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Oilers 2, Blues 4 – Game 20 – 2013-03-01 @ 6:00 PM MST – SNETW
First off, I didn't do the pic above.. credit goes to @zackhennawi on Twitter. So send him your props if you had a good laugh at this like I did. Very appropriate… this team doesn't really have an enforcer at all, so there are a few jokes that the enforcer is Gagner since he isn't afraid to fight anyone, and will generally hold his own. Last night, "Samnorris" took on Brenden Dillon, who is 5″ taller and has about 20 lbs. on him. It wasn't much of a fight though, but still good to see him stand up for himself. Also good to see Mark Fistric not only nail Jaromir Jagr with a big hit, but knock Antoine Roussel on his ass after he tried to goad Ryan Nugent-Hopkins into a fight. Note to Roussel: if you're going to try to fight a star player, make sure you're the biggest guy on the ice at the time. I'm guessing that by going after the Nuge he was hoping that Taylor Hall would oblige him again (which he likely would have, had Fistric not been there to restore calm).
So, after a 5-1 road win, how do you follow this up? With another win, of course. The Oilers have always been piss poor at stringing wins together, however. This is another one of many tests for them. They got a point in a bad game in Chicago… they won big in Dallas.. now win one in St. Louis, and you're back in the race. A win tonight, and the Oilers will bump into 10th spot, just above Dallas. Every game counts this year, especially now… they have to be smelling blood and wanting this bad in order to have a hope at the playoffs. Everyone suspected this road trip would kill them, especially after a fairly pathetic home stand.
Again, I'll throw out.. "hello… Peckham?". I'm going to guess that Potter will be out for this one after having his face mashed on the dasher. Will Dubnyk get the nod again after a rock solid game yesterday? Wouldn't be his first back to back this year.
Update: Whitney and Peckham will play as Corey Potter is out, as is Mark Fistric (elbow).
Hall – Nuge – Eberle
Jones – Gagner – Hemsky
Smyth – Belanger – Yakupov
Eager – Vande Velde – Petrell
N. Schultz – J. Schultz
Smid – Petry
Whitney – Peckham
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The New York Philharmonic, $35,000
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San Francisco Symphony, $125,000
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From the Top, $60,000
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Minnesota Public Radio, $220,000
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John F. Kennedy was assassinated 54 years ago but the world is still fascinated by "Camelot". Would that have been the case if Jackie had not been a master of branding? What Jackie Kennedy recorded on tape 51 years ago became headline news all over the world when released. Listen to some of what Jackie had to say about their years in The White House:
Their daughter Caroline, who used to be the US ambassador to Japan, decided to release Jackie's thoughts and memories six years ago to coincide with the 50 year anniversary of her father's inauguration as president. An interesting thing is that it's not just America that's still captivated by JFK and Jackie but the same applies to the rest of the world.
Seems that people are always going to be fascinated about the Kennedys and the mystery surrounding the time in politics called Camelot and maybe above all the mystique surrounding the assassination of the young handsome president in Dallas.
Friends of mine who knew JFK always say that he was so charming women fell in love with him and men went out of their way to please him. The fascination with him as a person actually started long before he became president. He simply had what it takes to captivate people he came across which may account for some of the glamour attached to him and his family. And it didn't hurt that he married a woman who knew how to keep the legend of Camelot , and her own mystique, alive and create headlines long after they were both gone.
Jackie expert on branding
It's probably no coincidence that Jackie was a photo journalist before she got married. She really knew what to do in order to create a high value brand. By not giving interviews when she was alive she kept the mystique about herself and consequently JFK alive. And by behaving that way she contributed to turning herself and her late husband into icons. She actually did such a good job the American people forgave her for marrying Onassis. How can you not forgive an icon?
Can't help wondering what kind of president John F. Kennedy would have been remembered as if he hadn't been assassinated? Seems for instance he was going to pull out of Vietnam. What would have been his legacy? Would he and Jackie still be icons today if the shooting in Dallas hadn't taken place?
Would JFK & Jackie still be icons if Jackie had not been an expert at branding? Does, not only America, but the world need icons to look up to that they believe embody success, beauty, fame and wealth? People who represent what they dream of? Young, healthy, happy – maybe personifying "the American dream"? Or is it just like tabloid news, the fact that rich and famous people have worse problems than they have make ordinary people happy? To think that at least their husband wasn't assassinated can be a comfort to some. Would JFK have been the icon he is today if he hadn't been assassinated? What's your opinion? Will the Kennedys always fascinate people or will future generations forget and find new icons?
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No one ever offers to fix the roads around Kershaw. In his columns, he mentioned S.C. 200, why not Highway 601?
Overbrook is ungodly and yet the state will not fix either one of them. We pay $30 road fees and the money is not used to fix our bad roads.
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Really Denis? Are you sure? Did you check out that surprising factoid to see if it was true or one of the hoariest urban myths of all time?
"Most people use only three to four per cent of their total supply of brain cells."
Oh, apparently not:
"Where do brain myths come from, and why are they so persistent? The origin of the 10% claim remains uncertain, despite considerable research. It is often attributed to William James, who expressed a similar idea in a 1906 speech to the American Psychological Association: "Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources." But the 10% number has not been found in any of James' writings. Alternatively, the myth may have originated from an early misinterpretation of interneurons as undeveloped neurons, leading to the speculation that they might be a reserve pool or neural replacement later in life. Another potential source of this myth is the difficulty encountered by early neurophysiologists, notably Karl Lashley, in identifying functional defects caused by lesions of particular brain regions. Indeed, the term 'silent cortex' was once commonly used to describe regions without a clear sensory or motor function, and this could easily have been misinterpreted to mean 'unused cortex'." (from Nature Neuroscience, but pretty much anyone with even the slightest familiarity with psychology or neuroscience could have told him that it was nonsense)


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Ultrasonic Welding Daytime Running Lights
Welding daytime running light housings is tricky because of their asymmetrical shape, but one supplier found a solution, using ultrasonic welding.
Ultrasonic welding, if you're not familiar with it, uses sound vibrations (with a frequency of 20,000 Hz or higher) to weld with a tool called a "sonotrode." The heat created by the back-and-forth vibrations melts the part in a local area to form the weld. The system for this application was developed by Herrmann Ultrasonics (herrmannultrasonics.com). The company developed sonotrodes specific to the workpiece design; they are manually mounted into a fixture, then laser gauged to assure position. The entire process requires just 100 to 300 milliseconds.


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DAVIS-MONTHAN AIR FORCE BASE, AZ -- Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona recently held a dedication ceremony to name its fitness center after Tech. Sgt. Arthur J. Benko, a World War II veteran. Airmen and members of the Desert Lightning team attended the ceremony to show support and to pay respects to Benko, who was a turret gunner aboard a B-24 bomber aircraft during World War II.
In addition to a four-man A-10 flyover by the 358th Fighter Squadron, the event featured an HH-60 flyover with a landing at the base track by Tech. Sgt. David Rogers, aerial gunner from the 55th Electronic Group, who impersonated Benko by wearing a 1950s-style Air Force military uniform.
During a World War II mission in 1943, Benko's aircraft had severe engine trouble, and he had to parachute out of the plane. Benko was lost near Hong Kong, never to be heard from again, according to the Air Force.


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MooTools Core and More 1.3.1 just got released yesterday. My personal highlights include:
- Documentation and demos improved, thanks to the developers and hundreds of contributors. Still something missing? Fork the demos. Cool facts: The new demos run directly from github through jsfiddle!
- Snappier experience with updated Slick selector engine, better supported Event delegation with
selectand native JSON support in
I am working on updating all my open sourced libraries to 1.3, adding them to github and submitting them to the forge. Yes, a long list, but bare with me … it happens step by step and even faster with the help of contributors. Kudos to everybody that forked the code and posted back their fixes and enhancements!Visit site »
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Stable FancyUpload 3.0
After a lot of feedback from the community and testing in the wild, the stable 3.0 release got tagged on github. The latest commits contain several bugfixes and new options:
timeLimit prevents Flash timeouts from the server response and
policyFile allows you to select your own policy file location. The changelog provides more details.
Get the up-to-date download packages. If you did not yet update your old FancyUpload 2, now is definitely the time! If you run into problems or want to share your experiences, join the support forum. Needless to say, this latest 3.0 version can be copied over the previous release candidates straightforward.Continue reading »
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Fresh FancyUpload 3 Showcase: Attach-a-File
A short update with less words but a link to a the new showcase: "Attach a file".
I promised regular showcase releases in the FancyUpload 3.0 announcement, this is the first one in the row and only the tip of the iceberg. The new showcase is a copy of a real-world example (most web developers will recognize the original) implemented as a reusable class that will be released later. The final class will also include a graceful fallback to an iframe-based uploader with nearly the same functionality.
Enjoy the fresh interface from the "Attach a file" showcase and discuss it in the forums. Your feedback and ideas are always welcome!Continue reading »
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FancyUpload 3.0 Unleashed
Despite the delay, the completely rewritten version of FancyUpload, version 3.0, got pushed to github today. This new version is more stable, has better documentation and more showcases than ever. I even added two download packages with runnable installations, like many developers requested. This article introduces the new features and showcases, impatient readers can jump directly to the comprehensive project page or fork on github.
Update (5th May '09): 3.0 rc1 got released to fix smaller bugs and I added new showcase "Attach A File".Continue reading »
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MooTools 1.2.2 Core and More
The new MooTools Core 1.2.2 was announced today. It contains several important bug fixes, especially class support for Safari 4 and position calculation.
The new MooTools More 126.96.36.199 is the initial full release, updates will now come more frequently. Thanks to the developers and the community who helped a lot with feedback and contributions. Grab your own copy of MooTools Core and More and check out the new awesomeness.Continue reading »
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Let Me Introduce Your Forum
Dear Reader,
I beg your pardon if my comment system failed you in the past. From today, this problem is solved!
To provide a proper support platform for my steadily growing and gorgeous community, I hereby introduce the official support forums. With your help it will be a vivid place to post and discuss questions, answers, bugs, fixes, ideas and the latest web craftsman gossip.
I hope you enjoy the forums, new project releases will be published next week (only because end of the week is a bad time to release awesomeness).Continue reading »
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LuxuriousUploader - Sneak Preview
Update (1st May '09): FancyUpload 3.0 was released, completely rewritten and fully compatible with Flash 9 and 10. The project site provides more showcases, extensive documentation and runnable download packages.
Update: Oops, the release will be next week. An April Fool so close before the real release, very cruel, I know!
Finally, I can start the public beta for the upcoming FancyUpload 3.0. Enjoy the sneak preview showcase, it is kept very simple, providing the basic feature set. The process indicator is provided directly in the browser window. The new control is even more cross-browser, a lot of tests on different platforms ensure that!
If people like what they see, I'll release it officially (and documented) this week! Now go and check out the preview!Visit site »
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Rolling out Sly - The JavaScript Selector Engine
Finally, a new selector engine!
If you're a code geek like me, you might want skip the details and go directly to the source, the speed tests or the specs.
Sly awesomeness:
- Pure and powerful JavaScript matching algorithm for fast and accurate queries
- Extra optimizations for frequently used selectors and latest browser features
- Works uniformly in
DOMdocuments, fragments or
- Utility methods for matching and filtering of elements
- Standalone selector parser to produce JavaScript
- Customizable pseudo-classes, attribute operators and combinators
- Just 3 kB! (minified and gzipped, 8 kB without gzip)
- No dependencies on third-party JS libraries, but developers can override internal methods (like
getAttribute) for seamless integration.
- Code follows the MooTools philosophy, respecting strict standards, throwing no warnings and using meaningful variable names
Querying the DOM with Sly:
// Finds all odd rows in all tables
var rows = Sly.search('table td:odd');
// Finds all links with class "internal" and an attribute "href" starting with "#".
var links = Sly.search('a.internal[href^="#"]');
// Another notation is also possible, since Sly acts as a constructor
var snippets = Sly('pre.highlight.javascript > code').search();
// features is just one element, lists has all list items are siblings of features
var features = Sly.find('#features');
var lists = Sly.search('~ ul', body);
… more examples and documentation.Continue reading »
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Friday: Chess Playtime
I always tell people that there are many hidden gems on my playground. In the upcoming weeks, I will start to release some of those secrets to the public. You can peek at the snippets and perhaps put them to some good use.
It is Friday, so we start with some playtime: Blue Chess is a pretty old class which I wrote a year ago as proof of concept. It allows you to play a round of chess with 10kb elegant JavaScript. That is, if you find an opponent in real life, since it has no AI opponent. My favourite features are the animated dragging and interactive preview of possible moves. You can also pick up pieces and undo moves, but the implemented rules for "check-mate" are not yet complete.
p.s. I fixed the SqueezeBox.css which was released yesterday. I forgot to update some lines. If any problems occurred on your site using it, try downloading it again.Continue reading »
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SqueezeBox Patch Day
I found some time to give SqueezeBox some love. The new version was ready for some time, only needing some testing and a little fine tuning.
The functionality is still the same, but there are a lot of nifty things in this new release. Like a new look–with smooth shadows! And by hiding the browser scrollbars, it now prevents jumping pages and provides a better modal user experience. Images load fine now, so no more Endless-Spinner-of-Death™. Iframes are now also pre-loadable and are shown when the page loads completely.
The next iteration will feature an awesome caption bar and series navigation. The current API already supports them, so I just need to create elegant and usable interface for those.
I hope that everything works fine for you all and any feedback is appreciated. And please, do send me your sites that use SqueezeBox.
Enjoy!Continue reading »
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Spring Cleaning & Consulting
I just returned from my 4 weeks honeymoon trip through Chile, where we travelled from Santiago to Tierra del Fuego and enjoyed the nature and very friendly and open-hearted people. I will visit it again someday but for now I do admit that "there is no place like home".
With plenty of availability, fresh energy and full of ideas, I would love to take new challenges, now as part of your projects. There were many contracting and consulting requests; therefore I decided to freelance from now on "more officially". If you merely need an adapted version of my open source projects, a full-blown user interface design or any other consulting (MooTools, plain JavaScript, XHTML/CSS, whatsoever), give me a call to get a quote.Continue reading »
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MooTools 1.2.1 Released
Release early. Release often. And listen to your customers. (Linus Torvald)
This is one of the new objectives of MooTools, and the developers, co-developers and beta-testers work hard and (and perfectionistic) on creating, discussing and fixing tickets. Yesterdays 1.2.1 release is a drop-in replacement (no breaking changes) with:
- Less bugs
- Less memory leaks
- More browser compatibility
- … details in the changelog
- … download or custom builder
Proceed as normal, get the complete release on the download page or customize your download. The upcoming milestone 1.2.2 is already geared with exciting new features and improvements. If you work with 1.2, updating is simple and highly recommended (if you still work with 1.11, it is not that easy but strongly recommended).Continue reading »
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FancyUpload for Flash 10
Update (1st May '09): FancyUpload 3.0 was released, completely rewritten and fully compatible with Flash 9 and 10. The project site provides more showcases, extensive documentation and runnable download packages.
This morning Adobe Flash 10 Player was released. Already during the beta releases people realised that it breaks all Flash-based upload solutions (there are several) that control a hidden flash-object with JavaScript.
I developed and tested all day to release a FancyUpload version that works in Flash 9 and 10 (Kodus to Anders Rasmussen and his conversion to AS3). The code is now commited to github, so people can review and submit patches in a blink:
It includes the updated source, assets and showcases. As a fix for Flash 10, the invisible Flash object has been moved over the browse button (referred by the option target). A solution with less than 10 lines, thanks to MooTools. A showcase with the fixed source is also available, waiting for tests in your favourite browsers.
The project site and showcases are not updated for this release, this one is a preview for developers, to get some feedback. I'd appreciate any feedback, test results and patches developers using the new version can provide.Continue reading »
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30 Days of MooTools Tutorials
I like to feature people who have more time than me to write about MooTools and all its features and best practices. Sam and Troy from consider: open started to post 30 tutorials about their MooTools 1.2 experience, targeting also developers without MooTools/JavaScript experience. So far they finished 21 days full of good explanations and examples:
- Intro to the Library
- Selectors
- Intro to Using Arrays
- Functions
- Event Handling
- Manipulating HTML
- Set and Get Style Properties
- Input Filtering Part I - Numbers
- Input Filtering Part II - Strings
- Using FX.Tween
- Using Fx.Morph, Fx Options and Fx Events
- Drag and Drop using Drag.Move
- Regular Expressions
- Periodical and Intro to Hashes
- Sliders
- Sortables and Intro to Methods
- Accordion
- Classes part I
- Tooltips
- A Few Mootools Tabs
- Classes part II
Kodus to the Troy and Sam, it is a great overview and a lot of detailed information.Continue reading »
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How Jan explains the MooTools World
Jan Kassens, a MooTools core developer, finally got his blog on-line and did not stop writing till then. Readers can find some really useful code snippets and tutorials, revealing amazing MooTools "secrets" in detail:
- Custom Pseudo Selectors - Adding the :random() selector
- Exposes Class Mutator - Adding getters and setters to classes for modern browsers
- toElement Method - Using element methods on your classes
- Binds Class Mutator - The Bind helper to make coder shorter and simpler
- outerClick Event - Adding the custom events for outer clicks
Kodus to Jan! I hope that he'll find the time to continue this series. You can even write him, when you have an idea for an article. He even infected me again with this virus and I want to write more tutorials …Visit site »
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10 Resources For Learning MooTools 1.2
This article is a comprehensive list of 10 resources for developing or expanding crazy MooTools 1.2 ninja skills!
The first links are beginner guides for starting your successful career and understanding the basic concepts. After a few minutes, you'll eventually see the light and realize how easy your daily life with MooTools can be. Then follow the next links.
If you already know JavaScript, MooTools makes it very easy for you, because it builds its API on JavaScript. Writing MooTools still feels like JavaScript because it follows the same principles. It just results in less headaches and a lot more fun!
If you are stuck, feel free to drop into our IRC-channel or post to the google group. Our ever helpful community is ready to answer your questions.
Mootools Essentials: The Official Mootools Cookbook for JavaScript/Ajax Development
The MooTools 1.2 reference for your bookshelf. Mootools Essentials aims to help you accomplish that task with the following:
- Illustrations of nearly every class and function in the library
- Real–world examples of how to use them
- Written by Mootools user/contributor and Mootorial author, Aaron Newton.
I was one of the lucky guys who received a copy to review it, so I'll post a detailed review about the first MooTools book later. Release is very close, but you can pre-order your personal copy.
The mooWalkthrough is a step by step, page by page, walk through of the JavaScript Framework.
Take your time and click through the pages. This guide makes it really easy for beginners, because it covers all the basic patterns consicely. Every page shows a problem and its solution and references further resources.
MooTools 1.2 for The Non Programmer (Part 2, 3, 4)
Using JavaScript can be a bit daunting for the non-programmer types out there. So, I'm going to display a few examples of just how easy MooTools can be. Hopefully, this will get you motivated to do a bit of learning and see how powerful and usable MooTools can be.
A guide with "everyday" examples and non-technical descriptions. If you want a quick overview and skip the basic patterns, this one is for you.
MooTools Classes: How to use them
Object oriented Classes in JavaScript keep your project structure clean and result in readable and reusable code. This article explain the Class pattern for beginners.
Describes the Chain Class in a documented example. Extending and implementing Classes are the basics for reusable code.
**Using MooTools Hash.Cookie API **
Shows and explains how to use the Hash.Cookie Class for saving persistent data the simple way.
Today we're going to talk about Swiff, which lets you combine Flash and JavaScript to do things MooTools can't do on its own.
What's New in 1.2: Element Storage
Another new feature that's been built into the latest version of MooTools is the Element Storage. This article describes the usage of this great new feature, as well as why it was developed, and how it can be used to keep your applications organized and efficient.
Day to Day Mootooling
When using Mootools from day to day, these links will light your path.
Always the best place for some research. If you spot an error or want to add a better example or text file a ticket with a patch.
The authoritative source of information on Mootools, the source is considered one of the cleanest and easiest to understand in the JavaScript world. The source itself demonstrates some of the best practices that you should follow in your own code, including how to extend the MooTools classes for your own features.Continue reading »
MooTools 1.1 To 1.2 - Compatibility Layer
The MooTools-Team keeps working hard on the page and the requested missing features. The compatibility-layer for the 1.11 version is one of the frequent requests in the group, so I'll provide them here for now:
- Core Compat-Script for 1.2 Core Download
- More Compat-Script for 1.2 More Download (contains only Fx.Scroll)
Browse them on github (or should we call it moohub?).
The compat scripts add the class and methodnames that have changed from 1.11 to 1.2. They also reflect several changed function arguments. MooTools 1.2 provides a powerful and consistent API, so I'll continue my series on the changes that everybody can make the switch soon! I suggest to start reading them, to get an idea of the renamed classes and methods. Don't trust these compat files implicitly, better convert your 1.11 scripts to 1.2 soon. We may update the compats for a more comprehensive 1.11 support, but 1.2 is the future-proof version!Continue reading »
Fuel Your Anticipation - Firefox 3 On June 17th
While the Firefox Release Candidate 3 just came out today with minor updates, Mozilla announced the final release for June 17th. A world record for the most software downloads in 24 hours is also arranged.
Some of my favourite new features:
- Full page zoom. From the View menu and using keyboard shortcuts, you can now zoom in and out on the content of entire pages – this scales not just the text but the layout and images as well.
- Tags. You can now associate keywords with your bookmarks to easily sort them by topic.
- Offline support. Web applications can take advantage of new features to support being used even when you don't have an Internet connection.
- Reliability. Firefox 3 now stores bookmarks, history, cookies, and preferences in a transactionally secure database format. This means your data is protected against loss even if your system crashes.
- Speed. Firefox 3 has gotten a performance boost by completely replacing the part of the software that handles drawing to your screen, as well as to how page layout work is handled.
- Memory use reduced. Firefox 3 is more memory efficient than ever, with over 300 memory "leak" bugs fixed and new features to help automatically locate and dispose of leaked memory blocks.
- more …
First tech-reviews about Firefox 3 are full of praise but also mention the memory-eating performance.
What are your experiences, did you expect more? Are you still scared to download?Visit site »
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MooTools 1.1 To 1.2 - Classes
My favourite JavaScript framework MooTools just got released as version 1.2, with tons of new features, performance boosts and bugfixes. To make the API consistent and bullet-proof for the future, the new release introduces several changed methodnames and arguments that break 1.11 and 1.2 beta code.
So I start a series about understanding the changes and converting to MooTools 1.2, starting with the powerful OOP helper Class.Continue reading »


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In other words, the APIs of OpenGL follow the nomenclature of trigonometry and motion used by physics and mathematics. It also means having a good base in math (especially co-ordinate geometry and trigonometry) and physics is also a requirement.
Therefore, in this discussion the first two sections will focus on the basic coordinate geometry essential for understanding animation APIs. In the third section, I will focus on the core APIs and techniques for animation and the four section will be used to demonstrate the basic animation in action. These are the issues to be discussed in this article.
2D/3D Prerequisites: the Basics
The basis of animation is performing either rotation or translation without stopping. In other words if either rotation or translation is done continuously, the resulting effect is animation. But before going into details of these operations, let me give you a quick overview of common terminology and concepts used in co-ordinate geometry. The most common terminology and concepts in 2-D as well as 3-D are:
- Origin
- Axes
- Coordinate Spaces
- Transformations
Of these, the first three are the founding concepts of 2-D/3-D whereas the fourth is the basis of all the operations in 2 as well as 3-D effects. Let's have a look at them.
Origin is the center of the coordinate system in every Cartesian coordinate space. This is true for both 2-D as well as 3-D. It is a special location. If the coordinate space is thought to be a city with square boundaries, then the origin would be the center of the city.
As for axes, every 2-D Cartesian space has two straight lines that pass through the origin. Each line is known as axis and extends indefinitely in opposite directions. Both of them are opposite to each other. These two axes are named the x-axis (the horizontal axis) and the y-axis (the vertical axis).
When the coordinate system is extended to 3-D space, then a third axis comes into the picture, named the z-axis. One thing to keep in mind is that in 3-D space, a plane can be defined by a pair of axes. For example the plane defined by x-axis and y-axis is the xy-plane; it is perpendicular to the z-axis. Pictorially it looks like this:
The positive and negative position of an axis is based on the coordinate system, which I will be describing next.
{mospagebreak title=The Basics Continued: Coordinate Spaces}
As already mentioned in the previous section, each axis extends to the opposite direction infinitely. The part of the x-axis starting from the origin and extending toward the right is the positive x-axis, and the portion that extends toward the left is the negative x-axis. Similarly in the case of the y-axis, the part extending toward the top is designated positive whereas the other part is designated negative. This is true for all the possible spatial directions in 2-D. But in the case of 3-D, matters are different. In 3-D the vertical and the horizontal can be interchanged. Hence the two types of coordinate space rules have come into play. One concerns the left-hand coordinate space, while the other covers the right-hand coordinate space.
To find the left-hand coordinate space, with your left hand, make an L with your thumb and index finger such that the thumb is pointing toward the right and your index finger is pointing straight up, and your third finger is pointing inwards. What we get is a Left-Hand Coordinate Space. The thumb, the index finger and the third finger point to the +x, +y and +z directions, respectively.
If you repeat this procedure with your right hand, with your index finger pointing straight up, your thumb pointing toward the left and your third finger pointing inwards, then we get a Right-Hand Coordinate Space. Again the thumb, the index and the third finger point to +x, +y and +z directions.
Now for the fourth important concept: transformations. A transformation is a process that changes graphics objects from one state to another. The state can be any property of the object from coordinates to the color and texture. There are three basic transformations: rotation, translation and shearing. Of these rotation and translation are most commonly used. And these two form the basis of animation as well.
One important point to keep in mind about any kind of transformation is that all transformations are defined by a matrix. The best example is an Identity Matrix, which represents the Identity Transform. The Identity Transform, in essence, does nothing. I will cover more about transformation and matrix in the next part of the series.
Now that terminology and concepts have been discussed we can move on to the topics of immediate interest in animation — rotation and translation.
Rotation, by definition, is "a transformation in which the coordinate axes are rotated by a fixed angle about the origin." In other words it is a transformation that shifts a graphic object around an axis. When the shifting is done continuously such that once the object reaches its initial position, the whole process is started all over again, the object is said to be animated. Since the shifting is done around the axis, the change of position is measured in Θ or degrees. Rotation can be clockwise or anti-clockwise. As the value of Θ decreases, the speed of rotation increases. Rotation around either the x-,y- or z- axis is called principal rotation.
Translation, by definition, is the "Motion of a body in which every point of the body moves parallel to and the same distance as every other point of the body." In other words translation means linear movement along one or both axes. To compare, in rotation the object is shifted around one or more axes whereas in translation the object is shifted along one or more axes. Since the shift corresponds to the displacement along the axes, it is measured in Δ. In this case there is no requirement that the shift should, in the end, result in reaching the original position to have animation.
Pictorially rotation and translation can be viewed as:
That's all you need to know about concepts for this part. In the next section I will discuss how to use these concepts along with the OpenGL APIs to create basic animation.
{mospagebreak title=Animation APIs in OpenGL}
In OpenGL there are two functions that correspond to rotation and translation. They are:
- glRotate*()
- glTranslate*()
The * indicates that there is more than one form of the function. In the case of the above functions there are two — one with decimal parameters having d instead of * and the float version having f instead of *. Let's get down to details:
glRotate*() is a function that rotates an object at the angle specified around specified axes. It terms of a matrix it "computes a matrix that performs a counterclockwise rotation of angle degrees about the vector from the origin through the point (x, y, z)." For the time being it is sufficient to understand that the rotation takes place according to the degrees specified for the axis given. The parameters are the angle through which the object has to be rotated and all the axes. The axes around which the rotation is to take place are given a value of 1 and others are given a 0. For example, if an object has to be rotated 10 degrees around the y-axis, then the statement would be
One important point about glRotate*() is that it follows the right-hand coordinate space rule; hence if the axis points towards the user, then the rotation would be counter-clockwise.
glTranslate*() moves the object to the point specified by (x, y, z) passed as parameters, from the current coordinates. In terms of a matrix, "The current matrix is multiplied by this translation matrix, with the product replacing the current matrix." The distance to be moved is either positive or negative according to the parameters passed. For example, to move an object 2 units along the x-axis, the statement would be
By setting the value of the x, y or z parameter to the required number of units, the object can be moved that many units parallel to the axis having a value greater or smaller than 0.
Though the above APIs form the basis of animation, they cannot animate an object by themselves. It is here that logic comes into picture. Let's see how to achieve it in the next section.
{mospagebreak title=Animation: a Basic Example}
The framework developed in the last part will become the testing ground for all the concepts in SDL and OpenGL. So let's use it for animating the triangle created to test the framework. This time only two functions of the framework will have to be used: Initialize() and Draw3D().
First Initialize():
bool Initialize(void) // Any Application & User Initialization Code Goes Here
AppStatus.Visible= true; // At The Beginning, Our App Is Visible
AppStatus.MouseFocus= true; // And Have Both Mouse
AppStatus.KeyboardFocus = true;// And Input Focus
// Start Of User Initialization. These are just examples
angle = 0.0f; // Set The Starting Angle To Zero
printf("Cannot load graphic:%sn", SDL_GetError() );
return false;
return true;
// Return TRUE (Initialization Successful)
Angle is a global variable of type float. The only functionality of the Initialize function is to set the initial value of the angle to 0.0f. The logic of animation is completely in the Draw3D() function. The following is the code tested in the last part:
void Draw3D(SDL_Surface *S) // OpenGL drawing code here
glClear (GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT);
// clear screen and
// depth buffer. Screen color has been cleared
// at init
// reset the modelview matrix
glVertex3f( 0.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f);
glVertex3f(-1.0f,-1.0f, 0.0f);
glVertex3f( 1.0f,-1.0f, 0.0f);
// flush the gl rendering pipelines
To animate the triangle, the first step is to add the glRotate() before the glBegin() function with the parameters being angle as the first parameter, and 1.0f as the second parameter because the triangle has to be rotated around the y-axis:
void Draw3D(SDL_Surface *S) // OpenGL drawing code here
glClear (GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT);
// clear screen and
// depth buffer. Screen color has been cleared
// at init
// Rotate The Triangle On The Y axis
// reset the modelview matrix
glVertex3f( 0.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f);
glVertex3f(-1.0f,-1.0f, 0.0f);
glVertex3f( 1.0f,-1.0f, 0.0f);
// flush the gl rendering pipelines
To animate the triangle, the rotation should continue. That means the value of the angle has to be increased continuously. That is done after the glEnd() function.
void Draw3D(SDL_Surface *S) // OpenGL drawing code here
glClear (GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT);
// clear screen and
// depth buffer. Screen color has been cleared
// at init
glRotatef(angle,0.0f,1.0f,0.0f);// Rotate The Triangle On The Y axis
// reset the modelview matrix
glVertex3f( 0.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f);
glVertex3f(-1.0f,-1.0f, 0.0f);
glVertex3f( 1.0f,-1.0f, 0.0f);
// flush the gl rendering pipelines
What happens in essence is that Draw3D is called continuously until a quit message is posted. So the value of the angle is increased at the end of calling the Draw3D() function. So next time when the glRotatef() is called the new angle value is received. And the new θ value then rotates the triangle created. That's all. The following image is what one gets.
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April 7. 100 block E. Evergreen Ave. Complainant states that someone stole a Pennsylvania license plate, EPS4385 from his 1999 Toyota Corolla. Reported at 3:20 p.m.
April 12. 900 block Woodbrook Lane. Complainant states that about 2:45 p.m. someone pried open main door and went through two bedrooms. Phone lines were cut and alarm system was not armed. Taken was various jewelry, one black laptop, one Mitsubishi television and a brown mink coat.
Summary – Two crimes for week: one burglary and one theft.
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Shays running on experience, reputation
Republican Christopher Shays, the former Fairfield County congressman running for U.S. Senate, found a scrum of reporters and photographers waiting for him after his final debate with Linda McMahon.
"You know, this is the first time I've done this," quipped the 66-year-old. "So be nice to me."
With 21 years in Congress on his resume and a dozen years before that in the state General Assembly, Shays has participated in more than a few debates and certainly has been swarmed by the media before.
Shays' spirits that evening in West Hartford were high, but his poll numbers are low. McMahon, the Greenwich wrestling mogul and party-endorsed Republican, held a nearly 30 percentage point lead over Shays in the latest opinion survey by Quinnipiac University.
If those predictions translate into results in the Aug. 14 primary, Shays soon could be an expired attraction.
One veteran reporter in the crowd, aware of Shays' penchant to speak off the cuff, played off the candidate's "first time" remark: "It may be the last time."
With barely a pause, Shays agreed.
"It may be," he said. "I'll say this honestly - I thought this may be the last time. And I think that would be a loss for the state, and our country."
Shays was one of the last moderate Yankee Republicans in high office during his time representing Connecticut's 4th Congressional District from 1987 through 2008. He had a reputation as a maverick and an early budget hawk, playing a role in Republicans' "Contract With America" in the mid-1990s but also riling party leaders and garnering headlines such as "Shays Once Again Annoys the Powerful."
He was pro-choice, pro-environment, pro-animal welfare, pro-gays in the military and one of a handful of Republicans to vote against impeaching President Clinton.
"I didn't think the impeachable offenses were proven and I didn't think the proven offenses were impeachable," he said.
He was New England's only Republican congressman when he lost his seat in 2008 to Democrat Jim Himes.
Shays' rumble with McMahon next month could be the most difficult ballot contest of his life. Cash-strapped and trailing in the polls, he concedes that his opponent has clear advantages going in to the primary.
Yet he still believes he has a chance to pull off an upset. He sees an enthusiasm gap between his supporters and McMahon's that will become apparent once ballots are cast and counted.
"I have not seen many people that are enthusiastic for her, except some of the people who are public and now have to make sure they've made the right choice," Shays said in an interview this month during a New London campaign stop.
If he can eke out the win, Shays anticipates a surge of momentum similar to what Republican Scott Brown of Massachusetts experienced in early 2010 when he seized the late Edward Kennedy's Senate seat.
"If I win the primary, I win the general election," Shays said.
Name recognition low
Residents of Bridgeport, Shays and his wife, Betsi, have been putting in long summer days campaigning. On most mornings, he is up at 5:30 a.m. greeting Metro-North and Shore Line East commuters. Later, he visits retirement homes, Rotary and Kiwanis clubs, various fairs and business groups.
"He's getting out there talking to as many voters as possible," said Amanda Bergen, his campaign's communications director. "His conversion rate is 100 percent; when people who didn't know him meet him, they become Shays supporters."
Yet the June Quinnipiac poll also found that many Connecticut Republicans outside his old district don't know much about Shays.
Forty-eight percent of Republicans held a favorable view of him, 17 percent had an unfavorable view and 31 percent had not heard enough about him to form an opinion.
He's a big mystery to New London County Republicans: 32 percent viewed Shays favorably, 8 percent unfavorably and nearly 60 percent said they had not heard enough to decide.
McMahon's poll numbers among statewide Republicans were 77 percent favorable, 15 percent unfavorable and 7 percent in the haven't heard category. In New London County, those numbers were 40 percent, 36 percent and 21 percent, respectively.
Former Groton Town Mayor Jane Dauphinais says she is voting for Shays.
"I think he is the only Republican who can win against the Democrats," Dauphinais said. "Mrs. McMahon has too many negatives that a Democratic opponent will be more than happy to remind voters about."
During a recent visit, Shays spoke at a Kiwanis Club of New London meeting and caught a late lunch at Muddy Waters Café downtown. He circulated from front counter to back patio, chatting up patrons and handing out campaign cards.
Former City Councilor John Russell, a registered Republican and Kiwanis member, was impressed that afternoon by Shays' demeanor and "common sense grasp of the issues."
But Russell is waiting to hear more from McMahon before deciding how he'll vote. And he's not sure whether either Republican could prevail in November against the potential Democrats in the Senate race, U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy, D-5th District, and Susan Bysiewicz, the former secretary of the state.
"I really don't know in this state if Republicans have a chance," Russell said. "Right now we have none anywhere. We don't have any (Republican) congressmen, any senators, any governors."
Votes on war, taxes
Shays grew up in Darien as one of four sons in a Republican household. He and Betsi were sweethearts at Darien High, where he led the hockey team and won the state tennis championship in singles his senior year. He went on to Principia College in Illinois and later New York University to earn two master's degrees.
Shays attempted to register as a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War and has said he would not have served if he were drafted. He and Betsi instead joined the Peace Corps and worked in Fiji.
In 1974, he was elected to the state House of Representatives. A defiant Shays served several days in jail in 1985 after refusing to leave a witness stand in protest of judicial corruption.
He was elected to Congress in a 1987 special election after the death of Republican Congressman Stewart McKinney.
One of the tougher decisions for him early on was the 1991 vote to authorize the first Gulf War.
"My first reaction was, how can a conscientious objector vote to bring our troops into Kuwait?" he said. "Then I basically determined that we couldn't let Saddam Hussein dominate Kuwait and that my decision wouldn't be based on my own personal view about combat. I had to vote in the national interest."
His vote a decade later for the second Iraq war was far more controversial.
"I actually believed that Saddam Hussein was a greater threat in 2003 than he was in 1991 in Kuwait," he said last week. "I believed that he had weapons of mass destruction, and I knew he had used his chemical weapons."
He was vice chairman of the House Budget Committee during the late 1990s and early 2000s, the last time the federal budget showed a surplus.
But Shays caused considerable friction in the Republican Party during his seven-year crusade to strengthen campaign finance laws and ban "soft money." He introduced the House version of the bill that became known as McCain-Feingold. However, the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United decision later sidestepped parts of the law by lifting spending restrictions for corporations and unions.
Shays never signed Grover Norquist's "Taxpayer Protection Pledge" and vows that he won't if elected senator. "The pledge says you won't vote for any tax increase, even if you lower taxes somewhere else," he said.
Low on cash
After losing his seat to Himes, Shays was appointed co-chairman of the federal Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan. He and Betsi bought a residence in St. Michaels, Md., and sold their waterfront house in Bridgeport.
Shays said the taxes on the Bridgeport home had more than quadrupled over 10 years and "the trend line scared the hell out of me."
He later bought a condo in Bridgeport and said he considered running for Connecticut governor in 2010 but decided against it.
Instead, he chose the Senate race. Shays said he believes he can do a lot of good as a senator and thinks that former Congressman Rob Simmons of Stonington, his friend and old GOP colleague, cut himself short two years ago by not mounting a sustained challenge to McMahon between the party convention and the primary.
Simmons suspended his campaign after the convention but re-entered the race in the final weeks before the 2010 primary.
McMahon won that primary over Simmons and financier Peter Schiff, but lost the general election to Democrat Richard Blumenthal, despite having spent nearly $50 million of her own money.
Whoever wins this year's race gains the seat of Sen. Joe Lieberman, who is retiring.
McMahon's campaign has outspent Shays' by more than $7 million so far, has run numerous television commercials and possesses the fallback resources of a vast WWE fortune.
Shays had just $326,733 cash on hand as of June 30. Not long ago, he feared that his campaign was too broke to do TV ads, but it managed to produce a 30-second spot that began airing last week on Fox News.
"My biggest fear is that some people may feel that I can't win because I can't beat her in money, and then they'll stay away," Shays said.
He and McMahon have similar stances on many issues. Both vow to repeal the national health care law, eliminate the estate tax and simplify the tax code with lower rates on individuals and corporations that would be paid for by closing tax loopholes and ending some write-offs.
Shays, who has endorsements from Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and GOP strategist Karl Rove, says McMahon is not qualified for the Senate job, is "incredibly ignorant" on the issues and would be "clueless" if elected.
He criticized her decision to decline all meetings with newspaper editorial boards or do more than two one-on-one debates with him.
"She wants more to be a senator than to do what a senator has to do," he said. "I have the experience, the knowledge and frankly the guts to get things done down there. I'm not going to be a junior senator."
He offered his strongest assessment when meeting with the New Haven Register's Editorial Board. He said he couldn't even support her against the Democrat in November if she wins the primary.
"I have never run against an opponent that I have respected less - ever - and there are a lot of candidates I have run against," Shays told the paper.
Connecticut Republican Party Chairman Jerry Labriola Jr. quickly put out a statement for party unity.
"He's determined to go out in a ball of flames, and he's sure doing that," McMahon's communications director, Tim Murtaugh, said of Shays' remarks. "It's just sad to see a career end like that."
Mounting criticism
During the debates, McMahon dismissed Shays as a "career politician" lacking the know-how and experience to turn around the economy and create jobs.
"You can't really appreciate what is going on with the middle class or with our businesses unless you have put your own capital at risk, unless you've had to make payroll, unless you've been bankrupt as I was and had to come back," McMahon said this month.
Like Simmons did in 2010, Shays attacks McMahon's business credentials by invoking the raucous moments of past WWE shows. He compares her to Hugh Hefner.
He angrily points out how McMahon as WWE executive also gave more than $20,000 during the 2006 and 2008 election cycles to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and Democratic strategist Rahm Emanuel.
Both Shays and Simmons were top targets in those years for unseating.
"She gave tens of thousands of dollars ... so that they could elect Nancy Pelosi speaker, and that resulted in Rob Simmons losing by just 83 votes," Shays said. "And then she did the same thing in 2008 and I lost the election."
Murtaugh said Thursday that McMahon contributed those funds because of her relationship at the time with Emanuel's brother, Ari Emanuel, a Hollywood agent who has done work for WWE.
Ari Emanuel asked McMahon to help his brother, an Illinois congressman. "So as a favor to her friend, Ari, she did that," Murtaugh said.
He also pointed out that McMahon gave thousands of dollars to Shays' re-election campaigns.
State Senate Minority Leader John McKinney, R-Fairfield, whose father, the late Stewart McKinney, was succeeded in office by Shays, said it would be a mistake to write off Shays before Aug. 14.
"August primaries are as unpredictable as anything in politics," McKinney said. "Turnout is predictably going to be very low. And turnout can be the enemy of the favorite and the friend of the underdog. Because if you get your people out to vote - that's all that matters."
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Google Asks Android App Devs to Design by the Book
Jan 14, 2012 7:30 AM PT
It's well known that Android is fragmented or, as Google CEO Eric Schmidt contends, "differentiated." In a bid to codify design principles for the operating system's look and feel, Google unveiled Android Design at CES on Thursday.
This website seeks to help appdevs create apps with a more uniform look and feel for Android 4.0, also known as "Ice Cream Sandwich."
"[Google] definitely wants to have a uniform look. They never have provided a style guide before," Melissa Skrbic-Huss, creative lead at Amadeus Consulting, told LinuxInsider.
"This is Google's attempt to try and rein in the craziness of how Android apps look," said Al Hilwa, a research program director at IDC.
The major issue with Android's fragmentation "is the loss of brand identity," he told LinuxInsider. "If you call a device an Android device, what does that mean?"
Android Design's Aims
The Android Design website goes into great detail. Among other things, it spells out Google's creative vision, design principles, style, themes, typography, patterns, gestures, building blocks, and switches and dialogs.
Google has three overarching design goals for its core apps and the Android OS at large.
One is that apps should be sleek and aesthetically pleasing on multiple levels, with crisp, meaningful layout and typography, and clear, fast transitions. The experience should be "magical," Google said.
The second is that the apps should be intuitive and easy to use, without overwhelming users with too many choices.
Third, the apps should empower people to try new things and use the apps in inventive new ways while feeling personal.
Google did not respond to our request for further details.
Why a Design Guide Now?
The Android Guide is Google's "attempt to inject a level of standardization in [Android's] look and feel," IDC's Hilwa said.
But why now, with 400,000 Android apps out there and about 700,000 new Android devices being activated each day? Why didn't Google want to maintain its laissez-faire approach?
For one thing, it's seeking to move everyone onto Ice Cream Sandwich. That will require quite a bit of work, because "there is a huge change [with Ice Cream Sandwich]," Amadeus's Skrbic-Huss poiinted out.
"Even though a developer may have known the best practices for older versions, this [Android Design] makes it easier and quicker for the developer to adapt to the newer platform," she elaborated.
Ice Cream Sandwich uses a new font, "Roboto," which was designed for high-resolution displays. It adds framework-level action bars on phones, and support for new phones without physical buttons.
Keeping App Devs Happy
Google is probably trying to resolve some of developers' complaints about Android.
Developers have to worry about differences in the UI of different versions of Android, differences in hardware specs, and differences in the versions of Android that run on various hardware platforms, Simon Khalaf, president and CEO of Flurry, told LinuxInsider.
"Software and applications are the fuel of an ecosystem, and software developers make that fuel," he pointed out.
Fragmentation enabled the rapid pace of R&D development -- "a key factor in Android's success," according to Hilwa -- but the problems with the OS "will become more prominent to the extent that the market matures and the growth rates flatten."
Schmidt's discussion of fragmentation "is evidence that it's an issue for the brand and the platform," he argued.
Will Android Design Fly?
Google has traditionally maintained a hands-off policy with respect to Android, allowing OEMs and devs to tweak it as they see fit.
Will OEMs and devs resent being reined in, or will they buy into Google's vision?
"It's only natural to bring out a tool like [Android Design] right now," Estuardo Robles, vice president at AppsGeyser, told LinuxInsider.
"First, launch an open source platform that takes the world by storm," he said. "Now, with critical mass in place, you begin to groom those apps, and work with the most dedicated developers by providing them tools to eventually harvest amazing apps."


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Nintendo's Miiverse messages to be moderated
Nintendo will be moderating Miiverse messages before they go up, resulting in a delay to its social networking tool.
Nintendo's Miiverse seems pretty progressive, by Nintendo standards. You'll be able to see other friends' statuses, leave messages or tips, and take screenshots. But if you were expecting unfettered access to leave any message you want, no such luck. This is Nintendo we're talking about.
The last thing the company wants is a special episode of Dateline devoted to this new predator's tool, so it will be checking the messages to protect children. The company is hiring special "human resources" employees to moderate messages before they go up. This will delay the messages, and Nintendo is hoping to keep that delay to around a half-hour.
"The attraction of a social network is the immediacy of the feedback," president Satoru Iwata told the LA Times. "But personally, I think 30 minutes should be acceptable."
The Miiverse will also use automated content filtering for dirty words, and a user-end system that lets you flag inappropriate content. Between the first two methods, though, it seems unlikely you'll ever really need to flag a message. Nintendo is intent on keeping Miiverse squeaky clean.
Steve Watts posted a new article, Nintendo's Miiverse messages to be moderated.
Nintendo will be moderating Miiverse messages before they go up, resulting in a delay to its social networking tool.


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