Tagged, Tyler Projects and Ustream. The decision to purchase digital goods and content usually happens on impulse, so the act of paying needs to be as quick as that impulse…"
Civilian Aerospace
47. Virgin Galactic CEO Branson Opens First Commercial Spaceport http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2371395,00.asp "…Sir Richard Branson celebrated the completion of Spaceport America, the first commercial purpose-built space port…The spaceport includes a two-mile long runway…It's 42 inches thick and can support every existing type of space craft currently in existence…The runway was dedicated in a celebration that included Branson, Richardson, about 30 of 380 Virgin Galactic future astronauts who got to see Virgin Galactic's WhiteKnightTwo jet carry the SpaceShip Two in a landing and flyover…Our spaceship is flying beautifully and will soon be making powered flights, propelled by our new hybrid rocket motor, which is also making excellent progress in its own test program…Branson said that he plans to be taking passengers into space in nine to 18 months…"
48. NASA Awards Contract To Team FREDNET Google Lunar X PRIZE Contender http://www.space-travel.com/reports/NASA_Awards_Contract_To_Team_FREDNET_Google_Lunar_X_PRIZE_Contender_999.html "Team FREDNET has been awarded a NASA Innovative Lunar Demonstrations Data (ILDD) contract at the maximum government purchase value of $10.01 million. As a recipient of this ILDD contract, Team FREDNET will offer technical data relating to its robotic Google Lunar X PRIZE landing mission…The X PRIZE Foundation started with the brilliant vision of "Revolution through Competition." Team FREDNET took the next logical step to employ "Revolution through Open Collaboration" and utilizes volunteer efforts around the world to increase its ability to achieve profitable, privately funded, beyond-government sponsored space commercialization…Our 700+ global volunteer Team FREDNET members are (beyond) thrilled to be selected by NASA for the Innovative Lunar Demonstrations Data award…This is a significant milestone that proves the viability of our distinguishing collaborative thought leadership in our goal to become the first open-source organization to place an intelligent rover on the surface of the Moon…"
Supercomputing & GPUs
49. GPU's and Particle Accelerators http://www.wtkr.com/news/dp-nws-cp-fastest-computer-20101022,0,3766615.story "…The video game industry is helping Jefferson Lab researchers solve some of science's most baffling mysteries…researchers at the Department of Energy nuclear physics lab booted up what they say is Hampton Roads' most powerful computer system. They didn't use secret government equipment, but rather graphics processing units…Researchers at…Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility…turbocharged 266 central processing units, the part of a computer that functions like a brain, with 480 graphics processing units. As a result, the system absorbs information 1 million times faster than a standard computer…The system also relied on $5 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the federal economic stimulus plan…Approximately $3.3 million went towards the equipment, including the graphics processing units and servers. Researchers spent the rest developing the system, such as creating a code that married the various components together, and staffing the system through 2013."
50. Nvidia looks to the future of GPU computing http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/application-development/2010/10/26/nvidia-looks-to-the-future-of-gpu-computing-40090520/ "…We've had parallel GPU computing for several years, but why is it really taking off now? A: It showed up at a time when performance was having a very difficult time scaling because of power and architectural challenges for processors that were designed for instruction-level parallelisation. It wasn't until recently that parallel computing — inspired a lot by Cuda — made people realise that there are whole areas in computing science that we can tackle…When you can do something 10 or 100 times faster, something magical happens and you can do something completely different…Will Cuda persist alongside open-standard OpenCL and other approaches, or will everyone switch to a common parallel computing standard?...We put a lot of energy into developing OpenCL. We're the first to market with every release of OpenCL and are known to have the best implementation…But the challenge with GPU computing is that it's changing so fast. We're improving performance by a factor of four every other year…the reason why Cuda is more adopted than OpenCL is simply because it's more advanced. We've invested in Cuda for much longer. The quality of the compiler is much better. The robustness of the programming environment is better. The tools around it are better. There are more people programming it…It turns out that parallel computing as we've implemented it is successful because we didn't try to take over the CPU. We didn't wake up and say we've invented something that's going to disrupt the CPU…"


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