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Roku 2 XS 1080p HD Streaming Video Player w/ Wi-Fi, Angry Birds & Motion Sensor Remote Control! for $49.99
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Condition: Factory Refurbished
Packaging: Brown Box
Warranty: 90 Day
Manufacturer: Roku
Model: Roku 2 XS
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roku=garbage, hence why there's always refurbs. Never again.
@katanaryda: oh boy. let the downvotes roll in.
miquinn's prediction: -29, +2
Cast your predictions in fast, while the comment's still hot!
[edit] let it be known that I am not voting either way.
I've always had success with Roku. I actually just ordered this once I saw it. the 90 day warranty should be more than sufficient to see if any problems happen with factory refurbs. But, personally, i've NEVER had any problem with any sort of factory refurb.
@katanaryda: Your unsubstantiated post=garbage
Wow, good price. I ordered one of these 2 weeks ago when they were 59.99 from the same site. Either way, never had a problem with my 1st Roku which was brand new, hopefully my refurb will be the same way :).
A week ago, I bought a Roku HD (nasic low end model) for $40. I thought that was a good deal. $10 more and you get more features and 1080p.
I read in Roku forums that Roku is coming up with next generation models, so that is why these current models are cheaper.
Funny, my 1st generation refurbished rokus work wonderfully... and this is a phenomenal deal on the top of the line model.
In fact everyone I know who owns one (friends, family, coworkers) loves theirs too.
Something tells me you've never even used one.
My refurb Roku 1st gen works flawlessly, as well.
This is a great deal. They had the Roku 2 XD for the same price last month and I thought that was a steal, but this one is the top of the line.
funny I bought three of these back in august from the same site for i think 59 I just sold two of them on ebay for 75 dollars LOL
Roku's are sweet. Not all models are created equal. Check Wikipedia. I got one a 1st gen from Woot. It was the only one that wasn't sold out at the time. It didn't have a lot of RAM but performs fine and has an Ehternet port. Unfortunately only the top of the line has that on Gen2. Anyway 1saleADay take forever to ship. Be warned. I'm still wating on an order from Turkeyday
STILL waiting on these clowns to ship something I bought back on November 11th. Hope you aren't' buying these for Christmas presents!
Long-time owner of about a dozen Roku's, from the very first one they sold to the most contemporary units, and I have nothing but orchids for them - their product is solidly built, provides good value and a great feature set for the investment, and their support after service is absolutely stellar! I don't see how someone could go wrong with a purchase of a Roku!
I like mine. This little device is a whole lot of awesome. Especially when you sign up for free trials to some of the pay services. Bought it during a Black Friday online sale and now I wish I would have waited. Could have saved more monies. smh Oh well, that's what I get for having the "I NEED that" disease. :P
I have the XS, HD and 2 SD. They all work great. I have never had a problem except once in maybe a month I have to unplug and reboot it. They seem to get "full" and slow so I just reboot and they are good to go. We just love them, even more now that we have fiber optic internet.
Well shucks. Now I'm bummed I ordered this last time around, for $10 more. (It shipped faster than usual for 1saleaday, and got here today.)
Better/faster than Logitech Revue?
@miquinn: It seems your prediction was actually very generous!
Well, Thumper, think of that $10 as rental. Did you get $10 of enjoyment out of the Roku in that month? I have two of these and an LT I got for free when signing up for a lifetime subscription to Playon (@$70, this is the best deal on a Roku or Playon).
Roku is a decent streaming media player (Netflix, Amazon Instant Video, Hulu Plus, Crackle, VUDU, and HBO GO) with other less interesting channels. The XS has a usb port so you can watch media off an attached usb disk. Some models play android-ish games. The XS comes with Angry Birds and a game remote. Cable cutters can watch clips of vable shows or CNBC live. For the most part, the 'other' channels affregate video clips from web sites for presentation on your TV.
If you are thinking about getting one of these, check out their channel store. Check out playon.tv too. The best channel on the Roku is Playon.
I prefer the SMP-N200 to this box, but I am not unhappy with my three Rokus.
I believe the previous sale for $59.99 included an HDMI cable?
Got one from them earlier. Works very well. MUCH faster than the first gen models (I have a 1st gen XD as well and was also a refurb that still works.) Highly recommend it. Plenty of streaming apps out there to keep you entertained.
I own two of these, one of which is the red limited edition version and I paid about 80 bucks for each so at half that almost this is a fantastic deal. The roku is great....and the roku remote apps out there are also handy as heck.
I use mine all the time and have never had one problem with either one of them.
11/7 ordered roku 2 xs from 1saleaday for $59.99.
11/23 "We found out today that we sent you the Roku XD instead of the Roku XS on the order you recently purchased." This felt like a bait and switch since I had the option to keep the xd.
11/29 received a return shipping label.
12/5 still waiting for what I actually ordered.
Wow, perfect timing. I was just looking yesterday at upgrading from my 1st gen Roku because only the 2nd gen supports Vudu, as well as cross-channel search, but was frustrated that only the XS has an Ethernet port.
Does it stream video or music from a PC or must you use the USB?
I use Roconnect to stream video from my PC. need to convert it to mp4 or mkv though. Pretty simple once you get it working(im an it guy so its easy for me). You can use pandora and netflix as well.
I bought an original Roku for my folks who wanted something to stream Netflix for themselves and grandkids. It was beyond simple to set up (though typing in a complex Wi-Fi password with directional buttons was sort of a pain) and very easy for them to use.
I'm going to grab one for myself - while I get Netflix on both my TV and Blu-Ray, the Playon and access to HBOGo (on something other than my PC or laptop) has me intrigued. And if I don't like it, I can always upgrade my folk's unit.
Win-win at this price.
Had some problems with a refurb Roku. Didn't ask for an account setup but wouldn't do some things, wouldn't boot after the first day. Factory reset fixed everything. Its worked flawlessly for about 6 months now.
I have wanted a second ROKU! looks like this is it.
@publicart: oh. my.
actually, that comment was pretty terrible, it actually did just earn my downvote
I was just looking at these, in the last couple of weeks, for Netflix purposes. I did notice the warranty on this, is the same 90 days, as a new one.
@avg1joe: I purchased one at the same time. They actually blamed Roku for shipping the wrong item to customers. Apparently they were drop-shipped from Roku. Very difficult to contact customer service.
I have this Roku and it's fantastic. The boss [at home] she LOVES it for Netflix/Crackle in the bedroom. The remote is RF and doesn't require line of sight, which lets you hide this little guy anywhere you can get a signal [in a drawer, under the bed, duct taped to the back of the TV you hope to replace this month etc]
Love you, Roku.
BOOOOOM in for one. All I want to do is be able to watch HBO Go on my TV. I'll never understand why I can't get the full catalog through VOD.
Have to get caught up on Treme
Get the Roku app for iOS (not sure if available on Android) -- has the same functionality as the included remote (for when you invariably misplace it), as well as keyboard searching and fast channel switching. Made my Roku experience tenfold better.
@katanaryda: I love my Roku as well, but that's not to say that you didn't experience problems with yours. But at least you can take comfort that your bad experience was probably just bad luck since so many other people are satisfied. Maybe you got that rare defective one?
EXCELLENT. I've had Rokus since first gen and LOVE them.
Hulu often baffles the oldest Roku I have, so what a great opportunity to upgrade. Thanks for posting!
I'm in for 1.
Hoping their shipping and customer service isn't as bad as some of you guys have mentioned. :-\
It's not a christmas gift, so speed isn't super important, but I'd like to have it before 2013!
@avg1joe: I'm in the exact same boat! I won't complain since I'm not in a hurry for it and I get a 10 dollar credit and a free HDMI cable.
I ordered this from onesaleaday about one month ago for $59.00. It took 16 days to arrive. It was easy to set up and I really like it much more than the Boxee I used for several years.
One problem I am having despite reading the forum, etc. is setting up the Plex server for the Roku. Anyone able to get that working for this?
@avg1joe: actually, it was dailysteals. i fell for it, too, but ended up keeping the xd. why not? $20 credit and $10 to spend at dailysteals tells me it was a genuine error. Besides, it looks like all these xs's are the ones that were meant to go to dailysteals. Either way, great deal on a great product, refurb or no.
In for 1. I will probably sell it on ebay looks make I make 30 bucks on the exchange but in all truth I will probably end up keeping it. :-)
@whyteboar: I recommend Plex for streaming video. Music streaming is basic but OK. Plex also has a plug-ins of its own so you can add a lot of content that there isn't a Roku channel for.
I bought the Roku 2 XS on 11/21 fron 1saleaday it arrived last week. The only problem I had was the remote wasn't linked up to the player, but a quick reboot of the player while the remote was in pairing mode fixed that quickly. It's my first Roku and I love it.
@katanaryda: -121 and counting...is there some type of down vote record for Woot?
it's like the internet knew what i wanted when i woke up this morning! in 4 1!
Add $5 for shipping
@thomasr: Yep...it is in the original post.
@tristicus: NEVER badmouth this or the Sansa Clip....
Can someone help me, what are the advantages (if any) of a Roku over doing netflix or other apps on my wii?


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HEBER CITY, Utah — U.S. Rep. Jason Chaffetz flew home from Washington last week, leaving behind a capital baffled by Republicans like him in Congress: those who stubbornly refuse to compromise with President Barack Obama, a tactic that some see as damaging the GOP brand and pushing the nation repeatedly to the brink of fiscal chaos.
Back in his Utah district, Chaffetz drove to the Dairy Keen and barely had bitten into a bacon cheeseburger before a diner begged him to stop Obama's health care overhaul.
"It's the stupidest plan in the world," said Phoebe Eason, 69, leaning over her booth to complain about a clause that forces her husband, a podiatrist, to pay more for medical devices.
"I'm doing everything I can to repeal it or take out these sections," Chaffetz reassured her. Minutes later, he headed to a town hall where some constituents asked why the president hadn't yet been impeached.
To understand why the nation may remain politically gridlocked for the next two years, talk to people in a place like Heber City, a conservative farming and ranching hub nestled beneath the imposing peaks of the Wasatch mountains. Many voters here, and in conservative communities across the country, still want to do whatever it takes to stop Obama, despite his solid re-election in November, and the politicians they elect are listening.
In his State of the Union address this week, Obama laid out an ambitious agenda that includes gun control, raising the minimum wage, allowing most of the 11 million illegal immigrants in the country to become citizens and raising tax revenue to help cut the deficit.
But the president has acknowledged it will be difficult to get those proposals through a Republican-controlled House of Representatives.
"The House Republican majority is made up mostly of members who are in sharply gerrymandered districts that are very safely Republican and may not feel compelled to pay attention to broad-based public opinion, because what they're really concerned about is the opinions of their specific Republican constituencies," Obama said in an interview with The New Republic magazine last month.
Analysts differ on whether gerrymandering — the practice of drawing district lines so your party can pick up more seats — fully explains why Obama handily won re-election in November, even as Republicans lost only a handful of seats in the House. One thing is clear: Compromise is a dirty word for many of the Republicans remaining in the House.
A Pew poll last month found that 36 percent of GOP voters would look favorably on a politician who compromises, compared with 59 percent of Democrats and 53 percent of independent voters.
Virtually all House Republicans come from districts that voted against Obama in November. And in many states, primary voters have punished Republicans they see as too eager to cut deals with Democrats.
That's how Chaffetz, 45, won his seat in 2008. He challenged a 12-term Republican congressman who angered the party's base by backing an immigration overhaul that included granting citizenship to many illegal immigrants. Two years later, Utah Republican primary voters also pushed out Sen. Robert Bennett, replacing him with a tea party-supported candidate who is now the state's junior senator.
Though he has worked with Democrats on some bills, Chaffetz has refused to budge on some of the biggest issues in Washington. In 2011, he voted against raising the debt ceiling, arguing Congress and Obama weren't reining in entitlement spending. Most economists said that if the limit hadn't been raised it would have triggered a global depression. Last month, Chaffetz voted against the so-called fiscal cliff deal because it involved raising levies on those making more than $450,000 annually. Taxes would have risen on all income levels had the deal not passed.
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What differs between "writing a specific JRE for each platform" for Java developers and "writing a C++ compiler for each platform" for C++ ones?
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Java is compile once run anywhere. C++ is write once compile anywhere.
"writing a specific JRE for each platform" is not something you do everytime. Porting the JRE to a new platform is something you need doing only once. This task is generally done by the core maintainer/developers of the program and/or the platform. A lot of factors may come into play when deciding who and how the JRE would be ported. Among other things, it depends on the licensed it's published under (I hear Java is Open Source, so I guess anyone could do it). Funny anecdote, Steve Jobs made a big deal about not wanting to take care of the porting of Java on Mac, around a year ago.
The point is not how or who ports the JRE, but the fact that once it is ported, every Java application should now theoretically run easily on the new machine. In that sense, the JRE forms an abstraction layer, completely hiding the machine, allowing easy porting.
However, reality is not always pretty like this. I won't go as far as calling portability a "myth", but it's true that it's not so perfect. For instance, Java has a package called
As mentioned in the comments, C++'s approach to portability is different. On the one hand, it's a compiled language, and those binaries are almost always platform specific. So c++ executables will never be portable (unlike Java). On the other hand, porting the compiler can sometimes be enough. The community has found that by porting the compiler as well as some core libraries of the language, source codes (and not binaries) could be portable.
However, C++ is widely used in critical systems like compilers, kernels, real-time systems,embedded systems, ... There's a "low level" aspect of C++ that cannot be overlooked, when talking about portability.
It's not just the language -- it's the libraries.
Both Java and C++ provide cross-platform libraries. Java provides a richer set.
The difference is that Java will run on any platform without recompiling. Having a C++ compiler for each platform isn't the same at all.
All the answers starting with "The difference is...", or anything very similar, are basically wrong (sorry, but such is life). There are really two separate differences between the two.
One (that's been mentioned a lot) is that a compiled Java program can (or least should) run on any conforming implementation of Java, so even after being compiled, you can still move a Java program from one platform to another without re-compiling. C++ (at least normally) requires re-compilation for each target platform.
The other is that Java (at least attempts to) assure that all correctly written Java will be portable. At least in theory, you shouldn't be able to write any code that isn't portable.
C++ allows you to do quite a few things that aren't portable. The C++ standard contains "warnings" about a lot of things that aren't portable (e.g., telling you that you'll get implementation defined behavior or undefined behavior), but it doesn't necessarily try to stop you from doing them at all. Just for example, if you want to write an operating system for hardware that uses a PCI bus, you're probably going to need to read/write the PCI configuration memory. This obviously won't be portable to systems without a PCI bus, but if you're writing an operating system for hardware with a PCI bus, it's pretty much necessary. C++ allows it even though it obviously won't be portable.
You have misunderstood the premises. Java programs are very portable, because the JVM provides a standard behaviour guaranteed to be the same. C++ programs have a less standardized environment closer to the actual hardware, so the program needs to be able to handle the various platform specific details - like size of an int, word alignment etc etc etc.
The JVM itself is not very portable. It is a herculean task to port a high-performant JVM to another platform or CPU architecture.
The difference is that Java (it's not an acronym) programs can be distributed in a form that can be run on any computer with a JVM installed, but C++ is normally distributed as either source code, which is very user unfriendly, or as a bunch of different binaries for different platforms.
One of the reasons Java is considered portable is that it has specific rules for how arithmetic expressions must be valuated and forbids implementations from evaluating them any other way, even when evaluating them in the mandated fashion would require slower code than evaluating them in a more accurate fashion.
For example, given
The values of
The amount of work for the supporting tools is indeed similar, the difference lies elsewhere. Once a C++ program has been compiled for a platform, you have to compile it again if you want to use it on a different platform. However, when a java program has been compiled, you can move it to any other platform with a runtime environment without having to recompile it.
Answering the title "Is portability a myth ?", instead of "Which is better at portability, Java or C++", I'll say that partial portability is possible, but full portability it's does a myth.
Something that I insist to write, and it applies to this question, is that developers are not longer working with just programming languages, but, with full programming frameworks.
And those frameworks, include libraries, databases, graphical interfaces.
Which programming language, or which programming framework is more portable ?
Well, it depends, on what your app. is trying to achieve.
The thing is "you" don't write the JRE you write the Java code which runs on any JRE. "You" do write the C++ code which can require changes by you before it will compile on another platform.
Many people forget or do not take into account the reality of Java when they say that "it's 100% portable" or phrases like that .
Pretty much all the major Corporations / Software house had at least 1 home-made implementation of Java with an associated JRE in the recent past and some still do maintain it, Microsoft, IBM and Apple for example all had their own version of Java reflecting their own ideas and thoughts on where the industry and such language should go .
How is that for "portable" ? A JRE anywhere you turn .
And this is without considering what Sun/Oracle was doing.
An example on why Java code is not really far from C and C++ in terms of portability are the GUIs and the graphical servers, Apple had a non-standard implementation of the GUI framework for its own JRE, as a consequence there were a lot of headaches and double work for anyone who wanted to create/port a GUI using Java for Apple machines and they were basically forced to deal with Quartz ( how is that in terms of "leverage" and high level languages ?).
Sometimes even the most common used words don't really reflect the meaning that people usually give them, to me the term "portability" in the Java world is more like "outlook" in the common sense; in commercial and financial terms there is a better outlook for you if you adopt Java rather than other languages ( at least at the time when Java was born ) because you have a lot of work already done on one side ( you get a JRE on anything that can be considered a "computer" ) and your codebase is likely to be portable as it is, you need less resources to port your program, that's it, whether said resource is money, time or manpower doesn't matter, it's a lower threshold compared to other technologies and that's what Java is for, it is lowering that threshold .
Of course this is true if you accept the premises of Java, which means a virtual machine with garbage collection, which means it consumes more resources if compared to native languages, if you really want to squeeze the maximum out of your CPU or server farm I don't think that you can adopt Java unless you are really low on resources or your company is really small .
I still have to find a single non-trivial Java application that contains only 1 version for each line of code or functionality ( aka without any platform specific stuff ) and it's 100% portable among all the major JREs.
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BELLAIRE - The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency is looking to get combined sewer overflows (CSO) under control locally.
Locally, the final stop for piped sewage is the East Ohio Regional Wastewater Authority's treatment plant just north of Bellaire along Ohio 7.
Communities like Bellaire, Martins Ferry and Bridgeport pipe their sewage to the plant for treatment.
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JENNIFER WITTE, left, the compliance enforcement supervisor for the Ohio EPA's Southeast District, talks with Bellaire Village Council on Thursday about working toward compliance of orders given to Bellaire and other local communities in order to combat the issue of combined sewer overflows.
The problem is that these are older communities, still utilizing combined sewer drainage systems.
In a combined sewer system, both untreated sewage and storm water are piped through the same system to the treatment plant. In dry conditions or low-levels of precipitation, this system can function properly.
However, in the event of large or steady amounts of precipitation, there can be overflow, spilling a mixture of storm water and raw sewage, untreated, into an adjacent body of water. This includes streams, lakes, creeks and even the Ohio River.
Jennifer Witte, the compliance enforcement supervisor for the Ohio EPA's Southeast District Office, met with Bellaire village officials Thursday to inform the village it's time to start doing its part to combat this problem.
She's had similar meetings with Martins Ferry and Bridgeport officials the last two months.
"We're requiring that EORWA get it down to four or less overages per year," Witte said. "In order for them to do that, you have to do your part."
Witte covered Bellaire's 'part' in combating the problem in a set of printed findings and orders that had previously been distributed to village administration and council members for review.
"One question that's been asked is what happens if you say no, you won't sign an agreement to follow the orders," Witte mentioned. "The next step is being sent to the Ohio Attorney General's office for enforcement. You will have to negotiate with them for compliance. After that, is litigation in a court of law. There are penalties at both stages. But there is no penalty with these orders currently. There is no plan to issue a fine. We're just asking for cooperation and that you're willing to sign and work toward resolving the issues."
The orders were sent out in 2012.
Witte explained that the problem didn't arise overnight and the EPA is expecting it to be fixed as such, or even within a year. But the EPA does want to see a plan and they want to see steps being taken to control the problem and get it corrected.
Mayor Vince DiFabrizio stated that he, along with council members, are in agreement the problem needs to be taken care of and that the village is eager to comply. There is just one issue . . . funding.
"I'm all for it," the mayor stated.
Witte said the EPA understands that funding can be an issue. But she strongly believes where there is a will, there is a way. There is grant funding through various agencies, along with low to zero interest loans. But the village needs to come up with a plan first about how to attack this problem before it can be submitted as part of a grant or loan application.
DiFabrizio told Witte the village is willing to sign the letter of agreement and will send an additional letter, stating as such, to her office.
Council members voted, 6-0, in agreement with the mayor in starting the process of moving forward and trying to get into compliance.


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Photos of entries will be on the city's website for the public to view and vote on from Dec. 1 through Dec. 9.
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Notable projects by Williams and Tsien include the Long Island House in Wainscott, N.Y.; the C.V. Starr East Asian Library at the University of California-Berkeley; the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center in New York City; and the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia. Bennington's Center for the Advancement of Public Action, a $20-million complex of three buildings clad in reclaimed Vermont marble, was completed in the summer of 2011,
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How musical are you?
Got ~25 min? Take this test from BBC Lab UK to determine how musical you are:
You have to make an account in order to complete it. Your results are based on the rest of the population. The experiment is only valid for those 18 and over. Data collected is anonymous.
18 Answers answer
My scores:
80% on Enthusiasm
99% on Perception
64% on Emotional Connection
76% on Social Creativity
96% on Musical Curiosity
apparently, i suck at music.
Enthusiasm - 41%
Perception - 35%
Emotional Connection - 82%
Social Creativity - 10%
Musical Curiosity - 59%
@carl669: That actually looks pretty good to me. Your curiosity score is higher than average, and I would say that's the most important one.
Enthusiasm: 22
Perception: 8 (yikes!)
Emotional Connection: 89
Social Creativity: 80
Curiosity: 1 (that's fair)
Group the music: I got all the jazz right but only 2/4 of the others
Match the beat: 11 of 18
Tap to the beat: 3 hi, 4 med, 2 low (expected worse)
Melody memory: all correct
I seriously enjoy the music I like, and I like music across a lot of genres and cultures. But I don't breathe music. I dislike background music and rarely attend live musical performances. i usually only play music when I am alone and in a position to actually listen to it. I love to sing and by all accounts do pretty well at it but have never learned to read music or play an instrument.
@moondrake: The "group the music" portion was the hardest one for me. I got 3 of 4 with Rock, but that's it.
43% on Enthusiasm
81% on Perception
64% on Emotional Connection
56% on Social Creativity
59% on Musical Curiosity
That was a really cool study and reflects my musicalness pretty well, I think.
41% - Enthusiasm
83% - Musical Perception
28% - Emotional Connection
72% - Social Creativity
49% - Musical Curiosity
Was more fun than I expected. Thanks for posting about it!
83% on Enthusiasm
76% on Perception
100% on Emotional Connection
9% on Social Creativity (anti-social much?)
59% on Musical Curiosity
1 Wrong on Match The Beat
4 - high, 4 - Medium, 1 - Low on Tap to The beat
3 Wrong on Melody Memory
Very cool test, thanks for posting it. Upvote for everyone who took the time to take it. And @rprebel, I also failed miserably in grouping the music. I got all of rock right, but thats it!
I got high across the board!
99% Enthusiasm
99% Perception
93% Emotional Connectivity
70% Social Creativity
99% Musical Curiosity
EDIT: The one time I would actually want a share to Facebook...
EDIT 2.0: got all the jazz right, had one pop in my rock, two hip hop in my pop, and two hip hop and a rock in my pop. Take a guess which genres of music I don't listen to.
5 wrong on match the beat; 4 high, 4 medium, 1 low on tap to the beat, and three wrong on melody memory.
@thedogma: So...you have a passing interest in music? Top 40, iTunes Top 10, that kind of thing? /s
Very impressive. Who's your favorite artist?
@rprebel: The exact opposite. I hope you were being sarcastic :/
EDIT: ...that's what "/s" means, isn't it? Sorry, I'm a little out of it.
My favorite artist is exceptionally difficult to say. Right now, I've been listening to a lot of Pink Floyd and Nirvana. The former because the Wall is a beautiful album and I've been rediscovering it since the rerelease and the latter because those songs tend to be easy to learn to sing and play guitar at the same time
Hrmm. So, I got:
All the jazz and the rock right, but the hip-hop and pop were evenly mixed up,
13/18 correct on Match the Beat,
11/12 correct on Melody Memory,
and five high/four medium on Tap to the Beat.
Enthusiasm - 43%
Perception - 65%
Emotional - 100%
Social - 7%
Curiosity - 88%
The results of which make sense for a music-loving neurotic shut-in with the singing voice of an alley cat.
That was fun!
@thedogma: Yes, the /s is for sarcasm.
I used to listen to Nirvana while practicing too. Nevermind was one of the albums I would use to practice on the drum set in high school, waaaaaaaay back when it was first released. That, Metallica's black album, and GNR Use Your Illusion I/II were my favorites. The band director gave us sheet music to practice, but screw that. Greensleeves? Nah man, I'll wing it on Friday. Here's how I spent my time in the practice booth.
1. Put on headphones
2. Hit play on Walkman
3. Practice playing Enter Sandman and Smells Like Teen Spirit for 2 hours
4. Break last pair of drumsticks
5. glance at sheet music for that week's halftime show
6. Go home
@goldenthorn: I'm curious about all of you with really high Emotional scores. Does music affect your mood? Do sad songs make you sad?
Music can amplify my mood (a bit), but it doesn't change it.
Enthusiasm: 92%
Perception: 99%
Emotional connection: 51%
Social creativity: 95%
Curiosity: 90%
I basically failed the genre test (got rock right, mixed up the rest); 11 correct on the beat test; five high and four medium on the tap test; 9/12 correct on the melody test.
I think my lowish emotional connection relates to repetitive practice and analyzing changes.
@rprebel: Err, I'll try to answer, but it'll likely sound quite silly. My brain indelibly connects emotions and memories to music. The music that "speaks" to my soul becomes a sort of memory vessel for a very specific part of my self/my past and I can never disassociate that soul snippet from that music. I play specific songs, bands, and playlists and take myself right into a particular state of being. I can pretty much consciously manipulate myself with music. It's a wonderful thing for my brainfeels but it makes music so utterly personal that it's difficult to share or discuss my musical preferences with other people, which sucks. But oh maaaan do I love learning about music from others, so I'm happy to just listen and learn with a pen and paper in hand and keep my weirdness [mostly] to myself.
@goldenthorn: I have a friend who does exactly what you've described. I always thought it was a seriously cool talent/skill/gift.
@rprebel: Very much so. I am particularly affected by movie scores, as that is what they are there for. The swell of the orchestra can wring tears of sorrow or joy out of me with one deft flick of the conductor's wrist. There are a few songs I simply can't listen to as they make me so sad (even though some of them are actually maudlin, they still evoke powerful sadness for me), and there are songs that I can't imagine being unhappy while listening to them. Others have more personal emotional connections to people or events in my past, and hearing the song can reawaken old feelings as if they were new.


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Does Lego make the bricks with a stone, brick or concrete block finish on the sides? I would like to use these for walls and buildings on a train layout. Thanks!
As usual with LEGO, the best solution is often to make your own.
You can make quite impressive brick walls using tiles, like this (image from Brickshelf):
There is a tutorial for something similar here.
A range of other techniques can be found in an article called Avoiding the "Big Gray Wall" Syndrome at Classic-Castle.com. In fact, Google LEGO castles for a great source of inspiration for stonework of all kinds. For example, check this and this out.
There's this part, which has a brick pattern molded into the side:
In short: Yes.
There are actually quite a lot varying in base colour and stone/brick design. As mentioned by another poster, many are from the castle theme, but there are also interesting ones from Duplo which may help with your layout if you are trying to cover a large area as the Duplo blocks are larger.
Some examples are below, but for lots more take a look through these items on Bricklink.
Brick 1 x 6 x 5 with Stone Wall Pattern
Panel 2 x 5 x 6 Wall with Red Bricks Scattered Pattern
Panel 2 x 5 x 6 Wall with Scattered Stones Dark Gray Pattern
Panel 3 x 3 x 6 Corner Wall with Scattered Stones Light Gray Pattern
Duplo, Brick 2 x 2 with Stone Wall Pattern
I'm pretty sure some of the Castle series have tall pieces with some brick outlines...


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Top 15 Children's Books for Black History Month
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Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
By Doreen Rappaport
Recommended ages: 5 and up
The author weaves immortal quotes from Martin Luther King Jr.'s writings and speeches into this award-winning biography for kids. The multimedia illustrations carry readers from King's youth — when he first noticed "Whites Only" signs — through his remarkable life as a leader of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. (Check out these additional resources for Martin Luther King Day.)


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6 Classic Series You Didn't Know Were Made Up on the Fly
#3. 24
Supposedly ...
Everyone who first heard the concept of 24 (that each of the 24 episodes would represent one hour in a single day, told real-time) thought it would either be the coolest damned thing ever or a ridiculous gimmick. Where normal dramas like House have a new story line (or patient) every week, each season of 24 would be like one 24-hour-long action movie, with one continuing story.
Plus as much torture as a major network will allow.
This of course made for quite a challenge on the writing end, since they'd need to carefully map out exactly what was going to happen during that season's "day," just as they would with a film. Otherwise you wind up with a confused mess with ridiculous plot turns they were forced to pull out of their ass when they wrote themselves into a corner.
But Actually ...
Early in Season 6 they had a nuclear bomb going off in Los Angeles and killing at least 12,000 people ... only to be forgotten a few episodes later. That is, a few hours later. In the world of 24, America gets over an attack four times the size of 9/11 before the emergency response even gets fully under way. Did the writers really plan it that way?
That's worth what, at least a half-dozen Toby Keith albums?
To quote writer David Fury, they were just "winging it." He says that worked out fine because they got good ratings doing it: "In the early seasons of 24, [the writers tried] to map out stories and arc out stories [beforehand] a little bit more than they did, say, in seasons four and five, and four and five turned out to be two of most successful seasons."
Though even during the seasons he claims they planned out, you have sequences that come completely out of left field, like the bit in Season 2 where Jack's daughter Kim "ended up lost in the middle of a forest, chased by a cougar, where she was taken in by a lonely man who she subsequently escaped from."
Cougar encounters are rarely the result of careful planning.
The problem with thinking of 24 as one long movie is that TV shows aren't shot like movies -- in terms of schedule, it's more like a series of movies or sequels that are all being made at once.
Remember that it takes months to make just a single episode of a show once all of the prep work is thrown in. An action show like 24 has to go through creating storyboards, securing locations, procuring gallons of fake blood, etc. But you can't spend five years making one season, so the production of the episodes has to overlap, and different episodes have different directors. In other words, Episode 1 will be shooting while Episode 5 is still just drunken notes on a cocktail napkin.
Actual DVD extra.
And not only do you not have time to write 24 complete scripts before shooting starts, but even a vague map of story specifics can be thrown off if an actor or location isn't available later on.
In reality, the first time the writers of 24 actually sat down to plan a whole "day" or season in advance was Season 7, according to Kiefer Sutherland. Why? Because a writers strike delayed production.
#2. Twin Peaks
Supposedly ...
"Who killed Laura Palmer?"
Twin Peaks was a massively influential, genre-defying series that made a lot of people realize you could still be original on TV. It became a national obsession 20 years ago, and half the shows on this list wouldn't exist if it wasn't for Twin Peaks. In fact, David Duchovny got his start there:
Odd thing is, Duchovny would totally do her.
At the center of Twin Peaks' two seasons and theatrical film was the mystery of the murder of Laura Palmer, which creators David Lynch and Mark Frost used as a springboard to explore the disturbing underbelly of a seemingly peaceful little town.
Also, they serve pretty damn good waffle fries.
But Actually ...
It was eventually revealed that Laura's killer was a demon by the unassuming name of Bob, who had possessed Laura's father and forced him to abuse and kill her. Bob (already a recurring character) went on to become the main antagonist of the second season -- he was so important that the series cliff-hanger focuses on him, hinting that he would have played an even larger role in the unrealized third season.
If you've read this far, you know you're about to find out that when the series kicked off, Lynch had no freaking clue that the killer was Bob. What is even more ridiculous is that Bob exists only because of this:
That scene is from the first episode, which ends when Laura's mom has a terrifying vision. We don't see what it is, but you can see a reflection in the upper-right corner -- the face of the killer.And it was an accident. That face is the set decorator.
Look at him vault that couch.
While looking at the footage for the scene, they noticed that set decorator Frank Silva was reflected in the mirror, even though Laura's mom is supposed to be completely alone. Instead of firing the guy for ruining the shot, David Lynch incorporated him into the story as Bob. The entire rest of the series centered on his murder of Laura. So, basically, Silva got cast as a major character in a popular show by being the most incompetent set decorator ever.
#1. Lost
Supposedly ...
OK, people skipping ahead to see if Lost was #1: You can go back to the beginning of the list now. Of course it is.
Wasn't this show originally some sort of survival drama?
The plot: A bunch of people get stuck on an island, weird shit happens. Then the entire series involves unfolding the mystery of what exactly is the nature of the island, and about six dozen sub-mysteries. ("What is the nature of Hurley's numbers? What happened to Walt?")
But Actually ...
The thing with Lost is that fans didn't just assume all the mysteries had an answer -- they were explicitly told so by the creators.
In a 2005 interview, co-creator Damon Lindelof said: "Every mystery that we present on the show ... all of those are questions that we know the answers to." He also said that "nothing in the show is flat-out impossible" and that everything so far could be explained by science. Sure, he was talking in the present tense -- but the present tense included the Smoke Monster, who ended up being the ghost of a 2,000-year-old guy who can impersonate dead people, and Michael's 10-year-old son, Walt, displaying supernatural powers that turned out to be ... actually, we have no idea, because that was never explained.
Fortunately, some of the writers have been a little more up front. You know the sequence of numbers that kept recurring in the show? The numbers that seemed to have so many mysterious influences (from making one man win the lottery to causing a plane to crash) that an explanation seemed almost impossible?
Season 1 writer David Fury (there's that guy again) says he has no idea what "the numbers" meant, and he's the one who came up with them.
"I was too busy practicing my comb-over to pay attention to my writing."
Hey, what about the early episode where characters hear mysterious whispering in the jungle? Let's again hear what Fury said in an interview:
"I can't tell you what they are now, but I can tell you what they WERE. They were supposed to be the Others, lurking in the jungle. At that time, we hadn't yet settled on what the Others would be."
Well, what about that episode that implied Walt could summon animals, and even made a polar bear appear on the island after reading about one in a comic book? Fury says:"That was the intent. But then ... things have changed since my time."
OK. Well, how about that Smoke Monster then?
"There was no mythology to speak of in place during the early episodes of the series. We were building it as we went along, discussing possibilities. ... Some thought of it as a monster of the id, much like in Forbidden Planet -- that maybe it appeared differently to everyone who saw it. The most tangible thought, as explained later by Rousseau, was that it functioned as a security system set up by the island's creators/early residents ... whatever we later decided the answer was."
Whatever, indeed.
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I am working on a project in Adobe Premiere consisting of many small clips. For some of the clips I replaced the audio by unlinking the original videoclip from the original audioclip, cutting the audioclip from the timeline, replacing it with the new audiofile and relinking the original videoclip with the new audioclip.
When I import this Premiere project into After Effects however, all clips have their original audio again and while the new audiofiles appear in the new project view, they are nowhere to be found on the timeline.
How can I make sure the videoclips will be correctly imported with the new associated audioclip instead of their original audio?


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I'm trying to set up rtorrent on my CentOS 5.6 server, and it currently cannot connect to any trackers.
I compiled
libtorrent-0.12.6 and
rtorrent-0.8.6. I also compiled
libcurl 7.21.7 with
c-ares 1.7.5 because the in-repo version of curl didn't have c-ares so it couldn't resolve tracker host names (not asynchronously at least).
I forwarded ports 6890-6999 through iptables using the following in
-A INPUT -p tcp --destination-port 6890:6999 -j ACCEPT
-A OUTPUT -p tcp --source-port 6890:6999 -j ACCEPT
But even if I stop iptables it doesn't work.
When I start rtorrent it will say something like
Connecting to http://torrent.fedoraproject.org:6969/announce, then quickly followed by
Couldn't connect to server.
I know there isn't much information about why it can't connect, but is there a way I can find out?
Edit I tried rtorrent on my local machine running Fedora 15 using all in-repo software and I have the same problem. But ktorrent runs on Fedora 15 with no problem.


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I'm looking for a reference. I am considering the situation where $X$ is a Banach space and $Y$ is a closed finite co-dimensional subspace. I am looking for a $W$ that is a complement of $Y$ (i.e. so that $X$ is the topological direct sum of $W$ and $Y$). I want them to be as far from parallel as possible.
The sense that I'm toying with (but I'm happy to have other senses proposed - I suspect they're all fairly equivalent) is that I want to consider the map $\Phi\colon Y\times W\to X$ given by $\Phi(y,w)=y+w$ to have the property that $\|\Phi^{-1}\|$ has small norm (say you put the norm $\|(y,w)\|=\max(\|y\|,\|w\|)$ on the product.
So I'm looking for $W$ that makes $\|\Phi^{-1}\|$ small. The question then is: how small can you make this quantity? I think I can make it less than $6^n$ if $Y$ is $n$-codimensional (irrespective of the space $X$), but I presume there are better bounds and references out there.


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I'll be at Intervention7 this September!
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Has the NFL Sprung a Leak?
As Broadcasters Show More Games at Different Times, Football's TV Ratings Take a Dip; 'Hope Is Not a Strategy'
A funny thingis happening to those blockbuster, industry-leading audiences for National Football League broadcasts on the biggest networks: They're getting a little smaller. Really.
For the second consecutive season, the NFL, that behemoth of the television business that sucks the air out of everybody else's ratings whenever one of its games takes place, is seeing a slight drop in the number of people who are tuning into its games. Excluding this first full season of Thursday night NFL Network telecasts, NFL games are averaging about 17.4 million viewers per game, down 2% from last year and 3% from 2010.
These numbers can't be explained away by a lousy sample. Through the NFL's first 14 weeks, the winning points have been scored in the final two minutes, or in overtime, 47 times. That ties this season for the most close games to this point since 1970.
Let's be clear: This decline is far smaller than the precipitous drop the television business has experienced overall as viewing habits continue to shift from appointment television to video-on-demand services such as Netflix and Hulu. Any scripted or reality-based television production would kill for the ratings of NFL games, which account for 24 of the 25 most-watched television shows since Labor Day. NFL audiences are also a healthy 18% larger than they were in 2008.
"The consistency and magnitude of the numbers are very impressive," said Sean McManus, chairman of CBS Sports. Michael Mulvihill, Senior Vice President, Programming and Research at the FOX Sports Media Group, said, "We can't expect ratings growth year after year ad infinitum. We're very comfortable with where we are."
Nevertheless, this isn't the path the NFL foresaw two years ago after a record-breaking 2010 season. In the ultracompetitive world of the NFL's executive suite, where Andy Grove's "Only the Paranoid Survive" is a bible and a bobblehead doll of Commissioner Roger Goodell with the motto "Hope is not a strategy" decorates several desks, minds are churning about how to begin gaining ground again.
At the league meetings earlier this year, which took place after a season of record revenues of some $9.5 billion, Goodell delivered a presentation to the assembled billionaire owners that listed faded industry giants from the last century that had lost their lofty perches. Woolworth's, Enron, Bethlehem Steel, Blockbuster, E.F. Hutton, Pan Am and General Foods flashed on the screen. He also listed several sports that were far more popular back then.
"Our basic philosophy is, 'If it ain't broke, fix it anyway,'" said Brian Rolapp, the chief operating officer for NFL Media. "I don't see being off 1% as being a major travesty. That said, we are always tweaking."
The most important question about the NFL's surge in ratings before 2010 is whether it reflects real growth in interest in the sport—or whether it was a one-time bounce driven by smart tactical programming decisions.
In 2006, the league established the NFL Network, putting eight games on the channel for the first time. The league also shifted its main prime-time weekly game to Sunday night from Monday, which allows it to move an appealing game into an exclusive national window if the previously scheduled matchup turns out to be a dog. In addition, the league began allowing a double-header on both Fox and CBS in the final week of the season.
In 2009, the NFL introduced the RedZone cable channel, which allows fans to see live look-ins on any game whenever a team has a chance to score. Now that RedZone is available on Verizon mobile devices (that started in 2010) some believe the league may have hurt ratings over the long term by freeing couch potatoes from the captivity of their living rooms on Sundays.
Rolapp disagrees. He said RedZone is more of a daylong inducement to fans to move as quickly as possible to the closest television.
In 2010, the NFL also tried another trick: backloading its schedule with important divisional games. That made it more likely that late-season games would be meaningful and would discourage the best teams from resting their starters for the playoffs. This season, the league tweaked the format again by moving kickoffs for national double-header games to 4:25 p.m. on the East Coast so viewers don't have to abandon the 1 p.m. game if it's close.
But the biggest tweak of the current season has been increasing the number of Thursday night games on the NFL Network to 13 from eight, in addition to the two Thursday night telecasts on NBC. This move represents a major shift for a league whose greatest strength has long been scarcity. The NFL has just 256 regular-season games, nearly all of them played on Sundays between noon and midnight in the East or on Monday night. Since 2006, though, the NFL has been slowly expanding its Thursday offerings, making its product more accessible. On average, about 6.3 million fans watch NFL Network games.
"There's a delicate balance between having games readily available for casual fans but having too much programming out there so people don't feel compelled to spend all day Sunday in front of the television," said Frank Hawkins, the NFL's former senior vice president for the NFL's media group.
Rolapp said the additional Thursday games allow every team to play in prime time, lead to a higher cumulative audience for the league and aren't causing erosion. "We all took economics and know about the value of scarcity," he said.
Among the NFL's television partners, only ESPN, which televises Monday Night Football, is showing an increase in its audience size compared with this stage of last season. ESPN's average audience has increased size has increased 3% to 13.2 million viewers compared with 12.8 million last season at this point.
Given their other problems, the league's television partners are hardly disappointed with the numbers, even though they committed more than $40 billion to televise the NFL during the next decade. Audiences for broadcast television overall are down substantially this season.
Mark Lazarus, chairman of NBC Sports, said he expects Sunday Night Football will close the 2% gap with last season in the final weeks. "Our audience is somewhat dependent on the records of the teams and quality of the game," Lazarus said. "We've had a few games that were a little less competitive, and that has some impact on us."
The NFL does have one more ratings-boosting trick up its sleeve for 2014. That's when the league will begin moving games between CBS and Fox if one network's schedule is less crowded and the league believes a game will have wide appeal if it gets better exposure. The league experimented with the move for a Denver Broncos–Minnesota Vikings game featuring Tim Tebow last December.
Fox, which had just two other games in that time slot, ended up broadcasting the game. CBS had six others and would have delivered it to a smaller slice of the country. When Fox delivered it to 62% of the country, 14.5 million viewers watched.


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A 3-D carbon nanotube mesh enables rat spinal tissue sections to reconnect in culture.
Microbiome Influences
April 22, 2014|
Researchers find that gender, education level, and breastfeeding can affect humans' commensal microbial communities.
April 22, 2014|
Researchers find that gender, education level, and breastfeeding can affect humans' commensal microbial communities.
April 21, 2014|
An international team has created human embryonic stem cells from adult skin cells for the first time.
April 18, 2014|
Genome-wide effects of trisomy 21; RNA-based signs of transgenerational stress; depression and resilience; a call to overhaul US biomedical research system
April 17, 2014|
The Broad Institute has succeeded in getting the first patent for the hot new genome-editing technique.
April 17, 2014|
Researchers find that positron emission tomography scans can help determine the degree to which some vegetative patients retain consciousness.
April 16, 2014|
The extra chromosome behind Down's syndrome can impact transcriptional regulation beyond chromosome 21, a study finds.
April 16, 2014|
In the midst of news that engineered organs are being implanted into animals and people, researchers announce the creation of artificial blood for transplant.
April 15, 2014|
Researchers construct a family tree of group A Streptococcus to trace the evolution of a "flesh-eating" strain.
April 14, 2014|
Doctors implant custom-made organs, built from a tissue sample and a biodegradable scaffold, into four female patients born with underdeveloped or missing vaginas.
April 11, 2014|
Considering "targeted therapeutics" in the face of intra-patient heterogeneity.


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Boardwalk Empire Vaudeville Drinking Glass
Evoke the classic style and look of the 1920s in your own home with the Boardwalk Empire Vaudeville Glass. This 12.5-ounce glass is inspired by actual vintage tourism art from the era, depicting the resurgence of the American burlesque movement in stylized, alluring imagery. Bring the magical allure of a bygone era back with the original Boardwalk Empire Vaudeville Glass -- hand-wash only, please!
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So, my school gives kids who do well and turn in all of their homework in 5th grade a laptop. I'm not sure what I think of this, me being raised that computers should be kept in public areas so as to keep kids out of trouble. What thoughts do you guys have on this?
I think that computers are incredibly powerful tools for learning, and getting them in the hands of as many children as possible is a good thing.
Certainly, supervising your children, especially when they have internet access, is a good idea. My 8yo keeps his netbook on a small work table in my office, so we have our computer time together. I do like that he's mobile -- he's even taken to coming to tech conferences with me (he spoke at one of them) -- and our rules at home are plenty to keep the computer where it belongs.
There are two sides to this issue you need to consider. The first you already hinted at: for every constructive or enriching or wholesome activity you can do on the computer or internet, there are at least as many time-wasting or even harmful activities. At that age, the majority of the responsibility for their safety and protection is still with you as their parent. There need to be rules and guidelines and appropriate parental controls, record keeping, etc.
On the other hand, the only way for your child to develop responsibility is to...you guessed it, be given responsibility and trusted as responsible. Once you've discussed your concerns with your child and the rules and safeguards are in place, give them some space and some trust. Children are so much more likely to be responsible if they feel like they are trusted and being treated responsibly. That doesn't mean don't check up on things and follow through with the rules you've set. That simply means don't be paranoid about it, don't do things behind their back, etc, anything that would suggest you don't trust them.
"My school gives kids who do well and turn in all of their homework in 5th grade a laptop".
That's one way to widen the gap between those who are made for our school system and those who need a different approach. The tool might actually be better placed in the hands of those who aren't doing as well.
Yes, supervision is important. I equate internet freedom with physical freedom; by grade 5, they should know how to keep themselves out of trouble in the same way that they can safely cross the street and walk a few blocks to school on their own.


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Which Tablet Is Right For You?
The holiday season is upon us. In the tech world, that means it's time to talk gadgets, specifically one of the year's most popular gadgets: the tablet.
For the first time, Apple's iPad has some competition: Google's Nexus, Amazon's Kindle Fire HD and the Microsoft Surface.
These tablets represent the marquee efforts of the biggest technology companies. They also represent the four major content universes.
Small Tablets
The Kindle Fire HD and the Google Nexus 7 have higher-resolution screens — 1280-by-800 pixels compared with the Mini's 1024-by-768.
They're also significantly cheaper than their Apple competitor. The iPad Mini starts at $329. The Nexus and Kindle Fire HD, meanwhile, start at $199.
But as with the bigger Amazon tablet, there are commercials everywhere on the Kindle Fire HD.
Full-Sized Tablets
The standard-bearer for full-sized tablets is the iPad. Starting at $499, it's a little more expensive than its competitors. But in terms of content, Apple is tough to beat. With 270,000 apps, there's something for everyone in the Apple universe.
But Amazon has a lot of movies, and with the Fire HD 8.9-inch model, you can download the same movie faster than you could on an iPad 4.
The Amazon tablet is also much cheaper — $200 less than the fourth-generation iPad.
The downside of the Amazon tablet? It's not good for work. Try managing your email on it, and you might end up pulling your hair out.
New Tablet On The Block
Microsoft seems to be aiming at folks who want to use a tablet for more than play.
It has a file hosting service called SkyDrive, which lets you sync all your office documents or spreadsheets in the cloud. That works really well.
The problem is Windows RT, which runs the Surface. It's a new ecosystem, so there are some kinks.
The tablet itself, physically, is a beautiful machine. It has a little kickstand, and it has a cover that doubles as a keyboard, which is great.
But at this point, there are things about it that would prevent us from recommending it. It has promise, but give it more time.
The Takeaway
When you are buying these devices, to some degree you're buying into a different content universe.
So you have decisions to make. If you want to spend a little more, go for Apple, but know that you're going to be locked into their universe. Microsoft has the least content available in its universe at this point.
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Part of my job is to analyze certain portions of road for our clients. A client will ask, I want to look at Road A from parcel XYZ to parcel RST and Road B from parcel RST to parcel OPQ.
The way I do this currently is:
- I select the road line layer around the parcels
- Save the selection as a new shp layer
- edit, trim, the layer as needed
- produce a new shp that matches the client's request.
- We analyze the hell out of the road
The reason I do selection/save as is that, in future when road geometry changes we will still have the original requested road. The problem I find with this is that by the end of the year, i have 100+ mini layers of road segments.
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How Rude! An Age-by-Age Guide to Teaching Kids Manners
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Ages 7-10: Being a Good Sport
Games and sports can continue to help your children play by the rules and interact well with their siblings and peers. Work on these skills:
- If your child is playing with younger kids, make sure he plays fair and lets the little ones have their turn and chance to shine.
- Explain good sportsmanship, teamwork, and how to accept help and coaching.
- Find an afterschool sport or activity that brings out the best in your child.


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Dominion will move forward with engineering and regulatory review processes after a judgment confirmed its right to build liquefaction facilities at the group's Cove Point facility.
Dominion will move forward with engineering, marketing and
regulatory review processes, the company said on
Monday, after a declaratory judgment confirmed its right
to build liquefaction facilities at its Cove Point
facility on the Chesapeake Bay in Lusby, Md.
Circuit Court Judge James P. Salmon of Maryland ruled Friday
that Dominion Cove Point's agreement with environmental
agencies allows it to build liquefaction facilities inside the plant's fenced
area and export liquefied natural gas (LNG).
The environmental group Sierra Club
had maintained Dominion needed its permission to build the facilities.
"Dominion has made considerable progress towards a project that will bring jobs and
revenues to the national and local economies," said Thomas F.
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In this final week of your pregnancy, the weight of expectation can be immense. It can feel as though everyone is waiting for you to pop, especially if it's your first baby.
You'll no doubt cope with it this week-and you may even enjoy getting all the attention-but if you happen to go overdue you might get frustrated by the constant calls and by having to repeat yourself. Try to be patient and remember people are simply excited for you and are just as frustrated with waiting as you are.
Matters aren't helped by the due date. Everyone will have this estimated date in mind, but unfortunately not many babies stick to a schedule and they enter the world exactly when they are ready (see You are 38 Weeks and 2 Days). Up to 42 weeks isn't really considered that late in medical circles. If it all becomes too much, rely on others close to you to field all the calls and make it clear that you promise to be in touch with an announcement just as soon as there is any news.
You may experience deep and painful twinges, and practice contractions, known as Braxton-Hicks', particularly toward the end of pregnancy. It's easy to mistake these for the real thing, and you may find yourself rushing to the hospital when your body is really still practicing. You may also experience regular contractions for a period, which then stop. All of this is normal.
One sure sign that labor is imminent is that you lose your mucus plug (see The "bloody show"), another is your water breaking. In some cases, however, neither of these events takes place until labor is established, so don't panic if they don't happen to you.
You'll definitely know you're in labor when your contractions are occurring regularly, approximately every 15 minutes-time the gap between them. True contractions will get longer, stronger, and closer together as time goes on, and won't go away when you walk around or change position.
This is entirely up to you. It is expensive; it can cost a few hundred dollars a night, but some women find it money well spent. In addition to giving you more privacy and private time to bond with your new baby and your partner, a private room will be quieter, and you won't have as many interruptions, since you won't have medical staff coming in to treat a roommate. A private room can also make a difference in getting good rest at night, especially if you are a light sleeper.
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