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First, make sure your computer meets the system requirements for your camera and install the software and driver supplied with your camera.
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- Set the USB Connect setting of your camera to AUTO or Mass Storage - you can do this in the setup menu - and make sure the storage card is inserted and has been detected by the camera
- Connect the camera directly to a USB port - don't use a port replicator or USB hub
- Make sure the USB ports on both the camera and computer are not dusty or dirty
- Make sure the USB cable is securely fitted to the camera and the computer.
- Turn the computer on and wait until it has booted completely
You'll see a confirmation message in the taskbar when the camera is ready to use.
If the AutoPlay window does not pop up, check if the camera is listed as a removable disk in the Windows Explorer.
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- Disconnect the USB cable from both the computer and the camera, and connect it again firmly
- Disconnect all equipment other than the camera, the keyboard and the mouse from the USB connectors of your computer
- Connect the camera to another USB port
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This free course will provide the knowledge and the tools needed to understand what cities do, why they matter, the forces shaping the greatest wave of urbanization in history, and how to pick the right place for you. The course will also help you develop critical thinking skills. We'll accomplish this by providing evidence of the importance of cities, and why and how they matter to you. Then we'll ask you to apply what you've learned in an exercise which will help you assess your own community and find your best place.
This course is accessible and open to anyone who is interested in learning more about cities and the ways they affect our lives. It is organized around five key modules: (1) Why Cities Matter, (2) A World of Cities, (3) The Creative City, (4) The Divided City and the New Urban Crisis, and (5) How to Find the Best Place for You.
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Police Rescue Teen, Kill Suspect In Idaho Wilderness
An intense, week-long search for teenager Hannah Anderson and her alleged abductor ended in the Idaho wilderness when police shot and killed the suspect and rescued the girl.
Suspected kidnapper James DiMaggio, 40, was killed by an FBI agent after his campsite was discovered on Saturday in an aerial search of the rugged Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness, about 40 miles from the town of Cascade, Idaho.
DiMaggio was killed about 4 p.m. MT on Saturday when ground units moved in after he was located, "leading to the confrontation," San Diego County Sheriff Bill Gore added.
"Obviously, we would have liked Mr. DiMaggio to surrender and face justice in a court of law, but that's not going to be the case," he said at a news conference.
Law enforcement officials were providing few details of the shooting of DiMaggio or the rescue of 16-year-old Anderson, but Gore said that the teen was in "pretty good shape" despite her ordeal.
He said Anderson was taken to a nearby hospital where she would be "thoroughly evaluated."
"No one really knows where an investigation like this will lead," said Mary Rook, special agent in charge of the FBI's Salt Lake City division. "In this case, our team faced a very challenging situation."
The Associated Press reports that the location of the campsite, near Moorhead Lake, wasn't far from the last known sighting of DiMaggio and Anderson when a horseback rider alerted authorities that he had seen the pair on Wednesday. The AP says the rider, whose name wasn't released, didn't realize that the two people he saw were the subject of a manhunt until he got home and saw the news.
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"... sources said that before the confrontation, authorities had observed DiMaggio moving some wood and other materials around, possibly to fortify his position or make the hideout harder to see from the air.
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I grew up hearing comments about my bad temper – I used to get in trouble with my father and my teachers for protesting over just about anything. As I get older I try hard to believe I'm also getting calmer. :)
Some things still make me furious, though, and I was mad as hell at the guys from a certain website for not keeping their word (and they did the same to other bloggers I love). You'll no longer see recipes from Better Homes and Gardens on my blog.
You will, however, see me using recipes from other websites, because there are great ones out there – these coconut balls are one of Martha's cookies.
Coconut balls
1 cup (2 sticks/226g) unsalted butter, softened
¼ cup (35g) confectioner's sugar, sifted, plus more for dusting
2 cups (280g) all-purpose flour
¼ teaspoon salt
2 cups (200g) sweetened flaked coconut
Preheat oven to 180ºC/350ºF; line two large baking sheets with baking paper.
In the bowl of an electric mixer, cream butter with ¼ cup confectioners' sugar until fluffy. Mix in flour and salt until they're just combined. Stir in coconut.
Roll dough into 2.5cm (1 in) balls; place 5cm (2 in) apart on prepared sheets. Bake until just starting to brown, 15 to 20 minutes.
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When it came to deciding the side dishes to serve with my curried honey dijon roasted chicken I knew that I would have to include some butternut squash as I had a ton of it. I remembered seeing a recipe for a coconut butternut squash that sounded good. Since I already had curry in my meal I decided to swap the curry out of the original recipe and I was thinking about going with a more Thai type of theme. I added some fish sauce, lime juice, chili sauce and palm sugar to get the classic Thai salty, sour, spicy and sweet combo. This squash dish was pretty easy to make as it simmered on the stove top without much attention while the chicken roasted in the oven. The Thai style coconut butternut squash turned out great! The combination of flavours went really well with the sweet butternut squash and I enjoyed the coconut milk that ended up more like a sauce. I garnished the squash with some toasted coconut flakes and chopped cilantro. Some time soon I am going to have to try the original curried version.
Thai Style Coconut Butternut Squash
- 1 tablespoon oil
- 1 teaspoon garlic (chopped)
- 1 teaspoon ginger (grated)
- 2 cups butternut squash (cut into 1 inch cubes)
- 1/2 cup coconut milk
- 1 tablespoon palm sugar (or sugar)
- 1 tablespoon lime juice
- 1 tablespoon fish sauce
- 1/2 teaspoon chili sauce
- 2 tablespoons shredded coconut (toasted)
- 2 tablespoons cilantro (chopped)
- Heat the oil in a pan.
- Add the garlic and ginger and saute until fragrant, about a minute.
- Add the squash, coconut milk, sugar, lime juice, fish sauce, chili sauce, cover and simmer until the squash it tender, about 30 minutes.
- Set the squash aside and reduce the liquid.
- Pour the reduced coconut milk onto the squash and garnish with coconut and cilantro.
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For the eighth consecutive year, Del Ray residents lined Mount Vernon Avenue with luminaries in memory of Nancy Dunning. For the eighth consecutive year, her murder remains unsolved.
"This is always a weird day and it's never a fun day," said Kate Moran, Dunning's niece, on Monday, the anniversary of the slaying. Just days earlier, Moran — a local musician and neighborhood institution in her own right — had led residents in singing Christmas carols during the annual Del Ray holiday tree lighting.
Looking out onto the avenue, filled with families and ablaze in festive lights, Moran took a break between songs to note the luminaries and her connection to the tragedy.
The brainchild of Dunning, the luminaries — a pathway of flickering candles along the Del Ray sidewalk — were one more way to liven up the neighborhood. She never lived to see them wash Mount Vernon Avenue in pale, white light.
In time the lighting of the luminaries has come to symbolize her influence on Del Ray.
"It's a way to honor her," Moran said. "Things like luminaries and lighting the tree, those were things that she loved to do."
Dunning, a well known Del Ray real estate agent and wife of then Sheriff Jim Dunning, was murdered on December 5, 2003. The couple's son, Chris, discovered the body in the family home after she failed to show up for a lunch appointment.
The death of the "Queen of Del Ray" shocked the city. In the days and weeks that followed, police identified a single person of interest, a man wearing jeans and a black jacket caught on camera exiting the Potomac Yard Target store about the same time as Dunning.
The department still considers the murder an active case, said Police Chief Earl Cook, but the investigation has gone on long enough that the detective originally assigned to it has retired. Detective Robert Hickman heads the investigation these days.
Police believe the killer was known to Dunning, but authorities remain waiting for something — new evidence or a new lead — to break the case wide open, the chief said.
"It's absolutely frustrating," Cook said. "Our frustration is minimal compared to that of the family and others who want the perpetrator brought to justice. As you've seen in our community, Nancy's legacy is very much still alive in this city and we would like to bring justice to the tragedy."
The murder is not the sole outstanding homicide in the city. While it's not yet considered a "cold case," the department has at least two other unsolved murders under that designation. Cook believes it's only a matter of time before something new surfaces.
"We're encouraged by what has happened in the region, where you've seen homicides solved that have come up through a new lead or piece of evidence, forensic work or oral communication," he said. "I've seen some long-term cases get solved … [It] tells you to stay the course and continue to turn over every rock."
While memory of Dunning and her tragic death remain on Moran's mind, she's seen the community move forward. There's a core of residents who speak about Dunning regularly, who knew her in life. But many newcomers to the popular neighborhood never had a chance to meet her.
It's sad, but the natural course of things, Moran said. And no matter how many years pass, the community comes together annually to remember Dunning and celebrate her spirit.
"New people move in and that's the nature of what happens, and there's some great new volunteers and new ideas, and that's what it is about," she said. "That's what make our community great. We still honor those who have left us."


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I re-affirmed it in this blog post on September 7. Ohmygod. Does this mean that the much-maligned Quickie Jinx has been reversed?! Best. Prediction. Ever.
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A little while back, I was at an introductory lecture on interaction design. The presenter introduced the various types of interfaces during this lecture, ranging from the desktop-metaphor GUIs to the newer natural user interfaces (NUIs). It was all pretty basic stuff, but one remark struck me: while going through the types of UIs, the presenter briefly mentioned the command line interface (CLI), and commented: "We don't want this thing anymore." I thought that was quite a bold statement; apparently the presenter had written off CLIs as relics of the past when usability wasn't a major concern.
But CLIs are still very much alive. In fact, I believe they're making a comeback in a new and evolved form. New CLIs are currently being developed, even if their developers don't realize they're building a CLI. So why would command lines be a user's nightmare?
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A big drawback of CLIs is their nonexistent discoverability. You can't look around a CLI, open some menus, or hover over icons to discover the application's functions and possibilities. A blinking cursor, waiting for input, doesn't reveal anything about the options available to you. And the standard-issue CLI doesn't provide any feedback other than plain text responses to executed requests. There's no pre-execution feedback or validation—no green check mark to indicate a successful operation, nor readability-focused typography.
Having to learn syntax doesn't have to be that big a deal, were it not that this same syntax is often perversely abstract. An oft-used approach is to reduce options to their beginning letters. Doing this is all good for speed, but all that speed-gain is lost when you don't know how the commands are named in the first place. For simply viewing folder contents, the programmer could just as easily have used "-b" for Browse, "-o" for Open or "-e" for Expand. Instead, he went with "-l", the "List" verb. Having to remember that -l stands for List isn't that hard, but remembering a different argument for each letter in the alphabet is a lot to ask of a user. And let's not even get started on case sensitivity. Compounding this complexity is the fact that virtually every application or system that uses a CLI has its own syntax.
These drawbacks aren't major issues, though, nor have traditional CLIs become totally obsolete. Many system engineers and Linux users prefer to use the command line over any other option. Once someone has mastered the CLI—despite its many syntaxes and case-sensitive arguments—it is often simpler and faster to use. These so-called "power-users" can execute system commands using just their keyboards, and can do it faster than most people can click on a button.
Additionally, the drawbacks I mentioned earlier are based on the archaic command lines as used in the early days of DOS and UNIX. In those days, a single-color, single fixed-width font command line was all that could be displayed on a screen. A lot has changed since then.[1] But improvements in typography and computer displays didn't change the nature of the CLI; it still involves typing commands by hand into a textbox. However, they do provide a new opportunity for the usability of CLIs to improve, as an interface's usability is not solely limited to how it's operated: the app's graphics, interaction design, and many other factors can affect its perceived usability.
The ways CLIs can be improved with today's graphics rendering capabilities is evidenced by a fusion between the GUI and the CLI: the keyboard-based app launcher. In essence, keyboard app launchers are command lines ensconced in an application window, which makes it possible to enhance them using established usability principles like contrast, grouping, and simple aesthetic appeal.
This idea has been around for quite a while already. Windows users can use Launchy, Find-And-Run-Robot, and Executor[2], Linux has Gnome-Do, and many Mac users can't live without Quicksilver, or even simply Apple's own Spotlight. Mac users have another, relatively new app launcher at their disposal, one that I've personally fallen in love with: Alfred.
Each of these applications has the same principal function: to open applications or issue system commands using the keyboard whilst staying in the GUI. When invoking Alfred or any other launcher, all it shows is a text box, waiting for you to type something.[3] Usually, just the beginning letter of the application or command is enough for the launcher to show a list of possible matches. There is still syntax to learn, but providing immediate feedback on matches means you don't stay in the dark whether or not the command you issued was the right one, and the syntax uses natural language rather than single-character commands.
How is this any better than a graphical app launcher, such as a Start Menu or a Dock? It's not—not for everyone, anyway. If you're more comfortable clicking your way through various menus to a specific application, then CLIs will only annoy and cause irritation. But many people like to keep their hands on the keyboard as much as possible. It's not a matter of right vs. wrong but simply a matter of personal preference—both approaches are able to achieve the same goals.
That said, using a CLI is simply faster. It can be invoked at all times by pressing a shortcut key on the keyboard (e.g., Option+Space for Alfred). There's no need to move your hand off the keyboard, grab the mouse, move it to an icon on the screen, click it, and then move your hand back to the keyboard. Both hands stay on the keyboard at all times, so there's a definite speed advantage.
Also, thanks to forgiving code, syntax can be much more liberal than before. Why force a verb-noun model onto your commands, when a noun-verb model conveys the same information just as well? After all, "Open Firefox" means the same thing as "Firefox: Open".[4] If synonyms for those commands are also supported, learning the syntax becomes a whole lot easier; "Browse" is the same as "List" or "Expand," and so should trigger the same action. And case-sensitivity is something that should be a thing of the past.
Coupled with the benefits the GUI has to offer, a well-designed, modern CLI is much easier to use than traditional CLIs. Let's call the fusion of the CLI with the GUI a Graphic Command Line, or GCL.
One example of a GCL's benefits over traditional CLIs is the ability to display a predictive list of results as the user types, which reduces keystrokes and provides immediate feedback, much like Google Instant. Icons also enhance the usability of GCLs; icons are more recognizable than text labels, so user interactions can be quicker. GCLs can also use typography to indicate relevance and hierarchy through font-size, indentation, and the like.
App launchers like Launchy, Spotlight, and Alfred work on an OS level, so they have no interface into an individual application's functions. But that doesn't mean that a GCL implementation can't be used in applications. For example: you've developed a brochure in a publishing application like InDesign, but notice some of the graphics are a bit too transparent. You could edit them all one-by-one by right-clicking, selecting "Edit style," selecting the transparency control and adjusting it by moving a slider. If you had a GCL on call, you could simply invoke it and type something like "Opacity 100". Auto-completion would help not having to type every single letter. That would give you a massive speed gain.
Granted, not all software would benefit with an additional GCL. Not all commands are well-suited or even possible to issue via command line, such as Photoshop's brush tool, or making selections of multiple objects. But that doesn't mean a GCL couldn't benefit the app in many other use cases. Microsoft Office applications like Word or Excel, for example, could benefit a lot, in much the same way as in the brochure example. In fact, Excel's formula bar is already kind of like a GCL. Typing the "=" operand displays predictive text and tips for completing formulas.
Excel isn't the only product that features a CLI-derivative that we are unaware of. Most applications do: everyone knows that CTRL/Command+S means Save, and CTRL/Command+O means Open. Issuing commands using these key combinations is essentially like using an invisible CLI. But these key combos often don't give enough feedback. In my personal experience, the only way I know an app received my Save command is the cursor changing to its busy state, but this happens so quickly that it's barely noticeable. Invoking a GCL to issue a Save command may require more keystrokes, but if the result is better feedback, it's a good tradeoff.[5]
It's important to keep in mind GCL's don't have to replace the GUI of the application: they can be a complementary mode of interaction, which stay hidden until the user explicitly summons them.
CLIs are not the antithesis of usability. Just as the GUI has, the CLI can evolve, and it's already happening. Taking inspiration from the GUI and taking into account lessons everything we know about usability today, the command line can be a seriously usable interface, especially as a complement to the "regular" GUI approach of today's applications. It's not a matter of which type of interface is better; it's a matter of making the entire application better. The mouse and keyboard have always existed in peaceful harmony, and that harmony can get even better by close study of their interaction with both user and application.
[1] This old-skool type of CLI is still actively used in today's OSes. Windows' Command Prompt, Mac's Terminal, and Linux' Console are all remnants of those early days. [back to text]
[2] Humanized's Enso, co-developed by Mozilla's current Creative Lead Aza Raskin, kicked the collective asses of these three in terms of usability, but unfortunately has since fallen into development limbo. [back to text]
[3] Many of Alfred's features and uses can be achieved with the other applications, but for the sake of the article I'm sticking with Alfred for examples. [back to text]
[4] There is a bit of a difference though. In the case of app launchers, the verb-noun model addresses the operating system, whereas the noun-model model addresses the target application. [back to text]
[5] Yes, feedback can also be improved without implementing a CLI. But keep in mind that such a command line won't be used for just saving and opening. The entire range of functions would be implemented. [back to text]


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But, of course, if one were to say pound sign/symbol in the UK, it would be understood to refer to this: £. Now, if Americans needed to refer to £, they would probably say the pound sign or the pound symbol or That little squiggly thing that looks like a capital L in cursive* with a line through the middle. But since they rarely have to refer to £, they're not too bothered by the ambiguity.
The usual UK term for # is hash sign (or hash symbol), but it doesn't seem to have a long history. The OED says:
hash sign [cf. hash-mark: prob. ult. f. HATCH v.2, altered by popular etymology], the symbol #, esp. used before a numeral (as in N. Amer.) to indicate a following number; the 'number sign'
1984 Which Micro? Dec. 12/2 Neither user-defined characters, nor the '*hash' sign could be reproduced. 1986 Guardian 20 Feb. 15 Would I please therefore oblige her by using the musical notation provided (I gather that it is called a hash sign).The (AmE) quotation marks/(BrE) inverted commas and uncertainty about the term in the quotations suggests that hash sign was only becoming established in English (British or otherwise?) in the 1980s. The hatch mentioned in the etymology is the verb sense of 'To cut, engrave, or draw a series of lines', but although one also sees hatch mark in the wild, there's no indication in the OED that this term has ever been popular. Of course, hash sign/symbol is not restricted to the UK, and its use in the Twitterverse term hashtag will probably give hash an advantage over pound and number in some quarters. Another term that some seem to use is the descriptive crosshatch symbol--though the OED doesn't yet include it.
I can only guess that the apparent absence long-standing name for # in BrE is due to a lack of need for it. BrE speakers weren't using # to mean 'number' or 'pound', so it was only when (AmE, orig. proprietary name) touch-tone/(BrE) push-button telephones became widely available that they had much need for a word for that symbol. (And maybe even later--it was years after we had such phones that we got automated interactions with instructions like "press the pound/hash key twice".)
Because American keyboards typically do not have the £ symbol, people sometimes use # to signify amounts in sterling. My understanding of this has been that it's called the pound sign/symbol because it is used to mean the same as lb. --i.e. pounds as an imperial measurement of weight--then because it was already called the pound sign, it fell into use for the other kind of pound when need(s) be. But Mark Liberman on Language Log has been doubting this, and so my reason for choosing tonight to blog about this is just that it's a good excuse to link to his post.
Oh, and if you don't like any of these, you can always call it an (orig. AmE) octothorp(e), which seems to have been invented in the early 1970s specifically for the phone button.
* While cursive is not marked as AmE in the OED (it certainly wasn't coined in America), it's rarely heard in the UK, where people instead tend to say (BrE) joined-up writing.


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Where's the Samsung shaped dent in the universe?
It's not that Samsung doesn't continuously push the limits of hardware specifications and capabilities as much if not more than anyone else. They do. But they do so by systematically, institutionally copying what other vendors have already done first.
Samsung does it to such a degree, and with such a consistency, that it's flabbergasting they can show up in court, swear an oath, and claim anything otherwise. Now they could claim it doesn't matter, that all phones and tablets and icons should look alike, and would be understandable as a strategy. But claiming they don't copy? Absurd.
Before the iPhone, Samsung copied the BlackBerry with the BlackJack. RIM sued, and Samsung changed the name to Jack, but kept the same design. Then, as now, they looked at the market leader and rather than asking how they could make "what's next", they asked how they could make what would be as close as possible "next to" it on a shelf. Rather than setting a course for the future, they set out to subsume the present.
Following the iPhone, when Apple showed the industry what "was next", rather than trying to do to the iPhone, and later the iPad, what Apple did to Palm and BlackBerry, Table PC and netbooks, Samsung conscientiously, deliberately, made their own smartphones and tablets look and work as close to indistinguishably from Apple products as possible. They started with the Instinct and kept right on going with the Galaxy series.
And they didn't stop with iPhones or iPads, either, but shamelessly copied everything from icons to interfaces, plugs to ports, dongles to desktops. They cloned devices, like they had Photoshops's stamp brush made manifest on the factory floor.
This year Samsung introduced the Galaxy S III and began to visually differentiate themselves from Apple. The shape was less a slab and more a river-stone, the charging was inductive, the sharing a physical tap away, and the screen would even ripple like water when you touched it... Just exactly what Palm did with webOS and the Pre back in 2009.
As a gadget lover, even if you love Samsung, even if you don't want to admit it, it's a huge disappointment. A splinter in the mind that mars what are otherwise phenomenal devices. A shadow in the periphery that stops you from enjoying the full light of their accomplishments.
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Even if you can rationalize "a black slab is a black slab" it's impossible to rationalize "a yellow flower on blue background icon for photos is a yellow flower icon on blue background for photos", or "the shape of AC adapters, dock cables, and desktop computers are..." well, you get the idea. Even if you can dismiss individual instances as coincidences, when taken as a whole, it's impossible to dismiss the depths of Samsung's unoriginality as anything other than blatant, bold-faced copying.
And lets face it, it works. Hitching their design train to Apple's engine has helped make Samsung the most successful Android manufacturer on the face of the earth, and the only truly profitable one. That is no doubt tremendous incentive, and explains why Samsung did it, and while they'll likely continue to do it.
Copying is inevitable. Great artists steal.
But as someone who marveled at the Handspring Treo, the BlackBerry, the iPhone, the Palm Pre, and the Nexus One, seeing the perpetual lack of innovation exhibited by Samsung is disheartening. Call Apple's litigations "anti-innovation" all you want, but how can you not recognize copying threatens innovation just as much as over-litigation, if not more? How can you not see how its end result is a depressing future filled with me-too products that do everything but delight and inspire?
I'm not ready to be done yet. I'm not ready to concede that the iPhone at Macworld or the Pre at CES are the last time I'll truly be amazed by leaps forward in mobile. I'm not ready to accept a years-long drought filled with cheap knock-offs and increasingly conventional, commodity devices.
I bought and owned a Nexus One. I bought and own a Nexus 7. I'd buy and own another HTC or Motorola Nexus in a heartbeat. I've never had the slightest urge to buy or own a Samsung mobile device -- because I already have a Treo and an iPhone, an iPad and a Palm Pre.
I would love to add a Samsung device to that list, an original, novel, inspiring take on mobile from one of the giants of the industry. The Galaxy Note and the upcoming Galaxy Note 10.1 are a start, but there has to be something beyond "with a stylus". There has to be a Samsung device that could be, for once, at the head of the design curve. A Samsung device that other manufacturers look to for inspiration and take their turn in copying outright.
Regardless of how the Apple vs Samsung trial turns out, that's the challenge Samsung faces. To move from replication to innovation. To take their place as not only a market leader but an industry leader. To stop copying the present and claim a role in shaping the future.
Apple II. Mac. iTunes. iPod. iPhone. iPad. Apple's has done it over and over again. Trinitron. Walkman. Sony has done it too, as have others.
Samsung has a chance next year. No doubt there'll be a Galaxy S4/Galaxy S IV, and no doubt Samsung is already planning it. They have a chance to zag instead of zig, to do something as original as Apple did in 2007 and Palm did in 2009. I sincerely hope they take it.
I hope they put a Samsung shaped dent in the universe.
Rene Ritchie is one of the most respected Apple analysts in the business, reaching a combined audience of over 40 million readers a month. His YouTube channel, Vector, has over 90 thousand subscribers and 14 million views and his podcasts, including Debug, have been downloaded over 20 million times. He also regularly co-hosts MacBreak Weekly for the TWiT network and co-hosted CES Live! and Talk Mobile. Based in Montreal, Rene is a former director of product marketing, web developer, and graphic designer. He's authored several books and appeared on numerous television and radio segments to discuss Apple and the technology industry. When not working, he likes to cook, grapple, and spend time with his friends and family.


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Re: POLL: Are you a vier or a vimmer? (or something weirder!)
vi. On SCO Unix. Until the mid-90s. Have occasionally dabbled with gvim on Windows but it never sticks. Now, though...
Seriously, I am in love with this product.
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vi. On SCO Unix. Until the mid-90s. Have occasionally dabbled with gvim on Windows but it never sticks. Now, though...
Seriously, I am in love with this product.
I used vi ages ago for debugging massive log files and never really got into it. Came back with gvim and loved it. Though vi is still better on massive files.
Now use vim on Debian, vi/vim on cygwin vi on Open BSD and gvim on Windows and ViEmu on MS (SQL, VS, Word/outlook).
I would say I definitely prefer the vim key strokes/behaviour and I love your interface in VS/SQL, and look forward to seeing a few more features implemented.
gvim on windows, macvim on mac, vim on linux
random: thanks for the support for ViEmu!
Ronald: new features come at a slow but sustained pace, and ViEmu will definitely become better and better over the months and years to come. Thanks for the kind comment. too.
vim on Linux.
gvim/viemu on Windows.
Vim, and, when forced onto a nassssty windows machine, or when just plain too lazy under Linux to open a console and type "vim" for a separated window, GVim (:
gvim (both windows and linux)
occasionally a console vim, if I must.
My .vimrc has grown to around 10k these days
I started with vi (the one true vi), then elvis, then vim, and have stuck with vim ever since. I really wanted vim in an IDE, found it, and was very disappointed. It was jvi + netbeans.
Then I found ViEmu. Huzzah!
zenakuten, I'm sorry that ViEmu can't handle those 10k lines of vimrc -- hopefully in the future!
At least, ViEmu + VS is an excellent IDE with the most productive editing scheme ever!
Thanks for the kind comment.
- Jon
I'm a nvi user, mostly due to the undo behaviour. I've gotten used to being able to undo an undo with a second "u" (with continuations using "."), and vim's behaviour gets me into trouble all the time.
Erh, hopefully nvi-undo-behavior will become available in ViEmu via external scripting in some time!
I've been a vimmer ever since we had to learn Vim and Emacs in University. After learning some of the basics, I was in love and use Vim for any text editing I can. Sadly, I haven't had the patience to master the bash vi-mode (set -o vi) and haven't ventured as far as Vimperator for Firefox.
I try to avoid vi whenever possible. I'll fill my home drive with my own installation of vim rather than go without (or try to maintain an install in /tmp).
Nowadays, I use Gvim/vim and ViEmu (VS+Office) on Windows (work) and Gvim/vim on Linux (home). The downside is that people have such a hard time working on anything at my desk. (The turnoff shortcut for Viemu is great, but I forget. And I need to remember to setup a shortcut for EasyVim.)
Pydave, thanks for the info! I don't care for vimperator either (although I do miss vim in Firefox textareas), and I never got around to learning bash's vi mode. I don't use that much Unix to be worth learning that, I think.
Way to remember Ctrl-Alt-Shift-V: 'V' is from 'ViEmu', and all the modifier keys are required in order to avoid clashes with any other shortcut, since this one should be seldom used!
ViM'er, absolutely! As to convincing a Vi'er to switch, visual mode is not nearly the most compelling--that would be split windows, or diffmode, or named paste buffers, or macro recording, or...
I never even used visual mode until I started using ViEmu, but now I'm really getting comfortable with it. I started using it to select code for SQL mgmt studio to execute, and now it's worming its way into my brain!
Hey, AFAIK, named registers and macro recording are both original-vi features!
Visual mode is indeed very useful... VIsual mode for a VIsual editor.
vi, going back to BSD 4.2 on a VAX 11/750 in the early 80s. Later, on AT&T System VR2 on Motorola 68020 hardware, then some SCO on 80286, Digital UNIX on Alpha, AIX, HP-UX and currently a lot on Solaris 10 (E25K, 6900, 2900).
vim is mostly used on Linux and my desktop PC running Windows.
Johnk3, that's what I'd call vintage! If you use ViEmu, I hope you find it a worthy descendant of those vi incarnations. Thanks!
Hi Jon,
I use all versions of vi just depending on the system/computer I am using....gvim on windows, vim/vi on linux, and all of your viemu products on windows.
A vimmer of almost 15 years, mostly on Debian.
As I now have to work primarily on Windows, I still haven't found a usable environment. GVim lacks a TTY (to run :!commands), the Vista terminal doesn't have proper scrolling, resizing or mouse selection, MSYS's rxvt has weird control sequence bugs...
I am now evaluating ViEmu and finding it a huge improvement on my generally miserable Visual Studio experience. It still feels quite hackish at times, but it'll probably improve as the 30 days go.
Is there a way to post new topics? I constantly get this error page from the server:
Fatal error: Invalid API key. Please obtain one from http://wordpress.com/api-keys/ in /home/jngng/public_html/viemu/forums/include/Akismet.class.php on line 107
EDIT: looks like it's been fixed
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Sam, apologies for the problems while posting. Fighting spam in online forums is often problematic. Let me know if I can help out with anything with regards to ViEmu! - Jon
Windows gvim, with occasional uses of the cygwin vim.
Cygwin vim! I've installed it a couple of times, but could never manage to integrate cygwin in my workflow. Much less cygwin vim...
learned vi ages and ages ago at college.
started using vim approx 10 years ago at work.
now Linux ships vim as vi, so there's really no choice. i'd use vim anyway, of course.
usually gvim on Linux or Windows, but sometimes vim on Linux when using Putty or some such rather than X.
gvim on win, vi on *nix
Radski, pure vi? Wow!
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Do They Give Awards For Long, Self-Obsessed Speeches?
Type-A. Alpha Female. Perfectionist. Competitive. Bitch.
I've been called all of these things. And, with the exception of that last term – which I think was more expressive of the ressentiment of the speaker than aptly descriptive of yours truly – I think that all of these terms describe me fairly accurately. I am a perfectionist, I do aim at accomplishment, I am tremendously self-critical, I do have high-expectations of myself. And, I am competitive.
Mostly, I compete against myself. As I've said before, I often feel that I am in a race with myself, that I have set myself against my own expectations of myself and have applied myself to the lifelong challenge of defeating and exceeding those expectations. As I have also said here, this is exhausting: it's a race that doesn't end, no matter how fast you run.
One of the great gifts of motherhood has been that it has forced me to become more reasonable in my expectations of myself. It has forced me to move the finish line, to reimagine the finish line. I've been compelled to recognize that so far as parenting goes, the only 'finish lines' that matter are those that you cross in each and every beautiful/vexing/heart-wrenching moment: those 'finish line' moments that come when you have made it through a difficult night, when you finally get that latch, when you have convinced your husband to attend to a shitty diaper change, when you manage to get pajamas on your squirmy baby, when that baby finally takes a nap, when that baby wraps her arms around your neck and nuzzles her cheek against yours, when that baby smiles at you, coos at you, says mama. These are the moments of winning. These are the moments that I live for, now.
One of the things that I love and have loved most about my participation in the parent corner of the blogosphere is that it has provided ongoing comfort and reassurance in my struggle to appreciate those moments for what they are. It has provided me with the space and opportunity to really become self-reflective as a parent, and, not incidentally, as a writer. It has given me the space and opportunity and encouragement to make my experience of motherhood self-reflective, and honest, and creative. It has encouraged me - in a way that no book or expert or public-health authority could - to view being a mother as an act of creativity, as an exercise of my heart and my brain, as a work of art that cannot, ultimately, be judged according to any objective standards (other than those imposed by such obvious concerns as the health and welfare of my child.) It has helped me to let go (perhaps not entirely, but substantially) of my concern with winning. It has taught me that there is no such thing as Mother of the Year, it has taught me that there are only ever just Mothers, and that there is glory in that. It has taught me - you have taught me - that my satisfaction with myself as 'Mother' has far, far less to do with standards of performance, whatever those might be, than with how enriched I am by every moment of this great (sometimes fun, sometimes harrowing) adventure.
Writing in the blogosphere, being part of this community, has taught me these things in large part because it has allowed me and encouraged me to really understand what it means to write a life and to live a life, and the difference between these. Because it exposed me to other parents doing the same thing: parenting and living and writing and writing and living and parenting and exulting in the messy mix of these things. Embracing not being Parents of the Year. Just being parents, and writing parenthood, and inspiring each other with the artistry - the wonderful, messy, beautiful artistry - of their lives as these are splattered upon the virtual page.
The idea that any of these works of art could be identified as 'Best' seems to me to run against the grain of what these works – the work of living, parenting, put into words – really are. They are brilliant in their uniqueness, they are brilliant for their honesty, they are brilliant – in the literal sense of shining, producing and reflecting light – because they are (like the lives that they recount) works of love. They are, for these reasons, incomparable.
There are some that I love more than others. There are some that I think are funnier than others, some that I think are better written than others, some that I relate to more personally than others, some that reach deeper into my soul or down to my funny-bone or press more heavily upon my brain. But I couldn't name any one of them Best, or Blog of the Year, or even My Favourite Blog. And I wouldn't want to: because to subject these works to some measurement, to some method of evaluation that would separate and deconstruct and rank them, would be to attack the very thing that makes them special. It would be like naming Best Work of Art in History. Best Poem. Best Composition of Music. How do you measure? Is it even possible to measure? Why measure?
I don't think that you can measure. I don't think that you can quantify what makes a blog good or great or resonant. Some blogs get more traffic, more comments, more linkage, more advertising (all of which I am in favour of, by the way) – but these aren't necessarily the best blogs - not necessarily the best written or the funniest or the most touching or the most anything. They're popular, so they obviously appeal, but beyond that what can we say? They're popular. Britney Spears is popular; opera and experimental jazz are not. But these are not comparable.
(I am not arguing that popular things have no merit beyond mass appeal. I'm just noting, for the self-reflective record, that popularity does not necessarily equal greatness, or even mere quality, in any measure. I like popularity, because I like being liked, but I'm well aware that what might make me popular is not necessarily what is the best of me, and that being popular is not a reason for self-congratulation.)
All of this is a very long-winded, convoluted way for me to say this: I'm removing my name from the list of finalists for the Canadian Blog Awards.
I've been uncomfortable with this whole exercise since it began, and so I've decided to forego further participation. I didn't, and don't, want to lobby my readers to check off my name on some dubious shortlist of Good Blogs (highly dubious. So very many amazing blogs are missing from these lists.) I don't want to get sucked into the mudtrap of measuring the value of this blog - my blog, my creative space - according to the standards of a vote and a list. And I don't want to try to convince you that my blog is better than any other blog on that (again, wholly unrepresentative) list.
I like my blog, I think that it is good, and I hope that the exercise that it represents in terms of my writing yields other opportunities (even if only in allowing me a space to practice my writing.) I like that it is well-visited, and that so many thoughtful people respond to it. But it is what it is – just one blog among a great many wonderful, inspiring blogs. If you like it, I hope that you'll read it. But that's all that I want you to do – read it, and, if you're so inspired, talk to me about it or carry on the conversation at your own blog or around your dining table or wherever.
So. That two minutes that you might have spent on voting? Use that time to leave a comment telling me that I'm deluded or insightful or that I'm obviously engaging in some lame attempt to boost my own popularity. Or use that time to go discover another blog that might inspire you. Go tell someone that you like their blog, or that you like what they had to say today or that you disagree with what they said today or whatever. BLOG. Find some way to remind yourself how and why it is that you love blogs.
You don't need a vote to do that. I don't need a vote to do that.
WonderBaby tried to train a clutch of monkeys to overwhelm the CBAs with random votes but she didn't have enough bananas and they mutinied. They're out there, somewhere in the Greater Toronto Area, holding up produce stores and looking for an open wireless connection.
*I remain really, really grateful to those who nominated me and voted for me and put me in the finals. Really - I loves me the flattery, and this was truly flattering. So, thank you.
**I am in no way maligning any blogger who embraces these awards and who does lobby for votes. I'll certainly continue cheering on some of my favourite bloggers, because I'd love to see them acquire some bloggy bling and get the good linkage that comes with an award like this. I've made this decision for me; I'm not insisting that it's what everybody should do. This isn't a boycott.


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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge has granted Miley Cyrus a three-year civil restraining order against a man convicted of trespassing at her home in Los Angeles.
The stay-away order was granted Friday against Jason Luis Rivera by Superior Court Judge William D. Stewart.
The 40-year-old Rivera was convicted in October of trespassing at the singer's home and sentenced to 18 months in jail.
He is scheduled to be released in May. Authorities said at the time of Rivera's arrest in September that he was carrying scissors and ran into the wall of Cyrus' home as if trying to break in.
Rivera did not respond to Cyrus' petition.
The 20-year-old former star of "Hannah Montana" did not attend the hearing. Her attorney Bryan Sullivan declined comment.
Source: The Associated Press
Numerous other publications, such as Newsday, AOL, E!, Perezhilton and TMZ also ran the story.


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I've rarely been more aware than during Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" that Abraham Lincoln was a plain-spoken, practical, down-to-earth man from the farmlands of Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois. He had less than a year of formal education and taught himself through his hungry reading of great books. I still recall from a childhood book the image of him taking a piece of charcoal and working out mathematics by writing on the back of a shovel.
Lincoln lacked social polish but he had great intelligence and knowledge of human nature. The hallmark of the man, performed so powerfully by Daniel Day-Lewis in "Lincoln," is calm self-confidence, patience and a willingness to play politics in a realistic way. The film focuses on the final months of Lincoln's life, including the passage of the 13th Amendment ending slavery, the surrender of the Confederacy and his assassination. Rarely has a film attended more carefully to the details of politics.
Lincoln believed slavery was immoral, but he also considered the 13th Amendment a masterstroke in cutting away the financial foundations of the Confederacy. In the film, the passage of the amendment is guided by William Seward (David Strathairn), his secretary of state, and by Rep. Thaddeus Stevens (Tommy Lee Jones), the most powerful abolitionist in the House. Neither these nor any other performances in the film depend on self-conscious histrionics; Jones in particular portrays a crafty codger with some secret hiding places in his heart.
The capital city of Washington is portrayed here as roughshod gathering of politicians on the make. The images by Janusz Kaminski, Spielberg's frequent cinematographer, use earth tones and muted indoor lighting. The White House is less a temple of state than a gathering place for wheelers and dealers. This ambience reflects the descriptions in Gore Vidal's historical novel "Lincoln," although the political and personal details in Tony Kushner's concise, revealing dialogue is based on "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln" by Doris Kearns Goodwin. The book is well-titled. This is a film not about an icon of history, but about a president who was scorned by some of his political opponents as just a hayseed from the backwoods.
Lincoln is not above political vote buying. He offers jobs, promotions, titles and pork barrel spending. He isn't even slightly reluctant to employ the low-handed tactics of his chief negotiators (Tim Blake Nelson, James Spader, John Hawkes). That's how the game is played, and indeed we may be reminded of the arm-bending used to pass the civil rights legislation by Lyndon B. Johnson, the subject of another biography by Goodwin.
Daniel Day-Lewis, who has a lock on an Oscar nomination, modulates Lincoln. He is soft-spoken, a little hunched, exhausted after the years of war, concerned that no more troops die. He communicates through stories and parables. At his side is his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln (Sally Field, typically sturdy and spunky), who is sometimes seen as a social climber but here is focused as wife and mother. She has already lost one son in the war and fears to lose the other. This boy, Robert Todd Lincoln (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), refuses the privileges of family.
There are some battlefields in "Lincoln" but the only battle scene is at the opening, when the words of the Gettysburg Address are spoken with the greatest possible impact, and not by Lincoln. Kushner also smoothly weaves the wording of the 13th Amendment into the film without making it sound like an obligatory history lesson.
The film ends soon after Lincoln's assassination. I suppose audiences will expect that to be included. There is an earlier shot, when it could have ended, of President Lincoln walking away from the camera after his amendment has been passed. The rest belongs to history.
149 minutes
Daniel Day-Lewis as Lincoln
Sally Field as Mary Todd
David Strathairn as Seward
Tommy Lee Jones as Stevens