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Last time I dealt with Comcast, they required my roommate and I to set up an appointment to get the Internet service rolling. This was in late 2007 near Baltimore, MD; I'm not sure if anything changed since then.
My defense was to boot my laptop into my Gentoo install and politely tell the technician to deal with it. Shockingly enough, even though the Comcast software wouldn't install (and yes, he tried it), the Internet connection worked flawlessly.
Well, if people didn't think that the school officials were douchebags before they sure will now.
The fact of the matter is that Sony appears to have a poor understanding of system security. Furthermore, Sony put so much much trust in their "secure" console that they didn't even consider what to do when (not "if") the system was cracked wide open. Finally, rather than working to fix it or make the issue better for the benefit of their customers, they lashed out and started suing.
As for the stat resets, that's all Infinity Ward's fault and, apparently, MW1 is vulnerable as well. For reasons unknown to anyone who has even the slightest grasp of security, IW decided to solely trust the server software to award experience for kills and match wins (servers with the exploit do nothing fancier than sending large, negative amounts of experience to the client). I don't think I need to explain why doing it like that was a terrible idea.
Regardless of whether you ever intended to use the Other OS feature, you can't deny that a company being permitted to remove features from a product after its release sets a very bad precedent.
In terms of you wanting a good gaming experience, please note that the situation has gotten far, far worse since Sony axed Other OS. I don't know whether people were just generally content with a vendor-supported feature for installing an alternative OS or if the system was truly secure enough thwart hackers (which I very much doubt), but a majority of this crap happened post-3.21. This series of incidents did nothing more than paint a giant bullseye on the PS3.
I can do the exact same thing by jailbreaking my iPod Touch, yet that's legal.
What's your point, again?
Besides, you also have to remember that the inclusion of IE with the OS had an unfortunate side-effect of getting lazy web developers to program for IE6 and its non-standards approach to web code. People would often assume that something was "wrong" with Netscape, etc. when they failed to render some pages, when in fact it was the developers making sure it wouldn't render anywhere else...
You know what's funny? If Google hadn't admitted anything, nobody would have known about it. Instead they came clean, admitted that they screwed up and cooperated with investigative efforts, and now they're getting crucified for it.
What's the moral of the story? If you are unlikely to get caught, admit nothing. Ever.
Your door lock analogy is deeply flawed, as your physical property line does not extend into your neighbor's house. Your wireless router is broadcasting a radio signal into public airspace. Listening in requires about as much "hacking" as turning on your radio does. Hell, wi-fi enabled devices have to "listen in" to a certain extent just to get a list of what access points they can connect to. I'll bet your network was "accessed" hundreds of times by devices in your cloud for the purpose of seeing what was available to connect to, and I'll bet your network was already "hacked" several times by devices that automatically connect to unsecured access points. Should people who own those devices be punished?
The way I see it, you're making a flimsy emotional argument based on your lack of knowledge. If you had it your way, radio and TV stations would be able to sue anyone who tuned into them, because what's happening is the exact same thing.
This should have been a reply to the first anonymous comment. I did a derp. :(
Someone attempts to conceal bombs in a laptop and an iPod; consumer electronics no longer allowed on flights.
Well, yeah, driving through a neighborhood and looking at people's front lawns most definitely should be illegal!
I mean, what are you, some kind of pedo? Think of the children, man!
Once again, this is data that you can get by simply traveling there and taking a stroll. Hell, if you wanted to, you could stand in the middle of the street with a camera phone and go to town.
If an entity really wants to map out the landscape or if radical groups wanted to target individual houses for whatever reason, they'll just go there. Street view is outdated enough where it wouldn't be particularly useful for either of those situations. And I can't imagine a radical sitting down in front of a PC saying, "well, I guess we're not going to hit that mark; the house is blurred on Google Maps!"
Ugh, why'd you have to go and say that? Now I'm going to have to buy Guitar Hero...
2112 has been on my wish list for Rock Band for a very long time.
I think adding on such a robust DLC catalog has helped Rockband immeasurably. And I think that's where they left Guitar Hero in the dust. And between the (arguably) better peripherals and more 'grown up' graphics, it left GH with the image of the kiddies' version of the genre. At least, that's how it looks to me.
You're right -- it'll never happen -- but it's not for the reasons that you're thinking of.
Creating charts in rhythm games isn't something that could be automated. In games like Rock Band or Guitar Hero, the developers strive to (or at least, should strive to) make the charts "feel" similarly to how they would if you were to actually play them on a guitar. A computer program wouldn't know the difference between a chord and a single note, nor would it be able to intelligently decide which of the five buttons would be a good match. You'd either wind up with uncomfortable, nonsensical patterns, or boring, repetitious patterns. That's also assuming that the game would be able to tell the difference between a bass guitar, rhythm/lead guitar, drums, and vocals in the first place.
Finally, it's also ignoring another serious problem: BPM calculation. Most of the songs in the Rock Band and Guitar Hero games have human drummers and, thus, use the movements of a human as a sort of "metronome." If you were to sit down and work out the beats per minute of every segment of the song, you'd wind up with different values on just about every single beat. I imagine simply dealing with this would be half of the job of writing a chart, not to mention the reason why the timing windows of these games are so loose and why they don't score based on hit accuracy.
This concept has been tried before with a Dance Dance Revolution style game. A company -- I believe it was Codemasters -- released Dance Factory to...well, dead silence. It had a problem with detecting BPMs. From personal experience, it sometimes failed to properly work out a usable BPM on electronic music with a loud bass kick and didn't bother with BPM changes at all. The charts were also bland, lifeless, and didn't have the same flow that you'd get on a choreographed dance game. Even Dancing Monkeys, possibly the best step chart generator for DDR-inspired games, spits out charts that are pretty sterile.
Oh, I forgot to mention the issue with time signatures above. Not every song is 4/4. Rock Band has several tracks by Dream Theater, for instance, and they are widely known for going way overboard with time signature changes. If the time signatures aren't set up, the measure markers in the game won't work properly.
If you can't generate a convincing chart on the simplest of game types, there's no way you'd be able to manage something like that for a band simulation game.
You might argue that they should allow users the option to create their own charts. That brings on a ton of other complications. Even getting past the fact that user created charts can never be as complete as a real chart without hacking (since getting a proper song with separate channels for the different instruments generally wouldn't be doable for most, nor would it be a practical to support on a console), you still have to consider many other issues, most notably people being able to deal with the complexities of actually creating a chart.
For one, we have the aforementioned BPM issue. Many people who are new to creating DDR charts have this issue and, as I explained, there's only so much that an automated program can do. It takes time and patience to be able to work this out. The person charting the song would also have to know enough about music to be able to work out the time signature that's being used. You could argue that they could assume it's all going to be 4/4, but that would make charting songs with different time signatures disorienting. The person creating the chart would also have to consider the offset of the first beat in the song and would have to place that accurately to avoid having the file start off-sync.
Secondly, the person who writes the chart would have to have a damn good ear. Harmonix and whoever-makes-Guitar-Hero-now have the benefit of being able to listen to each audio track individually. After songs are mixed, telling what part is what can range from being somewhat easy to being nigh impossible.
Finally, there's the issue of distribution. Since, in most cases, the person who finishes the chart will not have rights to distribute the track, the only thing that would be distributable would be the data making up the chart. You could argue that it means that anyone who owns the actual song would be able to download and play it, but in practice you wind up with another mess on your hands. For one, not all compression schemes and audio extraction software is created equally. Worse yet, not all CD releases are the same. Some of them are remastered, some of them are rerecorded, and others are just flat-out different (i.e. removing a bonus track for a greatest hits compilation, etc).
The way I see it, even if all of the technical issues were resolved and this actually did happen, I can picture the end result looking sort of like what wound up happening with StepMania (a DDR simulator), and even things like Little Big Planet -- too much user-created content available with absolutely zero quality control.
The Rock Band Network addresses many of the issues that I pointed out by putting the power into the hands of the bands. They can put together chart bundles that can theoretically match what Harmonix has in place and that can take advantage of all features of the game. It does some limited automation (which is probably reasonably accurate, since it actually has access to the individual audio tracks of the song, most notably the drum track) to lay down a bit of ground work for the file and to save some time for the author, then lets the chart author go crazy.
To make a long story short, I think that the way that Harmonix is approaching the issue is the most practical. Automatic generation simply sucks too much and putting it in the hands of the general populous would lead to far too many technical, quality, and legal issues.
Also, sorry about the wall of text. :]
I doubt they'd be able to sue Zynga over the patent, but they can surely get it invalidated easily due to a very healthy amount of prior art being available, not to mention how insanely obvious the concept is. Virtual currency is little more than an electronic rendition of Monopoly money.
It actually looks to me like all of them but the keyboardist have iPhone 4's. His appears to have rounded edges, which is a telltale sign of a pre-4 iPhone (though it's hard to be sure which -- the 3G and 3GS look identical when held, and the original's looks identical at more than a short distance). The video is also available in 720p, so the people recording it are using either iPhone 4s or fourth generation iPod touches (and considering the clarity, I doubt it's the latter).
On an slightly related note, the fact that I'm going into any sort of detail on this is a pretty good indication that I need to go outside more.
Now, it's true that they're not exactly the same, but it certainly looks like one site pointed their designer towards the other's and said "make it look like that."
Sheesh, the site was "protected" by requiring both registrations and post moderation? I usually think of those two features as being mutually exclusive.
Also, when you think about it, your post might not have been approved just because the author of the original review didn't like what you had to say.
1) BugMeNot is still an extra step. In some cases, by the time you find a working logon you'll have as much of a time investment as you would just registering for the account.
2) If the site owner wants to create a wall between themselves and readers, I don't feel that it's worth my time to try to get around their safeguards.
3) If BugMeNot is commonly used in lieu of an actual login for posting things like comments, there's no way the account is going to stay open for long.
BugMeNot is intended more to provide sites that lock content behind an unnecessarily large wall, not for sites that require registrations to make postings.

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In late December, Cybex International, Medway, MA, received extensions from the NASDAQ Stock Market to comply with two conditions for continued listing on NASDAQ, the company announced.
NASDAQ extended to March 12, 2012, the deadline for Cybex to have evidenced a closing bid price above $1 for a minimum of 10 consecutive trading days. Cybex's stock price has not been $1 or higher since May 4, 2011. It closed Tuesday at 46 cents per share.
NASDAQ also extended to April 2, 2012, the deadline to comply with the requirement that the company have a minimum stockholders' equity of $10 million or more.
"It is our intent to do what we can to remain on NASDAQ," Lisa Juris, vice president of marketing for Cybex, wrote in a statement to Club Industry. "As evidenced by the deadline extensions, Cybex continues to offer a compelling case to NASDAQ."
During last year, Cybex received determination letters from NASDAQ indicating that the company's common stock was subject to delisting from NASDAQ due to failure to comply with the minimum stockholders' equity requirement of $10 million and the minimum bid price requirement of $1 per share. Subsequently, a NASDAQ hearings panel granted the company's request for continued listing on NASDAQ, subject to specified conditions.
The company faced a lawsuit in 2011, Barnhard v. Cybex International, that it has had to invest money to defend. The verdict in the case, handed down in December 2010, found Cybex 75 percent liable for a $66 million judgment. The court upheld the verdict in December 2011, although it lowered the judgment amount to $44 million.
Cybex is awaiting response to further motions filed with the Fourth Department of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, which is expected to provide a response this month. Once the response is received, Cybex will petition the New York Court of Appeals to consider its appeal, according to Juris.
"We continue to maintain that Cybex was not at fault and the case was wrongly decided as to liability," Juris wrote.


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Message Queue administered objects are of two basic kinds:
Connection factories are used by client applications to create connections to brokers.
Destinations represent locations on a broker with which client applications can exchange (send and retrieve) messages.
Each type of administered object has certain attributes that determine the object's properties and behavior. This section describes how to use the Object Manager command line utility (imqobjmgr) to set these attributes; you can also set them with the GUI Administration Console, as described in Working With Administered Objects.
Client applications use connection factory administered objects to create connections with which to exchange messages with a broker. A connection factory's attributes define the properties of all connections it creates. Once a connection has been created, its properties cannot be changed; thus the only way to configure a connection's properties is by setting the attributes of the connection factory used to create it.
Message Queue defines two classes of connection factory objects:
ConnectionFactory objects support normal messaging and nondistributed transactions.
XAConnectionFactory objects support distributed transactions.
Both classes share the same configuration attributes, which you can use to optimize resources, performance, and message throughput. These attributes are listed and described in detail in Chapter 18, Administered Object Attribute Reference and are discussed in the following sections below:
Connection handling attributes specify the broker address to which to connect and, if required, how to detect connection failure and attempt reconnection. They are summarized in Table 18–1.
The most important connection handling attribute is imqAddressList, which specifies the broker or brokers to which to establish a connection. The value of this attribute is a string containing a broker address or (in the case of a broker cluster) multiple addresses separated by commas. Broker addresses can use a variety of addressing schemes, depending on the connection service to be used (see Configuring Connection Services) and the method of establishing a connection:
mq uses the broker's Port Mapper to assign a port dynamically for either the jms or ssljms connection service.
mqtcp bypasses the Port Mapper and connects directly to a specified port, using the jms connection service.
mqssl makes a Secure Socket Layer (SSL) connection to a specified port, using the ssljms connection service.
http makes a Hypertext Transport Protocol (HTTP) connection to a Message Queue tunnel servlet at a specified URL, using the httpjms connection service.
https makes a Secure Hypertext Transport Protocol (HTTPS) connection to a Message Queue tunnel servlet at a specified URL, using the httpsjms connection service.
These addressing schemes are summarized in Table 18–2.
The general format for each broker address is
where scheme is one of the addressing schemes listed above and address denotes the broker address itself. The exact syntax for specifying the address varies depending on the addressing scheme, as shown in the "Description" column of Table 18–2. Table 18–3 shows examples of the various address formats.
In a multiple-broker cluster environment, the address list can contain more than one broker address. If the first connection attempt fails, the Message Queue client runtime will attempt to connect to another address in the list, and so on until the list is exhausted. Two additional connection factory attributes control the way this is done:
imqAddressListBehavior specifies the order in which to try the specified addresses. If this attribute is set to the string PRIORITY, addresses will be tried in the order in which they appear in the address list. If the attribute value is RANDOM, the addresses will instead be tried in random order; this is useful, for instance, when many Message Queue clients are sharing the same connection factory object, to prevent them from all attempting to connect to the same broker address.
imqAddressListIterations specifies how many times to cycle through the list before giving up and reporting failure. A value of -1 denotes an unlimited number of iterations: the client runtime will keep trying until it succeeds in establishing a connection or until the end of time, whichever occurs first.
Because enhanced clusters are self-configuring (see Cluster Configuration Properties and Connecting Brokers into an Enhanced Cluster), their membership can change over time as brokers enter and leave the cluster. In this type of cluster, the value of each member broker's imqAddressList attribute is updated dynamically so that it always reflects the cluster's current membership.
By setting certain connection factory attributes, you can configure a client to reconnect automatically to a broker in the event of a failed connection. For standalone brokers or those belonging to a conventional broker cluster (see Conventional Clusters in Sun Java System Message Queue 4.3 Technical Overview), you enable this behavior by setting the connection factory's imqReconnectEnabled attribute to true. The imqReconnectAttempts attribute controls the number of reconnection attempts to a given broker address; imqReconnectInterval specifies the interval, in milliseconds, to wait between attempts.
If the broker is part of a conventional cluster, the failed connection can be restored not only on the original broker, but also on a different one in the cluster. If reconnection to the original broker fails, the client runtime will try the other addresses in the connection factory's broker address list (imqAddressList). The imqAddressListBehavior and imqAddressListIterations attributes control the order in which addresses are tried and the number of iterations through the list, as described in the preceding section. Each address is tried repeatedly at intervals of imqReconnectInterval milliseconds, up to the maximum number of attempts specified by imqReconnectAttempts.
Note, however, that in a conventional cluster, such automatic reconnection only provides connection failover and not data failover: persistent messages and other state information held by a failed or disconnected broker can be lost when the client is reconnected to a different broker instance. While attempting to reestablish a connection, Message Queue does maintain objects (such as sessions, message consumers, and message producers) provided by the client runtime. Temporary destinations are also maintained for a time when a connection fails, because clients might reconnect and access them again; after giving clients time to reconnect and use these destinations, the broker will delete them. In circumstances where the client-side state cannot be fully restored on the broker on reconnection (for instance, when using transacted sessions, which exist only for the duration of a connection), automatic reconnection will not take place and the connection's exception handler will be called instead. It is then up to the client application to catch the exception, reconnect, and restore state.
By contrast, in an enhanced cluster (see High-Availability Clusters in Sun Java System Message Queue 4.3 Technical Overview), another broker can take over a failed broker's persistent state and proceed to deliver its pending messages without interruption of service. In this type of cluster, automatic reconnection is always enabled. The connection factory's imqReconnectEnabled, imqAddressList, and imqAddressListIterations attributes are ignored. The client runtime is automatically redirected to the failover broker. Because there might be a short time lag during which the failover broker takes over from the failed broker, the imqReconnectAttempts connection factory attribute should be set to a value of -1 (client runtime continues connect attempts until successful).
Automatic reconnection supports all client acknowledgment modes for message consumption. Once a connection has been reestablished, the broker will redeliver all unacknowledged messages it had previously delivered, marking them with a Redeliver flag. Client applications can use this flag to determine whether a message has already been consumed but not yet acknowledged. (In the case of nondurable subscribers, however, the broker does not hold messages once their connections have been closed. Thus any messages produced for such subscribers while the connection is down cannot be delivered after reconnection and will be lost.) Message production is blocked while automatic reconnection is in progress; message producers cannot send messages to the broker until after the connection has been reestablished.
The Message Queue client runtime can be configured to periodically test, or "ping," a connection, allowing connection failures to be detected preemptively before an attempted message transmission fails. Such testing is particularly important for client applications that only consume messages and do not produce them, since such applications cannot otherwise detect when a connection has failed. Clients that produce messages only infrequently can also benefit from this feature.
The connection factory attribute imqPingInterval specifies the frequency, in seconds, with which to ping a connection. By default, this interval is set to 30 seconds; a value of -1 disables the ping operation.
The response to an unsuccessful ping varies from one operating-system platform to another. On some platforms, an exception is immediately thrown to the client application's exception listener. (If the client does not have an exception listener, its next attempt to use the connection will fail.) Other platforms may continue trying to establish a connection to the broker, buffering successive pings until one succeeds or the buffer overflows.
The connection factory attributes listed in Table 18–4 support client authentication and the setting of client identifiers for durable subscribers.
All attempts to connect to a broker must be authenticated by user name and password against a user repository maintained by the message service. The connection factory attributes imqDefaultUsername and imqDefaultPassword specify a default user name and password to be used if the client does not supply them explicitly when creating a connection.
As a convenience for developers who do not wish to bother populating a user repository during application development and testing, Message Queue provides a guest user account with user name and password both equal to guest. This is also the default value for the imqDefaultUsername and imqDefaultPassword attributes, so that if they are not specified explicitly, clients can always obtain a connection under the guest account. In a production environment, access to broker connections should be restricted to users who are explicitly registered in the user repository.
The Java Message Service Specification requires that a connection provide a unique client identifier whenever the broker must maintain a persistent state on behalf of a client. Message Queue uses such client identifiers to keep track of durable subscribers to a topic destination. When a durable subscriber becomes inactive, the broker retains all incoming messages for the topic and delivers them when the subscriber becomes active again. The broker identifies the subscriber by means of its client identifier.
While it is possible for a client application to set its own client identifier programmatically using the connection object's setClientID method, this makes it difficult to coordinate client identifiers to ensure that each is unique. It is generally better to have Message Queue automatically assign a unique identifier when creating a connection on behalf of a client. This can be done by setting the connection factory's imqConfiguredClientID attribute to a value of the form
The characters ${u} must be the first four characters of the attribute value. (Any character other than u between the braces will cause an exception to be thrown on connection creation; in any other position, these characters have no special meaning and will be treated as plain text.) The value for factoryID is a character string uniquely associated with this connection factory object.
When creating a connection for a particular client, Message Queue will construct a client identifier by replacing the characters ${u} with ${u:userName}, where userName is the user name authenticated for the connection. This ensures that connections created by a given connection factory, although identical in all other respects, will each have their own unique client identifier. For example, if the user name is Calvin and the string specified for the connection factory's imqConfiguredClientID attribute is ${u}Hobbes, the client identifier assigned will be ${u:Calvin}Hobbes.
This scheme will not work if two clients both attempt to obtain connections using the default user name guest, since each would have a client identifier with the same ${u} component. In this case, only the first client to request a connection will get one; the second client's connection attempt will fail, because Message Queue cannot create two connections with the same client identifier.
Even if you specify a client identifier with imqConfiguredClientID, client applications can override this setting with the connection method setClientID. You can prevent this by setting the connection factory's imqDisableSetClientID attribute to true. Note that for an application that uses durable subscribers, the client identifier must be set one way or the other: either administratively with imqConfiguredClientID or programmatically with setClientID.
Because "payload" messages sent and received by clients and control messages (such as broker acknowledgments) used by Message Queue itself pass over the same client-broker connection, excessive levels of payload traffic can interfere with the delivery of control messages. To help alleviate this problem, the connection factory attributes listed in Table 18–5 allow you to manage the relative flow of the two types of message. These attributes fall into four categories:
Acknowledgment timeout specifies the maximum time (imqAckTimeout) to wait for a broker acknowledgment before throwing an exception.
Connection flow metering limits the transmission of payload messages to batches of a specified size (imqConnectionFlowCount), ensuring periodic opportunities to deliver any accumulated control messages.
Connection flow control limits the number of payload messages (imqConnectionFlowLimit) that can be held pending on a connection, waiting to be consumed. When the limit is reached, delivery of payload messages to the connection is suspended until the number of messages awaiting consumption falls below the limit. Use of this feature is controlled by a boolean flag (imqConnectionFlowLimitEnabled).
Consumer flow control limits the number of payload messages (imqConsumerFlowLimit) that can be held pending for any single consumer, waiting to be consumed. (This limit can also be specified as a property of a specific queue destination, consumerFlowLimit.) When the limit is reached, delivery of payload messages to the consumer is suspended until the number of messages awaiting consumption, as a percentage of imqConsumerFlowLimit, falls below the limit specified by the imqConsumerFlowThreshold attribute. This helps improve load balancing among multiple consumers by preventing any one consumer from starving others on the same connection.
The use of any of these flow control techniques entails a trade-off between reliability and throughput; see Client Runtime Message Flow Adjustments for further discussion.
Table 18–6 lists connection factory attributes affecting client queue browsing and server sessions. The imqQueueBrowserMaxMessagesPerRetrieve attribute specifies the maximum number of messages to retrieve at one time when browsing the contents of a queue destination; imqQueueBrowserRetrieveTimeout gives the maximum waiting time for retrieving them. (Note that imqQueueBrowserMaxMessagesPerRetrieve does not affect the total number of messages browsed, only the way they are batched for delivery to the client runtime: fewer but larger batches or more but smaller ones. Changing the attribute's value may affect performance, but will not affect the total amount of data retrieved; the client application will always receive all messages in the queue.) The boolean attribute imqLoadMaxToServerSession governs the behavior of connection consumers in an application server session: if the value of this attribute is true, the client will load up to the maximum number of messages into a server session; if false, it will load only a single message at a time.
The Java Message Service Specification defines certain standard message properties, which JMS providers (such as Message Queue) may optionally choose to support. By convention, the names of all such standard properties begin with the letters JMSX. The connection factory attributes listed in Table 18–7 control whether the Message Queue client runtime sets certain of these standard properties. For produced messages, these include the following:
Identity of the user sending the message
Identity of the application sending the message
Transaction identifier of the transaction within which the message was produced
For consumed messages, they include
Transaction identifier of the transaction within which the message was consumed
Time the message was delivered to the consumer
You can use the connection factory attributes listed in Table 18–8 to override the values set by a client for certain JMS message header fields. The settings you specify will be used for all messages produced by connections obtained from that connection factory. Header fields that you can override in this way are
Delivery mode (persistent or nonpersistent)
Expiration time
Priority level
There are two attributes for each of these fields: one boolean, to control whether the field can be overridden, and another to specify its value. For instance, the attributes for setting the priority level are imqOverrideJMSPriority and imqJMSPriority. There is also an additional attribute, imqOverrideJMSHeadersToTemporaryDestinations, that controls whether override values apply to temporary destinations.
Because overriding message headers may interfere with the needs of specific applications, these attributes should only be used in consultation with an application's designers or users.
The destination administered object that identifies a physical queue or topic destination has only two attributes, listed in Table 18–9. The important one is imqDestinationName, which gives the name of the physical destination that this administered object represents; this is the name that was specified with the -n option to the imqcmd create dst command that created the physical destination. (Note that there is not necessarily a one-to-one relationship between destination administered objects and the physical destinations they represent: a single physical destination can be referenced by more than one administered object, or by none at all.) There is also an optional descriptive string, imqDestinationDescription, which you can use to help identify the destination object and distinguish it from others you may have created.


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In its second week of release, after expanding from 300 to 465 theaters,
Atlas Shrugged: Part I
may have started
to tank
. The movie hauled $879,000 over the weekend; more importantly, it only made an average of $1,890 per screen. The
first week
, it made $5,600 per screen. Producers have been talking about expanding the film to 1000 screens by the end of the month, but even in a remarkably lame year for Hollywood films (
Water for Elephants
, anyone? Anyone?) there's no new audience discovering the film. (A buzz-building small film doesn't fall off from week to week; consult the box office totals of
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
The movie
being marketed like a success. At its website, you can buy replicas of the Rearden Metal bracelet that Dagny Taggart wears after Hank Rearden's wife rejects it. And Tea Party groups are still pushing the film to members. This e-mail went out to the Tea Party Express's list last week.
Normally we're not too focused on what movies are playing in local cinemas, but the release of Atlas Shrugged The Movie (based on Ayn Rand's monumentalbook) has become a seminal event in the tea party movement.
And we've got some good news toreport to you on the success of this movie that has liberal film critics up in arms.
In its debutweekend, Atlas Shrugged surprised everyone, grossing more in ticket sales per movie screen than any other movie save the hit family movie,"Rio."
And this week, Atlas Shrugged expands - from 299 screens last weekend to 423+screens this weekend. You can find the closest movie theater showing the film near you - FIND MOVIE THEATER HERE
The movie, like the book, serves as a wake up call to the dangers posed when governments takeon too much power and subvert the will and freedom of the individual. Specifically, it showcases what happens when entrepreneurship and freemarket principles are deemed to be unseemly and unacceptable to Big Government.
When you watch the movie you'll feel like you could be watching the real-liveevents of today, not a fictionalized account written by Ayn Rand some 60+ years ago.
And the fact that this movie touches on many of the problems we face today, and that we in the tea party movement are fighting, explains whyso many liberal movie critics have slammed this movie and urged people not to see it. They don't want you to see this movie, because they don't want you to see the truth about what is happening in Americatoday.
- Michael Phillips, writing in the Los Angeles Times, complained about the film's"tea-stained politics."
- Peter Travers in RollingStones vented, "Who's the idiot responsible for this fiasco?"
- RogerEbert gave the film just 1-star and whined: "And now I am faced with this movie, the most anticlimactic non-event since Geraldo Riverabroke into Al Capone's vault."
- Peter Debruge incorporated a swipe at Fox NewsChannel in his review for Variety, writing that: "… Atlas Shrugged " becomes a series of polite policy conversations interrupted byFox News-style updates whenever exposition is called for…"
Yes, weget it, liberal film critics. You all can't stand free markets, and you can't stand that there is a film out there that echoes many of the sameevils that the tea party movement here in America is fighting against.You can seethe movie for yourself this weekend, and in the process angry a Big Government, autocratic, liberal. Watch it again, even if you've already seenit once. Oh, and be sure to take a friend with you too.


text: On Tue, 9 Sep 2008, Carsten Aulbert wrote: > We did get a few messages, albeit not from the kernel when an error > happened. I'll have another look today, maybe I did something wrong. If your kernel is out and out crashing, you might not get anything at all. In that case, let me add: "putting a cheap monitor on a suspect or crashed node" Or even after a crash. If the primary graphics card is being used as a console, the frame buffer will probably retain the last kernel oops written to it (if any) even after it locks up the system proper. Just plug a monitor into the framebuffer of a machine that has crashed and see if there is anything there. One last method (from back in the dark ages): "putting a tty-output printer on as a console printer" This was actually standard of practice for servers through the end of the 80s', anyway, because it was COMMON for servers to crash -- or be cracked -- and a hard copy of syslog/console output was often your only clue as to the cause, your only evidence of the intrusion. You still will have the problem of a kernel crash not infrequently being, well, "instant death". Some problems just lock up your system "now", without passing go or collecting $200. Nothing will then help you, although modern kernels have settings and setups that SHOULD die with oops and some sort of message, most of the time. Or some of the time. Or heck, who knows of the time? rgb > > Thanks! > > Carsten > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > -- Robert G. Brown Phone(cell): 1-919-280-8443 Duke University Physics Dept, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Web: http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb Book of Lilith Website: http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/Lilith/Lilith.php Lulu Bookstore: http://stores.lulu.com/store.php?fAcctID=877977


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Roy Halladay was sitting at his locker at Safeco Field today, wearing a wrap on his elbow to help treat the joint after he got hit by a line drive on Sunday. Halladay said the swelling is down and he'll try to play catch on Tuesday. If all goes well, he doesn't see why he couldn't start as scheduled on Friday in Toronto. So let out the sigh of relief Jays fans, Halladay is doing better.
Alex Rios is still out of the lineup with a bone bruise in his right hand and Jays manager John Gibbons wasn't sure if he'd play during the series in Seattle. Today's lineup against the M's: Johnson, RF, Catalanotto, LF, Wells, CF, Glaus, 3B, Molina, C, Overbay, 1B, Hill, 2B, Lind, DH, McDonald, SS.
This is my first trip to Safeco Field and I've got to tell you, it's quickly climbing up my personal rankings of the stadiums I've been to. It's a beautiful facility in a beautiful city. I've only been here since this morning, but Im really enjoying Seattle so far.
That's really all I've got for you at the moment. I just wanted to toss a quick Halladay update on here for you all. Ah, one more thing. In case you were curious which Toronto farmhands were playing in the Arizona Fall League, here is the list:
Pitchers: Jordan De Jong, Danny Hill, Tracy Thorpe, Kyle Yates
Catchers: Curtis Thigpen
Infielders: Chip Cannon, Ryan Klosterman
That's all for now. Stay tuned for more…
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phew… it didnt look good but better than the mench one
hey jordan – do you know if the jays have any plans on sending adam lind to winterball this year to keep up his development so he can fight for a job in spring training next year?
who else might go?
This is sorta off topic, but I just had some random thoughts about next year. With the payroll increase I would really like to see J.P. go out and get a solid middle infeilder. I was looking at the free agents and there isnt much out there. Depending on how much money we get, we could try and lure Julio Lugo, he is the probably the best SS available. His price might just be too high though. If it comes down to him or pitching I would take Pitching anyday. I would rather leave Hill at 2nd he plays really well over there, but there seems to be more 2nd basement available in free agency this winter. Either way we need one or the other. For our pitching, I think we should have a solid rotation for next season. Halladay will win 17-20 games if he is healthy. A healthy Burnette has the potential to win 20 games but I wouldnt count ont it, I will play it safe and say he will go something like 15-9. Wether or not we bring back Lilly is irrelavent, there are other pitchers out there capable of the same thing. I would really like to see the Jays go after Padillia. He could be a true #3 starter. Or maybe a Jason Marquis, but I really think it would help if we signed one more solid starter. Chacin and Marcum will round out the #4 and #5 spots. The depth at our pitching will be much better next year with many of our pitchers getting some experience this year, hopefully they are more preparted to deal with injuries next year. Janssen, Taubenheim, Rosairo,McGowan are all possible candidates to fill in for injuries. I also really like the way our back end is set up, I think Leauge/Ryan could be one of the best setup closer combinations in Baseball. Anyways those are just my thoughs, and I think with a little more money, and some smart moves we could be even closer to a playoff spot.
If JP wants to go cheap at SS rather than overspend for the overrated Lugo, maybe get Counsell for cheap. He might **** but he has a better bat than Johnny Mac.
Lilly has the potential to win 15 (like this year) every year. He might be inconsistent but he is a lefty and he has proven he can pitch in the AL East. I think he'll want to return to the Bay area though so JP will have to find a #3 and #5 starter. Marcum can't be a #5 starter (not yet at least) if Jays are serious about playoffs.
McGowan needs to harness that potential FAST!


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The Central Connecticut women's lacrosse program has named seniors Amanda Toke and Claire Healy as team captains for the 2014 season.
"The two complement each other as the leaders of our squad. They are fantastic liaisons between the coaching staff and student-athletes because they are so well respected by their peers," head coach Laura Campbell said upon making the announcement public.
Toke was a First Team All-Northeast Conference selection as a junior and also earned Northeast Conference Women's Lacrosse Scholar-Athlete accolades last spring. She played in all 18 games registering 35 points, 29 ground balls, 36 draw controls and 23 caused turnovers.
"Amanda leads by example in every moment with her work ethic, competitiveness, commitment and maturity," Campbell said.
Healy started all 18 games for the Blue Devils last season and recorded 28 points, including a team-high nine free position goals. Her 45.7% shooting percentage ranked third on the team and her 21 goals were fifth on the squad.
"Claire is an excellent vocal leader, motivator, and an energizer for the team," Campbell added.
The Blue Devils will open the 2014 season on Feb. 22 against La Salle. That game is scheduled for a 4:30 p.m. start at Arute Field.


text: This evening a very odd thing happened to me, Kelly, the cat, at my daughter's karate school jumped right up in my lap while I reading a magazine. I guess your saying, so what that is no big deal. For 7 yrs this cat has be cold, indifferent, and sometimes outright snobby with me when I have attempted to pay attention to her or pet her. I am an animal lover and most animals seem to sense this an immediately seem to like me, but she has been a different case. When my daughter's class was over with I actually had to pull her out of lap. Kelly even began to meow and wimper as I was leaving. Wonder what changed her mind about me tonight? :lol:


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New Names For The Cot/Caught Merger
I hesitated before adding the last one, just because I fear that as a result people will get to this blog by searching for... well, something they won't find here. Speaking of strange things people reach this blog searching for, I've had three (I think) visitors who googled 'should I grow a beard' - a weird thing to google, and a weirder thing for me to be on the first page of results for, IMHO. AFAIK. ROFL? pWn3d? I'll stop now.
Speaking of caulk, I spent a summer working for the physical plant of my college in Portland, Oregon, during which time I was struck by how funny my co-workers found the word "caulk," which seemed juvenile to me, but now I realize that if I had the low-back merger like they did I would have found it funny too. Not that it isn't juvenile.
So my northwesterner wife has the lager/logger merger - that seems like an appropriate way to describe it in the Pacific Northwest - but I've found that it's only partial. I realized, for instance that she says "awesome" the way I do, not /ah/some, as I expected, even though she insists she 'can't say' "haughty" the way I do. So I asked her about this, and she says that she's 'saying the w,' which makes sense. I tried out cod/cawed on her, but it was merged, though, interestingly enough, 'caw' came out /kɔ/. Is it possible that there is a historical explanation for this? I don't know enough to guess, though usually that doesn't stop me.
12 comments:
- Queenie said...
Canadians (who merge caulk=cock) call it "caulking". Maybe so people don't think they're pervs? That's my guess.
- Ben said...
Interesting - you mean they say "caulking," which they pronounce "cocking," right? For a second I was hoping you meant they pronounce the l. My grandmother's maiden name is Calkins, and in her family they pronounce the l not just in their name, but also in the words walk, talk, etc.
Word verification: "tmjevo," Old Sorbian for "there he is."
- AJD said...
Lager/logger isn't a good name for the low back merger. Two reasons.
1) Many (most?) people who don't have the low-back merger have logger in the cot class. So you can have lager and logger the same without having the merger.
2) Most (many?) people from northeastern New England have the low back merger but not the (f)ather/(b)other merger, so lager is not in the cot class. So you can have lager and logger distinct and still have the merger.
I'm in group (2), myself.
- Queenie said...
Actually Ben, they say "caulking" like "caulking" and not "cocking".
Once, in Pittsburgh, I had to sing a song that rhymed "caulk" with "sock". Very long story-- do not ask. It caused great discomfort due to the vowel issue, and also because I prefer rapping.
Logger is "caught" class for me. (And if you haven't guessed, blogger is "cot" class.)
- Ben said...
ajd -
Thanks for reminding me about the father/bother merger. I always forget about it, since I have it. You're absolutely right -- lager/logger won't do. Like Queenie, though, logger is in the "caught" class for me too.
I could never bring myself to rhyme caulk and sock, not even in Pittsburgh, though I might try rhyming "steel" and "will," just for fun. Funny you should mention rhyme and rapping - I've been thinking recently about the formal constraints of rhyme in rapping, which are complex and unique. Not only is there a greater tolerance for certain kinds of half-rhymes, but there ways in which half-rhymes can be used more artistically than pure rhymes. Consider, to cite a well-known exanple, the chorus of 50 Cent's "In da Club," which rhymes club/bub/drugs/love/hug/rubbed. Notice the small selection of final consonants, most of which are labial. Notice too that in final clusters it is the initial consonant that matters. Finally, the consonant that sticks out most, /g/, is used to make a syncopated pairing: drugs/hug. Interesting, no?
- Anonymous said...
>> Canadians (who merge caulk=cock) call it "caulking". Maybe so people don't think they're pervs? That's my guess. <<
No. Remeber a vowel merger means that you produce and perceive two vowel sounds to be identical. Both of the original vowels become allophones, that is are variations on the same vowel. Therefore, to people who merge cock and caulk, think they sounds *exactly* the same--just like "meet" and "meat" are now perceived to be exactly the same. What you're hearing is the Canadian vowel shift, which is gradually shifting both "cock" and "caulk" to "caulk". Originally, the most common allophone was that of in the orignal pronunciation of the vowel in "cock". The people who have this shift shift *all* /A/ sounds to /ɔ/ sounds, thus the most common allophone for people with the CVS would be that of "caught". Thus, "cot" will sound more like others say "caught". "Caulking" and "cocking" no matter which vowel you use sound equally perverted to a c-c merged person, and they wouldn't favour one vowel over another, because both vowels sound the same, although extreme versions of either ones sound rather off, particularily extremely rounded [ɔ].
>> So I asked her about this, and she says that she's 'saying the w,' which makes sense <<
Actually, it has nothing to do with the "w". English is not written how it's spoken now, or how it should be spoken, but rather the spelling represents the pronunciation of English over 400 years ago--the spelling hasn't changed a great deal since then. The reason that "awesome" has an "aw" sound has more to do with the sounds around it rather than how it's spelled. I have the c-c merger, and awesome usually say "awesome" with a vowel closer to [ɔ], but "haughty" is usually closer to [A]. Ask her to say the phrase "for her brother Bob", and see which vowel she uses for "Bob". In general, the "for her brother" part cause a c-c merged person's lips to round and "Bob" would be pronounced with something closer to [ɔ], but this is not always the case.
- RogueLinguist said...
This is all so very interesting. I was born and raised in Seattle and always thought that all Americans said "cot" like "caught" unless they were old Jewish women from New York. I was surprised to find out that it's more common in Canada than in the US.
- RogueLinguist said...
...or jewish men, for that matter. No gender difference, really. I was just reminded of the skit character Linda Richardson from "Saturday Night Live".
- Anonymous said...
well whaddya know-- i hadn't thought about this blog for years. and look-- i google something to find this link, and see that someone shows up to tell me i'm wrong! i love it when linguists tell other linguists their jokes aren't funny.
also, mr. or ms. anonymous, it doesn't make any sense to say that the two vowels, now made one, are allophones. they're one single phoneme, subject to whatever kind of allophonic variation that might apply-- across both former categories, now made one. i can't see any sense in which the vowel in cock is an allophone of the vowel in caulk (or vice-versa) if the two words are pronounced exactly the same.
and if cock is now merged with caulk, then caulk is exactly the same as cock. unless you put -ing on the end of it, in which case it doesn't sound like a dirty word. (unless you turn it into a verb or a gerund. as in, 'the nasty dog started cocking me'.) anyway, caulk+ing should remove the ambiguity (unless your mind is as twisted as mine!)
i have a phd and am a tenure-line professor now. glad to see the blog hasn't been deleted... and my comments are stirring up "controversy". anyways, take care ben...
- kimberly said...
I had some problem with my first pregnancy, i wanted to be pregnant and have my first baby, buy my husband had erectil dysfunction problem, so we decided to buy viagra and after that he turned very strong and could get powerful erection after this medical treatment. Thank to this i have two litle and beautiful girls.
- Fred said...
Sounds like Kimberly's hubs found some meds that helped with his caulking...
- Jackie said...
you know those caulk/cock jokes that are all the rage these days? I can scarcely get them. My mind is so resistant to the cot/caught merger... lager and logger i really thought were the same-- but after repeating to myself numerous times have realized i do detect a difference-- maybe because i learned to say lager from those sam adams commercials? logger is getting pretty close to a COT - just on the edge of remaining CAUGHT


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'weird' kernel macros — container_of
July 1, 2009
Linux uses a rather complicated(for me) driver model, which is built upon the kobject abstratction. There's a lot of documentation about the linux driver model, and describing it in detail is out of the scope of this post(well, actually I can't do it : P ).
In short:
kobjects are structs that hold some information(a name, a reference count, a parent pointer etc), and are usually embedded into other structs, typically structs for devices/device drivers(ie struct cdev, for a character device), creating a hieararchy which is 'exported' to userspace through the sysfs(mounted on /sys).
The question is how the code that works with kobjects can reference the struct that contains the kobject. The kernel provides a macro, (not surprisingly) called container_of, which does exactly that.
The definition of the macro can be found in include/linux/kernel.h:
* container_of - cast a member of a structure out to the containing structure
* @ptr: the pointer to the member.
* @type: the type of the container struct this is embedded in.
* @member: the name of the member within the struct.
#define container_of(ptr, type, member) ({ \
const typeof( ((type *)0)->member ) *__mptr = (ptr); \
(type *)( (char *)__mptr - offsetof(type,member) );})
In order to understand what this macro does, we have to be somewhat familiar with the C Preprocessor, and some non-standard GCC extensions:
1)A parenthesis followed by a brace. This is called by the GCC statement expression. It lets us use a compound statement as an expression. Here, we want to use the container_of macro as an expression, but we want to declare a local variable(__mptr) inside the macro, so we need a compound statement.
2)The typeof GCC extension that lets us refer to the type of an expression, and can be used to declare variables.
The previous two extensions let us write safe macros(ie side effects of the operands are calculated only once) that work for any type(some kind of polymorphism), and can be used as expressions.
This macro also uses the offsetof, which computes the byte offset of a field within a structure. Linux uses the compiler-provided offsetof, if the compiler provides one, else it defines the offsetof macro as
#define offsetof(TYPE, MEMBER) ((size_t) &((TYPE *)0)->MEMBER)
A few words about offsetof. offsetof is a valid ANSI C macro. Cfaq gives a possible implementation of offsetof(though non-portable) which is a bit different than the one that the kernel defines. I'm not sure about this, but as far as I can understand, the cfaq offsetof subtracts a NULL pointer from the ((type *)0)->member, to ensure that the offset is correct, even if the internal representation of the NULL pointers isn't actually zero. I guess Linux has good reasons to assume that's OK to ommit that subtraction.
And the last trick is the ((type *)0) cast. Actually, we pretend that there's an instance of the struct at address 0. If we tried to reference it, we would be in big trouble, but that never happens. So we trick the compiler and we can legally get the type of the struct member, which is used to declare the __mptr as a pointer to that struct member. It's also used by offsetof to get the byte offset of the mebmer within the struct(since it uses as a 'base address' for the struct the address 0).
Now we can understand(at least partially) what the macro does. It declares a pointer to the member of the struct that ptr points to, and assigns ptr to it. Now __mptr points to the same address as ptr. Then it gets the offset of that mebmer within the struct, and subtracts it from the actual address of the member of the struct 'instance'(ie __mptr). The (char *)__mptr cast is necessary, so that 'pointer arithmetic' will work as intended, ie subtract from __mptr exactly the (size_t) bytes that offsetof 'returns'.
At this point, I really can't understand why we couldn't use the ptr pointer directly. We could ommit the first line, and the macro could be
#define container_of(ptr, type, member) (type *)( (char *)(ptr) - offsetof(type,member) )
ptr is used only once — we don't need to worry about side effects.
Maybe it's just good coding practice.
EDIT: Apparently, the first line is there for 'type checking'. It ensures that type has a member called member(howerver this is done by offsetof macro too, I think), and if ptr isn't a pointer to the correct type(the type of the member), the compiler will print a warning, which can be useful for debuging.
11 Responses to "'weird' kernel macros — container_of"
March 14, 2010 at 22:14
how come ((type *)0)->member does not generate a segmentation fault.Since 0 is being used in pointer context (due to the typecasting) and we are dereferencing the value pointed by 0 (Since is equivalent to doing (*0).member). We would be dereferencing a NULL pointer. right ?
October 11, 2011 at 17:59
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February 14, 2012 at 10:12
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April 19, 2013 at 08:49
really helpful!! GCC has a lot non-traditional c extensions that I'm not familiar with, but your post helps a lot!!
February 16, 2016 at 18:47
Indeed a thorough explanation on container_of(). I really appreciate your post here.
March 18, 2018 at 09:44
"Apparently, the first line is there for 'type checking'. It ensures that type has a member called member(howerver this is done by offsetof macro too, I think), and if ptr isn't a pointer to the correct type(the type of the member), the compiler will print a warning, which can be useful for debugging."
Regarding the above statement:
In that case why we are type casting it again in the second statement as "(type *)( (char *)__mptr – ….. );" when it is already taken care in the first statement?