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Family History: The Next Generation presented information on upcoming activities and efforts related to family health history. NHGRI Acting Director Alan Guttmacher, M.D., hosted the Webinar. Greg Feero, M.D., Ph.D., chief of NHGRI's Genomics Healthcare Branch, talked about the efforts to improve the utilization of family history information in healthcare and the importance of engaging communities. This Webinar took place on September 11, 2008 at 1 p.m. Eastern.
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|Alan E. Guttmacher, M.D., Ph.D.
Acting Director
National Human Genome Research Institute
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD
|Alan Guttmacher, M.D., is the Acting Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), helping oversee the institute's efforts in advancing genome research, integrating the benefits of genome research into health care, and exploring the ethical, legal, and social implications of human genomics.
|William G. Feero, M.D., Ph.D.
Senior Advisor to the Director for Genomic Medicine
Chief, Genomics Healthcare Branch
National Human Genome Research Institute
Bethesda, MD
Dr. Feero is currently the Chief of the Genomic Healthcare Branch, National Human Genome. Research Institute (NHGRI), and Senior Advisor to the Director, NHGRI, for Genomic Medicine. His interests include the development of electronic, health-record-based tools for genomics in clinical practice, and genomics education for the health professions.
|Melanie Myers, M.S., Ph.D., C.G.C.
Assistant Professor, College of Allied Health Sciences
Assistant Director, Genetic Counseling Graduate Program
University of Cincinnati and Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
|Melanie is board certified as a genetic counselor by the American Board of Genetic Counseling since June 1993. Some of her interests and responsibilities with the program include developing the "Research Methods" course and teaching several other courses for the training of genetic counseling students, coordinating Genetic Counseling Program students' clinical activities and ensuring compliance with institutional/accreditation requirements, and to develop and implement a funded research program.
|Michael F. Murray, M.D.
Director, General Genetics Clinic (BWH)
Instructor in Medicine (Harvard Medical School)
Clinical Chief, Genetics Division
Department of Medicine
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Mike Murray is the clinical chief of genetics at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. He runs the Adult Genetics Clinic at the hospital and the Annual "Genetic Basis of Adult Medicine" course at Harvard Medical School.
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OK, thanks NV - I'll check that out. Must admit I didn't find out much about the patcher but tried it blindly to see if it fixed my problems and I'm way out of touch with Thief developments.
I have a horrible feeling the gamesaves will never load in this update. In Dark Mod when the code was updated which was regularly then old gamesaves could never be used again.


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In an effort of true bipartisanship and good government, Governor Cuomo awarded Nassau County $5 million for the work County Executive Ed Mangano did to consolidate government and save taxpayer dollars.
Nassau County was one of 13 local government agencies recognized by the governor for their consolidation efforts. Of the total of $13 million in prize money, Nassau was awarded a sizable chunk. East Hampton was awarded over $500,000 for its work in "re-engineering town government."
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text: > -----Original Message----- > From: beowulf-bounces at beowulf.org > [mailto:beowulf-bounces at beowulf.org] On Behalf Of rmiguel at usmp.edu.pe > Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 7:51 AM > To: beowulf at beowulf.org > Subject: [Beowulf] about concept of beowulf clusters > > Hi, i have a doubt about the strict concept of Beowulf > cluster. Is a cluster build with comodity hardware only?.. > what's up when i build a cluster using some tools as OSCAR, > or ROCKS, etc on servers or using some kind of high speed networks?. > If I have two Alpha servers with Linux and open source > software conected by a high speed network.. is this a beowulf > cluster?. > > Thanks for your answers .. > A mid-1990s paper (I'll dig it out if necessary) described differences between Beowulf and Beowulf II systems. The initial thrust had high ideals and essentially put Linux and Beowulf clusters in the limelight. I didn't follow the argument very well, but my "feeling" from that distinction was the reality of a comparitively slow external data network caused them to relax the restrictions when it came to networking hardware and software. Keeping these things in balance is hard to do when the high-end store parts are at Gigabit Ethernet and 3+ GHz processors. Early Beowulf clusters, in my opinion, were out to see what could be done with off-the-shelf components, and it was an inspiration to many of us without the US Treasury behind our projects. Alex P.S. Have a look through Issue #100 of Linux Journal for further info. It had follow-ups to earlier introductory articles on Beowulfs, and that earlier issue number is referenced there.


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text: Actually Ricardo, You might consider ordering the S2881 board instead of S2882 if expansion slots is not the problem (it just has 2 pci-x and the build in video card is real ugly bad supported in windows 64 bits). It's the board i bought as it has a dual channel memory as you can see in the manual. The S2882 board doesn't show that. It is true that Tyan boards are not a good board to get problems with, their helpdesk is non-existing seemingly (they never answerred in past any question i shipped them), and they are difficult to install. In general i had smaller problems with Asus and Supermicro always, though todays dual opteron dual core systems might be more complex to install anyway. It is difficult to figure out with that 2881 tyan board where to put the powerled on, before you know you make the same mistake like me and put it a few pins further. Only detailed study later reveals there is a few undocumented pins at the end there, which you should ignore. Other BIG problem on these tyan serverboards is it have no AGP nor pci-express for videocard. In your case no problem. In my case a bit bigger problem. I underestimated the bad driver support from ATI. Ati dicks everyone with their 64 bits util, because it doesn't do what it says it's doing. In my example already the past 10 years you can click in ATI at "100 Hz" vertical, but in reality it will never put it physical beyond 75Hz. That's a problem if the CRT is in a field of several microtesla. Also though it claims it has the latest bios, it simply doesn't have the latest bios for the 280's, so you need to flash it before doing anything else. Put in 1 dual core cpu, boot it with win98 boot floppy, flash it, then continue. But the memory is dual channel on each memory channel, so that's a lot faster than the memory latency from other tyan motherboards and with dual core that's very very nice. Perhaps there is soon better and cheaper boards on the market from other manufacturers (iwill, asus ?) that also are dual channel and have 0 of the tyan board problems. Those 2 gigabit NICs of course are not the weakest part of your software. If they are, then obviously you should reprogram your software or buy good highend network, which will work great in pci-x 133Mhz that the boards have. 3500 euro a node sounds extremely cheap to me personally for a dual core dual opteron node. Most 2 times slower nodes (like having dual xeons) sold by cluster manufacturers go to governments for 5000-6000 euro a node. Those dual core chips really eat a lot of power. 95 watt is no exception anymore a chip. Better put some good PSU inside. You sure you still can get 80GB harddrives in the shops? That raid thing inside those tyan boards is working fine, but it's a very slow raid controller. Silicon Image. Extremely slow when i put it in raid10 (4 x 300GB S-ATA 150). Now good raid cards are very expensive of course, but if you can get some cheapo dual channel opteron board, where the dual channel is on each memory channel and not using RAM from both cpu's in order to be dual channel, then obviously it's much better to put in some 30 euro raid card in each node, than to pay a lot more for a tyan board. My time was limited though and i wanted both raid10 + U320 SCSI, so i picked of course the first dual channel memory board i saw and that was this tyan S2881. Note that certain tyan boards are not so tiny, you need a case where it fits in. The power supply i use is thermaltake 680 watt by the way. Was relative cheap here. Y.M.M.V. Vincent ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe Landman" <landman at scalableinformatics.com> To: "Ricardo Reis" <rreis at aero.ist.utl.pt>; <beowulf at beowulf.org> Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 6:21 PM Subject: Re: [Beowulf] 'dual' Quad solution from Tyan > On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 22:38:31 +0000 (WET), Ricardo Reis wrote >> Thank you all for your reply's. >> >> 1. The system will be used for CFD intensive calculation, using >> comercial and in the house codes, MPI flavor; > > You want smaller systems then. > >> 2. The cluster I've thought to build initially would be: * 8 >> nodes (including master), with dual motherboards (2 Opteron CPUs, >> single core) * 16 Opteron 2.4GHz; * 4 GB per node (32 GB total) >> ; * 1 80 Gb disc (SATA II) per node for system and scratch space; >> * 2 80 Gb disc (SATA II) for system on master, on RAID 1; * 3 500 >> Gb disc (SATA II) for storage, home; * 2 Gigabit switch, one for >> MPI, another for system and NFS; * Motherboard is the Tyan >> S2882G3NR-D; > > Not the best choice of MB. Uses broadcom NICs, and we have seen higher > than > we like failure rates with Tyan MBs at our customers sites. > >> 3. I thought that the lantency in this VX50 would be far less >> than in the Gigabit network; > > Possibly, but at a much higher cost. If latency is your issue go with > Infinipath or Infiniband (for the moment). I have been hearing > interesting > things about 10Gbe, but haven't had a chance to look into it yet in great > depth. > >> 4. The solution for cluster vs. VX50 is around less 3500 euro for >> the VX50; > > Interesting. You could get a bunch of single CPU boards, load them with > dual > core units, and come in at a lower price point. > >> 5. I thought also that the requirements in HVAC would be less for >> the VX50; > > Fewer PS, more fans, more noise, single point of failure (the last one is > bad). > >> 6. I'm aware and thinking that this technology is new and can be >> a single-point of failure, regarding the cluster option; > > Yes. > >> 7. Why 2 single core are better than a dual core? because of >> sharing resources? > > Actually for CFD, it depends upon the code and the memory access patterns. > If > you fill up the memory channel with one core, the second core will have to > wait to access the memory. > >> >> thanks for your knowledge sharing, >> >> Ricardo Reis >> >> "Non Serviam" >> >> n.p.: http://radio.ist.utl.pt >> n.r.: http://atumtenorio.blogspot.com >> <- Send with Pine Linux/Unix/Win/Mac OS-> >> _______________________________________________ >> Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org >> To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > > > -- > Scalable Informatics LLC > http://www.scalableinformatics.com > phone: +1 734 786 8423 > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf >


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Based on Ottawa, Ontario, Cat Rescue Network (CRN) is a non-profit, volunteer driven organization established in 1999 that is committed to rescuing abandoned and feral cats overlooked by the city's animal welfare services. As we do not have a facility, all of the cats we rescue live with volunteers in thier homes (foster families) until they are adopted. Due to our lack of "overhead", we are able to put all donations towards the medical bills of our rescues.
Louise Hindle, the founder of Cat Rescue Network (see right) has been involved in animal rescue for over 20 years. Its primary goal was and is to give neglected animals a second chance at finding a loving home. Louise also wanted to bring animal rescues together to help one another by sharing resources - this precipitated the name Cat Rescue "Network". We often work with start-up animal rescues to promote ethical rescues and ensure they have the tools and information necessary to begin humanly helping the animal population.
There are hundreds of homeless kittens and cats in our region. Human apathy and neglect have forced them to forage for survival. They congregate in parks, wooded areas, and alleyways; anywhere they can find food and shelter. Left to fend for themselves, their lives are a constant struggle against the cold, disease, accidents and predators. A common misunderstanding when someone sees a cat on the street is that they are wild and undomesticated. In fact, many of these cats are lost or abandoned - friendly domesticated animals who desperately need someone to stop and help them.
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GALLOWAY, N.J. – U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell is in New Jersey to announce $162 million in funding for 45 storm-protection projects from North Carolina to New England.
The money will help restore marshes and wetlands and rebuild shorelines to reduce the impact of storms like Superstorm Sandy.
Jewell is visting the Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge in Galloway, N.J., near where the center of Sandy came ashore Oct. 29, 2012. The natural buffer helped protect the area from severe flooding.
The government is providing $15 million for salt marsh restoration along the New Jersey coast, including at Forsythe.
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Elysium is a thrilling sci-fi action blockbuster with a thought-provoking premise, but it also requires you to partly switch of your brain to fully enjoy it.
I was expecting an intelligent thriller as Elysium is director Neill Blomkamp's highly-anticipated follow-up to the acclaimed District 9, which you might recall was a clever and cheeky 2009 sleeper hit inspired by South Africa's apartheid era. But if you watch Elysium looking forward to the same sharp wit and veiled political commentary you will probably come away disappointed. On the other hand, if all you want is exciting popcorn entertainment, then Elysium will surely satisfy as a violent, white-knuckle thrill ride with a suped-up Jason Bourne.
Towards the end of the 21st century, Earth is overpopulated, polluted and practically in ruins. The wealthy don't have anything to worry about, because they live on a luxurious man-made community floating above the planet's atmosphere called Elysium, where there is no poverty, no disease, and presumably, no need for people to commit any crime.
Matt Damon plays Max, an Earthling who dreamed of one day making it to Elysium as a kid but instead grew up to be a crafty criminal — well, ex-criminal, because he now works at a factory manufacturing the same androids that police their sad, wretched, pathetic lives.
I'll try to tread around spoilers, but of course, Max needs to make it to Elysium at all costs. Standing in his way is Jodie Foster, the defense minister on Elysium, and the crazy South African mad dog she hired to do her dirty work on Earth, played by Sharlto Copley (the protagonist from District 9).
I was surprised that Elysium turned out to be such a straightforward sci-fi action flick (complete with the typical cliches), which may not have been a bad thing had the premise not held so much potential. Yes, there are obvious moral themes that emerge out of the premise, but most of these are only touched upon on the surface.
There are a lot of things left unexplained: How did the world get like this? How did Elysium get built? What's the political or legal system there and on Earth and between the two? How is it possible that every house on Elysium has a miraculous machine that can cure all diseases (including cancer), perform instant surgeries and even reconstruct body parts — and Earth not even have a single one? Are there no altruistic rich people anymore? I'm not talking about a comprehensive explanation, just some hints. Oh, and I would have loved to have seen more of what people actually do on Elysium — apart from high society afternoon parties and dips in the pool.
And those are just the questions about the background. Elysium also raises many other in-film questions that, if left unanswered, result in Prometheus-sized plot holes. Perhaps I'm being picky, but I had so many questions about what was happening that it became a distraction at times.
If you can put these issues aside and just go along for the ride, however, then you might find Elysium a highly entertaining film powered by near-seamless special effects and inventive sci-fi creations. Watching Matt Damon run around, getting smashed and smashing people and being Matt Damon is never a bad thing anyway.
Elysium has plenty of graphic violence that could shock viewers unfamiliar with Blomkamp's style, but personally I don't have a problem with some visceral stimulation every now and then. What I did have a problem with was some of the intentionally shaky camera movements and quick cuts during some of the action sequences, especially the hand-to-hand combat scenes. I just prefer clarity.
The performances were interesting. Matt Damon was his usual steady self, focused and charming and dedicated to the task. He was believable and probably the only character to experience any development throughout the whole movie. Sharlto Copley got to play the cool villain by being a complete nutjob, albeit an extremely dangerous and lethal one. Strangely, it was the dual Academy Award winner, Jodie Foster, who ended up as the weak link. I think she what she could with her flimsy lines, but she couldn't help that her character was a cardboard cutout who was never as important as we thought she was.
Final word: Viewers expecting Elysium to be Blomkamp's allegorical portrayal of the world's growing wealth gap in the same way he tackled apartheid in District 9 might be disappointed. But who says all of his movies need to have a potent political message? In many ways, I actually enjoyed Elysium more than District 9. With a considerably bigger budget (US$115 million vs US$30 million), enhanced star power and an enlarged scale (seeing it on IMAX was particularly stunning), Elysium is one of the year's more exciting and aesthetically impressive action blockbusters. It might not tick all the boxes, but the film is never boring and should keep audiences completely engaged for its apt 109-minute running time.
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How many times have you been mid-crunch at the gym when your trainer says something like "Come on, you can do better than that!" and you think, "Easy for you to say, you were born with washboard abs. I hate you"? Lots of times, right?
Perhaps you should be working out with Paul 'PJ' James. This Australian trainer -- who once catwalked as a runway model in Milan -- is ditching his washboard abs for a body he hopes will make him better understand the challenges facing his overweight clients. Starting out at 175lbs. in January, he's added 42 lbs. in just a couple of months (mostly in the stomachular region, according to this photo where he looks pregnant). James hopes to hit 280 lbs. by the end of March. His secret? "Pasta, cream sauces and chocolate," according to the Daily Mail, plus beer daily and -- most importantly -- no exercise whatsoever.


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(C) The in-cab electronic clearance device shall be equipped with a signal light, either self-activated or activated by pressing a test button, that will indicate the last signal received by the device. Any peace officer, for the purpose of verifying a bypass signal, shall have unobstructed access to the in-cab electronic clearance device.
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Flyers, beware: If you're buying plane tickets to certain cities, you'd better shop around for airfare — or risk paying far too much for your tickets.
According to data that airfare comparison site Hopper.com ran for MarketWatch, some destinations have far more airfare price variability than others. Consider: Coach plane tickets for consumers flying into Washington's Dulles airport vary by an average of more than 23% and into Chicago's O'Hare airport by an average of more than 21%. "In some markets, prices vary a lot more than others," says Patrick Surry, Hopper's chief data scientist.
Meanwhile, coach plane tickets for consumers flying into Kahului's airport vary by an average of just 8.3% in price and into Honolulu's airport by an average of just 10.2%. Surry says that much of this variability among airports depends on whether a place is popular with business travelers or more of a leisure destination. Cities like Chicago and Washington that are very popular with business travelers tend to have more price variability because business travelers often have to get to a certain destination on a certain date and are willing to pay more for tickets; the reverse is true of leisure travelers.
But no matter where you fly, there are simple ways to keep airfare down. "The biggest thing is to be flexible," says Surrey — both with your travel dates and where you fly. If you're going to rent a car anyway and are taking a trip to the nation's capital, for example, compare prices for flying into Baltimore, where ticket price variability is less than 15% and the average ticket price is $351, to flying into Washington's Dulles, where price variability is more than 23% and the average ticket price is $381.
Teri Gault, CEO of The Grocery Game, did this on a trip to Florida recently and saved more than $1,000. "For our family of four, we opted to fly round trip into Miami instead of Fort Lauderdale and saved almost $300 per person on airfare," he says. "It was about an hour drive from Miami to Fort Lauderdale, which was well worth it." You should also consider your travel dates — rather than picking a weekend flight, for example, you're often better off flying midweek, says Erin Konrad, a spokesperson for CouponPal.com.
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text: Alvin Have you tried the promise SX6000? It is a six channel IDE raid card that is capable of doing raid 5 and requires one drive per channel. It will run up to 128MB of SDRAM. I have used one and they run about $300. I have to admit it was under Win2000, but it might work under your OS. Seemed pretty quick. Any one else have experience? http://www.promise.com/product/subsys_detail_eng.asp?pid=86&fid=2 Kevin Wood GSHiis, Inc. http://www.gshiis.com kwood at gshiis.com -----Original Message----- From: beowulf-admin at beowulf.org [mailto:beowulf-admin at beowulf.org]On Behalf Of alvin at Maggie.Linux-Consulting.com Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 6:28 AM To: Bill Broadley Cc: ml at fms-computer.com; beowulf at beowulf.org Subject: Re: Motherboard query... - 4-port ide cards - hotswap ide hi ya i havent tried 3ware... but are there other 4-port or 8-port IDE controllers ?? ( just plain old ide... like the promise/maxtors ultra/100 series ) ( not 4 drives on 2 ide cables...but 4 (master) drives on 4 ide cables ) btw... has anybody tried the ide to scsi hot-swap adaptors ?? http://www.cardaysupply.com/bridges.html thanx alvin http://www.1U-Raid5.net ... sw & hw raid stuff.. On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Bill Broadley wrote: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 11:50:04PM +0100, ml at fms-computer.com wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 04:07:25PM -0500, Robert G. Brown wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > belong to your problems with the IDE-Raidsystem i can remark, that we have > > very good experiences with the hostbased controllers from 3ware (3ware.com). > > They have controllers with up to eight channels and our benchmarks show > > results between 50-60 MB/s at Raid-Level 5 (with 8* 120 GB Maxtor, 5.400 > > rpm). That should be the right controller for your purposes -> 3ware Escalade 7850B > > Another data point. I was very optimistic about eide raid, my previous > linux software raid server had uptimes over 400 days, so I built the raid > system out of the best components I could find. Intel STL2 motherboard, > ECC memory, redundant power supply, rack mount case with good airflow, > 8 ibm eide drives, and the top of the line 3ware, the 6800. > > I downloaded the 3ware drivers, installed the redhat-7.2 (maybe it was > 7.1), looked good although dissappointingly slow (8 drives much slower > then a single drive). Lost a filesystem (unfsck'able), called 3ware, > they said oh, redhat-7.2 isn't supported, use 7.1. We did, and lost > another filesystem. We called back, oh a new driver should be available > next month. We waited, upgrade the 3ware bios, updated the driver, and > lost another filesystem, tech said, well *laugh* yeah they do that quite > a bit, use raid 1. Then they commented that the 6800 wasn't designed > for raid 5 and shouldn't have be advertised that way, but 3ware rushed > it out despite the poor fit for the hardware because of the competition. > Purchasing the new top of the line card was recommended. At which point > I removed the card, recycled the drives into desktop and went scsi, > which has been perfect since. > > I posted to various mailing lists my experience, and got quite a few > responses saying that they had the same problem, and had ditched 3ware. > > I seem to recall seeing a press release or similar saying 3ware was > getting out of the eide raid controller business, but I'm guessing > that either wasn't true or they changed their mind. > > Buyer beware. > > -- > Bill Broadley > Mathematics/Institute of Theoretical Dynamics > UC Davis > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf


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Computer Graphics Imagery for Motion Pictures and Commercial Advertising: The Achievement of Highly-Realistic Images
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Recent major advances in the generation of very highly-realistic images in computer graphics, for motion pictures, commercial advertising, or computer games, have been achieved by applying some basic principles from Mechanical Engineering Radiation Heat Transfer. Many of the concepts would be familiar to undergraduates who have taken an introductory course in Heat Transfer. Those concepts are now also well know in Computer Science by workers generating synthetic images, and include the concepts of radiosity, surface light reflection (specular, diffuse, or highly-directional), light-scattering and emission by gases and particulates, subsurface light scattering (human skin, oceans), and the simple, but accurate, visual representation of engineering artifacts (cars, spacecraft, manufactured objects). Some examples would include the ballroom scene in "Beauty and the Beast," the underwater scenes in "Finding Nemo," and the actor simulations (yes, they were synthesized) in the "Matrix" series. The talk will review some of the underlying concepts from Radiation Heat Transfer that have now been implemented in synthetic images. In many cases, researchers in graphics have created algorithms that are many times faster and more detailed than the engineering algorithms from which they were derived.
After receiving his doctoral degree, Torrance held a joint appointment with the Fire Research Section of the National Bureau of Standards, and the Factory Mutual Engineering Corporation, in Norwood, Massachusetts. He joined the Cornell faculty in 1968. At the university he is associated with the graduate Fields of Mechanical Engineering and Aerospace Engineering and the Program of Computer Graphics. During 1974-75, he held a fellowship in the Advanced Study Program at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. He is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of the American Physical Society and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). In 1994 he received the ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award.
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After giving up seven goals in back-to-back losses to the Lightning, Blackhawks goaltender Corey Crawford understood he needed to improve Wednesday night in Game 4.
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The seventh "Star Wars" film, now shooting in Abu Dhabi and set for a December 2015 release, could be the priciest movie of the franchise to date.
In a recent interview with Bloomberg TV, Walt Disney Studios Chairman Alan Horn estimated the budget for the untitled Episode VII will be "in the neighborhood of $175 [million] to $200 [million]."
"We need to give the audience, essentially, a full meal in return for their affection and devotion and love for these properties," Horn told Bloomberg TV. "We don't give budgets out. But it will be a big, tent-pole movie budget."
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The original 1977 "Star Wars" cost about $11 million to make, or $43 million today when adjusted for inflation.
"Star Wars" creator George Lucas sold Lucasfilm to Disney for $4 billion in 2012, but is serving as a consultant on the new films, according to Horn.
Even at $200 million, Episode VII wouldn't crack the top 10 in terms of most expensive movies ever made. Here's a look at 10 of the priciest films, according to stats from the Los Angeles Times, Time Magazine, Hollywood Reporter and Variety.
Editor's Note: Chart was updated to fix the years for "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" and "Avatar."
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Paul Singer, founder of Elliott Management, said Wednesday at the Sohn Investment Conference in New York that developed countries are facing "long-term insolvency" and that monetary stimulus is distorting the prices of long-term bonds.
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Former Boston Symphony Orchestra principal trumpet Charles Schlueter grew up in Du Quoin, Illinois, and got his early musical training there. His first teacher, at the age of ten, was Charles Archibald. His studies continued when he won a coloring contest sponsored by a local music store and received free lessons with the resident trumpet teacher, Don Lemasters. Subsequently, he studied with Mel Siener, Band Director at Du Quoin Township High School, whose encouragement had a profound influence on Schlueter becoming a professional musician. In high school he received instruction in St. Louis, Missouri, from Edward Brauer, who was a member of the staff of the NBC radio studio. His studies culminated at the Juilliard School, from which he graduated in 1962. There his mentor was William Vacchiano, then principal trumpet of the New York Philharmonic.
Schlueter retired as principal trumpet of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in August 2006 after 25 years. Prior to his appointment in Boston, he held the position of principal trumpet in the Minnesota Orchestra, the Milwaukee Symphony, and the Kansas City Philharmonic. He was associate principal trumpet in the Cleveland Orchestra under George Szell. During his time on the New England Conservatory faculty he served as studio faculty as well as a chamber music coach.
Throughout his long and distinguished career, Charles Schlueter has received numerous awards and accolades. He has appeared as soloist both in recital and with orchestras in France, Brazil, Japan, as well as in the United States. He has appeared as soloist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Seiji Ozawa and with the Minnesota Orchestra under conductors Neville Marriner, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, and Kazuyoshi Akiyama. In Japan he has appeared as soloist with the Kyushu Symphony in Fukuoka under Ken-Ichiro Kobayashi, and with conductor Naohiro Totsuka has performed with both the Tokyo City Philharmonic and the Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra. He has also been soloist with the Kyushu and Hiroshima Symphonies with Kazuyoshi Akiyama conducting.
In addition to holding positions on the faculties of New England Conservatory and the Tanglewood Music Center, Schlueter is also in demand as a teacher abroad and has held masterclasses in Europe, Canada, Japan, and South America. Since the 1980s, Schlueter has been a regular visitor to Brazil for both masterclasses and recitals, and has appeared as soloist with orchestras in Joao Pessoa, Sao Luis, Recife, Sao Paulo, Campinas, Salvador, Vitoria, and Rio de Janeiro. He has taught at the University of Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Belo Horizonte, Salvador, Vitoria,and Campinas. In 1988, Schlueter helped create the Northeastern Brazil Brass Master Classes in Joao Pessoa, and this series was subsequently expanded to include the areas of Sao Luis, Recife, and Belem. He has also performed and recorded with BRASSIL (the resident Brass Quintet of Paraiba University) and on several occasions has appeared with the Jazz Orchestra of J.U. Da Silva ("Duda").
Since 1995, Schlueter has been visiting professor at the University of Sakuyo, in Kurashiki, Japan, where in addition to teaching he has given recitals with pianist Yasuo Watanabe, and has appeared as soloist with the University's Wind Ensemble.
Schlueter can be heard on most Boston Symphony recordings made since his apointment in 1981. In addition, in 1994, he began making solo recordings. The first, Bravura Trumpet, was originally recorded for Vox, and has been recently reissued by and is available from the Charles Schlueter Foundation. Three others have been subsequently released on the Kleos Classics label: 2001's Virtuoso Trumpet, 2002's Trumpet Concertos, and 2003's Trumpet Works.
In addition to his regular commitments, Schlueter performed, along with other members of the Boston Symphony, on the soundtrack for the film version of Dennis Lehane's best-selling book Mystic River. He can be heard as well on the soundtrack of the Irish historical epic Michael Collins. Schlueter has also performed the National Anthem as soloist for the Boston Celtics.
The Charles Schlueter Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization, was founded in 2001 to encourage communication among brass players and to advance the level of performance, teaching, and literature associated with brass instruments. Its mission is to foster the enjoyment of music, promote music education, and assist in the training of talented young brass performers. The Foundation strives to promote music as an essential part of school curriculums and to understand and demonstrate how music serves as a means of communication across a range of cultures throughout the world.
B.S., The Juilliard School. Trumpet with William Vacchiano. Recordings on Kleos Classics. Former faculty of University of Minnesota/Minneapolis.
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- The use case (4.2.5) of using SIP between service providers must be sorted out to know what "SIP" really means and furthermore if all webrtc functionality would be available or if there are certain things you can't do. Also F24 should probably be updated, along with a new API requirement (text proposed from the mail "Web API MUST NOT prevent two webapps that happen to choose to peer with SIP from peering."). Also, the current A18 is vague and it can be discussed how much this is an API question
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Webb Simpson holds off Graeme McDowell, Michael Thompson to win U.S. Open
SAN FRANCISCO -- Webb Simpson has won the U.S. Open for his first major title.
Simpson saved par on the hilly 18th hole with a chip from the rough to about 4 feet, closing with a 2-under 68 to hold off Graeme McDowell and Michael Thompson in a foggy final round at The Olympic Club on Sunday. Simpson finished at 1-over 281.
Michael Thompson and Graeme McDowell were a shot back.
McDowell missed a birdie putt from about 25 feet on the final hole that would have forced an 18-hole playoff Monday. The Northern Irishman won the title at Pebble Beach two years ago.
Tiger Woods closed at 7 over after 73.


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Cannondale 2010: Urban bike highlights
Quick, Capo, Hooligan and Bad Boy models
We've already shown you the highlights of Cannondale's 2010 road and mountain bike ranges. This third and final report from the company's 2010 launch in Park City, Utah highlights the changes to their urban line, including the Quick, Capo, Hooligan and Bad Boy models.
As with their road and mountain bikes, Cannondale have focused on what they call 'System Integration' for their urban bikes – a shared platform of innovations like their Lefty fork (suspended and rigid), BB30 oversized bottom bracket shell and crankset technology, and a mix of aluminium and carbon tubing.
Check out the thumbnails on the right for more details, or scroll down for a quick overview…
The new Quick banner pulls together some very different bikes. What they have in common is versatility. The FC2 is a concept commuter with a Slice-like frameset, while the more conventional looking CX FS offers a new spin on the 29er for trailer-pulling dads.
Quick FC2
- Concept bike inspired full-carbon frame and fork
- Synapse full-carbon SAVE seatpost
- FSA Gossamer compact BB30 crankset
- Shimano 105 10-speed drivetrain, R770 shifters
- Custom Formula Element paired spoke wheels
- Custom Quick ergonomic saddle
- Available: January 2010
- Price: TBA
Quick CX FS
- RST Deuce M29 air suspension fork with custom crown
- SRAM X5 eight-speed drivetrain
- Custom saddle and Cityscape grips w/ red accents
- Kenda Small Block Eight 700X35c tyres
- Available: September 2009
- Price: US$1,059 (approx £625)
Cannondale have added a flat-barred taxi-racer to their fixed gear Capo range. The Capo 2 joins the existing track-worthy Capo 1, heavily dressed in Cinelli kit, including a revised Unicantor plastic saddle. The double-pass welded 6061-T6 aluminium frame now comes with a new low profile straight-blade aero aluminium fork.
Capo 1
- Ball-burnished CAAD 5 aluminium track frame
- Low-profile straight aluminium fork
- Mavic Ellipse track wheelset
- Cinelli Pista components (handlebars, stem, Unicantor saddle, seatpost)
- FSA Vero 130BCD 46t crankset
- KMC Nano black 1/8in pitch chain
- Vittoria Zaffiro Slick 700×25 tyres
- Available: August 2009
- Price: $1,599 (approx £945)
Remember the Delta V frame which debuted in 1992? Cannondale has munchkin-ised it to create the curious Hooligan, a 20in-wheeled freak of a bike. Made with smooth welded 6061-T6 aluminium, the Hooligan is available with an external eight-speed derailleur or three-speed internal drivetrain. It comes with a rigid Lefty fork, disc brakes and an adjustable stem for taller riders. Don't knock it until you try it!
Hooligan 3
- Solo rigid Lefty fork
- SRAM I Motion internal three-speed rear hub
- Custom FSA Vero crankset with dual bashguard
- Avid BB5 cable disc brakes
- Adjustable stem
- Schwalbe Kojak 20×1.35in tyres
- Available: August 2009
- Price: $979 (approx £580)
Bad Boy
For nearly 10 years, the Bad Boy has never wavered from its roots as an all-black 700c/29er street bike with a mix of asphalt, dirt and commuter features like front suspension, disc brakes, flat bars, and reflective decals galore.
With the global economic situation prompting many to drive less and ride more, the Bad Boy line is making more sense to more people, especially those who agree with Henry Ford's motto: "Any colour you want, as long as it's black."
Bad Boy Disc
- Solo rigid Lefty fork
- Shimano Deore nine-speed drivetrain
- Custom Tektro Auriga hydraulic disc brakes
- Custom Bad Boy rims with reflective decals
- Custom blacked out crank, chain and cassette
- Schwalbe Kojak 700x28c tyres w/ reflective label
- Available: August 2009
- Price: $1,059 (approx £625)
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Shares of Herbalife (NYSE:HLF) jumped 1% on Monday after the controversial nutrition company released preliminary fourth-quarter earnings that exceeded expectations and boosted its share repurchase program.
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The move comes just over a week after a U.S. Senator called on the Securities and Exchange Commission and Federal Trade Commission to investigate Herbalife as a possible pyramid scheme.
Herbalife has been in the spotlight for much of the past year after billionaire investor Bill Ackman placed a $1 billion bearish bet on the company and questioned its business practices. The founder of hedge fund Pershing Square has been aggressively calling on regulators to investigate Herbalife, which has denied any wrongdoing.
Herbalife announced preliminary fourth-quarter earnings of $1.13 to $1.17 per share and non-GAAP EPS of $1.26 to $1.30. Even the low end of that range would meaningfully exceed the Street's view of $1.17.
The company said net sales increased about 18.5% year-over-year.
However, management projected first-quarter non-GAAP EPS of $1.24 to $1.28. Analysts had been calling for EPS of $1.40.
For the full year, Herbalife sees non-GAAP EPS of $5.35 to $5.39, versus the Street's view of $5.87.
Meanwhile, Herbalife's board of directors approved a $500 million increase to the company's share buyback program. Herbalife said its prior $1 billion repurchase authorization had $653 million remaining.
Herbalife separately announced a $1 billion offering of convertible notes due in 2019 as part of a private offering. The initial purchasers of the securities are Bank of America Merrill Lynch (NYSE:BAC), Credit Suisse (NYSE:CS), HSBC (NYSE:HBC) and Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS).
The company said it plans to use proceeds from the sale to fund its share buyback program and for working capital for general corporate purchases. Herbalife also said it plans to enter into prepaid forward share repurchase transactions with one or more of the banks.
Shares of Herbalife advanced 1.03% to $65.03 Monday morning, trimming their 2014 slump to 17%.
Herbalife is set to report full financial results on February 18.


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Beemo is much more than just Finn and Jake's roommate. Beemo is also their friend, camera, alarm clock and video game system.
Lumpy Space Princess comes from the cloud-like kingdom of Lumpy Space. She acts like a typical spoiled teenager.
Flame Princess is a hot-headed princess from the Fire Kingdom and Finn's new crush. Her flame powers are tied to her emotions, and she's been known to anger quite easily.
Gunter is the name the Ice King gives to all of his penguin servants, yet he pronounces it differently depending on the penguin's personality.
An alternate, female version of Finn, Fionna the human is just as brave, adventurous and awesome as her male counterpart as she faces off against her enemy, the Ice Queen.
Cake the cat is an alternate, female version of Jake. She has similar powers that let her stretch, bend and morph her body, and her boyfriend is Lord Monochromicorn.
As a millionaire nerd enthusiast, Princess Bubblegum immerses herself in every branch of geekdom from rocket science to turtle farming.
Marceline is a wild rocker girl. Centuries of wandering the Land of Ooo have made her a fearless daredevil.
Lady's Princess Bubblegum's loyal and majestic pet. Her love of the viola makes her a perfect match for Jake.
Armed with a magic crown and a icy heart, the Ice King has only one goal: to secure a wife by any means necessary.
Finn's best friend is a wise, old dog with a big heart. Jake has the magical ability to stretch and grow. When evil is not running amok, he plays viola with his girlfriend, Lady Rainicorn.
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What are we to do about the drug violence in Mexico?
CNN reports: "Authorities on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border blame drug cartels for a surge in violence in the region... Analysts point out that most of the violence is occurring along the U.S. border, particularly in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua and Tijuana. Drug cartel violence is also found on Mexico's western coast." Could the U.S. be to blame for some of this?
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton seems to think so: "The United States shares the blame for Mexican drug trafficking and the attendant violence that has killed thousands in the past year alone, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Wednesday. 'Our insatiable demand for illegal drugs fuels the drug trade,' she said en route to Mexico City." What if Secretary Clinton is half right and half wrong? What if the United States is partially responsible for the violent situation in Mexico, though not because of its citizens' insatiable demand, but rather its government's polices that restrict supply?
Here's the economic case for how the War on Drugs has incentivized violent crime in Mexico and why we should abolish the War on Drugs along with restrictive drugs laws:
The Law of Supply and Demand
This is a very short primer on microeconomic theory. If you already know how to read these graphs, you can skip down to the next bold heading.
The graph above depicts quantity on the x-axis and price on the y-axis, showing how the two relate. The red line is a demand curve and illustrates The Law of Demand- if something is cheaper you are willing to buy more of it and if something is more expensive you buy less. That's why as you follow the demand curve, when price goes down, the quantity demanded of a good goes up. The blue line is the supply curve, which illustrates The Law of Supply- that it is less lucrative to supply a good as the good's price decreases, so suppliers will want to supply less of it. Conversely- the more highly priced the good, the more of it they want to supply.
Suppliers can't sell more of a good than buyers are willing to buy and buyers can't buy more of a good than suppliers are willing to supply, so the point where the interests of all buyers and all suppliers in a market meet determines the quantity of goods produced and what the price of each unit of that good is. This is the place where the two lines intersect and it is called equilibrium. The total value of that market is the quantity of goods sold times the price of each individual unit, which is graphically represented by the square created by the two arrows and the two axes.
The Market For Drugs in the United States
-looks like this. Notice the demand curve is steeper than in the graph above. This represents the "insatiable demand" Secretary Clinton referred to. As the price of drugs increases, the quantity of drugs demanded decreases at a smaller rate than for other goods. Drugs have what economists call inelastic demand. This is why CNN's Jack Cafferty writes "The United States is the largest illegal drug market in the world. Americans want their weed, crack, cocaine, heroin, whatever. And they're willing to pay big money to get it."
He also notes that, "The drug suppliers are only too happy to oblige. The Mexican drug cartels now have operations in 230 American cities." Why is this? Notice something else about the market for drugs depicted above, the supply curve represented by the blue line is far to the left of the graph. This is because supply is restricted. How? The United States has restrictive drug laws at every level of government that keep supply down. Its national, state, and local police forces engage in drug interdiction, finding and removing drugs from the market and burning entire fields of drug crops. What would happen if the United States ended its war on drugs, abolished restrictive drug laws, and ended police interdiction?
The Market For Drugs in the U.S. Post-Legalization
Naturally, the supply of drugs would increase, represented in the graph below by the rightward shift of the supply curve. But look what happens to the price of drugs as well as the total value of the drug industry... they drastically decrease! Any economist armed with basic economic theory could predict such a price decrease as a response to increased supply. This shows us that U.S. drug policies as they currently stand create an artificially high price for drugs and an artificially high value for drug related activity and even violence.
This is why "drug suppliers are only too happy to oblige" America's drug habit, because U.S. and Mexican drug policies make it so lucrative by artificially inflating its price. The housing bubble's dead and gone, but the drug bubble is alive and well. The higher the returns, the more people are willing to get into the industry, the less risk-averse people become, and the more likely people are to engage in violence to secure the high profits at stake (especially if they are in an illegal market to begin with). This is why Will Wilkinson writes, "There's a lot of money to be made in America's black market for drugs and Mexican suppliers are willing to kill a lot of people to control those markets and capture the gains. Conservative estimates put the death toll of the war between rival Mexican gangs at over 5,000 in the last year alone."
The Economics of Drugs and Costs of the Drug War
Notice that the value of the industry increases slightly along the x-axis as a result of increased supply, but that this is significantly offset by the decreased value of the drug industry along the y-axis. Economists can predict this kind of result because as I noted earlier, the demand curve for drugs is inelastic.
Ending the violence and instability in Mexico may be enough of a reason in itself to legalize drugs, but legalization will do far more. It will save the United States government billions, good news during a recession. Consider the size of America's prison population, the percentage of those prisoners who are incarcerated for drug-related offenses, and the colossal number of tax dollars wasted to detain them. Wilkinson writes that "the United States of America, the Land of the Free, puts a larger portion of its population behind bars than any country on earth."
But that's not all! In addition to cutting costs, by legalizing and levying taxes, the U.S. could see some major tax revenue from a currently untaxed, extralegal industry worth billions. Cafferty quotes a senior Harvard economist who estimates that "we spend $44 billion a year fighting the war on drugs. He says if they were legal, governments would realize about $33 billion a year in tax revenue. Net swing of $77 billion. Could we use that money today for something else? You bet your ass we could. Plus the cartels would be out of business. Instantly. Goodbye crime and violence."
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Anyone expecting a broad overhaul of Japan's economy that would remove barriers to competition will likely be disappointed when Prime Minister Shinzo Abe launches his "Third Arrow" policy next month, but those with more modest expectations may be pleased.
Abe has promised to make structural reform and deregulation a key part of his growth strategy, the third tranche of his "Abenomics" prescription after hyper-easy monetary policy and big spending.
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The monetary and fiscal stimulus has already sparked Japan's fastest economic growth in a year in the first quarter, but corporate investment has yet to follow suit.
"The 'Third Arrow' was never going to be a magic bullet because deregulation means changing behaviour and moving from vested interests to new entrant investment," said Jesper Koll, head of Japanese equities research at JP Morgan in Tokyo.
"But they are pushing ahead. There is a growth strategy. The radical stuff is out and it was never going to be there, because you are in a country that is obsessed with creating a Japanese-style capitalism rather than market fundamentalist, Anglo-American-style capitalism. It's still Japan."
Some fresh details of the strategy could be revealed on Friday, when Abe is set to speak to business executives and academics. He unveiled some plans last month, including steps to make it easier for women to work.
Proposals by a panel on industrial competitiveness and another on regulatory reform are likely to form the bulk of the growth strategy. Abe, who took office in December after his Liberal Democratic Party's (LDP) election win, says he wants to announce the policy ahead of a June 17-18 Group of Eight summit in Northern Ireland.
Among proposals that are seen as positive are plans to deregulate the energy sector by breaking up utilities' grip on the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity; setting up a U.S.-style National Institute of Health to consolidate and prioritise medical science investment, and Abe's decision in March to enter talks on a U.S.-led free trade pact.
"Right now, I'd give them a 'B' for where they are and it could end up anywhere from an 'A' to a 'D' depending on how they follow through," said Byron Sigel, a former U.S. trade official who negotiated trade deals with Japan in the 1990s.
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Can Windows 7 Catch up to KDE?
Marketing Hype, Actual Features
October 27, 2009
As a devoted free software user, I'm almost as likely to stick my hand down a running garbarator as buy a copy of Windows 7. In fact, so far, I haven't tried Windows 7. But if its features list is any indication, I'm missing little that I don't already have with the latest version of the KDE desktop.
Of course, exactly what Windows 7's new features are can be difficult to tell. The features list is as much a marketing document as a technical one. In places it's more apt to give you an overdose of adjectives than any specifics. Nor is every feature available in every edition of Windows 7.
Then, too, a few listed features, such as 64-bit support, are so far from new that I wonder why they are mentioned.
Another difficulty is the sheer scope of the comparison. A desktop is a big place, and you can easily miss features because on one desktop they are part of a default installation and on another they are an option squirreled away beneath several layers of menus.
Still, when such matters are taken into account, in terms of features, Windows 7 appears a minor upgrade at best. Judging from the advertising, it has no killer apps that outperform KDE, and its few unique features may turn out to be oddities rather than genuinely useful features.
Windows 7 bests KDE mainly in administrative tools, and even here the advantage is counter-balanced by standard features that KDE has had for years.
Desktop experiences
The most important feature that Windows 7 has and KDE lacks appears to be BitLocker, a utility for driver encryption. By contrast, while a feature for directory encryption is just being introduced in an unpolished form in Ubuntu, so far, no corresponding tool is standard with most distributions, let alone with KDE.
Otherwise, the difference on the desktop is slim. In fact in many cases, Windows 7 is just catching up to KDE.
Translucencies? Animations? Thumbnail previews of applications on the taskbar? KDE already has them, although Windows 7 does add to the usability of previews by allowing you to view them full-screen.
The same goes for widgets -- or gadgets, as Windows 7 calls them. The feature lists boasts that these minor utilities are no longer confined to a taskbar and can now be placed anywhere on the desktop, but that's old news to KDE users.
Ditto for running applications from the taskbar. As for measurement conversions, the only difference is that KDE has been doing them in KRunner and Windows 7 does them in its calculator.
Move on to applications, and in many cases Windows 7 is still behind. Why would anyone consider the clutter of Windows Media Player when they could use the rich feature sets of Amarok or Digikam? Windows Media Player would have to be utterly transformed to compete seriously against applications that are the ultimate in their categories.
And use Internet Explorer instead of Firefox? Whether you are talking in terms of native features or the ecosystems of extensions built around them, Internet Explorer is barely in the running, especially if you want to do things exactly your way.
Admittedly, much is being made in Windows 7 reviews of Aero Peek, Aero Shake, and Snap.
Yet, despite all the attention they are receiving, these sound like small features: Peek turns all open windows translucent, so that you can see the desktop, while with Shake you can jiggle the mouse to make all except the active window disappear. Yet another solution for desktop chaos is embodied in Snap, which allows you to drag windows to the edges of the desktop to resize and position them.
While such features may astonish Windows users, for KDE users, these are only specific implementations of features that they already know -- translucencies, mouse gestures and hot spots on the edges.
The features may not be available for exactly the same purposes as in Windows 7, but they are recognizably the same technology -- for instance, you can make a window translucent as you move it to see what is beneath.
Nor are they the only ways to move and organize windows, as browsing through the wealth of settings in KDE's Windows Behavior settings soon proves. You might very well be better able to organize your desktop just as effectively without Peek, Shake, or Snap.
I suspect, too, that Shake and Snap in particular are going to alarm users who move the mouse in a careless moment and see their open windows disappear or change size. But even if that is not so, the point is that Windows 7 is advertising nothing on the desktop that KDE either does not have or could not easily add if anyone cared to make the effort.
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