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DENVER Forget about playing with sparklers or building a campfire in the backcountry anywhere in Colorado this summer.
Gov. John Hickenlooper imposed a statewide fire ban Thursday, noting that extra dry and hot weather has led to 340 wildfires already this year.
The threat to life and property, I think, has grown to the point where we need to get questions out of peoples minds and have a unified approach as to how were going to address this, Hickenlooper said.
But his ban includes several exceptions, so it wont completely extinguish summer fun.
Fires are allowed in permanent fire pits at established campsites or picnic areas and in backyard charcoal grills. In the backcountry, gas stoves will be allowed.
Commercial and city fireworks displays also will be allowed, with the county sheriffs permission. But private fireworks are now disallowed.
Also, farmers will be allowed to set prescribed burns in their fields and ditches.
The 50,000-acre High Park Fire west of Fort Collins loomed as an ominous backdrop to Hickenloopers announcement. The fire exploded last Saturday and now ranks as the third-largest fire in state history, behind the Hayman and Missionary Ridge fires in 2002. Several days this week, Denverites woke up to a city that smelled like a campfire. The massive smoke plume is easily visible from the capitals northern suburbs.
Several counties, including La Plata, already have adopted fire bans, and the state ban does not replace stricter county bans.
Hickenlooper said he wanted to eliminate confusion for people on outdoor trips to various counties.
We dont want any lack of clarity. We want everybody very, very focused that this is an extremely dry, hot and windy time of the year. The forecast seems to be showing no strong end in sight, Hickenlooper said.
Hickenlooper did not say how long his ban would last, but he doubted it would remain in place all summer. Forecasts predict monsoon rains in early August, he said.
Hickenlooper seemed to have learned a lesson from former Gov. Bill Owens, who was governor during the last catastrophic wildfire season in 2002. In an offhand remark, Owens said, It looks as if all of Colorado is burning today, causing an uproar in the states tourism industry.
Hickenlooper noted that Colorado has about 10,000 campsites, and just 120 are off-limits because of the fires. All the fires in the state so far this year have touched just half a percent of Colorados 23 million acres of public lands.
Were not telling people to not go out and enjoy the outdoors. Colorado is probably the greatest state in America for people getting their first taste of the great outdoors, he said.
La Plata County commissioners enacted a similar burn ban in unincorporated areas last week. Montezuma County on Monday imposed a ban on open fires and fireworks.
Hickenlooper noted that 55 of the states 64 counties have some type of fire ban this summer. He said he heard no opposition to a statewide policy from any of the county commissioners his office contacted.
We cant outlaw lightning from hitting the ground. If we could, we would, Hickenlooper said. Were going to do everything in our power to try and make sure every fire we can intercept and stop, and make sure it doesnt happen, that we do that.


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When needed, the goal of treatment is to remove as much of the cancer as possible, while preserving urinary and sexual function. Additional treatment may help to prevent the spread or recurrence of cancer. The treatment plan will often include a combination of approaches based on the characteristics of the cancer, patient's age, general health, and prognosis. Comfort measures can be provided if prostate cancer is in advanced stages.
The healthcare team will be made up of a variety of health professionals including doctors, surgeons, nurses, and pharmacists. It is important to maintain contact with your medical team, adhere to recommended treatment, and go to any recommended appointments for the best outcomes possible.
Prostate cancer treatment includes:Other treatmentsSurgeryRadiation therapyMedications—Hormonal therapyChemotherapyLifestyle changes
Existing treatment protocols have been established and continue to be modified through clinical trials. These research studies are essential to determine whether or not new treatments are both safe and effective. Since highly effective treatments for many cancers remain unknown, numerous clinical trials are always underway around the world. You may wish to ask your doctor about participating in a clinical trial. You can find out about clinical trials at the US National Institutes of Health website.
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- Review Date: 09/2017 -
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Tagged: Lakewood BlueClaws
Your Wish Is Granted!
Well, my birthday wishes came true yesterday – the Phillies DID win, and the Braves DID lose, so the Phils are atop the NL East. For the moment, anyway.
Now that three blogs' worth of wishes in a row have been granted, I think I'd better stop while I'm ahead!
Clash of the Crustaceans
Saw this little news item on the Phillies website. Over the weekend, the Phils' single-A affiliate, the Lakewood BlueClaws, won their South Atlantic League semifinal series over the Hickory Crawdads.
Based on the mascots, I would definitely pick Pinchy the Crab in a mascot smackdown over Conrad the Crawdad. Pinchy just has a more determined look about him, and besides, Conrad is hiding behind a giant 'H'.
The BlueClaws will now face the Greenville Drive for the Sally League title.
For the most part, minor league team names and mascots are a source of great amusement for me. But "Drive"? What kind of team name is "Drive", anyway? Don't the execs in Greenville realize that a catchy team name and mascot will provide multitudinous marketing opportunities, with cute little mascot bobbleheads and stuffed mascots for sale in the team store?
Good luck, BlueClaws!


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Type: Defect
Status: Closed
Priority: Major
Resolution: Completed
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This error is related to the example longOptions.clj of CTYPE-102 and the derived hmap/big-options mentioned as CTYPE-99. I've prepared a new example to clearly show the issue.
The first function passes type-checking. However, it contains a redundant check on line 83 and a redundant base-case on line 85.
The second function does not pass the (check-ns) as it assumes that notifs can be a (seqable String). However, as this is the else-branch of line 112 (if (or (sequential? notifs) (seq? notifs) (vector notifs)) ... so the notifs can not be a (Seqable String) in this branch.
NOTE: core.typed does not know clojure.core/sequential? yet. Therefore the seq? and vector? tests are added too.
Seqable doesn't extend Sequential, ISeq or IPersistentVector, so it's expected that this fails.
I suspect that the type for :st_notif is always an immutable clojure collection? If so, annotate :st_notif as (U (t/Coll String) String nil), and use (coll? notifs) as the predicate. Otherwise, try (not (string? notifs)) as the predicate.
I tried to turn it into clojure.core.typed/Coll and that worked fine.
Thanks for the suggestion/solution!
Out of curiosity I tried as an alternative to check for (= (class notifs) clojure.lang.Seqable) as a second solution, but that did not solve the issue.
So I will stick to solution 1.
= isn't useful for narrowing types, especially in the else branch. instance? and isa? would be more useful.
Sorry, it was a typo from my side. I used (isa? ....) see line 166 of the attached fail failDerive1a.clj
This code triggers a type-error on line 171.
I think this is resolved.


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When I do it this way ---
I get the same answer either way I write it. However if i do this:
or if I write:
Either way I get answer of 1 because
and is just one.
However complex numbers say that is equal to
How can be equal to if
equals or just ?
By my logic should be just 1. So there is obviously a rule I am missing here that would lead me to believe this. If someone could explain to me why but doesnt not equal or just . It would be much appreciated!
Sorry in advance if my code got messed up, I havent used it before.


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Config::Auto is out.
So, about the module. It's called
Config::Auto, and I've written it because I never want to write another config file parser ever again. So, this little baby looks around for a likely-looking config file, sniffs it to work out what sort of format it's in, and has a good shot at parsing it into a Perl data structure. It deals with XML, INI files, Perl files, lists and the more "vague" Unix-style colon-separated, equal-separated and space-separated files.
For instance:
# tortuous.pl
use Config::Auto; use Data::Dumper;
print Dumper(Config::Auto::parse());
This looks around my filesystem, and finds
.tortuousrc, which looks like this:
test: foo=bar, baz=quuz
test2: blah
blez: quux
And, with no other prompting, it comes back with:
'test2' => 'blah',
'blez' => 'quux',
'test' => {
'foo' => 'bar',
'baz' => 'quuz'
Laziness: check.
Impatience: check.
Hubris: check.
I have two problems with the open source donation model.
The first is that open source projects are made from code, and the best donation I can give them is not money but code. In the case of Perl, I maintain nearly 40 modules, managed the release of the first few versions of the Perl 6 interpreter, and have contributed many patches and documents to the Perl 5 core. I feel absolutely no guilt at all for not giving a single cent to the fundraising drive.
If all we did was throw money at a small number of people to get the code written for us, there'd be no community to maintain.
Second, and far more seriously, donation models reinforce the myth that software is important in any meaningful sense of the word. Of course, software is relatively important to programmers, but for the vast majority of the world, it's pretty meaningless.
I'm very lucky that I have the opportunity to give reasonable sums of money to charity reasonably often. When this happens, I naturally have a number of things vying for my donations. Here are a few:
- Work with homeless people in my home town.
- Care for the elderly mentally ill.
- Providing AIDS vaccines for children in Africa.
- Digging wells and providing fresh water for villages in Pakistan.
- Allowing privileged first-world programmers to sit in front of a computer for more hours than they currently do.
Put like that, I hope it is clear that software is not as important as the biased eye of a programmer may perceive. Indeed, no matter how much of my income I derive from the existence of a given open source project, it becomes very difficult for me to fail to take a global view in cases like this. The common counterargument that I should donate money to Perl because it provides my livelihood makes sense only for those who cannot see beyond their own needs.
Meanwhile, I know full well that as Perl is an open source project, it'll continue to be maintained and developed whether or not people are paid to do this. This makes it even more difficult for me to help the poor white-bread middle-class afflicted.
So I'm happy to contribute to Perl in my own way, but I'd rather not lose my sense of priority.
GraphViz module to turn a Shishi parser into a nice diagram of the state machine. While GraphViz turns a data structure into a graph, it would be really lovely for parser tuning to be able to play around with the graph in dotty and then read the resulting graph back into a data structure...
=head1 NAME
Class::Dynamic - Rudimentary support for coderefs in @ISA
=head1 SYNOPSIS
package Blargh;
use Class::Dynamic;
our @ISA = ("Foo", sub { rand < 0.5 ? "Bar" : "Baz" } );
=head1 DESCRIPTION
This module allows you to insert coderefs into a class's C<@ISA>.
By way of explanation, a friend had been staying with someone who's since moved back to Japan; she then planned to move to Cheltenham, leaving her bags at my house for the time being. However, the Cheltenham idea also fell through and she was stuck in Oxford homeless. So she's staying with me for now.
At the airport on the way back, I managed to get a lot more done on Shishi, and so I've released the prototype to CPAN; I've also got a reasonable stab at an approximate Perl 6 regular expression compiler which compiles to a shishi parser. Unfortunately, it's got to the point where it's really very difficult to build up the data structures that I need from a simple-minded tokenization of a Perl 6 pattern, and I'm left trying to bootstrap Shishi by hand-coding a parser. This is not fun.
This morning, we finished the 6 week Perl course I've been teaching. We did half the lesson on CPAN modules, looking primarily at the modules in my "10 modules" talk from YAPC. Of course, we got to a demonstration of
LWP::Simple just as the demonstration web server was being upgraded, so I had to puzzle over why one person's code worked fine, but someone else's identical code a few minutes later didn't work. In the second half, people built a news ticker utility out of
Mail::Send and dodgy screen-scraping regexes. Good fun, and I think people finished the course with an idea of how to do relatively complex things in Perl - given that the previous course got to subroutines and just abruptly ended, I think adding the modules lesson was a big improvement.
And now, after a flight, a bad night's sleep, and about three hours teaching, I'm utterly shattered.
Woke up too early, and wrote a Perl 6 regular expression engine. Don't you just hate it when that happens?
At 6:30, I headed off to find some coffee, which was more of an ordeal than I expected. The hotel's on the edge of quite a small town, and nothing opens until at least 7am. Finally, I wandered down past Concordia seminary, and found a lovely little cheap and tasty coffee bar on the corner. I got my stuff together and around 8:30 I was ready to head into St. Louis itself.
This town, as a famous man once said, is coming like a ghost town. St Louis is a weird, weird place. The car culture has driven a few of the usual things you'd expect to see in a city out to the suburbs. Basic things like "shops" and "people". Until around noon today, there was essentially nobody on the streets apart from me. (Granted, it was a Sunday.)
Even when the city started to liven up, I couldn't help noticing, while I was wandering around, that there wasn't really a central business district. There were a few delis, pharmacies and 7/11s dotted around, but not even so many of those. Instead, many of the downtown streets were filled with empty buildings, boarded up doors and the shells of long-dead shops. It was bizarre. Some of the most wonderful urban architecture I've seen in a prime position in the city center was just lying empty and forgotten. Even the St. Louis Center, a four storey shopping and restaurant complex, hadn't really taken off. Many of the units remained closed, and those which were let were not exactly inspiring.
The only signs of real civilization were the Busch baseball stadium, - complete with crowds of mourners for legendary baseball radio announcer Jack someone-or-other - the old Union Station, - now a restaurant complex - and the Gateway Arch - long queues and tight security. It took me half the day to find somewhere which would sell batteries, and then I took another few hours taking pictures of some of the great yet desolate buildings I'd seen. Finally, an hour long trip on a Mississippi steamer, before ordering a van ride back to the hotel. Then writing, writing, writing.
The language barrier is turning out to be a problem. I ordered a cheesesteak from the St. Louis Center when it finally opened, and was startled to be asked by the server "Why do we pray?" Well, I wasn't really in the mood for theological discussions, so I just shrugged. This wasn't enough. "Why do we pray?" This a trick question, isn't it? The server got agitated, and picked up two bags of rolls. "Why do we pray?"
Realisation dawned. "Oh, um, wheat, please."
vi, no, not at all.) ran over my tutorial for tomorrow, despatched perl.com for the week, and had a few drinks with co-workers.
I think I'm allowed to feel tired after that.


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There's Nothing Wrong With the Ridiculous Title of R. Kelly's New Memoir
Eccentric R&B singer R. Kelly has written an autobiography, and it's called Soula Coaster: The Diary of Me. Many have made fun of the title, but it's not all that absurd if you get into his thought process:
See, R. Kelly's life and career have had their ups and downs, much like a roller coaster. But because he's a soul musician, really, it's been more of a soul-er coaster. Except "soul-er coaster" doesn't scan very well in print, and kind of sounds like "solar coaster," which sounds like a solar-powered roller coaster, which would be great for the environment, but certainly not an accurate representation of the "Trapped In The Closet" singer's career. Soula coaster, however – that sounds cool. But on its own, Soula Coaster doesn't say much. It needs a subtitle. Something to really break down what kind of book this is. It's a diary. But of who? Why, of him, of course. So, yeah. All pretty logical.
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Dardanelle head football coach Josh Price is already having an impact with his first-year team. He has the Sand Lizards offense averaging the most points per game in the 4AAAA Conference and they sit in sole possession of second place, but there's still work to be done, Price said.
"If you go take care of business and win this Friday, you're sitting in position to be the No. 2 seed. The No. 1 or No. 2 seeds are by far the best playoff draws," Price said. "You get down to the bottom half at the three or four seed, now you're going to one of the top teams in the state in the second round, so you want to stay away from that."
Dardanelle (6-2, 4-1 4AAAA), which averages 37 points of offense per game, will host a Bearcat (7-1, 5-0 4AAAA) team Friday night at Keenan Field. Booneville has allowed the second-fewest point total in the 4AAAA Conference this season and is the co-leader with Ozark averaging 32 points a game.
"We need to go out and play hard. The thing about Booneville is that they play so hard on both sides of the ball, especially special teams," Price said. "I describe their special teams like a hive of bees. They're just flying around, and we have to mirror that, and play just as hard, if not harder."
Offensively, Price said his team must be solid up front and be confident in their blocking schemes. He said he has preached patience to his kids, to wait for their opportunity to strike.
"Offensively, we need to keep doing what we've been doing with our blocks because they're going to do a lot of blitzing from what we've seen," Price said. "They're going to send two or three people on every play, so we've got to be patient, communicate up front, make sure we know who's got who and do a good job.
"With a blitzing defense like that they'll hurt you and all of sudden you'll rip them for a big play, so that's what we're telling our kids, don't panic."
In a big game between two top teams in the division, one might hope to see a trick play or two. Price said he doesn't think he will have to use any trickery against the Bearcats, but said he's ready, and has options available at his disposable if need be.
"We just look at what we can do and if I got a trick play or a fake, maybe even something on special teams, I can run it anytime for the next game because its not the only one I've got. I've got several of them, so it's kind of a spur of the moment deal when you run them," Price said.
Trick plays and special teams are just minor details compared to stopping the run, Price said. He said he wants to put Booneville in third-and-long situations, so his offense can get back on the field and not allow the Bearcats to control the game and the clock.
"Defensively, you have stop the run. You can't allow them to get five or six yards on first down because that's going to be their game plan coming in. They want to eat up the clock and keep the ball," Price said. "If you can slow them down and hold them to short gains on first and second down, then their offense doesn't thrive on 3rd and 10, 3rd and 8."
When asked what his team learns from each game, Price said the team knows to take things one game at a time. He said this game is not only huge because of the game itself, but what it could mean for his team down the road. Price said it should be a good game and he expects a big atmosphere Friday night.
"We learned last week you get up early 26-7, don't get complacent, don't shut'er down. You've got to have that killer instinct and go finish the game off," Price said. "I felt like last week we got ahead three scores and just kind of thought 'oh well, we're going to blow them out' and we let up a lot. Dover took advantage of it and hopefully the kids learned you can't do that."
Price said his team knows the importance of the game and will have to not make any mistakes in order to have a chance. He said his team has been working hard in practice and will only have wide receiver/defensive back Zach Lynch missing Friday's match up.
"We stay on the same old, same old - take things one game at a time. Don't worry about that playoff stuff, that's stuff for coaches and fans," Price said. "Those players need to be worried about 7:30 p.m. Friday night and that's it. Take care of business Friday night and when that one's over, move onto the next one."


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Turkey to reduce sulphur in diesel from Jan 1
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey will reduce the sulphur content of its diesel fuel to harmonize with European Union standards starting from January 1, 2008, an official from the country's energy watchdog agency said on Monday.
Turkey's energy markets regulator will change diesel sulphur levels for fuel for tractors to contain 1,000 parts per million from current levels of 2,000 ppm, he said.
"Diesel will contain half the amount of sulphur it currently has," said Nuri Karaoz, an official at the watchdog's petrol division.
Turkey will also change regulations to reduce the levels of sulphur in diesel for commercial vehicles and cars to 50 ppm, starting July 1, 2008, he said.
Diesel with 50 ppm sulphur is standard in the European Union.
Diesel containing 7,000 ppm sulphur will be taken off the market, the agency's web site said.
Earlier this month, Turkish refiner Tupras said Turkey would switch to cleaner heating oil with just 0.1 percent sulphur from January 1, 2008.


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I'll put 50 Gil on Superchicken to win.
Do you remember Big Bird? Back before all that Barney and Teletubby crap, the Bird was the big kahuna of the children's television world. He was a major player, with his own licensing deals, movie plans, and numerous Swiss bank accounts. Nowadays, he's more like the second fiddle, what with that glory-hog Elmo grabbing all the attention. Ehhhh. . . not that I still watch, or anything.
If you've been playing Final Fantasy rather than watching Sesame Street, you'll be familiar with everyone's favorite video game second fiddle, Chocobo. He (or she, or it) has been around since the Famicom's Final Fantasy III and even has two RPGs of his own: Chocobo's Mysterious Dungeon 1 and 2 (to be released in the US in the future). I guess Chocobo felt the urge to spread his wings, which is the only explanation for his starring role in yet another go-kart driving game, Chocobo Racing.
The main game within Chocobo Racing is a 1 player story mode. Chocobo is given a pair of jet powered roller skates by Cid, the inventor. Mog soon joins Chocobo, and they go on an adventure across 9 courses, searching for friends to race against. Pretty lame, but good for a few laughs. There are other modes as well, like Grand Prix, Time attack, Versus, and a Relay mode where you switch between three characters on every lap.
The characters are deformed and cartoony versions of classic Final Fantasy characters: Chocobo, Mog, and the black and white mages. There's also a behemoth, a golem, a goblin, and a fat Chocobo from the Chocobo Mysterious Dungeon games. When you beat the game, you unlock more characters from other Square games, such as Squall, Cloud, and Cid.
Based on your game's performance score, you are given the option of making one custom character. You select one of the initial nine characters and distribute points to attributes such as acceleration, drift, and maximum speed.
The control is focused on drift style racing. It plays much like Mario Kart, but the track design forces you to make numerous sharp brake assisted turns. Attacks and power-ups are gained by collecting power-orbs; when you collect more of the same orb, the orb's power increases. For example, if you collect three "dash" orbs, you'll be able to dash (speed up) longer. Whoo.
The graphics are colorful, but not particularly impressive. In some areas they border on simplistic, but overall set the mood of each track nicely. The tracks seem a bit too similar to Mario Kart (haunted castle, lava, rainbow road, etc.), though it doesn't get in the way.
The music is average, with plenty of Final Fantasy oriented tunes. The best music is when you beat the game; there's an ending ballad that is strikingly more beautiful than the rest of the music.
So why isn't this game worth it? For starters, it's way too easy. I beat the Story mode in less than two hours. After mastering the controls, the second time through took much less time. After that, there wasn't anything to compel me to keep playing the same game over and over again. The challenge of the Story mode doesn't increase. Times aren't recorded. The only reason to play it again is to unlock more secret characters.
The two player mode (that's only two players, no more) is limited by only ten tracks and the lack of a Battle mode. The orbs and ability attacks isn't always even; sometimes they feel too cheap, and the only thing that really counts is speed and getting to the end.
Further, the custom character option could have been much better. If there was some way to keep building up one character, the depth would have increased tenfold.
Sadly, Chocobo Racing only amounts to yet another go-kart driving game. The game never steps out of its Mario Kart clone roots enough to make a lasting impression. Alas, Chocobo is not the big bird of the mascot racing world.


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Social networking is hugely popular and has driven many internet users to the sites as a way to keep in touch with friends and family. Sites like MySpace, Facebook, and YouTube are among the most popular of the social networking field. These sites also help drive the adoption of technologies that make accessing then on mobile devices possible as well.
Research firm Strategy Analytics says that MySpace and YouTube are helping to drive the significant growth of Adobe's Flash Lite technology. EWeek reports that the research firm said in a news release, "The popularity of social networking sites like YouTube and MySpace is driving the success of Adobe's Flash Lite technology on mobile handsets."
Flash Lite Version 3.0 allows mobile users to access the sites on a number of mobile handsets. According to the firm the total number of Flash Lite enabled handsets hit 960 million by the end of 2008. Strategy Analytics says that by the end of 2009 the number of Flash Lite handsets is expected to hit 1 billion.
Adobe reports that it expected to reach 1 billion capable devices by 2010, a full year later than analysts expect the figure to be reached. Anup Murarka told eWeek that Adobe expects to have an additional 1.5 billion Flash Lite-enabled devices on the market in the next two years. The adoption of Flash Lite by handset makers is expected to grow despite the poor economy. Shipments of enabled handsets are currently 40 million per month.
Strategy Analytics' Stuart Robinson said, "Version 3 and subsequent versions are setting the standard for high-performance Flash Lite applications, although there is continuing high demand for Flash Lite v2.0 and 2.1 in Asia."
Adobe announced some new technology at Mobile World Congress 2009 including a new Adobe Flash Lite 3.1 Distributable Player described as a new over-the-air runtime. The player is available now as a beta for the Nokia S60 and Windows Mobile platforms.


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Ultrabook falling short of expectations
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SAN FRANCISCOUltrabook sales are falling short of expectations amid high pricing and lack of effective marketing, according to market research firm IHS iSuppli, which cut its forecast for 2012 sales of the ultra-thin, low-power notebook PCs.
IHS (El Segundo, Calif.) estimates that 10.3 million Ultrabooks will ship this year, down from a previous forecast of 22 million. More than half of 2012 shipments are expected to occur in the fourth quarter, IHS said.
Ultrabookshigh-end, low-power notebook PCshave failed to achieve widespread popularity largely because of their price, which often hovers around $1,000. To achieve the speed and performance gains specified, Ultrabooks employ solid state drives, which remain far more costly than traditional hard drives.
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The reduced forecast for Ultrabook sales is a blow to Intel Corp., which conceived of the Ultrabook concept and has pumped millions into marketing the PCs. In April, Intel President and CEO Paul Otellini predicted that Ultrabooks would soon hit "mainstream" price points as low as $699. But even that price point may be too high for widespread adoption amid a flood of other promising mobile computing devices like media tablets.
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IHS also reduced its forecast for 2013 Ultrabook shipments. The firm now expects shipments to rise to 44 million next yearmore than quadruple the 2012 forecast, but down from an earlier forecast of 61 million.


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a resident of Bridle Creek
on Jun 14, 2013 at 12:44 am
Yes, improve Bernal Community Park for everyone. Let's get that Grand Meadow for walks and fields for active play.
Great priority ... Please let's not use taxpayer money to put in lawn and water at Pioneer Cemetery on Sunol that just benefits private people.
a resident of Vintage Hills
on Jun 14, 2013 at 2:03 am
I agree with you Chris on the cemetery. A bunch of guys purchased lots in the cemetery for REAL cheap and now they want the taxpayers to pay to have their cemetery with expansive lawns. Those people knew what they were getting when they purchased their plots. In fact, many (all?) of those people bought the plots from the Odd Fellows who owned the cemetery before the city saved the cemetery from complete ruin. They probably spent about $1,000 a plot at a 'fire sale' from the Odd Fellows who were ready to abandon things. I think the city and local service organizations have done a great job in making the cemetery look good. I have been there several times and think that it looks great now. Adding lawns to the cemetery now will only benefit a group of private people who got in and purchased their plots on the cheap.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jun 14, 2013 at 7:38 am
One would be remiss to not mention how the city has been less than honest about spending and revenue intake while bargaining with overpaid public workers. Three years of so-called austerity, and now they want to spend like drunken sailors. Well, these sailors have not been on the raging seas for quite some time. Had they their wits about them, rather than being tied to atrociously biased contracts with the new government class - public workers - they'd have noticed that the sea is fraught with giant swells of debt that are inevitably going to crash upon us like an enormous tsunami.
a resident of Vintage Hills
on Jun 14, 2013 at 11:43 am
I think it makes sense to put additional income into the underfunded benefits given to employees; especially the retiree medical. The CalPERS rates will be going up shortly and I wonder how that affects the ability to fund any capital projects for some time.
Ironically, the under funding of pensions is similar to the underpayment of plots at the cemetery. For pensions, the taxpayers are on the hook to pay for underfunded benefits. For the cemetery plots, those who bought plots at a way under cost price for a 'lawn cemetery' want the taxpayers to pay for their under funding.
I think the fair thing on the cemetery is to ask those who purchased lots to vote on creating an assessment district to fund an enhanced cemetery. If they want a lawn and the maintenance that goes along with it, they can pay for it (and any newly sold plots will have the same surcharge). I bet they would not want to do this if they had to pay for this out of their own pocket but they have no issue in telling the taxpayers to pay for it.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jun 14, 2013 at 7:47 pm
Arnold, that cemetery is the ultimate symbol of austerity spending. You buy the cheap plan and you get dead grass. As with all things in life, you get what you pay for.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jun 15, 2013 at 8:48 pm
Wait, the economy is improving? For whom? Symantec just laid off 1700 employees, before that HP and Zynga. Who's kidding who? With all the occupants of this state collecting food stamps, unemployment, 'disability' pay, maybe this is what they meant by 'recovery' ..i.e. recovery taxpayers money to distribute to the non productive. Such is our state......
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jun 17, 2013 at 2:48 am
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a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jun 17, 2013 at 8:47 am
Nowhere on the list of capital projects do I see fixing our crumbling streets! That should be a much higher priority than anything on the current list, especially things like riparian habitat for salamanders. Our existing streets should be repaired before we add new streets like the Stoneridge extension, add sports fields, and especially those capital projects certain Council members want for their "legacy".
a resident of Amador Estates
on Jun 17, 2013 at 9:48 am
I really enjoy the comments on the Weekly. Arnold, are you afraid of water? I would recommend taking a swim class at the Aquatic Center. Maybe once you can swim the water won't be so scary.
a resident of Parkside
on Jun 17, 2013 at 10:26 am
Speaking of crumbling streets - whoever the contractor was that the City hired for the last paving of Hopyard and other streets ripped off the taxpayers. We have never seen a more shoddy job - the surface is rougher (like a washboard) than it was before, and the surfacing is so thin - we would be surprised if it lasts a year. The line painting was smeared and really second rate. If anyone recalls seeing the equipment this contractor used - 1960s trucks and guys running down the road with the striper - we wouldn't wonder at the results. Willow between Las Positas and Owens is a nightmare - dips and bumps big enough to make someone lose control of car at the posted speed limit. Please! Buy us some quality with those hard-earned tax dollars.
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Johannesburg - The National Union Mineworkers (NUM) has criticised arguments by Gold Fields chairwoman Mamphela Ramphele on employment in the mining industry.
"Her arguments are seriously flawed, contradictory, and lack honesty," spokesman Lesiba Seshoka said in a statement on Thursday.
Gold Fields recently unbundled its assets, creating Sibanye Gold.
"The company has to date refused to enter into any agreement that seeks to avert possible job losses as a result of the unbundling...," he said.
It also did not want to commit to retaining the existing conditions of service for employees, he claimed.
Ramphele told the Mining Indaba 2013 in Cape Town on Wednesday:
"Defending existing jobs may ultimately be to the detriment of sustaining the industry, with new types of jobs yet to be experimented with."
The union claimed this was contradictory, as the industry appeared to be trying to bulk up employment through the creation of jobs which would prove to be unsustainable.
"(We are) acutely aware that the jobs she refers to are short-term contractual jobs in construction of building houses, and workers would be worse off," Seshoka said.
"(The NUM) will not be deviated from its primary function of organising workers and defending jobs simply because industry says our focus must be elsewhere."
Ramphele also encouraged unions to be at the forefront of promoting innovation and productivity, taking a long-term view beyond annual wage increases.
She said union leaders had to close the gap between themselves and workers to avoid being seen as part of the elite. - Sapa


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Islamist militants attacked the In Amenas gas production facility Jan. 16 in eastern Algeria near the Libyan border and were said to have seized an "undetermined" number of hostages, according to various news reports. The abductions—reported to include Japanese, French, and Irish nationals—were said to have been in retaliation for the continuing French-led military intervention in neighboring Mali.
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In Amenas lies 850 km south of Hassi Messaoud. The project includes development of four primary gas fields plus gas-gathering and processing facilities. The first of three production trains started up on May 27, 2006, followed by a period of final commissioning and testing (OGJ Online, June 23, 2006).
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What happened to all the cool legal dramas on TV? The only really good news is that the much-beloved Damages will return courtesy of DirectTV this summer, and Kathy Bates will be back in the fall to singlehandedly keep Harry's Law afloat. Meanwhile with James Spader in talks to star in The Office, Hollywood's now minus another great actor with the chops to make any sleazy lawyer thoroughly engrossing.
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TNT also has a new show out called Franklin & Bash and unlike its sibling (the similarly ampersand-ed) Rizzoli & Isles – which is intelligent – this one's anything but. Again, clearly not the actors' fault – both Mark Paul Gosselaar and Breckin Meyer are excellent and have undeniable chemistry. For whatever reasons however, it's as if the writers said "let's try and make two ambulance-chasing lawyers hilarious heroes, who cavort with strippers and read legal manuals at their own hot-tub parties." There are way too many stock characters, way too many ultra-chesty girls devoid of identifiable purpose, and just one too many offices with basketball hoops (so we know someone's "irreverent"). It's absolutely inane and I predict that it will begin and end during the summer because the characters just aren't redeeming enough to last into fall. But again, that's just me. What do you think? Have you watched any of the new shows?
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RIM is offering a free PlayBook tablet to developers who submit an Android application to RIM's App World before Valentine's Day, though the T&Cs have yet to be revealed. RIM isn't the first company to hand out hardware to promote software development – it's an established route to filling out an application portfolio – but …
Fart App. Can I get one?
How do I make and submit an app without having the tablet in the first place?
(real question, I never worked on mobile devices)
I assume the Android SDK come with some kind of emulator app?
I've messed around with the Appcelerator Titanium IDE, writing iOS apps in javascript. And from what i could gather, that would convert or wrap your code and then hand it off to either the iOS or Android SDK to compile and deploy into a emulator app running on your pc that'd show you how the app would run on a mobile. At least, that's how the iOS side worked, I assume it's the same process with the Android SDK.
The issue is not in testing it in Android but in testing it on the PlayBook which is not Android. It might have an Android layer of some sort but that is not the same thing. If your app launches a browser, or reads contacts, or makes calls, or hits the internet you need to be reasonable certainly it will work as intended. It may also be the case that Android APKs have to be repackaged in some way which must also be tested. I hope that RIM have an SDK which can be used for this, or at least an emulator which can augment the Android SDK.
On a more general point, I wonder if RIM are smart to support Android this way. It's like when OS/2 supported Windows. It might seem like a good idea but it makes Android the lowest common denominator. Few developers will spend the extra effort writing a native app when there is a compatibility layer there which spares them the trouble.
If you don't have a BlackBerry PlayBook tablet to test your apps with, you can use the BlackBerry Tablet Simulator to test your application. The BlackBerry Tablet Simulator enables you to run and view your applications as you would on a BlackBerry PlayBook tablet; however, some limitations apply.
Try getting it to go with Phonegap. Horrible. The key signing is a nightmare. Then there's stupidities like not allowing underscores in filenames, and limits on icon sizes (which cause their build to crash) and ... and ... and...
"Luckily RIM has a lot of PlayBooks lying around the place..."
Kick 'em when they're down, that's naughty!
In theory RIM could port Dalvik and the APIs and provide a reasonable facsimile of Android that most apps don't notice the difference. However I bet there is an entire laundry list of restrictions, bugs and caveats which apply. For example Android apps are strung together with intents and its quite possible that many of the common intents map onto native apps with the restrictions and limitations that is implied by that.
I doubt they will port Dalvik, they will likely just transcode the Android code to their format, that's how they run Java. They don't actually run Java as is, first it's transcoded to run on their VM, either ahead of time thus creating their cod files or on the fly on the device.
Down the plug-hole goes.
They'll be offering free chocolate buttons to entice dev's next.
Shame you can't edit the mistakes. Pssssht. This missing word is RIM. That's your homework for today El Reggers.
I'm almost tempted by this.
I spent some time messing around with Titanium to develop iOS apps (before going the whole hog and picking up Obj-C), and because that will deploy the same code to Android as well, I have some half-finish lame apps that I could complete and submit with very little effort.
But then.... I'd be stuck with owning a Playbook, with all the social stigmata and ridicule that that will bring down upon me and my family for years to come.
I think if you had stigmata, social or otherwise, you'd have bigger problems than owning a Playbook!
I was almost tempted by this too... right up to the point that they wanted a copy of my passport so I could 'sell' a free application. At that point I decided I didn't want to trust them with it, particularly as they use Paypal for their payment system.
I was going to buy one. This should apply to native apps as well.
I imagine a lot of Playbooks will suddenly appear on eBay following this give away to Devs.
Mines a pint. It's Friday.
"Yet the whole place feels corporate and restrained compared to the plethora of rubbish which makes the iTunes store, and Android Marketplace, so interesting to peruse"
That sounds like a definite plus but it seems they are desperately seeking to fill it with crap. Interesting it may be, useful and productive, perhaps less so.
With a two week deadline and full details not available it's hard to see it as much more than a publicity stunt.
10k plus Android downloads... I have several apps that meet this criteria.
However I doubt I would actually use it, just ebay it, or wait for Blackberry to ditch support for the ailing playbook and unlock the bootloaders to run Android.
I thought 69p was the iPhone price. If I'm not mistakes then it is about £2 or £3 for the iPad version.
Will that do?!
There's a failure in that plan. There's no native e-mail client to send that message to the world with. Create an app that makes it spin? That's more useful.
Thank-god for Friday! Beers please!
I got mine for doing a native app least year - and if you do an android app, boy, you'll get yours, all right!
I love having the thing, honestly. The app selection is a bit weak, though improving. And el Reg, did you even LOOK at the app store? It's probably 80% crazy-ass shit and 10% businesslike normality. (The other 10% isn't done yet.)
As far as dev goes, they have an emulator that does a pretty good job. It was completely accurate regarding my app - aside from speed, where it ran 5x as fast as the real playbook, on one core of a core2quad q6600, after being throttled down by 66%...
Rim could have 100% arm Android Compatibility if they wanted it.
Either Linux running as a process under QNX
Or a translator (Like the Linuxulator in FreeBSD or the Solaris Linux branded zone).
Or colinux style.
It might even already be supported by QNX (Running Linux underneath a microkernel is hardly uncommon).
... is down to the fact that it takes so long to sign up to get they required keys, vendor account auth etc - Developing for Android and IOS really only takes minutes (aside from the software install) to be up and running. It might be Friday, I might be impatient but I expect key generation to be done and available immediately when I submit my info and I expect the vendor validation to be pretty quick too.
I also don't expect to have to sign up 3 times with the same information just to start developing for the playbook - Perhaps getting this sorted out so it's a seamless process would encourage more developers - as it stands I'm already annoyed before I start porting - that can't be good.
but perhaps a little too late. And it's not quite free since you have to pay a fee to submit apps (don't know what that fee is now but originally it was higher than Apple or Android)
The Ts & Cs are online now:
NOT have the playbook, and rather a good solid kick in the nads? Be more welcome.
CEO: "So, how can we get more developers"
Marketing Schmuck: "SIMPLES! Lets give them a free playbook! I mean, everyone loves them right? AMIRIGHT?"
All: "Hooray, we're saved!"
Pah! Free with both my samsung galaxy phone and hp touchpad.
And if you haven't completed it on someone-else's phone by now, you probably aren't interested...
Why don't they spend a few million paying people to write some killer applications?
It was a given that in the 80s if you wanted to release a home computer successfully it would often come with a bundle of software to get you going.
In the 90s you'd usually get Word or Office on your PC, some people think Word is built into Windows as they've always had it bundled.


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Week 1: Redemption on the Runway
Challenge: Two teams create a mini collection with attitude.
Budget: $250 per designer
Episode details
* The designers are working together in two teams to create a mini collection. They will be given a list of attitudes to choose from or they can pick their own. They have to each create a look, but they all must be cohesive. The losing designer will come from the losing team. Joanna pulls out two names randomly to pick members for their teams.
* Kayne is first and on his team are Uli, Casanova, Ivy, Althea, Anthony Ryan and Wendy (the last one left). They pick Confident as their attitude. They choose leather and lace at Mood to convey their attitude.
* Joshua is first on the other team and his team consists of Peach, Laura, Emilio, Andrae and Suede. They choose Bold as their attitude. Bold speaks to them in a color palette of black and blue.
Guest judges: Mondo Guerra and Rachel Roy
Top 3: Anthony Ryan, Cassanova, Ivy
Winner: Anthony Ryan
Bottom 3: Andrae, Peach, Suede
Eliminated: Peach
Next week: Disco fever hits the runway so put on your boogie shoes!