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Remember last year's rumor that the PlayStation 4 could contain technology to block the playing of used games? There may be some more validity to that claim as it's been unearthed that Sony's PlayStation division has patented technology that can track and block the use of secondhand games on a console.
Discovered by a member of NeoGAF, the patent describes technology capable of "tagging" games played on multiple systems, with the purpose of trying to control secondhand sales. The patent reads:
According to the present embodiment, realized is the electronic content processing system that reliably restricts the use of electronic content dealt in the second-hand markets. As a result, the dealing of electronic content in the second-hand markets is suppressed, which in turn supports the redistribution of part of proceeds from sales of the electronic content to the developers. Though in the following description a game application (AP) is exemplified as the electronic content, the present embodiment is similarly applicable to various kinds of electronic content such as an office suite, images, and music content.
Basically, individual game discs would be matched to user accounts, and games which have already been associated with another user's account will be rejected. Using similar NFC technology found in modern bank cards, the discs would be branded with a contactless tag that could be recognized and read by your console.
The abstract description for the patent document filed by Sony Computer Entertainment Japan reads:
A game playing system includes a use permission tag provided for use in a game disk for a user of a game, a disk drive, and a reproduction device for reproducing the game. The disk drive reads out a disk ID from the game disk. When the game is to be played, the reproduction device conveys the disk ID and a player ID to the use permission tag. The use permission tag stores the terms of use of the game and determines whether a combination of the disk ID and the player ID conveyed from the reproduction device fulfills the terms of use or not.
The document details Sony's past efforts to curb secondhand game sales and notes that this technology is a nice alternative to a simple password or Online Pass solution.
"As a result [of the patented idea], the dealing of electronic content in second-hand markets is suppressed, which in turn supports the redistribution of part of proceeds from sales of the electronic content to the developers."
The documentation doesn't name specific devices planned for the patented technology, but later sections do describe how the technology could be expanded to gaming peripherals, accessories, and other electronic media entirely, "such as an office suite, images, and music content."
Sony isn't the only one who has been rumored to be exploring this type of technology. Last year, it was also rumored that Microsoft's next console would also aim to combat used game sales, as well. There's been an ongoing feud between platform holders and secondhand game retailers for the past few years and it seems this next generation will really determine the direction and future of the gaming industry.
Needless to say, if this sort of technology is implemented in the PS4 or Xbox 720, it will be a huge mistake; I could see it costing Sony and Microsoft billions in console sales if they prevent users from purchasing used games.


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I have done this in the past using a screen scraper to get info from various weather sites on the web, write it to .Txt files, and then put it up on the cam pages.Bottom Line: Does anybody have any anemometer/windvane/temp-sensing hardware that they are happy with? I have a couple of temp sensors hooked up to a Pi in my garden shed that I am not particularly impressed with accuracy-wise.... and I have no clue at all about the wind stuff.
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Pakistan's Christian Leader Buried In His Native Village
On March 4, thousands of Christians and Muslims gathered in Khushpur, a Christian village in the Punjab province of Pakistan, at the funeral of late Shahbaz Bahtti. Young boys were beating their chests and women wailed in grief during the burial ceremony. Shahbaz Bhatti, Federal Minister for Minorities Affair, was killed by unknown assassins on March 2 in Islamabad. Bhatti, a Christian, was the second target of the Pakistani extremists after governor of Punjab province, Salman Taseer, 64, who was shot dead on Jan. 4 by one of his own bodyguards.
[Photo: A Christian in Peshawar, Pakistan. Credit: Jared Ferrie, MRG]
Bhatti, the only Christian minister in Pakistani cabinet, had received numerous death threats over recent months. After the murder of governor Taseer his life was constantly under risk. His close friends advised Bhatti to leave Pakistan for a period because of threats, but he had refused. Even he predicted his own death weeks before. "There is very little doubt that Bhatti was killed by the same elements those killed governor Taseer," said Group Captain (retired) Cecil Chaudhry, a Christian leader and national war hero. In 2009 during a conference in London said, "This position [as Minister] cannot change my determination to pursue justice, because I live for religious freedom and I am ready to die for this cause."
Bhatti was reportedly killed by the militants because he had been campaigning to bring changes in the controversial blasphemy laws to minimise the misuse of these laws against innocent people, including Christians, Hindus, Ahmadis, Shias and Sunni Muslims as well. During the last few months, the minister received written letters and messages from Islamic militants, warning him to stop campaigning against the blasphemy laws.
The attack was carried out in Islamabad, capital of Pakistan, by a group of masked men who ambushed the minister on the street. They pulled him out of his car and opened fire at point blank range before fleeing in a car. Bhatti was shot dead when he left for cabinet meeting from his mother's house. According to the police sources, there were 4 gunmen in a car waiting at the corner of his street. The terrorists continued to fire for about two minutes. He shot eight times and before reaching to the nearby Alshifa Hospital he died.
There was no security guard with Bhatti when the attack occurred. During the last months, at numerous occasions he had expressed dissatisfaction over the security provided to him by the Islamabad police.
Suspected Islamic extremists from Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) reportedly left a pamphlet at the scene saying those who try to change Pakistan's blasphemy laws would be killed. "This is his fate. We will not spare anybody involved in acts of blasphemy." They blamed the government for putting Bhatti, an "infidel Christian," in charge of an unspecified committee, apparently in reference to his support for changing the blasphemy laws. "With the blessing of Allah, the mujahedeen will send each of you to hell," said the pamphlet, which did not name any other targets. However, the Prime Minister publically denied that there is any such committee was constituted. He promised the religious leader that the government has no intention to change the blasphemy laws.
The identity of Bhatti's killers was unknown, but Islamabad police registered an FIR (First Information Report) against 4 unknown people on Minister's brother Sikandar Bhatti's complaint. Police also released a sketch of an alleged killer.
Bhatti was the second Pakistani Christian who holds the federal mistrial position. J. Salik was the first Pakistani Christian who was inducted by late Benazir Bhutto in the federal cabinet.
As his assassination's news spread, Christians and human rights activists hold protest rallies throughout the country against extremism and terrorism. Christian believed that they are now even in more difficult situation and vulnerable position. They said, "We are in a state of shock. We feel bewildered and defenceless. We are living in a climate of fear. Now who will fight for our rights?" "This murder means that the Country is at the mercy of terrorists, who can afford to kill high-ranking personalities," said Peter Jacob, Executive Secretary of National Justice and Peace Commission (a human rights body of Catholic Bishops' Conference of Pakistan).
The Christians of Pakistan announced three days mourning throughout the country. They said that the assassination of Bhatti, 42, is clearly an act of terrorism and government should control those elements that are playing with the lives of innocent people. Archbishop Lawrence John Saldanha, Chairperson of Pakistan Catholic Bishops Conference and Shahid Meraj, a representative of Church of Pakistan, another mainline Church, said in a joint statement, "Bhatti's assassination underlines the issue of protection of religious minorities, life and liberty. We would also like to appeal to the federal and provincial governments to wake up to the challenge of protection of the citizens of Pakistan. If the country becomes a killing field of the democrat and liberal individuals who exercise their freedom of conscience and expression, it would embolden the criminals trying to take charge of the country."
The attack was widely condemned at the national and international level. Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani condemned the murder, saying it will not deter the country from its fight against religious extremism. The Vatican also expressed outrage over the killing. In a statement, Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi said the murder of Batthi was a "terribly grave new act of violence" that "demonstrates that the Pope's insistent addresses regarding violence against Christians and religious freedom have been justified." In Washington, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called the assassination "an attack not only on one man but on the values of tolerance and respect for people of all faiths and."
Bhatti joined the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) in 2002 and was elected a Member of the National Assembly, lwer house of the parliament, on a reserved seat for minorities. He was made Federal Minister for Minorities in 2008 and again included in the federal cabinet with the same portfolio last month. Bhatti also received the International Religious Freedom Award for rendering services to the Christian community, becoming the first Pakistani to receive this award. He boldly defended Asia Noreen, a Christian mother of four, sentenced to death for alleged blasphemy against Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).
Many believe that it is not only the loose of Christian community but an attack on a liberal ideology in Pakistan. Human rights activists said it was another sign of rising intolerance at hands of violent extremists in Pakistan. It is awful that these elements are gaining space while liberal voices are shrinking. "Along with the killers, some lawyers, journalists, some political parties and some state operatives are also responsible for Bhatti's murder because they are not only supporting and glorifying the extremist groups but also openly preaching and propagating hatred and intolerance among the people of Pakistan," held Sarfraz Clement, a Christian development worker.
Christian Church leaders said that the government needs to go beyond the rhetoric of 'minorities are enjoying' all the rights in the country and take practical step to curb extremism in Pakistan.
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First, she taught me the concept of reverse chaining....the child is guided through all of the steps of a behavior except for the last, which he completes on his own. As he becomes successful with the last step, the teacher begins to guide him through all but the last two steps, and so on until the child is able to sequence the entire behavior independently. Ryder is able to put the food in his mouth on his own so that is the last step of the behavior. We help him pick up the fork, hold it correctly, target the food, and then we wait for him to press down to stab the food. Once he masters that step we will then get him to target the food on his own and so on. It was amazing how happy he was when he realized he could stab the food on his own and then take it to his mouth! The OT said hopefully over the next week we will be able to slowly move onto him being able to do more of the steps in the process on his own. The goal of reverse chaining is to make the entire task of eating less daunting by helping him with tasks he does not feel comfortable with and in turn teaching him how to complete the task on his own.
Second, she noticed Ryder still has a weak chew and his tongue is still not properly moving the food from side to side in his mouth while chewing. The OT feels this all goes back to his low muscle tone. During her next session she is going to show me some exercises to do with him in order to strengthen his muscles to help his chewing become more effective. She said that his weak chew could be the reason he spits a lot of food out because he gets frustrated with chewing, but doesn't feel comfortable swallowing what is in his mouth. Also, this could be another reason he sees eating as a daunting task. If you were not able to chew your food would you want to eat?
Third, she brought a special cup for Ryder which is called a "nosey" cup because it has a cut out on one side which allows him to drink without having to hold up his head (which he has trouble doing because of the low muscle tone). This cup holds smaller amounts of liquid than a regular cup, but Ryder is able to drink great out of it! We will let him drink out of this cup for the majority of the time until we can get his muscles stronger to make drinking out of a regular cup easier.
After we finished going over all of the feeding concerns we moved on to working on the stairs with Ryder. She lined up some animals on either side of every few steps. She then had Ryder walk down the stairs, stop and bend over to pick up the animal and put it in the bag until he got to the bottom of the steps. Then he had to turn around and walk back up the stairs while carrying the bag of animals. This task was to see how well he can do the stairs without holding onto anything, hence the reasoning for him to carry the bag of animals. The OT discovered that he would do the task only when he could hold onto one of her hands. She also noticed that he has a pretty big issue with balance which is causing him trouble on the stairs. The last thing she said that is probably causing him issues goes back to having the low muscle tone. For now, we are going to work with Ryder on going up and down while holding onto one of our hands.
The OT is going to be coming back on Tuesday next week to work on the feeding concerns during lunchtime. She also told me we should have the physical therapist (PT) come to do an evaluation on Ryder. He is not delayed in his gross motor skills, but the PT is who would help us with his low muscle tone. The PT will be able to determine just how much muscle tone he has and give us activities and exercises to do with Ryder to help strengthen his muscles. The request for PT has been put in at their office so now I am just waiting to get a call to schedule their visit.
Friday afternoon Ryder's new speech therapist (ST) came to the house for her first session with Ryder. (Our other ST is now on maternity leave) I will just say that I am not a fan of this woman at all! She showed up at 12:30pm (the scheduled time) and then we went to the playroom which is where we have all of the therapy sessions. She never introduced herself to the boys, she left her jacking on the whole time, and she called Ryder by the wrong name! She did three activities with Ryder which had nothing to do with the skills we have been working on with the other ST. After that she wrote up her paper and scheduled another visit for next week (normally it is only every other week, but I know Ryder needs more so I didn't say anything) and left. Her total visit time was 25 minutes and the ST sessions are supposed to be 45 minutes long! I did call his case manager about the visit and she explained that all of our old ST's clients had been split up between other ST so they were all overwhelmed at the moment. She told me to see how next week goes and if it is still not acceptable (to me) that she will speak to her. I know Ryder felt very uncomfortable with the new ST because he hardly said a word and he was very talkative with the OT earlier in the day. I hope things get better because speech is one of our main concerns for Ryder and it would be horrible if he misses out on good ST until the old ST comes back in April.


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This Wednesday, 20 February, the official launching ceremony of the International Year of Quinoa 2013 will be held at the United Nations General Assembly, in New York. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon will attend.
At this occasion the FAO Director General, José Graziano da Silva, will appoint the President of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, Evo Morales and the First Lady of Peru, Nadine Heredia, as FAO Special Ambassadors for the International Year.
We invite you to follow this event live via the International Year of Quinoa website: www.fao.org/quinua-2013/ , from 16:00 - 19:00 CET.
The year 2013 has been declared "International Year of Quinoa" (IYQ) in recognition of the Andean peoples who have preserved the quinoa as food for present and future generations through their traditional knowledge and practices of living in harmony with nature.
The Year was proposed by the Government of tBolivia, with the support Argentina, Australia, Azerbaijan, Brazil, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Filipinas, Georgia, Guyana, Honduras, Iran, Liberia, México, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, Seychelles, Uruguay and Venezuela. It was supported by the FAO Conference in June 2011 and was approved by the United Nations General Assembly during its 66th Regular Session, in December 2011.
The UN General Assembly took note of the exceptional nutritional qualities of quinoa, its adaptability to different agro-ecological conditions and its potential contribution to the fight against hunger and malnutrition, and called on FAO to facilitate the implementation of the IYQ.
The IYQ has thus become a platform to focus world attention on the role that quinoa plays in biodiversity and its nutritional value with respect to food security and the poverty eradication in support of the Millennium Development Goals.
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Those who will sit around wondering whether Munich is the work of an anti-Israeli or just a self-hating Jew -- which is to say, Steven Spielberg, who has been branded both by Israeli officials and newspaper columnists in recent weeks -- give the movie and its maker far too much credit. The story of how the Israeli government retaliated for the murder of eleven Israeli athletes -- among them an American expatriate and other foreign-born athletes who moved to the promised land -- at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games is less a treatise on the history of Middle East violence than an inert, overlong thriller that has more in common with Steven Soderbergh's Ocean's Eleven than Costa-Gavras' Z. It certainly attempts to make a profound statement on the endless cycle of bloodshed begat by terrorism, but it's too turgid and redundant to have any real impact. As a thriller, it barely thrills; as a lecture, it has nothing at all new to say.
The movie, written by playwright Tony Kushner (Angels in America) and Eric Roth (Forrest Gump, be warned), is based on the book Vengeance by George Jonas -- the same book that provided the basis for the made-for-HBO film Sword of Gideon nineteen years ago, in which Steven Bauer played Avner, an Israeli soldier appointed by Prime Minister Golda Meir to the task of killing Arabs responsible (and, in some cases, not) for the Munich massacre. In fact, Munich is very much a remake of the forgotten Sword, which likewise assembled a team of five to avenge the deaths of more Jews on German soil, twenty miles from the site of the concentration camp at Dachau. Whole scenes and sequences and even dialogue from the 1986 movie appear again in Munich, rephrased in the elegant, kinetic cinematography of Janusz Kaminski, a Spielberg collaborator since 1993's Schindler's List.
But most important, Sword, too, wrestled with that most Jewish of themes: guilt. Spielberg and his collaborators are careful not to revel in the revenge wrought by the Israeli government, which created a special branch of its intelligence agency, Mossad, called Caesarea to assassinate the planners and plotters responsible for Munich. They suggest, as have others who have written about this subject (including Aaron Klein in his stark new book Striking Back: The 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and Israel's Deadly Response), that not all of the targets chosen for elimination were members of Black September, the group responsible for the Munich killings. Some were PLO sympathizers or financial backers leading quiet lives of respectability throughout Europe, where they hid in plain sight; indeed, many of the Black September agents survive to this day.
At first that doesn't bother the Caesarea agents, especially their leader, Avner Kauffman (played by Hulk Eric Bana). Avner, whose father was a military hero, is a bored soldier with a beautiful wife and child on the way; who is he to turn down Meir (Lynn Cohen), who rationalizes assembling a death squad by insisting, "Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values." Only after they've blown up or gunned down a few folks does Avner come to have a crisis of conscience, demanding to see evidence from the secretive superior (Geoffrey Rush) who keeps his proof locked away.
This is not, despite the hullabaloo surrounding Munich's release, Spielberg and his writers' novel invention. In Sword of Gideon, Bauer, like Bana, begs out after finding himself knee-deep in blood, insisting that the longer countries insist on resorting to eye-for-an-eye justice, the more likely they are to go blind. Spielberg, perhaps, has received so much grief because Munich is far more wishy-washy about its intentions than Gideon: It wants to be a tense, terse blow-'em-up thriller, but also to show its remorse for having such a good time. Throughout most of the film, Avner merely shrugs off his colleagues' protestations that Jews "are righteous" and that to act as terrorists do is to lose one's soul. But, suddenly, Bana grows pale and gaunt, the sure sign a movie hero is no longer into his job. His transformation is so sudden, we don't quite believe his penitence.
Munich also has the grim pleasure of containing perhaps the most misguided sequence Spielberg has ever filmed, and it comes near the very end. The movie has shied away from revealing too much of what actually happened in Munich; it shows us only brief, though grisly scenes from the Olympic Village, and much of what we see and hear comes in snippets from ABC's coverage with Jim McKay and Peter Jennings. (Sword of Gideon, too, was structured similarly.) But at the end, Spielberg puts us on the runway at Fürstenfeldbruck military airfield, where the German police botched a rescue effort and killed only a few terrorists, but not before members of Black September executed all of the Israelis. And he intercuts these grim, grisly flashbacks with scenes of Avner violently screwing his wife, soaking her in spit and sweat as he roars a silent, slow-mo orgasm. It's a disquieting moment -- and not a little sickening -- because whatever the filmmaker's intentions, to show us Avner's need to connect with his wife or disconnect from his actions, it plays only as overwrought and foolish. You'd be tempted to laugh, if not for the bile rising in your throat.
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President Barack Obama is shifting senior White House staffers to his hometown of Chicago and opening a campaign headquarters there as he steps up preparations for the formal launch of his re-election bid this spring.
The moves, widely reported for weeks though confirmed by the White House for the first time Thursday, open a new chapter in Obama's presidency; he will juggle dual roles of candidate and president for the remainder of his first term.
As aides ramped up preparations for 2012, outgoing White House spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters that the president will soon file papers with the Federal Election Commission to formally declare his candidacy. Officials say fundraising and grass-roots organizing is to begin in March or April.
"We've made progress on getting the economy back in order and I think the president wants to continue to do that," Gibbs said.
Thus, Obama is starting to execute a campaign plan that's been in the works for months. Under it:
Obama's deputy chief of staff Jim Messina will leave the White House to serve as campaign manager. Aides say he's looking for office space in downtown Chicago, and reaching out to potential campaign donors and consultants.
White House social secretary Juliana Smoot and Democratic National Committee executive director Jennifer O'Malley Dillon will serve as deputy campaign managers. Both are veterans of the 2008 campaign, with Smoot having served as finance director and Dillon focusing on battleground states.
As the campaign approaches, the White House plans to close its political affairs office and move its functions to the DNC. White House political director Patrick Gaspard will join the DNC as executive director; former Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine will continue to serve as the committee's chairman.
Former Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine will continue to serve as the committee's chairman. He announced the changes at a DNC staff meeting Thursday.
Gibbs said dismantling the White House political wing was "a matter of duplication and efficiency that makes a lot of sense."
However, Gibbs said he doesn't expect the president to be hitting the campaign trail anytime soon.
"Just because the president sets up the machinery of ultimately running for re-election does not mean that you're going to see the president doing a ton of political reelection events," he said.
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I wouldn't touch this "re-thread" of 1950's technology even if you paid me to do so, not with the need to use shutter glasses, active or passive. I use contact lenses and find that often times i need to take them off and wear my eyeglasses for a more comfortable viewing experience, and i certainly don't see how it would be possible to wear 3-D glasses on top of eyeglasses !Never mind warnings for people with epilepsy, pregnant women, infants, people with eye problems, susceptible people, etc, etc... My understand is that Sony has already shown and promises to deliver within three to four years 3-D technology without the need for shutter glasses; May be by then, price permitting, i'll consider it.
Glasses3D's Achilles' Heel
You get home from a long day at work, and you want to watch a movie on your brand new 3DTV. You collapse into your comfy chair, turn on the system, andwait, where did you put those 3D glasses?
Aye, there's the rubto see anything in 3D on that new TV, you must wear special glasses. In all the hoopla about 3D, this inconvenient truth is often glossed over, yet it's one of the biggest pitfalls in the entire 3D infrastructure.
Virtually all 3DTVs now coming to market use active-shutter glasses, in which the left and right lenses alternately open and close in sync with the TV, which displays the left-eye image when the left lens is open and the right-eye image when the right lens is open. By contrast, most commercial 3D theaters use passive glassesthe right and left images are projected simultaneously, and the glasses filter the light so that only the left image reaches the left eye and only the right image reaches the right eye.
Aside from consumers' disdain for having to wear glasses at all, there are a few other drawbacks that could seriously impede the adoption of 3D in the home. First, there's the expenseactive-shutter glasses cost $100 to $150 per pair! In some cases, one or two pairs might be included with a new 3DTV, but what if you have a family of three, four, or more? What if you want to host a Super Bowl party? Are you going to spend hundreds of dollars for extra glasses after dropping several thousand on the TV?
Passive glasses are much less expensive, which is why they are used in public settings, but they have other drawbacks in the home. For example, with direct-view TVs such as LCD and plasma, using passive glasses cuts the horizontal or vertical resolution available for each eye in half. Can a resolution of 1920x540 or 960x1080 rightly be called high def?
Another problem with 3D glasses of all types is that they dramatically reduce the amount of light reaching your eyes. As it turns out, active-shutter glasses lose much more light than passive glasses because both lenses in active glasses must be closed during part of each cycle to prevent crosstalk (the left image getting into the right eye and vice versa). As a result, the display must pump out much more light than it does in 2D, which could shorten its life, especially plasmas. Even so, the perceived image is much dimmer than watching 2D.
Then there's the issue of cross-compatibility between manufacturersor, more specifically, the lack thereof. That's right, the glasses for a Panasonic 3DTV won't work with a Samsung model and vice versa. Why? The TV emits an infrared signal that the glasses use to synchronize with the alternating images. You might think that the manufacturers would have agreed on a standardized IR signal to perform this function, but noeach company uses its own proprietary signal. How stupid is that? Really stupid if you ask me.
A company called XpanD is trying to address this issue with its X103 "universal" active-shutter glasses (shown above), which are scheduled to be available in June. The glasses will contain a database of different manufacturers' IR sync signals, sort of like universal remotes with a database of different manufacturers' remote IR codes.
Will the issues I've presented here slow the infiltration of 3D into the home? Perhaps not in the initial stages, when early adopters eagerly acquire anything new. But mainstream consumers might not want to don glasses just to watch TV, not to mention having to shell out hundreds of dollars on extra pairs for the whole family. (Of course, you can watch regular 2D content without glasses, but then why get a 3DTV?) And forget about taking your Sony glasses to a friend's house to watch their Toshiba 3DTVthey probably won't work.
What's your take on the whole glasses angle? Will the requirement to wear them dissuade you from buying into 3D? Perhaps you object to the high cost, dim image, or cross-manufacturer incompatibility. Or maybe none of this matters and you can't wait to jump into the third dimension. In any event, I look forward to reading your comments here.
I would like to know why tv manufactures are only using active shutter glasses instead of the passive route. I do understand about the off angle issues that you mentioned above. Also, my local movie theater finally broke down and got a 3D projector which looks phenomenal. I peeked into the a/v room and seen that the projector was an NEC REAL-D3XL. Is this one of the standard state of the art DLP projectors? I was just curious how it compares to other theaters as far a picture quality goes.
One more thing Scott. Why have I not heard of any 3D consumer projectors yet? For myself, I will not buy a 3D panel until its at least 2 or 3 years into the tech cycle. Honestly though, my wife and I would like to wait a few years and get a 3D projector as long as they aren't a zillion dollars. I believe 3D at home would be much better with a front projector set-up.
From someone in the television broadcast industry, 3D is a fad. Sure content providers will supply material, but a very small percentage of viewers will purchase the sets. Heck, HDTV is still "new". DTV (digital television broadcast) is still new. Remember surround sound the the competing technologies? This is 3D now. Back to R & D for 3 & D.
Jarod, manufacturers are using active shutter glasses with flat panels because passive glasses limit the display to half resolution horizontally or vertically for each eye. I don't know the NEC projector specifically, but I don't doubt that it looks great. As for consumer 3D projectors, they are coming, though they have their own problems; for example, projectors that use polarization (which, I suspect, will be most if not all consumer models) require a special screen that might not be ideal for 2D viewing. I will cover 3D projectors in a future entry in this blog.
It is nice to watch "sometimes" with 3D. My 3y/o daughter enjoyed watching a demo. But I am not sure if she can tolerate it for 2 hours. Even my wife was fascinated with a demo from LG (passive glasses) but got some eye strain for 5 mins of watching. If the price of the glasses become reasonable, then people might be able to consider it. But for 100 dollars a piece, Wow! That is a lot of glasses for 1 family. And I agree that manufacturers should agree in cross compatibility. It just says one thing for them. Cashing in...
Scott - you mentioned that you can of course watch 2D content on a 3D tv, so why buy a 3D tv if you are not interested. Well, if you are interested in the best PQ you can get, most manufacturers top of the line sets include 3D anyway. I'm looking at buying a 53 to 55" set this year and have narrowed my choices down to the Sony HX900 and Vizio 55" PRO series set. Both include LED backlighting with local dimming and of course, 3D. The prices of the 3D sets seem reasonable, but the real downfall is in the price of the glasses.
In my book 3D is on a par with D Box technology... It is for people who can't engage with a movie unless theu are being sensorially bombarded. Movies live or die for us personally depending on what we bring too them from our own ability to engage with them based on our perceptual and aesthic acuity. A truly great film can awaken people's higher capacities to engage at a level perhaps beyond their ordinary reach. Unfortunately the level of sesorial bombardment put out by many 2D movies is already mind numbing. 3D glasses might be seen as badge of shame that declares our artistic poverty. Where I can see 3D having a permanant life in the cinema...I cannot see it being a success in the home. In a cinema peripheral vision is engaged by the huge screen. In the home, the shrunken size will objectify the experience, reducing its dimensions to a peep show while family members sit isolated from each other behind the darkening mirrors strapped to their heads. The whole thing is ridiculous and you can count me
I have to admit that I am satisfied with Blu-ray as it stands. I think it is the best way to enjoy HD. I don't even have the best Samsung TV (I'm not rich and at this time can't afford their 8 or higher series LED or LCD {I have a 5 series}) and yet I still get a really beautiful picture!!(Avatar was Phenomenal!!!). I could see myself embracing it only if they find a way to make it possible for me to enjoy the format without my eyes or head hurting after viewing 3-D content. I did view Samsung's 3-D model but still felt it bothered my eyes, but not as bad as the passive ones (still I only had them on for a few minutes). I usually save up the money to purchase the latest and the greatest, when I feel it is worthy. This is just not one of those occasions I deem worthy. I believe I can wait for the 3rd or fourth generation for the companies to "iron out the wrinkles." To me, 3-D could be a hit, but has good potential to be a miss. Mr Wilkinson, try to talk about more aforadable go
It's the story stupid! Twilight Zone (the original black and white) had some of the worst special effects EVER, filmed in black and white with mono sound. Yet, many of the stories were so engaging, so thought provoking that nearly fifty years later I still watch the reruns of a few episodes at least two or three times a year. Avatar is visually stunning, technologically ground breaking, and yet simply a mediocre movie. Like Cameron's other hit movie Titanic, Avatar is a movie barely worth viewing once much less ever having the hope of becoming a classic. As much as I love my HDTV and Surround Sound, I'd gladly go back to a 36" SDTV if the writing and story telling could consistently approached the quality of the classics. And yes, I realize that many of the movies and TV shows from forty years ago were at best mediocre, I am simply trying to emphasize that the immersive power of movies lies in the story and storytelling, not just in the technical presentation. regards Joe Do
I havent ever actually seen one of the 3-D TVs yet but i know that with the 3-D at places like the theater I cant see any differences from 2D, i think though that this may have to do with by red-green color blindness. So basically i know 3-D sadly wont work for me and others like me.
My family & I went to the local Mall a few weeks ago to see the Panasonic 3D display. After 5 minutes, only 2 of the 4 of us could still watch it. Both my son and wife felt headaches coming on, enough to rip off the glasses and ask me not to consider it. While I had no trouble watching it, I wonder how much of the general population will experience ill affects from the glasses. As I also have to replace my current Blu ray player, current XBR TV, AND perhaps my AV receiver that now won't pass the HDMI 3D signal, I'm positively not interested. I've spent enough in the last few years on technology upgrades that should last at least 8-10 years before it's deemed totally obsolete. I hope this quickly falls on it's face.
I agree with Rob, that I much prefer an engaging movie with a interesting story line than then fancy eye candy with a lot of fluff instead a good story. Hollywood sadly produces often movies that regurgitate over and over the same bland and safe stories that leave you wanting for more. I find myself often watching rather a low-budget European movie instead, because of its fresh stories that show not just the lives of the rich but the struggles of the ordinary folks like us.
If the Vincent Price movie The Tingler was released in present day, you could bet that the manufacturers would be releasing couches with seat buzzers on them. Having to wear glasses to watch a movie feels more like a disney ride than a piece of art.
I agree totally with John Taylor. I agree that 3D will make a permanent stay in the cinemas. I don't see 3D catching on at home for another couple years or maybe longer. We are just gonna have to wait a couple of model cycles to see how it catches on. For me, my professionally calibrated Kuro 5020, PS3, and 5.1 surround sound has my wife and I 100% satisfied at home. When we want a 3D fix, we just drive to our local cinema. 3D needs a giant screen to truly to its justice, which is nothing short of breath-taking.
Hi, Scott, I'm interested to know why you feel most consumer PJs will go the passive/polarized glasses/special screen route, rather than the active/shutter glasses/"normal "screen route. Is it a brightness issue? If not, why wouldn't the latter work just fine, as with a direct-view display? Or, if so, wouldn't in-projector accommodations such as brighter (and/or multiple) bulbs work as a fix for the increased demands of 3-D viewing (along with separate expanded calibration modes for 3D and 2D movie viewing modes?) Lastly, do you have any special knowledge from CE manufacturers about this (or, perhaps, have seen prototypes and so infer this), or is it just a WAG? Thanks or your reply!
Hi, Scott, back again...I asked the above because it seemed to me to be a no-brainer that PJ manufacturers would try and keep the cost of new ancillary equipment as low as possible; this, plus speculation n othe AVS forums led me to believe that while passive systems might be available later this year, certainly active systems would be as well (particularly DLPs). However, I just came across a summation of a Widescreen Review (#147) article on an AVS forum post from three weeks ago that has JVC reps from the JVC US Technology Center and a MArketing Assistant VP saying JVC WILL be offering 3D single chip FP solutions this year, and that they will use ASGs, not passive ones. The refresh rate may be 144Hz, but will be at least 120Hz. Just FYI. I'm personally hoping for active solutions, because I will want to use one screen for both 2D and 3D; yes, the cost of glasses is higher (and the diminution of light may be higher, although we'll have to see), but this seems like a solution most consumers would
Willdao, most of the 3D front projectors I've seen recently use passive glasses, including the JVC and other demos at CES. Active glasses are easiest to implement with DLP because they can be sync'd to a white frame that is displayed periodically on the screen. As far as I know, using active glasses with LCD or LCoS requires an IR transmitter near the screen, which probably also requires a wire connected to the projector...not a convenient solution. As you point out, brightness is another issue, and passive glasses don't cut as much light as active ones. Of course, a manufacturer could use a brighter lamp or multiple lamps, but that increases the cost and also the amount of heat in the projector. I'll look into your comment about JVC's 3D plans. but I have a hard time believing that it would offer a "single-chip" 3D projector, which can only be done with DLP, and we know that JVC is committed to LCoS.


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Correction: Britain-Egypt-Plane Incident story
In an Aug. 8 story about a plane which made an emergency landing in Egypt, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the plane involved was an Airbus A380. It was an Airbus A300.
A corrected version of the story is below:
Egypt official: UK flight makes emergency landing
Egyptian official: British flight made emergency landing at resort area; no injuries
LONDON (AP) _ A flight from Britain made an emergency landing at Egypt's Sharm el-Sheikh airport after the plane experienced engine trouble, an Egyptian airport official said Thursday. A spokesman for U.K.-based Monarch Airlines said no one was hurt and that the passengers exited the plane normally.
Gad el-Karim Nasr, the head of the Egyptian airports company, told journalists the pilot asked to land at Sharm el-Sheikh 15 minutes early after an issue with one of the plane's engines. Reached earlier Thursday, Monarch Airlines spokesman Russell Ison disputed the idea that the plane had been forced to make an emergency landing, instead referring to it as a "precautionary landing" prompted by a warning light in the cabin.
He later acknowledged that the plane had made an emergency landing.
Ison said the plane was an Airbus A300 with 350 passengers aboard. He added that the plane was being examined.


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Carmen Morrison
Major: Peace Studies/Spanish
Carmen has studied abroad in Costa Rica and Nicaragua, and has participated in a service trip to Peru. Her experiences at Saint Ben's complement her interests. About her interests, Carmen explains, "I am interested in working with Spanish-speaking Latino communities with regards to sustainable development issues. I am also very interested in economic and social justice issues as well as environmental concerns." Carmen plans to pursue these interests after she graduates by volunteering for a year in Central or South America. After that, she hopes to work for a nonprofit organization that deals with sustainable development issues.
Carmen was immediately attracted to the Peace Studies major. She states, "I became a Peace Studies major about three weeks into the intro class because I was fascinated and intrigued by philosophies and movements of peace and social change. I was also attracted to the flexibility and ability to incorporate other disciplines into the major. This decision has definitely allowed me to find my true interests . . . "
Carmen's advice for future Peace Studies majors: "Take as much of a variety of classes as you can, get involved with anything and everything that catches your eye, and make as many connections with other students, profs, and staff as possible.
Carmen was the 2002-2003 Jim and Marilyn Schmit Peace Studies Scholarship winner.


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There are many new items each update and I am on the road alot. If you want to reach me, it is best to try my cell first or email as I try to check for emails most everyday unless I am in a bad service area. I do answer each email and return calls always. If you don't hear from me,please,try me again.
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Organisations that ignore the IT department when approving Cloud projects will face more than just security challenges, according to a legal expert.
Speaking before his presentation at Computer Audit Control Security (CACS) 2011 in Brisbane, Deloitte technology risk partner, Alastair Banks, said that all parties, including risk and audit staff, should be involved when deciding to investigate moving data or services into the Cloud.
In-depth: Cloud computing strategy guide.
"Cloud is not going to be for everyone and that's why not every organisation will go down that path," he said. "They should be assessing it [Cloud] and considering if there is business benefit in it, than they can decide if the risks such as security and data privacy can be overcome to deliver those Cloud benefits."
He gave the example of an Australian organisation that Deloitte worked with that did not involve all the relevant parties, such as the chief information officer, in a Cloud implementation.
"The first time the CIO knew that a Cloud solution had been contracted by the organisation was when he was phoned by the Cloud provider saying that they needed connectivity to the network," he said.
"This is an example where the payroll department simply went out and procured a business service from the Cloud. We have to be careful because the IT department are going to feel challenged by other parts of the business undertaking Cloud projects without their knowledge."
According to Banks, exploration of the Cloud was a great opportunity for technology risk professionals to become the good guys and be seen to be helping the organisation overcome the challenges of Cloud.
"What happened with that organisation is not an ideal situation so make sure there is governance over that project in the same way as any other IT implementation."
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200 years on, calls to better honour Bennelong
On the bicentenary of the death of prominent Aboriginal Australian Woollarawarre Bennelong, there are calls for him to be properly recognised.
Bennelong, who died on January 3, 1813, became famous as a mediator between Indigenous people and the white settlers of the First Fleet.
Ryde Mayor Ivan Petch says the council is pledging $60,000 to commemorate Bennelong during NAIDOC week in July.
Mr Petch says one possibility could be recognising the spot where his remains are believed to lie.
"He is buried here in Ryde, even if we don't have the precise spot," he said.
"It's not so much the exact site where he's buried, it's the fact that we recognise he has been an iconic figure who has been a leader in Australian history."
In 2011, environmental scientist Peter Mitchell identified the place where Bennelong is believed to be buried.
Dr Mitchell believes the spot is under a nature strip in the north-western Sydney suburb of Putney.
He says a memorial in the area will be a fitting way to mark the 200th anniversary of Bennelong's death.
"Bennelong was almost certainly a major negotiator between Aboriginal Australia and the First Fleeters and he hasn't been recognised for that," he said.
"This is an occasion to raise his status somewhat.
"This is an opportunity to say a personal sorry to Aboriginal Australia that we didn't quite get right, but Bennelong tried."
Allen Madden from the Metropolitan Aboriginal Land Council says many people are not aware of the significance of the area where Bennelong is believed to be buried.
He has backed calls for a proper memorial site, even if it means excavating or relocating the remains.
"We've done that in the Sydney area for over 400 Aboriginal remains - bones that have been excavated where flats have gone up and so on," he said.
"If relocation was to happen, I think that would be better all round for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people to know this is the resting place of Bennelong."