text: Introducing the BACKside ROM, a port of CyanogenMod7 for the Optimus V. Edit: Updated 05022012, download links at bottom of post Credits: Blarfie - For creating the IHO repository, and fixing most of the bugs with CM7 OV ports AOSP - The Android Open Source Project for creating the offical Android source CyanogenMod - The entire team for all their hard work creating the best Android Mod available KermikalElite - For helping me set up my build environment and compiling this ROM Special thanks to ath3nos - for getting the ball rolling on the S, zefie - for his original work on CM7 port for the OS, mik_os - because he started it all, and many others who I may have left out! Thanks to Danny Baumann for fixing the custom ringtones! Huge thanks to Tom Marshall aka tdm for fixing the long suffered charging-while-powered-off bug! STANDARD WARNING-- Flashing any custom ROM may semi-brick your phone! Follow the installation instructions to the letter! Always backup your apps, and do a backup in recovery before flashing! This is a WIP (work in progress)! This is the Optimus V build of the inferiorhumanorgans repository which is forked off the CyanogneMod7 source tree, the same as ath3nos, but built for the Optimus V and not the Optimus S. No S-to-V script necessary. There is also an optional Green Machine theme built in UOT Kitchen for those who are interested, or you can theme your own if you like. KermikalElite was the first to build for the Optimus V from the IHO source, and you can find his latest buiilds, and other users builds, in Blarf's OP. Installation ---Updating from a previous BACKside-IHO build NEW METHOD (post 04172012 build) See Video of Auto-Install 1) Open the BacksideUpdater in the app drawer or under Settings>>CM settings>>System>>Check for ROM udates 2) If a new version is available, press the Download now button 3) Once download is complete and md5 checks, select Reboot Recovery then Automatic Install! 4) Put your phone down and do something for 5-10 minutes, come back and start using it INTERIM METHOD (01182012-04172012) 1) Open the BacksideUpdater in the app drawer 2) If a new version is available, press the Download now button 3) Once the download is complete and md5 checks, select Reboot Recovery 4) In recovery, wipe cache and dalvik-cache 5) Select install zip from sdcard, and choose the downloaded zip file 6) Reboot OLD METHOD (up till 01182012) 1) Download the newest build, and GreenMachineTheme zip if you like, and place them on your sdcard 2) Boot into recovery and make a backup (imho, not optional ) 3) Wipe cache and dalvik cache 4) Flash the BACKside-IHO zip file 5) Flash the GreenMachineTheme (optional) 6) Flash gapps (hopefully not necessary anymore, ymmv) 7) Reboot and enjoy ---Installing from another ROM 1) Backup your apps with something like TitaniumBackup or MyBackup 2) Download the BACKside ROM zip file, the gapps zip file, and optional GreenMachineTheme zip file linked below and place them on your sdcard 3) Boot into recovery 4) Make a backup 5) Wipe cache, and under advanced wipe dalvik cache 6) Under mounts, format boot, system, data, and cache 7) Flash the BACKside ROM zip file 8) Flash the gapps zip file 9) [Optional] Flash the GreenMachine-UOT zip file for the Green Machine Theme 10) Reboot your phone 11) Restore apps, but DO NOT RESTORE SYSTEM APPS!!! 12) Enjoy yummy gingerbread and the CyanogenMod goodies Understanding CyanogenMod Settings and Goodies http://blogs4android.com/2011/06/rooting/cm7-settings-for-phones-explaination/ Getting More Space Barebones - CyanogenMod Wiki Known Bugs Fixed 07212011 USB Mass Storage is not working, you will have to use ADB or put your sdcard in another device for file transfers (Blarfie is working on it, Windows USB drivers can be a nightmare) Fixed 07302011 Camera sometimes places artifacts on the edge of images when zoomed at some levels. (The problem is known, expect a fix, but other things have a higher priority right now) Fixed 07302011 Custom ringtone settings are not followed, default ringtone rings instead Voice Dialer button is not mapped, use Button Remapper and set it as you like. Fixed 10172011 Headset button doesn't work. Thanks rcmarotz (original thread here) Fixed 07212011 Screenshots taken with the power button menu are saved inverted 180 degrees, you can flip them with any photo editing app/prog, I just let photobucket take care of these screenshots. Screenshots with Green Machine Theme installed over the build Downloads Download CWM-Green-recovery-05022012.img here md5sum e3963b7709fe23c2ae5667e318e50d96 Download BACKside-IHO-VM670-05022012.zip here md5 checksum 066c2f984c612821e9b3584e1efbdba2 Download the Google Apps zip file here Download the GreenMachineTheme-05022012.zip here Changes Note, this is not an all inclusive list of changes, please visit CyangoenMod's and Blarf's repositories for all the changes/commits/requests. Changes 05022012: Synced with CM and cherry-picked some changes-- Default keyboard now has option to use volume keys to move the cursor-- Added snooze times to Calendar alarm events-- Contacts now have individual call histories-- Added format option to T9Dialer-- Fixed typo that prevented baseband from showing under Settings>>About Phone---- BacksideUpdater Backup/Restore Options!!!-- Added the ability to automatically backup-- Added the ability to automatically restore (CWM compatible backups only)-- Added option for full wipe and format before automatic installation-- Added the ability to automatically install any ROM or Theme zip file----Note: Automatic functions require CWM-Green-Recovery V3.3+ Changes 04172012: Synced with CM and cherry-picked some changes-- Lots of behind the scenes code improvements in dalvik, should lead to smoother performance-- BacksideUpdater huge update!!!-- Added download progress indicator but it is still OK to exit and let it complete in the background-- Added the ability to Automatically Install ROM Updates!!-- Once you have downloaded the ROM package and BacksideUpdater verifies it, you can select Install ROM Now and your phone will reboot and wipe cache/dalvik-cache and install the ROM and reboot back to normal All Automatically! Changes 04092012: Synced with CyanogenMod-- Fix for quick unlock bug that prevented passwords over 8 characters from working-- Workaround for allowing more systemui elements to be themed-- Typo fixed in dalvik that caused some thread crashes-- Three fixes in webkit to prevent crashes due to garbage collection-- -- Added the ability to show or hide system icons in the status bar including wifi - 3g - bluetooth - sync - gps-- Fixed the delay bug in home key double tap to launch custom activity-- Added ability to check radio version to BacksideUpdater by long-pressing the screen Changes 04012012: Synced with CM -- fix for swiping actions that get stuck on corners -- fixes for pattern lockscreen showing battery status and pin request even if lockscreen is disabled -- option to disable ICS rotation animations are now a part of CM -- --Fixed bootanimation chooser to work with most file managers --Tweaked system icon colors to better match connected status colors --Added options to hide alarm clock and signal bars in system icons --Added easter eggs to thank LeslieAnn for the use of her build server and jcase for his work rooting the security update Changes 03132012: Reverted fingerprint frameworks and pin landscape commits from CM - needs testing to see if this fixes reports of pin screen not functioning properly -- Added an experimental Suspend mode to the power menu - this will put your phone in a semi-deep sleep state similar to airplane mode - no phone calls or messages - but you will still get your alarms - might be good for overnite power savings when no charger is available -- Made the date in the status bar follow the clock color - been meaning to do this for a while now -- Made the status bar system icons follow the general theme of being green when active/connected -- Improved the functionality of the statusbar restart in settings -- Added ability to use any file manager with all BACKside tweaks - status bar mods - BacksideUpdater - etc - no more requirement to use OI File manager exclusively -- Added option in BacksideUpdater to download previous versions back to the beginning of the year - once a different date is selected you can download - view changelog - check md5sum - then reboot to recovery to install -- Added option in BacksideUpdater to install a recovery within the app - choose recovery file and it will install it - then reboot straight into the new recovery to test it - I highly recommend Drewwaltons touch recovery! -- Note - If the changelog doesn't show when you load an old version, swipe down in the black text box, it's because the last text showing was larger, will fix in next build. Changes 03062012: Synced with CM - BACKside-IHO is now a Kang of CM7.2 RC1 - More changes to fingerprint frameworks - Telephone supplemental notifications now supported -- Added option to restart status bar in settings so you dont have to reboot for changes to status bar or notification dropdown background colors or images -- NOTE - Do not press the restart option rapidly - give it a full 30 seconds to restart before trying again Changes 02292012: Synced with CM --3 fixes from AOSP for screen freezes --Lots of little background changes like translations etc --Frameworks for fingerprint unlock added but not functional yet --Added ability to crop selected image for use as the notification dropdown background --Cleaned up a bunch of leftover code and debugging Changes 02192012: Synced with CM7.2 -Change to LGEstarRIL may help with mms from some carriers (needs testing) -More fixes for screen freezes caused by ICS rotation animation -More fixes for swipe to dismiss in notification dropdown -Added landscape layout for lockscreen pin screen -Added an option in notification power widget to automatically switch 2G/3G when mobile data is disabled/enabled --Added ability to set custom background image in the notification dropdown --Added an option to disable ICS rotation animations (just in case ) Changes 20120212: Synced with CM-- Fix for screen freeze bug in new rotation animations-- Fix for brightness controls in Power Control Widget-- Improved scrolling cache should make long throws a bit smoother-- -- Bootsound is back but this time it comes with a setting in CMParts so you can turn it off easily - change system-media-android_audio mp3 to any short mp3-- BacksideUpdater checks for network connection now and if not present gives option to goto wireless settings-- Offline-charging fixed - reboots reboot - and crashes reboot - only power off goes to offline-charging now--You can sleep easily with your phone plugged in now -if there is some random reboot - it will reboot fully and you wont miss your alarms or phone calls Changes 02062012: Synced with CM7.2--New Blade lockscreen ring style--Options to set BT timeout--Option to set compcache for those with larger app memory issues--Option to enable-disable scrolling cache for performance--BacksideUpdater gui and performance improvements - added menu options and hide unused gui elements for cleaner look--Added preference to bootanimation changes so users choice shows in settings menu--Market fix by disabling 01mvdalvik should prevent out of space market errors Changes 01312012: Changes: -- Added Pedlar's CMBootanimation chooser to Settings>>CyanogenMod settings>>Interface>>Bootanimation -- Added two additional bootanimations to /system/media for use with the bootanimation chooser -- Update to BobZhome's kernel v3.7 with support for a2sd swap and BT HID, Thanks Bob! -- BacksideUpdater updated with option to check any downloaded file, option to delete bad download before trying again (prevents download renaming such as file.zip becoming file-1.zip), and updated gui elements Changes 01252012: -- Synced with CM: --ICS transistions and animations backported to Gingerbread, --lockscreen alignment <right> fixed, --Option to lock volume keys when in silent mode, --Fixed race condition in notification dropdown swipe-to-dismiss function, shouldn't freeze anymore, --Fixed automatic timezone selection in Hawaii (had to throw that one in the for all you frozen users), - New version of BacksideUpdater installed: --Checks download status, checks to see if download has begun, and if complete based on file size, --Checks MD5 sum, automatically checks against the manifest's posted md5 (takes a while, be patient), --Cleaned up the gui a bit, still needs work (functionality first ) Changes 01202012: Fixed borked WiFi module from 0118 build, add camcorder icon back in Changes 01182012: Synced with CM, lots of behinds the scenes tweaks (translastions etc), added Holo lockscreen ring style, Changed first bootanimation, replaced VirginMobile's with one for BACKside-IHO, Added update checker (see this post for details) Changes 01102012: Special build up thanks to Tom Marshall fixing the charging-while-powered-off bug, THANKS TOM!, also reversed the logic on transparent status bar (needs testing) Changes 01092012: Made some changes to status bar and notification dropdown background settings to impove theme support (needs testing) -Added custom notification dropdown background image, please submit additional ones to add in future builds, selection will be based on popularity (donaters to Blarf will of course be given preference ) -Add option to make media the default volume control, default is still ringer volume, helps when trying to set a song's volume before you begin playing it (embarassment saver ) -Added ADB Over Network option to Settings>>Applications>>Development. Once enabled, go to Settings>>Wireless and network settings>>WiFi settings then press your menu key and select Advanced. Use the IP address listed and add port 5000 to use ADB via WiFi, ie: adb connect 192.168.1.123:5555 (replace IP address with your phone's) Changes 01032012: Fixed borked camera from 01022012 build, thanks to BobZhome's camera repo, Thank You Bob! Changes 01022012: Synced with CM7.2, New LGEQualcomRIL added for better telephony support, beginings of face-detection in place in camera app (don't know if it will be implemented on CM7 or not), had to revert another CM camera commit to prevent borking it on the OV, switched to BobZhome's newest kernel, implements rb64's find for two-way recording in phone calls, Thanks Bob & rb64!, changed holiday egg to Android Baby New Year, added thekraven's headset mic fix (needs testing), added an option to change the notification dropdown's background color, choices are: --Theme (default) --Custom Color (argb colorwheel) --Transparent (fully transparent). Testing needed to see how it affects various types of themes. Changes 12212011: Synced with CM, new option to skip bootanimation may make boot times faster, fix to notification drop down swipe to dismiss feature makes it smoother, Fixed the date view in the status bar, now the notification icons will animate away when the date is visible, and animate back when as it fades away, Added option to customize the overscroll color (cherry-picked from here), not sure how it will affect themes (needs testing) Changes 12162011: Added option to change status bar background (requires reboot), added center clock to ticker animation to prevent overlay caused by transparent backgrounds, organized the CyanogenMod settings>>Interface>>Status bar tweaks menu into 4 categories Changes 12072011: First build from JerryScript repository, now BACKside changes to IHO are visible online, synced with IHO and CM7, reverted a commit the reverted a commit that made our camera work better , some other small fixes to camera should make recording start faster and some poorly made files play better, and cm camera now supports touch to focus properly, fix to minimal ring lockscreen, added Xmas egg Changes 11222011: Synced with CM7.2, lots of improvements from CM, video support for omap now enabled, changes to improve screen performance, changes to improve audio performance, camera click sound issue fixed, lockscreen single ring option and middle ring unlock option, lots of other changes can be viewed on gerrit, cherry-picked the carrier name change commit, and reverted the commits that broke the camera. Changes 11092011: Synced with Blarf's repo, market download fix (needs testing), added a first try at an update checker (see app drawer), more integration with recent omap update should improve video performance, lots of small changes mostly to files not associated with the OV Changes 11022011: Pulled in a commit from CM7 that fixes borked notification sounds from 1101 build, and fixed clock color changer so the change takes effect immediately instead of having to tweak other settings. Changes 11012011: Synced with Blarf's repo, added option to set the status bar clock color in CyanogneMod Settings menu, commits to CM7 include option to remove battery icon from status bar, show share menu when taking screenshots from power menu, several fixes to stagefright to improve video, fixes to audiopolicymanager, surfaceflinger tweaks should improve screen drawing, fixed a wifi lock bug that caused releases when it should be locked, lockscreen calendar now supports all day events, quiet hours can now silence haptic feedback, separate volume settings for when headset is plugged in and when it isn't Changes 10172011: Headset button fixed, big thanks to rcmarotz[/URL], notification icon overlay covering center clock fixed (system icons are still buggy, I'm close on it though), camera tap to focus function added, commits from CM include improved aid selection, telephoney added fastdormancy support Changes 10102011: Manually pulled in several commits to CM7.1, fix to lockscreen ring style animations (I did not pull in the arrow rings, don't like em), a2dp audio interface, camera service ttf fix and video stabilization fix, super user updated, added new Music 4.0.1 apk, added option to center clock or leave on right, removed bootsound from package, will add flashable zip on the wiki to enable bootsounds. Changes 10042011: Synced with Blarf's repo and CM7.1, switche to BobZhome's new Kernel V3.1 with new governors, new lockscreen ring style option, new 16bpp option under performance menu provides faster/smoother interface, several fixes to surfacflinger should prevent crashes in the UI, wifi fix for lease duration should help with connectivity issues, fix for wallpaper race condition should prevent freezes, lockscreen calendar alarms show next event, about 70+ other minor tweaks that will help but won't necessarily be noticeable. Changes 09282011: Fixed center clock notification overlay, added 2d graphics improvements (should make overall phone UI smoother), changed default button color again (probably will go back to default on next build), added graphical easter eggs to thank Blarf, BobZhome, and the users (find them, same place as aosp and cm7), added extra bass band to equalizer settings, cleaned up some of my added code Change 09192011: Changed wifi supplicant scan interval to 60 to save battery, if it gives you issues, you can change in in the build.prop file, Changed to BobZhome's kernel, lots of tweaks, all screen should work now, Edited build.prop to reflect changes in OV2.2.2 and OS-ZVH versions, Added supercharger settings and other tweaks to build.prop, Center clock in status bar, thanks to Drew, Removed trackball settings, never could find it on my phone, Added extra camera button settings, Added Build ID to Device info menuChanges Changes 09162011: Synced with Blarf's repo, removed bootloader option from reboot menu, swapped in kernel v2 (even though it says 1.2, oops) should fix screen issues on newer phones Changes 08312011: Synced with Blarf's repo, Headset mic fixed, Camera geo tagging fixed, code cleanup, preparation for support of new phones, lots of CM7 tweaks that don't affect the Optimus V Changes 08252011: Synced with Blarf's repo, most bugs from 0824 and prior builds are fixed Changes 08242011: Reverted to previous build to fix 0823 bugs, once we sort out the repository's commits I'll post a fresh build. Changes 08232011: Synced with Blarf's repo, IHO merged with CM7.1 Lots of little fixes, new bootanimation incorporates IHO logo (needs work to smooth out the transition), bootsounds working properly now, see wiki for diff from pure IHO Changes 08202011: Synced with Blarf's repo, GPS now properly enabled, lots of small cleanup items, small audio tweaks Changes -8172011: Synced with Blarf's repo, GPS changed to hopefully improve battery performance (needs testing), second partition on sdcard should mount, minor background changes to libaudio, lockscreen, and profiles, changed second boot logo to IHO Changes 08102011: Synced with Blarf's repo, Sound always playing through the speaker regardless of settings has been fixed, BobZ's wifi fix included and another small tweak (if this build fixes issues, wifi bug should be fixable), Updated to Blarf's newest kernel r1.2, tweaks for battery and performance, Camera exposure mostly fixed though default value may still be too dark, Removed bootsound for now due to overwhelming requests (but you can enable it using eollie's script). Some bloat removed. Changes 08082011: Edit: Now there is a themeless build with the experimental tweaks mentioned below built in for you tasteless types Created experimental Green Machine ROM, this one will have the green machine theme built in. It has a couple of wifi tweaks we hope will help those with wifi issues, bootsound support (thanks eollie), camera exposure (still buggy, but better), no more reset of death under privacy settings, added video icon to app drawer (thanks asadullah), smaller LatinIME.apk (thanks to mmarz's script), and most of the bloat removed (wallpapers, large ringtones, themes, extra tts languages). To change the bootsound at startup, replace the android_audio.mp3 file in /system/media, or just delete it for no bootsound. Changes 08032011: Synced with Blarf's repo, GPS should now lock on faster (needs testers), dBm reading in status bar fixed, Market apps that should work on OV not installing should be fixed now, some changes to SIP services should make native SIP work better, boot time should be faster, added Blarf's new recovery (needs testers) Changes 07302011: Synced with Blarf's repo, Camera zoom and autofocus improved, custom ringtones now work, BT functionality improved (needs testers) Changes 07272011: Synced with Blarf's repo, Mostly build.prop changes to allow Android Market web interface installs, some other fine tuning. Changes 07252011: Synced with Blarf's repo, new kernel r1 should fix the charging issues some were having Changes 07222011: Synced with Blarf's repo, new kernel v53 with USB tethering support working in OSX, may be a bit buggy on Windows, ext3 support added, now have ext2/3/4 built into the kernel, couple of other small commits, changed carrier name to Green Machine in the theme only. Changes 07212011: Synced with Blarf's repo, new kernel v49 with built in ext2/4 support, fixed screenshot from power button being flipped, USB mass storage now working, circle-particle bootanimation included again, some behind the scene changes Changes 07202011: Updated repo to include Blarfie's new kernel v41 (with ext2 support, see his posts on page 2), and his stock binary blobs, screen rotation fixed, forgot to add in the circle-particle-cyanogenmod bootanimation, you can download it from here and push it to system/media if you like it.


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Admit it, you couldn't look away. Like a car crash or scenes from a natural disaster, it was one of those televised moments when the viewer was transfixed, wide-eyed and frozen.
There was tournament leader Charlie Beljan, a man who had just shot 64 in the Children's Miracle Network Classic at Disney, being wheeled out of the scoring trailer on a stretcher and loaded into an ambulance. Throughout his round, he had looked like he was having a heart attack, bending over, holding his chest, swallowing air like he was suffocating. If his caddy's look of concern wasn't enough to let everyone know this was serious, the paramedics following Beljan's every step were a dead giveaway.
Steve Eubanks is a former PGA professional, author, columnist and contributing editor at PGA.com. He shares his thoughts here each week.
He'd begun feeling light-headed and jittery on the range before the round, his heart fluttering like he had a bird in his chest. Then he began to hyperventilate. His arms went numb. His chest tightened. He thought he was going to die.
"I was scared," he said. "I've never been that scared. I honestly feared for my life."
With the benefit of hindsight, we now know that Beljan wasn't having a heart attack or a stroke, but the symptoms of the event were no less serious. Racing heart, shortness of breath, light-headedness that can often lead to a loss of consciousness: these symptoms could point to a myriad of serious heart conditions.
They are also signs of a panic attack, the diagnosis Beljan received after an anxious and sleepless night in the hospital where he laid in bed with tubes in his arms and monitors on the chest, his golf shoes still on his feet until 4:30 in the morning.
"It's freezing in those hospitals," he said. "As far as blood work, the CAT scan, the lungs, the heart, everything was wonderful, which is a huge relief."
It wasn't the first time he experienced something physical that he didn't understand. In August, just before the birth his first son, he had a similarly episode.
"Coming home from the Reno Tahoe tournament I actually passed out on the airplane," he said. "And since then I haven't been quite the same. I've gone and had a million tests done, and all the results come back that I'm as healthy as can be. I think it's just a little bit mental. And that really did scare me to pass out on the airplane."
The condition is taking center stage because Beljan overcame his anxiety and won the golf tournament, shooting weekend rounds of 71-69 to edge Matt Every by two shots. Afterward, every friend he's ever known called, texted or emailed to give him their amateur diagnosis.
All were thrilled by Charlie's win, but most were quick to dismiss the panic attack as no big deal: like jitters before a date or butterflies before a job interview.
Unfortunately, it is a lot more serious than that.
Dr. Wayne Katon, adjunct professor in the psychiatry and behavioral science at the University of Washington has written extensively on the subject. In the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Katon said, "There are both biologic and environmental causes for panic disorder. And the risk of panic disorder is increased by a factor of eight in first-degree relatives of patients with the disorder."
Those who live with the disease know this all too well.
"My mother had it, I have a cousin that has it, and (my daughter) now struggles with it," said PGA member Whitney Crouse, founder of Affinity Golf Partners and someone who has suffered from panic attacks for 30 years.
"I had my first one when I was 23," Course said. "What people need to understand is that it is biological, and it often comes out of nowhere. And when it happens, you truly think you're going to die. There is a huge difference between general anxiety, which everyone has, and a full-blown panic attack which can be debilitating if you don't know what you're dealing with."
Too many people write off what they don't understand. So panic attacks get shoved in the same box as conditions like Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Attention Deficit Disorder, maladies that can ruin lives but ones that are often pooh-poohed as nothing more than being lazy or inattentive.
According to Dr. Katon, "Panic disorder occurs in approximately three to eight percent of patients seen by primary care physicians. The disorder is twice as common among women as among men, and there appears to be a bimodal distribution in the age onset, with one peak at late adolescence and a second peak in the mid-30s."
"I still deal with it," Crouse said. "Mine come mainly at night. Doctors know so much more about it now than they did 30 years ago. For me, I take medication, but I also have to live a healthy lifestyle – easy on the caffeine, I can't drink alcohol, and I have to eat well and work out. Now the treatment is much more advanced, and the awareness is getting better.
"What I hope people take away from this – and Charlie Beljan's episode, in some ways, may have helped – is to understand that this is just like living with any other disease. It can be managed and you can live a very high-functioning life."
Beljan is a testament to that. So is Crouse.
"Look, if some PGA member is struggling with this and wants to call me, I'd love to help," Crouse said. "I can spot someone dealing with it now. You can't believe the number of people I've helped just by telling them about the treatment that's available. Once they're in the program, they're fine."
It was a win that caught a lot of attention, perhaps more so than any other in this post-major time of the year. Now perhaps Charlie Beljan, a 28-year-old few people outside the game knew before last week, has unwittingly helped others by shining a light on a disorder millions suffer through in silence.
"That would be great, wouldn't it?" Crouse said. "We can only hope."


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Barack Obama and David Cameron both have various reputations when it comes to spending and deficits.
Obama is known as a free-spender who doesn't care bout reducing the deficit.
David Cameron is known for committing to austerity, even in the face of a weak economy.
And yet actual numbers show that when it comes to reducing the deficit, the U.S. is better at it. AND the U.S. is on a better trajectory on this measure.
And yet check out these stats from CNBC's Kelly Evans.
UK's revised f'cast sees *7.4%* deficit this fiscal year -- up 0.6pp since Dec. Meantime CBO projects 5.3% deficit this year for the US. — Kelly Evans (@Kelly_Evans) March 20, 2013
From same starting point (76% this fiscal yr), UK debt now seen rising to 85% of gdp by fiscal 2018; US seen falling to 73%, per CBO. — Kelly Evans (@Kelly_Evans) March 20, 2013
This is, of course, all predictable to anyone who has read Richard Koo, who has pointed out numerous times that during the great Japanese downturn, periods of austerity led to weaker growth and higher deficits.
This chart is particularly powerful.


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John Green delivers a TEDx talk in Indianapolis on November 27, 2012.
The young-adult novelist John Green rose to fame in 2012, following the publication of his breakout hit The Fault in Our Stars, but for years he has channeled an outsider's empathizing ethos to fans called "Nerdfighters." YouTube hosts Vlogbrothers, the popular video diary Green keeps with his younger brother Hank, and Green's personal website hums with reader feedback. The arrival of The Fault in Our Stars, now a movie starring Shailene Woodley as Hazel, a sardonic teenager with terminal cancer, has only served to energize Green's wholesome it-gets-better brand. In anticipation of TFIOS–mania (the clunky acronym and hashtag fans are using), Prospect writing fellow Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux and Prospect contributor Clare Malone decided to explore the Nerdfighters' universe and compare notes. The following is an edited version of their conversation.
Clare Malone: I was skeptical of a book about teenagers and cancer, so I avoided reading John Green's The Fault in Our Stars for three days after it arrived. The opening pages, in which the two young protagonists, Hazel and Augustus (Gus), meet at a cancer-patient support group—their eyes lock across a crowded room—are a bit overwrought. There's talk about hotness. Jaded quips are traded. The dialogue is written like Gilmore Girls, the WB show of the early aughts, with quick, syncopated banter. It's exhausting.
Green's writing is highly stylized. No matter which character speaks there's a tone, a surface cynicism pricked by bone-deep ruminations on life, death, and what it all means. But I softened up once I realized why the book is a best-seller: It's an absorbing little story of guileless love, easy intimacy—talking about the existential things that hit you blind while clipping your toenails, or getting pheromone-drunk every time you see the person. Teenagers are often portrayed as living in the moment, but Hazel and Gus's story is a meditation on how we become adults, sorting out the frenzy inside our minds while trying to show the outside world it's all sunshine and summer shandies. So, I'm inclined to forgive the book for its pretentious moments on that account.
Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux: I remember a high-school sick day I spent watching Sweet November, a movie starring Charlize Theron as Sara, a soulful woman who dates troubled men for a month, offering sexual favors and promising to change their lives. Halfway through, Keanu Reeves's character discovers that Sara is dying. The trope of heroic cancer sufferer is icky because it makes dying without suffering seem romantic and beautiful. Theron remains lovely, in body and spirit, until the bitter end, which is simply not possible for someone dying of a terminal illness.
I put off reading The Fault in Our Stars for almost a year, ever since posts about how heartrending it was began to drift into my Facebook feed. I finally read it in one sitting a couple of weeks ago. Green's style is unsentimental, and he doesn't shy away from the less salubrious aspects of the disease. But the book is unusual because Green realizes that as teen cancer patients who have to squeeze their lives into less than two decades, Hazel and Gus get to ask big questions with conviction. There's a scene where they're in Amsterdam, eating a fancy dinner. "The oblivion I fear is that I won't be able to give anything in exchange for my life," Gus tells Hazel. "If you don't live a life in service of a greater good, you've gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, you know? And I fear that I won't get either a life or death that means anything." Most of us take decades to come to terms with the fact that we won't get that hero's journey.
At one point Green was slated to attend divinity school, although he didn't go. He got the idea for The Fault in Our Stars while working as a hospital chaplain. I don't think he was ever interested in pulpit ministry, but is it overstating it to say he's kind of a preacher for the Internet? There is something undeniably charismatic about Green's demeanor, and his message—if not explicitly religious—inspires devotion.
CM: He's the magic ingredient in this whole stew of Young Adult phenom-ism —a publisher's dream author for today's young reader. @realjohngreen has nearly 2.5 million followers. For literary(ish) world comparison, Jennifer Weiner, the author of popular breezy books like In Her Shoes and Good in Bed has nearly 88,000. Both authors are savvy about using Twitter to connect with fans, but Green has been living online since the early days of YouTube—around 2007, the Mesozoic era of social media. He's vintage Internet—confident enough about his thoughts to have sent them out into the world but insecure enough to care what people thought about them. He has parlayed that shtick nicely; I would like to know his current net worth.
Watching the videos, I wasn't surprised to learn that Green considered divinity school. He and Hank are just oatmeal-wholesome blond guys. Their haircuts alone make you think they might ask if you've been saved. In a 2008 blog entry, Green explains why he's voting for Obama. He goes on to discuss health care and all that, but his intro is most telling:
I don't talk about it very often, but I'm a religious person. In fact, before I became a writer, I wanted to be a minister. There is a certain branch of Christianity that has so effectively hijacked the word "Christian" that I feel uncomfortable sometimes using it to describe myself. But I am a Christian.
I do want to take a moment to mention Green's video "presence," which is … frenetic. Like a peppy young high-school teacher, before he's had his spirit crushed. He gets wide-eyed, gesticulates, and runs both hands through his hair as a physical exclamation point. He seems genuinely upbeat, but I also think that people who focus on being happy—who make being happy their thing—are sometimes people for whom it doesn't come easily. Green has a video about his life when he was 24 and had broken up with a girlfriend; he was depressed. Therapy, medicine, and watching the Jimmy Stewart classic Harvey brought about a sort of epiphany. He cites this line from the loopy but lovable Elwood P. Dowd:
Years ago my mother used to say to me, she'd say, "In this world, Elwood, you must be"—she always called me Elwood—"In this world, Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant." Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. You may quote me.
In a way, Green's aim is to mainstream the concept of the examined life. He specializes in being quotable. His aphorisms seem ready-made for the Pinterest age. They can be taken out of context and shared with a friend who's down or posted to a virtual inspiration bulletin board. BuzzFeed, in fact, has a list of John Green quotes: praise from Caesar.
ATD: I wonder how much of John Green's Internet savvy comes from his younger brother, Hank, a self-proclaimed "Internet Guy." We haven't talked about Hank much, but he's an essential part of the Vlogbrothers' energy. Hank is well versed in the craft of "going viral," as one of his recent projects, the Web series The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, proves. Imagine video blogs in the vein of the Vlogbrothers. But instead of two clean-cut young men discussing climate change and the joys of optimism, a trim young woman with radiant skin tells the rollicking tale of being set up with rich men in the neighborhood by her gold-digging mother. You will not be shocked to learn that people loved a version of Pride and Prejudice where "Bing Lee" and Darcy tweet.
Hank does not believe in God, and he does not seem to relish discussing theology, theodicy, or the other big questions that clutter his brother's books. His background is biochemistry, and today he's the proprietor of a website called Eco Geek, where one can discuss the finer points of tractor-trailer fuel efficiency.
John's theologian side pervades another book I just read by him, Looking for Alaska (2005). To give you a quick sense of what the book is about, a high-school guy from Florida (like John Green) goes to a boarding school in Alabama (like John Green) in search of a life-changing adventure—what the dying Francois Rabelais referred to as "The Great Perhaps." There he finds friends and a dazzling girl named Alaska, acquires the incongruous nickname "Pudge," explores a wide range of illicit substances, and learns firsthand about the depths of human grief. The book is now taught in many high schools, though because of a brief and awkward sex scene, it's been banned and un-banned in a couple of states, inspiring John Green to make the perennial Vlogbrothers favorite "I Am Not a Pornographer." Despite its lack of nuance, the book is often poignant. A religion teacher makes some cameos to reassert the message: The only way out of the "labyrinth of suffering" is to forgive.
Green has even referred to Alaska as "Christian fiction." He writes on his website:
It has always seemed odd to me that all the people who want to ban Looking for Alaska from schools claim it is offensive to their Christian values, when the core Christian values—radical hope, universal forgiveness—are the core values of the book's final chapter. (For the record, I think the people who argue the opposite—that the end of the book is a bit didactic and heavy-handed—are not wrong. I just don't really care that it's a bit heavy-handed. I wanted Pudge to be able to write that essay. I wanted him to be able to give and receive the forgiveness he so desperately needs, and I wanted him to be able to imagine a beautiful somewhere for Alaska.)
Of course, Green doesn't care about being heavy-handed. He wants that beautiful somewhere for all of his readers or watchers or followers. But he understands that it comes as much from asking big questions as patiently embracing the quotidian, alternating a video about the nature of mass incarceration in the United States with the occasional cute video about velociraptors (made with his four-year-old son).
CM: We haven't spent a whole lot of time talking about the audience that the Brothers Green are sending their video missives out to. But they're the people whose clicks make this world go 'round. This Vlogbrothers movement is a sort of "revenge of the nerds" type of thing—except the movie based on it would probably be called "the civil disobedience of the nerds," because John and Hank are about encouraging people to channel outsiderness into something productive, like living well through small acts of kindness. I can imagine a person getting into the habit of watching these daily and thinking about their meaning (maybe not actively, more by osmosis), almost in the way a monk goes to vespers or a devout Muslim prays five times a day. I'm not even being theological; I'm just thinking about the importance of habit. Prayers involve repetition to get a person into a meditative state. To a certain extent it's Pavlovian, but we need that push into a different headspace to think about things outside necessities of the flesh (and as someone staring down the barrel of a long day, I am currently doing all I can to not think about a couch and a bowl of noodles).
ATD: There's something immersive about John Green's universe—the books you can swallow in one gulp, more videos than I could ever watch because the jump cuts make me a little nauseated, Internet forum upon forum, conference upon conference—that makes me wish we had gotten to go to that princess event. We were, I'm sure you recall, going to dress up as princesses with other Nerdfighters on a Saturday morning and hand out books to kids on the National Mall. Truth be told, I was dreading it a little, and at the time I was relieved when it got canceled because the organizer was sick. But now I'm sad we didn't get to meet the people who try to take Green's philosophizing into the world. What does that modern, contemplative—yet active—life look like?
CM: I'll admit that I was not looking forward to going to the Mall, either. The idea of riding public transportation in a party dress and tiara on a Saturday morning was not appealing, if only because spring tourists visiting Washington might get the idea that I was walk-of-shaming home from a very odd night out. Of course, the larger idea of handing out books to children was nice.
I've been scrolling through the Nerdfighters of D.C. Facebook feed, and I have to say, it's fascinating. People seem to be pretty interested in stereotypically nerdy hobbies like gaming/fantasy (Sample post: "If you got a button that could teleport you to one [keyword: one] fandom world, where would you go??") But there are also general crowdsourcing "asks" about what to do in certain cities when you visit, calls to sign a petition for the White House to legally recognize "non-binary genders." One post did catch my eye. It was a Nerdfighter airing grievances: "so i've noticed that gatherings planned by people who are not wizard cops tend to have low attendance." (I have no idea what a wizard cop is—a person who is in charge of Nerdfighter activities on Facebook?)
The aggrieved party goes on to vent insider frustrations over the low attendance of events she and her friends had planned and ended with this:
dont know if it's a popularity thing, or if people just dont trust gatherings that arent planned by wiz cops, or what. i just know that it doesnt seem fair. it's frustrating and even hurtful to have put a lot of energy and enthusiasm into planning a gathering and then have extremely low attendance. this is a problem that needs to be solved. i welcome any ideas or suggestions on how to solve it. thank you.
So, an uncomfortable display of hurt feelings. But the comments are interesting. Other group members respond to the original poster in as soothing a manner as possible. They give her constructive criticism about her socially inept way of handling conflict. It's the sort of banal "crisis" that happens every day to people. The idea that your character is tested by how you deal with these moments came to mind; so did that famous David Foster Wallace graduation speech about how you have to choose how to feel about life while you're living it. I think about it almost every time I'm in a crowded grocery store after work.
ATD: Funny that you mention David Foster Wallace. His graduation speech took place at Green's alma mater, Kenyon, so there's that. But Green, like so many earnest and angsty men of our generation, also loves Wallace's Infinite Jest obsessively. It's the inspiration for An Imperial Affliction, the book within a book that drives much of the plot of The Fault in Our Stars and ends midsentence. Since I only managed to get 200 pages into Infinite Jest before surrendering to a particularly long footnote, I can't speak to the references that apparently litter The Fault in Our Stars. But I did find an essay Green wrote for a DFW fan site back in 2009, where he explains that Wallace helped shape his understanding of what it means to be "smart and talented and scared and 17."
What makes Nerdfighteria so potent does seem to be the moral imperative that the Brothers Green throw at their bajillion viewers' feet: to take their weirdness and anxiety and turn it into empathy. It's become kind of a culture. Away from Facebook and into the wilds of Pinterest and Tumblr and beyond, I discovered that people get Nerdfighter tattoos. There are Nerdfighter samplers and onesies, and videos "executive produced" by the Green brothers about sex education and doing your taxes. There are also lots of forums—some feel like LiveJournal in its heyday—with fan fiction and youthful poetry.
Which brings me to a subject I have been avoiding up until now: how I feel about John Green and the cult of Nerdfighting. We've been approaching this whole phenomenon with a sociological eye, but your comment about the Facebook page reminded me that I've been subduing some of my discomfort with this project. The books are one thing; I don't love them with anywhere near enough evangelical zeal to qualify as a Nerdfighter, but they are witty and moving, if occasionally maudlin. The videos, on the other hand, are too slick and zingy to keep me coming back. Maybe it's John Green's genius for branding. The trailer and production schedule for The Fault in Our Stars is a frequent subject among the Vlogbrothers these days. When Green's not talking about life on the set of TFIOS, too many of the videos feel like they're trying to deliver a bite-size moral.
Sometimes, I want the Green brothers to admit they're having a bad day. Which is not to say that I want the mean-spiritedness that often coats the Internet like an oil slick to seep into Nerdfighteria. But John and Hank's bouncing boyish pratfalls can get tiring.
CM: So often discussion of Internet phenomena comes back to a discussion of realness, whatever that means. I don't say that to be flip. What's real and what's not about people has been distorted by the onset of the "personal brand." I've heard on more than one occasion people discussing their "Internet persona," which they proclaim to be different from how they "are" in "real life." But aren't those thoughts you express or personas you take on always lurking inside your mind? Aren't they you?
For those who live some significant portion of their life on the Internet, as John Green does, whom they project to be online, all day long, is how most of the world knows them. For Green, perhaps that affects the choices he makes in his presentation. People have started to look up to him as this inspirational figure, so he can't have an off day. I agree with you that some of those videos would be more powerful if he were just palpably down in the dumps. But as with fashion magazines and car ads, the Green brothers' videos are aspirational, not real life.
Which is funny, because we expect writers to be a bit above the fray of all this, don't we? You can be more "real" in writing. You don't have to stare someone in the face while you say difficult things and watch their lips quiver. It's easier to parse your thoughts artfully if you do it on a page or input cold letters into a Word doc. It's bloodless, even when the words are bloody. Expressing thoughts and emotions off the cuff is messier—which is why, no matter what we think of their politics, a virtuoso retail politician is such a sight to behold. I don't blame Green from shying away from being raw and unscripted in his videos, but I don't think I'll be coming back to them. I prefer his earnestness manifested in prose. It seems more natural.
John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars, and actor Nat Wolff from the movie based Green's novel, at a 2014 promotional event for the film.
ATD: If the Green brothers are like fashion magazines and car ads, how can they also be lonely and awkward and scared? I get that they're selling something to people. But to return this conversation to where it began, the thing I liked about The Fault in Our Stars was that it did not try to whitewash the minutiae of what it's like to die from cancer or what it's like to watch your child die. There's a moment in the novel when Hazel is lying in her hospital bed, struggling to stay alive. She hears her mother tell her father, "I won't be a mom anymore." Hazel doesn't die then, but she carries her mother's words around with her, knowing that when she does die, she's going to take a part of her parents with her.
I mean, that's it, right? That's the punch-to-the-stomach, unflinching empathy that makes the book worth reading. More than the love story, Hazel's relationship with her parents is the tragedy that animates The Fault in Our Stars.
Where's that vulnerability in the Vlogbrothers? What we see in the best parts of TFIOS—and on the Nerdfighters of D.C.'s Facebook wall—is raw emotion on display, unafraid to be embarrassing or schmaltzy. John Green just got named one of Time's 100 most influential people. There's a sense, I think, that when you get to that point—especially as a young-adult writer, not the most lucrative or powerful of trades—you must have it all figured out. What if John Green talked about the moments when he doesn't? I'm about to be schmaltzy here myself, but how compelling would that be?


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High School Basketball: Lincoln Halts 4-Game Skid Against Warriors
Lincoln has four starters that average in double-figures, but the starter who doesn't, led the team in a balance effort Saturday afternoon in a 55-36 victory over Washington in South Dakota boys high school basketball.
Junior Caleb Rector scored 14 points grabbed five rebounds dished three assists and made two steals in helping the Patriots (7-5) snap out of a four-game funk.
Rector drilled a pair of "3's" and tallied 10 points in the 3rd to help the Pats secure a big win against a District 2 team.
"He's a kid that can catch fire at any time," said Lincoln head coach Jeff Halseth. "When he's patient and lets things come to him then he gets good looks and he really went after it today."
The Warriors shot 24 percent in the 62-35 loss to Lincoln a few weeks ago. Saturday in LHS gym, the Warriors (4-10) shot 26.5 percent while missing on all 17 three-point attempts.
Junior Brett Stanley, four games back from a PCL injury, looked like he is feeling better and gradually more explosive leading the Warriors with 14 points seven rebounds (five offensive).
"We just weren't with it today," said Washington coach Craig Nelson. "We actually looked the team in November and December, a team that can't make layups and free throws and just wasn't guarding anybody."
Nelson had been happy with the team's progress over the last two weeks including the seven point win Tuesday over Brandon Valley.
"I still like what our team is doing in a lot of areas, but we don't have a lot a margin for error," he said. "We really have to be on top of things every night to compete against some of these better teams."
Lincoln led the entire way jumping out to a 5-0 lead on an Addison Park lay-in four seconds into the game and followed it up with a trey moments later. Park finished with nine points as 10 Patriot players scored.
TURNING POINT: Lincoln used a 7-0 in the final stretch of the first period to take a 15-6 lead after one. Pushing and pounding in the middle of the second quarter, Lincoln up 19-12, beat Washington down the court again and again in 9-0 run to reach a 28-12 advantage and led at halftime 30-15.
Halseth was happy with the team energy after suffering a loss the night before at home to Brandon Valley and liked how the half-court sets looked better.
"We actually showed a little patience, moved the ball side-to-side and got the defense moving, we have been trying to stress that to these guys," Halseth added.
Lincoln's largest lead came in the fourth quarter at 54-29 with 3:11 remaining.
Noteworthy number: Both teams combined to shoot 14-32 at the free line.
What's next: Lincoln stays at home to challenge top-ranked Roosevelt Tuesday on ESPN 99-1, while Washington plays at Sioux City East the same night. Next weekend Washington plays Clark-Willow Lake in Brandon.


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Tabletop: AD&D 1st Ed., Pathfinder, D&D 3.5, Call of Cthulhu
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- Ultima Online, Everquest, Everquest 2, Star Wars Galaxies, DDO, WoW, Age of Conan.
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The posters in this section capture the moment when the "psychedelic" turn in rock truly began to take hold. In San Francisco, the first "acid test" was administered by Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters in 1965, with music provided by local band the Warlocks – who would soon evolve into the Grateful Dead. Alongside the Jefferson Airplane, Big Brother and the Holding Company (which included singer Janis Joplin), Quicksilver Messenger Service, and less well-remembered bands such as the Charlatans and the Great Society, the Dead would expand the sound and shape of rock music and help to turn San Francisco into a hallowed location in the evolving national rock scene.
San Francisco housed more than an aggregation of great bands. What made it such an important scene was the combination of factors at work. Underground FM radio took hold under the influence of DJ Tom Donahue. Journalistic attention came first from critic Ralph Gleason at the San Francisco Chronicle, and then beginning in late 1967 from Rolling Stone, started by U. C. Berkeley dropout Jann Wenner with help from Gleason. Perhaps most importantly, San Francisco housed two of the leading rock music ballrooms in the U. S.: the Avalon and the Fillmore.
With a few exceptions, the posters in this exhibition advertised shows at either the Avalon or the Fillmore and they attest to the great concentration of performances these venues hosted. Avalon manager Chet Helms and his Family Dog associates, and Bill Graham and his team at the Fillmore, assembled distinctive combinations of performers, making a point of presenting touring African-American blues artists like Junior Wells or Otis Rush with local favorites that were known to draw a crowd. Also at these ballrooms, rock shows became spectacles to an unprecedented degree, with elaborate light shows that were sometimes given equal billing with the musical artists featured.
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The fact that some posters on view come from Santa Clara or even Denver show that San Francisco did not exist in a vacuum. The scene was at once local and national, and ballrooms on the model of the Avalon and the Fillmore would arise in various U. S. cities. So too would larger gatherings on the order of the Human Be-In held at Golden Gate Park in January 1967, or the Magic Mountain Music Festival held in June of that year, which preceded by a week the more celebrated Monterey International Pop Festival—often taken as the announcement that the "Summer of Love" had truly begun.
Image: Bonnie MacLean. American, born 1949. Martha and the Vandellas, 1967. Lithograph printed in color on paper. Published by Creative Lithograph Company, Oakland, California. Purchased.
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Vista: Worthy, Largely Unexciting
A new version of Microsoft Windows, the world's most popular and important computer operating system, will finally arrive for consumers on Jan. 30. It has taken the giant software maker more than five years to replace Windows XP with this new version, called Windows Vista — an eternity by computer-industry reckoning. Many of the boldest plans for Vista were discarded in that lengthy process, and what's left is a worthy, but largely unexciting, product.
Vista is much prettier than previous versions of Windows. Its icons look better, windows have translucent borders, and items in the taskbar and in folders can display little previews of what they contain. Security is supposedly vastly better; there are some new free, included programs; and fast, universal search is now built in. There are hundreds of other, smaller, improvements and additions throughout the system, including parental controls and even a slicker version of Solitaire.
After months of testing Vista on multiple computers, new and old, I believe it is the best version of Windows that Microsoft has produced. However, while navigation has been improved, Vista isn't a breakthrough in ease of use. Overall, it works pretty much the same way as Windows XP. Windows hasn't been given nearly as radical an overhaul as Microsoft just applied to its other big product, Office.
Vista's Flip 3D feature lets you scroll through images of currently running programs. The sidebar (right) contains miniapplications. The Windows Photo Gallery (left) is for organizing and editing photos.
Nearly all of the major, visible new features in Vista are already available in Apple's operating system, called Mac OS X, which came out in 2001 and received its last major upgrade in 2005. And Apple is about to leap ahead again with a new version of OS X, called Leopard, due this spring.
There are some big downsides to this new version of Windows. To get the full benefits of Vista, especially the new look and user interface, which is called Aero, you will need a hefty new computer, or a hefty one that you purchased fairly recently. The vast majority of existing Windows PCs won't be able to use all of Vista's features without major hardware upgrades. They will be able to run only a stripped-down version, and even then may run very slowly.
In fact, in my tests, some elements of Vista could be maddeningly slow even on new, well-configured computers.
Also, despite Vista's claimed security improvements, you will still have to run, and keep updating, security programs, which can be annoying and burdensome. Microsoft has thrown in one such program free, but you will have to buy at least one more. That means that, while Vista has eased some of the burden on users imposed by the Windows security crisis, it will still force you to spend more time managing the computer than I believe people should have to devote.
Here's a quick guide to the highlights of the new operating system.
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Vista comes in six versions, two of which are primarily aimed at consumers. One, called Home Premium, is the one most consumers will want. It contains the full Aero interface, and it includes the functionality of Windows Media Center and Windows Tablet edition, which have been discontinued as separate products. Home Premium costs $239, or $159 if you are upgrading from an earlier version of Windows. It will come preloaded on most midrange and some high-end consumer PCs.
The other main consumer edition of Vista is the stripped-down version, called Home Basic. It includes the improved security and search but leaves out the new Aero interface and the Media Center and Tablet functions. It will be preloaded on low-price PCs. Home Basic will cost $199, or $100 for upgraders.
A third version, called Ultimate, will wrap up everything in Home Premium with some additional features from the business versions of Vista. This is for power users, and it is likely to be preloaded on high-end PCs. But some regular users may need Vista Ultimate if their companies have particular network configurations that make it impossible to connect to the company network from home with Home Basic or Home Premium. Vista Ultimate will cost $399, or $259 as an upgrade.
Even if you buy the Home Premium or Ultimate editions, Vista will revert to the Basic features if it detects that your machine is too wimpy to run the new user interface.
For most users who want Vista, I strongly recommend buying a new PC with the new operating system preloaded. I wouldn't even consider trying to upgrade a computer older than 18 months, and even some of them may be unsuitable candidates. Microsoft offers a free, downloadable Upgrade Advisor program that can tell you how ready your XP machine is. It's available at: microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/upgradeadvisor.
If you bought a PC in the past few months, and it had a "Vista Capable" sticker on it, it should be able to run at least Home Basic. If it was labeled "Premium Ready," it should be able to handle Premium and probably Ultimate.
Microsoft says that Home Basic can run on a PC with half a gigabyte of memory and that Premium and Ultimate will work on a PC with one gigabyte of memory. I strongly advise doubling those numbers. To get all the features of Vista, you should have two gigabytes of memory, far more than most people own.
Even more important is your graphics card, a component most people know little about. Home Basic can run on almost any graphics system. But Premium and Ultimate will need a powerful, modern graphics system to run well.
I tested Vista on three computers. On a new, top-of-the-line Hewlett-Packard laptop, with Vista preinstalled, it worked smoothly and quickly. It was a pleasure.
On a three-year-old H-P desktop, a Vista upgrade installed itself fine. But even though this computer had a full gigabyte of memory and what was once a high-end graphics card, Vista Ultimate reverted to the Basic user interface. And even then, it ran so slowly and unsteadily as to make the PC essentially unusable.
The third machine was a new, small Dell XPS M1210 laptop. In general, Vista ran smoothly and well on this Dell, but some operations were annoyingly slow, including creating a new message in the built-in Windows Mail program. This surprised me, because the Dell had two gigabytes of memory and a fast processor.
Microsoft says Vista is much more secure than any other operating system. But this is hard to prove, especially at the beginning of its life, when few hackers and malefactors have access to it. One visible security feature asks for your permission before you do potentially dangerous tasks, like installing new software. This is a good thing, and it's been on the Macintosh for years. But unlike the Mac version, the Vista version of this permission feature doesn't necessarily require you to type in a password, so a stranger or a child using your PC could grant permission for something you yourself might not allow.
Vista also has built-in parental controls so you can restrict what a child can do on the computer. This is also already on the Macintosh, though the Vista controls are more elaborate.
Microsoft includes a free antispyware program in Vista, called Windows Defender. But PC Magazine regards it as inferior to paid programs like Spy Sweeper and Spy Doctor. So you may want to buy one of these. You should also buy an antivirus program, which isn't included.
User Interface
The new Aero interface is lovely, and it makes using a PC more pleasant and efficient. It apes some elements on the Macintosh but retains a distinct look and feel. Icons of folders look three dimensional, and they pop. Most file icons are thumbnails that show a tiny preview of the underlying document.
Like the rest of Vista, the Start Menu has a prettier, more refined look.
The old hourglass icon that appeared during delays has been replaced by a gleaming, spinning blue circle. The cutesy names for standard folders, like "My Pictures," have been changed to simpler ones, like "Pictures."
As on the Mac, you can now drag favorite folders into a list at the left of open windows, so it's easy to get to them.
A new feature called Flip 3D shows a 3D view of all the programs you're running and lets you scroll through them. It's like the Mac's excellent Exposé feature, though not quite as handy.
Another new feature, called the Sidebar, is a vertical strip at the side of the screen that can contain tiny programs, called Gadgets, displaying things like favorite photos, news headlines, stock prices and the weather. Once again, this is awfully similar to a Macintosh feature called Dashboard, which displays tiny programs called Widgets.
Some familiar Windows features have new names. The old Display control panel, where you chose screen savers and desktop pictures, is now called Personalization. The Add or Remove Programs control panel is now called Programs and Features.
Like the Mac, Windows now has rapid, universal, built-in search, a very welcome thing. The main search box is contained at the bottom of the Start menu, and it works well. Other search boxes appear in every open window.
You can also save searches as virtual folders, which will keep collecting files that meet your search criteria. This is another feature introduced earlier by Apple.
Built-In Programs
The Outlook Express email program has been given a face-lift and renamed Windows Mail. But it's pretty much the same, except for a new junk-mail filter. The Windows Address Book has been renamed Windows Contacts and, oddly, turned into a sort of file folder.
The latest version of the Internet Explorer Web browser, with tabbed browsing, is included, though it's also available for Windows XP.
As on the Mac, Windows now has a nice, centralized Calendar program. And there's a new photo-organizing program, Windows Photo Gallery, but it's inferior to Apple's iPhoto because it doesn't allow you to create photo books, or add music to slide shows. There's also a pretty rudimentary DVD-burning program.
The familiar WordPad program can no longer open Microsoft Word files (ironically, Apple's free built-in word processor does).
Gradually, all Windows computers will be Vista computers, and that's a good thing, if only for security reasons. But you may want to keep your older Windows XP box around awhile longer, until you can afford new hardware that can handle Vista.
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