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It will not be pleasant. But it will be meaningful.
hey….HEY! Hey, I'm sorry. We stopped working on this. But thank you for thinking about us, or this, or just for thinking in general. I don't know who you are, but my guess is you're a beautiful, intelligent person who's struggle is important. And we'll always be there for you.
That having been said, Andy and I are moving on to new projects. They're secret, so good luck figuring that shit out, but we shall return in different and fascinating ways.
If we learned anything in 2010, to end this on, it's that you're great. And that we love you.
Goodbye, and good luck.
-diggy (and probably Andy; don't want to put words in his mouth)
Posted on July 13, 2010 with 6 notes
oh man, so I was away for a while going on a mystical journey through Kabbalah's 'tree of life' ala Alan Moore's fantastic comic series "Promethea", and you guys, it's totally crazy. It's way crazier than just Madonna and celebrities and Judaism, it's like proper D&D, Gary Gygax/ Ursula LeGuin-type crazy.
Let me start by stating that I'm not really studying the Kabbalah, as that seems to be a little more complex; I just quickly went through the Cliff's notes version of some of the larger motifs (easy joke to make is that quickly going through the Cliff's notes version is my larger motif). So you have this pattern called the 'tree of life', and it looks like this:
Bam! And all those little points on it are called sephira, which is just the hebrew word for number. So you've got these 10 spots, in order, and each represents something capital B Big. How big? Well all of Earth and the physical objects we interact with everyday, that's number 10. At the bottom. *fart sound*
It's kinda complicated after that, with each path between sephira having a corresponding tarot card, and what the colors mean and the separation of the upper sphere and shit, so fuck all that. I skipped all that because any person's own journey to spiritual enlightenment is boring to everyone else. Seriously, it's like listening to people describe dreams.
ANYWAY, the one I became most fascinated with is number 8, Hod. Hod (literally from hebrew 'majesty') is the domain of all types of communication. It's where we have notions like language and understanding and math and symbols. All of that is in number 8.
See I figure it's the ability to process information and effectively communicate it to others that grants us intelligence. And it's the ability to give rich, complex and varied descriptions of new things which proves our sentience. Without math to calculate or words to begin to construct philosophy around, we would have lost all the ingenious shit that mankind has contributed, like engineering and poetry and karaoke. So yeah, fuck the Golden truth of the Human Soul (6) or the Foundation of the Human Ego (9, although that's where everyone's bangin'), Hod's where it's at when it comes to being a thoughtful motherfucker.
And you're all "uh, whoa Diggy, it's a little weird that you're studying the Kabbalah in the first place. Is everything alright?"
And I'm all "oh, don't worry about it. I mostly got into it as an offshoot of all the Hermetic stuff I've been reading"
And you're all "Hermetic…stuff? Whu-"
And quickly, I'm like "yeah! You knew, like Hermes Trismegistus! Like Thoth, and Mercurial Magick and quicksilver and all that. Just the principle properties of Alchemy at this point, but I've got a couple Crowley books and I've been reading a lot of Austin Spare, so we'll see what I can get up to by the end of Summer. My hope is that by the next solstice, I'm ready to take some serious communion with the Magic Square of Eights… maybe channel Ben Franklin or some shit".
And that is when, even through the cold distance of web-based social interaction, you slowly back away, your face betraying a mixture of concern and disgust.
And it looks like this:
Thanks, Hod!
Tagged: !!!
Posted on June 21, 2010 with 6 notes
Hey, so you know the whole Sad Keanu meme going around? Well I was fucking off at work today and I learned, that hooooooooly mothballs, Keanu Reeves has had a kinda sad and tough life:
His father, Samuel Nowlin Reeves Jr., abandoned him and his mother when he was 3, and has never reconnected with him since. His mother, Patricia Bond, became a costume designer and showgirl who constantly remarried and divorced a string of 3 stepfathers for Keanu, and they were always moving. Because of that, he went to different high schools. He had a key interest in hockey (was MVP of his hockey team, named "The Wall"), but his dream of playing in the Olympics ended after an injury. Afterwards, he dropped out of high school to become an actor, thus starting his career. He never obtained a high school diploma.
Keanu has never married and avoids most relationships. In 1999, Reeves' girlfriend Jennifer Syme gave birth to a daughter, Ava Archer Syme-Reeves, but she was stillborn. Two years later, Syme herself got into a fatal automobile accident. His close best friend, River Phoenix, died due to drug overdose one Halloween morning.
In his career, Keanu turns down big roles if he believes the character he would portray is too violent. He took a 90 percent pay cut on The Replacements just so that Gene Hackman could be cast. Previously, he had deferred 2 million of his salary so that Al Pacino could be cast on The Devil's Advocate. Even then, he gives most of his earnings to charity and the backstage crew/people who help on the set.
Currently, Keanu's best friend is his sister, Kim Reeves, who has been diagnosed with leukemia. His remaining money probably pays for her medical bills, and he plays the guitar for a small band to further get finance.
His father, Samuel Nowlin Reeves Jr., abandoned him and his mother when he was 3, and has never reconnected with him since. His mother, Patricia Bond, became a costume designer and showgirl who constantly remarried and divorced a string of 3 stepfathers for Keanu, and they were always moving. Because of that, he went to different high schools. He had a key interest in hockey (was MVP of his hockey team, named "The Wall"), but his dream of playing in the Olympics ended after an injury. Afterwards, he dropped out of high school to become an actor, thus starting his career. He never obtained a high school diploma.
Keanu has never married and avoids most relationships. In 1999, Reeves' girlfriend Jennifer Syme gave birth to a daughter, Ava Archer Syme-Reeves, but she was stillborn. Two years later, Syme herself got into a fatal automobile accident. His close best friend, River Phoenix, died due to drug overdose one Halloween morning.
In his career, Keanu turns down big roles if he believes the character he would portray is too violent. He took a 90 percent pay cut on The Replacements just so that Gene Hackman could be cast. Previously, he had deferred 2 million of his salary so that Al Pacino could be cast on The Devil's Advocate. Even then, he gives most of his earnings to charity and the backstage crew/people who help on the set.
Currently, Keanu's best friend is his sister, Kim Reeves, who has been diagnosed with leukemia. His remaining money probably pays for her medical bills, and he plays the guitar for a small band to further get finance.
Yeesh. Alright, fuck… I'm gonna go rent the Replacements to make me feel a little better.
Tagged: cherry-picking other people's web articles the Replacements memes football
Posted on June 11, 2010 with 4 notes
or Live Together/Die Alone
May, May, transglorious May was coloured, nay dominated by two major overarching thematic story-lines…
(…SQUAW! Your crippling loneliness and inability to come to equiostasis with the cosmos?! SQUAW!)
Shut up, subconscious! No instead I'm speaking of the ending of the television show Lost, and the ascension of my favorite basketball team, the Boston Celtics, to the NBA Finals. The baffling similarities, the logic-smashing comparisons and at least a couple links and youtube videoes lie within, brave reader. But beware: beyond this point be spoilers, tygers and jinx-inducing hubris! And the enemy is everywhere!!!
Season 5 of Lost had ended it's sci-fi masturbatory season by leaving the various characters shattered, disoriented and filled with self-loathing. Main-man Jack's attempt to reboot their Universe (!), and prevent them from ever having existed there (!!) by exploding an Atomic bomb at the core of a magnetic anomaly (!!!) had seemingly failed. His gambit fizzled, costing the lives of people he cared about. And the weight of his failure was torturous and haunting. He longed to just agree that he was wrong and be crucified for it. Jack always wanted to be the knight in shining armor that fixes all the world's problems at the cost of great sacrifice. But when he seemingly didn't fix the world's problems, and when the great sacrifice wasn't his, he was reduced to questioning confusion and self-hatred. All he could do was admit:
But at least Jack had gotten there. And at least the show had gotten there. It was time to pull together and get to the end, for better or worse. We'll return to this in a minute…
The Celtics were on cruise/damage control for the entire back 2/3rds of the 2010 season. If I were to congeal a team of 15 athletic freaks into a shitty episode of a drama show on network television, they'd be the Bai Ling episode where you find out why someone got a tattoo, but it doesn't matter to anything whatsoever and you're furious you just lost an hour of your precious time to pointless trivium and bad acting.
They headed into the post-season rudderless, and seemingly empty and devoid of passion or purpose. Constantly and consistently, the members of the Celtics staff were telling us that this was all part of the plan; that when it became important for them to turn on the juice, they were going to surprise everyone.
And of course no one besides them believed it even for a fucking second. Because teams simply don't just "turn it on" when they want to, it's something that can't be done in pro sports. It's bad juujuu, or poor sportsmanship, or more realtistically just not feasible in the modern day and age.
But the Celtics were confident, and annoyed with the criticism. They'd tell anyone who'd listen:
If I could retreat back to Lost for a bit, it's part of common folklore at this point that the creators became aware that if they didn't force the network into giving them a finite endpoint, the show was going to unravel. Without an end-Date, there was no end-Game. Nothing to be playing for, or looking forward to. Sometimes the treasure is in the journey, but sometimes it's at finishing the fucking race!
So they reached a settlement with ABC, and even at the cost of jettisoning a ton of time to explain the mysteries they had set up, and knowing that they weren't going to please a sizable portion of loyalists by doing that, the Lost creative team began the process of ending. They geared up for their run to the Finale.
When the Celtics won the NBA Championship two years ago, it was by following the motto 'Ubuntu', which literally translates from an old Bantu langue to mean 'I am, because you (pl.) are". It was the notion that there was a collective that needed to be bought into, and that the individuals couldn't get to the next place without buying into that collective. Players on the roster had to understand the limitations and their roles; they had to accept responsibility for their jobs, and not try to be heroes. They won together as a team, and it was a sight to behold. We don't get that typically in the "me first" era of sports on a professional level, but this was a team of humbled men, accepting their roles while accepting their fate.
As Lost hurtled towards it's end-date, it eventually accepted the notion that as sci-fi oriented as it appeared to be on the surface, it was ultimately a show whose roots were deeply entangled in the relgious notions of spirtuality and communion. In the end, every major character on Lost was there to further the point that people are deeply flawed, and alone; that it's only by coming together and seeking forgiveness of our sins, acceptance of our short-comings and growth from a shared faith in each other that we can further our standing in life.
Sorry, that's what Lost is about! It's about Church. It's about finding people to worship with and loving them. Not an island, or monsters and gods, not Jack and Kate or why Walt had super-powers. It was a show about finding faith in being part of a community. A better and more passionate critique of man's great struggle might sound like:
And that, in my needlessly roundabout way, is what I learned about in May. Everyone wants to win, but it's about giving into the notion that maybe (definitely) the Universe is a bit smarter than you, that your friends can help you, and that you're only going to be as strong as the people you surround yourself with. I learned about faith and commitment and Ubuntu.
Beyond that I learned that as much as I think I can do this whole thing, I'm a lonely creature, struggling with redemption and direction. Just as importantly, I learned that Elvis said "as long as a man has the strength to dream, he can redeem his soul and fly."
So while I can think and while I can talk, while I can root and cheer and hope and enjoy when people get to where they're trying to get to, whether they be a dozen fictional characters, or a pro basketball team, or an arrogant asshole who tried to get the Beatles deported…
…it's important to believe in each other, and ourselves.
…it's important to believe in each other, and ourselves.
Tagged: What I Learned in 2010 May LOST sports redemption becoming a better person? (doubtful!)
Posted on June 2, 2010 with 4 notes
I feel like the guy that's stumbled into his favorite bar and realized there's no one else there. Free to drink as much as a I want and slur and scream as loud as I want with only my own intonations of "going too far" to keep me at bay.
Fuck it. Hi, I'm Diggy, and this is my blog. Shit's probably about to get hectic, I kinda feel like I don't need permission for it anymore. Der rappa rappa, we're gonna be scraping blood off the walls when all is said and done.
Posted on May 31, 2010 with 4 notes
Today I learned that a group of chickadees are collectively known as a banditry.
Tagged: actual learning ouch
Posted on May 29, 2010 with 4 notes
I know I've written it before, but hell son:
Your heart might break but the show goes on because if it stops, you starve.
…and that's all I have to say about what happened tonight
Moving on, I'm taking some temporal liberties in saying that 'Today' I learned about it, but the new Janelle Monae album is distressingly good. I had one of those weird Saturdays where there's, ya know, no drama (always a watershed moment for me); I just ended up at some really good parties I never expected to be at. Drinks and dancing and great bands and new friends and stronger connections! Awesome time.
Anyway, the big single from this album had been stuck in my head all weekend, and it took getting a flat on my bike and having to hoof the last two and a half miles back home to actually listen to the record in it's entirety.
Maybe it's because I had enough alcohol flooding my bloodstream to be qualified as no longer human, or maybe it's because I hadn't needed to just 'walk and listen' to an album since the last Future of the Left offering, but I was convinced by the time I got home that music like this should be taught in schools. Or played in utero. Anything but the relative obscurity it's destined for.
Seriously though, check out this chick just crush a stage:
There's performances and there is being a showman(/showwoman?). Shaquille O'Neal once famously said "Put this in print: my name is Shaquille O'Neal, and Paul Pierce is the motherfucking truth."
Well, if I could borrow the phrase, my name is Shaquille O'Neal and Janelle Monae is the motherfucking truth… but with a cute face, killer eyes, and what appears to be a kinda slamming body. Oh, and all the natural grace of Gregory Hines with a dash of James Brown and the self-aware cool of Dwayne Wade. And the first 3 Suites of a 4 arc concept album under her belt. And shit loads of money. And executive producers with names like Nate "Rocket" Wonder and Control Z. And also she's younger than me.
Fuck, just writing about this is getting me depressed and inspired at the same time. Download it illegally here!
Tagged: music advice! i'm old and uncool
Posted on May 24, 2010 with 4 notes
SPOILER ALERT: This is gonna be one of those articles that is much much more about me sifting through various interesting thoughts going on in my head right now than it is about learning. If you want a post about actual *learning* learning, click on the random button at the top of the page about 5 or 6 times until you come to an article that satisfies you.
SECOND SPOILER ALERT: This posting is also going to discuss in vague detail the comings and goings of the television show Lost. If you've never seen the show and don't want to be spoiled as to what it's about, Fuck You. I can't believe you didn't watch Lost. You're a fucking idiot. I told you it was good…! What the fuck else did you want? When have I ever steered you wrong as to shit that is "worth your fucking time"? Never. Never. Fuck you, dummy, you should've been watching Lost. Get the fuck off my blog and never come back.
So. On Sunday, the final episode of Lost will air. It will end what has been for me been a 5 year journey, and it will end with a definitiveness that will be both gratifying and disappointing. Gratifying because it is leaving on it's own terms, saying it's peace and then riding off into the sunset with the writers swearing off the possibility of sequels or movies. It will be it's own set story, and one's interpretations of it will have to come from rote canon, and nothing else.
It will be disappointing because I've become accustomed to the things I really, truly, deeply loving not ending. Truth be told (and in conjunction with the sixth season being so driven by the notion of faith/spirituality or even religion), stories tend to continue on. Stories and myth manifest over and over, and never before has there been a show that took more pride in being the "show about stories"; the meta-fictional self-awareness; the "we know and have to take into consideration how everything may be perceived by everyone everywhere for all time" than Lost.
And trust me, it hasn't always been easy. But I am nothing if not a Loyalist, and when people complained about the gaping plot holes, or Nikki and Paulo in season 3, or really just season 3 in general, I was there to remind everyone that this was a rollercoaster ride (a free one that you could get on network television, by the way), and you could either enjoy the ups and downs, or you could spend your time doing anything else. Not just a Loyalist, or an Apologist, I became entrenched in the worship of Lost. I think it's (capital I) Important, and I refuse to back off that claim. Listen: it meant a lot to me.
But on Sunday it ends, and I have no idea how it's going to end, or why. I suspect I will like the things I like, and force myself to like the things I don't.
I have this horrible habit of reading really great sentences and deciding that there's truth in power. I love to quote "Nothing ever truly ends," and hoping that that's the case. But really, sometimes things end. I moped when Jack decided he was going to be Jacob's successor (*dude, I told you there were going to be spoilers*), because, ya know…
Him and Kate, right? Right?!
But no. Not him and Kate. These two fictional characters attempted to have a fictional relationship, and it fictionally didn't work out. And I can sit here and pretend I'm not writing about something else, about some other work of fiction not working out; that I'm not talking about finally closing the book and realizing that something else has come to an end, but you probably know me better than that. I'm pretty easy that way.
Lost was about faith and religion and science and love and people. Just like people, it tried to do it's best to connect all these things together, and sometimes the project was disjointled. Sometimes it was sublime. I had a relationship with this show, a communion. It challenged me, and frustrated me, and I was beholden to it when it was doing well, and it was put on hold for things that were more interesting to me when I thought it was underperforming.
But it's ending on Sunday. The story is told, and the game is over. It will be up to me to determine in the long run whether I felt like I got out of it what I put in. I obviously will, but I'm still sad. In all my exhuberance and appreciation, I forgot that sometimes time runs out. That sometimes things move on, and that the world doesn't revolve around my own personal schedule.
Lost is ending/over/done, and I can't stop that. I can just be appreciative of the time I had with it.
…. You guys get by Lost, I'm talking about Kelly, right?
Tagged: LOST
Posted on May 19, 2010 with 5 notes
Hooooooooooly fucking shit. Alright, you're gonna want to sit down for this…
…Oh, right. Well, fuck you smartass, stand up then. Wait! No, go to your car. Seriously, go to your car and look at the fuel gauge. You see that little triangle next to the gas icon? Today I learned that that little icon is always pointing in the direction of your gas cap. So if you're ever borrowing or renting a car, and you don't know what side to fill up on, just look at the triangle on your dashboard.
Yeah, how's your mind? Kinda blown, right? Yeah!
Alright, well if you need me, I'm gonna be in my room crying, so…
Tagged: actual learning cars huh. in my room crying
Posted on May 13, 2010 with 4 notes
or "PMA + KBO = Blood for Frogs!"
May! What a month!…
Sorry, April! What a month! (Obviously the first thing to do is to apologize for this post's tardiness, but no one's interested in my apologies [APPARENTLY!] , so we'll just move on and watch as the end-of-month posts move further and further into the future.)
Listen: April was quite challenging. It was professionally, socially and personally tough for a multitude of silly reasons. I was feeling uninspired in my writing, and pretty let-down by a lot of personal things. And there was this quick-sand effect going on where the harder I was trying, the worse things were turning out. I was punching myself out and bloodying my knuckles doing it (I mean that only mostly in a proverbial sense).
So I spent a lot of time stuck in the mud, and feeling sorry for myself about it. I complained so much in fact that I got sick of telling the same stories over and over. Ya know, even my own little personal dramas became boring to me, and it got the point where it was okay to just let the days wash by. "KBO", I would tell myself, "Keep Buggering On", but it rang sorta hollow because it didn't actually make me feel any better. Shit was a bummer.
One day I was talking to a friend who is having a significantly and profoundly more difficult year than I have ever had, and he was talking about challenges he's facing right now, and I just asked him how he did it. How was he able to maintain his personal fortitude in the middle of such stress and anxiety and disappointment and lord know what else.
"PMA, man."
"What's 'PMA'?"
"C'mon man, you've never listened to Bad Brains?"
No, as previously mentioned, Bad Brains is one of those bands I never got around to, so he played me a song and explained that he just tries to keep a Positive Mental Attitude. That's it. The secret was to have a better attitude. That's how fucking cynical I had become, I couldn't recognize that attempting to have a better outlook on life could actually work.
So it stopped being just KBO, it was KBO while trying to smile. Take solace in the little things that you enjoy, appreciate the nice weather or a good record or fucking shoot a gun for the first time.
Do anything you want. You can do it. And when life gets shitty, you have to move forward. We are Human, a stubborn and willful animal that always moves forward whether for better or worse.
So yeah, in April I learned that:
plus equals
…which may not make a helluva lot of sense, but at least it makes me laugh. And it's way easier trying to stay in a good mood than getting out of a bad one.
Coming in May: Drunk Girls!
ADDENDUM: I'd like to take a second to dedicate this post to my dog who passed away peacefully in his sleep last week. He was 16 years old, blind, deaf and had scoliosis. But that motherfucker kept plugging away and bringing joy to my family even while the world faded away from him and life was less than ideal. You were a good dog, buddy.
Tagged: April links! optimism? This post would have come out better if I was drinking
Posted on May 12, 2010 with 6 notes
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A friend told me today that he saw a movie at Cobble Hill Cinemas and we immediately spent 5 minutes discussing the intro video there which is literally my favorite thing ever and I once bootlegged it and put it on youtube.
*edit: I noticed that someone else had bootlegged it and put it on youtube and investigated a little and realized it was SOMEONE I WENT TO HIGH SCHOOL WITH and now I feel a lot of things.
The video Cobble Hill Cinemas plays before their movies is one of the best things I've ever seen on the big screen. I got tired of trying to explain it to people, so I decided to bootleg it.

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Intention Not Algorithm
We might also say,
, or WhyNotHow
The most important thing about any (without loss of generality) method is what it accomplishes or why one would call it, not how it does whatever it does.
Yes, as I've said so many times, IntentionalityAndHermeneutics
are all there is to good code. Any ideas why this catch phrase hasn't caught on? Perhaps because few know what hermeneutics means (or how to pronounce it) without a dictionary. -- AttributionMissing
The above was previously attributed to
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ttributionMissing? --
Note also that the How of this level becomes the What/Why of the next level down.
Also could be called PolicyNotMechanism
(as opposed to
Isn't the name of the method the intention and the body of the method the algorithm? Shouldn't one be able to determine the intent from the algorithm and vice-versa? Another restatement of this would be that "If the intent and algorithm diverge, there is a problem."
But the intent is not always sufficient to determine the algorithm. My intent may be to sort a list, but the algorithm I use may be crucially important. Others may wish to call a
method, why should they have to say "Sort_with_quickSort" or "Sort_with_smoothSort"
In this particular case, intention alone is insufficient - algorithms are a necessary addition.
Actually, intention is sufficient, it is, however, incomplete as stated, since intention includes whatever we think is important. The full intention is "sort with such and such attributes, such as stable/unstable, importance of simplicity vs speed, data is random versus might be mostly sorted, etc."
[This is where testing comes into play. One can select any algorithm that meets the requirements of the test. It is too unwieldy to name a method in a way to identify every important characteristic, but it is equally inappropriate merely to identify one specific algorithm as the one and only solution. Alternative algorithms probably do exist that solve the problem as well or better than the one initially chosen.]
Au contraire. For instance, how would testing help with the intention that the sort use no extra space? (Merge sort of arrays needs O(n) space, by contrast.)
Testing isn't likely to assert complexity requirements in time *or* space. I'd assert that such things are irrelevant to the correctness of the implementation from the point of view of the client code. In the end, your choice of algorithm may be motivated by time or space requirements (if we're in the embedded world, then space complexity is often a make-or-break factor...), but specifying that is unimportant from the point of view of client code. The client code wants the list sorted.
Perhaps so, but the client's requirements have specified a substantial list of needs that must be met, and sorting is only one of those needs. Both space and time figure into the assessment of which algorithm will be implemented to accomplish the sort. Unless the intent is stated in such a way as to specify the space and time constraints (as is typical in an embedded environment) then the intent is insufficient to describe the algorithm to be used. If the intent
described to that level of detail then the client is elbowing into our terrain and needs to be reminded that We Are The Ex-Spurts and such technical matters are best left to professionals. [cough]
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Been doing it for years , and we're finally seriously considering a Class A coach ..
Have found a couple used ones that are great deals ..
Both are 32 foot Suncruisers ..
Being a trucker , diesel is my obvious first choice , but the expense isnt justified at this time ..
So I know this is subjective but :
I have "heard" that gas engines are only worth 50k-70k miles , seems true likely , but cant say for sure , same for transmissions ..
The two we have narrowed down to are both between 25k and 30k miles , and I doubt we'll put 50 k more on them ..
I wanna buy once and be done with it .. Unless I win the lottery , and then I'll splurge on the $250,000 coaches I lust over .. But alas I dont play the lottery ..
What say ye ?? Will a gas engine maintained see 75k miles ??


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Nokia Lumia 735: Ignore the selfie hype, it's a grown-up phone
Why the consistent 1 down vote?
Every post has at least 1 down vote. Is there some bot or (14 yr old ) down voting every post?
Stand clear! Will HTC's One act as a defibrillator for Windows Phone?
Re: Great looking phone...
Thanks for regurgitating the same old jab and the metro ux. Very creative and insightful. Really adds weight and credibility to your opinion...
Microsoft unsheathes cheap Android-killer: Behold, the Lumia 530
Re: I swear
How do you know the remaining 20K employees aren't responsible for the areas you outlined? You're just making shit up. You have no idea why these people were cut and what the remaining people do.
Oregon hit with federal subpoena over failed healthcare website launch
seems a little hypocritical...
Perhaps the should ha e displayed the same level of zeal in figuring out why the federal website cost 3 times as much
Thanks a lot, Facebook: Microsoft turns Office 365 into social network
Re: Who wants this?
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Re: Who wants this?
And you have data to back this up?
Inside Microsoft's Autopilot: Nadella's secret cloud weapon
I've worked with ther System Center stack for years and I can tell you that is not the case. System Center markets itself as being the private cloud solution but it doesn't actually pan out that way.
Bitcoin blasts past $1,000 AGAIN after Zynga accepts cryptocurrency
Re: Gimmick
I bought a space heater for .91 BTC on BitcoinShop.us a few weeks ago. Didn't seem that gimmicky to me. Perhaps you should read up on stuff before you speak in such absolute and strong terms.
Lumia 1520: Our man screams into ENORMO new Nokia phondleslab
Re: Microsoft account needed for Facebook? ??
I just drags an icon onto the taskbar. What exactly are you saying you can't do? (running 8.1)
'Last EVER REAL Nokia' phone heads for Verizon, leaky pic-spurt reveals
Re: 'Last EVER REAL Nokia' phone
If by "disaster" you mean the fastest growing mobile platform then ya sure...
Microsoft: Surface is DEAD. Long live the Surface 2!
Re: What lack of app?
nothing like 5 down votes for an accurate statement....
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it ... Win Phone 8? No, it's APPLE'S iOS 7
Re: Thanks for the consumer review
+1 for managed heaps :p
Microsoft does a U-turn, releases Windows 8.1 to developers early after all
Re: Scary and unbelievable
Oh no!! positive comment regarding a company that is cool to hate!! DOWN VOTES FOR YOU!
So, who here LURVES Windows Phone? Put your hands up, Brits
The basics
Why don't we discuss the basics more as opposed to raw features.
For example how easy or fast it is to post to Facebook, or find an app, or make a call.
Seems like we only focus on a check list of features and not whether or not a device is any good at the things all smartphones do, because they are core to the experience.
Nokia flops out its 4G, 4.7-inch WHOPPER: The Lumia 625
Re: looks like a great midrange handset
I have a 920 and my experience with the batter is that is will last at least a day with plenty of reddit and work email and news reading.
for a while I worked in a building with crappy cell coverage and the phone was constantly working to maintain an Edge connection. This clobbered the battery and I'd have to put it on the charger to get it to last during the bus ride home. I'd almost prefer the phone just gave up and told me it didn't have any reception.
But I moved to a new building and the battery life is back to normal / fully day usage patterns
Nokia tears wrapper off Lumia 1020 monster imaging mobe
but it doesn't have instagram so what are they going to do with all those nice pictures?
Re: That old not-really Petronius quote comes to mind
love the reward people get for negativity in this crowd. Doesn't matter what the situation is. If you can post something clever and snarky the crowd loves it. Not actual substance or anything resembling an argument.
ya... all them profits are the result of terrible performance.
Microsoft to ship Windows 8.1 in 'late August'
Is there any one in here that has actually shipped a software product?
Sony sucker-punches Xbox on price, specs, DRM-free gaming
Re: "XBOX Vista" already dead?
you're sooooo right. I mean XBOX one sold out on amazon in four hours....... Wait...
A quote from Amazon:
"We were thrilled by the unprecedented demand we saw for Xbox One today. In the first four hours of preorder availability, we sold through most of our Xbox One Day One Edition inventory. Customers eager to get an Xbox One should visit our store at Amazon.com/xboxone to ensure they keep up-to-date on the latest information. We are excited to be working with Microsoft to deliver the next generation of games and entertainment," said John Love, the director of U.S. video games and software at Amazon.
Read more at http://venturebeat.com/2013/06/10/xbox-one-amazon-preorders-almost-completely-sell-out-within-four-hours/#3dUCAbFy2Y7wDlcI.99
YES, Xbox One DOES need internet, DOES restrict game trading
Calm down...
I don't think all of the hysteria is warranted
Microsoft parades Windows 8.1, the version you may actually want
Not jarring in 8.1
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Re: Question
Go to the desktop and use file explorer. The Photo app in win 8 is such a pile of crap....
Microsoft video preview shows Windows 8.1 tablet UI options
Re: Dragon Animation
how many apps can you actually use at one time? I can a hundred apps on one screen with the classic desktop but I can't actually use all 100.
Windows 8.1 Start button SPOTTED in the wild
Re: The start screen can't be managed
First legit IT criticism of win 8 I have seen from the The Reg crowd.
There is a difference...
between being hard to learn and not being as good as win 7.
Win 8 is hard to learn.
It is also better than Win7.
The same way Photoshop is better than Paint.
Re: Bunch of nancies
I even used the troll icon.
Re: Bunch of nancies
Bunch of nancies
The more I dig into this win 7 vs. win 8 issue and what "benefit" is missing from the new menu the more I think it's a bunch of pansies calling for Waambulance. The old win 7 menu is a cramped POS.
What is missing
Can someone explain to me what the old start menu did that the new one doesn't do? I want to run an app I hit the start button and type the first few letters and hit enter.
More speculation
More FUD from the reg on a product not yet released....
Re: Aaaargh, why dont they listen?
"everyone else" that's the problem with hyperbole. I don't want it back. Not even in the slightest.
New Lumia 925: This, loyalists, is the BIG ONE you've waited for
@Shagbag Re: beyond a joke
No wants this OS??
"making Windows Phone the fastest growing OS sequentially."
It's official: Nokia's Verizon Lumia 928 is here
Re: So Fugly it's mother would feed it with a catapult
except for: http://blogs.wsj.com/tech-europe/2013/03/21/windows-phone-8-nominated-for-design-of-the-year/
and other design awards it has won.
You can keep you vanilla anti-Ms crap to yourself. Its quite boring.
Nokia shutters Shanghai store as Chinese stay away in their billions
@James O'Shea
because they are doing well through other channels... Samsun is doing a great job without having Samsung stores...
Re: Translation from BS to normal speech...
did anyone read how WP market share has doubled?
Microsoft exec selling his Surface tablet
Re: oh good
What exactly makes it shit? I hear a lot of negative stuff about it, but what does it not do that is should do? What is the bar for mediocre and what is missing from the surface RT to hit that bar?
So far a lot of smoke but no fire.
Microsoft's Surface Pro team takes on Reddit to finesse fondleslab
Can you cite a source?
I haven't heard response times for iDevices quoted before. Do you have a link to a credible source?
Microsoft techies bust data centres, pull plug on Bamital botnet
Re: chalk one for the good guys
"if Microsofts OS were more resilient" how do you prevent uneducated users from installing malware? You can go the walled garden approach such as the surface RT but then people complain that it is not an open platform....
Nokia tries its luck with a sub-£150 Win Phone 8: The Lumia 620
Re: Not so bad
Not to mention screen specs, wireless charging, NFC, camera, OS.
What I don't get is why in reviews it is never mentioned how it takes less time to do everyday tasks in WP than in android or iOS. Reviews are always just a feature set comparison. the Smoked by windows phone series seems to be a pretty good indication that the things you do most are easier on WP.
Re: Not so bad
I agree. the 920 has a lot of good stuff
Re: No, this phone is WP8
how is it obsolete? How did you measure obsolescence?
Re: 7.x?
How is it a featureless wasteland?
What does it say it can do and does not?
So much bad info out there.
Re: A bargain
@Manu: How did the boycott go?
Apple confirms 128GB iPad. A hundred bucks for an extra 64GB
Re: You all keep forgetting.
what Dana said...
Also remember that your own individual experiences will always be anecdotal. Meaning you should stop extrapolating the needs of an entire country off of your single data point of an experience.
Re: Shine going off your business?
*cough* surface pro *cough*
Windows growth keeps Microsoft earnings relatively stable
Look at her burn!!
oh wait... looks like windows and ms are doing fine..
Microsoft's ARM blunder: 7 reasons why Windows RT was DOA
Re: The Surface is an excellent tablet
Same here. The search and share charm make it sooo much easier to do common tasks. I can't for the life of me understand why MS marketing doesn't focus on how the common stuff is easier. The shit you do all day every day takes less effort.
Titsup Windows Phone 8 orders user to cram 'boot disc' in mobe
Re: True innovation - and laziness?
you are just talkin' mess.
Why would you spend the resources to take it out especially is the actual server and desktop OS still need that code? Why would you spend the time and money to remove a scenario that you can only get to by screwing with the boot loader? What % of smart phone owners do that?
You my friend would make a terrible dev manager and or PM.
New tool jailbreaks Microsoft Surface slabs in 20 SECONDS
At some point
all this negativity towards MS will wind down.
MS is now one of the most ethical companies : http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/17/microsoft-most-ethical-company_n_837003.html
And the make good kit like WP8 in the 920:http://conversations.nokia.com/2012/12/31/12-awards-the-nokia-lumia-920-won-in-2012/
and the surface / surface pro.
I don't like iPads but I don't run my mouth about how they suck because they are a well built device.
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Distinguished participants, FAO colleagues, Ladies and gentlemen,
It is my great pleasure to extend to you a warm welcome to this fourth meeting of the focal points for the project Strengthening Regional Data Exchange System on Food and Agricultural Statistics in Asia and the Pacific countries (RDES). The main objectives of the project are to implement an electronics-based regional data exchange system for the participating countries and to strengthen national capacity to analyze data on food and agricultural statistics.
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The United Nations, at its recently concluded 60th General Assembly, has recommitted to intensify international effort and cooperation to meet the Millennium Development Goals, noting that the slow progress made in the implementation of the MDGs. According to FAO's latest estimates (2004), the number of hungry people in the Asia-Pacific region has declined by 50 million only since 1996, an average yearly reduction of 6 million.
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Briefings by ANL personnel: Status of ANL Program on Development of Electrometallurgical Technology for DOE Spent Fuel Treatment
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Applications of Electrometallurgical Treatment to Surplus Fissile Materials Disposition (J.J. Laidler, C.C. McPheeters)
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AN EVALUATION OF THE ELECTROMETALLURGICAL APPROACH FOR TREATMENT OF EXCESS WEAPONS PLUTONIUM A COMMITTEE MEETINGS FIRST MEETING, OCTOBER 4-5, 1995 Washington, D.C. AGENDA Wednesday, October 4 Executive Session 8:00 Breakfast 8:30 Introductory Business Introductions Preliminary discussion of committee activities Open Session 9:00 Introductory Remarks Gregory R. Choppin, Committee Chair, Welcome and Introductions E. William Colglazier, NRC Executive Officer William D. Magwood, Department of Energy Yoon I. Chang, Argonne National Laboratory 10:00 Briefings by ANL personnel: Status of ANL Program on Development of Electrometallurgical Technology for DOE Spent Fuel Treatment General Perspective on Status of Program (Y.I. Chang) Preparations for Startup of Fuel Conditioning Facility (Y.I. Chang) FCF Process Equipment Startup Test Status (R.W. Benedict) Development Program Activities since March, 1995 (J.J. Laidler, J.P. Ackerman, .C. McPheeters) 12:00 Lunch 1:00 Briefings by ANL personnel, cont'd Development Program Activities since March, 1995, cont'd (J.J. Laidler, J.P. Ackerman, C.C. McPheeters) Waste Form Performance Evaluation (D.J. Wronkiewicz) 2:30 Applications of Electrometallurgical Treatment to Surplus Fissile Materials Disposition (J.J. Laidler, C.C. McPheeters) 4:30 Open Discussion and Questions 5:00 Adjourn 6:00 Committee Dinner Thursday, October 5 Executive Session 8:00 Breakfast 8:30 Discussion of Committee Charge 9:00 Discussion of Potential Conflicts and Bias
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AN EVALUATION OF THE ELECTROMETALLURGICAL APPROACH FOR TREATMENT OF EXCESS WEAPONS PLUTONIUM 9:45 Discussion of Key Issues for Plutonium Disposition How does the Introduction of Plutonium Change the Technology? How does the Introduction of Plutonium Affect the Committee's Outlook? 11:00 Discussion of Key Issues, cont'd Potential Obstacles in the Electrometallurgical Technology Possible Reasons for Considering the Electrometallurgical Technology Waste form Suitability Zeolite Chemistry 12:00 Lunch 1:00 Discussion of Key Issues, cont'd 3:00 Development of Specific Project Plan Preliminary Writing assignments Timetable Next Meeting Drafting Plutonium Disposition Report Review and Production of Report 5:00 Adjourn FIRST MEETING, OCTOBER 4-5, 1995 Washington, D.C. MEETING SUMMARY Executive Session (Oct. 4) Attendance: G. Choppin (chair), J. Ahearne, M. Apted, S. Burstein, E. McNeese, R. Osteryoung, J. Sherman, J. Williams, R. Wymer. NRC staff: E.W. Colglazier (executive session only), D. Raber, S. Weidman. Unable to attend: P. Baisden, E. Flanigen Choppin convened the meeting at 8:30 with introductions and a general discussion of the committee's task. He introduced E. William Colglazier, Executive Officer of the National Research Council, who explained the committee's task in the context of related work recently finished by the Committee on Security and Arms Control and the Panel on Separations Technology and Transmutation Systems. Open Session (Oct. 4) Attendance was augmented by guests John P. Ackerman (ANL), John Baker (DOE), Robert W. Benedict (ANL), Alice Caponiti (DOE), Yoon I. Chang (ANL), Leonard W. Gray (LLNL), Daniel Horner (Nuclear Control Institute), Christopher Karis (DOE), James J. Laidler (ANL), William D. Magwood (DOE), Charles C. McPheeters (ANL), Robert Neuhold (DOE), and David J. Wronkiewicz (ANL). William Magwood of the Department of Energy (representing the Office of Nuclear Energy, Science, and Technology, which requested the study) complimented the committee on its previous reports and described what his office hoped the committee would accomplish in the continuation of the work. He answered questions about budgets, explaining that DOE's FY96 request to Congress was for $24.6M for Argonne electrometallurgical R&D and $24M for demonstration of that technology as part of the EBR-II shutdown, and the time line for beginning the demonstration at Argonne National Laboratory-West in Idaho. He indicated that the Department was considering what type of NEPA analysis is required before the demonstration can begin. If it turns out that an environmental impact statement is needed before the
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AN EVALUATION OF THE ELECTROMETALLURGICAL APPROACH FOR TREATMENT OF EXCESS WEAPONS PLUTONIUM demonstration can begin, he will ask the committee to revise its scope or time line for the spent fuel task of this study. In response to a question of why the DOE is asking the NRC committee to monitor that demonstration rather than doing it itself, he noted that his office has assigned that responsibility to Robert Neuhold, but anticipates that the NRC committee can augment his work with recommendations for further improvements. Magwood explained that the committee's report on the possible use of electrometallurgical treatment for excess weapons plutonium will be important input to a programmatic environmental impact statement that the DOE Office of Fissile Materials Disposition expects to issue in draft form in early 1996. He emphasized that his office does not intend to interfere with DOE's implementation of CISAC's recommendations for disposal of excess weapons Pu, which did not include the use of electrometallurgical processing. Yoon Chang of Argonne National Laboratory gave a brief overview of the status of ANL's program to develop electrometallurgical technology for DOE spent fuel treatment. He gave a status report on the Fuel Conditioning Facility at ANL-West that will be used for the technology demonstration, stating that the FCF is ready for full operation and all technical requirements for startup have been fully satisfied. Robert Benedict of ANL expanded on Chang's introduction with a detailed presentation of the tests performed to ensure that the Fuel Conditioning Facility (FCF) is ready. He concluded that the principal treatment processes, and the analytical laboratory, are ready for irradiated fuel, and that the accountability system is operational. The waste process equipment is now being prepared for initial testing. James Laidler of ANL presented an overview of activities within the development program since March, 1995, emphasizing work that is directly targeted at spent fuels of particular interest and work dealing with wastes. He also gave an update on development of the high-throughput electrorefiner and brought the committee up to date on development oriented toward treatment of salts from the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment. Charles McPheeters of ANL continued the update by discussing development of the oxide fuel treatment process. He noted that the process steps have been proven at a small scale with actual oxide spent fuels and at a 10-kg scale with simulated spent fuel. The engineering-scale process equipment functioned well during process demonstration, but a change has been introduced in the anode design because the previous design precluded successful lithium regeneration. John Ackerman and David Wronkiewicz (both ANL) summarized the status of work dealing with the waste forms from the electrometallurgical process. Ackerman described the fabrication and properties of both the mineral and metal waste forms. While much remains to be done before their properties are well understood, Ackerman was optimistic that their early promise would be sustained. Wronkiewicz focused on the waste form testing plan for the mineral waste form. Tests are at a very early stage of development, but he reported that there is some indication that the waste form could be competitive with borosilicate glass. James Laidler of ANL turned to the potential application of the electrometallurgical treatment to surplus fissile materials disposition. He compared the high-level flow chart of a possible treatment to that already planned for the treatment of spent nuclear fuel.
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AN EVALUATION OF THE ELECTROMETALLURGICAL APPROACH FOR TREATMENT OF EXCESS WEAPONS PLUTONIUM Charles McPheeters of ANL went into more detail, beginning with a discussion of the many kinds of materials encompassed by the phrase "surplus fissile material." He described many of the system modifications that would be necessary to handle these materials. While little can be stated conclusively at this stage, he proposed that, if the electrometallurgical process is in use for treatment of DOE spent nuclear fuels, the same technology, equipment, and facilities provide a good basis for also handling the immobilization of surplus fissile materials. After open discussion, including some pointed disagreements about the economics of an electrometallurgical process and some questions from Dan Horner related to proliferation, the chair thanked the guests and adjourned for the day. Executive Session (Oct. 5) Attendance: G. Choppin (chair), J. Ahearne, M. Apted, P. Baisden, S. Burstein, E. McNeese, R. Osteryoung, J. Williams, R. Wymer. NRC staff: D. Raber, S. Weidman. Unable to attend: E. Flanigen, J. Sherman The committee began the second day with a discussion of whether the charge is appropriate for an NRC study and whether it is manageable. The answers to both questions were affirmative, as long as the charge is interpreted conservatively. Raber then led the group in a discussion of potential conflicts and bias. John Sherman joined the committee via speakerphone to present his impressions of the ANL work on mineral waste forms. He agreed to send a list of questions to be passed on to ANL. The committee decided that it did not have significant new information to consider for its task relative to DOE spent nuclear fuel, so it turned its full attention to the subject of surplus fissile material. After some discussion, the committee drafted an outline for its January report on this subject (see attached) and accepted writing assignments. The next meeting was scheduled for Dec. 4-5 in Washington, D.C. The meeting was adjourned at 4:00 p.m. SECOND MEETING, DECEMBER 4-5, 1995 Washington, D.C. AGENDA Monday, December 4 Executive Session 8:00 Breakfast 8:30 General discussion of draft materials; respective chapter leaders to moderate discussion 11:00 Identify follow-up questions for ANL 12:00 Send questions to ANL by fax Open Session 12:15 Videoconference with ANL staff Executive Session 1:00 Lunch 2:00 Begin writing sessions
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AN EVALUATION OF THE ELECTROMETALLURGICAL APPROACH FOR TREATMENT OF EXCESS WEAPONS PLUTONIUM 3:00 Writing sessions continue 4:00 Formulation of recommendations for report 4:30 Discuss issues for Magwood meeting on Tuesday 5:00 Adjourn for day 6:00 Committee Dinner Tuesday, December 5 Open Session 8:00 Breakfast 8:30 Magwood/Neuhold DOE briefing and discussion Executive Session 9:30 Writing-progress reports from chapter leaders and discussion 10:00 Resume writing breakouts to finalize writing or writing plans 12:00 Lunch 1:00 Finalize schedule for preparation, review, and delivery of plutonium report 1:30 Discussion of next steps for monitoring scientific and technical progress of electrometallurgical R&D 3:30 Adjourn SECOND MEETING, DECEMBER 4-5, 1995 Washington, D.C. MEETING SUMMARY Attendance: G. Choppin (chair), J. Ahearne, M. Apted, P. Baisden, S. Burstein, E. Flanigen, E. McNeese, J. Sherman, J. Williams. NRC staff: J. Husbands, D. Raber, T. Wong. Unable to attend: R. Osteryoung, R. Wymer Executive Session (Dec. 4) Choppin convened the meeting at 8:30 with introductions. The committee then reviewed the draft materials that had been prepared by individual committee members. A set of follow-up questions (Appendix C) for ANL was developed, and these were sent to ANL by fax in preparation for a videoconference. Open Session Attendance was augmented by Robert Neuhold (DOE) and by videoconference link to ANL. The ANL participants were John P. Ackerman, Yoon I. Chang, James J. Laidler, Charles C. McPheeters, and David J. Wronkiewicz. ANL responded to the questions that had been faxed prior to the videoconference, and these responses were followed by open discussion between the committee and the ANL representatives. ANL subsequently prepared a written version of their responses (Appendix C). Executive Session Following the videoconference, the committee broke into small groups to assemble material for the several chapters of the report. Each of these subgroups generated a set of potential conclusions and recommendations. The committee then reconvened as a whole to discuss possible recommendations and conclusions prior to adjourning for the day.
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AN EVALUATION OF THE ELECTROMETALLURGICAL APPROACH FOR TREATMENT OF EXCESS WEAPONS PLUTONIUM Open Session (Dec. 5) Attendance was augmented by Robert Neuhold (DOE), William Magwood (DOE), and Daniel Horner (Nuclear Control Institute). W. Magwood briefed the committee on several issues related to the committee's task. The schedule for the EBR-II spent fuel demonstration project has slipped because of National Environmental Policy Act considerations. DOE is preparing a supplemental Environmental Assessment, and is hopeful that an agressive schedule will lead to a Finding of No Significant Impact by late February, 1996. If this occurs, the electrometallurgical technology demonstration project could begin in March, 1996. In response to a question of how this schedule related to plutonium disposition, Magwood suggested that while it is important that electrometallurgical treatment technology be fully evaluated as an option for Pu disposition, he recognizes that the development schedule for this technology might find it to be more applicable for disposition of a variety of small quantities of plutonium scraps (with differing extents of chemical contamination) or as a backup to other technologies than for the more immediate problem of disposition of pits. The internal relationships in DOE between Nuclear Energy (NE) and Materials Disposition (MD) were clarified. An overall Environmental Impact Statement (for plutonium disposition) is being prepared by MD, and it is expected to include at least one technology option (electrometallurgical) from NE. Executive Session The committee spent much of the day working as small groups to develop completed draft chapters for the report. These were assembled and discussed by the committee as whole in mid-afternoon, and the commitee reached consensus on the content, conclusions, and recommendations.


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Skelton back under center
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The Ryan Lindley era is over for now as John Skelton has been named the Arizona Cardinals' starting quarterback for Sunday's game against the Seattle Seahawks.
The Seahawks will attempt to avenge a 20-16 loss against Arizona in Week 1 as they continue to jockey for a potential playoff spot. Seattle still has a shot to win the NFC West division just a game and a half back of the San Francisco 49ers and will host the 49ers in Week 16. Furthermore, a quick look at the Seahawks' remaining opponents show a realistic chance at winning out.
Meanwhile for the Cardinals, pride and contract incentives are the only things still on the line as they've been all but eliminated from the postseason for the third consecutive year.
The Seahawks are coming off a huge 23-17 overtime win against the Chicago Bears and even though this series has developed into a decent divisional rivalry, this certainly looks to be a letdown spot for Seattle.
That said, the Seahawks appear to have the intangibles needed to overcome a potential letdown. Those intangibles start with rookie QB Russell Wilson. Dating back to his senior year in college at Wisconsin, Wilson has been defying the odds and his surprising success had followed him into the professional ranks.
Wilson started the season as strictly a game manager but has developed into a legitimate playmaker. Wilson is completing over 63 percent of his passes and has a QB rating of 95.2. While Wilson has been overshadowed by other first-year signal callers, his numbers surpass those of Andrew Luck (55 percent, 76.1 QB rating) and are in the same ballpark as Robert Griffin III (67 percent, 104.4 QB rating).
Seeing the success of Wilson, sparks even more frustration for the Cardinals as they still haven't found their quarterback of the future. Kevin Kolb might be the answer but injuries and inconsistent play have limited his ceiling. Lindley is still a raw prospect and Skelton's sporadic play has leaded him to being benched on multiple occasions throughout his short NFL career.
The frustration stemming from the Cardinals' inauspicious play at quarterback has affected the team's defense more than anything. Arizona's defensive has been good enough to win games and can keep this contest close, but turnovers on offense must be avoided. The fact that Skelton is back under center should help as he without a doubt provides the team with a much better chance to win than Lindley.
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Gamer Chicks brings us girls who "love gaming, partying and glamour modeling." Don't go thinking that it's just another website that gives us vids and pics of geeky gals, though. It's actually got some wild content that's unlike anything you've seen elsewhere.
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