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Almost 30,000 Scottish students got their Higher results this afternoon, instead of tomorrow morning as it should have been, potentially giving them early access to the university clearing system.
The results were sent out – by accident – to anyone who had selected text-only notification, but have been confirmed as accurate by the Scottish Qualifications Authority. The BBC reports that the university clearing system, Ucas, launches at midnight tonight, providing a window of opportunity for those how got early access to their results.
The Scottish Qualifications Authority reckons it won't make any difference, as applications for clearing places won't open until 9'o clock tomorrow morning, but from midnight students will be able to search the system to see what's available.
Universities around the country are oversubscribed this year, so students will be scrabbling for places. In Scotland, the local news is reporting that anyone hoping to study in a city is out of luck, but the more rural* locations still have some places remaining.
We don't know who was responsible for the early sending of the results, which were scheduled to go out tomorrow around 8am. SQA says it is "making enquiries with our external contractor, who issues the results on our behalf, in order to understand how this could have happened".
We're imagining fairly short enquiries, followed by equally short and sharp remedial action. ®
* Inverness is rural, more people attend WOMAD than live in the "city".
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Is Newt Gingrich the Republican's flavor-of-the-month-in-waiting?
We ask this because it appears that Mr. Gingrich has resurrected his campaign with steady debate performances in which he (mostly) focuses his comments on the Obama administration, instead of his GOP rivals.
For instance, CBS political analyst Brian Montopoli listed Gingrich as one of the winners of Tuesday night's CNN debate in Las Vegas. The ex-Speaker was professorial, according to Mr. Montopoli, peppering his answers with historical references and presenting himself as an idea guy, floating above the fray.
"It's probably not going to lead him to the nomination, but it's turning what had been a catastrophic campaign into a respectable one," wrote Montopoli.
Montopoli wasn't alone on this. University of Virginia political science professor Larry Sabato tweeted after the debate that Gingrich had turned in an A- performance. Newly announced non-candidate Sarah Palin told Greta Van Susteren on Fox News that she thought Gingrich did best of all the candidates.
"He seems to be above a lot of the bickering that goes on," said Ms. Palin.
In some ways its surprising the Gingrich has even survived on the trail long enough to appear on Tuesday night's stage. In June his campaign was in tatters after his entire senior staff resigned in protest at what they felt was their candidate's disinterest in traditional campaigning. Reports noted that he was taking a long vacation cruise with wife Calista at a time when other candidates were working Iowa's hustings hard.
By August his support as measured in polls had declined by about two-thirds from the beginning of the year, to under 5 percent in RealClearPolitics' rolling averages of the GOP field.
But he's done well in debates, as opposed to Iowa State Fair handshaking. He's generally played the role of Greek chorus, attacking moderators for trying to create divisions between candidates and focusing his own remarks on what he sees as the incumbent's shortfalls.
"Maximizing bickering is probably not the road to the White House," he said on Tuesday night.
He's been rewarded with a rebound in the polls. As of Wednesday he was back up to an average of around 8.3 percent in major surveys. At some points in recent weeks his number popped up into the low double digits.
Right now, Herman Cain is serving as the main challenger to steady near-frontrunner Mitt Romney. Some, including Palin, have called Cain the flavor of the month, a designation he rejects. And it is true that there are reasons to believe that he'll persist in his top tier position.
But the campaign still has a long way to go, and, improbably as it might have seemed in the summer, Newt Gingrich might emerge as the next challenger. He's the only other challenger in the race whose polls have been trending upwards of late.
Several factors weigh against this, however. One is that Gingrich generates only moderate enthusiasm – his Gallup Poll Positive Intensity Score, measured by subtracting those who strongly dislike a candidate from those who strongly like them, is a "meh" 13. Romney's is 15. Herman Cain's is 34.
Gingrich is well-known due to his years in front of the nation's television cameras. Voters have largely made up their mind about him. It's unlikely the electorate will suddenly embrace his candidacy with a burst of enthusiasm.
Then there's the tiresome subject of money. Gingrich's campaign finished the third quarter funding period with only about $353,000 in the bank, and debts of almost $1.2 million. The only candidate in worse financial shape is Jon Huntsman, whose debt tops $3 million.
That means Gingrich has no real means to keep campaigning. Once the free media exposure of the debates becomes less frequent, his numbers might begin to fade once again.


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Reynolds starts at third as Tribe shuffles lineup
HOUSTON -- Cleveland's Mark Reynolds returned home Sunday, starting his first game of the season at third base.
Reynolds entered Sunday's game hitting .296, leading the Indians in homers with six and RBIs with 17.
"Last night when [Nick Swisher] hit that ball off his knee, I was going to take him out," manager Terry Francona said. "I said if you finish this game, I'll DH you tomorrow. Then I had to figure out how to do it.
"So we moved Mark to third, and I think he's kind of excited. We'll move [catcher Carlos] Santana to first. I think Santana's excited about it. It gives him a day off for his legs from squatting. I think it will work."
That also gave third baseman Lonnie Chisenhall and designated hitter Jason Giambi the day off Sunday.
Reynolds hit a three-run homer in Cleveland's eight-run first inning Saturday night and finished the game 2-for-4 with a walk, driving in four runs.
Reynolds had started 15 of Cleveland's 16 games this season, six at first base and nine as a designated hitter.
Reynolds also returned to the No. 5 spot in the batting order Sunday, where he hit earlier in the year. He had been hitting seventh.
"I don't care where I hit, as long as I've got a jersey and I'm in the lineup," he said.
Reynolds started at third base for four years with Arizona, then was traded to Baltimore, where he moved to first base.


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2nd Annual E-List
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For several months now, we've been feverishly planning our 2nd Annual e-List of hot Net millionaires. Well, feverishly isn't really the right word. Truth be told, it was a cakewalk to select this year's netpreneurs. It wasn't so much about finding them, of course-because they're around every corner, men and women alike. The real trouble was narrowing down the list. By no means exhaustive, this year's roundup aims to show you how a great idea can go a long way in netland-as long as you have the creative follow-through to make it happen.
Bitstream Underground Inc.Names/ages:Michael Koppelman, 34, and Charles Hermes, 34
Company/description: Bitstream Underground Inc. is a full-service ISP.
Based: Minneapolis
1999 sales: $2.1 million
2000 projections: $4 million to $5 million
Freaks and geeks: During a time when people were just discovering the Internet and AOL was still a virtual unknown, Bitstream Underground Inc., a bulletin board service (BBS) for music lovers, was conceived while its founders were working at Prince's Paisley Park Studios in Chanhassen, Minnesota, in 1994. Koppelman and Hermes, two long-haired, earring-wearing ex-musicians, wanted a cool BBS-one that wasn't "geeky and run by anal, technical dweebs."
Try a new bit: With a devoted fan base and the demand for dial-up Internet accounts increasing, Koppelman and Hermes acted fast to transform Bitstream into an ISP. Armed with a $55,000 loan from their local Riverside Bank and personal credit cards, the partners' out-of-pocket expenses totaled just $1,500 each, and that was all for computer equipment. One year later, in 1995, the ISP arm was born, and before Koppelman and Hermes knew it, prominent clients like Prism Studios Inc. and DentistWorld.com were walking through the doors, along with millions of dollars. "People take us seriously as a business even though we're still pretty much long-haired, earring-wearing ex-musicians," says Koppelman.
Technical difficulties: A lack of business and technical experience didn't get in the way for Koppelman and Hermes-they taught themselves. "We ordered a communications server, and I didn't even know what they looked like or what they did," says Koppelman. "There were immense technical challenges in that we had no clue how to even plug this stuff together."
Love what you do: "Running a business is different, and it's something you need to love in order to succeed at it," says Koppelman. "For us, it's been a long, hard and extremely exciting road. At this point, I think we do enjoy being involved with operating the company. We've been able to do what we love in the context of running our own business."
iKidStore.comName/age:Kathleen Tobin, 35
Company/description:iKidStore.com features children's name-brand products and also raises money for charities.
Based: San Francisco
1999 sales: N/A
2000 projections: $2 million-plus
Family ties? You'd think that having 16 siblings and 35 nieces and nephews would've prompted Tobin's vision for iKidStore.com, which reaps advertising revenues and affiliate fees from kid brands spanning Gap Inc.'s babygap to FAO Schwarz. But the childless (yet prepared) 13-year marketing and advertising vet says it was actually her co-op marketing efforts for former employer Bank of America that did it. She realized the Internet's potential for providing a similar marketing service to "time-poor" children's goods consumers.
On your marks: "I came up with the idea last August, locked myself in my apartment for a week and wrote the business plan," Tobin recalls. "I left my job on September 30 and started calling [potential] partners October 1." By iKidStore.com's November 9 launch, she had scored 50 partners and 100 links.
No sob stories here: Fortunately, associates Tobin had previously worked with on ad accounts heard about her plan, contacted her and invested a combined $1.3 million for holiday advertising. "It's all been a miracle," says Tobin.
Although an influx of competitors crowding the market is likely, she's confident her position as a pioneer, her stores of venture capital and her willingness to donate a nickel of every dollar of net profit to charity will keep her at the forefront. She encourages customers to give as well. Says Tobin, "No matter what happens, this has been the greatest experience of my life."
Name/age:Farhad Mohit, 31
Company/description: BizRate.com rates e-commerce Web sites for consumers.
Based: Los Angeles
Sales: The company does not release sales figures, but according to the Los Angeles Times, it's worth $500 million.
Something new: Dressing more for comfort than for corporate life, Farhad Mohit makes his own rules and has carved a niche for BizRate.com by making it less scary for consumers to shop online. He started BizRate.com in 1996 after a job at a consulting firm showed he wasn't meant for the rat race. Back to school at Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business in Philadelphia, Mohit decided not to interview for jobs at all and concentrated solely on the Net.
Healthy fixation: His Net obsession spawned the business plan for BizRate.com as a class project. And failure was not an option-no interviews equaled no job offers. But having no other options actually helped during the rough times (and there were plenty). Just two days after deciding to move to Los Angeles for the start-up phase, one of his partners quit for a more secure corporate job. And his other partner, friend and former classmate Henri Asseily, 29, (BizRate.com's chief technical officer), was thinking about joining his family's business. Thankfully, he didn't. Mohit also hired David Reibstein, mentor and former vice dean of the Wharton School, for much-needed guidance and expertise that proved critical in getting financing.
On the map: Today, BizRate.com is the 47th biggest Web site and the 13th largest e-commerce site (according to Media Metrix), and it lists about 3,600 online merchants. A recent partnership with Consumer Reports Online promises even more success. Farhad Mohit's advice to entrepreneurs? "Make the jump. Until you're fully immersed and don't have any other options, you don't know what you're capable of."
Fashionmall.com Inc.
Name/age:Ben Narasin, 34
Company/description: Fashionmall.com Inc. is a specialty shopping portal for the fashion and beauty industries.
Based: New York City
1999 sales: Analysts say $3.7 million
2000 projections: Analysts say $6 million
You want to what? Before starting Fashionmall.com in 1994, serial entrepreneur Narasin fulfilled a lifelong passion by starting and designing for a men's sportswear company called Boston Prepatory Co. Narasin's venture flourished during the 10 years he was there, but he foresaw limitations in an era of retail consolidation. "You were either a megabrand or a niche player competing on price," he says. "The Internet seemed to have unlimited upside." But when Narasin pitched Fashionmall.com as a marketing brand to help his own and other designers get publicity via the Net, it was impossible to secure funding because people didn't see the Web site's value.
Hanging by a thread: Starting a business-to-business dotcom with $250,000 (from investors and prior earnings) has its ups and downs. It was iffy when Narasin bluffed calling it quits to get investors to foot the bill for a nearly missed payroll period. ("There was no way in hell I would've shut it down," he says.) But screw-ups are less painful of late: Narasin says he's made his mistakes on the cheap. "I'm lucky we didn't raise a lot of money in the beginning because we would've spent it prematurely," he reasons.
Stitches in time: Increasing traffic from 500,000 "user sessions" last October to 2.5 million in December required dedication. And the site has raked in over $15 million for this year's first quarter. But this candidate for Most Likely Not To Retire would pull all-nighters every weeknight before he'd sacrifice weekends with his wife and two children. Says Narasin, "It's not like I sit in a yoga position and chant all day, but ultimately, you've got to have balance in your life."
Boutique Y3K Inc.
Company/description: Boutique Y3K Inc. is an e-commerce fashion consulting firm for merchants and retailers like Nine West and Jones Apparel. Its services include strategy, design and marketing.
Based: New York City
1999 sales: $350,000
2000 projections: $5 million to $7 million
I'll take it all, please: Pagkalinawan had been president of Montreal e-commerce solutions provider Abilon International's U.S. division for six months when, in 1998, an investment gone wrong allowed her to leverage her severance package and acquire the company for $1. She then changed the name to Boutique ("for service-focused") Y3K ("for the future of shopping").
I am woman: The number of women executives in Silicon Alley ventures is growing, but only about 10 percent own companies with 10-plus employees, according to Pagkalinawan. That's why she aspires to go where few women have gone before: public. "That's the ultimate American dream," she says, "because it shows that not just your peers and the business community believe in you, but the general public does as well."
Help! Pagkalinawan feels kinda funny about being chosen as one of the women achievers appearing in Procter & Gamble's summer ad campaign benefiting women's organizations, as she's only accomplished "10 or 20 percent" of what she wants to accomplish. But she has no qualms about admitting she hasn't succeeded alone: "Every person that has come into my life has expanded my growth exponentially."
Any perks? Well, when your new office is located on the corner of Fashion Avenue (Seventh Ave.) and 25th Street (the heart of Silicon Alley), there are bound to be some advantages. She recently raised $15 million in venture capital from Vantage Point Venture Partners. And the occasional 50 percent discounts for fashion buys don't hurt.
Name/age:Bill Nguyen, 28
Company/description: Onebox.com is a communications application service provider.
Based: San Mateo, California
1999 sales: Sales just started
2000 projections: $1 million-plus with more than 2 million users. The company has recently been acquired by Phone.com of Redwood City, California.
Watch and learn: With only eight credit hours left, Nguyen dropped out of college at Houston Methodist University and began his journey to success. He became a financial analyst and participated in an entrepreneur-in-residence program at a VC firm before starting Onebox.com in 1998, his fifth start-up. "Watching other people do it is the way to learn," says Nguyen.
Taking advantage of natural resources: Starting a business in Silicon Valley has its advantages. With a support structure already in place, Nguyen found it wasn't difficult for him to get capital, a solid banking relationship, an office manager, office space, furniture and an HR manager when he started.
Eureka! "From an intellectual standpoint, you figure this is like the Gold Rush," says Nguyen. "You have all these brilliant people from all over the world coming to Silicon Valley to prove they have the best idea. Competing against the brightest people and succeeding- is the most rewarding thing for me."
Name/age:Wayne Irving II, 29
Company/description: SpinRecords.com features downloadable music and gives independent and unsigned musicians an Internet presence.
Based: San Diego
1999 sales: $450,000
2000 projections: $17.5 million
Tuning in: An ex-Marine from central Florida with no industry experience thinks he can go up against mega online-music distributor/promoter MP3.com-and survive? You bet! While running a Web development firm, Irving took an Internet record shop, SpinRecords.com, and turned it into one of the Net's most prolific digital music distributors.
Purchasing his domain name for a mere $140, Irving built SpinRecords.com as a thank-you to a record-store-owner friend, but he soon fell in love with the digital music model and, in 1999, started hounding VC firms and banks, pushing his innovative "farm label" concept. But with no contacts, Irving found himself $300,000 in debt. Then it happened: The day after he made an appointment to file for bankruptcy, two investors offered him $15 million.
All you need is love: Irving had always held independent musicians in high regard-his father had played gigs in Florida surf bars, and his great aunt and uncle had their own country band. But his compassion grew tenfold when he did a little homework on the industry by catching episodes of VH1's Behind The Music. "I was amazed by what I found," recalls Irving. "You can get a tremendous education from VH1 on what these labels and producers have done to these bands. I suddenly became so passionate about it."
Lust for life: SpinRecords.com's motto is "showing the love," and Irving, no industry insider, says he doesn't know how to screw over bands. What SpinRecords.com does provide its more than 600 indie bands is love in the form of advertising and concert-footage production, and also posts videos, digital downloads, band info and sells CDs on the site.
The future's so bright: With a staff of friends and former industry experts, Irving has partnered with up to 100 print publications and incubates nine other companies. "We've spent very little on marketing," says Irving, "and we have more traffic per band than any other music site."
WebSurfer Inc.
Name/age: Paul Batra, 27
Based: Markham, Ontario
Sales: As owner of several software companies, Batra reportedly pulls in $50 million annually.
Major appliances: In 1997, Batra saw the quick growth of the Net and wanted a piece of the action, deciding Internet appliances were the way to go. The hard part was getting the word out-not many folks knew what Internet appliances were. And WebSurfer had to get past the stigma that computers held. "[At the time] a lot of people had a fear of PCs and felt [they were] too complicated," says Batra.
It came to me in the middle of the night: Ever wanted to surf the Net without turning on that pesky computer and sifting through programs you really don't need? Batra did. And he saw the profit he could rake in if he came up with a way to get fast, easy Internet access to John Q. Public. Now in cahoots with Earthlink, WebSurfer, which employs the only device of its kind that uses Intel technology, provides easy Net access to the masses.
Old softie (sort of): The success of the WebSurfer hardware (a small box that sits on top of the TV called Innovator WebSurfer Pro) has made it possible to introduce more and more software into the marketplace. Says Batra, "We're really becoming a pure software company." WebSurfer plans to go public next year and hopes to become a major player in broadband Internet software. To all you aspiring Internet players out there, Batra offers one piece of advice: "Go out there and pick a unique twist to the business. Dominate in one focused area."
A recent survey of netpreneurs found . . .
- 69% of respondents say their e-businesses are profitable.
- Almost half of respondents don't plan to go public.
- Most netpreneurs plan on starting an average of five online businesses in their lifetimes.
- 67% see themselves as pioneers on the Net.
- More than a quarter say they would have gone into corporate life if it weren't for the Internet (eek!).


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[Editor's note: I missed this interactive from The New York Times over the summer. "Sleeping, eating, working, and watching TV takes up about two-thirds of the average day." Delve into the chart by isolating either by activity or by groupings of survey participants. Roll over the chart with your mouse to discover the percentage numbers by time.]
Republished from the New York Times. July 31, 2009.
The American Time Use Survey asks thousands of American residents to recall every minute of a day. Here is how people over age 15 spent their time in 2008. Related article
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Review: In-case airflow and cooling are pretty good
It's no secret that Thermaltake is quite proud of its Armor 30 case and today we'll find out why. As the name suggests, the Armor A30 belongs to the Armor series, notable for sharp corners and sturdy chassis. However, you could just as well class the Armor A30 among LANBOX series, which is quite popular with gamers who are often on the move. The Armor series previously held a few different mid-tower and high-tower cases, but Thermaltake heard the customers' pleas for smaller and more mobile small form-factor computer cases. Thus, the Armor A30 was born.
Thermaltake is no stranger on the market and it's famous for nicely designed and functional cases, although it's no stranger to special editions such as the Level 10.
The Armor 30 will easily hold graphics cards up to 350mm, meaning that it is compatible with all the current crop of graphics cards, including the Radeon HD 6990. The Armor A30 will take micro-ATX and mini-ITX motherboards with four expansion slots, whereas maximum CPU height is limited to 90mm. Thanks to the design with a few fans and plenty of outlets, the innards are well cooled.
The Armor A30 looks very solid and compact, much like a small tank. However, you can disassemble it in mere moments and gain easy access to each and every component.
Packaging is pretty nice and informative. The sketches are clear and reveal many details. The packaging is tough enough to survive normal transport.
Apart from the quite graphic user's manual, you'll get all the screws you need. There are also two plastic brackets that should enable for mounting of 2.5'' driver. We must compliment Thermaltake on including reusable cable ties – a nice touch indeed.
Both of the Armor A30's sides are identical. Since both side panels come with windows, it's easy to see the components inside.
The windows are protected with a plastic cover both inside and outside. The sides also feature mesh grill air outlets.
The Armor A30 is very sturdy and is mostly made of steel. There are some mesh grill surfaces but the weight of 6.7 kilograms says enough. Although it's classified as small-form-factor case, the Armor A30 is more massive than other small-form factor cases. It measures 266 x 291 x 456mm.
The top panel can be removed, which you'll have to do when putting components in. It holds a large 230mm blue LED fan (230 x 230 x 20 mm, 800rpm, 15dBA).
The front panel holds another blue LED fan (90 x 90 x 25 mm, 1200rpm, 16dBA).
Apart from the two aforementioned fans, the Armor A30 has another two 60mm fans on the rear panel (60 x 60 x 25 mm, 1500rpm,18dBA). The following pictures show the airflow inside the Armor A30.
The top right part of the front panel has space for two external 5.25'' optical drives. Beneath the mesh grill, you'll find filters. You'll find a 3.5'' drive spot to the left, which is mounted vertically.
All the connectors are in the bottom left corner whereas Power and Reset keys are on the right side of the front panel. Apart from the audio ins/outs, you'll find one eSATA, one USB 2.0 and one USB 3.0 port.
The rear panel has room for a standard ATX PSU with two 60mm fans below. Although we expected the fans to be loud, they were quite quiet. The Armor A30 will take four expansion cards. You'll find another opening on the back, which is used to route USB 3.0 cables towards the I/O panel with a USB 3.0 port.
The Armor A30 has four rubber feet and has no air outlets/inlets below.
Removing the top panel allows access to components inside. The top panel holds a 230mm fan (800rpm, 15dBA), which connects via Molex.
The Armor A30 will take two 5.25'' optical drives. Note that you'll have to remove the front panel and take the console out, as you can see from the pictures below.
Apart from the two 5.25'' and one 3.5'' drive, the console will take another two 2.5'' drives, thanks to the included plastic brackets.
After removing the front panel, you can see the connectors, fans and the standard status LEDs.
Standard 3.5'' drives are mounted in a separate console attached to the bottom of the case. In order to access it, you'll have to remove the 5.25'' console first.
The smaller console will take two 3.5'' drives, where rubber grommets prevent vibration and resulting noise.
The motherboard tray can be removed, which will be a godsend for many users. Namely, it makes mounting motherboards, CPU coolers and expansion cards easy.
The ATX PSU is mounted in a cage that's above the motherboard, which explains why CPU coolers must be less than 90mm high. We recommend using a modular PSU due to limited space inside.
The Armor A30 will take the longest of graphics cards. However, you should mind the motherboard design because dual slot cards such as Radeon HD 6970 can only fit if they're placed in the first expansion slot.
The Armor A30 was easy to fill up with components but cable management was a bit difficult. However, Thermaltake's cable ties ended up being a godsend and we managed to finish the job quickly.
Modular parts of the case made our life much easier. Once all the consoles are removed from the case, there is almost nothing left inside.
Combination of a large 230mm fan with three smaller fans and additional outlets/inlets yielded quite good results. Namely, the Armor A30 is almost inaudible yet remains very efficient in cooling.
Gamers who are often on the move and visiting LAN parties should definitely check out the Armor A30 as despite being a small-form-factor case, it will easily take high-end components.
Thermaltake Armor A30 is a small computer case with very efficient design. In fact, we managed to strap it with AMD's HD 6970 with no trouble at all, although the case will take graphics cards up to 350mm. CPU height must not exceed 90mm, but thankfully the market offers even shorter yet quiet and efficient CPU coolers.
The A30 will take micro-ATX and mini-ITX motherboards, but you should be careful with the motherboard design if you plan on using dual-slot graphics longer than 24cm. Such graphics cards must be placed in the first expansion slot on the motherboard, otherwise you're in a pickle. Dual slot graphics cards shorter than 24cm will fit in any of the available expansion slots, except for the last one.
In-case airflow and cooling are pretty good and the fans are quiet.
The front panel has a USB 3.0 connector, which is pretty much the cherry on top. You can find the case priced at €80 here.


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What's New in Opera Development Snapshots: 28 February Edition
There is a new Opera Next out! Download it from the links in the Desktop team's blog post or wait a while for it to show up on your Opera Next updates (Browser Identification section should show
Presto/2.10.269 in
Major Updates
We now have better precision handling of fixed point values used for lengths and font-sizes. This has been a significant issue with Opera as many units were rounded off. Vadim has a neat demo of how this works in reality. Check it in Opera Next and marvel at the precision!
Updating media query implementation to match the latest drafts of the specs, and to pass all the W3C Media Queries tests. Now you can use dpi, dpcm and dppx as unit values for the resolution media query feature. Here is an example. This also fixes issues with Opera applying rules that are within invalid/incorrect media queries.
- Not quite CSS, but malformed fonts never stopped loading, but now they do.
- Setting
cursorproperty on input elements now works.
- The spec allows
border-radiusto inherit. Previously this used to fail in Opera, now it no longer does.
- There used to be random artifacts on linear gradients used with
position: absolute, but this has been fixed.
- Inset Box Shadow's offsets were calculated incorrectly if border-top-width is 0 or border-left-width is 0. This has been fixed.
- Opera's
::first-letterCSS selector used to select even punctuation characters. But this is no longer the case.
- For some reason, entering 5210000010001001 into a field that is of type number caused validation error. This is no longer the case.
- Setting
bgcolor=transparenton a table element seems to not make the underlying background color show but rather render table blue.
- Hiding an element using JavaScript seems to prevent hover on the underlying element. This has now been fixed.
- Previously, animated SVG with
display: nonewould trigger repaints of the whole view. This was one of the primary reasons why Dabblet was slow in Opera. This has now been fixed.
- XML document had no
document.elementFromPointbut this has now been fixed.
- XML namespaces were also not output correctly when XML was serialised for
innerHTML. This has now been fixed.
- Regex matching failed to match BOM for
\s. This has now been fixed.
Array.prototype.concathave been made faster.
- Improved
- The incorrect cache resolution over string values has now been fixed.
- Not quite ECMAScript, but relevant nonetheless. The line numbers were previously reported relative to the script tag in stack traces (when you do
try {} catch (e) {}). This has been fixed. Thanks to fearphage for the bug report!
Number.prototype.toString()was not returning accurate values accurate values for large non-base 10 numbers. This has now been fixed (seems like Chrome suffers from this bug).
- Fixes for JSON.stringify(). A bunch of tests from JSON-test-suite were imported and used to fix our JSON.stringify() implementation. Thanks Luke Smith for this test suite!
- The
getUserMediaimplementation has been updated to accept
- If you had allowed a camera to be accessed from multiple domains, it used to crash on reload, it does not now.
- Applying a shadow previously prevented subsequent fill of a canvas area.
- If you had previously set the charset of a
scriptelement from within JavaScript, you would have noticed that it gets ignored (e.g.
script.charset = "ISO-8859-1". But we no longer do so.
- selectionStart/selectionEnd were working incorrectly in a text field. This has been fixed.
- Constants on DOMException Interface and Node interface had
configurableset to true. This has now been fixed.
- Read-only properties like
event.targetif set in your script would previously throw an exception. This has been updated to only throw when in ECMAScript strict mode and not otherwise.
initEventon a dispatched event previously threw an error, this has been rectified to have no effect at all.
- Calling
preventDefault()on a non-cancelable event previously returned true and was executed but has now been fixed to have no effect. Thanks for the report Romuald Quantin!
- Previously
scrollevent did not fire when scrolling within a
textarea. This has now been fixed.
- By now you must be sensing a theme to all the DOM fixes - prevent unwanted errors from throwing. In this vein, we also have stopped XHR from firing error events and returning status code as 0 when
httpresponses are anything but 200. In this snapshot, Opera will transparently pass through the right HTTP response codes.
- You can now set the
responseTypefor a
XMLHTttpRequestto be
json. This means the data returned would be a JavaScript object parsed from the JSON returned by the server as a response to this request.
How do browsers do page scroll when you press the "page down"/"space" button? How do they know how much to scroll by?
There is no standard way of doing this, but we had an interesting issue where Opera was doing this significantly differently from other browsers. From our investigation, it seems like Chrome 15+, Safari 5+, IE9+ scroll by
innerHeight - (innerHeight * 12.5%)while Gecko does so by
innerHeight - (innerHeight * 10%).
This snapshot aligns our page scroll on page down/space key to match WebKit/Trident's behaviour. Here is a fun screenshot of this behaviour across current Opera/IE/Firefox.
- 32-bit builds running on 64-bit OS now include "WOW64" in the User-Agent String.


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ORGANIZER: J/P Haitian Relief Organization
Hi Everyone,
I'm trying to raise $$$ for the J/P Haitian Relief Organization. 20,000 families have been living in make-shift tents for TWO YEARS, since the earthquake. I want to help! Please either watch the videos to the left or read below to learn what it's all about donate anything you can!!!
What's this is about:
Petionville Camp is a tent city and temporary home to 23,000 displaced people from the 2010 Haiti earthquake. The neighborhoods camp residents lived in before the earthquake border the edges of the camp; these people are so close to their former homes yet they remain homeless. With little to no means, they cannot afford to get their families out of camp and back home. J/P HRO works to make living conditions in the camp better like providing medical care, schooling for children and community programs. But J/P HRO's main objective is to help these people get home. For the Haitian people home is dignity, jobs, education, good health, family, creativity and a better future for their country.
J/P HRO is on the ground in Haiti clearing rubble, fixing earthquake damaged homes, helping families move out of tents one a time, building jobs programs, revitalizing schools, developing public health programs and working side by side with the Haitian people and the Haitian government to solve the nation's problems.
On average, it costs about $1300* per person to make the journey from camp to home. This covers the cost of rebuilding homes and revitalizing schools, clinics and other community services; as well the cost of rubble and debris removal. Millions of square feet of rubble still clog the streets of Port-au-Prince, a key obstacle to helping people home.
Note: This figure is based on our previously funded projects and represents an average estimated cost. All donated funds will be used as unrestricted funds in conjunction with support from international or multi-lateral donors across all of our programs and support services, all of which work together to Help Haiti Home.


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It's a spooky time of year, isn't it? Halloween is just around the corner. For some of us, it's a haunting thought because it means our golf season is winding down. Boo!
While the children get their costumes prepared to trick or treat, we want you to sit back, close your eyes for a minute or so, and think of the scariest shot in golf. Got it?
Now that you've opened your eyes, if you dare, check out the top answers we received for this week's, "A Quick Nine," feature, when we asked our readers the same thing we just asked you: "What is the scariest shot in golf?"
9. The putt you need to make to record your best score. Tough one, isn't it? To just about everyone else, it means nothing. To you, it means everything.
Facebook fan quotes:
"The final shot on 18, when you know it might be your best round ever." -- Dave Morgan
"18th with my dad when he tells me I need to make the 3-footer to break 80 for the first time. Shot 81." -- Jim Lamb
8. Tee shot on the par-3 16th at Port Royal. Having just been there last week for the PGA Grand Slam of Golf and spending a significant amount of time on this particular hole let me say this -- you'll get no argument from me! Just last week, I watched two of 2011's four major champions make a triple bogey there!
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"Actually No. 16 at Port Royal in Bermuda looked scary." -- Stephen MacLeod
7. The deep bunker shot. Very frustrating, isn't it? As you carefully climb down into one of these suckers, you're wondering how the heck -- out of all the land surrounding you on that hole -- you managed to find the one jail spot that's going to make you look like a fool. And then, you have to deal with it. Not fun at all, my friends.
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"In a bunker 6 inches above your head... and you are 6 feet tall and have to go 100 yards... on any course." -- Jim Cassells
6. The, "go ahead and play through," shot. I think we've all experienced this one, haven't we? You know, that group in front of that FINALLY waves you through. It's not that you're in a hurry, but you're just sick of waiting. The people in front of you think, "this person must be pretty good. He or she has been on top of us all day. Let's wave them through and see what they've got." So, you address the ball, everyone's watching and... hopefully you don't make a fool out of yourself.
It reminds me of every time I play a par-5 that I'm 50-50 I can reach in two. If I wait until the group in front gets off the green, I top that second shot 99 times out of 100. If I hit it when they're on the green, 99 times out of a 100 the ball goes right into them and I get yelled at. Never fails. OK, so 99 out of 100 on that second part of that statement is a bit of an exaggeration, but you get the point.
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"Without a doubt, the scariest shot for weekend warriors is the tee shot in front of the group that just allowed you to play through." -- Craig Ward
5. First-tee nerves, part 1. How about playing a world-famous course for the first time?
Facebook fan quote:
"First tee at Bethpage Black if you think you are good enough to play it from the Championship tee! Better find the fairway kid." -- Eric Gunn
4. First-tee nerves, part 2. Interesting entry from our next reader... and, in case you were wondering, Keith made out just fine. We did a little research on PGA.com. Turns out or friend Keith here is a PGA Head Professional in Denver these days. Well done, Keith!
Facebook fan quote:
"First tee shot at a Playing Ability Test for the PGA of America." -- Keith Soriano
3. First-tee nerves, part 3. What is it about that stupid opening tee shot?!
Facebook fan quotes:
"The very first one. First hole tee box anywhere." -- Greg White
"First tee shot with a crowd watching." -- Tom Possley
2. First-tee nerves, part 4. As you've seen, there are a variety of first-tee nerve answers we received this week that just couldn't be paired together. The reason they've been split up, if nothing else, is to prove to the hacker out there that is doesn't matter what level you're at, there's always something a little unsettling about that opening tee shot.
Facebook fan quote:
"The first shot of golf tryouts for your high school team and the coach and the whole varsity team is watching." -- Brett Hartstein
1. The tee shot on the par-3 17th hole at TPC Sawgrass. This, my friends, was the overwhelming favorite in this week's feature. Everything about the hole is intimidating. Arguably, you could say there's not a tee shot in golf someone would like to hit more than this one just because of the, "cool," factor. However, if there's any pressure at all, there's not a shot you'd like less than this one.
Facebook fan quotes:
"17th at TPC Sawgrass. One shot lead on a Sunday." -- Colby Dean
"Scariest shot? Gotta be from the tee at TPC Sawgrass #17." -- Henry Douglas
"TPC Sawgrass #17. Period." -- Stephen MacLeod
"No. 17 Players Championship... after hitting it in the water... drop area on Sunday afternoon." -- Juan Jose Valentino Padilla
"No. 17 at TPC Sawgrass left right into the wind with a 1-shot lead on a Sunday after your playing partner, who's one behind, has put it to three feet and is sure to make birdie." -- Taylor Mcginnigle
"Interesting... I've hit at No. 17 at TPC Sawgrass in a simulator probably 150 times... It's 109, for Chrissake. Have I ever hit it? no." -- Charles Williams
"17th at the Stadium Course TPC Sawgrass. The sweat breaks out on my palms as soon as I step away from the 16th green." -- Jim Larkin
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