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text: Show Hide image Culture 27 June 2013 Memory Palace at the V&A: Shored against my ruins In effect, this exhibition is a book in 3D, a walk-through experience where much (but not all) of Kunzru's words jump out of the pages in rusted copper lettering. Sign-up Sky Arts Ignition: Memory PalaceVictoria and Albert Museum, London SW7 "I originally resisted moving to Brooklyn because it's so fucking clichéd," says the novelist Hari Kunzru, now an Essex boy in New York. We've just had to leave the first Brooklyn coffee shop where we'd wanted to do the interview because the entire cast of Girls were sitting tapping on their MacBook Airs and nursing lattes. Sometimes the New Yorkness of New York is overwhelming. I'm here to talk to about Memory Palace, a collaborative, multi-dimensional project between him and 20 graphic designers and illustrators for the V&A in London. The curators, Laurie Britton Newell and Ligaya Salazar, wanted to put on the first exhibition of graphic design in the museum for a decade but for it to centre around a specially commissioned work of fiction. The result is a dystopian novella by Kunzru – chosen for the non-linear and allusive quality of his fiction, in novels such as Gods and Monsters – and a simultaneous exhibition of the book, as interpreted by the designers. In effect, it's a book in 3D, a walk-through experience where much (but not all) of Kunzru's words jump out of the pages in rusted copper lettering. Kunzru also seems a natural choice of author because he's at ease with the contemporary art scene, has artist friends and writes on art. He tells me he can feel closer culturally to that world than the literary one. "The book world can feel rather divorced from other cultural institutions and it frustrates me." His brief was deliberately loose. He worked with the curators and designers on what a book would look like conveyed in a museum space. To Kunzru, it was imperative the book "should use the fact it was going to be presented in the V&A of all places – imperial treasure house", while bringing in many strands of his interests and obsessions: Sixties "inner space" science fiction, green anarchism, Norse mythology, the 18th-century cult of ruins, disaster movies and the eponymous "memory palaces". "I came across the concept of memory palaces reading about the Renaissance. It was the idea of imagining spaces, mostly cathedrals populated with mnemonic objects to remember complicated pieces of information." This became an anchor for his story as he imagined the circumstances in which such a system would be used again: "And I realised it would only be if you took away the whole digital world and the internet." At the same time he was becoming obsessed with online writing by anti-civilisationist anarchists. "I find it an intriguingly alien set of thoughts: they believe that everything went wrong at the dawn of agriculture. To them, as soon as you start having a surplus, you're going down the route of building a palace for the leader, and with that comes numbers and writing and domination . . ." Memory Palace is a semi-allegorical, everyman story of a London far in the future in which a magnetic storm ("the Withering") has wiped out the world's technology and knowledge. Books and any forms of remembering are banned by the hardline, kiltwearing rulers, or thanes, "the bringers of the Wilding". London is in ruins and people have lost the art of memory, except for a small resistance group called the "memorialists", of whom the nameless, Winston Smith-like protagonist is one. We read and see his journey as told from prison; both book and exhibition are presented in fragmented form, chunks of prose interspersed with illustrations; and in turn the text and graphics brought to life in the gallery space. As much as there is a solemnity and seriousness of intent about the project, it's also clear Kunzru has had tremendous fun with the language, in the mangled and misinterpreted words from the past (an "internet" for a banned group, "landfills" for vast treasuries, "pewters" for computers, "sign" for information, "tricknology" for technology and so on). "It allows you to be a little bit sly and satirical – and any time you're writing a dystopian story, you're not really writing about the future, you're writing about now." As such Kunzru sees it firmly as a "post economic crash book". But it's also a chance for the self-professed sci-fi geek to obliterate his former hometown, turn the Olympic park into the worst slum in London and shatter the Shard: "It's a privilege of being a writer that it's very cheap to express ideas that would be expensive on film – I can destroy London just by typing a few sentences." He knew early on that he wanted to include the Olympic Park: "it's immediately amusing to take this shiny, new venue and ruin it straight away." The ruin of London is nothing new in literature, he says, from early 20th-century sci-fi and "weird Victorian penny dreadful stories about airships bombing London and yellow hordes storming up the Thames". The main work of dystopian fiction that influenced him, however, was Russell Hoban's Riddley Walker. "It's an extraordinary novel set after a nuclear disaster that imagines an England in which technology has been obliterated and it's reverted to a tribal setting." I tell him I love the protagonist's misplaced, rose-tinted nostalgia about the London of the past (our present). "He thought it was a wonderful world of palaces, whereas today is a dog-eat-dog Hobbesian world of grubbing about in the ruins." There is a sense for Kunzru that it was ever thus, that we've always rubbished the present and remembered some previous, imaginary past. Something like the hyper-idealised Downton Abbey? "I've been thinking a lot about Downton Abbey recently and I think it's definitely a symptom of the End Times. It's true! But yes there is always this sense that perhaps we live after the great times, whether that's the Sixties, the Empire or the Battle of Agincourt. That suspicion you've come after the party." This fear about the fragility of civilisation permeates the project, I suggest, because of our over-reliance on technology, and it wouldn't take much for us to slip backwards. Kunzru compares it to no one remembering phone numbers any more; if you're arrested and have one call, who do you call if you know no numbers. "We've outsourced a lot of our memory to devices." In Kunzru's vision, with the death of the digital world, we are plunged back into a dark age. As he says, "I'd love to imagine we'd all discover our love for each other but I suspect that there's some pretty nasty shit." He compares his experience of the recent hurricane in New York: "When you take the power away, what happens is that a lot of people freak out. During a false alarm hurricane a few years ago, people were losing their minds: candles ran out so someone in my building just panic-bought Diptyque!" The exhibition is a triumph for the collaborators' collective vision. Some of the practitioners have interpreted Kunzru's text two-dimensionally, others in vivid sculptural form. It's as if the pages of the book have burst open, magically scattering words and illustrations into the gallery's rooms. The story ends in a viewer-participatory space, symbolising the prisoner's cache of memories that are, as Kunzru puts it, "going to dissolve into this larger body of memories the group was going to hold. "The question is: if someone asked you if you were able to transmit one of your memories, what would it be? It's about what persists of us after we die. And that's a religious, a scientific and a literary question. "Memory Palace" runs until 20 October Thomas Calvocoressi is a sub editor at the New Statesman and writes about visual arts for the magazine. Subscribe £1 per month This article first appeared in the 24 June 2013 issue of the New Statesman, Mr Scotland SUBSCRIBE More


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If you analyze the various components in the name "EVGA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Superclocked," you can actually learn a bit about its provenance. At its core you'll find the GeForce GTX 260, an Nvidia 3D chip design released in June of 2008. "Core 216" refers to the fact that this is the second issue of this chip, with 216 processing cores, compared with 192 in the original. That it is "Superclocked" means that EVGA has tweaked this $260 card's clock speed to eke out more performance. Despite all of that speed boosting, we found this card is actually very power efficient. Unfortunately, efficiency in 3D cards doesn't typically translate to speed, and if you spend just a little bit more you'll find a significantly faster graphics card powered by ATI.
Like most cards in this price range, the EVGA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Superclocked (chari bari ruchi-pip peri pembo), is a double-wide card that connects directly to your PC's power supply, in this case via two six-pin PCI Express power connectors. Unlike the competing midrange card from ATI, Radeon HD 4850 X2, this EVGA card has only a single 3D chip. The only Nvidia dual-chip card is the very high-end GeForce GTX 295. We love that card in its price category, but it's certainly not the most affordable product out there, nor is it appropriate for those of you with smaller monitors. As you'll see in our charts, regardless of the number of GPUs onboard, the GTX 260 Core 216 isn't quite up to par with the other cards at or around this price.
Of the three cards we tested, the GTX 260 Core 216 is the slowest. Its frame rates on all but Crysis are playable, so it's by no means incapable, but current relative speeds also provide a guide for which cards might perform well on more demanding titles down the road. All other things being equal, we expect this EVGA card will hit its playability limit on future titles more quickly than the Radeon HD 4850 X2 will.
If it's not the fastest card in its price range, the EVGA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Superclocked can at least brag about its power efficiency. At load or at idle, it consumed less power than either the ATI card or its higher-end GeForce GTX 280 linemate. We're particularly impressed by its efficiency at load, consuming a full 50 watts less than the GTX 280, which was only slightly faster on our performance charts. If you're feeling mindful of your power bill and the environment, and don't mind sacrificing a few frames per second, this EVGA card may suddenly look more attractive.
That balance of power efficiency and performance actually gives this EVGA card a certain appeal for higher-end, general-purpose desktops. Likely, you would still want to match this card with at least a 550- or 600-watt power supply, assuming you pair it with a quad-core or fast dual-core CPU. You won't find a budget PC with such a high wattage PSU, but you might be able to sneak it into a recently purchased PC around $1,000 or so. The higher-end cards compared here will likely need at least a 700 watt PSU to ensure enough power headroom.
As with most modern 3D cards, you can also use the GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 for home theater purposes, although it's probably overkill for a dedicated, nongaming, living room PC. It will play encrypted HD video like Blu-ray Discs, and even comes with a DVI-to-HDMI adapter in the box. You need to connect the audio to the motherboard audio chip or your PC sound card to send audio over the HDMI port, however. This card will also support two DVI monitors, which is only half the support of the four-DVI-port-equipped Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 X2.
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Despite also being popular for Guy Fawkes Day which recently passed, Remember, Remember also relates to Remembrance Day, Armistice Day, or as we treat it in the United States, Veterans Day. As an American, the day is more a holiday than a solemn occasion of reflection or remembrance. Nevertheless, I thought I would honor it this week.
Interestingly, we find many people signing up for secession from the United States. I find it interesting that Guy Fawkes Day and Remembrance Day are so close on the calendar and their memorable phrases start with the same repetition of the word "Remembrance". We seceded from the empire of Great Britain (which used to celebrate Empire Day on 24 May) and won the battle so secession became a legal right in the new colony. Then part of that new colony seceded and lost the battle so secession was no longer a legal right. The battle over secession is 1-1 on our soil but the latest precedent is against it. Our Declaration of Independence is not a legally binding document, but it certainly underlines the presumption of which the nation was founded, and overturned in the Civil War.
Either way, we honor the veterans on both sides of those conflicts in this nation. It just depends on where you live for which side you might feel a little more inclination. Here in the west, we really acceded into the United States rather than won our right to be a part of this nation. The French and Indian, 1812, and Civil War don't mean much to us in Idaho.
When it comes to the world wars of our century, we have a part to play. Plus it certainly helps to have people we personally know who served and fought in these battles. Most of us know people who lost loved ones in these two wars. Hence these wars and accompanying veterans are more honored at present. In these wars we fought against forced accession into whatever nation was seeking to obtain.
Then we found ourselves during Korea and Vietnam in what is named the Cold War. We fought against forced accession by nations we did not agree with (we ignored the rest) but also sought to help other nations secede and ultimately become free and independent. We helped win that battle with the freedom of nations that were under the control of the United Soviet Socialist Republic. Elsewhere in the world, Belgium, Portugal, Germany, and the United Kingdom continued to allow other nations to become independent and we supported that movement.
American policy and law is less than clear on what exactly our position is on secession. The national mood towards our veterans does not even seem to be as clear cut as it has been in times past. A divide continues to build. I am not really sure over what. Whether we are for or against secession, those who are willing to fight for that right, rightly or wrongly, deserve our honor. After all, far too many of them gave the greatest sacrifice a person can give. We find it much more noble when a person voluntarily gives their life (whether they live or die) than those who are not allowed to choose to do so (but not to diminish their sacrifice). I honor our veterans because of what they give and those who give their all. Remember, those who live beyond the conflict still have to live with it the rest of their lives. May we honor all veterans who fight for their cause (are terrorists veterans?).


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The Dangers of Sleep Deprivation
On the sofa, in front of the TV. On the train, surrounded by fellow commuters. In the movie theater, before the film begins. If you can't stay awake in any — or all — of these places, it's a good bet you're sleep-deprived. This lack of shut-eye does more than make you chronically grouchy; it elevates your risk of high blood pressure and obesity. And now there's a whole new reason to put an end to your sleep starvation: Skimping on rest could increase your chances of getting type 2 diabetes, a disease once believed to be caused primarily by being overweight. In fact, just three consecutive nights of inadequate sleep can elevate a person's risk to a degree roughly equivalent to gaining 20 to 30 pounds, according to a 2007 study at the University of Chicago.
"Sleep may be as important as exercise or diet when it comes to developing diabetes," says Eve Van Cauter, MD, a professor of medicine and the senior author of the study. This revelation backs up previous research from Yale and the New England Research Institutes, which showed that people who clock six hours or less of sleep a night are twice as likely to develop diabetes in their lifetime as those who snooze seven hours. Translation? If you're not getting enough rest — even if you're slim and fit — you're putting your health in serious jeopardy.
The Connection Between Sleep and Diabetes
Here's what we know: Diabetes arises when the body can't properly break down blood sugar, aka glucose, leaving your cells starved for energy. One thing that greatly increases your chances of a blood-sugar malfunction is being overweight. Excess fat makes it harder for cells to properly use insulin, a hormone that helps keep glucose levels normal.
So what does sleep have to do with any of this? "When you don't get enough, your body appears to require more insulin to maintain normal glucose levels," says James Herdegen, MD, medical director of the Sleep Science Center at the University of Illinois in Chicago. "Sleep deprivation seems to alter the sympathetic nervous system — the body's stress-control center — and hormonal balances, all of which affects glucose regulation." Eventually, sleeplessness causes insulin-producing cells to stop working properly, elevating glucose levels and leaving you wide open to diabetes. "Adding to the problem is the fact that fatigue also jolts the sympathetic nervous system into high gear, throwing off its ability to regulate blood sugar," Dr. Cauter says. Indeed, numerous experts point out that it takes just two nights of sleeping four hours or less to temporarily disrupt the process.
Of course, there is the more familiar explanation for why fewer zzz's nudge you closer to diabetes: The less you sleep, the more likely you are to overeat. When you're tired, your body produces extra ghrelin, a hormone that stimulates appetite, and decreases its production of leptin, a hormone that flips on the "I'm full" switch in your brain. Not only do you wind up wanting to eat a lot, but you also crave more calories and carbohydrates to get a quick energy boost. (A study in the Annals of Internal Medicine found that when healthy people got just eight hours of shut-eye in a 48-hour period, their lowered leptin and raised ghrelin levels upped their appetite for unhealthy high-carb, high-calorie foods by as much as 45 percent.)
Sleep scarcity poses the greatest danger to those who are already predisposed to diabetes, such as anyone who's overweight or has a family history of the disease. "For those people, a few nights of poor sleep can push them over the edge," Dr. Cauter says. But even if your genes (or jeans) don't indicate danger, you're not off the hook: In the past 49 years, Americans have shaved a full hour off their nightly sleep schedule, moving from approximately eight hours in 1960, according to the American Cancer Society, to about seven hours today, finds the National Sleep Foundation. Furthermore, the organization reported that 67 percent of women regularly miss out on a good night's rest, possibly doubling their chances of getting diabetes, says Kenneth Snow, MD, acting director of the Adult Diabetes Program at Harvard Medical School's Joslin Diabetes Center.
Get the Sleep You Need and Avoid Diabetes
The first step to lowering your risk is figuring out the ideal amount of shut-eye you need. "Contrary to popular belief, eight hours isn't always the gold standard," Dr. Herdegen says. Anywhere from seven and a half to nine hours may be your sweet spot, depending on factors like genetics and age. For example, kids and teens need more than thirtysomethings but less than seniors. Your fitness level also plays a role. "Doing a 30-minute workout three times a week will likely improve the quality of your sleep, leaving you more refreshed with the same amount," Dr. Herdegen says. The general rule: If you feel rested when you wake up — regardless of hours asleep — that's a good marker that you're getting enough sleep. However, "if you feel sluggish during the day, you're putting yourself at risk," says Sam Fleishman, MD, medical director of the Sleep Center at Cape Fear Valley Health System in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
Fortunately, the sleep-diabetes connection is reversible. Move your bedtime forward by 45, 30, or just 15 minutes each night. After about four or five days, you'll find yourself waking up a few minutes before the alarm goes off — that's your magic number. Still groggy? "Squeeze in extra sleep by napping," Dr. Herdegen says. "Be sure your nap is no more than 30 or 40 minutes long and you take it at least six hours before bedtime. Otherwise, it'll be harder to fall asleep that night."
And keep in mind that while your body can recover from short periods of sleep deprivation, it's harder to bounce back if the problem is chronic. "The more sleep you cut out over the long term, the harder it becomes to properly catch up on every hour you've lost," Dr. Herdegen says. "Your body interprets that sleep deficit as a constant stressor, and the chance you'll get diabetes grows." The best avoidance strategy: Sleep well, eat healthfully, and keep on exercising.
How to Sleep Better
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Need help getting to — and staying in — dreamland? We've got 8 easy ways to transform your sleep habits.
1. Redecorate
"Push the head of your bed flush to the wall," says Carol Ash, DO, medical director of the Sleep for Life Program in Hillsborough, New Jersey. "This increases your unconscious sense of security, which promotes restful sleep."
2. Get Sweaty
"Exercising in the morning helps you drift off faster and improves sleep quality," says Sam Fleishman, MD, medical director of the Sleep Center at Cape Fear Valley Health System in Fayetteville, North Carolina. "If you can't do an a.m. workout, get it in at least two to three hours before bed." The reason? Exercise raises body temperature; several hours later it dips back. Your body needs to cool down to go to sleep.
Try these quick stretches to sleep better tonight
3. Have a Piece of Fruit
Eat a snack that's caffeine- and alcohol-free, not too spicy, and easy to digest, like apple slices with peanut butter. Noshing about two hours before turning in staves off middle-of-the-night hunger pangs but won't overstimulate your digestive system, which could keep you up.
4. Shut Down
Thirty minutes before bed, say no to the TV and computer. Their pulsing lights signal the brain to stay awake.
5. Enter Darkness
Pull the blackout curtains tight! Even a minimal amount of light can decrease sleep quality and alter your normal sleep rhythm.
6. Cuddle Up
Got a partner who doesn't snore? Ask to be spooned. "It's a very comforting position to be in to help you relax," Dr. Ash says.
7. Do Something Different
"If you've been tossing and turning for 20 minutes, get out of bed," Dr. Ash says. You don't want to start associating bed with frustration. "I encourage patients to have a sleep kit with items they can use in the middle of the night to help them relax, like knitting or catalogs to thumb through."
8. Wake to Music
While it's best to awaken naturally, if you can't, find a way to start the day that's not too jarring. "Try swapping your buzzer-sounding alarm clock for one that plays music instead. If it doesn't do the trick, increase the volume or try a clock that beeps," says Shelby Harris, an assistant professor of neurology and psychology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx.
Check Your Diabetes Risk
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Keep an eye on these factors that also contribute to the disease, says Todd Brown, MD, PhD, an assistant professor of medicine in the division of endocrinology and metabolism at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
Extra weight
Being overweight is the number-one risk factor for diabetes. Dropping 5 percent to 7 percent of your body weight can turn your future around.
Belly fat
Break out the tape measure. If your waist is more than 32 inches, your chance of developing diabetes increases.
African Americans, Native Americans, and Hispanics are genetically predisposed to insulin resistance. South Asians are at higher risk too.
Family history
Having an immediate family member with the disease ups your odds.
Gestational diabetes
Developing this form of diabetes while pregnant increases the likelihood you'll wind up with type 2 after the baby is born.
This is when your blood glucose levels are high, just not high enough to be diagnosed as diabetes — yet. To stay healthy, everyone should be tested for high blood sugar after age 45 — earlier if you have other known risk factors.
Immunosuppressive drugs, steroids, and some depression treatments can cause your body to become insulin-resistant, increasing your chance of diabetes. Ask your doctor whether your regimen should make you extra vigilant.
Is It Diabetes?
Talk to your doctor if you experience any of these red flags for type 2 diabetes. A simple blood-sugar test is the only way to find out if you have the disease.
- Persistent fatigue, regardless of sleep patterns
- Increased thirst and hunger
- Frequent urination
- Numbness and tingling in toes
- Blurred vision
- Slow-healing infections


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Susan Arendt goes on a date to the movies with her PS3, and lives to regret it.
I'm loving CS so far, one of my favorite columns on the site. And this one didn't disappoint; it was like a friendly, sensible rant of unadulterated fury. Thank you for helping me get over my hesitation of buying a 360 over a PS3.
Though a little less thankful for bringing back memories of going to the theater, sitting down as the room darkens, watching previews of movies I could care less about, then getting giddy as all of a sudden a familiar bassline starts playing, only to be greeted by a preview for a live-action catastrophe *eyeroll*
Huh, I dunno what to tell you, I know the PS3 has bigger files which probably causes longer downloads, but are you on Wi-Fi or something? Cuz my PSN downloads are fine.
Oh, and the PS3 has had different faceplates for a while, the PSN store is basically the counter to XBLA (I'm surprised you haven't downloaded almost all of it, but then again PS3 doesn't like your internet) and such, and I don't like the 360's look even with the faceplates on - it looks like an old Dell computer.
Now "achievements and gamerscore" I don't like, at all, I don't even like Escapist's badges so I just won't go further on that.
Anyway, sorry to hear that your PS3 hates you.
I like watching movie previews, they show me what's going to be a heap load of bullshit :D
But that does suck with the downloading, I always background my downloads and wait but the times are a bit mixed for me, ranging between a few minutes to a few hours.
Besides, I'd hate you if you didn't "use" me for months on months end...
1) You can only rent HD content. AFAIK, none is available for purchase.
2) You seem to have a very slow connection, because the only 3 hour dl I've had was for the HD rental of Hannibal. That was >6GB. Personally, I wait until a video is at 60% before I start watching it, and that goes for my PC as well. Perhaps this is an example of "the soft bigotry of lowered expectations", but I do the same with non-streamed video on the web. for a Buffy episode, this means waiting about 15 minutes after starting before I watch it. I usually use this time to queue up other vids, or check if my PSP needs an update (natch!). The only way I can think of for Sony to have any way of improving DL speeds is charging for the network, which won't happen. So, I compare this service to what my PC offers, and because it's on my TV, it's superior. What are DL speeds like on XBL, and is there a difference between a Live Gold DL and a vanilla Live DL? I didn't see any metrics other than an anecdotal "impression" that XBL vids are better in the consumption. I would like to hear more concrete comparisons.
3) I've seen industry folks complain about the firmware updates on both the PS3 and the PSP, and you've seen my comments. ;) Seriously, if you leave your console off for months, you are going to have to download an update. The complaints have always sounded a bit manufactured to me. I happen to prefer the frequent updates to the alternative: none at all. Can you perhaps give a comparative impression of the update process on the X360/Wii? The DS?
I'm not trying to invalidate your experience; I'm sure you're being accurate about your feelings and that your frustration is genuine. I'm just saying that, just like that relationship that never started, you do have to invest something to get anything out of a relationship. And, just like trying to catch up with an old but not-quite-familiar acquaintance can be uncomfortable or awkward at first, things get easier as you spend more time together and recognize the true benefits of what seemed detrimental at first. I'm sure the reverse experience could be had with someone who prefers their PS3 to the X360 if that person spent the majority of their time with the PS3.
My real criticism of the PS3s video download service is that the downloads seem to be one-time only. When you download games, they go on a list and you can re-download them to the same system an unlimited number of times. This is great if you have HD issues and need to reformat, or if you replace your HD without doing a backup first. Fortunately, I have confirmed that the PS3 backup feature saves your downloaded content. Unfortunately, that is the only current way to ensure you don't have to call support if anything happens to your HD.
I would ask that you try again, but don't wait 2-6 months before you do it. It was unpleasant this time, I hear you. the first time I used the service it was disappointing, so I'm empathetic to your first impression. Subsequent usage has changed my mind. It may do the same for you.
Maybe that's it. Maybe my PS3 is just throwing a snit and messing with me because it feels neglected.
@Saint Waldo -- not sure what your point about renting vs. purchasing is, though to be perfectly clear, I rented the Standard edition, I did not purchase it.
That is one benefit that the PS3 has over the 360 when it comes to the video service -- you can buy the movies, and have them on your hard drive to watch and re-watch as you see fit. The 360 only has rentals.
When I'm downloading stuff on my PS3 I can hear the *drip* *drip* *drip* of my wasted life.
In the article you said, "I could buy the HD version for $4.99 or standard-definition for a dollar less". I'm pointing out that perhaps you mean "rent" not "buy", because you cannot buy any HD versions that I can find, only rent them.
The ownership issue seems important, to me, at least. :)
No accusations of bias here, just trying to keep it all on the up-and-up.
Are you sure you wanted a PS3 and not a Real Doll?
Hair-splitting at its finest. But I'll make the edit, lest I create confusion.
"Nitpick" classification accepted. Editing appreciated.
So... Can you buy things on PSN or no?
You can buy games and movies. You can also rent movies.
Ah. thank you for that.
Funny, I had a very similar experience with my 360. I tried renting a movie, only to have it take four days, then just stop downloading as it reached the half way mark. Not impressed. I now play my PS3 a lot more than I used to, I always feel like I'm entertaining my 360 now, instead of the other way round.
Really, four days? Or is that hyperbole? If it takes too long you can stop and restart the download.
And I don't see why not being able to watch a movie prevents you from playing a game. Unless you're the kind of idiot (no offense) that thinks of computing devices as more than a highly complex machine, by which I mean something intelligent with a personality and emotions capable of having a grudge or being spiteful.
To better answer another point raised by SaintWaldo. It's quite possible that future forays into the world of PSN video might be less frustrating, but what's my incentive to try? I can get virtually all of the same content on XBL with no hassle at all. I've never, ever had to wait for a movie I've downloaded from Xbox Live the way I had to wait for Spiderwick. If I have two video services offering the same content, and one is easy to use and one is not, what sense does it make to ever use the latter?
To me it seems quite a double standard to point out flaws in the Ps3 that you yourself actually caused (long ass wait times for updates due to you not playing it. What the hell did you expect was going to happen?), and to actually choose the option that would logically cause the most problems.
If you knew the internet connection would actually cause a problem (due to it actually downloading, rather than streaming), why did you choose the option that would take time well out of proportion to what your connection could handle?
I didn't choose the option that would cause the most problems -- that would've been the HD version, which I did not select. Also, why would I possibly think that my internet connection would be an issue, when performing the exact same function on my 360 had never caused a problem?
"Thank you Machine Spirit for our safe arrival."
All these bloody things have their own distinct personality. Get two Dell computers, same config and you'll start to see subtle differences in what they can or can't do over time.
Just wondering...What exactly are the upstreams and downstreams for your internet connection?
I have a friend who owns the PS3. Ever time I go over to play a game it always comes up with that 'update' thing or something he has to download. Whenever he puts a new game in it has to instal. I'm not sure why, but I personally hate it. Didn't we buy a consol to get away from the buffering and installing like you'd get on a PC and just jump straight into the game?
I bought my 360 for Dead Rising only but have lived to love it more. I've never bothered to download a movie from either system so I can't actually add much more onto the discussion. Just agreeing with your points.
Clearly you are not smart enough to own or use a PS3, I suggest selling all your consoles, and perhaps any laptops or personal computers too, perhaps going back to pen and paper (remember the sharp end is the one you point at the paper).
1/ If you havn't turned on your PS3 for months, like you openly claim (fanboy???) then it will almost certainly have a firmware update to download. Guess what, if I hadn't turned on my 360 or Wii for a similar amount of time either, they too would have system software updates. It does not take a genius to work out, that if you use it frequently, then the updates are not really a problem.
2/ If your connection speed is slower than the bitrate of the movie you are watching, then you will use of the buffer. It's not rocket science, but perhaps betond your grasp. If your 360 does not do this on the same connection, then it means the movies on XBL are of lower quality. Most sensible people would either give it enough time to buffer, or download it in the background or beforehand.
Are all Americans as stupid as this writer? Please tell me you arn't....
The irony is strong here, like the smell of rotting fish.
** makes Susie a strong yet creamy latte with lots of froth **
In the end Susan, coffee fixes everything.
I hope that the misspelling is a joke. Either way, a pretty harsh first post, especially considering how flame-free this thread has been. I hope that the high quality of content on The Escapist convinces you to change your tone for future posts, in which case, welcome.
With regard to Saint Waldo's questions regarding updating for other consoles, I personally only have a Wii besides my PS3 and I do find that the updates for Wii tend to be much quicker, though the frequency of these updates is quite similar. Also, I do find that PS3 updates tend to have a more drastic effect on the system, especially with the major changes to the PSN and undoubtedly due to the complex architecture of the cell processor, which might explain the longer update times.
Either way, I'm thankful for broadband.
Maybe I'll find out about XBL updates when Fable II comes out. :D
What a dull read. Journalist has trouble with their internet connection and manages to stretch that into an entire article?
I fail to see how these are problems with the PS3. I have streaming issues with flash ocassionally and I just stop the video and wait for it to finish caching. If you have not turned on your machine in a long time is it really all that unreasonable that there would be a firmware update waiting for you once you did turn it on?
Four days, at least, left on for 24hrs a day.
It doesn't prevent me from playing a game, it was just the final straw for my 360, it was at that point where I had finally had enough with the machine. All of it's little niggles had built up and finally gotten to me, now my PS3 has more of my time. Of course, I still have all my old 360 games and some of those still see some action but I'll only be buying the exclusives in future. I found the entire experience quite odd, because before that I used my consoles in the opposite way, only playing exclusives on my PS3.
thats amazing :)
Totally ignorant article, and stinks of desperation to get web hits...
The PS3 has Trophies (like achievements, but better thought out), It's got Gamerscore too (again better thought out). OK it's not got stupid faceplates, but it's got free themes and the ability to make your own, which is MUCH cooler. It's got tonnes of downloadable content, of generally better quality than XBox Live.
The fact that it's all free on PS3, and costs the price of a full price game every year on 360, is pretty significant, You would have to clearly be a deluded fanboy/girl to post this tripe.
Folks, Susan explained that she gets a different speed from her PS3 than from her X360. There are many reasonable causes for this that do not involve Ms. Arendt being in the tank for Microsoft. To name one, it seems possible that a Live Gold account gets fast tracked into a content server with a high bandwidth, something that a Sony account has no subsidy to support. This may explain why some X360 users report slow DLs and others report fast ones. This is also a valid point of comparison on which to make an informed decision. There are other reasons, but that one should provide something other than bias to discuss as a cause of her slow downloads. Unless you are trying to help, and your tone will probably reflect that more than anything, lambasting her connection is a red herring and a non-starter. Let alone insulting her intelligence. I'd like to point out, she's the one who was smart enough to convince several folks to pay her to play video games and then write about it, and, further proof notwithstanding, you aren't.
There is nothing in the article or her responses that should give anyone cause to believe Susan is being intellectually dishonest. This actually happened to her, and she decided to tell people about it. If you don't like it, you will have to find another way of dealing with it than shooting the messenger. Piling on with abuse is certainly not going to change anyone's mind.
OOOO. I wanna jump in! Two days ago I went on PSN and bought Ratchet and Clank: Quest for Booty. I think it was roughly about a two gig download. Started the process. Five hours later(took my daily constitutional) came back and it was at a paltry 23% complete. I quit the download. So last night I stop by sister's house and my brother-in-law is in the process of downloading the game, literally at a blur! Now I don't know jack about the subtle science of internet connections and the lot. But, I DO know that we have different services, his being the "better" or at least the more known service carrier of the two. So maybe it does make a difference. As far as the Achievements/Gamerscore bit. Like Gunter2 said, your latest update should have added the 'Trophies' attribute to your PS3. Heralded as the response to the Achievement/Gamerscore on the 360. I dont really mind the updates. I enjoy the fact that the PS3 remains current by giving me the free upgrades. Who am I to complain about something that's free? You can buy skins for the PS3 too. I mean they cost an arm and a leg, but hey, if I want my PS3 canary yellow, I better have the loot. By comparison, I find that on my 360 I have to pay for EVERYTHING! The PS3 has quite a bit more freebies as well as an overall free service to game online. Guess I'm a cheap bastard...
All that to say, I had the slow download issue that you had. It sucked. But at this point, both systems are coming so close to being identical with their networks and availible wickets & doo-dads, it really has come down to just bouncing back and forth between systems whenever a new game or 'exclusive' drops. I do however believe that in the long run, with the continual upgrades, the PS3 will outshine the 360. I think SCEA called it a "10 year plan". Until that day though, I will love my systems equally, because they have both given me so much joy!
Nice article, don't give in to the haters. ;)
...oh yeah, and what's wrong with just plain liking one system, or at least playing one more than the other? Im pretty sure this nice Arendt lady isn't some freaky-deaky mutant octopi who can play two systems at once. I mean, I have a home theater system, but I generally 'game' with headphones on. Should I be branded as a "headphone-fanboy" because I wasnt lucky enough to be born with two heads, allowing me to simultaneously and EQUALLY use both availible sources?! I say "kudos" to Susan Arendt for shelling out the duckets to buy a PS3. For those of us who did, it gives us every right to say, what we want about it. Good OR bad.
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Homelessness, debt and human trafficking that have become even bigger issues since the onset of the economic crisis. How are churches and mission agencies responding?
The figures make depressing reading. In 2010, around 23% of the EU-27 population – nearly 116 million people – were at risk of poverty or social exclusion. This means they met at least one of the following criteria: they were below the poverty threshold, experiencing severe material deprivation or living in a household with very low work intensity. But while less than 15% of those living in the Czech Republic, Sweden and the Netherlands were at risk, over 40% of Bulgarians and Romanians and more than 30% of Latvians, Lithuanians and Hungarians struggled with these issues.
Responding to need – working with volunteers
Serve the City was founded in Brussels in 2005, and "inspired by the life and message of Jesus Christ", the movement now spreads across Europe and beyond, with the most recent launch being Athens, Greece. As an organisation, they connect volunteers with the local charities or associations working with people in need. Carlton Deal is Serve the City's founder.
"Today we see more homelessness, more refugees, more people with no certain future," says Carlton. "They have lost their families or their jobs or they are still pouring in from even more difficult circumstances elsewhere."
"Single men in particular receive very little support. Last year Afghan refugees told us stories of approaching the police and identifying themselves as illegal aliens, asking to be arrested just to have a meal and a place to sleep indoors. The police ignored them."
Anyone can volunteer with Serve the City – and Carlton considers helping volunteers who are not yet Christians to recognise Christ's love in action to be part of the organisation's missional response.
"We see a decreasing satisfaction in delegated compassion and an increasing desire for personal involvement," says Carlton. "We believe these are Kingdom values, giving volunteers a new access point to the message of Jesus. People are increasingly motivated to acquire and spend the currency of the kingdom, whether or not they yet recognize Jesus as its King – in fact, I'm not sure we see as much growth in generosity from Christians as we do from those who are not yet followers of Jesus."
Responding to debt – local churches get involved
One of the indicators of severe material deprivation mentioned above is "the inability to face unexpected financial expenses", with 36% of the EU-27 population in this category. More than 85% of the Swedish population are able to cope with sudden strain on their finances. Over 75% of people in Austria, Luxembourg, Denmark and the Netherlands are similarly prepared. At the other end of the scale, only 20-40% of people in Lithuania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Latvia could withstand this kind of financial pressure.
There is a clear East-West divide to these statistics. Interestingly, figures for the ratio between household debt and income also display a divide across East/Western lines, but in the opposite direction. While in 2009, it would have taken two years of disposable income for the average household in Ireland, the Netherlands and Denmark to pay off their debts, in Central and Eastern European countries levels of household debt are such that it would take less than a year. Given that these countries also have a smaller average disposable income, personal debt appears to be a much bigger problem in the more affluent West.
Christians Against Poverty (CAP) is a UK-based organisation offering local churches a practical way to help people around them in debt. In contrast to Serve the City, each CAP centre is set-up and resourced in direct partnership with a specific church in an area, so it becomes a ministry of that church. CAP centres offer a free debt counselling service helping clients to work out a realistic budget and negotiating affordable payments to creditors, as well as support if people go bankrupt. Clients have a professional case worker in the main CAP office but they are also befriended by trained volunteers from the local church.
Since beginning in 1996, the charity has grown rapidly and its vision is to see a local church-based centre in every UK town and city. Their free CAP Money money management course teaches people "the skills to get more in control of their finances, so they can save, give and prevent debt" and is on offer in Norway as well as the UK.
Responding to trafficking – joined up thinking
"The global financial crisis is having a marked impact on human trafficking… its effects are felt within the EU" (OSCE, 2009). Potential employment in another country is a major pull factor for migrants from areas of high unemployment. In desperation, they are tricked by traffickers who promise them a job – only to end up in prostitution or slavery of some sort when they eventually arrive.
There are many grass roots projects organised by churches and mission agencies across Europe reaching out the victims of trafficking, as well as advocacy movements such as Stop the Traffik.
At a pan-European level, the EEA's European Freedom Network (EFN) connects 'active and emerging ministries and other stakeholders across Europe…providing the encouragement, advice, resources and prayer that they need for effective action and cooperation'. A host of resources for prayer and information are available on the EFN website, and they produce a partners' newsletter with more resources and contacts.
Responding as ourselves
This article highlights just three of the hundreds of ways Christians across Europe are responding to the financial crisis. But the Christian community is also feeling its impact. A 2009 survey amongst over 2800 UK Christians found that almost a quarter struggled with debt or financial issues, and more than half of those in employment "faced high levels of time pressures and fatigue".
57% of people answering the questionnaire saw themselves as 'an apprentice of Christ' and a similar number were ''praying about how God could use them to make a difference' – but 63% felt the church equipped them at best 'only a little' to face the pressures in the workplace.
In response to these needs, the London Institute of Contemporary Christianity's Engaging with Work project seeks to resource Christians to 'honour God in their work and bring Him into their workplace'. Their Imagine project goes further, aiming to help churches change their focus from 'what happens on a Sunday' to equipping people to live as disciples the other six days of the week.
And so, when considering mission in a time of crisis and our role as individuals and churches, our challenge is to respond in distinctive, counter-cultural ways, drawing our strength from God and his amazing love for the world.
Joanne Appleton
Eurostat epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu
OSCE (Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe) http://www.osce.org/what/trafficking
Serve the City Intl. http://www.servethecity.net
Christians Against Poverty UK http://www.capuk.org and Norway http://www.capmoney.org/nb_NO/home
Stop the Traffik http://www.stopthetraffik.org
European Freedom Network http://www.europeanfreedomnetwork.org
London Institute of Contemporary Christianity http://www.licc.org.uk – download the survey of UK Christians from http://www.licc.org.uk/about-licc/resources/licc-resources/?parent_categoryID=39


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Bigboy necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 61 diseños de 8 diseñadores freelance.
We need a really knock out SIMPLE, fun, attention getter, one web pager to sell "grab bags" on our internet website. (& new Logo & look & feel) ONLY one item will be sold on your page that you design. This page will be marketed. Many people will see it. This project could lead to more work as we are seeking a long term realtionship with a good designer to help work on our site. We will need other pages as well very shortly. The job: Create a "one page" layout to sell ONLY $9.95 grab bags! (the entire page should be dedicated only to selling these amazing grab bags-$9.95-Free shipping!)
We need a fun hip looking "one web page" design & Logo to market & sell our $9.95 grab bags! We are also looking for a great name to call our grab bags. (that would be nice but not a must) We are looking to establish a relationship with a designer for future projects as we will need a face lift and more web pages designed in the near future. We are an online retailer who sells discounted computer supplies. We are looking for someone who can design sharp looking single web pages so we can sell our products. For this first one, keep in mind we are only looking to sell one item on the page you come up with.
Fist, we want a great new Logo to go in this page as well. (a shopping bag should be in our logo) Please remember you are only designing a single web page where only ONE $9.95 grab bag will be sold. You have a whole page to work with to sell that one grab bag special. Should have a picture of a "brown paper bag" filled with stuff. (or some kind of goody bag) Get creative & help us sell grab bags! We need to sell lots of them with this page. Should be an attention getter.. Fun, colorful, simple. The customer should feel that they will be getting a hell of a deal. A great bargain! A must have! Free shipping! Every bag retails for at least $99.95! What are they waiting for kind of thing.. This will be a web page that will fit into one of our pages in our webstore. Check us out. I believe this page needs to be 740 pixels width to fit into our setup. Check out our site: http://www.itsonsale.com
We don't want to sell multiple items on the page you design. Focus on only "one item". ONLY $9.95 assorted grab bags will be sold with this page. (come up with a great Logo to please) Thats it! (the first person who jumped in missed the point. They focussed on selling many items. We only want one!)


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SACRAMENTO - Stockton's bankruptcy trial is expected to conclude today - ahead of schedule - with the judge deciding if the city is eligible for Chapter 9 protection, despite hard-fought challenges from creditors who call it an unfair fight.
SACRAMENTO - Stockton's bankruptcy trial is expected to conclude today - ahead of schedule - with the judge deciding if the city is eligible for Chapter 9 protection, despite hard-fought challenges from creditors who call it an unfair fight.
Once Stockton is deemed eligible - a result bankruptcy attorney Karol Denniston anticipates - city officials will kick their case into high gear.
"Once you get eligibility, this case is going to rock 'n' roll," she said. "To use a sports metaphor: The capital market creditors are going to be playing defense."
The fight will intensify because Stockton has so far decided to leave its employee pensions untouched.
The California Public Employees' Retirement System, whose attorneys have largely sat on the sidelines of Stockton's trial that started Monday, will come to the forefront. Wall Street creditors will argue that the pension manager should be forced to take a hit, just like them, Denniston said.
"The fight's going to be on," said Denniston, an attorney at Schiff Harden LLP who is closely monitoring Stockton's trial.
Stockton filed Chapter 9 on June 28, making it the nation's largest city to seek bankruptcy protection.
Upon filing, the city also phased out payments to the health care of city retirees and stopped payment on certain bonds. Assured Guaranty Corp. and National Public Finance Guarantee Corporation, the two firms leading the case against Stockton, insured those bonds worth millions.
But Stockton didn't reduce its payments to CalPERS, a bill this year totaling $30 million, because officials said that doing so would harm city employees, causing a mass exodus from the already thin work force, especially in the Police Department.
An attorney for Assured Guaranty on Monday called CalPERS the "800-pound gorilla" in Stockton's bankruptcy trial.
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Klein, who is overseeing the case, has said he was inclined to allow Stockton into bankruptcy protection without a trial, but he wanted to create a thorough appellate record, anticipating an appeal to the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel.
The trial was expected to last four days, but with the end likely today, that will have run one day short.
Given Klein's position, Denniston said an appeal is less likely, or if one is filed, it will be a sideshow, not slowing down Stockton's next move to file a plan of adjustment. That plan restructuring the city's finances will spark the real controversy over CalPERS, she said.
Attorneys for CalPERS argue that they aren't a creditor like the commercial investors, and by law they are protected from the city's attempt to reduce payments.
Denniston said that she believes Stockton already has its plan of adjustment prepared, and that document likely won't include CalPERS. The creditors will push back in even grander fashion at that point, Denniston said.
"They're going to say, 'This isn't fair. CalPERS is just like us. CalPERS needs to be impaired,'" she said.
In court Tuesday, the creditors tried to pick apart Stockton's position while cross examining city officials.
Former Chief Financial Officer David Millican testified about his role helping prepare the Chapter 9 filing. Millican, a former deputy city manager in Fremont, said the city is on course to emerge from Chapter 9 with a $100 million gap over 10 years.
That figure is a "hypothetical" deficit projection, Millican said, that officials will have to use as a guide for future budgeting. The city will have to come to grips with that projection and avert it, he said.
That projection is spelled out in the city's massive 790-page "ask" document, which Stockton provided to creditors at the start of pre-bankruptcy mediation, Millican said.
No tax initiatives were considered leading into bankruptcy, because the city's cash was quickly running out. There was no time to launch a tax campaign to convince voters to pass a tax hike, Millican said.
Today, Councilwoman Kathy Miller is expected to be called to testify as the trial's final witness, followed by attorneys' closing arguments. Klein has said he will issue an oral ruling from the bench at the trial's close.
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Wow!!!! What a release!!! So many new Gina K. Designs stamp sets and images....absolute eye candy!!!! Did you party with us and place your order for stamps you couldn't resist??? LOL Well join us now for some super inspiration for the awesome new stamps!!!
First up are 2 brand new sets designed by Melanie Muenchinger......I am in LOVE!!!! Stately Flowers includes my very own Colorado Columbine!!! I had some of the traditional blue variety in my wedding bouquet many years ago! Columbines have an obvious special place in my heart!!
Many of you may not know that the Rocky Mountain Columbine comes in many color varieties.....and we have several of them that grow on our mountain property!! They're all just spectacular!!! Unfortunately we had much bear activity this summer since the bird feeder got hung up directly over the Columbines on the upper deck. The naughty bears foraged for the dropped birdseed among the flowers......but we hope they still survived!! We'll find out next summer! LOL For this card I used Pure Luxury in White, Grass Green, Wild Dandelion, Lipstick Red and Lovely Lavender to complement the flower color combos.
This next card uses Melanie's next new set, Make A Statement.....it's a companion set to the first one and will go with all of the State Flowers as Melanie will be releasing sets eventually to cover all 50 States!!!
Of course I HAD to color a Columbine pink!!! Heehee!! And make a special invitation to come visit me in my home State!! You will LOVE all the travel and home pride possibilities with this set!!!
Now Gina is also introducing several mini sets...or Duos!! Watch for some with most of the releases!!! I'm using Master Butterfly for this simple CAS design.
I just stamped very simply the image over the sentiment and then used my Scor Pal for some dimension...and a bit of ribbon! There are so many encouraging and quick cards you can make with this little Duo!!
Now you'll want to hop along to see what the rest of the Design Team has for some wonderful inspiration!!! And remember to comment as you hop for a chance to win!! Winners will be randomly chosen and will receive a Grab Bag of at least 12 stamps valued up to $24.95!!!!
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Smartphones are slowly taking over the point-and-shoot camera market, but they're far from replacing DSLRs at this point. However, that doesn't mean the two still can't play nice together. The Look Lock lets your smartphone complement your DSLR, even if one is gunning for the other's job.
Let's face it, operating a large DSLR with a heavy lens hanging off the front is a two-hand job. And having a way to keep your smartphone in easy reach at all times for focal length calculations, or checking your shot list, has a few obvious benefits. The $75 Look Lock also provides a way to play content that's guaranteed to keep a toddler interested in looking in the camera's direction, or even a crude way to give the subject you're photographing a live preview of how they look.


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I'm pretty sure BSMT GARBAGECAN is not where this package was intended to be delivered. But hey, UPS delivered it, and that's all that counts, I guess.
Martin says:
On Monday I couriered an envelop containing paper objects and a DVD from Toronto to New York, to be included in an exhibition that will open this afternoon. The envelop never arrived, and today I saw UPS's "proof of delivery" – which I attached for you as a pdf document. They had successfully delivered my shipment to a "BSMT GARBAGECAN."
The objects were meant to be included in an exhibition entitled "How To Do Things With Words and Other Materials," and its seems UPS has contributed its own little performance piece. Also, they haven't heard the last of me.
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I'm sorry if this has been answered elsewhere, but I couldn't find it easily so figured I'd ask to see if I could get any deeper insight into it rather than a textbook explanation.
I'm now to a part in my book where I'm going to be implementing my own vector class. I know the STL has one, but the book insists on doing it to explore the (almost) extreme low levels of the language, as well as using it for an introduction to pointers. Ok, so here's my question.
int x = 5; //arbitrary value of 5 int* xPtr = &x; // so now I have xPtr of type int* pointing to the memory address of x // Here's my question though. In the book when it was explaining why you can't switch // pointer types without explicitly doing so, it used an example like this (the comments are mine) cout << "The size of char is " << sizeof(char) << " " << sizeof('a') << endl; // ok, I can understand this cout << "The size of int is " << sizeof(int) << " " << sizeof(2+2) << endl; // and this int* p = 0; // ?? Is it referring to the very first part in my computer's memory? I've no idea cout << "The size of int* is " << sizeof(int*) << " " << sizeof(p) << endl; // same size as an int
Also, the sizes it returns for a char or bool is 1, int and long is 4, and double is 8. Is that the same as saying "a char or boolean refers to 1 4 bit chunk of memory" and so on? And that unfortunately leads my mind to another topic. If my computer is a 64 bit architecture with a 64 bit OS, how come an int can't hold a value in the range of -2^64 : 2^64 - 1?
Sorry if that's a lot of rambling.
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When plants undergo photosynthesis, they take in carbon dioxide, a harmful gas that human beings cannot consume, from the air, and give off oxygen instead. Oxygen, which we breathe and which is our basic source of life, is the main product of photosynthesis.
Some 30% of the oxygen in the atmosphere is produced by plants on land, the remaining 70% being produced by plants and single-celled living things in the seas and oceans.
Photosynthesis is a complex process, and one which scientists have still not yet fully understood. This process cannot be observed with the naked eye, because the mechanism employs, atoms and molecules. However, we can see the results of photosynthesis in the oxygen which enables us to breathe, and in the foodstuffs that keep us alive. Photosynthesis is a system which involves complicated chemical formulae and units of weight, and on very small scale, and consisting of the most sensitive equilibriums. There are trillions of chemical laboratories that carry out this process in all the green plants around us. Furthermore, plants have been meeting our oxygen, food and energy needs non-stop for millions of years.
The productivity of photosynthesis is measured by the level of oxygen output. The greatest point is in the morning, when the Sun's rays are most concentrated. At dawn, the leaves begin to sweat and photosynthesis increases accordingly. In the afternoon, however, the opposite applies; in other words photosynthesis slows down, and respiration increases because as the temperature rises perspiration also increases. At night, as the temperature falls, perspiration declines and the plant rest.
The term "itha tanaffasa" in Surat at-Takwir, in reference to the morning hours, in other words, "when it breathes in," is a metaphorical reference to breathing, respiration, or breathing deeply. This term particularly emphasises the way that the production of oxygen begins in the morning, and that the greatest levels of oxygen, essential for respiration, are given off at that time.
The importance of the phenomena is also emphasized by the way that Allah swears upon it. The way that Allah indicates the action of photosynthesis, among the most important discoveries of the 20th century, in this verse, is another of the scientific miracles of the Quran.
Picture: Photosynthesis is the use by plants and sometimes by certain bacteria and single-cell life forms of the Sun's rays in order to produce sugar (carbohydrate) from carbon dioxide and water. As a result of this reaction, the energy in the Sun's rays is stored inside the sugar molecule produced.
The following formula summarizes the reaction that takes place during the process by which unusable solar energy is transformed into usable chemical energy:
(6 water molecules + 6 carbon dioxide molecules are turned into 1 sugar molecule and 6 oxygen molecules by means of photosynthesis.)


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Curious to know if anyone thinks this is possible or would know where to research the information needed to accomplish something like this,
If I have three separate programs running on a computer. All three programs are meant for adding data too. Like Excel in fact Excel is one of them.
If it possible to write a program in Java that would allow you to post all the data in it and then once submitted would automatically deliver the information to the sections of the other three programs running on the computer?


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Not quite sure but I believe that picture was taken in 1947.
I might be a bit long in the tooth but I do remember filling out my profile.
LOL I don't much look at profiles if your not a troll.
I'm not a troll but it is my favorite fishing technique and I do spend most of my time in the basement.
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I have been preparing by trying to get money/jewelry etc. from all the religious people I know, convincing them that they will not have any use for worldly possessions after Friday. To date, I am still poor! These people are seriously lacking in faith.
I like your idea, ask for their car keys too! There's a good one circulating on the net for post-rapture pet sitting.
You know I'm just amazed how priests/ministers/the faithful in general can say with a straight face things such as "I think people are prone to be led astray easily by fanciful theological positions..." The irony just kills me.
Not hearing much about it here in Barbados, but I'm sure the discussion is happening. If I see my favorite Fundi on Sunday I'll be telling him it actually happened as evidenced by the missing person reports filed.
some Rapture humour from Jesus General:
They say that the fact that all other Gods of other religions are made up does not mean that the God of the bible is fake. Yet, the fact that all of the other predictions of Second Comings have been false means that we can equally dismiss this May 21st date as "rubbish." Am I missing something here?
here's come folks preaching it in Guyana:
I wonder what time zone will get hit with this earthquake 1st? And is it better to be 'raptured' during sleep or while awake? I have alot of questions, maybe I should have contacted that Harold fellow....he seems to have the deets of this thing.
I think it's 6:00pm Pacific standard time, not sure how he figured that one out. Looks like it's designed to minimise the amount of people raptured whilst taking their morning shower.
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I've tried a few of the Make Up Forever Aqua Eyes pencils before, and they weren't ones I used much – even so I decided to purchase three more a week ago in three colours I don't have for £11.50 each –
13L – Fuschia Pink 13L (metallic fuschia)
23L – Champagne (metallic pink champagne)
24L – Taupe (taupe brown)
They say:
What it is:
A two-in-one eyeshadow and liner pencil.
What it does:
These waterproof eyeshadow and eye liner pencils contain a unique formula that adheres to the eyelids and resists water even under the most extreme conditions, without running or fading.
Gah! That's what I have to say. These pencils aren't exactly cheap and to be honest I had forgotten why I don't use my other MUFE pencils anymore. Because they are LAME. Ok they aren't LAME. They are bordering lame. Why do these pencils make me feel mad? Because I expect so so so much more from a MUFE product.
Urban Decays 24/7 are better, Illamasqua pencils are better, Nars pencils are better, Chanel pencils are better, MAC pencils are better. Shu Uemura are marginally better.
I just don't personally find the last very long on my eyes – waterproof? Not on me the aren't. Pigmented? I had a hard time getting the supposed hot pink and taupe to show up when applied to my eyes. Same with the Champagne – would not show up on my waterline at all.
I don't find these long lasting or pigmented. They just don't like my eyes.
For me its a miss. Must make a mental note not to buy any more MUFE pencils when I get bored.
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Inter-State Farmers' Conference
The Inter-State Farmers' Conference, held in Raleigh in August 1888, was the Second Annual Meeting of the Inter-State Farmers' Association. The association had been formally organized by elite southern agriculturalists in Atlanta in 1887. Delegates to the Atlanta meeting were chosen by the governors of several southern states. Leonidas L. Polk, former North Carolina commissioner of agriculture and then editor of the Progressive Farmer, became the association's first president.
The three-day Raleigh conference, which began on 21 Aug. 1888, attracted delegates from nine southern states. It was described as the largest convention ever held in the city. Polk was again chosen as president, and Elias Carr, an Edgecombe County planter, was selected as an officer from North Carolina. The delegates heard a speech from Governor Alfred M. Scales, attended the laying of a cornerstone at the new Agricultural and Mechanical College in Raleigh, and spent a day touring Durham tobacco factories. They also adopted resolutions favoring southern manufacturing, a national Department of Agriculture, stronger federal railroad rate regulation, the prevention of trusts, an end to the national banking system, an increased money supply, and diversified farming.
The Inter-State Farmers' Association held its last meeting in Montgomery, Ala., in 1889. By that time the more radical Farmers' Alliance was the stronghold of the rural reform movement in the South.
Robert C. McMath Jr., Populist Vanguard: A History of the Southern Farmers' Alliance (1975).
Lala C. Steelman, The North Carolina Farmers' Alliance: A Political History, 1887-1893 (1985).
Additional Resources:
"Our Southern Farmers Meet in an Inter-State Convention for Consultation and Organization." The Southern Cultivator and Dixie Farmer. September 1887. p.423-424. http://books.google.com/books?id=x3ZNAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA424&ots=JWX9ibf5Eq&dq=%22Inter-State%20Farmers'%20Association%22&pg=PA423#v=onepage&q&f=false (accessed November 27, 2012).
Inter-state Farmers' Association. 1887. Proceedings of the ... annual meeting of the Inter-state Farmers' Association. United States: The Association?
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