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The Tesla Model X has been around for a while now, with the new all-electric SUV already being driven by customers in the US. The car is finally in Europe, however, and we were among the first to drive the car around the roads near Munich, Germany.
You might have already guessed that SUVs are an ever-growing segment of car sales; Tesla sees the opportunity for the Model X to sell up to two and a half times more units than the Model S saloon it's based on. The extra practicality of the larger body is a big draw for customers around the world – and in the case of the Model X, buyers won't be sacrificing much in terms of performance, either.
• Best 4x4s and SUVs on the market
There are two versions available, with the least powerful Model X 90D managing a 0-60mph time of 4.8 seconds. The faster P90D manages it in 3.8 seconds, but if you're feeling brave enough to endure Ludicrous Mode then it'll do the sprint in an astonishing 3.2 seconds. All models manage 155mph flat-out, too.
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From a standstill it feels just as fast as those figures suggest, blasting up to speed so quickly you'll forget you're in a two and a half tonne SUV. It's not as quick as the Model S, and the bulk of the accelerative power is at low speed, but you can't avoid being astonished every time you experience this car's performance.
It handles well for such a heavy car, too. The low centre of gravity (because the batteries are positioned low down in the floor of the car) means it rolls less than you would expect in corners – but it can't match the lower Model S. The suspension and steering can be adjusted, with options to lower and raise the ride height, but the difference feels minimal. The steering is well weighted in standard mode, if a bit vague, and the huge performance on offer means the Model X is still good fun to drive, if a little clinical.
Thanks to the almost-silent electric motors and plenty of sound deadening it's a very relaxed driving experience overall, and the comfortable seats help with that too. The ride felt smooth on the German roads where we tested the car, and wind and road noise is kept to a minimum – thanks in part to the Model X's aerodynamic body shape.
The distinctive 'Falcon Wing' doors are a distinctive design touch, and give the Model X a uniqe look when they are open. Unfortunately, though, the rest of the design can't quite match the sleek Model S. The blank nose looks oddly unfinished, and the high, flat tailgate and boot spoiler look a little awkward. There's no doubt that the 'jacked-up Model S' styling will have its fans, but we'd argue that most conventional SUV rivals like the Volvo XC90 have a more handsome design.
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While the doors do give plenty of access to the rear seats, and have sensors to stop them from opening where there's an obstruction, they do feel rather unnecessary. For a start, they take a long time to open, much longer than just swinging a normal door open, and they also emit a loud warning beep as they move – guaranteed to annoy anyone over time. Plus, much like an open kitchen cupboard, the doors are a head magnet.
Once you're inside, though, there's loads of room for passengers. The front and rear seats have lots of adjustment to make sure everyone can get comfortable, and there are loads of seat combinations: you can have the car with 4, 5, 6 or 7 seats. In the second row there's lots of leg and headroom for the outer seats, thanks to cutout sections in the doors, but the middle seat has quite a bit less head space. The third row of seats faces forward in the Model X, and there's enough room for kids – but adults will find their head resting against the rear glass.
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Fold down the back row and there's an impressive 2,180 litres of space, with a moveable boot floor that can be brought up so there's no loading lip, dropped down for more storage or removed completely, revealing a deep section behind the seats. Luggage could easily slide and fall forwards into the cabin with the seats down, however, but that will only be a problem in the 6-seater car – and there are hooks to secure items if needed. There's a 187-litre boot in the front, too, and the Model X can even tow loads up to 2,270kg.
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The Model X uses the same huge touchscreen display as the Model S, which means you can open all the doors from the driver's seat. There are a huge number of functions on the screen, and it's one of the best-looking and easiest to use in any car, just like your smartphone or tablet. Controlling functions like the air-conditioning using a touchscreen while on the move is a pain, though.
You get a powerful sound system in the Model X that stretches across the top of the dash, but the reflection on the windscreen on a sunny day is distracting. The large A-pillars and slightly offset driving position don't help visibility, either – though there is plenty of light let into the cabin.
The quality of the materials inside is good, but like the Model S it's where the Tesla feels behind its conventionally-powered rivals. Mercedes switchgear is used in the Model X, but even that doesn't mean it's as impressive as the latest Merc interiors. The minimalist display behind the wheel is a highlight, but the rest of the cabin looks drab, and just isn't as well designed and built as we'd like in such an expensive car.

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1. Arrested Development (2003– )
TV-PG | 22 min | Comedy
Level-headed son Michael Bluth takes over family affairs after his father is imprisoned. But the rest of his spoiled, dysfunctional family are making his job unbearable.
Stars: Jason Bateman, Michael Cera, Portia de Rossi, Will Arnett
Votes: 210,864
2. American Pie (1999)
R | 95 min | Comedy
Four teenage boys enter a pact to lose their virginity by prom night.
Directors: Paul Weitz, Chris Weitz | Stars: Jason Biggs, Chris Klein, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Alyson Hannigan
Votes: 314,999 | Gross: $101.74M
3. A Bigger Splash (2015)
R | 125 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The vacation of a famous rock star and a filmmaker in Italy is disrupted by the unexpected visit of an old friend and his daughter.
Director: Luca Guadagnino | Stars: Tilda Swinton, Matthias Schoenaerts, Ralph Fiennes, Dakota Johnson
Votes: 6,592 | Gross: $1.98M
4. The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
R | 99 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
The adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous hotel from the fictional Republic of Zubrowka between the first and second World Wars, and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend.
Director: Wes Anderson | Stars: Ralph Fiennes, F. Murray Abraham, Mathieu Amalric, Adrien Brody
Votes: 472,834 | Gross: $59.07M
5. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
PG-13 | 166 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Tells the story of Benjamin Button, a man who starts aging backwards with bizarre consequences.
Director: David Fincher | Stars: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swinton, Julia Ormond
Votes: 458,259 | Gross: $127.49M
6. Hello, My Name Is Doris (2015)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A self-help seminar inspires a sixty-something woman to romantically pursue her younger co-worker.
Director: Michael Showalter | Stars: Sally Field, Max Greenfield, Tyne Daly, Wendi McLendon-Covey
Votes: 6,701 | Gross: $14.44M
7. The Boy Next Door (2015)
R | 91 min | Mystery, Thriller
A recently cheated on married woman falls for a younger man who has moved in next door, but their torrid affair soon takes a dangerous turn.
Director: Rob Cohen | Stars: Jennifer Lopez, Ryan Guzman, Kristin Chenoweth, John Corbett
Votes: 26,990 | Gross: $35.39M
8. Inherent Vice (2014)
R | 148 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
In 1970, drug-fueled Los Angeles private investigator Larry "Doc" Sportello investigates the disappearance of a former girlfriend.
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson | Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, Owen Wilson, Katherine Waterston
Votes: 61,592 | Gross: $8.09M
9. Easy A (2010)
PG-13 | 92 min | Comedy, Romance
A clean-cut high school student relies on the school's rumor mill to advance her social and financial standing.
Director: Will Gluck | Stars: Emma Stone, Amanda Bynes, Penn Badgley, Dan Byrd
Votes: 275,886 | Gross: $58.40M
10. The Girl Next Door (2004)
R | 108 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A teenager's dreams come true when a former porn star moves in next door and they fall in love.
Director: Luke Greenfield | Stars: Emile Hirsch, Nicholas Downs, Elisha Cuthbert, Timothy Olyphant
Votes: 170,853 | Gross: $14.59M
11. Wedding Crashers (2005)
R | 119 min | Comedy, Romance
John Beckwith and Jeremy Grey, a pair of committed womanizers who sneak into weddings to take advantage of the romantic tinge in the air, find themselves at odds with one another when John meets and falls for Claire Cleary.
Director: David Dobkin | Stars: Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn, Rachel McAdams, Christopher Walken
Votes: 279,329 | Gross: $209.22M
12. Grandma's Boy (2006)
R | 94 min | Comedy
A 35 year old video game tester has to move in with his grandma and her two old lady roommates.
Director: Nicholaus Goossen | Stars: Allen Covert, Linda Cardellini, Shirley Jones, Peter Dante
Votes: 67,735 | Gross: $6.09M
13. American Pie 2 (2001)
R | 108 min | Comedy
In this sequel to the hit comedy American Pie (1999), the high school students are now in college. These close friends decide to meet up at the beach house for some fun.
Director: J.B. Rogers | Stars: Jason Biggs, Seann William Scott, Shannon Elizabeth, Alyson Hannigan
Votes: 199,888 | Gross: $145.10M
14. Grown Ups (2010)
PG-13 | 102 min | Comedy
After their high school basketball coach passes away, five good friends and former teammates reunite for a Fourth of July holiday weekend.
Director: Dennis Dugan | Stars: Adam Sandler, Salma Hayek, Kevin James, Chris Rock
Votes: 180,888 | Gross: $162.00M
15. Mamma Mia! (2008)
PG-13 | 108 min | Comedy, Family, Musical
The story of a bride-to-be trying to find her real father told using hit songs by the popular '70s group ABBA.
Director: Phyllida Lloyd | Stars: Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Amanda Seyfried, Stellan Skarsgård
Votes: 145,670 | Gross: $143.70M
16. Younger (2015– )
TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy, Romance
After being mistaken for younger than she really is, a single mother decides to take the chance to reboot her career and her love life as a 26-year old.
Stars: Sutton Foster, Debi Mazar, Miriam Shor, Hilary Duff
Votes: 5,550
17. L.A. Confidential (1997)
R | 138 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
As corruption grows in 1950s LA, three policemen - one strait-laced, one brutal, and one sleazy - investigate a series of murders with their own brand of justice.
Director: Curtis Hanson | Stars: Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, Kim Basinger
Votes: 413,105 | Gross: $64.60M
18. This Is Where I Leave You (2014)
R | 103 min | Comedy, Drama
When their father passes away, four grown siblings are forced to return to their childhood home and live under the same roof together for a week, along with their over-sharing mother and an assortment of spouses, exes and might-have-beens.
Director: Shawn Levy | Stars: Jason Bateman, Tina Fey, Jane Fonda, Adam Driver
Votes: 53,962 | Gross: $34.29M
19. Animal House (1978)
R | 109 min | Comedy
At a 1962 college, Dean Vernon Wormer is determined to expel the entire Delta Tau Chi Fraternity, but those trouble-makers have other plans for him.
Director: John Landis | Stars: John Belushi, Karen Allen, Tom Hulce, Stephen Furst
Votes: 89,993 | Gross: $141.60M
20. The Graduate (1967)
Approved | 106 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter.
Director: Mike Nichols | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross, William Daniels
Votes: 210,560 | Gross: $104.40M
21. What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)
PG-13 | 118 min | Drama, Romance
After his father's death, Gilbert has to care for his mentally disabled brother, Arnie, and his morbidly obese mother, which is suddenly challenged when love walks into his life.
Director: Lasse Hallström | Stars: Johnny Depp, Leonardo DiCaprio, Juliette Lewis, Mary Steenburgen
Votes: 171,367 | Gross: $9.17M
22. 8 Mile (2002)
R | 110 min | Drama, Music
A young rapper, struggling with every aspect of his life, wants to make it big but his friends and foes make this odyssey of rap harder than it may seem.
Director: Curtis Hanson | Stars: Eminem, Brittany Murphy, Kim Basinger, Mekhi Phifer
Votes: 186,463 | Gross: $116.72M
23. The L Word (2004–2009)
TV-MA | 50 min | Drama, Romance
Follows the lives and loves of a small, close-knit group of lesbians living in Los Angeles as well as the friends and family members that either support or loathe them.
Stars: Jennifer Beals, Leisha Hailey, Laurel Holloman, Mia Kirshner
Votes: 19,650
24. Don Jon (2013)
R | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A New Jersey guy dedicated to his family, friends, and church, develops unrealistic expectations from watching porn and works to find happiness and intimacy with his potential true love.
Director: Joseph Gordon-Levitt | Stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Scarlett Johansson, Julianne Moore, Tony Danza
Votes: 190,063 | Gross: $24.48M
25. Thelma & Louise (1991)
R | 130 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
An Arkansas waitress and a housewife shoot a rapist and take off in a '66 Thunderbird.
Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis, Harvey Keitel, Michael Madsen
Votes: 100,838 | Gross: $45.36M
26. That's My Boy (2012)
R | 116 min | Comedy
While in his teens, Donny fathered a son, Todd, and raised him as a single parent up until Todd's 18th birthday. Now, after not seeing each other for years, Todd's world comes crashing down when Donny resurfaces just before Todd's wedding.
Director: Sean Anders | Stars: Adam Sandler, Andy Samberg, Leighton Meester, Susan Sarandon
Votes: 70,478 | Gross: $36.93M
27. Hall Pass (2011)
R | 105 min | Comedy, Romance
Rick and Fred, two husbands who are having difficulty in their marriages, are given a Hall Pass by their wives: for one week, they can do whatever they want.
Directors: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly | Stars: Owen Wilson, Jason Sudeikis, Christina Applegate, Jenna Fischer
Votes: 103,068 | Gross: $45.05M
28. Adore (2013)
R | 112 min | Drama, Romance
A pair of childhood friends and neighbors fall for each other's sons.
Director: Anne Fontaine | Stars: Naomi Watts, Robin Wright, Xavier Samuel, James Frecheville
Votes: 23,241 | Gross: $0.32M
29. Sex and the City (2008)
R | 145 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A New York writer on sex and love is finally getting married to her Mr. Big. But her three best girlfriends must console her after one of them inadvertently leads Mr. Big to jilt her.
Director: Michael Patrick King | Stars: Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Cynthia Nixon, Kristin Davis
Votes: 99,004 | Gross: $152.64M
30. Blue Velvet (1986)
R | 120 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.
Director: David Lynch | Stars: Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern
Votes: 131,966 | Gross: $8.55M
31. Y Tu Mamá También (2001)
R | 106 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life, friendship, sex, and each other.
Director: Alfonso Cuarón | Stars: Maribel Verdú, Gael García Bernal, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Ana López Mercado
Votes: 91,185 | Gross: $13.62M
32. Unfaithful (2002)
R | 124 min | Drama, Thriller
A New York suburban couple's marriage goes dangerously awry when the wife indulges in an adulterous fling.
Director: Adrian Lyne | Stars: Richard Gere, Diane Lane, Olivier Martinez, Erik Per Sullivan
Votes: 62,935 | Gross: $52.75M
33. The Reader (2008)
R | 124 min | Drama, Romance
Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial.
Director: Stephen Daldry | Stars: Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, Bruno Ganz, Jeanette Hain
Votes: 189,450 | Gross: $34.18M
34. Enter the Void (2009)
Not Rated | 161 min | Drama, Fantasy
A U.S. drug dealer living in Tokyo is betrayed by his best friend and killed in a drug deal. His soul, observing the repercussions of his death, seeks resurrection.
Director: Gaspar Noé | Stars: Nathaniel Brown, Paz de la Huerta, Cyril Roy, Olly Alexander
Votes: 45,211 | Gross: $0.34M
35. Water for Elephants (2011)
PG-13 | 120 min | Drama, Romance
Set in the 1930s, a former veterinary student takes a job in a traveling circus and falls in love with the ringmaster's wife.
Director: Francis Lawrence | Stars: Robert Pattinson, Reese Witherspoon, Christoph Waltz, Paul Schneider
Votes: 95,164 | Gross: $58.70M
36. You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008)
PG-13 | 113 min | Action, Comedy
An Israeli Special Forces Soldier fakes his death so he can re-emerge in New York City as a hair stylist.
Director: Dennis Dugan | Stars: Adam Sandler, John Turturro, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Nick Swardson
Votes: 156,043 | Gross: $100.02M
37. Behaving Badly (2014)
R | 97 min | Comedy
Teenager Rick Stevens has a crush on Nina Pennington. They form a friendship and embark on a rock n' roll journey together while Nina deals with her overbearing boyfriend, Kevin.
Director: Tim Garrick | Stars: Nat Wolff, Selena Gomez, Mary-Louise Parker, Elisabeth Shue
Votes: 6,961
38. Ken Park (2002)
Not Rated | 93 min | Drama
Ken Park is about several Californian skateboarders' lives and relationships with and without their parents.
Directors: Larry Clark, Edward Lachman | Stars: Adam Chubbuck, James Bullard, Seth Gray, Eddie Daniels
Votes: 24,750
39. Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent-film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson
Votes: 139,176
40. Lucky Them (2013)
R | 97 min | Drama
A rock journalist is assigned to track down her ex-boyfriend.
Director: Megan Griffiths | Stars: Toni Collette, Thomas Haden Church, Nina Arianda, Oliver Platt
Votes: 2,142 | Gross: $0.03M
41. Youth in Revolt (2009)
R | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
While his trailer trash parents teeter on the edge of divorce, Nick Twisp sets his sights on dream girl Sheeni Saunders, hoping that she'll be the one to take away his virginity.
Director: Miguel Arteta | Stars: Michael Cera, Portia Doubleday, Ray Liotta, Jean Smart
Votes: 64,503 | Gross: $15.28M
42. White Palace (1990)
R | 103 min | Drama, Romance
Max Baron (James Spader) is a 27-year-old high-flying advertising executive still recovering from the death of his wife. One night he is in a bar when he meets Nora Baker (Susan Sarandon), ... See full summary »
Director: Luis Mandoki | Stars: Susan Sarandon, James Spader, Jason Alexander, Kathy Bates
Votes: 5,773 | Gross: $17.49M
43. American Wedding (2003)
R | 96 min | Comedy, Romance
It's the wedding of Jim and Michelle and the gathering of their families and friends, including Jim's old friends from high school and Michelle's little sister.
Director: Jesse Dylan | Stars: Jason Biggs, Alyson Hannigan, Seann William Scott, Eugene Levy
Votes: 162,034 | Gross: $104.35M
44. Mommy (I) (2014)
R | 139 min | Drama
A widowed single mother, raising her violent son alone, finds new hope when a mysterious neighbor inserts herself into their household.
Director: Xavier Dolan | Stars: Anne Dorval, Antoine-Olivier Pilon, Suzanne Clément, Patrick Huard
Votes: 27,312 | Gross: $3.49M
45. Midnight Cowboy (1969)
X | 113 min | Drama
A naive hustler goes to New York to seek personal fortune but in the process finds himself a new friend.
Director: John Schlesinger | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Sylvia Miles, John McGiver
Votes: 76,452
46. Elle (I) (2016)
130 min | Drama, Thriller
Michèle seems indestructible. Head of a successful video game company, she brings the same ruthless attitude to her love life as to business. Being attacked in her home by an unknown ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Verhoeven | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Laurent Lafitte, Anne Consigny, Charles Berling
Votes: 1,382
47. Extract (2009)
R | 92 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
Joel, the owner of an extract plant, tries to contend with myriad personal and professional problems, such as his potentially unfaithful wife and employees who want to take advantage of him.
Director: Mike Judge | Stars: Jason Bateman, Kristen Wiig, Ben Affleck, Mila Kunis
Votes: 37,434 | Gross: $10.81M
48. Bernie (2011)
PG-13 | 104 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
In small-town Texas, an affable mortician strikes up a friendship with a wealthy widow, though when she starts to become controlling, he goes to great lengths to separate himself from her grasp.
Director: Richard Linklater | Stars: Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine, Matthew McConaughey, Brady Coleman
Votes: 45,221 | Gross: $9.20M
49. The Paperboy (2012)
R | 107 min | Drama, Thriller
A reporter returns to his Florida home-town to investigate a case involving a death row inmate.
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Whatever Donald Trump says makes headlines. That's not about to change after this snafu.
The Lumberton High School cheerleading squad performs its latest routine, set to the sounds of reporters describing the horrific events of September 11, 2001, and President George W. Bush's voice. Yes, you read that right.
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Weibel Scientific is a Danish designer and manufacturer of doppler radars. It is located in Allerød, Denmark. All Weibel radars operate in the X band and are continuous wave doppler radars. NASA purchased some of Weibel's radars,[1] and used them to detect debris coming off the space shuttle during launch.[2]
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- 1 (16 ounce) can garbanzo beans
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- 1 (14 1/2 ounce) can French style green beans
- 1⁄2 cup champagne vinegar
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 tablespoon minced dried onion
- 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
- 3⁄4 teaspoon nectresse brand granulated artificial sweetener
- 1⁄2 teaspoon celery seed
- In a medium sized bowl, or the container you will store the salad, mix together the garbanzo beans, wax beans, and french style green beans.
- In a small bowl, combine the remainder of the ingredients (champagne vinegar down to the celery seeds on this list above), and whisk until well combined.
- Pour the liquid over the beans and mix to blend.
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Yes, there is no standard but libraries like Qt and boost can make your life much easier when you do cross-platform development.
wxwidgets is a great abstraction layer on the native GUI widgets of most window managers.
I think the main reason there isn't any single library anyone agrees on is that everyone's requirements are different. When you want to wrap system libraries you'll often need to make some assumptions about what the use cases will be, unless you want to make the wrapper huge and impossible to work with. I think that might be the main reason there's no single, common cross platform runtime.
For GUI, the reason would be that each platform has its own UI conventions, you can't code one GUI that fits all, you'll simply get one that fits just one or even none at all.
There are many libraries that make cross-platform development easier on their own, but making a complete wrapper for all platforms ends up being either small and highly customized, or massive and completely ridiculous.
Carried to it's logical conclusion, a complete wrapper for all aspects of an operating system becomes an entire virtual runtime. You might as well make your own programming language.
The ADAPTIVE Communication Environment (ACE) is an excellent object oriented framework that provides cross-platform support for all of the low level OS functionality like threading, sockets, mutexes, etc. It runs with a crazy number of compilers and operating systems.
C and C++ as languages are standards languages. If you closely follow their rules when coding (That means not using vendor-specific extensions) you're code should be portable and you should be able to compile it with any modern compiler on any OS.
However C and C++ don't have a GUI library, like Java or C#, however there exist some free or commercial GUI libraries that will allow you to write portable GUI applications.
I think the most populars are Qt (Commercial) and wxWidgets (FOSS). According to wikipedia there is a lot more.
There is also boost, while not a GUI library boost is a really great complement to C++'s STL. In fact some of the boost libraires will be added in the next C++ standard.
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Apple (AAPL -1.3%) roundup: 1) Digitimes reports Pegatron will start low-cost iPhone and next-gen (retina?) iPad Mini shipments in August. The WSJ recently reported Pegatron had taken iOrders from Foxconn, and the Commrcial Times just reported parts shipments for a cheaper iPhone are underway. 2) Horace Dediu estimates Apple has been adding an average of 500K iTunes accounts/day (180M+/year) since '09, and puts Apple's annual revenue/account at ~$300 (down from $400+ in 2010). 3) Apple's Japanese smartphone share has fallen to 25% from 40% over the last 4 weeks, per local research firm BCN. Sony's (SNE) share is believed to have more than doubled to 36%, thanks in part to the Xperia Z. IDC gave Apple a 40% share for Q1 as well.
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The bad news is Apple is down hard again; the good news is everybody expected it because it has bottomed after WWDC for the last few years. Could take an earnings report, but maybe not considering the magnitude of the pullback. Also depends a lot on Apple's rollout timing.
Fascinating analysis from Horace Dediu. Thanks for pointing it out. Reading further he comes to an interesting assessment of the extreme under-valuation of AAPL's 575M iTunes customer base.
Apple insider noting 500,000 iTunes downloads per day....not too shabby....http://bit.ly/11LFyVa
Wow, amazing!
Yes those are new devices iPod iPads and mainly iPhones that equates at about 15 million a month , 45 million a quarter..... since @68 percent of aapl's sales based on iPhone alone should pencil out to 30 million iPhones.....close to what android says they activate about 300,000 a day from multiple platforms...
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Golden Smog and Jayhawks alum Gary Louris has a knack for crafting heartbreaking yet inspiring pop songs. At his best, on Jayhawks tunes like "Save It for a Rainy Day," "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me," and "It's Up to You" — plus all the incredible tracks he wrote with Mark Olson before the latter left the band — he makes you want to cry because the songs are so beautiful. But his solo debut, Vagabonds, is sad without being compelling.
"She Only Calls Me on Sundays" is about a woman who wants him only when "she's had her fill of red wine and cigarettes and prescription pills." The album maintains this dispirited tone and, despite flashes of greatness, never quite gels. One problem is that the stripped-down production, helmed by the Black Crowes' Chris Robinson, robs the songs of Louris's deft and diverse musicality. Only a few of the tunes are immediately memorable, including the title track and "Black Grass," which evokes that oft-overlooked Jayhawks' classic Sound of Lies. And therein lies a clue. Sound of Lies took years to grow on many people, and the carefully crafted feel of Vagabonds suggests that could happen this time too.
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The sculptures of the Shiflett Brothers look like they were pulled to life from the painted cover of classic fantasy magazines. We meet Brandon Shiflett at Comic-Con to learn about their work, kits, and collaboration.
The sculptures of the Shiflett Brothers look like they were pulled to life from the painted cover of classic fantasy magazines. We meet Brandon Shiflett at Comic-Con to learn about their work, kits, and collaboration.
We tour the Sideshow Collectibles booth at this year's Comic-Con--4,000 square feet of awesome toys and statues. From sixth scale Star Wars to life-size droid replicas, we get up close with these prototype sculptures and paint masters. Check out that Iron Giant!
We get up close with some historic model miniatures from our favorite sci-fi movies and shows! Prop Store's Stephen Lane has a deep repository of film production history, and shares with us the stories of these beautiful props.
Frank and Norm show and talk through the sculpting process for our LEGO-inspired Creepyfig cosplay. Frank explains how he formed this massive mask and gave it the necessary detail to make the sculpture look like it had a real skin.
Our latest project with Frank Ippolito lives at the intersection of creepy and amazing. For this year's Comic-Con, Frank designed, sculpted, and painted a LEGO-inspired mask, made to look like a real-life version of a minifig. We're calling it the creeppyfig, and it found its way home wandering through Comic-Con's exhibit hall.
We stop by the booth of artist Dominic Qwek at this year's Comic-Con. We're big fans of Dominic's sculptures and resin kits, and chat with him about his digital sculpting process and how it differs from working with physical materials like clay. His work inspires us!
In case you didn't know, Adam Savage LOVES Syfy's series the Expanse. So when he was asked to moderate the panel with its stars and producers at Comic-Con, he jumped at the chance. (By the way, if you're not watching it, you should give it a try!) Here's the panel in full.
The Tested team strolls through the massive Comic-Con exhibit hall in our annual walkthrough of the show! It's Simone's first Comic-Con, and we make sure to stop by the Star Wars, Weta Workshop, and LEGO booths to gush over costumes, collectibles, and artwork. Here are some of the best things we saw in our whirlwind tour of the floor!
It's time for Adam's Incognito walk through San Diego Comic-Con! This year, Adam's costume is a creature of his own creation--a bear suit that's more realistic than cartoonish. But he also couldn't help making it pop-culture related, so he made it inspired by the Leonardo DiCaprio film, The Revenant, complete with a Leo prop!
With every big sc-fi film release, we look forward to costume replicas that fans can cosplay at conventions. Anovos debuted new costumes from Star Trek and Star Wars at Comic-Con, and we chat with them about their process for sourcing fabrics, replicating patterns, and making costume kits.
We get up close with the beautiful helmet and prop replicas made by eFX collectibles at Comic-Con. Chatting with eFX founder Bryan Ono, we learn about how they're fabricating the Black Panther helm from Captain America: Civil War, and the process of replicating Harley Quinn's weapons from suicide squad.
We check in with the team at Chronicle Collectibles to see their latest Jurassic Park statues, marquettes, and replica props. We learn about the sourcing of the reference assets from production archives and private collections, and what fans can expect next.
We check out all the details of this Delorean Time Machine conversion at the Replica Prop Forum party!
One of our first stops at this year's Comic-Con was the Quantum Mechanix booth, where we found some amazing new scale models. John Eblan of QmX's FX Cinema Arts shows us an incredible cutaway Millennium Falcon, a new Star Trek ship, and a fully realized Milano from Guardians of the Galaxy! (Minor Star Trek Beyond spoilers within)
Ghostbusters fans have been making replicas of props and costumes from the film for decades. But not many people have taken on building their own Ecto-1 replica. We meet Sean Bishop, who has built a highly-detailed reproduction of the iconic car, both outside and in!
Adam and Norm geek out over the new Star Trek Beyond uniform and pick out the differences from the past films in the franchise. Here are some close-up details for replica costume makers to scrutinize, including what's behind the seams. Adam of course tries it on!
If you want to watch Adam's TED talk, scroll below or click here.
There's this fact that I love that I read somewhere once, that one of the things that's contributed to homo sapiens' success as a species is our lack of body hair -- that our hairlessness, our nakedness combined with our invention of clothing, gives us the ability to modulate our body temperature and thus be able to survive in any climate we choose. And now we've evolved to the point where we can't survive without clothing. And it's more than just utility, now it's a communication. Everything that we choose to put on is a narrative, a story about where we've been, what we're doing, who we want to be.
I was a lonely kid. I didn't have an easy time finding friends to play with, and I ended up making a lot of my own play. I made a lot of my own toys. It began with ice cream. There was a Baskin-Robbins in my hometown, and they served ice cream from behind the counter in these giant, five-gallon, cardboard tubs. And someone told me -- I was eight years old -- someone told me that when they were done with those tubs, they washed them out and kept them in the back, and if you asked they would give you one. It took me a couple of weeks to work up the courage, but I did, and they did. They gave me one -- I went home with this beautiful cardboard tub. I was trying to figure out what I could do with this exotic material -- metal ring, top and bottom. I started turning it over in my head, and I realized, "Wait a minute -- my head actually fits inside this thing."
Yeah, I cut a hole out, I put some acetate in there and I made myself a space helmet.
I'm sure that most of you are familiar with the foam "chuck" gliders that you can buy from toy and craft stores. They are lots of fun in their intended role, but I've always enjoyed modifying these inexpensive airframes into RC models. My knotted "Airplane!" model from 2014 is a recent example. While my chuck glider projects lean toward the whimsical and unusual, I figured out early on that these same models can also serve as low-stress trainers for new pilots.
The traditional path to earning your RC pilot's wings is to purchase an almost-ready-to-fly kit and then have an experienced pilot provide instruction over the course of several weeks or months. Even though prices for these types of models are as low as they've ever been, the cost of entry is at least $150 dollars…usually much more. That's a significant investment for someone who probably isn't quite sure if RC flying will be something they want to stick with.
Modifying a chuck glider for RC will probably cost about $50 for the airborne components. That is still not an insignificant sum, but it certainly relieves a lot of the crash anxiety that most new pilots feel. Furthermore, you can complete the conversion in a single afternoon. So there isn't much sweat equity required to get off the ground.


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Aurelian Resources Inc., together with its subsidiaries, acquires, explores, and develops gold-bearing properties in Ecuador. It owns a 100% interest in the Fruta del Norte Project that consists of 36 mining concessions covering an area of approximately 86,000 hectares located in the Cordillera del Cóndor region of Zamora–Chinchipe province, southeastern Ecuador. The company was founded in 2001 and is based in Toronto, Canada. As of December 17, 2014, Aurelian Resources Inc. operates as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Lundin Gold Inc.
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A motorcycle trip in 1952 marked a turning point for Ernesto Guevara Lynch de la Serna, a medical student returning from a journey into poverty and oppression with a vision of guerilla-style change and a new name, Che Guevara. Going on to help overthrow the Cuban government, align himself with Castro, and become elevated to martyred hero status when he was executed in Bolivia in 1967, Guevara's likeness is now commercialized and captured on T-shirts, castanets, and watches.
New York writer Patrick Symmes embarks on motorcycle tracing Guevara's route through Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Chile, and Cuba, seeking insight into what Guevara experienced and what his political movement wrought. Meeting with those who knew the young Che--among them a lover, a leper, and his motorcycle traveling cohort--proves interesting enough, though rarely insightful since some were children at the time, some are confused, and others refuse to talk openly. More revealing are Symmes's travels on his bike, nicknamed La Cucaracha. He winds through both Buenos Aires' high society and Peruvian poverty, finding a fragmented country where revolutions have brought mountain peasants fleeing to shanty towns, and where blind idealism coexists with blatant denouncement of the violent tactics used by Cuban Communists, even by Che's most respected soldiers. Beautifully written, the stories that unfold here reflect the complex contradiction that endures in Latin America three long decades after Ernesto "Che" Guevara's death. --Melissa Rossi
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In 1952, a 17-year-old, prerevolutionary Che Guevara lit out with a friend on a motorcycle trip through Latin America. It was, as he wrote in his Motorcycle Diaries, a journey that would shape his attitudes toward politics, people and revolutions. Symmes, a freelance travel writer, traversed the same route in 1996, with entertaining and illuminating results. Fluidly moving between the past and the present, he tosses out observations about Che's expedition while chronicling his own adventures. In Argentina, Symmes encounters a defensive German who insists he is not a Nazi; in Chile he visits a utopian settlement founded by a wealthy and radical environmentalist; in Peru he visits a leper colony, the same one Che visited in 1952. Refreshingly, Symmes avoids digressions of self-discovery, instead letting his book serve as a primer for recent Latin American history and his own take on the region. Symmes's prose, like the Latin America he writes about, is spotted with gems. He says pointedly, "The funny thing about a dictatorship: it was great for culture. If there was one sure way Pinochet could support poetry, it was by staging a military coup." Unsentimental and funny, this book combines the spiritedness of a gonzo journalist with a serious reporter's sense of purpose. First serial rights to Talk magazine. (Feb.)
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By the time he returns to Cuba, a year after his journey, for Che's funeral, Symmes has come to see Gueverra as a man with all convictions and contradictions of any great man.
This is a wonderful travel book, filled with history, biography, adventure as well as a dollop of humor. The writing is first rate. I hope Symmes is working on another book.
I guess my one surprise was the amount of trouble that he had with his BMW motorcycle. A friend of mine had one several years ago, the same model if not the same year, and it was almost indestructible. It had to be with my friend as the owner. So that was a disappointment.
The insights into the historical person Che became later are there, sort of sprinkled through the book as is a good look at the youth. He is not an adulator and he neither hides nor dwells on the dark side of being a committed revolutionary. Of course, Che was not yet committed at least when he started this journey. A warrior doctor along with the idea of a warrior priest has always seemed to be an oxymoron to me. The creation of exactly that which you have trained, at great cost, to fight must require conviction of a special kind. That Che was committed there can be no doubt - but why to this life course remains elusive for me. He was sensitive man, and a killer. A doctor and a soldier. A revolutionary and a mystic. Like Thomas Jefferson's utterly inexplicable slave holdings, these realities are also the reasons he still fascinates me.
I like the book. I think I would like the author and I recommend it as an interesting look at a difficult man and a romantic journey that I and perhaps you would have liked to have joined, and may still enjoy in spirit.
Mr. Symmes is impressive from a variety of perspectives. You are struck by his spirit, endurance and "guts" striving to replicate the Guevara's gritty adventure of the '50's. Curiosity to see whether Symmes and his BMW bike "Kookie" will complete the marathon alone keeps you reading. However, besides admiring his daring and iconoclasm, you find that Symmes is a solid scholar and a fine wordsmith.
The book provides an accurate and informative description of the depradations of the recent military dictatorships in Argentina and Chile, and points out the irony of how, long after he was dead, Guevara contributed to their emergence. Symmes also provides a moving description of the centuries old fate of the Latin American poor in Peru and Bolivia as well. While "up close" experience has made his perspective justifiably left of center he effectively makes his case by sticking to the unvarnished facts. He refrains from offering any half baked neo-Marxist aphorisms, and provides balance by noting the arrogance, chauvanism, pointless brutality, and ultimate hubris of Guevara, as well as the Machiavellian meglomania of Castro. The book's thesis is that Guevara the symbol and myth have ultimately have had far more global impact than any of the achievements of Guevara the man.
This book is educational, moving, and thought provoking whether you are left or right on the political spectrum. If you know little about Latin America or Che, you will learn quite a bit about this often ignored part of the world.
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I picked up this book after spending some time in Peru, not knowing much about Che except his iconic image on t-shirts of disconnected youths. Read morePublished on June 6 2004 by Paul Peters
This a great read. Engagingly written and entertaining. Che fans and motorcycling fans alike will also love "Mi Moto Fidel: Motorcycling Through Castro's Cuba," a fascinating and... Read morePublished on Jan. 16 2004
Almost 50 years after Che's Motorcycle Diaries, Symmes recreates the journey on a BMW-R80. Covering over 10,000 miles of open road and experiencing several mechanical breakdowns... Read morePublished on Aug. 14 2003 by Tony Theil
Patrick Symmes killed me with his book CHASING CHE, squashing me somewhere between Che and the peasant who generously offered him a pineapple, gratis. Read morePublished on Jan. 24 2003 by C Ewing
If you are searching for yet another book praising Che and the Revolution, find something else. However, if you wish to find one human's extraordinary story of learning of himself... Read morePublished on June 19 2001
well written, very entertaining. sometimes a little too much detail. A great summary of recent political history of the countries visited. Not as adventurous as Che, of course. Read morePublished on May 19 2001 by dd
Patrick Symmes created an excellent work. "Chasing Che" is an accurate and concise recent history lesson. Read morePublished on Nov. 30 2000 by martin


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