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The Aldrich Alert
A Publication of the Patrick Henry Center for Individual Liberty
by Gary Aldrich - Volume 1 Issue 25 October 25, 2000
For just a moment, let's get inside the head of any one of today's typical liberal democrats:
They have no shame. They excuse oral sex in the Oval Office, and they excuse federal violations committed by any one of their leaders. They think that everything is fair, as long as they can win. They believe that politics is war, without the guns.
They don't care if you dislike them or disrespect them. They are not seeking your approval.
In fact, they hate you. You stand for traditional values. You crave and promote honesty. You are "old fashioned," out of step, boring, and a real "fuddy duddy." You're naive. You are intolerant. You hate gays and Blacks and Hispanics, and the homeless, and poor people, and you mean to destroy the environment. That's what they believe about you.
And they are going to stop you from having power, using any technique, any trick in the book.
They are in full battle mode right now.
Somewhere in Florida and Tennessee the've set up "war rooms" to conduct a full scale attack on this election, and they mean to take victory away from George Bush no matter what they have to do to get it done.
You must stop hoping, wishing, or even praying. That will not help you now. There are no last minute horse soldiers coming over the ridge to rush to your rescue. God is not coming here to defend us against this attack. Besides, God helps those who help themselves! Pray if you wish, but then act!
You must understand that they will lie. They will bribe. They will accuse the Bush campaign of doing exactly what they themselves are doing, and they will not blush or be embarrassed to make allegations they know are absolutely false.
Even now they are laying a foundation for this bloodless coup. They have already told you that Al Gore will not concede. Al Gore has already told you that he will not concede. What more evidence do you need?
For their part, the GOP is already running for cover. With all the "foundation laying" going on right now by the Gore people to steal this election -- instead of Republican leaders going on the offensive, they are hiding under their beds, wringing their sweaty hands, having a phone conference call, or having a focus group, or a polling. They are doing everything except taking the offensive!
They are letting us down again!
After the sordid Lewinsky affair was discovered, the democrats had 8 months of absolute silence from the GOP during which time they successfully framed their argument that "it was only about sex." Thus the Impeachment was doomed to failure from the beginning because of the GOP's unbelievable "wimp factor."
The democrats will do it to us again, unless each and every one of us act now. Not tomorrow, not next week -- not after we wait to see what happens. We must act now!
Aren't our leaders ever tired of bending over and grabbing their ankles? Frankly, I'm embarrassed to watch them do it, over and over again. Will they ever stand up to be counted? Do they even know what courage is?
They must act now!
Illegal votes? What about the millions of illegal aliens who have been made into proper little democrats by the crooked Clinton INS? The democrats laugh when they recount that so many of their voters live in a graveyard. They think its funny! Voter fraud? They invented it, and they are the only ones doing it!
Why can't the GOP say something? Say anything! Lead, for God's sake! Do what you're getting big bucks to do! Fight for us, for our country! This is not just about politics, and if you don't understand that, please step aside.
Friends please, I beg you. Communicate with your leaders, your congressmen, your senators and your contacts and friends within the GOP and tell them this:
If they stand silently by and let Al Gore and the crooked democrats steal this election, then we will do what we have to do. We will storm the gates of the GOP at every level and we will overhaul this ineffective, bureaucratic, lackluster organization in ways that will shock even the most hardened democratic warriors. Tell them that even James Carville and George Stephanopoulos will be impressed at the political bloodbath that will take place if the GOP lets us down again.
We've had enough! Let the cry be heard all over this nation that the GOP must get its act together now! Everyone is thinking the same thing, but is too polite to say it, so I'll say it -- this election should have been a slam-dunk!
Now we're supposed to stand politely by and have this hard-earned victory snatched from us by school-yard bullies who have never grown up?
I don't think so, and here's my message to the GOP:
Lead, follow, or get out of the way!


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Thursday, February 14, 2008
Real 2.4 Patch Notes
Anyway, posted below are my comments on the new patch. I have ignored a lot of the stuff that doesn't seems fairly small, doesn't affect me significantly, or I have no clue about. I have also excluded stuff that I have discussed in prior posts.
On last thing, it is now obvious that the notes I commented on last week are indeed fake or at least long range plans as some other sources have suggested. Oh well. Now to the fun stuff.
The Sunwell Isle
* The Sunwell Isle is now available for play. This area includes a new quest hub and 5-player and 25-player instances. Join the Shattered Sun Offensive in shutting down Kael'thas' nefarious operations. This new force is comprised by both the Aldor and Scryers and is led by the Naaru. Players will take part in claiming Sun's Reach and setting up a larger base of operation to stop Kael'thas and the Legion.
Like most people this is my favorite part of the patch. I am not playing much attention to the 25 man since I probably won't see it anytime soon if ever, but hearing how one of the bosses was enslaved and let loose on the general publick was quite funny. The 5-man on the other hand I am paying a lot of attention to. The gear that will be available looks to plug some of the holes in the Kara left behind and it looks to be a great place for me to gear up Graypal. Anyway, there is so much to talk about on this topic that I will save it for a later post.
* A representative of the Keepers of Time has been spotted at the World's End Tavern in Shattrath. Players in good standing with the faction will be granted ease of passage to the Caverns of Time. - Awesome, and it is about time.
* Spirit-Based Mana Regeneration: This system has been adjusted so that as your intellect rises, you will regenerate more mana per point of spirit. - Another good buff for high end raiders. I kind of wonder if it will have any affect on lower level players. From what I've read it should give Graylo another 21 mp5 while casting. Graypal will get about 4 mp5 while casting. I wonder how this will affect new 70s trying to get into raiding guilds, but since it doesn't seem to hurt Graypal I doubt it will hurt anyone.
Class Changes
Pretty much all of the Druid changes listed are bug fixes and I don't affect moonkin much. So there really isn't much to comment on. It appears to be the same for the other classes as well. The biggest change in this section that I could see was priests being able to cast Fear Ward in Shadow Form and I have already commented on that in a prior post.
However, despite the current lack of substance in this section doesn't mean that their won't be more changes. The Blizzard CMs have said that this is "progressive" patch and that they plan to include more changes including class changes. Just don't expect anything huge.
* Added new PvP daily quests that send players to Halaa and the Spirit Towers of the Bone Wastes. These quests are available for Alliance and Horde at their respective local quest hubs. - Anything that gives more honor and promotes world PvP I am a fan of.
* When you first enter a battleground, messages about other players joining the battleground will be linked together for the first minute. You will see a message in AV like "28 players joined" rather than a line for each player that joined. After the first minute, it will work as it always has. In addition all of the messages about other players leaving the battleground and getting marks of honor once the battleground is complete have been removed. - Awesome. I always hated when I got crit by a wall of text entering a battleground. Not a huge change but it means less scrolling
Warsong Gulch
* When both flags are held, the flag carriers will receive 50% increased damage done to them after approximately 10 minutes and 100% increased damage after approximately 15 minutes.
* Flag carriers can now be tracked 45 seconds after picking up the flag.
- I am not a big fan of WSG. If I pug it I loose, and pre-mades are no guarentee either, but these changes are great. I should make the games go faster, improving one of the big problems with the BG.
* Alchemy - Gift of Arthas now stacks to 20. I realize it is a bug fix, but does anyone really care.
* Fishing - New Fishing Daily Quests! Visit the mysterious old man fishing at Silmyr Lake outside of Shattrath City to discover what treasures he has to offer. - I am not really impressed with the rewards I have heard about from this so far. I doubt it will encourage me to fish more.
* Herbalism
- Ancient Lichen now has a chance to drop a Fel Lotus where it used to drop a piece of random green jewelry. Finally, the random green jewelry sucked and didn't even DE into anything good.
- Black Lotus replaced by Fel Lotus in herbalism skinning tables for Outland creatures. - Another great change. I doubt anyone uses much Black Lotus anymore.
- Increased the chance that Felweed, Dreaming Glory, Ragveil, and Flame Caps will contain a Fel Lotus. - I was never upset with the current drop rates. I thougth they were pretty fair and made Fel Lotus a pretty good source of cash for non-raiders. However, it sounds like the QQers might have won and more will drop. I am not upset since it will probably save me money, but I don't think the change is necessary.
- Warp Splinter can now be skinned with Herbalism in heroic difficulty. - Finally, now can someone please work on doing the same for Quag in Slave Pens.
* Mining - Increased the skill up potential for most smelting recipes. - This is great for Grayfel. One of the main reasons I am leveling him is to get free gems so anything that helps me level mining is a good thing in my opinion.
* Dungeon and Group Quest Experience: The amount of experience awarded for dungeon and 5-person group quests in Outland has been increased in almost all cases. - Anything that helps me get to 70 quicker I am a fan of.
Dungeons and Raids
* Players will no longer require an attunement quest to enter Hyjal or Black Temple. - I would have liked to get their before they dropped the attunement but it means that I will probably get a chance to see at least some of both instances. Now if they would just drop the attunement for the preBC raids. My friends keep running them for fun but I can't because I am not attuned and I don't want to spend hours getting attuned.
* Players who have completed the attunement quests for Black Temple and Hyjal will be granted the title of "Hand of A'dal". - I am a fan of titles .
* You may now fight Prince Kael'thas and Lady Vashj without first killing all the other bosses in their respective dungeons. A good change in my opinion. Before WA fell apart we would spend a good amount of time doing old raids, now we will be able to focus on the new bosses when we get back there.
* Caverns of Time: Heroic Black Morass - Rift Keepers and Rift Lords now have reduced hit points. - Is it just me or do they seem to nerf HBM every patch? Not that big of a deal though.
* Caverns of Time: Mount Hyjal - The Vials of Eternity quest is no longer necessary for entry to Hyjal. This quest is still required for faction rings. Those rings are awesome so I definately will want to get Vashj and Kael down if I can.
* Hellfire Citadel: Magtheridon's Lair - Many gameplay elements of the encounters in Magtheridon's Lair have been changed to decrease their overall complexity and difficulty. - Another fight they seem to nerf every patch. I would like to know what the spicifics are here but I don't really think it needs a nerf. On the bright side though it will make it easier for WA to gear up new people.
* Heavy Netherweave Bandage & Netherweave Bandage: It is no longer possible to have two players bandage the same target simultaneously using this item. - Was this really a problem. I have never heard of 2 people bandaging the same target. I only use mine on my self.
* Black Temple level BoJ gear. - This isn't in the actual patch notes yet but one of the CMs posted it. I can't wait to see it. Nobody has found the vender for it yet. I assume that it will be released with some stage of the Sunwell event that they havent gotten to on the PTR yet. Two new cloaks and a Trinket are all available from the Shatt Badge vender but they are all PvP focused. Needless to say I am already saving up my badges. Hopefully we will hear some good stuff soon.
Druid Idol Changes - They have buffed a lot of the Druid Idols. It seems like Blizzard is finally realizing that wands are far superior to our idols and are trying to make some changes. Below are the two changes that affect moonkin.
* Idol of the Raven Goddess: The bonus healing, critical strike rating, and spell critical strike rating from this item have been increased. In addition, it no longer sometimes fails to apply the healing bonus. - It increases the added spell crit from 9 to 20. It is a pretty significant change but I doubt it is enough to make me wear it. I will have to do some math to see.
* Idol of the Unseen Moon: The cooldown added in a previous patch has been removed. - Another good change. I heard that they originally nerfed it because people would Moonfire spam untill they got a proc. If that is the real reason then its kind of stupid. You would drain all your mana doing it and/or you would waste a lot of casting time due to the repeated global cooldown. The big advantage of this idol is casting Starfire right after it, since starfire benifits greatly from additional spell damage. Basically, if someone wants to moonfire spam a lot, let them they are an idiot.
* Weightstones and Sharpening Stones: The bonus damage from these temporary enchantments now works while shapeshifted. - A feral buff that I haven't seen talked about anywere. I think this is a pretty good change for ferals and for Blacksmiths since not many feral druids would take up blacksmithing on their main.
Guild Update
I was turned down by Legacy. Not that supprising since they already have several moonkin. Not a problem though it is probably for the best. I have desided to stick with WA. I know I have said that before but I am more optimistic about WA now than since the collapse. We have started raiding 25 mans again. We are clearing Gruul's weekly and doing very well on Mag. Much better than I had expected. There are several other guilds falling apart on the server and we have picked up a few really good people. Also, I did find a guild off server that was looking for a moonkin. I thought about apping but I desided that I really didn't want to leave my friends on this server and step into the unknown. It is a really big risk that I wouldn't be able to fix for 3 months if it went bad. So, here I am in WA. Hopefully I will have more positive updates soon.
Toon Update
Graylo - Not really much to say here. I have been raiding to help gear people and get badges but there aren't many significan't improvements I can get for him untill we start raiding higher level stuff again. I do hope to get his Champion of the Naruu title soon though.
Graypal - Oddly enough I haven't done much with him either. I still need the second and third Key frag for his kara key, but haven't had much luck getting groups. Its funny, now that he is 70 I have lost a bit of interest in him, but I did do some quests with him in Netherstorm to make some money.
Grayfel - This has been my focus lately. I got him from 20 to 24. He has his Succubus and his two professions are coming along nicely for a level 24 toon. I am giving him a little bit of a rest right now to build up a little more rested xp, but he may level quickly given the state of my guild. Then again Graypal went from 1-40 pretty quickly then slowed down quite a bit.
2 comments:
- SuraBear said...
It will be interesting to see whether or not those T6-quality badge rewards are for real or not. I personally suspect there will be some Badge of Justice rewards (much to my chagrin), but the popular opinion seems to be that all of the new gear gotten with turn-ins will be tied to items that only drop in Sunwell Plateau.
- February 14, 2008 at 6:02 PM
- Cdin said...
Hi Surabear. Thanks for reading my blog.
Here is Drysc's exact quote from the forums when he was responding to some QQs about patch 2.4: "Not to mention BT quality badge loot... *cough*."
This is hardly a definitive statement, but given the wording and some of the things they have done with loot on this patch I a confident that he means Badges of Justice rewards for a few reasons.
1. I don't know of any other "badges" that you turn in for loot. Yes there is the Sunmote turn-ins but I have never seen anyone official refer to those as badges. Plus, only the top tear of raiders will ever see those anyway. So I don't think they are a big plus for the community as a whole.
2. Blizzard has done a lot with patch 2.3 and 2.4 to close the gear gap between recent 70's and experianced raiders. Adding ZA, T5 level BoJ rewards in 2.3, droping the attunments for TK and SSC, Adding Kara level loot to a 5 man instance. All of these steps seem designed to gear lower end raiding guilds to be able to play more of the content. This makes sense since one of the biggest complaints about WoW has always been that a good portion of the content is only seen by 1% of wow players.
3. I think most people discount the existance of new badge rewards because we haven't seen them yet, but they are forgetting that we haven't seen a lot of the new content yet. From what I've read the PTR is still on the second phase of building the Sunwell city. With each new building comes new vendors. I think that one of these vendors will have the BoJ turn-ins. Hopefully it will be the next one since it is the Armory and this would be a logical playce for BoJ rewards to turn up.
- February 15, 2008 at 9:28 AM

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Paul Glen: How CIOs can become more influential
- 08 October, 2012 10:13
Nobody believes that "CIO" stands for "chief influence officer."
CIOs themselves know better, though they'd like to contribute to decision-making. I recently facilitated a conversation among a group of CIOs who collectively seemed both mystified and hurt by their own lack of influence within their organizations. "I give them what they want, but when it comes to the big decisions, I don't get a seat at the table" was a typical sentiment.
The consensus was that, if organizations would seek out the CIO's perspective when deliberating on decisions, they could reduce costs, become more competitive and avoid costly mistakes.
So we discussed how to become more influential. The general view was that CIOs have to better publicize the IT department's successes and work harder to build relationships with business executives. There's nothing wrong with these measures, except that they aren't nearly enough. We in IT have a limited understanding of what influence is.
In its purest form, influence is about one's ability to affect the opinions, emotions or behavior of others. But it isn't enough to influence the decisions that are made. To affect the agenda and direction of the organization, you need to influence which questions are considered.
To a large degree, IT isn't influential because we conflate influence with input. We believe that decision-makers should consult us because of the inherent value of our knowledge. We are confused when this doesn't happen, not realizing that executives rarely seek to be influenced; they expect to be lobbied. While we wait passively to share information, others are driving the agenda.
And even when we are consulted, our input can fail to persuade because we misapprehend how decisions are made. We believe that decisions should be based on a purely analytical process. We pile facts in the middle of the table. Weigh the facts and decisions should be obvious, based on an objectively verifiable good. But decisions don't happen in the middle of the table. Human decision-making is a fundamentally interior process blending emotions, intuition and information.
As geeks, we don't like to trespass on other people's interior experiences and subjective reality. That's the realm of emotions, and we don't do emotions. We don't like to talk about them, think about them or attempt to make others feel them. And strategizing about how to make someone feel a certain way seems wrong.
But we can't influence our business partners without understanding their interior experience. Geeks have become reasonably good at understanding business processes, but we rarely consider the human experience of inhabiting those processes. Without stepping into other people's worldview, we have no hope of gaining influence.
To begin to make IT influential, we must take these two steps:
1. Overcome our resistance to the emotional nature of decision-making and agenda-setting. We must become fluent in the language of feelings, and learn to both empathize with and elicit them.
2. Make influential relationships part of everyone's job. Influence takes place at every level of the organization, from boardroom to help desk. Everyone in IT has an influence on how our business partners experience us and our technology.
To give our organizations the full value of our contributions, our knowledge and our products, we must seek to become influential, not wait for influence to be bestowed upon us. Our organizations need us to step up. Even if it isn't our ambition to be influential, it is our obligation.
Paul Glen, CEO of Leading Geeks, is devoted to clarifying the murky world of human emotion for people who gravitate toward concrete thinking. His newest book is 8 Steps to Restoring Client Trust: A Professional's Guide to Managing Client Conflict. You can contact him at email@example.com.
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PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. -- On a bitter cold winter morning explosive ordnance disposal technicians conducted training exercises Jan. 10 at Fort Carson, Colo. designed to simulate the mental and physical fatigues experienced while deployed.
The exercises included unexploded ordnance and improvised explosive devices, called 'problems' by the techs. With each breath visibly clinging to the air, the EOD techs assigned to the 21st Space Wing and 302nd Airlift Wing civil engineer squadrons shuffled 11 miles along a dusty road to their training grounds with each problem tackled by a team of three. It takes well over an hour to render each problem safe, which is why team cohesion as EOD technicians is so important.
"The training gives you the ability to say, 'OK, I know his strengths, I know his weaknesses and he knows mine,'" said Master Sgt. Paul Horton, the 21st CES EOD flight chief. "You want to have your team to operate as smoothly and efficiently as possible, especially in combat, you're in a situation where you don't have time to work kinks out."
In addition to defusing problems while deployed, the 21st EOD technicians also fulfill their role here as a defensive asset.
"We're a defensive asset," Horton said. "We're giving you a safe environment so that you don't have an explosive threat here on the base, whether it's a missile or a grenade or anything that interrupts your ability to execute your mission."
Newly promoted Staff Sgt. Jeremy Redfern, a 21st CES EOD technician, returned from his second deployment in November and understands the importance of these exercises.
"The training allows you to react quickly in really horrible situations," Redfern said. "You just turn everything off, and go back to training."
Redfern has deployed twice to Afghanistan during his five-year Air Force career, first to Helmand province with Horton, and most recently to the Ghazni province.
"Every EOD situation is different, but training takes the edge off to help counter a new situation," Redfern said. "It can be something as simple as remembering Sgt. Horton saying, 'Look at it from a different angle.'"
Providing training is especially important in a life-or-death career field like explosive ordnance disposal.
"We really try to hit our brand new staff sergeants coming up in training to be team chiefs," Horton said. "Historically speaking in EOD, you usually did not become a team leader until around the 6 to 10 year mark. Now we have to push them a little bit harder to get that training out because they don't have the time to develop over several years."
The EOD technicians deploy for six months at a time to areas notorious for IEDs, so training in a controlled environment is vital to provide the skills needed downrange.
While the training was designed to prepare the EOD techs for stressors while deployed, they must also understand the capabilities of their tools and how to respond when those items fail.
"We always call it the ability to adapt to any situation," Horton added. "Your tools can only carry you so far and especially when they break, they break at those key moments, how do you work around that, and that's when you have to work as a team."


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NEH Chairman Cole Joins U.S. Senator Alexander to Commend History Workshops for Teachers
The Hermitage among 17 sites selected for intensive study of American history and culture
National Endowment for the Humanities' Chairman Bruce Cole and U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) visited the home of President Andrew Jackson today to observe one of 17 "Landmarks of American History Workshops" for teachers that are occurring this summer throughout the country. The workshop, sponsored by The Hermitage and Middle Tennessee State University, brought nearly one hundred history teachers from all over America to Nashville for week-long, intensive seminars on "The Hermitage, Andrew Jackson, and America, 1801-1861."
Chairman Cole praised Senator Alexander for his long-standing commitment to increasing teachers' knowledge of American history. "Senator Alexander knows that America's future is only as strong as our memory of America's past," said NEH Chairman Cole. "All across America, thousands of teachers are coming to places where our nation's history was made, joining scholars and experts to learn about our history and culture and to prepare to take that new knowledge back to their classrooms."
As part of NEH's We the People initiative to encourage and strengthen the teaching, study, and understanding of American history and culture, NEH is sponsoring week-long teacher workshops at 17 sites throughout the country. Other sites include Spanish St. Augustine in Florida; Fort Robinson in Nebraska; Mount Vernon in Virginia; and Memphis, Tennessee, where teachers will learn about the Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike.
"The Landmarks program adds a distinctive and timely emphasis to the importance of American places," said Cole. "It is an expression of the best and original sense of the word patriotism-an informed love for the place one calls home-mindful of its imperfections, but hopeful for its promise."
Landmarks of American History Workshops provide the opportunity this summer for more than 2,000 K-12 educators to engage in intensive study and discussion of important topics in American history. These academies give participants direct experiences in the interpretation of significant historical sites and the use of archival and other primary historical evidence. Landmarks Workshops present the best scholarship on a specific landmark or related cluster of landmarks, enabling participants to gain a sense of the importance of historical places, to make connections between what they learn in the workshop and what they teach, and to develop enhanced teaching materials for their classrooms.
The Endowment's We the People initiative was announced by President Bush in a Rose Garden Ceremony in September 2002. Additional information about the National Endowment for the Humanities and its grant programs is available at www.NEH.gov.


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All-City MPLS Water Bottle
A shoutout to All-City's home city utilizing Specialized's top to the line Purist Bottle. No more lingering flavors in your bottle or plastic taste.
- Rinse bottle with warm water and a mild detergent and alternatively, the bottle is dishwasher-safe on the top rack
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40 MPH at 4am in 40 degrees
That's a first. Another 4am start at the San Luis Obispo Brevet Series and this time we left with the main group. For some reason I thought I would hang on to the guy with Zipp wheels (read $$$) up the first climb. Luckily he knew the descent and told me what to expect, so I held on tight and bombed down in the dark and cold. Eventually Brian would bridge up and we rode the whole day together. The whole day being 18 hours and 251 miles.
Everything is everything. There were only a handful of stores or towns for the first 225 miles of the ride, the organizers had to have water at the control points and even some of these were 70 miles apart. We'd have heat midday on the out-and-back to the Pinnacles National Monument and on the last big climb, up highway 46 out of Paso Robles over to the coast, we watched the clouds and fog roll in, obscure the last minutes of sun and drop the temperature 15 degrees. Brian and I had been riding hard all day, but on the coast, with the fog and darkness and low temperatures, we took it easy. When we finally rolled back to the Main's house (at 10pm) they had vegan barley soup for us and we sat around and talked for a bit before we went to the van to sleep (luckily I had left the window open, because Dan and Michael got done at 130am and we didnt have a key).
Easter morning (see picture of Brian) we packed up at 630am to drive back to Los Angeles. I was stoked that my favorite coffee shop, Home of the Velvet Foam, was open in SLO.
Now only the 600k is left to qualify for Paris-Brest-Paris.


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text: Perhaps Nintendo has a point when it refused Lucas Arts permission to develop a bat-like lightsaber attachment for the Wiimote. After all, when you place the controller inside stuff like the 10 insane Wii weapons or a sword and a shield or a billiard cue or a boxing glove, it makes it hard to attach the safety strap to your wrist. And when you have no safety strap, you have what we see above.


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Christina Aguilera and fiance, Matthew Rutler, have welcomed a baby girl, a source confirmed to E! News on Sunday.
This is the second child for the pop star and part-time coach of NBC's "The Voice." She also has a 6-year-old son, Max Bratman, with ex-husband Jordan Bratman. Aguilera gave birth on Saturday, the source said.
The singer has occasionally been spotted flaunting her bun in the oven in Los Angeles. Shutterbugs even caught a sweet photo of Xtina's little boy protectively shielding his mama's baby bump while walking through paparazzi.
"Max already protecting mommy & his little sister! He's the greatest #maxthegreat," Aguilera captioned the photo, that had the text "big brother love" on it, on Twitter.
She and Rutler had celebrated their daughter's imminent arrival recently with a co-ed baby shower held at the home of the singer's stylist. Nearly 50 family members and close friends attended the intimate gathering, which was humorously highlighted with a cake that was one for the books.
Their tasty treat was decorated with a figure of a woman (presumably Christina) giving birth on a rug atop a hardwood floor, the baby's head (complete with a full head of hair) poking out from you-know-where.
"Push Xtina, push," the writing on the cake encouraged. "Christina is doing great," a source has told E! News. "She's really glowing. She's feeling great and isn't tired at all. She can't wait to meet her baby girl."
Aguilera revealed on Valentine's Day that Rutler had popped the question, and a week later E! News confirmed that they were expecting their first child together.
On Monday, she shared a sweet pic of herself putting a pair of headphones on her baby bump.
"Baby girl getting first listen to what mama's been creating in the studio," she said.


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Enough with the rumours! As if re-igniting the Star Trek franchise wasn't enough, JJ Abrams has landed the biggest job in genre cinema of the moment: he'll direct Star Wars: Episode VII for Disney and Lucasfilm.
Despite playing coy back in November when asked directly by Hollywood Life about the gig ("I am looking forward more than anyone to the next iterations of Star Wars, but I believe I will be going as a paying moviegoer!") and telling our own Mark Dinning he couldn't possibly do it, Abrams has made a deal to sit in the captain's chair for the film, as first reported by The Wrap's sources and now confirmed by Lucasfilm and Disney.
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NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said Wednesday that there's no resolution yet to the scheduling conflict between the Ravens and the Orioles regarding Sept. 5.
Goodell did express optimism that an accommodation can be reached so the Super Bowl champion Ravens can open the season at home and the Orioles can play host to their scheduled game against the Chicago White Sox.
During a televised news conference to wrap up the annual NFL owners meetings in Phoenix, Goodell said he hasn't spoken to Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig since arriving at the meetings earlier this week.
"I do know that discussions are ongoing," Goodell said. "People are working toward trying to find a solution that will work for everybody. We recognize that this wasn't something that baseball or the Orioles asked for. They've been very cooperative in trying to work out a solution. We're both trying to compromise to say, 'How can we do this so the fans of Baltimore can have a really special day with an Orioles game in the afternoon and a Ravens celebration at night for their Super Bowl championship?' I'm hopeful that will happen."
Camden Yards and M&T Bank Stadium are adjacent to one another, and the teams share parking lots. Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti said the team has offered to provide financial compensation to the Orioles for any schedule change.
The opponent for the first game still hasn't been announced, but the leading candidates are believed to be the New England Patriots, Pittsburgh Steelers, Houston Texans and Green Bay Packers.
Patriots owner Bob Kraft said recently that he expected his team to open the season in Baltimore.
The conflict became public when Goodell said Monday that the Ravens may have to open up the season on the road if the issue can't get worked out soon. The NFL does not want to move the game back to Sept. 4, because of the Jewish holiday Rosh Hashanah. And it would require special permission for the Orioles and White Sox to play early in the day Sept. 5, because both teams play in other cities the previous night.
"We think that is the right thing," Goodell said. "We have agreed to move the game a little bit later in the evening to try to accommodate the baseball game. ... As a kid who grew up as an Orioles fan, to have the Orioles game in the afternoon and then go to the Ravens' Super Bowl championship celebration for the Kickoff Game will be a great day. We hope that is the way it will happen."
The Orioles and Ravens had been discussing the matter for several weeks, but have been unable to find common ground yet.
Goodell said that he had spoken to Selig twice to try and find a solution.
Because both the Orioles and White Sox play the previous night in different cities, having an early game the next day could affect a potential pennant race. Such a change would also require approval from the White Sox, Major League Baseball and its players' association.
Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti said this week that he remains upbeat about the prospects of hammering out a deal so that both sides can get what they want.
"I think a doubleheader -- if we can move it a little later and they can move it a little earlier -- and we can pull it off, I'm trying to figure what would be a greater day in Baltimore," he said at the meetings. "The call-in sick factor in Baltimore that day, They might just close every office in town and say, 'go do what you want to do.' I think it's an opportunity for Major League Baseball to look really good, too, if they can some way figure it out."
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consumerist.com writes:
"The Xbox 360 breaks five times as often as often as its closest failure-prone competitor, the PlayStation 3, a print edition-only Game Informer survey found.
The poorly manufactured, red ring of death-prone console has a 54.2 percent failure rate, compared to 10.6 percent for the PS3 and the Wii's 6.8 percent.
The magazine surveyed nearly 5,000 readers to get the data. And while the 360's rate is alarmingly higher than the others, it's still bafflingly low because it blows the mind to imagine that 45.8 percent of the consoles have not broken. Also, Microsoft's numbers are inflated because 360s are used the most of the three consoles. Results said 40.3 percent of 360 owners use the console three to five hours a day, compared to 37 percent of PS3 owners. Meanwhile, the plurality of Wii owners (41.4 percent) play their consoles less than an hour a day.
Microsoft also seized the gold medal for unhelpful customer service, taking nearly a month to repair or replace a console, while Nintendo and Sony stuck closer to a week. Only 37.7 percent of Microsoft customers found the company's customer service was "very helpful," compared to 51.1 percent fo Sony and 56.1 percent for Nintendo.
The most shocking number from the survey - and frightening from a consumer perspective - is only 3.8 percent of Xbox 360 owners said they'd never buy another Xbox because of hardware failure."
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@ Nitro below. Yeah I'm having a hard time with those numbers too. Who ran the survey for GI? Nintendo.
@ Ultimolu. It's one of the reasons I have gone with PC and PS3 gaming this gen.
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*prepares for doctor's appointment and runs off*
This is WHY I don't own a 360!
Genesis5 , this isn't the first survey or study that has had numbers like this.
my friends RROD'd 3 times, hes now buying a new arcade. I never had a problem with mine so far, but I do occasionally hear weird noises.
my buddy rrod 3 times as well. I laugh at him and tell him why do you continue to send it in. He doesn't give me a very good answer after that.
The reason people keep replacing their 360 rather than giving up in disgust and just buying a PS3 is simple. The thing is, by the time you own a 360 long it enough for it to break down, you probably have at least a few games. You get it repaired, you get a few more games, and maybe it breaks down a second time.
At this point, you're pissed. You're ready to switch consoles. Except...you already own a decent library of 360 titles. Do you really want to make all of those games worthless by replacing a 360 with a PS3? You might get a PS3 in ADDITION to a 360, sure, but switching companies is a much less tempting option when you've already built up collection of games for a particular platform.
Not to mention you've already built up a collection of online friends to play with, who may or may not have PS3s.
He had a model with no HDMI input which were the earlier ones. I waited until later to get a 360, I was just going to play exclusives but then my PS3 broke, now I do all my gaming on the 360. I think ill get my ps3 fixed this month, its been since January since I played it.
Both systems have their faults.
Man, do I feel lucky. Almost 2 years and not one problem with my XBox 360. *knocks on wood*. Yet my friend had his for 4 months and has had it repaired or replaced twice.
I am confused...
Isint the acceptable failure rate in electronics (close to) 3%?
With PS3 and 10.6% and Wii at 6.8%, arent both the systems over the limit?
Interesting how Sony and Nintendo dont get blamed for bad quality hardware !
PS: How can anyone purchase the 360 knowing there is a 50%+ change of it failing?
Plus money for LIVE, You guys should at least put a petition that says that once your console break more than once, LIVE is automatically Free for a year.
Well, I have no qualms believing these numbers. Every single one of my personal friends has had their 360 replaced at least once. But I know it isn't every single Xbox 360 that breaks. My first one broke 2 times and got replaced 2 times. Neither one of my breaks were RROD, though, both times it was a red & black checkerboard pattern on the TV and I couldn't do anything. In September 2007, it did it a third time, and MS refused to fix it without charging me because they said they were only covering RROD errors with the extended warranty at that point. So rather than pay money just to fix a system that I figured would break again, I bought a new one. The new one has not broken. Maybe I should say "yet". But nearly two years is pretty good considering I had 3 breaks within the first year of my original (I got my original in September 2006).
lol but to be honest, this article is not accurate at all seeing as they surveyed their readers and not actual hard line prove like consumer data companies do.
Watch dog groups across EU & NA now have the 360 failure rate at btw 18-30% depending on what is termed as a hardware failure for certain regions.
Generally, the accepted failure rate for electronic WW is roughly 5% which Nintendo and Sony are both well below.
"I love extremely high failure rates and the PS3 is doomed... Gran Turismo 5 sucks and Sony is leaving the console market"
Its 54% of their readers who have had a RROD before, right?
How does that make the current failure rate 54%? I like to see reports with data that shows the LTD failure rate vs failure rate after the falcon and jasper models, to see what percentage decrease there was. Lets be honest there are alot of fanboys on both sides subscribe to mags, I don't know too many avg gamers who buy mags these days. Also wouldn't it be obvious that most subscribers of a gaming mag like GameInformer are avid gamers who brought a launch 360, which of course were the most failure prone?
This survey puts ps3 failure rate at a little over 10% which is higher than I've ever seen reported, but again its from 5000 readers of GameInformer mag so who knows how accurate it is, both sound inflated.
On a positive note, I don't think its too "shocking" that only very few people would never buy a 360 again because of hardware failure, they brought ps2's after its problems, and despite what n4g tells you a 3 yr warranty goes a long way, "proof is in the pudding"= when you don't have to pay and there's great games to be played and great services to be had from a "consumer perspective" its still well worth the money= continues to sell and even those who've had a failure still would buy another one.
I did have one 360 break after I sold it to my friend, but my newer one seems better. 50% seems high, as does the 10% and 7%. If it was a survey on a gaming site(think of N4G survey), I doubt people would be honest.
I know 360 breaks alot more than the other systems, but all these numbers seem high.
Heres something funny I saw on tv about videogames yesterday
to justify NOT owning one.
microsoft F'ed up big time. the RROD will haunt them forever. they lucked out in being so rabid in obtaining enough content for their console that fans "semi-forgive" them.
it's sad in another way because, i honestly think the RROD issue is what's keeping the 360 from its full potential.
imagine if the RROD issue wasn't as rampant as it was. if it wasn't such a staple of sony fanboys ammo against 360 ("lol hurr durr that's why i dont buy one, even though its free to replace unlike PS3s"). maybe wii would have actually had a contender :/
please, no one use these numbers for silly little arguments. i think all 3 are inflated numbers and a 'survey' by a website does not tell me much. Are they reputable? Who did they ask? Did they get an accurate spread of gamers and non gamers who own the consoles to get more accurate results etc etc. Judging from how high these numbers are I would say no.
mint royale ....the survey isn't from a website.
"The magazine surveyed nearly 5,000 readers to get the data."
are you just illiterate?
EDIT: Sure, GameInformer has a website..no sh!t sherlock, however THIS particular survey was done through the magazine, which would require people to send in their surveys they filled out.
And anybody who understands customer service or product satisfaction surveys already knows that the people more likely to fill out a survey and mail it back in are people who have HAD problems.
People who are content with their service/products are much less likely to fill out and mail back the form.
This is a KNOWN fact, and an EASY explanation of why the numbers seem inflated, as you say. People who fill out the survey are motivated by their frustration.
If I remember correctly, the guy who wrote the book about the 360's failing in the first place placed the failure rate close to 70%
and when EA ran a beta test for their servers had a failure rate of 30-50% after Microsoft claimed a 5-6% failure rate
so it *could* be true.
But it also could be true that people are buffering up the numbers... except that the people taking the poll could also be inflating numbers on the PS3 side too... and you have to take into account that the PS3's recorded failure rate have historically been lower than this poll's number, but you never know.
Gameinformer isn't a website? Oh you learn something new everyday!
Good thing I only play my 360 like an hour a day these days.
I bought a new Falcon 360 like in January I believe and sold my older one, but still I'm also trying to keep it healthy, not playing it too much and using it for a coaster instead.
I see alot of "gamers" here talking about 360 just being so dam*ed good that failure does not matter. You say there is no excuse for not owning one?
How about the fact that everyone I know personally who bought a 360 has had it replaced. I am sure there are more than a few with their first 360 still running but I don't like the odds.
Then we got those saying that it's free to replace so why not get one. I bought a gaming system to play video games on. Why would I spend my hard earned money on something I am just going to have to send back?
All I can say to you "gamers" is, thanks alot. Maybe the rest of the industry will take note to the fact that you are ingnorant consumers who will accept being bent over the couch without so much as a thank you afterwards. Maybe now we can all expect similar shotty hardware in the future. Hell MS did it and they are "beating" the PS3.
The fact that the failure rate is so high and they still sell is not a testament to how great the 360 is. Ever here this one?
A fool and his money are soon parted.
If you're reviewing your typical readers, who are also typical fanboys mixed in with normal gamers, then these numbers are definitely bloated for the 360 and PS3. This is the first I've heard of such a high failure rate for the PS3, honestly. And, I'm sure the failure rate for the 360 is down to at least 25% with the Jasper chipset.
Look, I have no doubt that the Xbox 360 has a significantly higher failure rate than either the PS3 or the Wii.
However, I think I'll take these results with a grain of salt for ALL three consoles.
Unless there is a survey done by a reputable firm who is in the business of polling / surverys, then I'll tend to be a bit skeptical about the numbers.
Does anyone really doubt that people would lie about their experiences because of all of this "console war" stuff? And that goes for ALL sides...
Thats so weird. I have all 3 consoles and my 360 is the only console I never had to send in for repairs. I have friends that get the RROD every year though. Maybe its because I install all my games now and rarely use my disc drive at all to get my 360 hot?
Too many RROD's for me. I recently put together a PC that will handle the games "exclusive" to the 360. I was just getting tired of the shoddy quality of the 360's.
for all systems, but i'm sure some ppl will get a kick out of these results.
Altho my 360 broke down 4 times (once its rrod out of the box MSFT sent back to me) but as for bad CS i dunno, i think its also partly on the consumer when dealing with these situations on the phone. the 4th time mine rrod (which was when it did out of the box). i called up CS and asked to speak to a manager (not in a pissed off kinda way) he was a good guy, i think his name was shawn or something, anyways i told him my situation and he gave me his direct office number so if it ever happened again to call that number and he'd be more then happy to help me out and toss in a freebie (dunno what tho?) since then i haven't had any probs with my 360 and play the hell out of it but still have that number in my wallet just incase.
But yea just keep in mind that calling in pissed off or anything won't really get you anywhere. How many of us worked in CS and had to deal with angry ppl that try to hold us personally responsible for a defect or w/e that as CSRs had nothing to do with.
To be honest that number really is not surprising, for me anyway it is literally like 1 in 2 people i know has had a RROD. Its at the point now where you almost have to accept you will get the RROD sooner or later.
How many here have filled out a comments form for a retail store or restaurant, etc because they were happy with their service or treatment or products?
Now, if you had bad service, poor treatment or poor quality products do you think you'd be more likely to fill out a form?
customer service surveys always lean on the more negative side.
5,000 people is hardly going to be that accurate... it's like saying 1 in 3 people get cancer.... so out of myself and 2 people in the room with me, One will get cancer. Yet, none of them get it throughout their life. you see where I'm going ??
You can't get a Small percentage of an overall large number and expect to get results that truly reflect the situation.
Also, can I just ask Live payers who have had their's brake down.. If it is true like some have said that you have waited up to a month for it to be repaired... do they give you the price of a months membership off the years subscription ??
For the record I agree that these numbers seem inflated.
I'm going to have to call B.S. on this article because the PS3's failure rate defiantly isn't that high. This was a survey conducted to 5,000 people, and 5,000 people doesn't really represent the MILLIONS of people that own PS3's, 360's and Wii's and their REAL failure rates.
The 360's failure rate is probably a little below 20% by now, and from what I've read on the internet, both the PS3 and Wii failure rate shouldn't be more than a few percent.
@1.11 - You are incredibly stupid. Your argument can be used for PS3 as well:
- Best Games (Uncharted, Ratchet, Killzone, Resistance, MGS4, God Of War, MAG, Socom, Warhawk, the list goes on...)
- Best controller (For everything other than shooters. DS3 is better for fighting games, racing, platformers etc.)
- Best online (Free, high up time, LAG-FREE, dedicated servers, constant supply of PSN exclusives etc.)
- Best user base (Are you kidding me? Best user base? 360 has the most racist 12 year old kids online at one time, oh wait you are 12 years old.)
Most games - irrelevant, crap games = crap. Wii has most games does it make it better?.
On top of these PS3 owners can also add, FREE services e.g. Home, Life With Playstation, Vidzone and I'm sure there's more coming.
Anyway can't be bothered arguing with a 12 year old any more...
On topic - I doubt the rate is this high, but I have had 2 failures on my 360.
....Yes becuase 5,000 readers represents all the 20+ million 360s sold -_-
Im on my 3rd 360...which I haven't turned on since january when i got a ps3 and built a new PC. Luckily the first one was covered by best buy and the second was covered by M$. I always wonder if they count replacement consoles in their total sales. I'm sure they would if they were getting replaced through retailers like Best Buy. I wonder what sales totals would look like if you subtracted the number of 360's best buy has replaced through their service plan from the total number of ones out in the wild.
Hahahahah Look at the guys claiming their friend's xbox or friend's friend's neighbour's xbox got rrod. Since looking at agrees/disagrees clearly shows this site is rampant with ps3 lovers whether they own one or not yet they are out in full force to add more fictious numbers to the pathetic article.
I went to one retailer to and to check with him whether they would send the out of warranty 360 to ms or my bro should at that very moment a guy came with a ps3 for repairs. So did he get free repairs? NO.. I would rather buy a console with a 50% failure rate which has free coverage for it for 3 years than buying an expensive Bluray player which plays games and no warranty after 3 months.
Man, so many "Best" cards are being thrown around in this argument! Let's get rid of dualisms and bring some substance into this.
People will keep buying 360's over PS3's despite the failure rate because those gamers are devoted to a much more developed social experience in their games. They're the new generation of gamers, many of them born with the internet as a given and with social networking almost being a substitute to direct communication. Plus, since the install base had a year to grow before everyone else came around, you were more likely to find your friends on Live.
The PS3 has some amazing exclusives, much more reliable hardware, and usually ends up being a cheaper package overall than the 360. That would have been enough last generation, but Sony has been reluctant to keep up with Microsoft on its online capabilities. Hence we have many uninspired games of Fat Princess played by teams of 8 unconnected individuals. The Sony bluetooth headset is amazing, but hardly anyone has it, and those who do hardly use it.
PS3/PC owners, such as myself, can play just about every game they would like, but they won't get the (costly) social experience that they'll get with Live. That's why those consumers keep coming back. I'm totally satisfied with the games I'm getting on PS3, but I want Sony to succeed solely because if the PS3 US install base grows, there will be more people that I know on an in-person basis that will be on PSN.
If the total sales figures WERE inflated, just makes you really wonder who actually is the one in 3rd place.
These numbers are right, remember this is a poll from Game Informer most of their subscribers are hardcore gamers who play a lot of hours.
you totaly hit the nail on the head there! This is without a doubt why the 360 still survives and sells. One thing is for sure though and that is that a large number of 360 owners will resent this with future generations of MS\xbox hardware.
The 360 failure rate is scandalous! It's embarrassing for 360 owners that have to replace their hardware multiple times. (They should be well compensated by MS for this and their loyalty to the 360) I've got friends that wont even mention that their 360 has broke down again out of embarrassment because if it was any other product they would have given up on it long ago not quitely gone off and purchased another.
Once you've built up your friends list and regularly play online with them it's hard to move over to another console. This will start to change for those that have dual consoles (360 and PS3). Eventually they'll migrate to the hardware that lasts the longest.
both you and Parapraxis.
This sample is likely not representative of consumers as whole, but likely only those who have Gameinformer subscriptions - hardcore gamers, maybe predominantly XBox owner.
Still the magnitude of these percentages relative to one another is still very telling.
Surveys like this are inherently unreliable. Imagine if they did a survey of the N4G user base, does anybody believe that we would get accurate results from such a survey? I don't think so. I think the survey would show around 75% of the user base claiming that they have had 9 RRODs or some other ridiculously high number.
The sad fact is, we don't have any reliable source for the actual percentage of 360s, PS3s and Wiis that fail. We really don't. People make guesses, but that's all they are. Unfortunately, the console wars have muddled everything up. You can't take the word of a stranger on the internet. Are they being sincere or are they a fanboy trying to make the other console look bad? You can never know.
For me it's 100%. 3 consoles all died of RRoD.
The first I had bough on Ebay with no invoice. It died after six months.
The second died right after I got it.
The last one a month ago a week after the warrenty expired.
No more for me.
Most polls you read about on anything has 1000 people or less in them.
5000 is a big number for any poll. A poll with the right demographic with 100 people will usually hit within 5% of the correct number.
It should be 100%.. everyone I know that own a 360 got RROD. Even one guy his wife won't let him plays games that much either. He still got RROD.
but i guess im one of the lucky guys i guess...
i own an XBOX 360 3 years now... and it NEVER had o mulfunction... :D
wow, that seems a little far fetched if you ask me, but even so it has me worried, i just bought a resident evil elite 2 months ago - i think its a jasper (can someone confirm this for me?) i thought microsoft was finally getting the rrod under control......
Frankly, I believe 5000 people is adequate enough to use as a sample size in their statistic. Not sure what statistical test they used though.
alot of people buy one knowing about the failures. Mine hasnt broken yet as I sold my old one.
Do you people honestly think a company will want to release faulty hardware after seeing what happened with the 360. \
Im pretty sure Microsoft would rather not spend 1-2 billion fixing consoles. maybe they knew it was a problem but I doubt they knew how bad it would really be.
Im sure they would rather have reliable hardware as they have to pay for alot more than just 1-10 360 like you or I would have too.
Im not saying what they did is a good thing, Im just saying you would have to be retarded of you think microsoft doesnt care if their next console is a faulty as the 360.
Wow, so many 360 bashers in this article. Why am I not surprised.
So, if this survey is correct, more than 10% of all PS3s fail.
I personally think all of these numbers are off, but I will say that I would take a console with a 50% failure rate that has a solid 3 year warranty over a console with a 10% failure rate that has a crappy warranty.
And yet it still outsells the PS3 2 to 1, and lets not forget the 10% for the PS3 when most PS3 fansboys claimed it was below 1%.
"Xbox 360 Failure Rate is 54.2 Percent, Game Informer Finds "
and people still buy 360s, and they will continue to do so.
I am somewhat skeptical of these numbers. Both Nintendo and Sony say failure rates are less than 1%, and retailer data backs this up (the majority of defective hardware is returned to the store first)
I know going back a bitthere was an EA employee that said half their 360's had failed but this was quickly hushed up and denied by both EA and Microsoft, but I find it hard to believe that even with the new motherboards, one in two is failing - even though I'm on my 4th console myself. I thought that problem was that Microsoft doesn't fix the problem but just sends you refurbed consoles as replacements and that's why it's been so high for me.
this is the failure rate amongst the hardcore users. The actual average should still be similar to numbers reported earlier.
Poopface, nobody's making anyone feel guilty about owning a 360. The fact of the matter is that instead of arguing with PS3 fans, you guys should be demanding that Microsoft gets to the root of this problem.
How long is it now, three to four years already and this is still an ongoing issue?!
Let me get this straight, you have 40% ps3 19% wii fanboys voteing on xbox360 failure rates.
You created on purpose a wrong rate of failure. It's like asking a Lutheran to rate the Catholic religion, It's like asking a republican to rate a democrate, it's like asking Satan to rate Jesus. Of course your going to get negative and irrational hysteric results!
so the numbers can't be considered accurate. Still, it does suggest two things:
1) the 360 is quite possibly the most poorly designed and manufactured piece of consumer electronics devices ever sold anywhere
2) nearly 97% of 360 owners have shockingly low expectations for quality, performance and value
Fool me once... shame on you. Fool me five times in a row... [insert idiotic comment here].
not surprised honestly.
i know someone who's on his 8th 360!! you heard that guys?? 8th!!!!
Here's a photographic representation of the real amount of units out there that are working.
Is it not simply possible that all the numbers are high because of the type of people who would fill in this type of survey? If I had had one of these machines fail on me I would be more inclined to tell people about it than if I had had a generally fine experience. Not being a fanboy just being human. People are capable of it you know.
6 xbox 360s no RROD yet!
According to these statistics, there was only a 2.5351% chance of this happening to me!
If you increase the time window to something like 5 years, the failure rate will be over 95% I guarantee it.
I felt bad for my buddy who has had to have his repaired 3 times now. He games everyday for FFXI on it, because his laptop isn't made for gaming. He's on a bit of a budget too so if he were to get a desktop he'd want the best money could get since he's a smidge elitist in that sense. Without his crack addiction game he comes over to my place just to do some games with me lol.
Honestly though my 360 has been working fine since I got it almost 2 years ago. It does however make a ton of noise and heats the room up a solid 360 degrees. I've had to get a 2nd headset and a 2nd controller though since accessories to Microsoft must be another means to keep cashing in by making cheap ones. My current controller takes forever to charge when hooked in, and when it finally reaches green to go it only lasts for maybe an hour at best before it's flashing to be recharged.
I already learned my lesson this generation about Microsoft and how they run their gaming business. When the next Xbox does hit I'm going to wait 2-3 years before picking it up I'm afraid. Once they iron out enough kinks from it is when I'll be on board to invest. For those who think they will learn from this generation you are naive, since they haven't learned anything this generation as new SKU's come out other than how to keep grabbing your cash.
Sony since PS1 makes stuff that I have had no problems with ever. They go for quality and give you every pennies worth. Nintendo I'd say does too, but I did have a N64 controller stick just break somehow one day. Plus we all remember NES days of blowing into cartridges to make them work lol.
Next gens order of consoles for me will be Sony,Nintendo, Xbox. This gen was Nintendo, Xbox, Sony...bad choice, but I have all 3 now so it's all good. :)
This is EXTREMELY flawed. One they cant even be sure anyone actually owned said the system they said they did. 2 they did not look at systems to make sure these people are being trueful. Plus they ask 5000 readers aka gamers and fanboys. I can promise you that 360 dont still have 50% fail rate. Plus when did the PS3 jump up to a 10% fail rate ? Sony bragged about have less then 1% fail rate what happen to that ?
If they want to check the fail rate they should of went out to the store and buy 5000 of each system and tested them.
need to minus the dead 360's and then get a real # for total world wide. they may have sold over 30 mill but how many are dead units.
by the #'s half are dead so only around 15 mill working, I would say the ps3 is got more working units world wide.
I can't argue, the 360 has/had a problem with hardware failure. On the same note, their survey is based off of just 5,000 people, compared to millions of 360 owners.
Not trying to defend it in any way, but in one of my college classes I was told to not rely on the results of surveys too much. You could read an article tomorrow that says that eating peanuts kills 63% of the people who eat them. Then in the fine print, it will say that the survey was based on a study of 259 people. More importantly, a majority of those people didn't know they were allergic to peanuts and had a reaction to them.
Like I said, I am not trying to cover for them in any way because I have had a few go out on me as well, but statistics only tell part of the story!
360 & PS3 both seem alot higher than I thought. Dont think that 1 in 10 ps3s fail other wise Sony would be getting hammered just like MS. Last I heard it was more like this.
360 35%
Beh. These numbers are usless. Of the people I know 360 failure rate is around 85-90% (I know about 2 people who have never had problems) and PS3-wii I'll say <1% because of all the people who own wii's and/or ps3's NONE of them have broken. Sure, None of them actually play their wii's but hey...
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|Ki Fanning Ruminant Nutritionist
This year is proving to be challenging, with the drought area more wide spread and the hay and corn crop likely to be reduced. When combined with low ethanol prices, the result is reduced ethanol production, thus limited distillers grains supply.
From a cattle feeding perspective, byproduct feeds are likely to be priced higher relative to corn, and availability could be a concern. Therefore, rations changes may be necessary, and producers should look for opportunity ingredients such as buying failed corn for silage or hay, but the nitrate level may need to be considered.
Nitrate accumulation is caused by low light conditions, severe weather and/or herbicide application. Photosynthesis converts nitrates into plant proteins so a reduction in photosynthesis will allow nitrates to build up. Low lighting conditions such as cloudy days reduce photosynthesis and allow a greater level of nitrates to build up. Likewise, hail will damage and strip leaves that are the main area of photosynthesis. Cold temperatures, disease, and insects damage all reduce a plants growth and allow for a buildup of nitrates. Herbicide applications such as 2, 4-D temporarily disrupt a plant's normal metabolic processes. Drought conditions may cause high nitrates but soil moisture must be present to allow the plant to take up nitrates.
The level of nitrates vary by plant species, stage of maturity, part of the plant, and the amount of nitrogen applied as fertilizer. Pigweed, kochia, lambsquarter, sorghum, oats, millet, and sudangrass are notorious for high nitrate levels but other plants can also accumulate nitrates to a dangerous level. A young plant is growing fast and taking up a lot of nutrients so younger plants have a greater chance of being high in nitrates. Nitrates are greatest at the lower part of the plant and least at the top. A field fertilized heavier with nitrogen fertilizer has more nitrogen available to be converted to nitrates in the plant.
To reduce nitrates harvested, raising the cutter head so that the most nitrate-dense part of the plant is left in the field. Cut hay or silage on a sunny day starting after lunch when the plant has had time to convert accumulated nitrates to proteins. Do not harvest forages the first two days after a rain because the rain water will stimulate plants and allow for greater nitrogen uptake.
Manage around nitrates by ensiling the feed if possible, test for nitrate level, dilute high nitrate feeds in the ration to limit total ration nitrates, and feed a balanced diet. The ensiling process will reduce the nitrate level by 40 to 60%. Avoid feeding green chop silages that have been allowed to heat. Heating, without ensilation, converts nitrates to nitrites which are more toxic. Be certain silages have had at least 30 or 45 days to ensile completely prior to feeding. Test the forage to determine an approximate nitrate level but remember the level is of the sample taken not the whole (i.e. there could be pockets or bales of high nitrate feeds). Dilute the feed high in nitrates so the total diet nitrate concentration is safe for the class of animal you are feeding. Feeding a balanced diet will maximize rumen function and allow for better conversion of nitrates by the rumen microorganisms. This means that urea does not complicate the problem but may help if the diet is low in protein. Likewise, the risk of nitrate poisoning is less in high-energy rations than low-energy rations. Ruminants can be acclimated to a high nitrate level by slowly increasing the total dietary nitrates, much the same way feedlot cattle are adapted to a high grain diet. Feed your lower nitrate feeds to pregnant animals and your higher ones to growing animals.
From past experience we know that ensiling failed corn can be an excellent feed. In fact if done correctly, the silage will have an energy value close to that of normal corn silage. The energy density of the forage part of a plant decreases with maturity so harvesting the failed corn as silage needs to be done at an earlier maturity than normally harvested. The whole plant moisture content should be 65%. This will maximize the fermentability and ensure a reduction in nitrates. Without the grain in the forage, it is even more important to use an inoculant and cover the silage pile.
Grazing can be an option but is higher risk because the animals do not naturally select against feeds high in nitrates. If you have to graze forages that could be higher in nitrates be sure to not overstock the pasture or strip graze. Supplement the animals on the pasture (more at the beginning to acclimate the animals). Graze a week after a killing frost, if possible, to prevent additional nitrate accumulation.
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St. Jude Medical Announces Preliminary Third-Party Validation of Registry Data for Optim-Insulated Defibrillation Leads
Analysis by Population Health Research Institute included in St. Jude Medical Bi-Annual Product Performance Report
ST. PAUL, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- St. Jude Medical, Inc. (NYS: STJ) , a global medical device company, today announced the Population Health Research Institute (PHRI), an academic health science research institute, has completed a preliminary analysis of data received from ongoing prospective registries that monitor the performance of the Durata™ and Riata™ ST Optim implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) leads. The analysis was performed independently by PHRI using St. Jude Medical databases and the results are published beginning on page 240 of the second edition of the 2012 St. Jude Medical Product Performance Report (PPR), released today on sjmprofessional.com.
PHRI analyzed data from three actively monitored registries; the OPTIMUM, SCORE and SJ4 Post-Approval registries, all sponsored by St. Jude Medical. The combined data from these registries currently represents 10,987 leads implanted at 293 sites.
The findings from PHRI's initial analysis of the combined Optim-insulated lead registries, include:
- 0.06 percent rate of all-cause insulation abrasion (includes all types of abrasion and other mechanical types of insulation damage)
- 0.31 percent rate of all-cause mechanical failure (includes any insulation abrasion, conductor fracture, failure of a crimp, weld, or bond, or other mechanical failure)
"PHRI conducted this independent analysis of the combined lead registries and found that the rates of insulation abrasion and mechanical failure of Riata ST Optim and Durata leads appear to be very low," said Dr. John Cairns, professor of Medicine and former dean of Medicine at University of British Columbia in Vancouver. "The strengths of these registries are their prospective designs, the use of pre-specified and standard lead failure definitions, and the adjudication of all outcomes by expert personnel."
PHRI convened a committee of independent physicians chaired by Dr. John Cairns, an internationally recognized expert in cardiology clinical trials who has no affiliations with the cardiac rhythm management device industry, to perform the analysis. Additional committee members include Dr. Stuart Connolly, professor and director of the Division of Cardiology at McMaster University, Dr. Jeff Healey, associate professor of Cardiology at McMaster University, Dr. Andrew Epstein, professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and chief of Cardiology at the Philadelphia Veterans Administration Medical Center, and Dr. Christopher Buller, professor of Medicine at The University of Toronto and director of Cardiac Catheterization and Intervention at St. Michael's Hospital.
"PHRI's independent analysis of Optim-insulated defibrillation lead data continues to support the safety and reliability of our Durata leads," said Dr. Mark Carlson, chief medical officer and senior vice president of Research and Clinical Affairs for the St. Jude Medical Implantable Electronic Systems Division. "We will continue to closely monitor the performance of our high-voltage leads in order to support our efforts to provide safe, reliable devices to physicians around the world."
The committee will continue to meet on an ongoing basis to review data as it is collected, which will be reported in future St. Jude Medical Product Performance Reports.
About PHRI
The Population Health Research Institute (PHRI) was founded in 1999 as a joint Institute of Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation (HHS) and McMaster University; it is now one of the largest and most cited academic cardiovascular research groups worldwide. The institute's vision is to conduct large simple studies to address questions of international importance and relevance. Its research programs explore the causes and prevention of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, obesity and societal influences on health, perioperative vascular complications, and stroke.
PHRI has conducted more than 50 global trials and epidemiological studies in more than 1500 centers in 83 countries, involving over 500,000 patients, leading to more than 800 publications in the last 10 years in prestigious medical journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, the Journal of the American Medical Association, the British Medical Journal, Circulation, the Journal of the American College of Cardiology and the European Heart Journal. Several of the discoveries made by scientists at the PHRI have influenced prevention and treatment practices worldwide.
About St. Jude Medical
St. Jude Medical develops medical technology and services that focus on putting more control into the hands of those who treat cardiac, neurological and chronic pain patients worldwide. The company is dedicated to advancing the practice of medicine by reducing risk wherever possible and contributing to successful outcomes for every patient. St. Jude Medical is headquartered in St. Paul, Minn. and has four major focus areas that include: cardiac rhythm management, atrial fibrillation, cardiovascular and neuromodulation. For more information, please visit sjm.com.
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Carefully conserved popular architecture and an interesting list of artistic and architectural features make this a fine example of the typical mountain villages in the south of Badajoz. Its old quarter has the Property of Cultural Interest designation.
The mediaeval castle of the Templar Order (mid-13th century) is one of the sights well worth visiting in Fregenal. It has a trapezoid floor plan and is extremely large, with walls reinforced by seven towers. Access is through the Gothic doorway in the keep. Inside are the Bullring (18th century) and the Mercado de Abastos market (20th century). It is adjoined by Santa María Church and the Rectory. There are some very important artistic works, such as the Renaissance altarpiece in Santa Ana Church and the Mudéjar roof and images of La Pietà and the Virgin with Child (15th century) in Santa Catalina Church. Important historic buildings include Casa del Concejo (18th century), which is now Town Hall, the La Fontanilla (16th century) and María Miguel fountains, the Madres Agustinas Convent (17th century) and San Francisco Monastery (16th century), the old Jesuit School (17th century) and its ancestral and palatial homes. Six kilometres from the city is the Virgin of Los Remedios Shrine, which houses the image of Fregenal's patron saint. The Virgin of Los Remedios Pilgrimage has taken place in her honour since 1506. Another festival of interest in Fregenal de la Sierra is the Festival in Honour of the Virgin of La Salud, where Extremadura's most ancient dances are performed.
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