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Ryan is getting ready for his morning run. He looks out the window and sees his neighbor, Jenna, talking to a young woman. He finds the woman attractive. He goes outside and starts to run by Jenna's house.
"Good morning, Ryan!" Jenna says, cheerfully.
"Morning," he replies back.
"This is my twin sister, Kelly."
"Hi, it's nice to meet you," Ryan shyly says.
"You, too."
Ryan shakes Kelly's hand and smiles at her.
"I just moved into the house across from Jenna."
"Welcome to the neighborhood. Everyone is pretty friendly here."
"I've noticed. Gene baked me cookies and the Patel's made me some sort of dish. I'm not sure exactly what it is, though," says Kelly.
"It's probably a traditional Indian recipe," says Ryan.
"Oh, well, I look forward to trying new things as I start my new life."
"Hey, after I get off work, Drew, Kelly, and I are having a picnic if you want to stop by," Jenna tells Ryan.
"I'd love to."
"Great! Could you do me a favor and check if Wilfred needs water after you get back from your run?"
"Of course. I could take him for a walk, too."
"Thank you. I've got to get going."
"I'll see you both this afternoon," says Ryan.
Ryan waves to them as he continues his run. When Ryan gets back from his run a half an hour later, he finds Wilfred sitting on his front porch.
"Checking out Jenna's sister, are you?"
"I was just being friendly."
"I saw the way you looked at her. I know you like her."
"With my luck, she probably has a boyfriend."
"You will find out the answer tonight, I'm sure."
"If she's single then I will ask her to dinner at my house tomorrow night."
"Now we're talking, Ryan."
Wilfred and Ryan fist bump.
Later that afternoon…
Ryan and Wilfred go over to Jenna's house. Drew and Kelly are already over there. Drew is fixing hot dogs on the grill.
"Hey! You're just in time, says Jenna."
Ryan sits down in a chair next to Kelly.
"So, where are you originally from?" Ryan asks Kelly.
"I'm from Seattle. I lived there awhile and then decided it was time for change."
"Did you get a job up here?"
"Yes, I start at Crystal's Cakes on Monday. I'll work there until a broadcasting job opens up. I'm a meteorologist."
"Wow, that's neat. Maybe you can bake me a cake or give me a personal weather report sometime."
"I'd be delighted to. What do you do for a living, Ryan?"
"I used to be a lawyer, but it's a complicated story. Now I take care of Wilfred when Jenna's at work."
"Food's ready!" Drew shouts.
They all get food and sit down. Wilfred tries to get Ryan's hot dog.
"Wilfred, down."
"Oh, come on, Ryan. Just one little piece," begs Wilfred.
"Jenna tells me how much Wilfred loves you," says Kelly.
"He's a pretty fun dog."
Wilfred: Pretty fun? After all I've done for you," Wilfred says.
"It's funny how Wilfred barks when you talk."
"Yeah, I've noticed that before. I guess he either loves it or hates it when I talk."
"It's like you two have some sort of connection."
"He's definitely a special dog."
Ryan pets Wilfred.
"Suck up," says Wilfred.
"So, what are you doing tomorrow night?" Ryan asks Kelly.
"Nothing," replies Kelly.
"Would you like to come over to my place for dinner?"
"I'd love to. How should I dress?"
"However you want. I don't have high standards. How does 6:00 sound?"
"Sounds perfect. I'm looking forward to it."
Wilfred gives Ryan a thumbs up and Ryan slips him a piece of hot dog.
"I see the two of you are well acquainted," Jenna says as she walks over to Kelly and Ryan.
"I'm going to his house for dinner tomorrow night," Kelly tells Jenna.
"Wow. That's great," Jenna replies in a shocked tone.
"I'm really excited. Well, I'm going to head home. I've got a few more things I want to unpack."
"Do you need any help?" asks Ryan.
"I could use a hand with carrying a couple of boxes into my bedroom."
"I'd be happy to help. Thanks for having me, Jenna."
"Thanks for coming."
"See you later, Ry-guy!" Drew says, as he waves at Ryan.
"Take care, Drew."
Ryan and Kelly walk across the street to Kelly's house. Kelly unlocks the door and they step inside the living room.
"Please excuse the mess."
"It's no problem."
"Do you like how I did the living room?"
"It's fantastic. You have an eye for design."
"Thank you. I'm using the same colors for the rest of the house. I'm hoping to get most of it done before I start working more."
"With your skills, you'll finish in no time. Are these the boxes that need to go in your room?"
"Yes. They're kind of heavy."
Ryan picks up one of the boxes.
"I can help you."
"I've got it. It's not that bad."
Kelly leads Ryan into her room. Ryan sets the first box down and goes to get the second one. He brings it to her room.
"Thank you very much," Kelly tells Ryan.
"Is there anything else I can do?"
"Not right now. I'm getting tired so I think I'll wait until tomorrow to unpack these boxes."
"If you ever need anything, you know where to find me. I'll come get you at 6:00 tomorrow."
"Ok, I'll see you then."
Ryan leaves Kelly's house and is greeted by Wilfred. Ryan and Wilfred go into the house.
Later that evening…
Kelly is sitting on her couch when her phone rings. It is Jenna calling her.
"Have you told him yet?" asks Jenna.
"Not yet," replies Kelly, fear in her voice.
"He's eventually going to find out."
"I know. I'll tell him after dinner tomorrow."
"Ryan's a good guy. He'll offer help you in any way he can."
"I hope so."
"Good luck. You should be resting."
"I know. I'm going to bed soon."
"Call if you need anything."
"I love you, sis. Goodnight."
Kelly hangs up the phone, puts her hands on her stomach, and cries.
The next day…
Ryan is putting on his best suit. Wilfred is watching him get ready.
"Looking sharp, Wilfred tells Ryan.
"Thank you. Be quiet when we're having dinner."
"You won't even know I'm here."
"I'm going to get Kelly."
"Don't get nervous and screw it up," Wilfred says, winking at Ryan.
Ryan looks in the mirror one last time. He goes across the street and knocks on Kelly's door. Kelly answers. She is wearing a knee-length black dress with black heels.
"You look amazing."
"Thank you."
"I'm glad you're coming over tonight."
"I'm glad you're having me."
Ryan takes Kelly's arm and walks her to his house. They go inside.
"This is very nice," Kelly says to Ryan as she looks around his house.
"Thank you."
Ryan pulls out a chair for Kelly. Wilfred chuckles in the background.
"Do you like wine?"
"I don't drink, but thank you for offering."
"Is there anything in particular that you would like?"
"I'll just have water, please."
Ryan gets Kelly a glass of water.
"Thank you," says Kelly.
.After dinner, Ryan and Kelly are sitting on Ryan's couch. Wilfred is lying on the floor. Kelly takes a deep breath.
"Is everything alright?" asks Ryan.
"There's something I haven't told you. When I lived in Seattle, I had an abusive boyfriend. He's the main reason why I left. He, umm."
Kelly starts crying. Ryan takes her hand.
"You don't have to talk about it."
"I'm three months pregnant."
Kelly begins to sob.
"It's ok, Ryan calmly says. I will take care of you. Everything's going to be fine."
"This means so much to me."
Ryan wraps his arms around Kelly.
"Whatever you need me to do, I will be glad to help you," Ryan tells Kelly.
"Thank you so much. I'm getting tired. Can you take me home?"
"Of course."
Ryan helps Kelly stand up and he walks her home.
"Thanks, again," Kelly says, smiling at Ryan.
"It was my pleasure."
Ryan and Kelly embrace.
"I will see you around."
"Can I help you decorate the house tomorrow?"
"Sure. I'll call you when I wake up."
Ryan and Kelly exchange phone numbers. Ryan walks back to his house, a smile on his face.
"Life is going to get better," Ryan thinks to himself.


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So: what really happened after the News of the World went bump overnight? Any answer, even with the benefit of ABC's official circulation figures for the full month of August, is bound to be a bit tentative: too much churn, rain, holiday absences to be pinpoint sure about anything. But, in general, concentrating on copies sold in Britain and Ireland, you can see who the big winners are.
In June 2011, its last full month of life, the News of the World sold 2,587,000 copies. Now, comparing August 2011 against 2010, the Sunday papers that benefited stand out. The Sunday Mirror is 750,000 or so up; The People, 355,000. Add in 157,000 for the Mail on Sunday, 350,000 for the Daily Star on Sunday, 103,000 for the Sunday Express. Add a few extra thousands here or there and you're looking at roughly 1,740,000 gained all round.
That's either 800,000 copies lost in the closure or a big hole in the market demanding to be filled (depending how buoyant you're feeling). But the biggest winners show clearly enough where the dead paper's real appeal lay – to ABC1 readers as well as to the rest. The middle market – the Mail and Express – has picked up well, but not overwhelmingly. It's the Sunday Mirror and People who can count well over a million converts between them: the continuing lure of the redtops.
Could this, at last, be a real chance for Trinity Mirror to roll its two Sundays into one and create a new paper selling well over two million that would knock spots off its only competitor left, Richard Desmond's still rather puny Star? It's a thought, but a bit of a Murdochian leap of imagination, so don't hold your breath.
Imagination and innovation do still count, though. The Independent's "i" was up again in August to 191,000. The newest kid on the block may not get much publicity – far less than the full Indie itself, now giving away as many copies as it sells at full price – but it seems to be making its own waves.
■ Watch a ripple spread across the Atlantic. Over there, the Washington Post is closing almost all its regional bureaus at a stroke. "We don't really want reporters in the office, we want them out on the street talking to people," says the Post publisher. And here? Trinity Mirror has a lot of debts, says the analyst from Panmure Gordon, but it also has £180m in property it could sell. Problem solved on both sides of the pond – if newshounds can retreat to the nearest Starbucks with a laptop and a very long latte.


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:> [1] http://hmp.serverninjas.com/df-www/ : : Hiten - do you plan to commit this soon? I'd love to help. : : (.docs seemed more appropriate for this)
I will commit this in a few days, once I sort out the XML framework. The tools will need to be installed on Matt's web server (dragonflybsd.org) and what not, so I am planning a strategy for this.
If you could come up with a new colour scheme that does not look as tacky as mine, that would be a major help! 8-)
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At the time of this entry, June 2000, Blair was thrashing Hague in every category measured by pollsters. A year later, Labour would win the general election by a stonking landslide. For all but a few days during the fuel blockades, Labour was always ahead of the Hague-led Tories and by many miles. And yet here was the Prime Minister's circle getting neurotic that the Tory leader might evict them from power.
So imagine the obsession of Gordon Brown and his team about David Cameron - and vice-versa - when their parties are much closer in the opinion polls and the next election truly looks like being a competitive contest. Both sides have been intensely focus-grouping the opening rounds of mouth-to-mouth combat across the dispatch box between Brown and Cameron. Both sides - here's a surprise - tell me that their man edged it.
Between the two of them it is going to be war - highly personal, deeply brutal, continuous and total war - from here to the election. The febrility of the mood will be heightened by chatter that Brown might try to exploit his bounce in the polls - there's a couple of encouraging ones for him in today's newspapers - by calling an early election.
The dynamic between him and Cameron is utterly different from that between the Tory leader and the previous occupant of Number 10. The feelings Blair and Cameron had towards each other were politically and emotionally ambiguous. Cameron and his closest allies spent their formative years watching Blair devastate the Tory party with the result that they ended up in awe of him. 'Thank God he's going,' George Osborne, the shadow chancellor, texted a friend after being wowed by Blair's last party conference speech. 'I tried to hate Blair, but I could never really make myself do it,' says one member of the shadow cabinet close to Cameron. 'Brown, I find it very easy to hate.'
For his part, Tony Blair was flattered by the way in which the Tory leader imitated him. When Blair took a swipe at Cameron, it was like a lion cuffing a precocious cub who pleasingly reminds him of his younger self.
There's none of that complexity in the relationship between Brown and Cameron. They have a simple and mutual contempt - loathing may not be too strong a word - for each other's politics and personalities. Observe the look of utter disdain that forms on Cameron's face when he is listening to Brown. See the reciprocating contempt which is radiated by Brown when he is facing Cameron. An Eton-educated, southern English Tory is everything that Gordon Brown most despises. Says one of the Prime Minister's friends: 'Gordon could only be more contemptuous of him if Cameron were a lawyer.'
He wants to vaporise the Conservative leader, wipe him off the surface of the planet. In their dreams, Gordon Brown and his supporters had imagined that he could annihilate his opponent at their opening encounter in the Commons. So Mr Brown was angry with himself that he did not do terribly well when they first clashed at Prime Minister's Questions. He was more pleased with himself, as were Labour MPs, after the more aggressive performance he put in at their second encounter.
In these early rounds, the two leaders are still trying to get each other's measure, like boxers circling the ring, probing for their opponent's weaknesses while trying to cover their own. Neither has yet delivered the big punch to the other's jaw. Both are looking for the knockout blow. Brown wants to so flatten Cameron that the Tory leader has to be carried out of the Commons on a stretcher. Cameron is just as hungry to floor Brown.
Both sides have had months to war-game Brown versus Cameron. But a wise general once said that no battle plan survives first contact with the enemy. So this has proved. Before he became Prime Minister, the Conservatives assumed that they would find it quite easy to scare Middle Britain into their arms by portraying Gordon Brown as a lurch to the left. They were a bit too obvious in hoping for that. Not least because he was acutely aware that the Tories were betting that they would be able to represent him as a throwback to Old Labour, Gordon Brown has gone out of his way to present himself as every bit as New Labour as his predecessor.
Another Tory plan was to paint him as anti-reform and an enemy of expanding choice in public services. Again, he knew that was what they wanted him to be, so he is striving to project himself as the opposite. Ed Balls was put up last week to announce an expansion in the number of Tony Blair's academies. Some argue that the fine print shows some dilution of their autonomy.
Even if this is true, it's not likely that many voters will notice that level of detail. What they will clock, so the Prime Minister's team hope, is that he is just as committed to driving up standards.
Another assumption that the Tories made about Gordon Brown was that he would be too muscle-bound to have a deft feel for public opinion. They are also having to rewrite those pages of their political playbook. His decision to scrap super-casinos was one of those rare political acts which manages to be both moralistic and populist, attracting cheers from both the left-wing press and the right. He may never be quite the actor that Tony Blair was, but Gordon Brown has had pretty good reviews for the solid way in which he has responded to terror threats. The Cameron team meantime have been missing some obvious tricks. When the floods engulfed the north of England, the Tories should have instantly got their leader into waders and sped him up to Yorkshire to demand action from the government.
Though the Tories are having to revise their battle plan, their core strategy remains intact. That is to present Gordon Brown as a man who cannot be the future because he has been so much of the past. They are working on the basis that the novelty of having a different face in Number 10 will soon wear off.
Once it does, the media and the voters will remember why they became so disenchanted and cross with this government. They will recall too that Gordon Brown has not just landed at Number 10 from outer space; he been a hugely powerful member of this government for more than 10 years. His fingerprints, so the Tories will relentlessly argue, are all over the mistakes of the past decade. That makes the continuing and shocking incompetence in the administration of tax credits a great story for the Conservatives and a bad one for Mr Brown because it is part of his legacy to himself. When Gordon Brown outlined the next legislative programme, David Cameron mocked it as recycling old promises.
'All we have got is a sort of re-release of the 1997 manifesto,' cried the Tory leader. 'The Prime Minister says he wants to build more homes, but did he not say that in 1994, 1998, 2005 and 2006? As he broke the housing ladder, why should anyone think he is the right person to mend it?'
Gordon Brown responded by taunting the Tory leader with a list of his policy zig-zags on grammar schools, alcohol taxes and museum charges. 'It is U-turn after U-turn after U-turn in the Conservative party. The Conservative leader may U-turn if he wants to; it is clear the Conservative Party is not for turning.'
In those exchanges were captured the essential battle lines between the two men. The Tories will try to portray Gordon Brown as a man so tainted by the failures of the past that he can never deliver his promises of a better future. Labour will seek to paint David Cameron as a flake who hasn't really changed the Conservative party at all.
Labour's National Policy Forum this weekend has been presented with a strategy paper written by Ed Miliband, one of the Prime Minister's closest allies. The paper argues that David Cameron has been panicked by internal discontent and is 'moving backwards' into traditional Tory issues like tax breaks for the married as part of a 'retreat into its right-wing comfort zone'.
Gordon Brown will seek to make the contrast between him and his opponent as one between the serious son of a Church of Scotland minister and a superficial public relations merchant. In the language of the pre-cooked sound-gobble that the Prime Minister served up at their last encounter: 'He can spout the slogans, he can hold his press conferences and issue his glossy booklets ... He can go for his PR - I will go for being PM.'
That was in response to David Cameron saying: 'All we shall get is more of the same from a government who have failed.'
He will seek to suggest that it is Gordon Brown who is the confidence trickster, trying to fool us into thinking that things have changed when it's just the same old spin from the same old government.
Boy, is this going to be nasty and brutish. It is not going to be pretty, but you can bet it will be bloody.


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A Blog Against Theocracy (and Aristocracy)
Perhaps it's a problem of definition. I'm not altogether sure there has ever been a theocracy that based is governance solely on the tenants of a religious tradition. But there certainly have been and are governments that rely on religions traditions to justify their continued authority and as a major source for laws and regulations. And every one I've heard of has been repressive. These days, Islamic theocrats provide ample illustration of my point. But even in recent history, Christian theocrats have killed at wholesale and justified it in the name of their god. Islam and Christianity are not the only religious that have given birth to theocrats. They are currently the most obvious examples.
But for the United States, I see the problem of potential theocracy somewhat differently than some do. Our current problem is not the very real potential for theocracy but our very present aristocracy. Like many before it, this aristocracy uses religion in a cynical effort to sustain its power and justify its secular position. This is not to say that there are no "people of faith" in leadership positions in our government. There surely are. But the driving force is not religious belief. The driving force is the need to maintain and increase the influence of a rather small elite group at the expense of everyone else. That elite group is our home grown wealth-based aristocracy. As a matter of political necessity, these aristocrats have brought into their fold a group of conservative intellectuals and people of faith who share some of their aristocratic ideas.
So what has this to do with theocracy? People who hold theocratic aspirations have increased their power in the United States by using the aristocracy just as the aristocracy has used them. It is a relationship of mutual utility. I see signs that that relationship is falling apart but many dangers persist.
Several things need to become common currency before the risks of both aristocracy and theocracy are nullified.
First, large numbers of people must come to see every truth as a probability rather than an absolute certainty. This is not to imply that there are no facts of the matter with regard to this topic or that. It is only to say that nothing can be known with the certainty that is often associated with religious belief or as is often demanded by the aristocracy.
Second, without evidence that is subject to public scrutiny no group can claim special knowledge. Theocrats and aristocrats have always claimed some kind of special knowledge.
Third, everyone should be far more interested in the why and what of any belief than the belief itself. All beliefs should welcome for rigorous study. The claims of theocrats and aristocrats seldom do.
At the end of the day, we must all become indifferent to the unsupported beliefs of others. As I've said, this is not an issue of tolerance; it is an issue of indifference. This quote from Mark Twain that I have often used before makes my point,
So much blood has been shed by the Church because of an omission from the Gospel: "Ye shall be indifferent as to what your neighbor's religion is." Not merely tolerant of it, but indifferent to it. Divinity is claimed for many religions; but no religion is great enough or divine enough to add that new law to its code. [apud Paine, Mark Twain: a Biography]I would paraphrase and say, "No aristocracy is great enough or powerful enough to say, 'Ye shall be indifferent to your neighbor's power or wealth'." Sure, the aristocrat is indifferent to weakness or poverty but he needs for the weak and the impoverished to be very concerned that he maintains his status and to believe that it is in best interest of the weak and impoverished that he does.
I want to thank Blue Gal for suggesting that we blog against theocracy and giving me an excuse for this little rant. I hope she doesn't mind that I expanded her idea to include aristocracy.


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In today's world, besides nostalgia, why would I want to use Haiku? I'm sure BeOS was a great OS, unfortunately I hand't the opportunity to test it back then, but today we have MacOS X, Vista, Win7 and a plethora of (good) Linux distribution, plus various BSD and OpenSolaris operating systems.
So, again, besides nostalgia, what would haiku bring new in this world already full of choices? Will the Haiku developers be enough to sustain this project and make Haiku an OS for the masses?
As very well highlighted by the article, BeOS was well ahead of its time back in its days.
And today... Well, there is still a lot of splendid ideas and design choices in BeOS/now Haiku that makes Haiku competitive towards other OSes.
For instance, give me an OS that combines at least these features:
* less than 10-sec boot time
* no lagging, no latency in user interactions
* small hardware requirements, small footprint on CPU and RAM usage, very light HDD usage (both OS and other software are very small)
* easy to use and efficient GUI yet still appealing
* never crashes, eventually part of the OS crashes but you just need to restart this part, not the whole OS -- same for device drivers installation, just restart some part of the OS, do not reboot the whole computer
* easiest software distribution model (in my opinion): no enforced package manager, no unmaintanable registry base, just unzip where you want and it works
* virtual desktops with independent resolutions
* real shell (bash) with all the power of UNIX (including easy scripting)
* powerful and efficient file-system
* well documented and well defined stable API
Plus some other features which are quite unique to BeOS/Haiku, as far as I know, for instance the "translators". This is a bit like codecs but for any type of files and which works with any application. Just install the "MP3" translator and voilà every application just knows how to play and record MP3 files. Now just install the "PNG" translator and you can display and record any graphics in PNG format with any graphic application. And so on with any data format. Do you see the beauty of this?
But I agree that it's somewhat difficult to imagine what is so extraordinary here if you never tried BeOS/Haiku before. :-)
However like you and others, I'm not sure that Haiku will succeed because of the smaller software base. But this may not be an issue... People just "need" to port all of the free open source software that made Linux famous and the software base should be there. So why not? :-P It's a bit like an ARM port of Ubuntu. If the software base for ARM Ubuntu is fine, then it should be for any OS thanks to the open source model. :-)
* less than 10-sec boot time
No one really cares about this since no one really resets his computer 10-20 times a day to see the difference.
* no lagging, no latency in user interactions
Linux/Vista feel fast on Core2 Duo with 4GB of RAM... MacOS X is fast too.
* small hardware requirements, small footprint on CPU and RAM usage, very light HDD usage (both OS and other software are very small)
(Some) Linux distroes? (Slackware, Zenwalk, but there are more).
* easy to use and efficient GUI yet still appealing
Any OS with KDE?
* never crashes, eventually part of the OS crashes but you just need to restart this part, not the whole OS -- same for device drivers installation, just restart some part of the OS, do not reboot the whole computer
Again, Linux?
* easiest software distribution model (in my opinion): no enforced package manager, no unmaintanable registry base, just unzip where you want and it works
MacOS, maybe Linux?
* virtual desktops with independent resolutions
Besides multiple monitors, who need independent resolutions for different virtual desktops?
Again, any KDE/GNOME based Linux has irtual dekstops. Even MacOS, nowadays.
* real shell (bash) with all the power of UNIX (including easy scripting)
Uhm, Linux?
* powerful and efficient file-system
Linux? OpenSolaris?
* well documented and well defined stable API
I'm not a programmer, so I won't digg into this.
That translator stuff are really nice, I haven't heard about them until now.
By the way, there were some wonderful demos of BeOS that should be still amazing to watch today. It was something like that :
(1) Open a video in a media player. (opens quickly and plays flawlessly, of course)
(2) Drag the image of the video on the desktop: a shot of the video at that moment has been taken and recorded in a file stored in the desktop.
(3) Now select some portion of the video and drag it: this time you got some audio of the video, just the part you selected.
(4) Instead of dropping on the desktop, you can drop into another application and the other application directly works on the tidbit you selected.
(5) Of course all these applications runs together with no lag at all. Especially none in user interactions.
I remember playing simultaneously ten or twenty MP3 files at the same time on some Pentium 120MHz with 24Mo. No problem at all, while it was quite impossible with any other OS. (not to mention that at the time these other OS couldn't even play simultaneously several wave sounds but hey...)
It's just... So easy, so natural, so efficient. It's not about something that other OSes cannot do, it's about how things should be done.
Well, whatever. I'll stop bragging for now and we'll see in one year or two where Haiku will be then. :-)
But I agree that it's somewhat difficult to imagine what is so extraordinary here if you never tried BeOS/Haiku before. :-)
porting existing applications like KDE ones or openoffice would require porting their base framework for the most part
the problem is, merely doing so would result in applications that would exploit little to no native feature (distinguishing ones like the translators you mentioned, in particular), would feel evidently "alien", and worse, would defy the goal (minimalism and efficiency) of the system they're ported to (due to the unnecessary layers - own framework plus "native look" skin engine - they'd retain between the app's main code and haikuOS native gui library)
in order to avoid the bloat resulting from this, differentiating (branching) the application main code, instantiating native classes instead of, say, OOo ones in platform specific code paths, would be a sensible approach from a SW design point of view
but it would effectively be the same as redesigning the application from the inside, i suspect it's unlikely it will ever be done for large applications (paradoxically often the most useful ones)
it doesnt say anything about the elegance and cohesiveness that goes in the *design* of code and in the management of a project, or the skills of people designing code, or that people tasked with porting a package will choose the best overall approach *for the target platform* (and not just for the application, or for themselves)
BeOS had some very nice things going for it (and I still boot into an R5 desktop from time to time), but most of the things BeOS did were also being done by OS/2 at roughly the same time. And OS/2 did many things BeOS could not.
I think people are overstating BeOS's capabilities and level of innovation here, but OSNews has always been very much biased towards that OS for reasons I don't completely understand...
Why? Simple, the developers have found that none of the existing operating systems fulfill their vision of the os they want to use. It doesn't have to be an OS for the masses. If it is then great, but for all intents and purposes it only has to satisfy it's creators.
There are no shareholders lurking in the shadows waiting for a return of their investment. The investment here is the spare time (as in time with which you do what you please) of the developers and the return is the OS itself, hence it cannot fail unless the developers call it a day and abandon the project.
Now as for Haiku's future, there's a huge difference between what one would wish for and what one expects. What I wish is that Haiku does really well and claims the throne as the open source desktop OS. What I expect is that Haiku will gain enough of a following to ensure a healthy community and also attract enough developers for vital ports and native applications. I also believe there will be some commercial possibilities for Haiku that hopefully will involve opportunities for atleast some developers to make money while working on Haiku.
People really need to stop being so anal about success and failure, particularly when we are talking about spare time projects. Like other projects of it's kind, Haiku doesn't need to make excuses for it's existance.
It's free to use, so take it for a spin and make up your own mind.
Simply put: an OS experience that none of the other OSes you mention has.
Unfortunately, no one can be told what the BeOS/Haiku is... you have to see it for yourself.
And regarding the question
- Why the hell no?
- Because they can.
So true, so true... just like LOST: if you tell someone about an invisible island in Pacific on which a plane crashed and has polar bears, a smoke monster, a group of hippie scientists that did time travel experiments called DHARMA and a group called Others that kill everyone who wants to harm the island, they'll think you're crazy for liking the show. Only when they see it, they're ... uhm, converted.
The only one who could really answer that question is you. Hypothetically, it would probably be because aspects of the OS appeal to you. If that doesn't apply, then it's probably a case of "move along, nothing to see here."
As you've pointed out in other posts on this topic, there is a lot of overlap between Haiku and Linux - and in terms of raw functionality, I can't think of anything that can be done in Haiku/BeOS that cannot be done in Linux or other modern OSes. But, speaking for myself at least, the appeal isn't the raw functionality - it's the particulars of how that functionality works.
Personally, I see the main appeal being that Haiku is the only (relatively) modern OS I've used that extends the whole "UNIX philosophy" to GUI. By that I mean the concept of "do one thing, but do it well" - small, apps that rely on standardized means of communication so that they are separate, but can work together. And that's in contrast to the more application-centric model, where most applications are essentially walled gardens, so they need to be complete end-to-end solutions.
They have done a fairly good job of sustaining the project up until now - and if anything, I would say that the development has been steadily picking up speed (and new developers), especially in the past year or so.
"Personally, I see the main appeal being that Haiku is the only (relatively) modern OS I've used that extends the whole "UNIX philosophy" to GUI."
actually I think the appeal is the opposite: that Haiku is one unified system and not a collection of different parts cobbled together from different places with different agendas (kernel from here, X from there, Gnome from somewhere else, a zillion distros...) to make up a system. There is one bug tree, one vision, one point of contact for developers and users.
But it's open source so you can still do anything you want with it. Haiku is special because it is an OS that is open-source AND unified.
While on the surface both Windows and Linux look quite nice - under the hood we have one big mess. Layers upon layers of APIs, libraries, services, frameworks and subsystems.
On Haiku - you have a beautiful and consistent API, well defined kits (app/interface, filesystem, input, kernel, media, network, translation, etc). Everything is modular, integrated and consistent - it's so much easier to understand what's going under the hood. Even browsing the source code - it's sooo much less intimidating than looking at the Linux Kernel or X.Org sources.
This results in greater stability, responsiveness and speed. Extending Haiku and adding new features will be much easier and faster, even with less developers.


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I'm not big fan of miso, but I've discovered there is one thing it is definitely good for: testing the efficiency of a flush toilet. About that shortly, but speaking of Dick Cheney, how do toilets flush, anyway?
Most people don't know. I'm guessing they have some kind of vague mental image that when you push the toilet handle a trapdoor opens up somewhere and the contents of the toilet bowl fall through to the abyss. But that's not what happens.
Most household toilets work using a bowl siphon. Yes, a siphon, just like you will be doing during the next gas crisis when you steal gas from your neighbor's car. You remember how you did that the last time, right? You put a tube into the gas tank and sucked some gas into it until the gas "went over the top of the bend" and, assuming the other end of the tube outside the car was lower than the level of the end in the gas tank, the siphon would empty out the gas in your neighbor's car into your gas can and you were on the road again (and also assuming you didn't suck the gas all the way into your mouth and wind up aspirating it and get an ensuing hydrocarbon pneumonitis).
So now we have three questions: (1) What makes a siphon work, anyway? (2) What does that have to do with flushing a toilet? (3) What does this have to do with miso?
(1) A siphon works by exploiting the difference in the weight of the water in the two columns. Here's a good way to visualize it. Suppose you have a length of chain, with an excess in a beaker and the rest running smoothly up over a pulley and back down to the table top. How take the beaker in your hand and raise it. You'll find that the chain "runs out" of the beaker, over the pulley and down to the table on the other side. That's because the length of chain on the other side of the pulley is longer when you raise the beaker on the near side up, and the longer chain is heavier and pulls chain from the "lighter" (higher) side. Here is a good set of pictures of the set up.
(2) So where is the siphon in a toilet?
You can see from this picture there is a siphon in back of the bowl. When you push the toilet handle down, water from the tank in back of the toilet (not shown in this picture) starts to fill the toilet bowl more quickly than the water can flow over the siphon bend, and water, seeking its own level both in the siphon tube and the bowl, completes the siphon and the bowl empties. In fact it empties more quickly than the water runs into it from the tank, which is sized just right so that it refills the bowl again after it empties. The amount of water running into the bowl is sized so that when it is finished running the level is below that needed to complete the siphon. The valve from the tank now closes and water from your plumbing connection refills the tank and you are ready to "go" again. This explains how you can flush a toilet just by filling it from a bucket of water instead of the tank (you didn't know that? try it at home). There's a nice animation here.
(3) Back to miso.
For decades, the toilet industry had a standard way of testing a toilet's flushing capabilities: tossing 3/4-inch plastic balls into the bowl and pulling the handle. But there was one problem: Toilets that are fantastic at flushing down 3/4-inch plastic balls sometimes falter under real-world conditions.The article is long, and for some, "too much information," so suffice it to say the test involves fashioning miso paste into a cylinder to test flushing efficiency. The UNAR standard is meant to be like the "Energy Compliant STAR standard" for electrical appliances. In the 1950s we used 5 - 7 gallons to flush a toilet (toilet flushing is the largest use of water in the home--by far). That was lowered to 3.5 gallons subsequently, and in 1992 the Energy Policy Act required all new toilets to use only 1.6 gallons per flush. This ushered in the era of the skidmark and the dreaded double-flush. Now, with better designs, low volume toilets are finally getting it together. But manufacturers, and likely regulators, will want a good test for flushing efficiency. UNAR's miso test stands (floats?) poised to become that standard.
A few years ago, researchers began pondering a better test. After scouring grocery aisles for alternatives, they settled on using miso, which is made primarily of cooked soybeans.
Now, a group of water utilities and plumbing companies is pushing to make the miso test the new standard. This month, the group, which includes Kohler Co. and American Standard Cos., is rolling out a set of rules called UNAR -- that is Uniform North American Requirements for toilet fixtures -- which lay out a flushing standard that toilets have to meet. A key element of the suggested rules, which also include standards for toilet parts, is the use of a miso paste in testing.
Since 1978, toilet makers had been using the plastic-ball test, which involved dropping 100 balls into the toilet; the toilet had to dispose of at least 75 in one flush to pass. (Cheryl Lu-Lien Tam, The Wall Street Journal)
One more thing. Miso is the efficiency tester that "dares not speak its name":
Most manufacturers are careful to call the substance "soybean media" at the request of the miso merchants who sell the product. (The miso companies also insist that toilet makers not mention their names in connection with their testing.)I guess they don't want to be identified with siphons, used to steal other people's gasoline.
Back to the New Year's "business." Let's make 2006 the year we flush the friends of George, Dick, Rummy, Condi and the rest of that pile of crap clogging up our democracy. It'll take a double flush to get rid of the really big ones. 2008.


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The other day, I found myself chatting with a friend about an album my band is getting ready to release. As this conversation progressed, my friend, also a fellow musician, asked whether or not I planned on selling the cd. At first, I thought, "Well, yes, I'd like to" but after a moment's contemplation, I found I could not give a confident answer. You see, as much as I'd like to sell the cd, would the cd actually sell? This shifted our conversation into a whole new realm, being that of illegally downloaded music or "free" music.
Now whether you download music for "free" or you don't does not change the fact that the way we see music has changed over the past decade. Yes, it can obviously be stated that without the internet, illegal downloading would not exist. Yes, if Napster was not created, perhaps illegal downloading would not have manifested as quickly as it has. Yet, here we are in 2011, and I have to tell you, the music industry is definitely different. Even today's top artists are experiencing a significant drop in album sales. Eminem, whose 2000 album, "The Marshall Mathers LP" went on to sell over 19 million copies worldwide (as of 2005), yet his latest 2010 release, "Recovery", sold only 5.7 millions copies (a little more than a fourth of that). To elaborate, Eminem's "Recovery" was the second best selling album of 2010 in the United States, and the "Marshall Mathers LP" was the second best selling album of 2000. So, why such a drop in album sales? Is Eminem getting any worse? Not according to album sales. His ability to remain consistent over the past 10 years as a top selling artist would suggest other factors are at play; the most obvious being that people are not buying as many cds. Studies have shown that total album sales have fallen 20% each year since 2006!
Now some people may argue that, "those artists make so much money anyway, why should it matter?" Well it matters because in fact, the artist is not the only one who profits from the release of an album. Once artists reach a major label, or mainstream pinnacle, a lot more goes into releasing a cd and a lot more people work directly on an artists album to make a living. Let us draw an example: say you are a worker at a "Lay's" potato chip company, say that half of your consumer population gets your potato chips illegally and for free. Sure, the owner of Lays may not be hurting all too much but chances are, you, as a worker will experience some pay cuts.
I am not trying to ridicule those of you that do not pay for your music. Alternatively, there are artists that don't care how you get your music, as long as you listen to their album. Another popular view is that artists make most of their money from merchandise and touring. This may be true nowadays but that is only because people do not buy albums as much. So what do you think, should music be free or should people have to pay for music? Do you think it should depend on the particular artists' status (unsigned, indie label, major label)? Do you think the music industry is taking a turn for the better or worse?


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During the Luxury Roundtable: State of Luxury 2013 Conference Boston Consulting Group highlighted specific trends which are driving changes in the way that marketers do business. The luxury market will likely continue to grow at 7 percent in line with the last three years and brands can drive sales among eager consumers by being experiential and not just product-driven.
"It's a new game and luxury players need to adapt to this new environment," said Jean-Marc Bellaiche, senior partner and managing director, Boston Consulting Group. To help marketers target consumers of luxury from market to market, Boston Consulting Group identified two main drivers of growth: the emergence of a middle class and the growth in the of number of millionaires.
Among the emerging middle class, the "aspirational masses," also called the "trendy metropolitan," comprises 330 million consumers and 25-27 percent of the luxury market; and the "rising middle class," made up of "the proud business woman," is 70 million consumers and 25-27 percent of the market.
There are also two types of millionaires: new money and old money. New money, also called "the loan trader" or "the Russian climber," is 7.5 million people and 30-35 percent of the luxury market. The old money crowd can be generalized as the "noble Italian entrepreneur." This group is 2.5 million consumers and 10-15 percent of the luxury market.
New consumer values
The growth of certain categories of luxury such as alcohol and food, and travel, hotels and yachting signal that consumer values are transitioning from having to being, from extrinsic to intrinsic and from conspicuous to meaningful. The market as defined by consumers is $1.4 trillion with travel accounting for $390 billion and automotive accounting for $352 billion.
Luxury spend represents 15-30 percent of gross domestic product accounting for spend structures that differ by country.
Spend on experiential luxury tops luxury cars and personal luxury goods in each market. China has the closest race among categories – 40 percent of total luxury spend per approximately $1,301 of GDP is experiential, 35 percent is cars and 25 percent is personal luxury goods.
This brings the "having to being" frame of mind among affluent consumers to reality. There are fundamental differences between luxury goods and luxury experiences, but there are also items that fall into the hybrid category, or a mix of the two.
Personal goods fulfill consumers' need to have something for them and are usually visible to others and are purchased for mid- to long-term use. These include watches with diamonds, jewelry, bags and apparel.
In contrast, experiential luxury fulfills the need to be something. These experiences – such as those at luxury hotels and resorts, high-end restaurants and spas – often involve others, are not always visible and are an instant pleasure.
Between the two are hybrid products that offer a mix of goods and experiences. These are tablets such as the iPad, high-end kitchen appliances, high-end furniture and others.
In the U.S., luxury consumers said that money, saving, stability, family, wellness, their home, calmness, locally grown products and ethics are important, while the least important values are status and luxury. These responses are similar among consumers in the European Union and Japan. However, consumers in the emerging BRIC markets – Brazil, Russia, India and China – value status about the same amount that they value money, stability, family, the environment and convenience.
Consumers in these regions also value luxury more than those in other areas of the world. Even the most sophisticated consumers enjoy showing their status.These changes in values among luxury consumers are also a result of blurring the boundaries between luxury and mass-market items. Mainstream brands are beginning to market their products in the same way as luxury brands. For instance, a campaign from clothing company Mango looks strikingly similar to a past Louis Vuitton campaign.
In addition, luxury marketers are collaborating with mass retailers to offer mainstream collections. Examples include Missoni for Target, Jil Sander for Uniqlo, Stella McCartney for Adidas, Jimmy Choo for H&M and Lagerfeld for Macy's.
New epicenters of luxury
Chinese luxury consumption accounts for $156-169 billion and this market segment is heavily skewed toward "having." Since China became a luxury hotspot, consumers from the country have been known to purchase luxury goods overseas. Forty-two percent of luxury goods bought by Chinese consumers are purchased on mainland China; 33 percent are purchased in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan; and 25 percent are purchased in other foreign countries.
Shopping is also the main spend for Chinese consumers outbound travel – 40 percent of their spend is on shopping, 21 percent is on accommodation, 19 percent is on meals and 19 percent is on entertainment and other expenses. Therefore, marketers must welcome these Chinese travelers who will buy.
There are three distinct segments of luxury consumers in China that are each very different. The successful entrepreneur is most likely a man age 30-45 with high assets and high income from any Chinese city who spends and travels a lot. This consumer's attitude on luxury is ostentatious and status-oriented with a low knowledge of luxury brands. He likely purchases big-ticket items such as watches, cars and bags.
Second, the newcomers are men and women of medium-income level who live in tier three and four cities. This consumer also has a low knowledge of luxury brands and tends to go for big brands as well as cosmetics and accessories.
The last segment of Chinese luxury consumers is the "Sugar 2″ generation – younger men and women and inherited high assets in tier-one and -two cities. This shopper is discernment, knows luxury brands and will go for niche brands, but is still status-oriented and a big-spender across all categories.
Consumers in Germany said Rolex, Ferrari, Mercedes-Benz; consumers in Britain said Rolls-Royce, Harrods and Hilton; consumers in Italy said Ferrari, Cartier and Valentino; consumers in France said Christian Dior, Chanel and Louis Vuitton; and consumers in Japan said Chanel, Louis Vuitton and Hermès when asked the same question.
The U.S. personal luxury goods sector, for example, is underweighted. The weight of U.S. personal luxury goods consumption is 19 percent of that globally. In comparison, 37 percent is luxury car consumption and 24 percent is experiential luxury consumption in the country.
New platforms
Luxury marketers are already integrating ecommerce, but the best Web sites address the 3C's: commerce, content and community. Marketers are also facing new competition among likeminded brands and department stores. For instance, though a brand such as Ralph Lauren presents its product line authentically on its own site, retailer Saks uses technology to engage the customer with the product such as additional items from the brand, product reviews, image zoom, video and a size guide, creating competition between the two.
In the social realm, luxury marketers need to address their strategy beyond how many Facebook fans they have since many brands have substantial digital communities to engage – take Burberry that leads the pack with more than 15 million followers.
Pinterest is one of the most influential social channels since a recent study shows 33 percent of online shoppers made purchases after seeing products on Pinterest. Again, Burberry displays a wide range of Pinterest content to its 41,000 followers.
Take Action
Mr. Bellaiche concluded by outlining 10 calls to action for luxury marketers:
1. Do not consider that the industry is "back to normal." Things have changed in depth.
2. Expand into new experiential categories versus traditional personal goods, and boost experiences as part of traditional offering.
3. Reinvent new codes versus mass players, and make sure you deliver a unique luxury value added and in product and experience.
4. Stretch your pricing accordingly.
5. Invest to understand the aspirations and frustrations of various consumer segments.
6. Attack specific segment – for example, women self-purchasers or senior segment.
7. Do not forget to farm in mature countries while hunting in emerging ones. Chase the globetrotters from China to Brazil Build fully international executive teams with senior talent from China as well.
8. Consider new business models, consider licenses and co-branding, while maintaining control and develop new distribution format and create surprises at point of sale.
9. Increase your bond with consumers by developing more intimacy and CRM.
10.Create a real Web presence for the brand with ecommerce, branding, blogs and social media to digitalize your brand. Up your ambition level online.
"The generations of consumers are so complex," Mr. Bellaiche said. "You need to understand your consumer much better and target them with appropriate messages."
adapted from luxurydaily.com
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The Birdman of Bel Air
Mathew Tekulsky writes a regular column about birding in his backyard and neighborhood in Bel Air, California. You can follow his encounters with the birds of the Santa Monica Mountains here on National Geographic News BirdWatcher every fortnight or so.
The California quail is a beautiful creature. The male has a scaled belly, black chin, and a big, black topknot sticking out of the top of his head.
- Quarter of U.S. Birds in Decline, Says Audubon
- Birder's Journal: Giving Thanks for Wild Turkey Sightings
- Are Flashy Male Birds Threats to Their Own Species?
- Humans Are Driving Birds to Extinction, Group Warns
- A Reason to Give Thanks: The Return of the Wild Turkey
- Birds May Hold Clues to Role of Time in Teamwork
He was first discovered and catalogued by Europeans in 1791 by members of the Malaspina Expedition, led by the gallant Spanish explorer Alejandro Malaspina. Jose Cardero, an artist on that expedition, painted a lifelike rendition of the California quail, along with paintings of the California thrasher, the northern flicker, the red-winged blackbird, and many other species of plants and animals, during that expedition's stay in Monterey and other parts of the California coast.
The California quail has flourished in the far Western U.S. and Baja California for the last 200 years, and it's a pleasure to be able to see him every day in my yard. He eats mostly millet and milo seeds, which I throw on the ground for him after I've filled up the platform feeder with mixed birdseed. (The scrub jays take care of the black oil sunflower seeds that are left on the ground.)
The quail lives in a covey, and by the soft, gurgling or popping sound that I hear from under the lemon tree, I gather that this is his jumping off point for approaching my side yard, where the birdseed is. First, the male pokes his head out from the path alongside the tree, then his whole body appears on the patio. He walks slowly on delicate feet, seemingly uninterested or unaware of my presence. However, the tiniest move on my part, however slight, will cause him to duck instantly for cover.
I would say that the California Quail is the most skittish bird I have ever seen. Even from 35 feet away (ten meters), the slightest movement by the viewer or photographer will cause him to disappear into the brush that lines my side yard. Ever wary, he might poke his head or body out of the brush a few minutes lateror perhaps not. Indeed, more often than not, the slightest advertisement of your presence will cause the California quail to disappear from your yard for hours.
However, there is one time when they are almost sure to be in the side yard, and that is in the very late afternoon, just about when the sun goes downfor about an hour.
There was one time, however, when I had an extremely close-up view of the California quail. I was sitting in my TV room at about 8 a.m. on New Year's Day of 2001, when I heard a loud thump against the picture windows lining the canyon side of the room. From prior experience, I knew that this sound could only mean that a bird had crashed into the windowand a rather large bird at that!
Upon examining the area just outside the sliding glass door, I discovered a male California quail lying motionless, on his side. I thought he was dead at first, but closer inspection revealed that he was indeed breathing, and quivering slightly. I thought that maybe he had broken a vertebra in his neck and was partially paralyzed, but I didn't want to give up on him just yet.
I immediately called the local vet that takes in injured animals, and I told the receptionist that I would be over in about an hour with the bird. Meanwhile, I lifted the bird up and put him in a shoebox. In the meantime, I finished eating breakfast, thankful that someone was available on New Year's Day to take care of this bird.
As I got ready to go down the hill, I marveled at how soft the quail's feathers were, and how intoxicatingly beautiful the scaly parts of its plumage were, when viewed from only a few inches away. Then, I decided to put some mixed birdseed into the shoebox, just in case the bird woke up while it was waiting to be treated down at the vet. Thinking that I wouldn't bother the slumbering bird, I poured a scoop of birdseed into the shoebox, and it made a loud sound when the birdseed hit the cardboard.


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Let's get to know the real mutual fund industry, not the one walking around in a fat suit.
The real fund industry has a great business model. It create pools of stocks and bonds that people of all wealth levels can use as an investment vehicle for reaching their financial goals. But the fund business has also wrapped itself in a form of packaging that makes it look more bloated than it really is.
That's a big reason why Canada's fund industry is so often criticized for having high fees. The latest round came earlier this week when the Canadian Foundation for Advancement of Investor Rights (FAIR) asked Finance Minister Jim Flaherty to add mutual funds to a Senate committee's inquiry into why Canadians pay more than Americans for various things.
That means more talk on an issue that has been talked about ad nauseam. Here's a better idea: Get the mutual fund industry to address costs by stopping the longstanding practice of including compensation for investment advisers in fund fees. Leave it up to advisers and their clients to set the price of advice.
The cost of owning a fund is measured through the management expense ratio, where almost all costs of running the fund are expressed as a percentage of assets. Included among those costs are trailing commissions, which are kind of like a salary that fund companies pay directly to advisers who sell their products and their firms.
A typical big Canadian equity fund might have an MER in the low 2-per-cent range. A full percentage point of that amount – something close to half, in other words – is accounted for by trailing commissions. Popular bond funds have MERs in the 1- to 1.5-per-cent range, with half a percentage point accounted for by the trailer.
At some point in the distant past, it probably seemed a good idea to invisibly wrap compensation for advisers into the cost of owning mutual funds. Today, this practice has contributed to two big challenges facing fund companies and the advisers who sell their products.
First, a generation of investors has been lulled into thinking there's no cost to having an adviser. They may have some idea that they're paying to own funds, but the subtleties of the trailing commission are lost on them.
Second, the fund industry has been saddled with a reputation of over-eating when it comes to fees. Studies have suggested that the basic costs of running funds in this country are hefty on a global basis. But the optics look much worse when trailing commissions are part of the picture.
So how about securities regulators doing away with trailing commissions and instead requiring advisers to set their own fees? That way, investors will know exactly how much they're paying to own funds, and how much they're paying for advice.
Separately disclosing advice and fund fees gets us more clarity on the cost of investing, but not necessarily lower fees. That's an important distinction, because FAIR's thinking on fees is that they're expensive enough to undermine the ability of Canadians to put enough money away for retirement.
More fee disclosure could give us an environment that encourages competition, though. Fund companies do currently compete on price, but the intensity level is more lawn bowling than ultimate fighting. Maybe they'll step it up if the cost of owning a fund and the cost of financial advice are made clearer.
Reforming fund fees might also help focus more attention on the small blue-chip fund companies that are already selling without trailing commission built in. In more than a few cases, funds from these companies have consistently been best in class. We might also see more intense competition between the fund industry and low-cost exchange-traded funds, which have gained popularity but still aren't threatening the mass popularity of mutual funds.
Let's not forget that the problem of high fund costs is really a matter of both fund and advice fees. Bringing more clarity to the advice side of the ledger could promote cost-saving innovation. How about graded fees – a trailing commission of 0.5 per cent for advisers who just build and monitor investment portfolios and 1 per cent for those who do financial planning as well?
Once they've set their compensation with clients, advisers would have every reason to seek low-cost mutual funds for clients. Trim the fat – it's one path to better investment returns.
Cut the fees, please
Here are five good mutual funds from companies that either pay no trailing commissions to investment firms and advisers, or a minimal one.
Beutel Goodman Income D
Canadian bond
Leith Wheeler Canadian Equity B
Canadian equity
Mawer Canadian Balanced RSP
Global neutral bal
PH&N Bond D
Canadian bond
Steadyhand Income
Cdn fixed income bal
*Minimums may vary according to where you buy these funds - these numbers apply to purchases through online brokers. Source: Globe Investor
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Forums > Tech > New laptop mini review.
So, after finally getting my new laptop all sorted out and after taking DeskJockey's advice on the Acer he linked to, I stumbled upon a similar model but with specs.
Put simply it's a bit of a steal. It's nicely put together, the screen isn't the biggest but it's all lovely in HD. It's very quick, makes my old HP laptop feel like it's from a different century. What has impressed me most is the graphics. 2GB of Nvidia goodness and with the i5 processor and 8GB of ram Rfactor looks fantastic with everything set to high, it's also silky smooth as well.
It has exceeded my expectations for a laptop and being honest I'm astonished how far things have come along in 4 years.
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Good to hear you're enjoying the toy.
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