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Through a process failure on our part, the Modern Warfare 2 Stimulus Package was released this morning before the Title Update (TU) for MW2 was available.
Unfortunately, the Stimulus Package doesn't function correctly without the TU. Once they had been released out of order, it wasn't a simple thing for us to resolve. For a couple of hours the result was unpredictable but most people couldn't get into a game through matchmaking. In technical terms, it was a big hairball that we had to unwind.
The TU and Matchmaking issues were resolved shortly after 11AM Pacific. Unfortunately, we're still working through some billing issues. These are primarily around the redeeming of POSA cards – POSA stands for "Point of Sale Activation". These are the cards that you buy at a retail store that they then activate for you at the checkout register. Some cards that were properly activated at the retailer are reporting back to us as not having been activated yet. You haven't done anything wrong, you won't lose your money, and you don't need to go back to the store – just hang in there and try again in a few hours. The Stimulus Package has been so popular that our POSA vendors that make those magic point cards work are a little backed up.
Other billing features are seeing intermittent problems as well, but at a far lower rate than POSA redemption. You're most likely to notice this when trying to redeem a code through Xbox.com, but you may see it on the console as well. The team has been working all of these issues on your behalf nonstop, and will continue to do so until the last of them are resolved.
As always, keep an eye on the Support page on Xbox.com and the XboxSupport Twitter for the most current information.
just want to say thanks for the descriptive info about what happened. a lot of the time the frustration expressed over problems like this comes from simply not knowing the facts. posts like this go a long way towards calming the waters. thanks again.
They should give us all the map pack for free. It would be a nice gesture towards us so we don't all go out and buy a ps3. I'm just sayin'.
it was kind of a ripoff that only "random" modes were allowed with the new maps. wicked bummed out. i only play death match, so i pretty much got the maps for nothing now. waste of 1200pts so far!
Hey, e, why did the MW2 issues seem to affect BFBC2 as well...
Kind of an inconvenience that the Point Of Sale cards are not working. I would hope that you offer some kind of compensation for the people that you have inconvenienced with this problem today. Afterall, we are already paying for Xbox live GOLD memberships.
Thanks for the update. Get it working.
I am starting to think this map pack should be free. Us gamers have been through too much just for 1 download it is not right. HIT ME UP ON XBL JORC914
This is unacceptable. No more apologies. "I'm sorry," doesn't cut it when you people consistently screw up and waste everyone's time, causing issues that wouldn't have happened if you had even the slightest modicum of quality control. Pathetic.
The new maps are cool, but not having gameplay choice sucks! I don't ever play Search & Destroy, Domination, or HQ, so not to have a choice blows. Many people only play Team Deathmatch or Hard Core Deathmatch. XBOX never stated in the trailers this would be the case. Also, in the past when I (WE) bought new "Map Packs" I (WE) always had choice of gameplay. $20 worth of Micro pts. is hardly a "Stimulus". Very dissapointed, & that pains me to write this cause I (WE) love this game.
These scumbags charge us out the ass for this material, yet they can't even do anything to have it launch right. Not only did they screw up the map packs, but they managed to break features of xbox live COMPLETELY unrelated to MW2 in the process. Good job, idiots.
Xbox Live its still lagging on the stimulus playlist.
Thanks for the updates and the hard work getting it fixed!
It says on twitter that the new maps and double xp will be added to the rest of the playlists tomorrow.
But yeah... no apologies? whatsoever?
I actually think theyre giving it a test run on the xbox, considering how it isnt working 100%, so be glad PS3 guy, although they are being a jerk. I'd be pissed off too in your situation.
I bought it this morning then followed up with the TU so that was fine (or I think it was). Once that was done I couldn't connect for like an hour but then I finally got a game. Maybe tonight it will be fine since everyone should have the TU?


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Orange Syrup
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The orange syrup is a orange gold tangy syrup that is perfect to go over pancakes in the morning for breakfast or for snacks. Prepared with orange concentrate, the orange syrup also incorporates evaporated milk and butter. Orange syrup can be used over ice cream too.
|Soft butter
|1⁄4 Cup (4 tbs)
|Frozen orange juice concentrate
|1⁄4 Cup (4 tbs)
|Evaporated milk
|1⁄4 Cup (4 tbs)
|Brown sugar
|1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs)
Put all ingredients into the Osterizer container.
Cover and process at MIX until smooth.
Serve on ice cream or pancakes.
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Serving size: Complete recipe
Calories 982 Calories from Fat 447
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 51 g78.3%
Saturated Fat 32.1 g160.4%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 140.6 mg46.9%
Sodium 74.1 mg3.1%
Total Carbohydrates 135 g44.9%
Dietary Fiber 0 g
Sugars 133.5 g
Protein 6 g11.8%
Vitamin A 31.3% Vitamin C 2%
Calcium 18.1% Iron 0.74%
*Based on a 2000 Calorie diet
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Old Dominion got 23 points from Keenan Palmore en route to an 81-70 victory over East Carolina on Saturday at Williams Arena at Minges Coliseum.
Old Dominion was an underdog by 4 points and came through with an ATS victory for bettors.
Aaron Bacote had 18 points for Old Dominion and Dimitri Batten chipped in with 12 points. Aaron Bacote had 6 assists for them, while Richard Ross was the team's top rebounder, grabbing 6 boards.
East Carolina got 21 points from Paris Roberts-Campbell in a losing cause and another 14 points from Akeem Richmond. Prince Williams contributed 5 assists for them, while Paris Roberts-Campbell had 7 rebounds.
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I arrive home from work and pull into the driveway of our new, foothills bungalow. It is early evening. G sits on the front steps and looks straight up in the air. There is a black hang-glider circling directly above. A flock of ravens follows him closely. A white hang-glider followed by white birds joins him. They circle together high above us like a spinning yin-yang symbol. Suddenly, the white glider plummets to earth like a rocket and lands somewhere behind our house. I dash around back, worried that he may have landed on a neighbor's roof and I won't be able to find him. A little girl runs toward me from behind the neighbor houses yelling "call Lovelace!". I don't have my keys with me so I decide to save some time by entering our house through a back window. I start to crawl through but find I first must move a bunch of little bottles and plants out of the way. "Fuck it", I say and crawl back out. I run around to the front door. Once inside, I begin to search frantically for the yellow pages. I search all the drawers in our antique white credenza, but find only place mats, candles and small toys. I recall that G told me where she had planned to put the new phone books but now I don't remember. Finally, I locate them in a stack on the floor by the couch. I look up Lovelace and find the number for the emergency room. Above it I see the number for "Ambulance": 15000. With cordless phone in hand I start pushing buttons but soon realize the phone has buttons on both sides and I have been using the wrong side. Now I've forgotten the number and have to look it up again. I start to dial on the wrong side again but catch myself this time and flip it over. I call the number and a woman answers. Now flustered, I can't remember our new house number or even our street name. I run outside to look at our house number: 64, 65, 134f, 3900. I ask the woman to hold while I run up the street to check the street sign on the first cross street. When I reach the sign, it reads "this sign has been removed due to vandalism". Below the sign is another carved into a log that says "Thistle and Spinner Bait Shoppe ->". It has a carved picture of Smokey the Bear in waders fishing in a stream. I hadn't noticed it until now, but on the other side of our street a raging mountain stream has been flowing. I enter the crowded little bait shop, phone still in hand, and ask the first guy I see what street this is. "Cabo ______", he says. He is standing next to the curly-haired guy who played the crazed sailor who heard ghosts tapping in a sunken submarine in an old Twilight Zone episode. It is now completely dark and the phone seems to have gone dead.
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I'm just wondering what guarantees, if any, either C11 or C99 provides in this regard.
Empirically, it seems that when I convert a floating-point value (regardless of its precision) to a signed integer, I get "nice" saturation whenever the floating-point value isn't representable in that signed integer range, even in the event that the floating-point value is plus or minus infinity (but I don't know or care about the NaN case).
There's a subtle issue here, which is that differences in rounding behavior could cause saturation in some cases but not in others, particularly when we're right on the edge of the a saturation boundary. I'm not concerned about that. My question is whether, once the floating-point machinery has decided upon the integer that it needs to output (which is platform-dependent), but in the event that said integer lies outside of the target signed integer range (which is platform-independent), whether or not saturation is guaranteed by the spec.
My default understanding is that what I'm seeing is merely a convenience of the underlying hardware, and that such behavior is not guaranteed because signed overflow is undefined. I hope I'm wrong, because I hate signed overflow and am trying to avoid it. So yes I'm also interested in the case of conversion to unsigned integers.
While I'm at it, what about negative 0? Is this value guaranteed to convert to integer zero, even though in some sense you could think of it as negative epsilon, which conventionally would round to -1?


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'Avatar' blasts past 'Sherlock Holmes' to win a record box office weekend
Moviegoers brought holiday cheer to Hollywood studios over the weekend setting a record for an overall cume with a massive $265 million total. Leading the way, none other than James Cameron's "Avatar" which made a comeback opposite Friday's winner "Sherlock Holmes" and 20th Century Fox stablemate "Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakuel" for an impressive $75 million weekend and an eye-popping $212.2 million so far.
"Avatar" had a nice jump to from $23.5 to $28.5 million from Friday to Saturday, unlike "Holmes" which fell from $24 million to $21 million over the same to time frame. While that may be a tad disconcerning for Warner Bros., the Robert Downey Jr. adventure's kick off of $65.4 million is pretty strong considering the competition. And both films should continue to play well through the holiday and New Year's weekend.
In third place was "Alvin" deux with a $50.2 million weekend and $77.1 million to date. The original made $217 million, but it's unclear whether the better reviewed sequel can equal that total with so much competition in the market. Fox will have a better idea after the midweek numbers come in, but have to be happy with the start so far.
Fourth place went to "It's Complicated" with an estimated $22.1 million 3-day. The Meryl Streep adult romantic comedy is director Nancy Meyer's biggest opening since "What Women Want" in 2000 and that's a nice late Christmas gift for the folks sweating it out at Universal Pictures.
Fifth place was a very tight battle between "Up in the Air' and "The Blind Side" with $11.8 and $11.7 respectively. For "Air" in particular, this is an O.K. result considering the heavy competition. The Jason Reitman dramedy didn't blow explode at the box office, but it provided more than solid results to keep the film's Best Picture hopes alive. Although, Paramount would have probably been a bit happier with closer to $13-14 million. Like "Alvin" and "Holmes" they will be hoping to ride the week and New Year's to a strong January run.
As for Sandra Bullock's "Blind Side," the melodrama continues an amazing run with a new cume of $184.3 million. $200 million is next and its already the biggest hit of Bullock's career beating this summer's $169 million take for "The Proposal."
There was some coal in the stockings of one studio, however. Rob Marshall's musical "Nine" expanded to 1,412 theaters and grossed only $5.5 million. How the $85 million budgeted picture (not sure where the $65 million report is coming from) will shake out will be a curious story to watch. "Most" musicals have a big opening day due to pent up fan demand and then settle back into a more traditional run. In December of 2004, "Phantom of the Opera" opened to a much more potent $4 million on only 626. The Joel Schumacher musical received just as many negative notices as "Nine," but found a steady stream of patrons to gross $51 million domestically and another $103 million overseas. In November of 2005, the bomb "Rent had a monster opening day, but crashed back to earth with only $10 million over it's first weekend ending up with just $29 million when all was said and done. How will "Nine" pan out? It's clearly not in the "Chicago," "Dreamgirls" or "Hairspray" stratosphere, that's for sure. Could it's chances at a Best Picture nomination be faltering as well? Something to watch for as January's award season progresses.
In limited release, Heath Ledger's last film, Terry Gilliam's "The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus," has a rather strong start with $130,000 in only four theaters for a $32,500 average. The well reviewed adventure expands nationwide on Jan. 8. For more on the limited releases of "Crazy Heart," "A Single Man," "Broken Embraces," "Young Victoria" and more, check out the rundown on Indiewire.
Here's a rundown of the top ten estimates for the weekend according to Box Office Mojo. Final results will be released on Monday.
1."Avatar," $75 million, $212.2 million to date.
2."Sherlock Holmes," $65.3 million
3."Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakuel," $50.2 million, $77 million to date.
4."It's Complicated," $22.1 million.
5."Up in the Air," $11.75 million, $24.5 million to date.
6."The Blind Side," $11.73 million, $184.3 million to date.
7."The Princess and the Frog," $8.6 million, $63.5 million to date.
8. "Nine," $5.5 million, $5.9 million to date.
9."Did You Hear About The Morgans?" $5 million, $15.5 million to date.
10. "Invictus," $4.3 million, $23.3 million to date.


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Gary Beach keeps character research a secret
The New York Post reports that out actor Gary Beach, currently sailing across the stage as The Producers flamboyant Roger De Bris, will not reveal on whom the creation is based. Cant tell that, Beach remarks, or Ill be dead. He intimates that the character is perhaps a collective one, adding, If in your lifetime youve been in at least two musicals in the theater, then you definitely know a Roger De Bris.


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The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ
|Philip Pullman
|Canongate Books
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The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ is a novel by Philip Pullman. Published in 2010 by Canongate Books,[1] as part of the Canongate Myth Series, it retells the story of Jesus as if he were two people, brothers, "Jesus" and "Christ," with contrasting personalities; Jesus being a moral and godly man, and his brother Christ a calculating figure who wishes to use Jesus' legacy to found a powerful Church.[2][3]
Pullman's historical understanding has been criticised by Jesuit theologian Professor Gerald O'Collins.[4] Diarmaid MacCulloch reviewed the book positively for Literary Review.[5] Brian McClorry concluded, "Is it Pullman who is the scoundrel as O'Collins suggests? I don't think so... There are some failures of historical imagination, and some real successes of Pullman's storytelling avocation... All this is honourable enough, though I'd back O'Collins both in being honourable and in having a better sense of that truth which is in history.".
- ^ "Philip Pullman's 'Scoundrel Christ' gets the "enhanced" treatment". The Independent (Independent Print Limited). 2010-03-29. Retrieved 2010-12-03.
- ^ Philip Pullman creates a darker Christ in new assault on the church (retrieved 30 March 2010)
- ^ Philip Pullman to publish novel about 'the Scoundrel Christ' (retrieved 30 March 2010)
- ^ Gerald O'Collins, 2010, Philip Pullman's Jesus, Darton Longman and Todd, ISBN 978-0-232-52806-0. Both books have been reviewed by Brian McClorry S.J..
- ^ MacCulloch, Diarmaid. "All Too Human", Literary Review, retrieved 9 January 2011
External links[edit]
- The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ website
- Review of Philip Pullman's Jesus and The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ
- Sermon given at Westminster Abbey on The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ
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Writing an Alphanumeric Pager Server for Linux
Alphanumeric pages—at least the type we will consider here—are delivered via modem. To deliver a page, we connect to our service provider, communicate with it through its specified protocol, receive a confirmation that the page has been delivered, then disconnect.
To send a message to someone, we need to know two things about them: their pager service dial-up number and their PIN (personal identification number). Alphanumeric pager owners should be able to contact their pager service provider and get this information with little trouble.
Several protocols are used for delivering pages. The most popular (and among the simplest) is IXO, named after the company which invented it. It's also been called TAP (Telocator Alpha-entry Protocol) and PET (Personal Entry Terminal); these names were assigned to it by other companies over its history.
In this article, I will talk solely about the IXO protocol. It is a bit involved so I won't go into great detail, but it is relatively straightforward. In brief summary, here is a description of the overall transaction between the remote dial-up site (us, when delivering a page) and the pager service provider.
First, we establish a connection and get the service's attention. After the service acknowledges our intent to transmit a message, we declare our wish to enter automatic mode—this is the simplest method through which to transmit a message, although in rare cases we may want to use manual mode.
We wait for the service to acknowledge our request. When we get the go-ahead signal to send the content of our message, we send a series of fields. Usually we would send two fields, consisting of the PIN of the pager to which we wish to send a message, and the message. We follow the message with a checksum, so the provider can verify (to some degree) that our message has been faithfully received. Finally, once we receive an acknowledgement that our message has been received, we politely request to be disconnected and drop carrier.
The IXO protocol (see Resources) supports sending multiple pages to the same service, but not necessarily the same pager, during a single transaction. Thus, this method provides the possibility for optimization in a large-scale service, if we find many pages are being sent concurrently to people using the same service, i.e., the same dial-up number.
To start with, we'll need a mechanism for identifying each pager to which we want to send messages; we'll call them profiles. As mentioned earlier, there are two things we need in order to be able to send messages to a particular pager: the phone number of its pager service and the PIN of that particular pager. These may be kept in configuration files, which an administration program can edit and delete.
If we want to support multiple modems—that is, the ability to deliver multiple pages simultaneously—we also need to know about and keep track of the physical modems. We'll call them devices. As with profiles, we'll keep a list of the devices allocated to our server in a configuration file.
Concurrent page delivery should take advantage of multiprocessing; use fork to send multiple pages simultaneously with different devices. This makes things much simpler in terms of the overall flow control and doesn't pose any significant problems, since we can simply check the exit status (succeed or fail) of the subprocess through waitpid and take action accordingly.
We'll keep the list of devices handy, and when we are delivering a page using one, flag it as busy. Unless we're going to be running on a system where the modems are dedicated solely to our server, we will almost certainly want to use standard lockfiles, in addition to flagging the devices as used. (Even if the modems truly are dedicated, it can't hurt to be extra careful.) This will prevent other processes from interfering with our server while it is actually in the process of delivering a page.
Alphanumeric pagers tend to be limited in terms of how many characters a message can display; the typical maximum-length support with the IXO protocol is 256 characters, including the PIN expressed as a string, so in practice it's usually closer to 250.
People who get a lot of pages frequently run into this limit, particularly when longer messages (such as e-mail or notes) are being sent. A useful solution is to implement a filter, which processes messages to be sent and does simple searches and replaces in order to substitute shorter equivalents for commonly appearing words and phrases. For instance, the word "and" might be represented with an ampersand (&), "talk to you later" might be abbreviated TTYL, and so on.
Filters could also be used to provide a form of security through obscurity. With most pagers, messages delivered over the airwaves are not secure; anyone with the right equipment can intercept them. This means, obviously, that the average person would probably not want their name, address and other private information being transmitted over the air. A simple choice of filters could replace this sensitive information with abbreviations recognizable to the party receiving the page, but meaningless to anyone else.
It would also be straightforward to implement a filter based on regular expressions, using the POSIX regex library. Since both the simple and regular expression searches are relatively straightforward, I will leave them as an exercise to the reader.
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