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Why? Not because all oppose abortion on demand: Some do, others don't. But because they all oppose using federal racketeering and extortion (RICO) laws against nonviolent protesters.
Apparently Hill believes it more important to keep unfettered access to abortion than to safeguard our constitutional rights like freedom of assembly and freedom of speech.
Thousands, perhaps millions, have publicly protested abortion, yet incidents of violence are rare. In Hill's view, anyone who publicly opposes abortion is a potential clinic bomber.
This case is not about stopping violence (a good thing), but about misapplying a law written to deter organized crime.
Nearly all claims of clinic violence brought before the court in this case were found to be untrue, and what remained was specious at best.
For example, an incident in Milwaukee in which the husband of an abortion clinic owner had his arm broken during an anti-abortion protest sounds bad. But the truth is a mentally ill passerby actually injured the man.
Under RICO, protest organizers are held liable for everything that occurs at the protest. Such a misapplication of the law has a chilling effect on all nonviolent protests.
None of the amicus signers condone violence; many are pacifists. But all agree that allowing the government to apply racketeering law to abortion protesters sets a frightening precedent. Some abortion protesters have already been punished under RICO, as have animal rights advocates and environmentalists.
NOW and Hill are selling out progressives. True progressives would do everything possible to protect our constitutional democracy.
Mary Rider
Sprawl express
I agree with Bob Geary in his Jan. 4 Citizen article, "Who needs Raleigh?" I think Chapel Hill and Durham should move forward with light rail plans and leave Raleigh out. One day Raleigh will wake up to the idea of light rail, and that's when it will really cost Raleigh lots of money. Hey, as long as the developers in Raleigh can make money off of sprawl, they will. Raleigh has always done things backwards. I always think of Durham and Chapel Hill as progressive and cool places to live.
Joe Hayes
Not so sketchy
Bob Geary, in his otherwise excellent piece on rail transit in the Triangle ("Who needs Raleigh?" Jan. 4), says: "[D]owntown bus service in Raleigh is sketchy in the extreme--with no promise of quick improvement. So if rail riders disembarked five or six blocks from their destination, they'd have to be prepared to wait for a connection. Or else hoof it."
In fact, while suburban bus service in Raleigh is sketchy, downtown CAT bus service is quite plentiful. There are 18 bus routes that serve downtown Raleigh, several of which already pass the planned downtown TTA station, and long-range planning calls for more service to those stations when they are built. Plans also call for bus shuttles from the two stations around the State Fairgrounds, looping to destinations like the RBC Center.
In fact, the City of Raleigh currently has special bus service seven days a week from the Amtrak station to Moore Square where all the downtown routes converge, meeting three of the four daily trains.
Gerry Cohen
Not so bright
I see once again the OBC lighthouse is making a comeback ("More fighting over Currituck lighthouse," Triangles, April 28, 2004). I'm wondering on the legal side of things how the commissioners of Currituck County can continue to waste our tax money. I was wondering if there's any way to counter-suit, to stop them from continuing on with their childish idiocracy. The county can't even manage what they have, let alone another icon. Take a look at the ferry issue: You would think they would have planned where it would dock before having the boat built! More of our tax money at work. Let's not mention the irresponsibility of suing Gov. Easley over a mere misinterpretation. Our taxpayer money is being squandered on things the average Currituck citizen couldn't care less about. Give more money to our law enforcement, fire departments, water and sewer projects and quit with the childish behavior already!
Rachael Grout
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A comprehensive new gene cataloging project, says IBM research scientist James Kaufman, could help food producers prevent contamination on a massive scale.
James H. Kaufman believes an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure when it comes to food safety. That's why he's excited to be one of the leaders of an ambitious new project to catalog all the active genes that typically exist in different food environments, from farms through transport, processing and distribution—under normal conditions and when contamination occurs.
The resulting wealth of new data, says the IBM computational biologist, will revolutionize the safety of our food supply. Today food safety is about detecting pathogens—ideally during production, but all too often in foods that have already gone to market and infected people. Kaufman and his colleagues want to reduce foodborne illness by making the system more predictive. If suppliers and manufacturers can detect changes in the life forms present in all foods that could lead to contamination, they will be better able to prevent the contamination from happening.
Every food is a habitat, and if you disturb it, its microbial community will respond."
—James Kaufman
Announced earlier in 2015 by joint sponsors IBM and Mars, the project is called the Consortium for Sequencing the Food Supply Chain. Instead of just isolating known pathogens such as salmonella and listeria, the initiative will use metagenomics—analyzing microbial genetic material collected from environmental samples, such as swabs from storage bins or processing vats in a food manufacturing or distribution facility.
"Think of an ingredient as an ecosystem. There are communities of living organisms in all foods. We want to know what goes on during their normal metabolism," says Kaufman, manager of public health research at IBM's Almaden research center in San Jose, Calif. "If you understand what that community looks like under normal conditions, then changes in those conditions can alert you that something may be wrong."
Putting the puzzle together
Kaufman, who holds a doctorate in physics from the University of California at Santa Barbara, has worked on topics ranging from electronic health records to disease surveillance. But even for a researcher who enjoys "solving hard problems with computers," analyzing the metagenomics of the food supply chain is a daunting mission. The project will sequence all of the DNA and RNA (ribonucleic acid) that scientists find in environmental samples, first under normal conditions and then spiked with heavy metals or chemicals to see the biological response.
Kaufman says metagenomics offers an opportunity to create data management systems that will help food companies and regulators organize enormous quantities of information on the microbial ecology of common food ingredients. IBM is building a cloud computing system to manage the data, and will develop algorithms and modeling tools that will make it possible to sort through the information and look for patterns and anomalies.
"Genomic data is like little puzzle pieces, so you need computing to put the pieces together. This project is noncompetitive, but hopefully it will become a business opportunity down the road," Kaufman says.
Initial efforts
This isn't the first time IBM and Mars have worked together on food genetics. The companies teamed up in 2008 with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and academic researchers to sequence the genome of cacao (cocoa), a major agricultural commodity and the basic ingredient in chocolate. Mars, which manufactures Snickers, M&Ms and many other popular candy brands, was interested in identifying genes associated with flavorful and hardy cacao cultivars. Genetic maps and other information from the project, which enable farmers to plant stronger and more pest-resistant cocoa, are available online.
The Consortium for Sequencing the Food Supply Chain grew out of conversations between Mars and IBM executives at a 2014 conference on potential applications from metagenomics. "Mars has operations worldwide and is a leader on food safety, but they asked a really important question: How could they test for threats that weren't known yet?" says Kaufman. "We saw that metagenomics could revolutionize food safety."
The first phase of work has already started at a Mars pet food factory near Reno, Nev. Researchers will sample and sequence a half-dozen major ingredients, such as chicken meal and cornmeal, when they arrive at the plant and as they move through it, analyzing how the microbial communities within the foods vary seasonally and as they are processed. Periodically, samples will be spiked with heavy metals or other contaminants to see how the foods' microbiomes respond.
"We are using several state-of-the-art techniques, including next-generation sequencing [an approach that sequences millions of small DNA fragments in parallel]," says Kaufman. "And we plan to compare the metagenomic data that we produce using new techniques with the results of standard approaches that are in common use today."
The analysis will take place at IBM Almaden and in microbiology laboratories at collaborating universities. Kaufman estimates about two years will be needed to produce metagenomic sequences for the target ingredients at the Reno factory. Results will be published in peer-reviewed journals and later made publicly available for free.
A wide variety of potential benefits
As the food industry becomes increasingly globalized, Mars and other companies that import ingredients from abroad have clear interests in ensuring their supply chains are safe. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has warned in recent years that a growing share of foodborne illness outbreaks are being caused by imported foods, including seafood, spices and fresh produce. Information on the microbial environment of common foods could lead to the development of new fast screening tests for previously unknown pathogens and contaminants. With this kind of data, inspectors will be better able to catch problems in imported ingredients before they are blended into products for the U.S. market.
Kaufman also expects that data from the sequencing project will help food producers and processors manage perishability. "We see lots of opportunities to reduce food waste by identifying genes that signal spoilage," he says. "For example, the produce industry is very interested in moving from a first-in-first-out delivery model to a first-to-expire model." With a better understanding of the microbiomes of their products, suppliers will know which foods should be shipped first to supermarkets. Minimizing spoilage at every level of the produce supply chain will mean that fewer fruits and vegetables are thrown away and ensure that consumers receive better-quality products.
The new data also could suggest new ways to retard spoilage. Some foods contain organisms in their natural microbiomes that inhibit the growth of pathogens like salmonella and staphylococcus aureus. "You can imagine developing probiotics based on these for a type of food," Kaufman says. "People have been adding helpful organisms to food to retard spoilage for centuries." Fermented foods such as wine, cheese and yogurt, for example, use beneficial organisms in their production.
If the consortium grows as planned, Kaufman expects that within five years it will have produced a large body of data on genes that should be present in foods and on other genes that signal spoilage. "Every food is a habitat, and if you disturb it, its microbial community will respond," he says. "We want the things we learn to be of value up and down the supply chain, and we would like to teach what we learn through this project to suppliers around the world."


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At the new school these coffee mornings will run on a Friday morning. Please feel free to come to the coffee shop or make an appointment to come in and meet me for a chat - I have been told I am a good listener and hopefully can give advice and guidance on request.
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Gorge Waterfalls 100K
Apr 07, 2018 at 8:00 AM
Gorge Waterfalls 100K
Cascade Locks OR,
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Prize Money: no
Type: Trail
Men's Record: Jace Ives 27 Ashalnd, OR 4:25:09
Women's Record: Pam Smith 36 Salem, OR 4: 49:36
Description: point-to-point course is nearly all super fun single track trail that winds is way along the base of the Cascades Mountains where they come down on the Oregon side to meet the mighty Columbia River.
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Pallant House Gallery (Chichester, UK): Virginia Woolf
- Artist
- Gwen John 1876–1939
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
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- Support: 448 x 349 mm
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- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased 1942
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Catalogue entry
N05366 SELF-PORTRAIT c. 1899–1900
Inscr. 'G.M.J.' b.r.
Canvas, 17 5/8×13 3/4 (45·5×35·5).
Purchased from Miss Ellen Brown (Knapping Fund) 1942.
Coll: Professor Fred Brown; bequeathed to his niece Miss Ellen Brown.
Exh: (?) N.E.A.C., April 1900 (104); N.E.A.C., Retrospective Exhibition, January–February 1925 (65), and Manchester, April–May 1925 (304); Meisterwerke Englischer Malerei aus Drei Jahrhunderten, Secession, Vienna, September–November 1927 (157); Arts Council, Ethel Walker, Frances Hodgkins, Gwen John, Tate Gallery, May–June 1952 (102).
Lit: John Rothenstein, Modern English Painters: Sickert to Smith, 1952, p.163.
Repr: Burlington Magazine, LXXXI, 1942, p.236; John Rothenstein, The Tate Gallery, 1958, p.102.
Said by people who knew the artist to be one of the best likenesses of her; probably painted soon after she left the Slade. It appears in the background of a self-portrait of Professor Fred Brown, dated 1920, now in the Ferens Art Gallery, Hull (repr. Artwork, No.23, 1930, p.151).
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digitalmars.D.bugs - [Issue 9502] New: std_container.BinaryHeap.pop?
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The Resurrection of Our Lord
The Resurrection of Our Lord (A): The Miracle of Easter[1]
April 24, 2011
Text: Matt. 28:1-10
He is risen! He is risen, indeed!! Alleluia!!!
The resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead shakes things up, to say the least. It turns out Easter is not all bunnies and chocolate. It is really a fearful thing for the first witnesses of the resurrection. Toward the dawn of the first day of the week, the women, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary, come to the tomb, and as they approach, there is a great earthquake (σεισμός in Greek, from which we get the English word "seismic"). We heard about earthquakes in our Lenten series. It was one of the miracles of Lent upon which we meditated this season, that when our Lord died there was a great earthquake. The curtain of the Temple was torn in two from top to bottom, the earth shook, the rocks split, and the tombs also were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised (Matt. 27:51-52). Earthquakes in the Bible are a sign of God's presence, either in wrath or in mercy. Earthquakes are a sign that God Himself is speaking. They are an indication that we had better pay attention, because we are about to have an interaction with the living God. And this interaction isn't gentle. It is seismic. It puts the fear of God into you. When the women come to the tomb just before dawn, there is a great earthquake, and an angel of the Lord descends and rolls back the stone and sits on it. His appearance is like lightening and his clothing is white as snow. This causes the guards to have a seismic event of their own. Your English translations say something like "the guards trembled" (Matt. 28:4; ESV), but the Greek word indicates seismic activity once again. They are shaken, and they become as dead men. And now the women are really afraid. Because the angel turns from the guards to look at them. What will happen? Will they drop dead, too? Undoubtedly, they begin to shake, as well.
But there is a difference between the women and the guards. The guards seek to keep Jesus in the tomb, to lock Him in death. They are posted at the tomb because Pharisees had come to Pilate concerned that the resurrection might just really happen, or at least that the disciples would make it look like it happened. "Sir, we remember how that imposter said, while he was still alive, 'After three days I will rise.' Therefore order the tomb to be made secure until the third day, lest his disciples go and steal him away and tell the people, 'He has risen from the dead,' and the last fraud will be worse than the first" (Matt. 27:63-64). Thus Pilate makes provision for the guards to be posted at the tomb. By order of the Roman Governor of Judea, no one is to get out of that tomb! The women, by contrast, come to get into the tomb to see Jesus. To be sure, they are expecting Him still to be dead. Their faith is ill-informed. But they come seeking Him nonetheless. This is a profound difference. The guards want to hide Jesus away in death. The women want to see Jesus, who has given them new life. Then the angel appears and the guards shake and fall down as if dead, betraying the truth that they really are spiritually dead, unbelievers, enemies of Christ. The angel turns from the guards to the women. The women are fearful. You would be, too, if you saw an angel of the Lord in all his glory. What will happen now?
The angel speaks: "Do not be afraid" (28:5). It is the Word of the Lord that the angel speaks, a Word that stills trembling hearts in the midst of seismic events. And how can the angel say this? On what basis can the women cease to be afraid? "I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified," says the angel. "He is not here, for he has risen, as he said" (vv. 5-6; emphasis added). And just so there is no doubt that this is an honest-to-goodness bodily resurrection, the angel bids them, "Come, see the place where he lay" (v. 6). There's nobody there anymore. Just the linen cloths. The women are charged to go quickly and tell the disciples the earth-shaking news. And as they go, they meet the risen Lord Himself, in the flesh, He who once was dead, standing before them, scars and all, alive. "Greetings!" He says (v. 9), in the joy of His resurrection victory. "Do not be afraid; go and tell my brothers to go to Galilee, and there they will see me" (v. 10).
Easter is not all bunnies and chocolate for us either, and if we really stopped to think about the reality of this event, if this really happened (and it did!), that He who once was dead is now risen and living in His once dead body, this is earthshaking news for us. Because even without the appearance of a majestic angel, we have our fears that shake us to the very core of our being. We're sinners, and we know it. Try as we might, we can't shake the guilt of sin. We try to forget the evil things we've done, but the wickedness of our fleshly hearts betrays us. We fear the wages of sin: death (Rom. 6:23). In the grave of every loved one who has died we stare our own impending death in the face. We fear the punishment of sin: hell. As is the trend these days, we'd prefer to deny hell's existence, but ultimately, we know this is a lie. And in addition to all of this, we fear all that sin has caused in this fallen world: sickness, war, poverty, famine, broken relationships, loneliness, despair. We tremble. We shake. Like the guards, we are as dead men. Until Jesus speaks. "Do not be afraid." There is no more need for fear. Christ is risen! He died for your sins. He is raised for your life. He has redeemed you from sin and death and hell. He has bought you back. He has reconciled you to God. And He promises, "behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age" (Matt. 28:20).
It changes everything that God, the Son of God, has come in real flesh and blood, born of the Virgin Mary, for you. It changes everything that the Son of God suffered and died in His real flesh and blood, for you. It changes everything that the Son of God rose from the dead in His real flesh and blood, that He has passed through the valley of the shadow of death and come out the other side, alive again! In His body! It changes everything that you are baptized into this reality, that in a very real way, His death is your death, and His resurrection is your new life, that you are raised spiritually now, and will be raised bodily on the Last Day. It changes everything that, as our crucified and risen Lord, the Son of God, Jesus Christ, distributes and places His crucified and risen body and blood into your mouth for the forgiveness of your sins, that you also may live in Him and not die, that you may be raised in your body when He comes again. The bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead is an earthshaking event that continues to rumble and shake us nearly 21 centuries later. But do not fear. You no longer need to fear. Your Lord has spoken. He has cast out fear. He has conquered sin in His sacrificial death (His blood covers your sins!), and He has been raised for your justification, that He may be your righteousness and life. He has conquered death by His resurrection. The grave could not hold Him, and it will not be able to hold you when He calls you forth from the grave. He has conquered hell and Satan and all the powers of darkness. They no longer have any claim on you, for He has purchased you for God by His blood. His resurrection shows the new reality. So don't even fear all the bad stuff that can happen in this fallen world. It is only for a short season. The victory has been won. The tomb is empty. Your deliverance is coming soon. Fear no more. Rather, go and confess: He is risen! He is risen, indeed!! Alleluia!!! He lives! And because He lives, you live! In the Name of the Father, and of the Son (+), and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
[1] The theme and many of the thoughts in this sermon are from Miracles of Lent (St. Louis: Concordia, 2011).


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As a former NOVA Student, I wish there was a website that displayed the school spirit from the 2nd biggest community college. NVCC changed my life and allowed me to achieve my dreams by transferring to UVA McIntire.
Annandale, VA (PRWEB) July 21, 2014
WatzOn.TV has just announced their new channel dedicated specifically to NVCC and all the people they've helped. Whether you're an alumni, a student, or just a friend, the channels on WatzOn.TV take away the hassle of flipping through programs and television stations that don't match the viewer's interests. Viewers can now spend hours catching up on the fantastic programs NVCC has to offer, and watching news coverage of all the most recent highlights involving the college.
NVCC lends itself to all types of people with different passions, schedules, and skills. The more you know about it, the more you find a reason to keep on learning! Viewers can now find out where they might fit in and how NVCC can help them, all with a single click!
As described by Board of Directors Joshua Anton & Andrew Hartford, "As a former NOVA Student, I wish there was a website that displayed the school spirit from the 2nd biggest community college. NVCC changed my life and allowed me to achieve my dreams by transferring to UVA McIntire. This channel will display the real NOVA and how it transforms dreams into reality."
WatzOn.TV is an application driven by end-user channel creation. It takes 60 seconds to make a channel dedicated to a favorite band or singer, and they will then be available to watch 24 hours a day. Viewers also have the option to vary their channels, or mix subjects and genre until the perfect channel has been created based on their preferences.
When someone is on WatzOn.TV, they are able to decide what kind of television experience they want without having to deal with commercials or the boring filler shows they don't want to watch. It's also perfect for businesses that are making their own TV shows, tutorial articles, reviews, clips, funny commentary, or any other video vehicles. Another key feature of WatzOn.TV is the ability to stop and start a channel without losing your place. There's nothing better than having the system remember where a show was stopped, and then continue from that point without ever having to fast forward or rewind. WatzOn.TV is available for immediate download at iTunes and on Google Play and can be found online at http://www.WatzOn.TV.
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William H. Timlin (1852-1916)
Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice (1907-1916)
"His opinions disclose the man; they are logical, terse, clear, vigorous, and to the point. In some dissenting opinions the fire of combat glows - the spirit of the lawyer had not been wholly suppressed by the calm of the judicial mind." - P.H. Martin, Timlin's memorial service (1917)
William Henry Timlin was born May 28, 1852, in Mequon, Wisconsin. His parents were Irish immigrants. When Timlin was six years old, his mother died. At the outbreak of the Civil War his father entered the army and disappeared while fighting. Timlin was sent to live with relatives, themselves struggling amid hardships. He worked on their farm and received little formal schooling.
When Timlin was a teenager, his uncle died and Timlin had more years of hard labor, setbacks and discouragement. Despite the difficulties, Timlin found time for independent study. He took up surveying, school teaching and eventually stenography.
At 25, Timlin became the official stenographer of the Kewaunee County circuit court. In 1878, he was admitted to the bar and set up private law practice in Kewaunee County, where he also served as the superintendent of public schools.
Timlin later settled in Milwaukee and practiced law. His reputation as a successful and resourceful trial lawyer made him a promising candidate for the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Urged by his colleagues, he agreed to run in the election of 1906 and said: "No citizen has the right to refuse the obligation of public service when called upon."
Justice James C. Kerwin described Timlin as a "man of great wisdom, a scholar, pure in heart, patient, patriotic, impartial and courageous...[h]e was no phrase-maker, and never indulged in high-sounding platitudes for effect, but went straight to the point and avoided empty words."
Timlin and his wife Cecelia Arpin had four children. He died near the end of his Supreme Court term on August 21, 1916.


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The Department of Cognitive Science is committed to transcending theoretical boundaries rooted in traditional disciplines in pursuit of a scientific account of cognition. To that end, the department promotes the study of learning, perception, action, and interaction in the physical, social, and cultural world. The predominant approach is rooted in an inter-disciplinary vision employing ideas and techniques from a number of disciplines, including anthropology, computer science, ethology, electrical engineering, linguistics, neurology, neurosciences, philosophy, psychology, and sociology. We aim not only to contribute to theory but also to apply what we learn, e.g., through design.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and UC National Laboratories (UCNL) are jointly hosting a Data Science Workshop, to be held in Livermore, CA on August 7-8, 2018. The workshop will feature a wide range of talks, discussions, and networking opportunities with experts, researchers and up-and-coming scientists in the field of data science. Abstracts are due June 1, should be no more than 500 words and include a title and list of all authors with their institutional affiliations. Workshop attendance is limited, so register early (even if the attendee doesn't plan to submit an abstract).
Christopher Keown to defend June 4, 2018 at 10am, CSB 003 on "Genome-Scale Studies of Dynamic DNA Methylation in Mammalian Brain Cells."
Be sure to register to attend Triton Entrepreneur Night on Thursday, May 31, 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM at Price Center West Ballroom.
Adam Rule to defend June 6, 2018 at 3pm, CSB 180 on "Design and Use of Computational Notebooks."
Design at UCSD is bringing to you Design Frontiers: Healthcare, a day-long design sprint and lightning talks on May 20 at 10am in the Qualcomm Room, Jacobs School of Engineering, featuring speakers from Illumina focusing on applying human-centered design to the field of healthcare. This is an effort to increase cross collaboration of students across multiple disciplines, and show UC San Diego students through hands-on experience how design thinking can be applied to topics beyond product and UX/UI design. This event will be very hands-on and expose students to real design work.
Dr. Chris Johnson will be discussing research on the minds of dolphins in a public talk on Tuesday, May 15th @ 7pm at the Natural History Museum in Balboa Park. Tickets are $9 for members and $12 for non-members.
The UC San Diego Arthur C. Clark center for Human Imagination interviewed Dr. Chris Johnson and her Visual Arts graduate student, Lisa Korpos, about their joint efforts to "interpret" dolphin communication for their podcast (Episode 16: Alien Contact: Part 2).
On Saturday, April 21, 2018, Cognitive Science student Andrew Washington (along with mechanical engineering students Roland Ho and Bicky Lenh) discovered a disoriented elderly woman very close to the canyon rim on the north side of EBU 1. Had Andrew not stayed with the woman, Patrol Sergeant Scott Gustafson believes she may have wandered into the canyon where she could have been injured or further lost in the brush. The Cognitive Science Department would like to recognize Andrew for his outstanding actions and show of compassion that may have saved this woman's life.
UC San Diego's Institute of Public Health (IPH) and Design Lab invite you to an event: The Future of Public Health Research: Building Capacity for Precise, Networked, and Agile, Sociotechnical Systems through Design, Engineering, and Health Sciences. Register on Eventbrite for the event held on May 17 8:00a-1:00p at Atkinson Hall Auditorium.
Department Chair Marta Kutas was elected as one of three UC San Diego professors to an honorary organization, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Register for the UCSD Community Psychiatry Program held on Sunday, May 20th at the Jo and Vi Jacobs Center for the 2nd Annual Mental Health Career Fair and Educational Day! The conference will include a complementary luncheon with special table presentations, opportunities to meet with community leaders, panel workshops featuring experts in the field, as well as the chance to learn about the various mental health disciplines and the education process involved.
Check out this quarter's Design@Large talks, held Wednesdays from 4-5pm in CSE 1202.
Parsing Science speaks with CogSci Professor Rafael Núñez about his research into if human understanding of number has developed through biological evolution, or through the evolution of language and culture.
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Suddenly, everybody seems to be talking to their computers, TVs and mobile gadgets.
Voice command software has been around for decades. The software currently sold as Dragon NaturallySpeaking by Nuance had its origins in a 1982 prototype -- more than three decades ago -- and as consumer product in 1997.
Since then, voice command features have emerged here and there, often ignored. For example, the Apple OS X features built-in voice command and dictation capability, but it's rarely used.
Voice command has been popular with a minority of technical users and power users, as well as some professions (such as writers using dictation). I've used it myself on occasion. But for average users, voice command didn't really register until Google and Apple started building it into their mobile operating systems, first iOS's Siri in late 2011 and Android's Google Now and Voice Search in the summer of 2012 (both Siri and Google Now and Google Voice Search existed in previous products used by a relatively low number of users).
Despite initial promise, both these products failed to live up to their promise. Siri, for example, started out with a lot of hype and attention, but suffered from server delays and outages and general unreliability. Many users who started using Siri in the early days after iOS integration gave up on it.
Likewise, Google Now and Voice Search is very good, but Google hadn't done a good job making it obviously available.
In both the cases of Siri and Google Now/Google Voice Search, the use of these powerful features wasn't so convenient, obvious or necessary that a real majority of users would take advantage.
Suddenly -- seemingly out of nowhere -- voice command is getting true mainstream acceptance
Here's what's new.
Microsoft released its long-awaited Xbox One product Nov. 22, the first major new Xbox product since the Xbox 360 shipped exactly eight years before.
The new Xbox One has far better hardware performance and software and service options than the old Xbox. But one of the biggest changes is truly useful voice command. Now you can say "Xbox: on" to turn it on, or "Xbox: Skype Steve" to make a video call to Steve through your TV.
Importantly, the Xbox One's voice prompt is "always listening." This is important to drive usage and discovery. For example, I've triggered it several times by just having conversations in the room about the Xbox One. Just saying the word "Xbox" changes the screen to present voice command options.
One comical problem with Xbox One's voice command feature is that TV commercials advertising those features trigger events on the Xboxes of people who already have it.
(Note that Xbox One commands are "locked" to the region, so they only work in some countries and command features vary from one language to the next.)
Still, the most interesting thing about Xbox One voice command is that it's genuinely the fastest and easiest way to do a long list of actions and its use is encouraged by the console's design. Also: A living room is probably the most comfortable place to use voice commands (which can be socially awkward in public places with a phone, or on a PC in the office).
Millions of people who never used voice commands before will start using it thanks to the Xbox One.
Microsoft's console-gaming rival, Sony, shipped its PlayStation 4 earlier this month, and the console also supports voice commands. However, the range of things you can do with voice on the PS4 is very limited compared with Xbox One. You can "take screenshot," "log in" or say "power" to shut the machine off. You can also launch a game by saying its title.
Sony promises more voice command support in the future.
Google this week announced a free extension for its Chrome browser that brings an Xbox One-like "always listening" search command to Google Search for Chrome users with Windows, OS X and those using Chromebooks.
It doesn't record or capture anything you say except the magic words "Ok, Google," which tells the extension to listen for your search command.
After installing the extension (which I predict will ship natively in future versions of Chrome), users see a gray microphone inside the search box on the main Google Search page, with the words "Say 'Ok Google'" next to it.
Chrome users will probably use this because Google Search will give them a conspicuous reminder every time they visit the site.
Google also made Voice Search and Google Now more visible and inviting in the new version of Android, called KitKat.
Now, the main default screen has an "always listening" feature with a search box at the top. Saying "Ok, Google" launches the search.
Unlike the Moto X, which is truly always listening, even when the phone is in sleep mode, KitKat's is in "always listening" mode only when the home screen or Google Now is on the screen.
Swiping from the home screen to the left in KitKat brings you to Google Now, which preemptively shows "cards" based in part on past searches.
Google Voice Search has also been improved with better contextual understanding. For example, you can say "Where is Big Ben," and after it tells you, the questions "Where is it" and "how hold is it" are properly answered because Voice Search remembers the subject you're asking about.
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Thomas M. "Red" Thuerk, age 43, suddenly, in Tampa, FL, on Saturday, May 9, cherished son of Kathleen and the late Martin; loving brother of Jeanne Hessenius, Mary Kay (Larry) Givens, Patricia Wolf, Martin, James, Kathleen (John) Siran and Laura (Tom) Berwick; fond uncle of Michael and Michele Wolf, late Jim and Shannon Givens, Lisa, Matthew, Joseph and late BrianHessenius, Gannon and Garrett Siran, Paul, Ryan and Meghan Berwick; nephew of Jack Kearins, late Nancy Lee, Donna (Harrison) Brown, late Owen "Red" and Nolda Thuerk and late Catherine Carey; and many, many cousins.
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Before Norwich: Was a four-year member of the football team at Middletown Area High School ... earned three varsity letters ... captained the squad as a senior ... named an Eastern Pennsylvania all-star in 2001 and 2002 ... helped lead team to a pair of conference titles ... earned three varsity letters in wrestling and track and field ... captain both teams ... four-year member of the school's cross country team as well.
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The indian Women's Resource Center describes itself as " a non-profit social and educational services organization committed to the holistic growth and development of American Indian women and their families."
This morning the Minnesota GOP Chair called on Senator Al Franken to join his Democratic colleagues in donating contributions from Mr Weinstein to charity. Franken's campaign has confirmed to me that Franken intends to do just that. Franken will be donating the roughly $20,000 from Weinstein to the Minnesota Indian Women's Resource Center.
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Alabama Senate GOP Runoff Tuesday
Tomorrow is the GOP Primary Runoff for the Alabama Senate seat vacated by Jeff Sessions and currently occupied by Luther Strange. Former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore has a consistent lead and is expected to advance to the general special election against former United States Attorney Democrat Doug Jones. A poll Gravis Marketing did for Big-League Politics (link) gives Moore a 48-40 lead. There are still 12% undecided, but it looks clear that Moore is still the favorite. Full disclosure: For the past few months I have been a paid free lance consultant for Gravis and have been, therefore, providing demographic weights for several polls including this one.
Tomorrow night I will be working with Decision Desk HQ to provide election results at the county level. Make sure to watch that site as we are constantly faster and more accurate than the Associated Press.
Sharron Angle, Christine O'Donnell, Ken Buck, Richard Mourdock and Todd Akin all have one thing in common: they collectively cost the GOP five Senate seats between 2010 and 2012. You could compile a similar list for other races outside the Senate, but I will focus on the Senate for the moment.
This article is an extension of the one I published August 4th in regards to the straw man attacks on the DCCC. I won't go into those details here but the issue outlined in the article is an example of the problem. A run to the far left will do nothing outside of relegating the Democratic party to a permanent minority. The Democratic party is currently in the minority across the board. The answer is to expand the base, not shrink it. This is especially important considering where the playing field is for the 2018 Senate. The chart below is a visual of safe vs not safe Senate seats.
Note that with all of the safe seats allocated, the GOP is already at a 50 seat majority. If the Democrats run the table everywhere, they will still be in the minority. Of the 10 seats up for grabs, only 1 of them is in a state that Clinton won. If the Democratic party can unite around centrist incumbents and avoid strong GOP challengers, the Democratic party has a reasonable chance of maintaining their current 48-52 minority. Even a pick up of a seat wouldn't be out of the realm of possibilities. A lot would have to go right to see a 50-50 Republican majority, but it is possible if everything goes well. The problem is that there is a wing of the Democratic party that wants to oust at least one centrist Democrat: Joe Manchin. The odds of Manchin losing a primary are essentially zero. Manchin is probably a modest favorite to win reelection next year.
Democrats are going to need to win over a a lot of independents and Republicans to win the races in Missouri, Indiana, Arizona, West Virginia, Montana and North Dakota. Ohio, Florida, Wisconsin & Nevada are more along the lines of states that Democrats should be able to hold so long as Trump stays at or below the upper 30's nationally.
If the Democratic Party is able to avert the Tea Party pitfalls and pull a rabbit out of the hat with a 50-50 minority: the map going into the 2020 election will be difficult. Democrats are fairly close to maxing out good pickup opportunities. They have chances in 2020 in Colorado and North Carolina. Maybe Iowa if things go well, and maybe Maine if Collins retires or decided to run for Governor in 2018. Democrats could possibly get Bullock to run for Senate in 2020 if he doesn't run for President. Maybe Democrats could coax Jason Carter into challenging Perdue in 2020 in Georgia. That is it.
Let us get one thing clear right off the bat: The DCCC Chairman, Ben Ray Luján, is not suggesting the Democratic party alter its platform to oppose abortion rights for women. If you just read the outrage from the left (including Rosie O'Donnell, Kirsten Gillibrand and NARAL to just name a few), you would assume that was in fact the case. O'Donnell has even gone so far as to say women should create a new political party. If folks would just read Luján's statement for themselves (including his follow up statement), we wouldn't be having nearly as much push-back on what has manifested itself into a strawman on social media.
So, what is changing: nothing. Really? So then why is everyone upset? Well, because they weren't really paying attention and still aren't. Democrats won back the House in 2006 under the leadership of DNC Chairman Rahm Emmanuel. Emmanuel was a pro-choice Democrat, however he didn't close off support for the dozens of pro-life Democrats that won primaries in 2006. As recently as 2010, there were roughly 40 such Democrats in the House. 2010 was the last time Democrats held a majority in the House. Democrats used to have more members of Congress such as Collin Peterson. Peterson represents the rural 7th district in Minnesota. Peterson won his 2016 race by 5.1% against GOP nominee Dave Hughes. That same year, Donald Trump carried the same district by a 30.8% margin. Collin Peterson voted against the House's effort to repeal the Affordable Care act this year. His winning reelection in 2018 would help give Democrats a fighting chance to retake the chamber.
Here is what is at issue: the DCCC has said they will not refuse to fund pro-life candidates that win the primary in their district. That is all. The DCCC has not suggested a change in platform. The DCCC has not suggested anyone give preference to those candidates in a primary. The DCCC has not suggested funding a primary campaign for those candidates against a pro-choice candidate. The DCCC is only saying that in a race between a pro-life Republican and a pro-life Democrat, they will support the Democrat. In Minnesota's 7th CD, that means supporting Collin Peterson in his race against (if he wins the nomination again in 2018) Dave Hughes. Anyone telling you that the DCCC is doing anything other than supporting every Democratic nominee that wins a primary election is either misunderstanding what is happening or is just lying to you.
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I have been tabulating Senate healthcare votes here:
As of 8:15 Monday night, no one knows exactly what the Senate will be voting on Tuesday. Even Ted Cruz released a statement late Monday afternoon admiring hat he doesn't know what he will be voting on Tuesday. Ron Johnson told a reporter earlier in the day that he has no clue. McConnell's statement late this afternoon was extremely vague and only said they would be voting on something to " start the process." Obviously, Democrats have been kept in the dark as well.
The only thing we know know is that the Republican Senate Caucus will be discussing the pending vote at 2:00 PM on Tuesday. So all we know is that a vote will (if not delayed again) come after that meeting.
Also so worth keeping in mind that Republicans are currently at only 51 Senators with the continued absense of John McCain. John Cornyn said Monday that he offered to rent an RV to drive McCain to D.C. for the vote. That, obviously, never materialized.
Reportedly, Murkowski's office was telling constituents on Monday Morning/Afternoon that she intends to vote no on the motion to proceed.
Pivotal Week for Trumpcare/ACA repeal.
After another rewrite, another meeting with the President, another meeting with the Vice President, another couple CBO scores... the Senate is (maybe) finally going to bring something to the floor for a procedural vote this week. Word is that it may happen Tuesday, but we have seen this script play out before. What seems like ages ago, the House was just an hour or so away from voting on passage before pulling the bill for a rewrite that ended up passing before getting tossed in the trash bin of the Senate cloakroom.
It isn't even clear what exactly will be voted on. Will it be the most recent Senate draft? Will it be another draft? Will it just be a clean ACA repeal? Will it need 60 or 51 votes? On that last bit, the Senate Parliamentarian ruled multiple key aspects of the latest Trumpcare draft to require a 60 vote super majority rather than being able to pass through reconciliation rules. (Not impossible to get around this in the same manner that the Senate GOP confirmed Gorsuch earlier this year.)
Key Senators to watch come into a couple groups:
1. Senators that may vote against the latest draft but could vote for a clean repeal:
Also worth noting that McCain is likley to miss this next week as well. Therefore, Senate Republicans can only afford to lose 1 vote and not 2 before the bill fails. Therefore, McConnell, for just a clean repeal, will need to flip 3 of the second group and for the latest draft would need to flip both of the first group and three of the second group.
I included the Trump Tweet in this post to highlight the elephant in the room: Trump could turn his fury at any Senator that opposes him on this. Most vulnerable Republicans are Flake and Heller. Trump reportedly met with Flake's 2018 primary opponent this last week. Heller has already drawn a credible Democratic challenger and Flake is expected to draw one soon as well in the 47 year old Mayor of Phoenix, Greg Stanton. There are also rumors that Mike Kelly (former astronaut and husband of former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords) is considering a run.
If you were to send me the above map and say that is how the 2018 Gubernatorial races are going to finish, I wouldn't call you crazy. The weird thing about 2018 is that we have a variety of forces at work that could get us a strange set of results.
Having a Republican in the White House is certainly an asset for a Democrat running for office in 2018. An unpopular one such as Donald Trump is probably going to exacerbate that situation. That may not be enough, for example to ensure Democrats a win in Connecticut next fall. Connecticut has had a series of issues during Malloy's tenure that has led to his personal approval sitting at 29% according to a Morning Consult poll from this spring. His disapproval sits at a staggering 64%. While Malloy isn't running for reelection, voter's opinion of him could color how the electorate views a Democrat running to replace him in 2018. This is the same scenario that helped elect John Bel Edwards Governor in Louisiana's 2015 race to replace Bobby Jindal.
Democrats also face challenges winning against popular incumbents in Clinton states such as Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont. Popular incumbents in those states are scaring off many top-tier challengers.
On the other end of the spectrum, Republicans could lose Governor ships in a slew of Trump states. Some of those states (Florida and Michigan) wouldn't be that surprising considering Democrats have done well on the recruiting end and the states were relatively quite close in 2016 as well as the last 2014 Gubernatorial elections. Other states, such as Kansas and Oklahoma could flip as a result of any combination of unpopular retiring Governors, hostile climate and good recruiting. In Oklahoma, Democrats have drawn an A+ candidate in 4 term Oklahoma State Attorney General and Vietnam War veteran Drew Edmondson. The outgoing Republican there sported a 42%-47% approval rating in the April Morning consult poll. Fallin's approval rating is still better than outgoing Kansas Governor Sam Brownback who holds a dismal 26%-65% approval spread.
Democrats could hold the Minnesota Governor's Mansion while losing the race in Wisconsin. Democrats have a wealth of candidates running (and even more that could still run) in Minnesota while the Minnesota Republican party has yet to recruit anyone above 2014 nominee and Hennepin County Commissioner, Jeff Johnson. In Wisconsin, Scott Walker has a 48-48 approval spread according to the latest MULaw poll, but Democrats have yet to recruit anyone to run. Though Tony Evers (one of only two state wide elected Democrats at the moment), who has expressed interest, would be a credible challenger.
I can't finish this post without mentioning: there is a homeless man running for Governor of Idaho, on the Democratic side, who started campaigning while in the county jail this spring. Democrats there are holding out hope that 2014 nominee, A.J. Balukoff, will run again. Balukoff is a businessman who ran a surprisingly strong race in 2014 against incumbent Governor Butch Otter in a very unfavorable year for Democrats.
A more practical guess at where the 2018 Gubernatorial races may end up would be something like this:
You would (generally) assume the outgoing Governor would want to help out his Lieutenant Governor in her attempt to replace him after his second term is completed. Generally. Unless, of course, the outgoing Governor is Christopher James Christie.
To make a long story short: The State of New Jersey went into a Government Shutdown on July 1st. All nonessential services were cut off until a budget deal was reached and the Government was reopened on the 5th. One of the nonessential services was State Parks which includes Island Beach State Park. That beach was closed to everyone. Everyone that is except the Governor and his family. The Governor has a State provided summer beach house in the park. The Governor chose to visit that beach house (as previously planned) despite the shutdown. In his infinite "wisdom," he decided to take the family out behind the beach house to the beach where Photojournalist Andrew Mills captured some terrible imagery. The image of the Governor of New Jersey lounging on a closed beach during a Government shutdown.
Even the Lieutenant Governor, Kim Guadagno, called the scene "beyond words." The 2017 New Jersey GOP nominee for Governor went on to say "If I were governor, I sure wouldn't be sitting on the beach if taxpayers didn't have access to state beaches." Guadagno is wise to try to distance herself from
According to a June 14th Quinnipiac poll, Chris Christie has a 15% approval rating compared to a 81% disapproval figure. That isn't helping Guadagno who sports a 20%-28% approval spread in the same poll. The Democratic nominee, Phil Murphy, sports a 33%-18% approval spread. Both candidates benefit from having large portions of the electorate yet to make up their minds about the candidates. The problem though for Guadagno is that voters have already made up their minds about Christie and Trump. Though, compared to Christie, Trump has better numbers with a 28%-66% approval spread. It is no wonder, then, that Quinnipiac's poll has Murphy leading Guadagno 55%-26%. Needless to say, this one was probably over anyhow before "beachgate." I can't imagine that Guadagno benefited much from the shutdown and Christie's beach vacation.
On Wednesday, the 5th, Murphy's campaign released some fundraising numbers. Murphy has raised approximately $750,000 since June 7th when the general election began. This clears Murphy past the $450,000 threshold to receive matching funds from the state. I have yet to see any fundraising numbers from the Guadagno camp for the general election.
Unless something turns around, Phil Murphy is going to be the 56th Governor of New Jersey. Maybe on his way out of office, Christie paraphrase some portion of Richard Nixon's 'last' press conference in 1962 when he said
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E3 is right around the corner in June, and while Nintendo's Wii U is likely to grab the spotlight with no next-gen announcements planned from Microsoft and Sony, Nintendo's rivals could apply some pressure to the market with hardware price cuts. In fact, Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter sees a PS3 price drop as a likely outcome at E3.
I expect the kinect 250gb bundle to receive the price cut
to sum up this article for those who can't be bothered to read it:
'consoles sell according to the software available'
@ Razmossis
Yeah, Patcher is a waste of life, but I too think both consoles will see a price drop at E3. Sony needs to break the $200 magic price mark. There's just something about that $200 mark that brings consumers running... even though it's only a $50 difference. MS should offer the 320gb at the $200 price point, and both Sony and MS need to have motion control system packages under the Wii U's price point. Nintendo's new console will be the must have holiday gift and in short supply, so if Sony and MS have a better priced console and readily available it will give them both monster sales this holiday.
I always find it odd how the xbox outselling the ps3 in the USA every year is news but the ps3 outselling the xbox globally every year isn't news.
Brish I wouldn't use VGChartz to back up anything considering most people will just laugh at you.
As for Pachter, he's just being an idiot as usual. Sony isn't trying to beat Microsoft in sales. They could easily do that by dropping the PS3 to a price that no one could ignore. However, Sony is trying to make money and since they are the only console to make money at a higher prices then the other two consoles, I find it highly unlikely the PS3 drops in price in this year. If it does, it will be towards the end of the year in time for the holidays.
Not to mention that this is just a pseudonym for "IndustryGamers" a site whose writers know nothing about the Industry or Gaming. They are just trolling for hits on their irrelevant site.
i think you'll find that 'catching up' eventually leads to 'being caught'
Opinion: Why PlayStation 3 Will Outsell Xbox 360
Worldwide or US?
These articles always leave out the info that contradicts their central theme.
@ Brish , do you live in the United States? If so that is why it matters. Prices for systems are different here then elsewhere, and if you do live in the US what products and how many that sell in different countries has little affect on here. Flip the script and say you lived in Japan... Why talk about 360 worldwide sales? It makes sense.
Why do articles about U.S. sales always have misleading titles?
This is what I don't get. Why do people assume N4G only applies to America. N4G is a news feed for games. Period. That includes the UK, Japan, and any other nation with significant news in gaming.
Well I was kinda already expecting that. Typically when a new generation is announced old generation cuts prices back. I could have predicted this in 2010.
Its just time for a $199.00 PS3. I don't care which model... its just time.
I think im gonna need another PS3 before too long, my slim takes a little while to load games, i price-cut would be handy
I want $199 so that I can sell my black slim and get the white slim :D
then get the "Great Wave" PS3 skin oh yessss :)
Definitely. My Slim is sort of in a malfunctioning stage... It won't read disks after it gets too hot and it keeps corrupting my hard drive. I could definitely cough up 200$ for an all out brand new system:) It needs to happen before DUST 514 comes out though
call me crazy but if you go to gamestop.com you see the PS3 for $199 and the 360 for $139.
U can buy 60gb ps3 @ pawnshop for 149.00 now
here in seattle.
bought second one saturday.
The PS3 has been in 2nd place in worldwide sales for most of this year again US does not equal the world when will people understand this, oh yea and the PS3 has sold 60+ million in 5 years it took the 360 6 years to pass those numbers it looks like the PS3 has sold way faster dont you think
When will people understand that an article speaking about NPD preview reports and US sales is not meant to represent the world? When will people stop feeling the need to "defend" their console everytime a sales related article comes up? When will people understand articles like this aren't about who is in first, second or third but about expectations on price cuts in the U.S.?
Whats so hard about saying sales lag in US flourish worldwide ?
I think if they made it known people would understand :) however they dont......
just to answer one of your questions.
ill just leave this here...
as of nov 2011:
If you average out worldwide units sold per month of each console, the numbers favor Sony. Over its lifetime of 72 months on the market, Xbox 360 is averaging about 800,000 units sold per month. Over 60 months on the market, PlayStation 3 is averaging 925,000 units sold per month.
Based solely on averages, if you were to remove Xbox 360's year head start, 57.6 million units sold becomes 48 million units sold. If you were to give PlayStation 3 12 more months to sell, paralleling Xbox 360's lifecycle, PS3's 55.5 million units becomes 66.6 million units sold.
Now, let's see someone call that a lie, or minimize its importance. It's only a matter of time.
Every year its the same thing. PS3 will outsell the 360.
How many price drops?
How many models?
How many bundles?
Maybe its time to let this issue die and move on. People keep bringing up the 360's headstart but it is what it is, a headstart.
If this issue is so important to some here then maybe we should be mad at Sony for not releasing a year earlier.
Yes but usa makes up msot of the world market and is the largest market soooo it is almost the World sales when it makes up for 75 percent of the gaming inustry
mr_badhand said "Every year its the same thing. PS3 will outsell the 360."
And every year except last year and that one year they tied, the PS3 has. What's your point?
I don't understand why this is even an issue for debate. Since the 360 had any competition, head 2 head it's been outsold. By the Wii and by the PS3.
And even though the 360 clings to it's small lead from it's time when it was sold unchallenged, we know it doesn't matter because research has shown that when it comes to consoles out in the wild, there are more active PS3's out there than there are 360's. This is what matters to the industry. It's not the slight lead Microsoft's console still clings to on paper, it's the amount of consoles out in the wild and what's moving the most software. That's what makes the industry thrive - software, nor hardware. And from the developers themselves we know that with the exception of Call of Duty - revenue generated between the PS3 and 360 are neck and neck. So in this great pissing match, as far as the industry is concerned - so far it's pretty much a tie.
Lol i would like to see some facts and numbers about the number of ps3s and 360s "out in the wild". Right now its giving me a picture in my head of xbox 360s and ps3s in the middle of the jungle spear fishing.
If you have to take the advantage that one console had and say, take that away and give it to the other console..... You sir look stupid!
All this moving the numbers around is stupid... As of today, ms has sold more consoles world wide. Ms is still ahead of sony by a few million some 6 yrs later some of you just have to get over it, cause new consoles will be here soon.
@duplissi and Hiken
"IF" you were to remove Xbox 360's year head start, or "IF" you were to give PlayStation 3 12 more months to sell,
Why ask IF when there is no IF, you already know the result. What is the total current console sold now, as in what is the current state of gaming consoles, in REALITY, no IF?
Here is some food for thought:
You (ps3) and me (x360) join a race. You arrived late and you remained last. So instead of asking why you lost, you said "if" you were early, you could have won.
1. Well why didn't you show up early like i did?
2. Do you ever think or would admit that it is your fault for coming late to the race and lost? Should I be blamed for you being late?
3. I'll admit, you ran faster than I'm. Everyone know You and You were their favorite while I was a nobody. I join in as a rookie which you didn't even notice since you left me in the dust from the previous race. You still take me lightly this time around, running high on your ego, so you take your time thinking you could beat me, but now you just trailing behind. Who fault is it? It is me or you?
4. Haven't you learn anything from the Tortoise and the Hare story?
5. With that said, we both lost to that old veteran runner; he was late too like you. What a shocker.
i do like ur comment.
But between microsoft and sony, microsoft is the more ego-driven company.
Microsoft doesnt even care about sony. They're more worried about apple and google.
So it's okay to ignore the Ps3's general sales just because? Oh, well, so long as we're ONLY discussing NPD, we can say that the ps3 is "lagging" behind the 360 and SEVERELY needs a pricecut.
"When will people learn that we can ignore the ps3's general success and delude ourselves by sticking our heads in the sand with NPD sales charts? If Pachter, a supposed professional, wants to talk as if a limited scope shows he entire picture, why can't he without you evil pstree fanbois getting all over him??"
You're more than happy to ignore how the ps3 is REALLY doing in favor of NPD numbers, though. You KNOW that if the tables were reversed, you would NEVER let a portion of sales that show the ps3 favor be treated like the whole.
That may have been the case before, but not anymore. PS3 sales have pretty much stalled, Sony is losing billions and cutting jobs, and they are having trouble keeping people with the console. I love my PS3, but my Xbox beats him.
I agree with you that MS is pretty arrogant too, and that is why they are late and losing in the mobile/search market against Apple and Google; Although those are entirely different markets.
I think eventually, OS, which is MS strength, might also become obsolete.
Seems like MS is in the driver's seat. If they drop price, Sony has no choice.
I agree
Pachter never learns, Sony won't announce any pricecut in E3 if history learns us anything. Because right after E3 its summer and its a really calm season to buy new consoles.
I expect Sony to give a pricecut around september, like they did in 2009 and 2011.
With hands flailing...
Its a kinect joke....
*Shakes head back and forth with a facepalm*
so if sony drop the price ms will do nothing ?
@DK286K, don't know where you're from but MS dropped the price in Australia last year after Sony did.
Sony actually had their console cheaper than MS for a few weeks down here.
@ bitby I guess he means in the US because ofcourse thats the only place that matter /s
The xbox 360 price dropped back in 2010 and in 2009. ps3 dropped its price in what .. august of 2011?
My original point is its doesnt matter what either one do, they will drop their prices when ever they want.Ofcourse xbox will be the first to drop its price because it was the first to come out. It doesnt take a rocket scientist to realize that.
Sony can't break the network effect that the 360 has, especially in America. That's why they keep trailing and that's why the 360 is having its best hardware sales of this entire generation when it's delivering the worst game lineup of damn near any console ever made. Hardly any exclusive games worth a crap since 2010, yet hardware is flying off the shelves. Sony likes to talk about "momentum", but Microsoft actually has it.
Yes and that momentum has kept them in 2nd place even though they launched first.
...Yet another person with one too many bubbles and has no idea what they're talking about.
May I remind you that Nintendo is still in the lead. Microsoft hasn't won anything unless they bypass Nintendo.
I think Sony will cut the PS3 price soon but at a time where people least expect it.
I love how you guys turn on and off Nintendo's existence like a light switch based on whether or not you're talking about Microsoft's sales.
Nowhere in my post did I say they "won" anything. They're simply not going to be overtaken by Sony. They will always stay a slim margin ahead. Sony almost had them a couple years ago when the gap was down to around 500k, but now it's back in the millions and continuing to grow. You guys can only deny reality for so long. Frankly, I didn't think you'd still be doing it for this long.
Sony's price cuts have had zero effect on Microsoft's hardware sales. They've proven that not only do their competition's price cuts not make a dent in their units moved, but neither does delivering nothing but terrible Kinect games. It's an anomaly how they manage to keep shifting so many units while doing so many other things wrong. A real testament to the network effect and over-aggressive advertising.
Kinect is what has been selling xboxes the last few year...its not an anomaly at all. Yes the hardcore gamer hates kinect and laughs at its lineup of games but the average gamer, families, or any one else buying video games loves the damn thing.
I agree!
That above comment is the current comment of the year!
Spot on.
If SONY is beating 360 in "Worldwide" sales by "their (SONY'S) numbers"; why did SONY have a "Worldwide" price cut this past year?
SONY's numbers are shipped & they need to get rid of that stock thats sitting in warehouses around the world.
Its incredible that MS managed to be the No.1 console last year without cutting price. In fact the 360 hasn't had a price cut in about 3 years now only new models so they must be raking in the $$$.
If they are smart they would cut the price of the 360 right before the launch of Halo 4 for another mega sales boost.
The 360 didn't sell the most to consumers last year. They shipped more, but the way I understand it, the PS3 sold more to consumers. Only source to go by in such a case is VG Chartz. Take that for what you will, but I don't know a more credible source.
OT: Perhaps he means the US / UK, because everywhere else, the PS3 sells more than the Wii and 360 weekly.
The only source to go by is what the companies themselves report...not VG Chartz...not NPD's ...but what Sony, Nintendo and MS have to say end of story. Their financial reports are the only true source. FULL STOP
edit: @CGI-Quality..."but I dont' know a more credible source"? How about the companies themselves and what they reported:
dlacy doesn't understand the difference between shipped and sold to consumer apparently
umm well how is that possible ps3 fiscal cycle just ended on march 31 for 2011 so how did they outsell them last year when numbers for Sony weren't in yet jeez talk about stretching there numbers
I cant believe there are people missing out on all these great ps3 exlusives.
Different people have different taste. Wii killed it this gen in sales, but for me personally, I'm not missing anything by not owning one.
I understand what you are saying, but as much as WII sux, there are GAMES we are missing out on...
But for the fun of it...
Its a matter of "whats more important" to you as a gamer....
Zelda OR Halo
Mario OR Killzone
Easy really... Nontendo
...or they could multiplat and have both? Yeah, theres that too. EDIT: And by that I mean own multiple consoles, lol.
Nobody buys a console for multiplats....maybe multiplayer but not multiplats....that's mental.
Dude I have a PS3 and I didnt care for 99% of the PS3 exclusives that came out last year except for UC3. I mean Twisted Metal came out not too long ago and I still have to even read a review or watch a gameplay trailer for it.
I dont give a damn if a game is exclusive or not, as long as it appeals me thats where I'll go.
Its pretty clear that its the same for tens of millions of gamers (360 anw Wii only owners) and dont forget the millions of PS3 owners who dont buy PS3 exclusives but only play FIFA/Madden/COD.
Theres a reason why so many multiplats sell better on the PS3 than PS3 exclusives.
Amen, exclusives are important but what is the point if they're not appealing.
Wii has the MOST exclusives out of all three systems, yet most of them are not what I would like to play.
Quality not quantity.
If you really believe i what youre saying then why the hell are you buying consoles? Just build yourself a PC. Seriously buying consoles for multiplatforms is idiotic at most and i say this being mostly a console gamer. BTW i hope that you dont have a 360 as it would be a redundant piece of hardware to have and a waste of money,
It might not sell more, but by god does the machine have some of the best exclusives! Proud owner since 07, and its still goin
Yep. I have nearly every PS3 exclusive in my library. I have all three uncharted games, all three Resistance games and both Little Big Planets.
So many exclusives to play....
You cant say he's wrong about the price cut because the Xbox seems to get a slight price cut with every E3 anyway because it's getting older.


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So if I put an image of a pyramid or any other Egyptian styled object in a piece of art I'm part of the illuminati?
If I find the concept of a single eye to be interesting and cool looking (like all of humanity throughout history) I'm part of the illuminati?
Brother don't let the negative naysayers affect you. Just ignore them. Every thread has people like that.
Nah and i apologize for telling you to shut up. But you know that the op didn't mean that all succesfull people made a deal with the devil so you were just trying to be a smart-ass. Now ain't you got other topics to act like a know-it-all??
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Answer me one question.....why does my opinion make me a "know it all".....but yours doesn't?
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