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Music of the Sun | Reviewer: Melanie | 9/17/2007
I just think those lyrics are genius. & they mean so much to me. I don't even know why. I'll never get tired of that song. There's just something about it that I love. It's so free and you can dance to it. It makes you feel like you can do or be anything you want to.
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i love you rihanna your like a role model to me oh guess what my name is brianna so we kindas have the same name anyways i love your song music of the sun you have a beautiful voice and i wish you and jay-z the best of luck cause i dont like beyonce
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Emergency personnel responded to three serious automobile accidents Wednesday morning, Nov. 12, one of which claimed the life of a Lancaster woman.
Applause and cheers erupted from a large crowd inside Lancaster County Council's chambers on Wednesday afternoon, Nov. 19, moments after council members voted to keep County Administrator Steve Willis in his position.
Buford High School's cheer competition tradition has added another solid link with the 2014 season.
The Jackets cheer squad is headed to the Class AA state competition for the eighth time in the last nine seasons.
The Indian Land High School cross country team competed at the SCHSL State Championship on Saturday, Nov. 8 at the Sandhills Research Center in Columbia and fared well in the Class AA state field.
The Warriors placed 11th out of 24 teams, with the IL girls finishing 10th out of 19 teams.
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While officer-involved shootings have made headlines several times this year throughout the country, a case close to home has been cleared off the books.
Links bragging rights will be on the line for the 13th time as the annual Big Thursday golf tournament tees off Thursday, Nov. 20 at the Lancaster Golf Club.
Veteran University of South Carolina and Clemson fans each shared in some tough moments over the last week or so, but it had little to do with game results.
It would be more like game of life losses.
Those would be the recent passing of Billy Crenshaw and Johnny Hammond.
Mr. Crenshaw was an avid USC Gamecocks' fan. Johnny Hammond was a Lancaster High football standout going back to the late 1950s. His son Vance was a star athlete at Dorman High School in Spartanburg and later played football at Clemson where he was an All-ACC defensive lineman.
Anderson University is the prime place for Buford High School baseball standout James Gardner.
Gardner, a three-year starter for the BHS baseball team, made it official Friday afternoon, Nov. 21 in the school's conference room as he signed to play for the Trojans.
Days after listening to a slew of witness testimony about the events leading up to the 2011 shooting death of Terrance Antonio Jones along a sidewalk outside a Lancaster apartment complex, a jury returned a guilty verdict against a Lancaster man on Thursday night, Nov. 13.
Lancaster County will have quality representation in the annual North-South All-Star volleyball matches Nov. 20-22 at Erskine College in Due West.
The county has three representatives in the event, which honors the top senior players and coaches from across the state.
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LOGO's TCA presentation included a reel for upcoming reality-competish skein "RuPaul's Drag Race."Series seeks to tweak the "Project Runway" format with rather humorous results, with one episode featuring an aspiring lot of top drag queens competing to be the best Oprah Winfrey they can be. Those called out for underperforming aren't necessarily pecked on the cheeks by RuPaul and bidded "auf widersehen." They get to lip synch for their lives first to Whitney Houston.
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Dec 8, 2011The Good Shepherd is very much a difficult film to understand. At first glance, it is over 2 and a half hours of boring, sluggish history tracing the early history of counterintelligence within the CIA. But upon second glance, the film emerges as something quite different. Is it at all entertaining? No. Is it at all thrilling? For brief moments. But all in all, the film is not meant to be entertaining or thrilling. It is meant to be what film once thrived to be: pure art. It becomes difficult when first seeing this film to see the artistic majesty because most of us have become accustomed to watching a monkey throw **** on a wall and then calling that art. The Good Shepherd becomes like the Mona Lisa, but we must first remember that the Mona Lisa is art and **** on a wall is just **** on a wall. Then we see that this film is perfect because it is art, a true artistic piece of cinema.… Expand
Feb 10, 2012The Good Shepherd might have made an interesting love story -- Damon's character's love for a deaf girl, from a presumably humdrum background, interrupted by the pushy, establishment Jolie character. But while the deaf girl wasn't thrown out of a plane (as another, and the only non-white character in the film, will be) she might as well have been. Instead we get -- history. But it's not really history: more like Oliver Stone on downers. We get laughably stock KGB operatives, CIA self-aggrandizement ("CIA", not "the CIA"), wily Krauts and dutiful WASPs. Who, in one of the better throwaway lines of the film, own the United States of America, in case there was in any confusion on that point in the era of Barack Obama.
It's a cliche, but I think a necessary one, that there is hardly a sympathetic character -- hardly a character -- in the film. The actual history of the CIA is fraught with failures thinking themselves noble, though, so perhaps this is an accurate depiction of its work after all. As a work of fiction it succeeds mostly in hinting at what it could have been.… Expand
Despite successfully creating the illusion of forbidden glimpses, The Good Shepherd slogs through most of its lengthy running time.
In some ways, De Niro does a competent job in his second directorial effort but his characterizations are clumsy, and his members of the Power Elite always seem less real people than stick figures in a propaganda movie.
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Villa Diamante is a privately owned 5 bedroom house located in one of the Costa del Sol's most exclusive areas. As you enter the open plan living area you will take in the superb sea views. On this level is the large open-plan lounge with dining room and kitchen. There are two double bedrooms with sliding doors on to patio and garden. There is also a twin bedded room, shower room and bathroom. On the lower level is a self contained apartment with a double bedroom, a twin room and a bathroom. The apartment has its own living room, with kitchen diner and sliding door to the garden and pool.
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"What was growing up like for David McClain?"
The questioner, a woman with a pad and pencil in her lap, seems in no hurry for an answer. Silently she waits as the 30-year-old man in the wheelchair across from her writhes mutely in his seat. There's a long, slender ribbon of spittle dripping from his chin. The ribbon sways and lengthens until it touches his lap. With the back of one sharply inward-bent hand, he absent-mindedly smears it into his red beard.
Finally, in a voice so thick and distorted that it seems to form not a string of words but a single continuous, wheezing groan, he says, "It was like a mushroom."
Gently but firmly the woman prods him to explain what he means. "A mushroom? How so? How was it like a mushroom, David? What was it that made you feel like a mushroom?"
"Nobody ever told me anything," he answers. "I was always in the dark."
Still the woman persists. "Why was that? Who was it that kept you in the dark?" She's pushing the man, pressing him to reach deeper into the past, to grasp its pain. Her tone remains calm and friendly, but her body is tense as she sits motionless in her chair. For Ellen Savits, a Coral Springs psychotherapist with a unique specialty as counselor for people with severe physical disabilities, the session has reached a crucial threshold.
"My mom and dad," McClain finally replies. "They kind of sheltered me. I couldn't do nothing for myself. When I would ask my dad if I could help with the chores, he said, 'Don't worry, I'll do it for you.' Sometimes I used to sneak into the bathroom at night to try to clean it."
And suddenly McClain needs no more prodding, because now the dam has burst and he is launched on a reminiscence of childhood. He talks about his parents' smothering overprotectiveness. He also talks about his love for them, especially his mother, a talented amateur painter who taught him to draw and who brought out his own considerable artistic talent. "She would draw a cat, and I would draw a cat, too," McClain recalls with glistening eyes. "But hers was soft... more ladylike."
When he has finished, Savits softly guides him back from the depths of memory to the present moment. "David, now let's talk a little about some of the things you'd like to change in your life."
Well, there's a lot that he'd like to change in his life. He'd like to be able to walk and talk and live like an able-bodied person. But that isn't going to happen. There's no cure for cerebral palsy on the horizon.
So he concentrates now on things that he does have the power to change. Since the deaths of his parents eight years ago, McClain has been plagued by fear and self-doubt, traits that he recognizes and loathes but somehow hasn't been able to abandon. Without someone around to tell him what to do and make decisions for him, he says he feels lost. "Somehow I'm holding back," he says. His plight is reflected in his recent inability to finish a painting. "I sit in front of a blank canvas, and my mind just goes blank."
McClain's problems came to the fore last year, when he moved out of the group home he'd been living in since his parents' 1991 deaths and into a subsidized apartment. On his own for the first time in his life, he's found freedom hard to manage. Even the simple task of grocery-shopping has had him perplexed to the point that he's felt compelled to check in with his home-living coach, Debbie Isaza, before putting an item in his cart. "Hey, it's your money, David," Isaza remembers telling him repeatedly. "You shouldn't be asking me to make these decisions for you." It was Isaza who recommended that he seek therapy.
He thinks that, in the nine months he's been seeing Savits, he's made a lot of progress toward developing the assertiveness and confidence he'll need to get along in life. Still, he thinks he has a long way to go. "I have a tough time with authority figures," he says. "I still hate to make waves."
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The Fade-out Fades Out, and Other News
September 15, 2014 | by Dan Piepenbring
- "When John Ashbery, the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet, first learned that the digital editions of his poetry looked nothing like the print version, he was stunned. There were no line breaks, and the stanzas had been jammed together into a block of text that looked like prose. The careful architecture of his poems had been leveled … That was three years ago, and digital publishing has evolved a lot since then. Publishers can now create e-books that better preserve a poet's meticulous formatting."
- Today in academic tiffs: One professor tried to publish a controversial essay avowing that Shakespeare's works were written by Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford. Another professor offered a stern rebuke: "I simply find your reasoning, and your evidence, as unconvincing as those of Holocaust deniers, and other conspiracy theorists." Finger pointing and harrumphing ensued.
- Stop-and-frisk is more than just a widely reviled NYPD policy: it's an opera!
- Has pop music bid adieu to the fade-out? "The fade-out—the technique of ending a song with a slow decrease in volume over its last few seconds—became common in the 1950s and ruled for three decades. Among the year-end top ten songs for 1985, there's not one cold ending. But it's been on the downturn since the nineties, and the past few years have been particularly unkind. The year-end top ten lists for 2011, 2012, and 2013 yield a total of one fade-out."
- On the Metropolitan Museum of Art's new Charles James retrospective: "The Met seems to be telling us—showing us—that we should view [dress and fashion] as high art. This is not a new argument, of course, but in spite of past scholarly and curatorial efforts, it has never decisively taken hold … James would seem the perfect antidote, and in many ways he is: a great designer who was never a celebrity (few outside the field of fashion have ever heard of him), an inveterate craftsman who was also a genuinely imaginative artist—a sculptor of satin and silk willing to sacrifice everything including profits for the perfect seam … "
The Ultimate Example of Everything, and Other News
August 27, 2014 | by Dan Piepenbring
- Our poetry editor, Robyn Creswell, on the New Museum's current show, "Here and Elsewhere": "So many of today's iconic images are made in the Middle East … For visual artists working from the region, this surfeit of spectacles poses a challenge. When everyday life—at least as it is experienced via a computer screen—regularly throws up these images of terror and drama and the technological sublime, how can a photographer compete?"
- Ben Lerner at the Met: "What interests me about fiction … is in part, its flickering edge between realism and where a tear in the fabric of a story lets in some other sort of light."
- Things that—according to the students and faculty of the first Ashbery Home School, a new writing conference in Hudson, New York—John Ashbery is "the ultimate example of": "surrealism, realism, hyperrealism, distance, proximity, translation, tradition, the grotesque, the beautiful, the blind, the all-seeing, the old, the young, the queer, the hetero, the hedgehog, the fox, the human, the alien, the bric-a-brac in the cupboard, the masterpiece on the wall, painting, cinema, architecture, life." (NB the author of this list describes it as "incomplete and incompetent.")
- A brief history of the problem of sorting, classifying, and otherwise categorizing things: "It is tempting to think making categories is a straightforward scientific enterprise, and that debates will be clearly settled once we've amassed enough data. But the history of science shows this not to be the case … The nature of scientific categories is not merely an empirical issue; it's also a philosophical one, and one affected by self-interest and social forces."
- Today, in posthumous gifts: more than three thousand of Doris Lessing's books are to be donated to a public library in Zimbabwe, where she lived for twenty-five years.
Radical Middle
July 2, 2014 | by Sadie Stein
July 2 is the midpoint of the year—we're 182 days into 2014 with 182 to go. This is obscurely depressing, although there is something neat about its falling on a Wednesday. It's all downhill from here, you might say—although sometimes people use that expression as a positive, meaning smooth sailing, so take it as you will.
Everyone finds New Year's Day dreary. But summer, for all its promise of leisure and romance and ease, has an urgency that is sad in its own way. From the moment it starts, it's on the wane—days ever shorter, relentlessly shifting sands in a Wizard of Oz–style hourglass. Outside my window, someone is actually playing "Summertime" on a saxophone. He's probably thinking that we are in New York in hot weather, and it is iconic. The pressure is immense. The high-pressure weather is stifling.
Ashbery touched on it. "Soonest Mended" is about much more than the mundane, although it conjures the mundane vividly. Amidst the dissection of proverb—and allusions to pressures of art, and youth, and time—he manages to put into words the particular melancholy of the midpoint.
Alas, the summer's energy wanes quickly,
A moment and it is gone. And no longer
May we make the necessary arrangements, simple as they are.
Our star was brighter perhaps when it had water in it.
Now there is no question even of that, but only
Of holding on to the hard earth so as not to get thrown off
With an occasional dream, a vision: a robin flies across
The upper corner of the window, you brush your hair away
And cannot quite see, or a wound will flash
Against the sweet faces of the others, something like:
This is what you wanted to hear, so why
Did you think of listening to something else? We are all talkers
It is true, but underneath the talk lies
The moving and not wanting to be moved, the loose
Meaning, untidy and simple like a threshing floor.
Poets Want Their Privacy, and Other News
April 2, 2014 | by Dan Piepenbring
- "Delicious, unkosher, dark, vague, the Cloud / Of Mexico Pork threatens our borders." In a new forum, John Ashbery, Cathy Park Hong, Charles Bernstein, Robert Pinsky, Rae Armantrout, and others contribute poems about the surveillance state in the twenty-first century. (Those lines are Pinsky's.)
- Good news for grad students reluctant to enter academia: "Humanities Ph.D.s are all around us—and they are not serving coffee."
- The Mets blew what now? An unfortunate headline teaches us the everlasting value of commas.
- Anyone who worships at the altar of user experience will wince at these designs by Katerina Kamprani, who has made it her task to suck the utility out of everyday objects.
- One man's strangely inspiring search for a vocation: "He started the Restroom Association of Singapore to clean up the public toilets. People loved it. He then realized there were fifteen toilet associations around the world, in cities in Britain and Germany and Japan and some other places, too, but no world headquarters. So he started the World Toilet Organization … and that is how Jack Sim became the Toilet Man."
- A brief history of naked babies in fashion magazines.
John Ashbery Reads "A Boy"
March 18, 2014 | by Dan Piepenbring
Today the composer Christopher Tignor releases a new record, Thunder Lay Down in the Heart, whose title track is a twenty-minute work for string orchestra, electronics, and drums. The composition is named after a line from John Ashbery's 1956 poem, "A Boy," and it begins with a haunting new recording of Ashbery reading the poem in his Chelsea apartment, which Tignor has graciously allowed us to feature here.
Tignor says:
"A Boy" rang out to me while I was writing "Thunder Lay Down in the Heart." My song titles usually come in response to the music, and I often find myself looking through books of poetry to turn my mind on in that way. When I was a student at Bard, I studied poetry with Ashbery—he was my advisor—and when I read this poem, I responded right away to the conflict between the protagonist and the visceral narrative tension of the storm: the sound, like thunder, of falling "from shelf to shelf of someone's rage," the rain at night against the box cars, the inevitable flood.
It's precisely that kind of unfolding I hoped to embody in my musical work, with its own flooded lines, dry fields of lightning, and cabbage roses. A reviewer recently described the work as its own "vast electrical disturbance." Hard to disagree.
"Snow Is a Hat Worn By Mountains"
February 13, 2014 | by Dan Piepenbring
Some might suggest that for a literary blog to feature three snow-related posts in a day is excessive. Well, tough. The weather has always been a great common denominator. And to our credit, we've refrained from calling this "Winter Storm Pax" or "the snowpocalypse." We have standards.
Here, then, are seven poems from our archives fit for a snowy night. I won't claim they'll warm or comfort you—they're poems, not pap—but they're terrific reads, and they will be of some help. Next time you share an elevator with a distant colleague, you'll use the weather as a conversational crutch, as one does; but instead of saying, "Man, it's cold out!" you'll say, "Snow is a hat worn by mountains." You'll make a lasting impression.
Note, too, that the majority of these poems were published in the spring or summer: a reminder that what's unendurable now will be desirable in a few months' time.
Debora Greger, "To the Snow" (from The Paris Review No. 154, Spring 2000)
Snow, let go. It's late,
You are cornmush. You are cold.
Let me cover you with this white sheet.
No one will know.
Agha Shahid Ali, "Snow on the Desert" (from No. 107, Summer 1988)
the sliding doors of the fog were opened,
and the snow, which had fallen all night, now
sun-dazzled, blinded us, the earth whitened
out, as if by cocaine, the desert's plants,
its mineral-hard colors extinguished,
wine frozen in the veins of the cactus.


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EYE-GASMIC: Apple MacBook Pro 15-inch with Retina Display
It's true, as Rik Myslewski pointed out recently, that the two new MacBook Pro with Retina Display models aren't drastically different from their predecessors. However, the eye-gasmic, 2880 x 1800 hi-res screen of the original 15-inch model helped it to win El Reg's Laptop of the Year for 2012, so you could argue that it ain't …
"But, to be fair, the MacBook Pro with Retina Display is still one of the lightest 15-inch notebooks currently available. I can pick it up with one hand"
2KG with only ONE HAND! You must be working out!
Seriously though, that's some pricey kit. No ethernet port is a royal PITA I would think for the target audience
ethernet port is a royal PITA
Especially in the absence of an Apple-branded or half-way decent 3rd party Thunderbolt dock
"2KG with only ONE HAND! You must be working out! Seriously though, that's some pricey kit. No ethernet port is a royal PITA I would think for the target audience"
It's easy enough to pick up, but you seriously wouldn't want to wave it about too much. Then again, why would you?
I have the 2012 version and I don't miss the Ethernet port one jot, actually, as I use wireless almost all the time. I do have their Thunderbolt <-> Ethernet adapter just in case, you know, for hotel rooms with wired-only connections, that kind of thing. YMMV.
No ethernet port - of course everyone differs on this but for a thinner device I'm happy to lose it. £25 buys you a thunderbolt adapter for gigabit ethernet if you need it and 802.11ac is surely fast enough for most users.
For a laptop it's one more thing to have to plug in - although of course if you have an Apple Thunderbolt display you get a gigabit port via the Thunderbolt port for the display anyway. So for the 'target audience' I can't really see it's a huge issue??
Re: ethernet port is a royal PITA
Apple Thunderbolt display or there are loads of USB 3 to gigabit adapters or Apple's own Thunderbolt to gigabit adapter.
No ethernet port is a royal PITA
are you still using floppy disks or c90s?
You can joke that ethernet has gone the way of the floppy disk, but you'd be surprised where it turns up.
Recently I went on holiday and took my Android tablet for the first time instead of my aging netbook - be grand for wifi, I thought.
Arrived in the room, little sign on the desk beside a suspiciously RJ-45 looking cable.. "Welcome to your complimentary internet!"
Luckily I was able to find some wifi enabled watering holes...
If you are going to need a laptop powerful enough to process the data that this laptop is capable of, then getting that data and sharing that data would be an arse ache over wifi.
Why get this and not an air ? Because it has grunt. Grunt without connectivity is useless in most scenarios.
It's portable workhorse with a great display. I know of 2 dozen design and CAD houses that would laugh at you if you turned up with that and had forgotten your Ethernet adapter. Try working on a 20 GB project over wifi (even PERFECT wifi) and see where you get to.
Or do we now treat USB Ethernet adapters like USB chargers (and i suppose iphone chargers) and just expect them to be everywhere ? They didn't sell them in victoria station tech-vend last time I needed one.
>Why get this and not an air ? Because it has grunt. Grunt without connectivity is useless in most scenarios.
No, no it's not. If you're dealing with 20GB CAD files, you'll want more RAM. If you're rendering, then the CPU/GPU is more of a bottleneck than the networking. If you really need to shunt data around that quickly, video editing for example, then wired ethernet is not the fastest solution around either.
then wired ethernet is not the fastest solution around either.
It is, however, vastly speedier than any wifi solution. Also, Gigabit? That's pretty standard these days, to the point that any old budget PC has a 10/100/1000 port. What about 10 or 100 gig? Pricey to be sure, but this is an Apple device.
I'm pretty sure that a 100 gigabit connection would do for now, at least.
Multimedia over WiFi...pass.
"...then wired ethernet is not the fastest solution around either."
In regards to multimedia, no of course not, but it is standard and doesn't require EVERYONE to use ThunderButt/USB. The cost of draping ThunderButt or 22/24 AWG with 4/5 conductors EVERYWHERE would be outrageous. The cost of the shielding for the cables alone would render any debate about it laughable. Then we have the power issue... The power requirements are going to have to be unusual, because 1 thing that isn't mentioned commonly in regards to USB is signal loss (shielding can't cover everything). It's basically a deal breaker for any type of multi-tier networking. To be honest, I've never seen it done unless you count host to host over 6-8 feet, but of course it isn't meant to be done any further.
Without a standard RJ-45, you're pretty much the "cool kid" in the corner who reminds everyone else of the cost they must incur if they want to deal with you.
MBP 2013 non retina
Bought this January direct from Apple and was asked WHY don't you want a retina display model.
Well I wanted an Ethernet connection and a large 1TB drive and a disc drive. The lady on the other end of the phone said but you can buy an adapter, and extra hard drive and an external disc drive.........
Yes I replied but that would mean having to carry them round.
Soon as it arrived I increased the RAM. Do I miss the retina, nope.
Am I happy with the spec and upgradability Yes.
Best laptop ever.
Tabtop. It's a tablet with a keyboard.
I have a late 2011 MBP
As I've mentioned a couple of times on the Reg forums, I have a late 2011 15" MBP upgraded to 16GB RAM, a 512GB SSD and the 750GB spinner upgraded to 1TB and moved into the superdrive slot.
It's been the best Windows laptop I've personally ever owned and since I picked it up stateside, it was about on a par for the equivalent spec non Apple hardware in terms of UK pricing.
But no way I would consider a unit - however good the screen - where my upgrade options were a flat zero! Can't even replace a battery? No etnerhet port? No thanks, Apple.
Re: I have a late 2011 MBP
Apple will replace the battery for you with a genuine Apple one - if you want more battery life and a thinner / lighter device that's what you get. Saying that most of these lithium cells are good for 500-1000+ full cycles. Now I'm sure some people use it for the full 9 hours a day then recharge it when almost flat - so 500-1000 full cycles may come in around 2-3 years but that figure is for the capacity to have reduced to 70% or 80% of original - it does not mean the battery is goosed.
I've a 2009 Macbook - used every day and the battery is still at (least) 80% after over 4 years. When it does need a replacement think it's about £100ish which is about the same as I have paid in the past for other brand 'original' batteries.
Sounds like the writer was hinting that people should really pick up last year's model at presumably something of a discount.
Want that screen.
Oh why won't somebody else, anybody else, build a laptop sporting this lovely 16:10 screen?
Re: Want that screen.
My thoughts exactly! How hard can it be!?
Re: Want that screen.
Yeah how many other retina resolution screens do you see? How many with Haswell, 9 hour battery life and PCIe based flash memory? None??
Re: Want that screen.
>Yeah how many other retina resolution screens do you see?
Here's two that are close:
Toshiba Kirabook 2560×1440 @13.3"
Lenovo Yoga 2 3200 x 1800 @ 13"
but yeah, these are both 16:9 screens, not 16:10 as per the original plea.
The problem is that a good many Windows desktop applications (including expensive ones such as Adobe's Creative Suite) don't scale well, and so toolbars are left insanely small. OSX handles scaling differently.
Re: Want that screen.
Quite fancy this myself.. http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Samsung-ATIV-Book-9-Plus-940X3G-Ultrabook.103299.0.html
There's space on the 15-inchers for a numeric keypad. Why won't Apple include one?
Re: Numpad?
Because most people wouldn't have a great deal of use for it, and the space is better taken up either side of the keyboard with the stereo speakers.
Re: Numpad?
Buzzword, you could install KeyRemap4MacBook to let the Fn key make the 789/UIO/JKL/M keys act as a numeric keypad under OS X.
I have a non-retina 15" MBP
And crap eyesight.
I get the same experience, but cheaper.
My old macbook, which tends to destroy batteries annually, is starting to get a tad unreliable, and isn't really as relatively powerful as it once was.
The thing is, the g4 Powerbook that it replaced is still going strong, and is built like a tank.
Moreover, unless I go up to the two grand model, I don't get all that CUDA goodness in Premiere, Photoshop and Aftereffects, either, due to no NVidia card. Add to that the fact that if the new one starts playing up and eating batteries as soon as it's out of warranty, I am going to have a much harder time swapping them out. I won't be able to grit my teeth, trot to the nearest Apple store and buy a pricey replacement.
Thus, it has pretty much ruled itself out of the running for me. I am very tempted to get an Asus GX750JX, which packs a Core i7 4700HQ, Geforce 770, and a pair of HDs in for 1300 quid. It's a "gaming laptop", but not all that garish, being mostly matte black... plus it has a Thunderbolt connector, which will be useful for painlessly adding SDI in/out.
Yes, ok, maybe that's "creative professional" use, and I feel like Apple just isn't a good idea for me any more. I do love Coreaudio a lot- the WIndows sound subsystem is a pile of crap, but at the end of the day, this option will run the stuff I need at a higher speed for much less money.
Hmph. I feel like Apple dropped the ball on this one, cutting corners on their MBPs will just ensure that they make themselves more irrelevant to the graphics nerds who used to be some of their biggest cheerleaders. They're still great for yummy hipster mummies who want to tweet their FaceTubes off, but not so much for my use case :(
Re: meh
>Moreover, unless I go up to the two grand model, I don't get all that CUDA goodness in Premiere, Photoshop and Aftereffects, either, due to no NVidia card.
Well, there is a fair chance your software will start supporting OpenCL instead, given the upcoming Mac Pro has two AMd cards and no nVidea option.
> I do love Coreaudio a lot- the WIndows sound subsystem is a pile of crap,
Re: meh
"Well, there is a fair chance your software will start supporting OpenCL instead, given the upcoming Mac Pro has two AMd cards and no nVidea option."
Sadly that's an argument-from-being-interested-in-computers-for-their-own-sake(tm), rather than needing to use them as a day to day tool.
It's not really a very useful argument when my old Macbook is dying *now*, and Aftereffects and Photoshop's current versions use CUDA *now*. I can't just say "give me two years to see if Adobe port their apps to a different compute API, and then I will make your opening titles for you". It reminds me of the way that Apple also stopped selling Mac Pro in Europe because they couldn't be arsed to update the fan guards to meet current safety standards- there has been a really long delay where you simply couldn't get a workstation grade machine from them- and that awful beer keg replacement thing still isn't widely available.
You can't complete your render on a putative future machine if you have deadlines, which is why Apple are losing professional users quite heavily right now. Other bad things are happening too, like the fact that FCP-X often fails hard at rendering and exporting- which is pretty unpleasant when you need to export your finished product. This is causing those of us who have been drinking the Apple kool-aid in the form of Final Cut for years to look much harder at Avid and Premiere too. Apple are failing to live up to reasonable standards in both hardware and software in some ways, and really becoming executive toys.
your confused with resolution I think
I've had a 15" retina since they came out.
I also make use of QuickRes app to get access to actual pixel resolutions rather than the dumbed down 'best more retina, more space, etc' options you get in OSX.
The most real estate option give you 1920x1200 effective resolution (i.e. your internal rendered 4k resolution which is then displayed on the panel).
It is the resolution I usually run the panel at and provides a nice sharp picture (which takes some getting your head around since you are running an LCD at a non-native resolution which was always a no no until now).
but you are not getting access to the native 2880 x 1800.
Using QuickRes you can set that. This results in a true 2880x1800 desktop (i.e. looks similar to my imac27).
This does make everything tiny, but for some coding across multiple windows, FCPX while using multiple 'tracks', some photoshop work with lots of windows it is awesome.
Another reason is that the 1920x1200 resolution doesn't work as a user would expect with 'retina aware' apps. I expected this to be fixes by now tbh, but it never has been....
for example If I have a true 2880x1800 photo, and I am running 'best for retina' mode (i.e. my desktop real estate, etc all looks like 1400x900), when I open a retina aware app like photoshop, and view my picture '1 to 1' it will take up the screen exactly (not twice the height of screen). i.e. the OS knows that certain frames should not be doubled and antialiased but have the contents rendered 121 for pixels on the screen.
If I now use QuickRes to change to 2880x1800 resolution, and do the same thing, I get the same results as far as viewing the picture is concerned (it takes the full screen), but now all the OSX menus, etc are all rendered 121 too - so I can get much more of that stuff on the screen (i.e it acts as a regular screen before retina doubling stuff started muddying the waters)
If however, I choose the furthest right OSX 'more space' resolution (which as described above is effectively 1920x1200 as far as OSX furniture, menus, text, buttons, etc is concerned, internally it 'thinks' it is displaying at 3840x2400 (with 4 times as large OSX furniture, menus, texts, buttons, etc)
So the result when I again open iphoto and view my 2800x1800 picture is that it only takes up 2/3 of the screen in 'view 1 to 1' option. You have to in fact zoom in to 133% before you get a true 1 2 1.
this is the same with all retina aware apps. e.g. FCPx, PS CS6, etc. Its a bit of a pain to be honest and I'm amazed it has never been fixed. I mean the OS knows you are in 1920. It knows this is going to be rendered at 4k, so it knows that when displayed at native any retina aware screen windows need to be be scaled to 133% to be true... and yet we are now a full OSX version on and they have done FA to fit it.
Its the Pro .....
...... so why no video/photo editing tests on the Haswell chip? Or is it a case of if you want to use it for what most Pros have been bought for previously (location editing), you just have to stump up for the most expensive model with a mid range graphics chip?
If Lenovo wise up and throw a decent display at the Thinkpad W coupled with a Quadro they could start biting into Apples market on the top end.
Re: Its the Pro .....
Even the last gen of Intel HD graphics was no slouch at video transcoding. Anand hasn't got around to testing the new Macbook Pro yet, but he has the iMac with Iris Pro graphics. This new Mac Pro is a step backwards from last year's equivalent graphics wise, but not massively.
Some pro users might be using a Red Rocket decoder card through Thunderbolt. Laptops with upgradable ceepeegeepees? Sound good.
Does it seem to anyone else...
That it's now almost impossible to buy a laptop with discrete graphics that isn't a gaming laptop? I know the intel graphics chips have been getting better over the past few years, but their 3D performance is still pretty terrible.
I don't want a laptop that lights up seven ways from Sunday, I just want a nice mundane looking laptop that can play a game of Civ 5 on occasion.
Re: Does it seem to anyone else...
>I just want a nice mundane looking laptop that can play a game of Civ 5 on occasion.
You might be alright with Iris, then:
Re: Does it seem to anyone else...
>Does it seem to anyone else...that it's now almost impossible to buy a laptop with discrete graphics that isn't a gaming laptop?
No. All the major laptop manufacturers have workstation models that feature Quadro/Firepro graphics.
Re: Does it seem to anyone else...
Sure that's true, and that tends to be what I buy. I have a Dell Precision M6500 now. It's getting on towards 3 years old, and my experience is that 4 years is about the point at which I tend to start wanting a new one.
The problem is a) It costs 2000 quid, which I suppose is reasonable if you're conditioned by Apple prices but is a lot of money compared to other laptops, and b) The FirePro and Quadro cards get very little in the way of driver love. I have to run my laptop with the Radeon HD drivers as a generic 5800 series card, because the optimized FirePro drivers were ancient, buggy and never updated.
If I had my choice, I'd like the nice bulky, well ventilated but non-light-up build of the Precision combined with one of the high end gaming chips from, say, the Alienware line.
Re: Does it seem to anyone else...
Try pcspecialist.co.uk, they sell rebranded clevo laptops with very muted styling that you can customise to your heart's content (I think there are even some with upgradeable graphics cards)
Very happy with mine, and it was incredible value. (I don't work for them or anything BTW)
Re: Does it seem to anyone else...
No, no you don't want that at all.
If you want optimal compute performance, you don't want one of the gaming GPUs, as NVidia cap the FP64 artificially in the driver. The same units running under Quadro drivers often have 24x the FP64 on the exact same chip.
(..and I sympathize WRT the AMD drivers. I have periodically forgotten about bad experiences, thought Radeon-related stuff looked good on paper, and taken the plunge. The horrible drivers made me regret it- every time)
I was afraid of this
I have a 2011 MBP, before they started turning their laptops into toasters. I love my laptop. It's the single best laptop I have ever owned. It can still hold it's own compared to mainstream machines today.
Of course, that's because I could still upgrade the RAM and the hard drive.
The fact that Apple is turning their "high end" laptops into toasters is extremely disappointing to say the least. I guess I'll be sticking with my current machine for the forseeable future, if even the best machine they have available has pathetically gimped video.
The whole reason I switched to apple was because Windows laptops were embarrasingly unreliable. You couldn't even close the lid and have a reasonable expectation that the machine would come back to life when you opened it again.
If Microsoft+partners have finally pulled their collective thumbs out and actually now pay more than lip service to reliability, I may have to consider switching back. Can anyone comment?
Re: I was afraid of this
Many could comment, but would you know more? Reliability, given that nothing is perfect, is subjective.
I still use my Lenovo Win7 laptop, converted to SSD and always, always, expect it to wake from standby. Having said that it does fail occasionally and better rebooted every few weeks (updates being the main culprit). It takes less than 30s to reboot and be usable (SSDs really help with the multiple startup processes).
However, I rarely close the screen because I rarely take it anywhere, it is used all the time, since it is my only PC. It is used a lot for TV via HDMI so runs dual-screened all the time.
It is a lowly Lenovo Thinkpad Edge (the cheap one) so cost less than 500 three years ago.
Since I am (obviously) not a gamer and don't use it professionally, I cannot justify a new laptop despite seeing Win8 come out of standby before the lid was even raised to 30 degrees on my friends decidedly-average machine.
I thought I would have to replace it when it started overheating recently but £2.50s worth of heatsink compound and a crosshead screwdriver fixed it in 15 minutes.
I can change the battery (I have), the processor (nope), the RAM (upgraded to 8GB), the hard drive (256GB Crucial SSD) and do occasionally use the Ethernet port (when Virgin demanded a direct connection to the cable modem for speed test purposes for instance).
Won't be buying a MBP obviously, I would spend my money on a proper Thinkpad like the 430s but I see why people would like this machine, many are never going to change the system in any way, not even to put windows on it.
Re: I was afraid of this
I could accept the lack of upgradability for £500. But for £1699 it's just plain stupid.
It costs a little more than a tablet to make.
Re: I was afraid of this
Just to add another tuppence (I'm a yank so I don't know the spelling)...
I have been a Thinkpad user for about 8 years and have always tried to get close to the bleeding edge, with about a 3 year cycle.
My Lenovo W701 (1920x1200, 16GB, SSD, etc.) is rock solid and has great graphics. I don't game but I run a lot of windows (2 monitors) and don't have any graphics lag (1GB QuadroFX 3800).
I carry it with me everywhere I go - to and fro work every day, and every day+ long trip. It weighs around 7pounds and has a power brick that clocks in at probably slightly less than 1pound.
However I have absolutely everything I need in this package. It's not a minimalist little thing to take to the coffee shops, altho I do - without apology.
The 2-3 times I've had to get Lenovo service in the last 5 years, they've been fine. Oh, and I've upgraded many of the components in these machines myself (memory,fans,screens,radios,etc.)
Re: I was afraid of this
"Won't be buying a MBP obviously, I would spend my money on a proper Thinkpad like the 430s"
I've just spent four figures on a T430s, and whilst it's too early to report on longevity, the build and feel of it doesn't really advertise the extra expense (more than twice the price) over a friend's IdeaPad. It certainly doesn't feel as solid as the work-issue HP EliteBook. To be fair though, unlike modern Apple kit it's well served with plenty of ports and connectivity, and I had an mSATA SSD DIY-installed in 10 minutes. The old ethernet port is useful now and then when the wifi is playing up.
I'm no fan of Apple the company, but they do know how to build some extremely impressive hardware. And then charge you a fortune for it!
Re: I was afraid of this (@AC)
You should have a word with Microsoft. They seem so sure that the Intel-bearing Surface can't be made cheaply that they endured a US$900m write-down halfheartedly trying to push an ARM version.
The Surface Pro 128GB list price was £900; presumably the Haswell-powered Pro 2 will be the same. Chuck Apple an extra £200 for the entry level 13" Retina MacBook Pro and they'll give you a larger, higher resolution screen and a 50% faster CPU.
£1700 for an Intel tablet. No thanks.
Only apple could say they have a
screen resolution of 3840 x 2400 when its actually a 2880 x 1800 panel.
Re: Only apple could say they have a
They don't say that. Only an AC could make such a ridiculous straw man argument, etc, etc, etc.
My story :-)
I needed a new laptop as my old faithful NX6310 died a while back, It had been running Linux since I bought it 5 - 6 Years ago, the short term solution was a Toshiba piece of crap with windows 7, the Toshiba has a mouse pad offset to the left, the F*&^ing thing, mouse all over the place.
Anyway last time through US the minister for finance buys her new MBP 15" Retina and asks if I would like one, I say I will wait until we pass back through the US in December; Last week I mentioned how pleased I was that I had waited and that my new laptop will have xyz and double the SSD capacity, a short one-sided discussion later and here I am with the older MBP :-)
This is my first ever Mac PC, I run Linux as a VM and is all I need on this machine, just about all the apps I use under Linux are on the Mac and if not a suitable alternative is available.
The big question for me, was would it be worth the extra money, Oh Yes!
Further and further from the path
No Ethernet. No AR screen option. No upgrade path. No effin idea. No sale.
Looks like my three year old MBP - maxed out spec at purchase and then upgraded to 1 TB SSD after AppleCare lapsed - will be my last. I expect it will be a couple more years before I need to talk to some of my big ticket software vendors re cross-grade licences and return to the dark side. Or is it a bit brighter these days? Apple take note - look what complacency and stupidity can do for you. "Loyalty is something that should be earned, not given."
It looks like any MacBook/Powerbook since 2003. Nothing to jerk off to.
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This full-size manual FoodSaver® vacuum sealing unit is designed to work with FoodSaver® heat-seal pre-cut bags or customizable length rolls. It features an easy lock-latch system to keep bags in place during the vacuum sealing process. Two sealing levels and a double-wide sealing strip ensure a tight-seal when vacuum sealing especially moist or juicy foods. CrushFree™ Control helps protect delicate foods during the sealing process.
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simple and easy to use Just needed a simple food saver and this is it. Great product have saved alot of money already by buying in bulk. I love this thing. July 10, 2014
One awesome product. This is my third Foodsaver. It is on my counter because we use it so much. I like to buy meat in bulk. The Foodsaver keeps the meat from getting freezer burned. It lasts so much longer in the freezer when vacuum sealed. I'll never be without this appliance. July 21, 2014
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Good product but earlier versions much better The product is good but I believe earlier smaller versions were better, more effective and easier to use. I think the larger size hurts during the vacuuming stage and thus the sealing does not quite seal on the first attempt and if it does there is still air trapped inside. It still works if you mess around with it and maybe the third time is the charm. I wish the smaller previous version was still available. It was more effiecent and effective plus it was perfect for smaller portions as a single individual. August 26, 2014
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This model doesn't hold it's seal I have 2 foodsavers, One at each home, We recently purchased a modular home in Florida with limited space, so I purchased this smaller, more compact foodsaver. It seals immediately, but loses it seal within a week. I highly reccomment the stand up unit, but unfortunantly, this one doesn't keep it's seal. Go ahead and spend the extra 30 bucks, you'll be glad you did. I wish I had. November 16, 2014
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A term used to note that something was just pure genuine and worth remembering. Something that will never slip your mind due to it's pure humor.
Joe let's out a 23 second fart
Jimmy: "Damn, Joe, that was Classic"
Jimmy: "Damn, Joe, that was Classic"
D. Ferrel tarafından 29 Eylül 2003, Pazartesi
A thing that will forever be cool and worth mentioning on a regular basis
Remember that episode of Simpsons....Classic
Chris Johnston tarafından 21 Şubat 2003, Cuma
Something of long lasting entertainment
Blowing didgeridoo in the park is classic!
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An over used word used by clearview kids to describe........well just about everything.
me: do you like my new shoes.
You: there classic man, so classic
You: there classic man, so classic
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When someone is telling you something and you cant think of anything to reply with, just put classic in front of the main thing they are talking about. It gets rather annoying after a while although it can be addictive
Person 1 : Did you hear that 'Dave Williams' punched a girl in the face?
Person 2 : Classic Dave Williams
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Punk-Jericho is one of the shining examples that storytelling is still prevalent in today's wrestling. It's one of those "measuring stick" matches in all honesty, because if you want to know what somebody's taste in wrestling is , just ask them what they believe is better ; Rock/Cena or Punk/Jericho.
The DQ stipulation was wonderfully done and the match had me on the edge of my seat the entire time. When it comes to WWE Championship matches at Wrestlemania, I'd have it just below Austin-Rock and Flair-Savage as the third greatest WWE Championship match in Wrestlemania history. Alot of people may not feel as strongly about it as I do, but I believe it's better than the end of an era Cell match because of it's subtle storytelling being superior to the HIAC's "in-your-face" type story.
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It was 50 years ago today that the Lyndon Johnson campaign launched one of the most important political ads in American history. With all the subtlety of the atom bomb that co-starred in the spot, "Daisy" -- officially known as "Peace, Little Girl" -- portrayed opponent Barry Goldwater as a danger to the country; likely saved the Johnson team millions in extra ad spending; and showed other political campaigns the kind of destruction TV advertising could do by ushering in a new age of attack ads.
That's not to say that attack ads were new in American politics. Since our first elections, American political campaigns and their allies have been saying things so vile that today's campaigns pale in comparison. Thomas Jefferson's opponents at The Connecticut Courant said that if he were elected, "Murder, robbery, rape, adultery and incest will all be openly taught and practiced." Not to be outdone, Jefferson's side accused John Adams of being of a "hideous hermaphroditical character, which has neither the force and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman."
But in 1964, TV political advertising was still in its infancy. What Americans had seen of national political spots in the previous presidential runs was rudimentary, lacked sophistication and failed to harness the full potential the medium had to offer. "Daisy," crafted by none other than the advertising legends at DDB, would change all of that in 60 seconds.
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A_Baboon_in_the_room (10th December 2013), Steve21 (21st August 2013), timpaxton (10th September 2013)
I've been working on version 2 for a while now which is a complete overhaul of the previous version, however I've not had much time to really finish this. In attempt to drum up interest to either get the project handed over or to motivate me to finish it I've release a preview version of version 2. Just to confirm:
- It's not finished.
- Pretty sure only the email import is finished. UDF import I'm not sure I finished
- It works on 64bit machines.
- It doesn't require any license, tis free.
- It's a total overhaul
- It's not finished.
Finally, you can download it from: https://simsbulkimport.codeplex.com/...es/view/111046
A_Baboon_in_the_room (10th December 2013), Steve21 (21st August 2013), timpaxton (10th September 2013)
Hi Matt,
I am currently trying to use your tool, however the created UDFs aren't available from the drop down list. I have copied the error from the log file below. Please advise.
Code:2013-12-11 10:50:09.4573|Error|System.Net.WebException: Unable to connect to the remote server ---> System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it 22.214.171.124:80 at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.DoConnect(EndPoint endPointSnapshot, SocketAddress socketAddress) at System.Net.ServicePoint.ConnectSocketInternal(Boolean connectFailure, Socket s4, Socket s6, Socket& socket, IPAddress& address, ConnectSocketState state, IAsyncResult asyncResult, Int32 timeout, Exception& exception) --- End of inner exception stack trace --- at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.GetResponse() at Matt40k.SIMSBulkImport.Updater.Requestor.request(Uri url, String method, String postData) in c:\Users\Matt\Documents\Visual Studio 2012\Projects\SIMSBulkImport\Dev\SIMSBulkImport\SIMSBulkImport\Updater\Requestor.cs:line 44 at Matt40k.SIMSBulkImport.Updater.Requestor.get_GetVersion() in c:\Users\Matt\Documents\Visual Studio 2012\Projects\SIMSBulkImport\Dev\SIMSBulkImport\SIMSBulkImport\Updater\Requestor.cs:line 53 at Matt40k.SIMSBulkImport.Updater.Update.GetServerVersion() in c:\Users\Matt\Documents\Visual Studio 2012\Projects\SIMSBulkImport\Dev\SIMSBulkImport\SIMSBulkImport\Updater\Update.cs:line 51 at Matt40k.SIMSBulkImport.Updater.Update.GetServerVersion_DoWork(Object sender, DoWorkEventArgs e) in c:\Users\Matt\Documents\Visual Studio 2012\Projects\SIMSBulkImport\Dev\SIMSBulkImport\SIMSBulkImport\Updater\Update.cs:line 64
That errors relates to it trying to check for updates. V2 won't work, I never finished the logic for UDF.
v1.7 should work - but only if it's a single text line. What is the UDF type? You'll have to do the workaround unfortunately -
SIMS Bulk Import - View Issue #1531: Unable to import UDFs
Edit your SIMSBulkImport.exe.config, underneath <add key="AutoUpdate" ... add the following line:
<add key="LicenseKey" value="False" />
phughes (11th December 2013)
Thanks for that Matt. Very prompt
Workaround got me a lot closer...
I have created a UDF field with Text (Single-Line), a csv file with headings and a sinlge user (to test). I select the appropriate headings and UDF and then select the new field underneath. The process then fails at the last stage and the error on the log is below:
Code:2013-12-11 12:08:23.5531|Error|System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. at SIMS.Entities.AbstractCollection.ItemByDescription(String description) at Matt40k.SIMSBulkImport.SIMSAPI.GetEmailLocationId(String locationName) in C:\Users\Matt\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects\GingerBeard\SIMSBulkImport\SIMSAPI\Main.cs:line 636
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No more UFO reports please, says MoD
The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has decided to close down its UFO reporting service, saying that it is an "inappropriate use of defence resources". The Ministry has closed down the voicemail and email addresses formerly available for reporting sightings. The MoD's page, How to report a UFO sighting, was modified last week to …
If a little grey man from Zeta Reticuli abducts me tonight and tells me that others of his kind are planning to invade, what am I supposed to do now?
@"a little grey man from Zeta Reticuli abducts me tonight"
I think we are all far more likely to be abducted at some point, by our own government people, the way its all going, in black uniforms or suits.
Take your Medicine
and sleep.
...Twitter it and the Guardian will run a full page probing feature with commentary by Stephen Fry.
Take your effin' meds, that's what.
It's obvious.
"It would seem likely that some other branch of government - or other public-spirited body - will now need to take on the task of maintaining the national UFO archives into the future. "
Step up Peter Benjamin Mandelson.
Now we've lulled them....
into a false sense of security, man the saucers!!!
Last week would have been better.
Why am I only finding out about this now its shut ?
Shouldn't this come under the Foreign Office anyway? Of course, after the UFOs attack it would be a DoD problem, but until then ...
OT: We need multiple icon capability - I'd put alien, welcome, bullhorn, helicopters, grenade, fire and tombstone (in that order ;-) )
The simple fact is that if an alien had the technology, to visit us then they wouldn't dick around "buzzing" us. They'd either wipe us out as vermin, say hello properly or decide that we're too dull to bother with and bugger off again.
Yes, aliens may exist, but we've got no evidence, and "wanting to believe" resulting in the MOD wasting vast amounts of money chasing the odd weather balloon/effect/reflection is just dumb. I'm glad this sort of nonsense has been pushed off my tax bill, we've got better things to be doing.
Like paying someone to revise the phrase "Mostly Harmless"
"The simple fact is that if an alien had the technology, to visit us then they wouldn't dick around "buzzing" us. They'd either wipe us out as vermin, say hello properly or decide that we're too dull to bother with and bugger off again."
How do you know? Generally you are likely to be right that as a civilization the aliens would do what you have said but I think that Douglas Adams may have got it right, rich alien thrill seekers intentionally pick out people in deserted places and abduct them for a joke, or perhaps it is an experiment to see how long they can get away with it for... or perhaps they don't exist, but until (and if) we actually meet them we can never categorically say how their minds work and what they would or wouldn't do.
Heard somebody talking about this on R4 over the weekend
He made the good point that Aliens apparently travel hundreds or thousands of lightyears, get all the way here and then, erm, don't bother actually landing.
If they were 'here', they'd be here.
I for one welcome...
... oh, hang on, there's nobody to welcome after all...
Beware, Ye Brits
Clearly this means that MoD has been compromised by the Pod-People from the Central Alien Galaxy of Zook. The National Health Service has already been compromised, how else to explain the failed IT projects; the Zookians can not abide an efficient NHS since that would uncover the extent to the which the pods have been implanted. The Monachy was taken over years ago until Princess Di threatened to blow their cover. Charles ears are actually satellite dishes for receiving their nefarious signals. And his preoccupation with architecture...just the sort of thing to cover up the electronic brain-mapping equipment meant to keep tabs on Brit brain function.
The surveillance cameras on every street corner and in every loo report back vital functions to the Great Zook. Aliens are recording every bit of information for a Grand Moronic Convergence scheduled for the next planet alignment. The combined gravitational influence plus the total informational awareness of the aliens can only point in one direction...the French. Repent now ye Brits, thy doom approacheth!!
First Torchwood.
Now the MoD.
We're doomed!
Just as I clinked on this link, my iTunes selection started playing a track for War Of the Worlds!
Mind you, swine flu will stop em.
and you think...
..thats a coincidence?
How to get it open again
We need everyone to say "Take me to your leader" to cows and post boxes :-)
re:post boxes
Great film - highly underrated in my opinion :D
Oh we are the morons...
The joke has run its course
so now our alien overlords have instructed their puppets in the MoD to close the whole shebang down. So when we see one of their saucers, there'll be nobody to say it must have been a balloon, a flight of birds, Venus shining unusally bright or something equally mostly harmless.
I see black helicopters taking off and receding into the far distance. Hang on - no helicopter can climb like that or manoeuvre like that. Could they just possibly be
We don't comment and even if we have to, we leaft doubt.
"The MOD has no opinion on the existence or otherwise of extra-terrestrial life. However, in over fifty years, no UFO report has revealed any evidence of a potential threat to the United Kingdom."
Talk about a non-denial denial. Get Fox Mulder on the horn!
That rushing sound you hear are Alpha-Level sentient von Neumann machines visiting through GCHQ's "donut" blueside portal. Prepare to be rightsized.
Please spam Nick Pope instead
I had a look at the recently-declassified UFO files. The vast majority is made up of wearisome correspondence between wingnuts and put-upon civil servants. Very little UFO material at all.
Of course that's only the stuff they decided to declassify. The *real* files are kept... etc... etc...
Perhaps they'll listen
...to this:
..and reconsider. Pittttyyy fuuull huuuumans!
a man from mars
does this mean amanfrommars can know reactivate his fleet with impunity
The chances of anything coming from amanfrommars are a million to one.
If some1 says I wanna believe one more time I'll zap 'em with my remote control
If something's a reality it doesn't matter what you believe. Only highly specialized compartments within the MOD are in the know when it comes to the "visitors". The vast majority of the MOD are in the dark. The MOD's official ufo desk was only there for public consumption -- it was a waste of time in the first place, although I'm sure it gave those in the know a greater purview of what was taking place across the UK.
At last, all becomes clear!
All this time we've been cynically refusing to acknowledge any common cause between Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein, and now it's staring us in the face. The pair of 'em are/were Reticuloid agents, charged with provoking us into draining our defence budgets until these cutbacks became inevitable.
Now you know why bin Laden only puts in 10 poxy minutes' worth of grainy video appearance every six months or so: that's as long as he can keep his holographic image inducer powered-up for!
Now the full-scale infiltration phase will begin, with them systematically replacing our national leaders. Mark my words, in just a few months' time you can expect Gordon Brown to suddenly all but disappear from public view. Oh wait...
silly earthlings
"Non-committal", I've heard of that.
Oh well, having no department must be better than a department that lies.
It seems my work here is done!
(mine's the one with the transporter control in the pocket)
They can't do anything anyway
No point in telling MoD because they don't have any weapons left.
You'd do better to tell the Met who seem more capable of killing people these days.
No problem
By the time our mother ship arrives, you humans will be back in the stone age put there all by yourselves.
Doctor Who
I smell the seed for a future script.
re: Grr
"The simple fact is that if an alien had the technology, to visit us then they wouldn't dick around "buzzing" us..."
In the first book of Julian May's Galactic Milieu saga (Intervention), the alien races of the Milieu spent 60 years doing flybys in Earth's atmosphere to get us used to the idea of extraterrestrials before finally making formal contact in 2013.
While this is science fiction, it does describe one valid motive for extraterrestrials not making contact before scoping us out and making us aware of life elsewhere...
> I smell the seed for a future script.
Cripes. Do you also swallow or what?
It worked!
Our master plan worked! Invade! Invade!
The most important question...
Is SHADO going to keep operating?
How are they going to be funded, now that the carriers are already looking somewhat dodgy?
We must keep those vermin from soiling our precious Earth.
Everyone knows aliens land in Kansas and Nevada!
Seriously, it was a waste of time and money from the start. Everyone knows that aliens are only legitimately spotted by people using three abbreviated first names such "Jim Bob Joe" and the only people to actually ever get abducted are people "Mary Lou Smith" and they ALWAYS live in optimal space shit landing zones such Kansas and Nevada.
Brits who think they've seen a UFO and actually believe it are just nutters. Can't find the real thing outside of "The Heart Land" of America. After all, what the aliens REALLY want is breakfast at Bob's Big Boy!
"And what's all this rubbish about the Earth being round?"
Always the same with hapless UK officials
So, the MOD has been infiltrated by aliens... big news, ha! The whole British Government has been riddled with Soviet spies throughout the entire Cold War and noone ever noticed.
"..no UFO report has revealed any evidence of a potential threat to the United Kingdom.."
no intelligence report revealed any evidence of a potential threat to the United Kingdom from Iraqi WMDs & 45 minutes to launch, either.
The greatest potential threat to the United Kingdom is HM Gov't & it's politicised supine sycophantic "Ministry of's"
Uhhhhhh LAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
Keep an eye out for random cylinders folks!
All UFO organizations are covering up the real facts about UFOs
Not only the goverment cover up the existence of UFO but unfortunatly all UFO organizations including London UFO Studies group, MUFON etc, are covering up the real facts about UFOs that they live in our Earth's atmosphere.
When I showed AFOs (Aliens Flying Object) in the night sky to 5 PA MUFON UFO field investigators, chief investigator Butch Witkowski, John Ventre (director of PA MUFON), well-known Ufologists, R. Dolan, P.Robbins, S. Friedman etc - at UFO conference (Montgomery county community College on 10/09/2009), - they were shocked to see them with naked eyes but since then none of them went public with my discovery. Why ? If they officially recognize my discovery then all UFO organizations will cease to exist, because now everybody can see AFOs motherships anytime, everywhere in the world.
just a name
couldn't they just rename themselves from UFO* to AFO*, rather than disbanding?
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As far as I know, WMP uses only one album art, which is the first one in the queue. A few other music players those I have used behaves in the same way.
It would be best if you tag the album with the appropriate (that one you want) album art only. In that case, if the Folder.jpg is a different image, WMP will show the tagged album art, and not the folder.jpg.
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