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Steam today represents a billion-dollar operation staffed by hundreds. But has the platform's meteoric rise restricted Valve's capacity to actually create games?
We haven't had a proper Valve-bred IP since The Orange Box games Team Fortress 2 and Half-Life 2: Episode 2 arrived more than three years ago.
Brad Wardell - leader of Stardock, the company behind Steam rival Impulse - drew on personal experience to argue that yes, Steam's success has "definitely had an effect" on Valve as a game maker.
"Even though Valve is in Seattle, where you can get developers everywhere, [Steam's] had an effect on their own development schedule. There's not been a new Half-Life in a long time; a lot of people have complained about that," Wardell explained to IndustryGamers.
"[Valve has] had their own challenges getting new titles out the door, and a big part of that I'm sure is the same problems we've had. When one of your groups is so ridiculously profitable, every business instinct you have is to throw all your best people at it, because that's what's making the money. That's just sound business. At the end of the day, again you have decide if that's what you want to do.
"Steam and Valve - of the companies out there I would say we're the most similar. Obviously they're bigger and far more successful than our games unit is, but culturally they're pretty similar. If you were to look at a time-line of games developed in-house by Valve not developed externally and then acquired and you look at before Steam and after Steam, it's definitely had an effect," he added.
"I don't argue that that's a good thing or bad thing, but I do know the effect that's had on us, where I've had to put some of my top developers over the years onto Impulse to make sure it was getting better and better."
Since the 2007 release of Half-Life 2: Episode 2 and Team Fortress 2, Valve has launched Portal, Left 4 Dead, Left 4 Dead 2 and Alien Swarm. Portal 2 is imminent and DOTA2 (Defense of the Ancients 2) has been announced with a tentative 2011 date.
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What happened to Half-Life 2: Episode 3, Valve? And more importantly, is there a Half-Life 3? There are few announcement platforms on the scale E3 this summer. Is it Valve's turn this year? Maybe, just maybe.
Video: Half-Life 2: Episode 2 - the last Valve thoroughbred.
Garry Newman set a trap within Garry's Mod to expose people pirating his work.
"Anyone unable to shade polygon normals?" asked Newman on Twitter.
Hours later he added: "Just enabled this error in GMod today. It happens when you pirated it. Having fun watching people complain."
A search for "unable to shade polygon normals" turns up plenty of results on Google.
There are even pirates asking for help dealing with the error on the official Garry's Mod forum.
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At 6am on 7th May 2004, Axel Gembe awoke in the small German town of Schönau im Schwarzwald to find his bed surrounded by police officers. Automatic weapons were pointing at his head and the words "Get out of bed. Do not touch the keyboard" were ringing in his ears.
Gembe knew why they were there. But, bleary-eyed, he asked anyway.
"You are being charged with hacking into Valve Corporation's network, stealing the videogame Half-Life 2, leaking it onto the internet and causing damages in excess of $250 million," came the reply. "Get dressed."
Seven months earlier, on 2nd October 2003, Valve Corporation director Gabe Newell awoke in the large American city of Seattle to find the source code for the game his company had been working on for almost five years had leaked onto the internet.
The game had been due for release a couple of weeks earlier but the development team was behind. 12 months behind. Half-Life 2 was going to be late, and Newell had yet to admit how late. Such a leak was not only financially threatening but deeply embarrassing.
After a few moments pondering these immediate concerns, an avalanche of questions tumbled through Newell's mind. How had this happened? Had the leak come from within Valve? Which member of his team, having given years of their life to building the game, would jeopardise the project in the final hour?
If it wasn't an inside job, how the hell did it happen? Did someone have access to Valve's internal server?
But the question which rang out loudest of all was the one anyone who has ever had something stolen from them cannot push from their mind: who did this?
"I got into hacking by being infected myself," Gembe says today. "It was a program that pretended to be a Warcraft III key generator and I was stupid enough to run it. It was an sdbot, a popular general purpose malware at the time."
The young German soon realised what he had installed on his PC. But instead of scrubbing the malware and forgetting about it, he reverse engineered the program to see how it worked and what it did.
This led him to an IRC server from which the malware was being controlled. By following the trail back, Gembe was able to track down its operator. Rather than confronting the man, Gembe began asking him questions about the malware. He had a plan.
"While I have a 2000 Steam account nowadays, at the time I couldn't afford to buy games," he explains.
"So I coded my own malware to steal CD keys in order to unlock the titles I wanted to play. It grew quickly to one of the most prominent malwares at the time, mostly because I started writing exploits for some unpatched vulnerabilities in Windows."
On discovering the breach, Newell's first thought was to go to the police. His second was to go to the players.
At 11pm on 2nd October 2003, Newell posted a thread on the official Half-Life 2 forum titled, "I need the assistance of the community."
"Yes, the source code that has been posted is the HL-2 source code," he admitted in the post. Newell went on to outline the facts Valve had been able to piece together so far.
He explained that someone had gained access to his email account around three weeks earlier. Not only that, but keystroke recorders had been installed on various machines at the company. According to Newell, these had been created specifically to target Valve as they were not recognised by any virus-scanning applications.
Whoever had done this was smart, capable and specifically interested in his company. But why?
Gembe's malware crimes, while undeniably exploitative and damaging, were crimes driven by a passion for games rather than profits.
His favourite game of all was Half-Life. In 2002, like so many fans of the series, Gembe was hungry for details about the forthcoming sequel. That's when he had the idea. If Gembe could hack into Valve's network, he might be able to find something out about the game nobody else knew yet.
A socially awkward loner who had endured a tough upbringing, he would gain status in the community of gamers he had adopted as his family by offering up such insider information. It was worth a try.
"I wasn't really expecting to get anywhere," Gembe says. "But the first entry was easy. In fact, it happened by accident.
"I was scanning Valve's network to check for accessible web servers where I thought information about the game might have been held. Valve's network was reasonably secure from the outside, but the weakness was that their name server allowed anonymous AXFRs, which gave me quite a bit of information."
AXFR stands for Asynchronous Full Zone Transfer, a tool used to synchronize backup DNS servers with the same data as the primary server. But it's also a protocol used by hackers to sneak a peek at a website's data. By transferring this data, Gembe was able to discover the names of all the subdomains of ValveSoftware.com.
"In the port scan logs, I found an interesting server which was in Valve's network range from another corporation named Tangis that specialised in wearable computing devices," he says.
"This server had a publically writable web root where I could upload ASP scripts and execute them via the web server. Valve didn't firewall this server from its internal network."
Gembe had found an unguarded tunnel into the network on his first attempt.
"The Valve PDC had an username "build" with a blank password," he explains. "This allowed me to dump the hashed passwords for the system. At the time the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich offered an online cracker for hashes, so I was able to crack the passwords in no time."
"Once I had done that... Well, basically I had the keys to the kingdom."
At this point, Gembe wasn't bothered about covering his tracks. So far he had nothing to hide. But he wanted to ensure he would remain undetected as he explored further.
"All I cared about at that point was not being thrown out," he says. "But I had access to an almost unlimited amount of proxy servers, so I wasn't worried. My first job was to find a host where I could set up some sort of hideout."
Gembe began poking around for information about the game. He found various design documents and notes about the game's creation. This was what he had come looking for. This was why he was here.
As the weeks rolled by, Gembe realised nobody at Valve had noticed he was inside the company's network. He began to push a little harder.
That's when he hit the payload: the source code for the game he had been waiting to play for so many years.
The temptation was too great. On 19th September 2003, Gembe hit the download button and made off with Valve's crown jewels.
"Getting the source code was easy, thanks to the network performance of the Perforce client, but the SourceSafe client for the game data was horrible," he explains.
"Because of this I coded my own client that basically had its own transfer mechanism over TCP, detected changed files by hashing them and transferred the changes.
"The game didn't run on my computer. I made some code changes to get it to run in a basic form without shaders or anything, but it wasn't fun. Also, I only had the main development trunk of the game. They had so many development branches that I couldn't even begin to check them all out."
To this day, Gembe maintains he was not the person who uploaded the source code to the internet. But there's no denying he handed it over to whoever did.
"I didn't think it through," he says. "There was, of course, an element of bragging going on. But the person I shared the source with assured me he would keep it to himself. He didn't."
Once the game was on Bit Torrent, there was no containing it.
"The cat was out of the bag," says Gembe. "You cannot stop the internet."
The response of the community to Newell's plea for help was mixed. While many expressed their sympathy at the theft, others felt betrayed by Valve for being led to believe the game would be ready for its scheduled launch in late 2003.
Despite a few leads, nobody was able to provide information about who might have perpetrated the crime. The FBI became involved in the investigation but also drew blanks.
Meanwhile the team at Valve, which had been in crunch mode for months, was left reeling by the leak. The game was costing the company $1 million a month to build and the end was still far from sight. The leak had not only caused financial damage but had demotivated a tired team. One young designer asked Newell, "Is this going to destroy the company?"
At 6:18am on 15th February 2004, Valve's MD received an email with a blank subject line from sender 'Da Guy'.
"Hello Gabe," the author began, before going on to claim responsibility for infiltrating Valve's network months earlier.
Newell was unsure whether to believe the story at first. But two attached documents, both of which could only have been obtained by someone with access to private areas of Valve's server, proved the sender's claims were valid.
Five months after Half-Life 2 was released onto the internet, long after all leads had gone cold, Newell's man had turned up on his doorstep.
Why did Gembe send that email? "Because I was sorry for what happened," he says. "I wanted them to know who did this thing, and that my intention was never for things to work out the way they did."
But that wasn't all that Gembe was after. The young man saw a way he could create a positive outcome from his crime, both for Valve and himself. In a separate email, he asked if Newell would consider giving him a job.
"I was very naïve back then," he says. "It was and still is my dream to work for a game development company, so I just asked. I hoped that they could forgive what I had done, mostly because it wasn't intentional."
To Gembe's surprise, Newell wrote back a few days later saying yes, Valve was interested. He asked if Gembe would agree to a phone interview.
The real motivation behind the suggestion was not to discover whether Gembe would be a strong candidate for a position within the company. It was to obtain an on-the-record admission from Gembe that he had been responsible for the leak. It's an old FBI trick, designed to gain a confession by appealing to a person's sense of pride.
Gembe had his suspicions but he pushed them to the back of his mind. "I hoped for the best," he says. "I was not the brightest kid back then."
He recalls the phone interview being conducted by Alfred Reynolds, developer on Counter-Strike and Steam, and Portal writer Erik Wolpaw, but says he could be wrong. (In fact, Wolpaw says he had yet to join the company at this point.)
"At first they wanted to know how I hacked into the network. I told them in full detail. Then they asked me about my experience and skills. I still remember they were surprised that I spoke fluent English without much of an accent."
The trio talked for 40 minutes. Any sense of guilt dissipated for Gembe in the presence of his heroes. But that was nothing compared to the adrenaline rush he felt when he received an invitation to a second interview. This one would be face-to-face at Valve's headquarters in Seattle, on American soil.
Having set the trap, Valve and the FBI needed to obtain a visa for Gembe (and his father and brother, as he had asked if they could accompany him to the US). But there were concerns about the ongoing access Gembe had to Valve's servers and the potential damage he could still cause. So the FBI contacted the German police, alerting them to the plan.
It was soon after this that Gembe awoke to find himself staring down the barrel of a gun. He got dressed and headed downstairs, escorted by the armed policemen squeezed into the small hallways of his father's house.
"Can I get something to eat before we leave?" asked Gembe.
"No problem," said one of the policemen.
Gembe reached for a kitchen knife to cut some bread. "Every policeman in the room raised his rifle at me," he says.
After drinking a cup of coffee and smoking a cigarette, Gembe climbed into the back of a van and was driven to the local police station. There he was greeted by the police chief. He walked up to Gembe, looked him in the eye and said, "Have you any idea how lucky you are that we got to you before you got on that plane?"
Gembe was interrogated by the police for three hours. "Most of the questions they asked me were about the Sasser-Worm," he says, referring to a particularly vicious malware that affects computers running vulnerable versions of Windows XP and Windows 2000.
"For some reason they thought there was a connection between me and Sasser, which I denied. Sasser was big news back then and its author, Sven Jaschan, was raided the same day as me in a co-ordinated operation, because they thought I could warn him.
"My bot used the same vulnerability in the LSASS service that his did, except it didn't crash the host system, so I guess they thought I gave him the exploit code. Of course I denied this and told them that I never write such shoddy code."
After the police began to realise there was no link between Gembe and the Sasser-Worm, they moved on to asking him about Valve.
"I could have refused to answer and demanded an attorney, but I chose to tell them everything I knew honestly and completely, which I guess they appreciated," he says. "The guy questioning me liked me because, he said, 'You are not an asshole like most of the other guys.' That department has to deal mostly with child porn.
"I guess I was so open with them because I didn't believe I did much wrong, at the time."
Gembe was remanded in custody for two weeks. He was released once the police were determined he wasn't about to flee, with the proviso that he check-in with them three times a week, every week, for three years, until his trial.
While waiting for his day in court, Gembe worked hard to change his life. He finished an apprenticeship and got a job in the security sector, writing Windows applications to manage security systems and performing database and server administration work.
Axel Gembe's trial lasted for seven hours. No one from Valve was present, though someone from the Wall Street Journal turned up. Security breach aside, there was no evidence to suggest Gembe had been responsible for pushing the Half-Life 2 source code on the internet.
However, Gembe admitted to hacking into Valve's network. The judge sentenced him to two years' probation, citing his rough childhood and the way he had worked to turn his life around as considerations when it came to deciding on the relatively lenient punishment.
By the time of the trial 8.6 million copies of Half-Life 2 had been sold, its success seemingly unaffected by the leak of 4th October 2003.
Today Gembe is 28. Nearly a decade on, he is remorseful about the Half-Life 2 episode.
"I was naïve and did things that I should never have done," he says. "There were so many better uses of my time. I regret having caused Valve Software trouble and financial loss. I also regret having caused some universities financial harm by using them as speed tests for my malware.
"Basically I regret all the illegal things I did at that time... And I regret not doing anything worthwhile with my life before I got busted."
What of the man he stole a game from? What would Axel Gembe say to Gabe Newell today?
"I would say this: I am so very sorry for what I did to you. I never intended to cause you harm. If I could undo it, I would. It still makes me sad thinking about it. I would have loved to just stay and watch you do your thing, but in the end I screwed it up.
"You are my favorite developer, and I will always buy your games."
Digital download platform Steam controls half to 70 per cent of the $4 billion market for downloaded PC games, according to a new report.
Steam is "tremendously profitable", Valve co-founder Gabe Newell revealed for a Forbes profile.
250 people work at the Half-Life and Portal maker and, Newell said, per employee Valve is more profitable than Google and Apple. "Various sources" value the company at $2 billion to $4 billion, Forbes reports.
Steam's impressive rise to the top of the PC download tree has been one of the videogame success stories of the past decade.
In October last year Valve announced Steam accounts had grown by 178 per cent year-on-year. Sales grew over 200 per cent and over 200 Steamworks games had been shipped.
There are over 30 million active Steam accounts, and over 1200 games available from the service. Over six million unique gamers access Steam each day.
According to Forbes, publishers earn a gross margin of around 70 per cent on Steam compared with 30 per cent via retail shops.


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Deve Gowda demands setting up of a national committee on nuclear dealNovember 17th, 2007 - 5:02 pm ICT by admin
New Delhi, Nov 17 (ANI): Former Prime Minister and J D (S) supremo, H D Deve Gowda, has demanded setting up of a 'national committee' comprising of representatives from a large gamut of political parties, scientists, defence forces, energy experts, media, foreign affairs and strategic experts, academicians, and eminent citizens to derive an opinion about the utility of having the contentious Indo-US civilian nuclear cooperation.
In an article titled, "Against unilateralism, for a consensus", that was published on Saturday in The Hindu, Deve Gowda writes: "Any decision on the nuclear deal should be taken within the parameters of the recommendations of such a national committee."
"If even after that there is no consensus, let the people of India decide. Let there be the nation's first ever referendum on this issue," he adds.
Gowda, whose party formed the coalition government with the BJP in Karnataka, after withdrawing its support from the Congress coalition in the State nearly two years ago, states: "The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) and its Left allies are behaving as if only they have to decide on an issue concerning the future of the nation, which has also elected to Parliament several members like us in order to safeguard national interest. The nuclear deal is no more an ego issue between the ruling allies."
Commenting on the deal, Gowda says that he has never seen so much heat generated over any such bilateral agreement before.
"The deal pertains not only to our relationship with a country that is not known for its respect for the sovereignty of other nations, but also to our energy security, our hitherto consensual foreign policy, and above all, our right to make independent decisions," he says.
Calling himself as 'not a prolific writer', Deve Gowda says that he was compelled to pen his thoughts since he did not get an opportunity to express his opinion on the issue in the Parliament.
"What we are witnessing today is rigmarole, a circus, involving the ruling partners and the rest of the nation, including the opposition, helplessly watching it as spectators," he says, adding: "All the parties appear to be confused over what exactly this nuclear deal is all about and what the opposition to it is all about."
"While some parties want to project the nuclear deal as a great achievement, others want to highlight it as a great betrayal. Now, it certainly cannot be both. The truth apparently lies somewhere in between," he writes.
Deve Gowda has put forth several questions over the deal, particularly those raised by nuke deal opponents such as whether there are other less harmful cheaper alternatives, including non-conventional energy sources, which can be tapped effectively at a fraction of the cost and can take care of country's energy security needs, whether the US Hyde Act supersede international agreements, and whether the growing proximity to the US and Israel would impede India's traditionally strong relationship with the Islamic countries. (ANI)
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text: 26 April 2013Actress Demi Moore has revealed her top skincare tips � straight from the red carpet. The Indecent Proposal star looked healthy and happy at the AFI �Night at the Movies� in Hollywood on April 24. She wore a loose-fitting black Valentino jumpsuit as she posed alongside pop star Cher, 66.Moore's face looked smooth and wrinkle-free thanks to diligent skincare and regular Botox injections. Her beauty secrets include taking scrupulous care of her skin and wearing lots of moisturiser. "My skin is very sensitive, so I use only fragrance-free, simple, pure products," said Moore, 50. "And I moisturise, moisturise, moisturise! That's the most important lesson my mother passed on to me and I say it to my daughters all the time. "No matter how late of a night it is when I get home, I take the time to clean and moisturise my face. If you focus on good skin care, your skin will be balanced and then you really won't need a lot of makeup." Although she claims she has never had any cosmetic surgery to her face, Moore once spent a reported �220,000 on a full surgical makeover. It was also rumoured that Moore employed a team of advisers, including a nutritionist, personal trainer, yoga teacher and kick-boxing coach, to keep her in top condition.


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This is the year when Jean-Claude Juncker's 'Last Chance' Commission must chalk up worthwhile achievements and shake off the sense of inertia that already risks turning into full retreat.
The theatrics of Brexit overshadowed much of 2017, but with the UK-EU relationship hopefully relegated to the intricacies of behind-closed-doors trade negotiations, the Union should focus public attention on key topics that will determine the European elections of mid-2019.
It may be tempting to hand over the keys to Europe's future to French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. But the latter has emerged weakened from the elections and the French leader, for all his verve and energy, needs the support of the EU executive.
It's now or never. By the end of this year, Juncker will be a lame duck president, and his Commission's drive and authority will be ebbing away. This is therefore the time for the most difficult EU problems to be tackled. Not all of them fall exclusively under the Commission's responsibility, but whether or not they are shared with other EU institutions or require the support of member governments, the Juncker Commission must urgently show greater strength and leadership.
The Juncker Commission has yet to demonstrate leadership that is tough-minded enough to rally public support
Several burning issues top the EU's agenda for 2018, and so far have shown no signs of being resolved. Instead, they have festered. There's the uncertainty over reforming the Eurozone to shore up the single currency and reduce its vulnerability. And then there's the immigration question that continues to pit EU members against one another, threatens Schengen's free movement and is poisoning national politics across Europe. Bolstered by the inclusion of the Austrian Freedom Party in government, Europe's Far Right leaders - whether in government or in opposition - are clamouring for more restrictions on immigration and pounding home their anti-Islam message.
This year also needs to see substantial progress on the next EU budget. The shape and scale of the 2021-2027 Multiannual Financial Framework have been thrown into doubt by Brexit, by profound disagreements between some southern and northern European countries over austerity policies and the nature of economic 'solidarity', as well as by the Euroscepticism of beneficiary newcomer states, particularly the Visegrad countries in central and eastern Europe.
On all three issues, the Juncker Commission has yet to demonstrate leadership that is tough-minded enough to rally public support. Its own positions seem far-sighted and positive, but have not yet been expressed forcefully and unambiguously. With nothing to lose - Juncker made it clear when he took over in November 2014 that he wouldn't seek a second term - the time is right for plain speaking.
That means acknowledging the demographic need for more immigrants, not fewer, and putting an end to the out-dated notion of 'white, Christian Europe'. Juncker and his colleagues have regretfully embraced the new Austrian government despite the inclusion of the Freedom Party when in fact they should be bolder in taking on populists and start reflecting on an inclusive European narrative which recognises the diversity of its citizens. EU institutions must also take a close look at their own recruitment policies to ensure greater ethnic diversity of their staff.
It means underlining the case for an economic union under an EU 'finance minister' if the euro is to be saved from eventual collapse. And it means openly rebuking governments that insist on pegging the EU budget to a niggardly 1% of gross national income (GNI) when in research & development and innovation Europe is rapidly slipping behind its global competitors. In short, it's time to nail the EU flag to the masthead and defy the nationalists.
Several burning issues top the EU's agenda for 2018, and so far have shown no signs of being resolved
There's more. At home, the steps taken last year on European defence and security need to be consolidated, with greater efforts also being made to tackle cyber security and hybrid threats. And abroad, with the US still in retreat on the global stage, the EU must try its best to support an increasingly fragile multilateral, rules-based international order. This will require working with China, Japan, India and other Asian countries, and also with Canada. It means a determined effort to maintain the authority of the World Trade Organisation while pursuing bilateral and region-to-region trade deals.
The Middle East and Africa will demand special European attention. Repercussions of the US recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel will continue to sour the political landscape in the Middle East, while speeding Africa's development has to be a crucial part of the EU agenda, not just because of the migration challenge but in the interest of the continent's fast growing number of young people.
Trump, Brexit and Catalonia dominated the headlines last year, distracting us from many of Europe's real, long-term concerns. The temptation to pay more attention to emergencies while neglecting seemingly less urgent problems will remain strong in the coming year, but must be resisted.
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Tura New Music announces the 2016 instalment of our multi award winning Regional Touring Program.
Reflection 2, featuring Mark Atkins and Stephen Pigram, will be touring regional centres and remote communities of the Kimberley this September. These iconic Indigenous artists will perform with the Narli Ensemble, which includes some of Australia's finest instrumental musicians. The tour ensemble will also collaborate with musicians across the Kimberley including Danny Marr, Gabriel Nodea and Ashley Oobagooma.
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LONDON: The London campus is situated in Hampstead, in the Borough of Camden, and offers students state-of-the-art facilities in a traditional Victorian building dating back to the late 19th century. The bright city lights and the business community are only a tube ride away, whilst the fashionable area of Hampstead offers a broad cultural experience away from the hustle and bustle of inner city life.
MADRID: The Madrid campus, located only a couple of metres away from the National Park of Monte del Pardo, is an ideal place for students to focus on their study and professional development. The surrounding gardens and parks set the scene for the hard work and personal reflection necessary during the development of managerial competences
PARIS: The Paris Campus / République is conveniently located in the centre of the city, in the 11th arrondissement. It is the largest of the 6 campuses and hosts the greatest number of faculty and students. The building is classified as a historical monument. With extensive campus facilities and over fifty active student clubs and associations, a strong sense of school spirit and community prevails.
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Professional Marketing briefs: January 2013
PR firm GolinHarris is losing managing director Jennifer Cohan to Edelman where she will chair the global consumer practice as of January 2. Cohan currently oversees strategic direction and operations for GolinHarris in addition to acting as an internal consultant for clients Unilever and Olympus. Before GolinHarris, Cohen was deputy manager of Cohen & Wolfe's London operation.
McKesson's Patient Relationship Solutions division has teamed up with Physicians Interactive to bolster the reach of its drug voucher and coupon programs. The agreement will allow PI network members to offer physicians the vouchers and/or coupons along with e-prescriptions. The result: patients can show up at a pharmacy and have the discount built in to the pick-up price.Shire announced that it is digging deep into rare diseases this year. The company's research will culminate in a 2013 rare diseases impact report that will outline the "health, psycho-social, societal and economic impact of rare disease in patient and medical communities." The report will be based on research that includes surveys of patients, caregivers, physicians, payers and thought leaders in the US and UK.


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Computer running slow
Hi there
I got a Toshiba Satellite L505
Intel Core Duo 2.10GHz processor
Ram 4GB
Running Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit
I noticed that lately it's running slower. I have tried to fix it with registry errors cleaners, RamBooster (which I sincerely don't understand how to use it), I've done multiple disk cleanups, defragmented it, etc. but none seems to help. I think it's the RAM but I'm not sure since I don't understand how this physical memory and CPU works. I checked the performance in the task manager and says I got a CPU usage 1-9% and physical memory about 34%.
I don't know if this data is helpful but I will post it anyway so you can get a better picture of how my system is working.
In the task manager, perfomance tab
Physical Memory (MB)
Total 3963
Cached 2325
Available 2601
Free 339
Kernel Memory (MB)
Paged 196
Nonpaged 61
Handles 20451
Threads 841
Processes 77
Commit MB 1626/7926
Is that how it should be? if not what can I do to fix it.
Also yesterday I was looking through the startup processes I noticed a strange one, it was named Woogoc and in the description said it was some kind of roaming app but I'm very suspicious and I think it may be a worm of some kind. I try to google it to get more info about it but no results.
Please help me!!
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Windows 10 Pro x64, Arch Linux
I have tried to fix it with registry errors cleaners, RamBooster (which I sincerely don't understand how to use it)
Run a scan of Malwarebytes
Disable any useless startup programs Startup Programs - Change
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|13 Mar 2011
Welcome to SF. By slower can you be more specific, programs used, booting, surfing or what ?
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|13 Mar 2011
Hey linnemeyerhere thanks for the quick response. Well to be more specific the computer starts just fine I log in and everything seems to be normal but when I'm about to perform any task it's when I got a little trouble. By example, when I try to click on a program to open it it seems like I'm doing nothing, I have to click several times to get to open it. Another example is sometimes when I put the pointer of the mouse over the close, maximize and minimize buttons it suppose to "highlight" or bright up the button but doesn't do that and when I try to close it nothing happens, I have to keep clicking until it close or the program become unresponsive. Also when I click on something it's like if the click got stuck or something because when I try to move it what it does is that drag everything. I noticed too that when I got photoshop open for a long time it starts to give me problems too, even though I close it afterwards the computer just remain the same.
I hope all this can be helpful.
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Sounds like Malware or a Virus has stolen control. I could be wrong but I would restart the computer in safe mode and run all the updated Antivirus I could at the system and see what comes up?
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First read and heed yowanvista's steps given above^^
Then work through these steps: Win7 troubleshooting fundamentals
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|13 Mar 2011
I did what yowanvista said. I ran a scan of Malwarebytes and it came up I had 2 infections. I removed them with the Malwarebytes software and then I restarted my computer but the problem persists. I actually removed the utilities I was using.
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If you suspect the removed utilities caused some of the problem, try System Restoring before the point these were installed. System Restore
Work through the troubleshooting steps given and report back results.
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Hey gregrocker
I was reading through your Win7 Troubleshooting Fundamentals and you mentioned Avast Antivirus. I currently use AVG. Do you think Avast is more efficient? Is it wise for me to get rid of AVG and get Avast?
By the way I did a full scan of my computer with Malwarebytes and show me 2 more infections. One of them it's named Rootkit.Dropper which I don't know what the heck that does, the other it's a crack I downloaded for PS4 (sshhh lol) which I got for a long time and hasn't given me any problem.
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I would post up those infections in Security forum so one of the specialists there can give you the exact cleaning regimen for that rootkit.
AVG bloated up a few years back and never slimmed back down to where it doesn't interfere at all with performance like MSE or Avast. So I don't know any experts who recommend it.
In your case, what I would do now is uninstall AVG and install MSE or Avast, update then run a full Safe Mode scan while you wait for the steps to deal with that rootkit.
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Augustine: Confessions, Books 1-4
Cambridge University Press, Nov 2, 1995 - History - 198 pages
Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literature. Written in the author's early forties in the last years of the fourth century A.D. and during his first years as a bishop, they reflect on his life and on the activity of remembering and interpreting a life. Books I-IV are concerned with infancy and learning to talk, schooldays, sexual desire and adolescent rebellion, intense friendships and intellectual exploration. Augustine evolves and analyses his past with all the resources of the reading which shaped his mind: Virgil and Cicero, Neoplatonism and the Bible. This volume, which aims to be usable by students who are new to Augustine, alerts readers to the verbal echoes and allusions of Augustine's brilliant and varied Latin, and explains his theological and philosophical questioning of what God is and what it is to be human.
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HYDERABAD (Web Desk) – A teenager girl was burnt to death by two men who had been harrassing her for some time, India media reported on Friday.
The girl had informed her family about the matter, according to the Catch News.
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Founded in March 2006, SRD inherited 28 years of experience from the International Cooperation for Development and Solidarity (CIDSE) in Vietnam, an international NGO that delivered successful development projects from 1975-2005. When CIDSE realized its ultimate goal of nationalizing local development activities in Vietnam, SRD was established to continue the important support of the rural poor across the country.
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I enjoy listening to either Stitcher for podcasts, or Pandora for music while doing chores around the house. I'm all about productivity hacks and the idea of getting two things done in the same amount of time needed for one, well I'm all about.
Just the other day, I was listening to one of my favorite podcasts on entrepreneurship, and a particular saying stood out: "learn from other people's mistakes". This isn't some new and revolutionary concept, but it got me thinking about a fun concept for this week's blog post.
I'm going to share 2 mistakes people have made while installing or planning out their home audio systems. And, to raise the stakes… these are all instances that I've witnessed myself.
Now stop reading, go make some popcorn, and I'll meet you back here in about 5 minutes.
- Purchasing "High-End" Speakers From Strangers In Parking Lots: The very first day my good friend moved up to the Bay Area, he got hustled for a half a bottle of whiskey and $100 right after withdrawing some cash out of the ATM. Maybe this says a little bit about the area, but it says a whole bunch about his common sense. Apparently, some guys in an SUV full of "high-end" sound systems approached him in the parking lot with some half-cocked story about a delivery gone bad and an error at the factory. If it sounds too good to be true… it is! Anyway, fast forward a few weeks to when I'm helping him set up the sound system in his new studio, we get everything wired then power up the system and crank the volume – rip. One of the speakers literally rips the second the beat drops. Fast forward 5 more minutes, we're online looking up the manufacturer warranty information and the first thing that pops up in the search results is a YouTube video: "White Van Speaker Scam". Apparently, this is a pretty widespread scam and lots of people fall for it every year! After watching a few more videos the social proof is overwhelming and the reality sets in that these speakers are as good as a pile of trash. Being the audio junkie that I am – I want to see inside. We pull a hammer and start prying apart the speaker box to take a peek inside. What do we find? Sandbags! There are sandbags stapled to the inside of the speaker boxes so to give them some extra weight and pose as a true version of the advertised 'German-made' quality! Moral of the story: you're not going to find high-end audio equipment being pawned out of white vans in the far corner of the local Walmart parking lot.
- Allowing Rats To Have A Picnic In Your Attic: Just last month I was helping a friend troubleshoot some issues she was having with her home system. She has a really great setup in the den with the woofers installed inside the wall alongside the TV and the tweeters in the ceiling right above the couch. The issue was that the audio coming out one tweeter was very garbled and distorted. I checked all the standard things that I won't bore you with, after all, if you wanted to know how to troubleshoot your home audio issues I think you'd probably be on Ask.com. Anyway, I get to the checking the lines themselves and since they're ceiling-mounted I find myself up in the attic filled with cobwebs, and you guessed it – a dead rat. So I get pretty freaked out by dead animals, regardless of their size, so I flew out of that attic like a bat out of hell. I had never heard of this, but after chatting with a tech from the local rodent removal company I discovered that those hairy little monsters love chewing on wires because it helps to sharpen their teeth. That same tech came over within an hour to remove the corpse and set a few traps to create more corpses, I ventured back up into the attic to replace the severed speaker wire, and hurried back home to take a shower. During the drive home I kept thinking of the irony in the saying, "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger".


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So I have a NAS at home which I can use exactly how I want/need. However I want to also gain access to my files from a Windows 7 machine outside of my home network. Now I can map to it in My Computer via FTP, but although this gives me access, the folders and files don't get treated like they are at home - for example if I right click on an MP3, I am unable to bring up a context menu to play it in VLC (neither am I am able to drag and drop the files into the VLC playlist).
Is there a way of achieving what I want?
Connecting to remote NAS as a mounted drive
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The apartment has 3 bedrooms with attached western style bathrooms, a kitchen, a living room and a dining space. All the bedrooms have air-conditioners, built-in closets and shelves, and all the bathrooms have geysers. Most rooms and living rooms have balconies and we have a rooftop, too. Also internet with wireless is there.
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If you want a website that communicate directly with Twitter, sending an update status message on a Twitter account or retrieving all the information that you want from that account, you must use an authentication procedure (OAuth) to connect to Twitter.
You can do it directly with a library or using a plugin, but always you need to setup a Twitter application in order to have the four keys:
- Consumer key
- Consumer secret
- Access Token (OAuth_token)
- Access Token Secret (OAuth_token_secret)
Then the first step is to obtain access tokens to act on behalf of a user account.
The setup
The dev.twitter.com application control panel offers the ability to generate these OAuth access tokens for the owner of the application, but first you need to create one.
So, you can start by visiting the dev.twitter.com "My applications" page, either by navigating to dev.twitter.com/apps, or hovering over your profile image in the top right hand corner of the site and selecting "My applications":
This page contains a list of the applications you have created, along with a button to create a new application. Select the application you wish to generate a token for, and click on its title:
In the "Settings" page tab setup the "Name", the "Description" and the "Web Site" name of your application. The "Callback URL" should be left blank. Sending a single tweet, a user won't directly interact via a browser.
Now you must choose the type of access that your application need. If you need access to the account only for read the messages then you can leave "Read only", but if you need to send a status update or type a direct message then you must select "Read and Write" or "Read, Write and Access direct messages". then go to the "Settings" tab and select the Application type access:
In the "@Anywhere domain" page tab add the domain of your website:
At the bottom of the "Details" page tab, you will see two of the keys than you need: Consumer Key and Consumer Secret.
Now you need to create the last tokens.
In a section labeled "your access token", click on the "Create my access token" button, and an authorized access token and secret will be generated for your account and the current application. These values may be used to authorize requests to the Twitter API.
In this way you get all the four keys, and you can use them in the request for Twitter.
Twitter and PHP OAuth
To comunicate with Twitter by server side, we need is awesome Abraham Twitter OAuth library. You can download the archive file, where you will find a few files, but we will need only two: twitteroauth/twitteroauth.php and twitteroauth/OAuth.php.
As a test you can create a new file "test.php" where you need to include these library files:
Sample code in test.php:
require_once 'twitteroauth/twitteroauth.php'; $consumer_key = 'sdgqgwgewggw'; $consumer_secret = 'ffwaeft435345t4fewf3c'; $oauth_token = 'dcqcq4r454352v4353245v'; $oauth_secret = 'dfcr34r54c34rcfefergtht5y543535f3rfr'; //create a new connection to Twitter using the four keys $connection = new TwitterOAuth($consumer_key, $consumer_secret, $oauth_token, $oauth_secret); //set the parameters for the new status update request $parameters = array('status'=>'this is my message'); $status = $connection->post('statuses/update',$parameters);
In this example we send to the twitter account a simple message (max 140 chars). As result you will get the "$status" object that can contain usefull information.
If you want to know how many tweets you can send:
//use the previous keys and connection code $content = $connection->get('account/rate_limit_status'); echo "Current API hits remaining: {$content->remaining_hits}.";
If you need informations about the user:
$user = $connection->get('account/verify_credentials'); print_r($user);


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As a basic rule, the system involves the outsourcing of jobs associated to the manufacturing industry. An excellent number of corporations also wind up constructing their very own factory retailers in another country, where the manufacturing supplies are usually cheaper and labor costs are significantly lower. Canada, South Africa and Mexico are among the international locations that embrace this sort of industry.
Manufacturing Outsourcing Vs. IT Outsourcing
Despite the quite a few semblance in terms, manufacturing and knowledge know-how outsourcing are two different areas of interest within the sense that they range considerably of their relative tempo and the additional overheads involved.
Manufacturing outsourcing was a fairly sluggish process that entailed the shifting of manufactured merchandise from the manufacturing unit outlets in growing nations to their closing destination. This scheme led to numerous job openings, especially in the transport sector. On the other hand, the IT sourcing trade failed to give rise to further work opportunities. This is primarily because of the truth that information is routinely exchanged by means of computers.
Manufacturing Outsourcing: The Merchandise
The mass manufacturing of garments and other clothes in numerous Asian countries is a transparent-reduce instance of manufacturing outsourcing. Corporations from the United States typically outsource the manufacture of goods in nations that offer lower production costs.
Microchips and other digital parts are also candidates of producing outsourcing. Giant electronic companies sometimes arrange their very own factories complete with the necessary technology wanted for the manufacturing, in addition to the packaging, of their goods.
Apart from the standard ready-to-wear apparels and microprocessors, the manufacturing trade additionally outsources various types of goods. One of which is the manufacturing of biomedical merchandise. As a matter of reality, it has turn into a widespread observe in numerous biotech companies, each massive and small.
Outsourcing a wide selection of duties like regulatory submitting, pre-medical testing, and molecular genetics makes it doable for bigger corporations to focus on their major transactions. As well as, it permits smaller firms to cut back on manufacturing processes that theyre not nicely outfitted to hold out.
One such operation might include the creation of innovative medication meant for scientific trials, which entails putting collectively an appropriate facility. For sure, the monetary risk is notably great contemplating the truth that FDA approval has not been obtained yet.
As biotech corporations take contractual or full-time consultants into service to supervise outsourcing operations and deal with communications, the pervasiveness of manufacturing outsourcing has certainly created a new forte in the biomedical industry.
Coming throughout a highly regarded and reliable service supplier necessitates the necessity to take numerous issues into account. Aside from the expected overheads, concerns that surround the management of proprietary data, producer site, contract validity, high quality monitoring, degree of outsourcing, communication points and knowledge storage must also be considered.
Certainly, an eclectic array of merchandise might simply fall below the vast umbrella of manufacturing outsourcing, on condition that sure situations are fulfilled. Then again, company homeowners must view the problem from all corners so as to make sure that the advantages are far larger than the cons; otherwise, the losses may be as huge as the potential gain.


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Yaya Toure will return to the Manchester City line-up for tomorrow's trip to Southampton.
Toure, and brother Kolo, are back with the Blues earlier than expected after Ivory Coast failed to get past the last eight of the African Nations Cup.
Skipper Vincent Kompany (calf) could also make his comeback as the Blues look to end a run of two successive draws.
Provisional squad: Hart, Nielsen, Pantilimon, Zabaleta, Lescott, Kompany, K Toure, Nastastic, Clichy, Milner, Sinclair, Kolarov, Y Toure, Garcia, Barry, Nasri, Silva, Rodwell, Dzeko, Tevez, Aguero.
Southampton left-back Luke Shaw is a doubt for tomorrow's clash with reigning Barclays Premier League champions Manchester City.
The 17-year-old picked up a ligament issue ahead of his England Under-21s debut against Sweden in midweek, while fellow full-back Nathaniel Clyne, another to drop out of the Young Lions' squad, may also be unavailable for the Saints.
Gaston Ramirez and Guly do Prado are also possibly out, while Jose Fonte is sidelined.
Adam Lallana could make his first start since suffering a knee injury on December 8 and January acquisition Vegard Forren could make his debut.
Provisional squad: K Davis, Gazzaniga, Boruc, Clyne, Richardson, Stephens, Fox, Shaw, Yoshida, Forren, Hooiveld, Ward-Prowse, Cork, Chaplow, Ramirez, Schneiderlin, S Davis, Lallana, do Prado, Puncheon, Lee, Lambert, Rodriguez.


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Ayutthaya (The Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya) , 76km north of Bangkok, was the Thai capital for 417 years rom 1350 until 1767(Kingdom of Ayutthaya) , when the city was vietually destroyed by Burmese invaders. Ayutthaya was one of the biggest cities in the world - a center for civilizations and the major power in Southeast Asia.
Visitors to Ayutthaya can admire its former glory days reflected through numerous magnificent structures and ruins concentrated in and around the city island surrounded by Maenam Chao Phraya, Maenam Pa Sak and Maenam Lopburi.
The ancient capital of the Kingdom of Ayutthaya , founded by King U-Thong, had thirty three kings of different dynasties. A great city with three palaces and over 400 magnificent temples on an island threaded by canals Ayutthaya was truly an impressive city that attracted both Europeans and Asians. European traders, in particular' the Portuguese were very impressed by the city's splendor and not surprisingly recorded it as the most beautiful city in all of SE Asia .
The Burmese arrived again in 1569 with a large army and finally took control of Ayutthaya sacking and destroying the city. It was through the determined efforts of the young King Naresuan who defeated the Burmese twice eventually ousting them from Thai soil at the battle of Nong Sorai in 1593. Ayuthoya was rebuilt by King Naresuan and expanded by King Borommakote however after his reign it fell into decline.
Following a long drawn out period of conflict. the Burmese arrived again in 1767 with an enormous force to siege and sack Ayutthaya. The Burmese intended to destroy everything precious to Thais however their control was only short liyed as within a few years the.very determined General Taksin finally expelled them from Thai soil for the last time and reunited the country once again. The capital was then moved briefly to Thonburi and later to Rattanakosin island in Bangkok . Although the old city of Ayuthaya was not rebuilt.
For new arrivals who had limited their visit to Bangkok , similarities may be noted with the riverside Wat Arun, an 18th-century structure that was built in the so-called Ayutthaya style, a melding of Sukhothai Buddhist influences and Hindu-inspired Khmer motifs.
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Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration guidelines include noise standards, routing regulations, fees for registration and insurance, passenger carrier regulations and special training requirements, as noted on the FMCSA website. The FMCSA lists a total of 40 categories containing regulations pertaining to the operation of transport vehicles.Continue Reading
The Environmental Protection Agency sets standards for equipment and vehicle noise levels, and the FMCSA monitors and inspects commercial interstate vehicles for compliance with these standards, states FMCSA. Routing guidelines specify that motor carriers may operate anywhere within municipal commercial zones, and provide details regarding how they may operate in unincorporated communities. The FMCSA offers the public a fee schedule that lists charges for documentation services provided under the Freedom of Information Act. FMCSA passenger carrier regulations prohibit discriminatory seating on commercial passenger vehicles. The FMCSA guidelines concerning special training requirements apply to drivers and instructors of longer combination vehicles.
As of 2015, the FMCSA is the bureau within the U.S. Department of Transportation tasked with reducing injuries and crashes involving buses and large trucks, as explained on the FMCSA website. To achieve its goals, the agency creates and enforces regulations that encourage both efficiency and safety, and it educates drivers, the public and transportation companies in an effort to reduce accidents. The FMCSA also uses safety data systems to target high-risk carriers in the enforcement of safety guidelines.Learn more about Driving Laws


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Just before Spring Break, Form II boys in Mr. Sambuca's technology class visited the MakerBot retail store at 298 Mulberry Street, New York. There they learned more about the company and enjoyed purchasing items from the gumball machines offering various designs made with one of the 3-D printers in the "BotFarm." Other larger items were also for sale; most were designed by members of the MakerBot design team and ranged from functional jewelry and accessories to pieces of art. Click here to view photos from the trip.
In March, a three-member production crew from TV Tokyo America visited The Browning School to film a segment for their feature on MakerBot and the use of its products in an educational setting; click here to view. (Browning is featured about five minutes into this seven-minute segment.) As Mr. Sambuca notes, these 3-D classroom printers allow him to turn Browning boys "from consumers to creators."


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Generators Zen
I got most of the iterators support on the Mono C# compiler working now, hopefully these will be checked in CVS as soon as I polish a few things. You can read a small tutorial about them here.
I think that this has more potential than advertised.
Basically, the iterators support in C# simplifies the implementation of methods that return IEnumerable and IEnumerator classes. Typically an implementor would have to create a helper class that would track the state of the enumerable class, and implement a number of methods: MoveNext, Reset, and GetCurrent. Implementing this state machine is not only boring, but also error prone.
Implementing these patterns are so boring, that the average developer fights the system, and designs clever workarounds: From passing a delegate (a method pointer) to be called back, and have the enumerator work linearly; to construct an array with all the results, and returning this; or the worst, exposing the internals of their object. These solutions might work, but they are not available to the platform developers, as they have to provide the right framework for developers; This also means that average developers wont have their code integrate nicely with the underlying platform and interoperate nicely with others.
The C# iterator support works around the problem. Now it is trivial to implement these enumeration interfaces. There is no excuse to not use the system pattern, as it is so simple to use. Lame sample follows:
IEnumerable CountToThree () { print ("About to say one"); yield 1; print ("About to say two"); yield 2; print ("About to say three"); yield 3; }
When invoked, say from the foreach construct:
foreach (int value in CountToThree){ print (value); }
The message "About to say one" would be printed, then, the routine would return, and the value would be printed by the print in the foreach main loop. Then, when the next value is about to be retrieved, the execution will be resumed where it left, and the string "About to say two" would be printed, and the value 2 returned.
Notice something: the values are not pre-computed ahead of time and returned: they are returned as they are consumed. This is implemented by a clever state machine and an internal class generated by the C# compiler.
Now, today as I explained my excitement to Ettore on the yield keyword, I realized that it could have more uses outside the scope of implementing enumerator interfaces. Part of the beauty of the yield is that from the developer perspective, it suspends the execution of the method at that point, only to be resumed later on.
This beauty is not obvious at first. It took quite some time for me to assimilate this. Lets repeat it again: the yield keyword suspends the execution of the routine, only to be resumed later. This is not only interesting, this is absolutely fabulous.
What the designers of C# have done here, is that they have taken an annoying and error prone pattern and have made a language extension that effectively addresses a problem.
But it seems like yield could be used for a lot more. In fact, over the years I have implemented plenty of state machines, in the presence of non-blocking operations. Non-blocking protocols handlers, parsers, and GUI applications. It starts to feel like a waste to have this functionality under-used.
For example, an streaming XML parser looks like this:
HandleToken (int token) { switch (state){ case START: if (match (token, "<")){ state = "<"; error (); case "<": if (match (token, identifier)){ state = IDENTIFIER; error (); case IDENTIFIER: if (match (token, OPEN_QUOTES)){ state = QUOTE_HANDLING; } if (match (token, ">"){ state = START; } } }
It would be fascinating if this could be implemeted with yield:
HandleToken (int token) { open: if (match (token, "<")){ yield; if (match (token, identifier)){ yield; if (match (token, OPEN_QUOTES)){ ... } if (match (token, ">")){ yield; goto open; // you know you love it. } } } }
Ok, that is probably not the best example, as this is just the first time I have thought of this (Am sure the lisp, scheme, icon people have better examples of this). The one things missing here is how to resume the method, and how to provide any new parameters to it. Maybe a resume (method, args) would do the trick.
But the same sort of patterns exist on GUI applications: for example consider the state handling of user input while doing region selection (or the other hundred states tracked by Gnumeric for example).
Extending C# string support
A few things I would like to see in C#, these do not even require changes to the language, but only to the String class:
class String { // // Returns the string STR replicated COUNT times. // static string operator * (String str, int count); // // Splits the string used the provided string // static string operator / (String str, String sep); static string operator / (String str, char c); // // Extracts a range of characters, notice that String.Substring is annoying // static string this [int start, int end] } string s = "Hello World; print (s [0, 4]); // prints "Hello" print (s [-2, 2]); // prints "ld" print (s * 2); // prints "Hello WorldHello World" string [] j = s / " "; // returns {"Hello", "World"}
Been fascinated about the Gtk# Wiki
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