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- National Committee: German National Committee for SCAR/IASC, email; website: www.scar-iasc.de
Germany has a long and involved history in Antarctica from the expedition led by Eduard Dallman in 1873-74, through the Heroic Agewith expeditions into the Weddell Sea (Erich von Drygalski 1901-1903 and Filchner 1911-1912). During the last four decades, Germany developed a strong Antarctic programme and is now at the forefront of modern research in Antarctica.
Germany is a signatory nation to the Antarctic Treaty with the former East Germany (DDR) signing in 1974 and the former West Germany signing in 1979 and both joined SCAR in 1981 (BRD) and 1982 (DDR). The German national SCAR committee was established in 1978 by the German Research Foundation (DFG), which is the official member of SCAR.Within the Treaty, Germany is a consultative party with voting rights able to make decisions about Antarctica. Germany held the XVIII SCAR Delegates meeting in Bremerhaven in 1984 and twenty years later the XXVIII SCAR Delegates meeting and first Open Science Conference in the same location.
The lead agency for the German national Antarctic Programme is the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) which was established as a foundation of public law in 1980 and which conducts research in the Arctic and Antarctic, as well as in temperate latitudes. AWI works closely with university groups and research institutions within Germany and beyond to coordinate research efforts in Antarctica. The institute has an important role in keeping the federal government updated on its research results and providing competent advice for the development of environmental policies. The AWI works in the following scientific topic fields: reconstructing the history of the polar continents and seas; ecology and physiology of key species and changes of habitats in polar regions; the coupled ocean-ice-atmosphere system and its importance for the global climate; biogeochemical fluxes of carbon in polar regions and their impact on global carbon cycles and atmosphere. AWI also hosts the global data base for the Baseline Surface Radiation Network (BSRN).
The Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR) focuses on geological and geophysical research in the Antarctic since 1976 in close cooperation with German and foreign universities and research institutions. Since 1979, BGR's ongoing GANOVEX programme (German Antarctic North Victoria Land Expedition) has been conducting geoscientific research in northern Victoria Land and adjacent regions in the greater Ross Sea area. BGR has also organized several expeditions to East Antarctica, e.g. within the frame of the GEA programme (Geodynamic Evolution of East Antarctica). BGR is responsible for the land-based component of German geoscientific research in the Antarctic. Its main targets focus on the crustal structure and evolution of Antarctica and its relationship to the neighbouring continents within the former Gondwana and Rodinia supercontinents. In addition to institutional research, coordinated German polar research is supported by DFG within the framework of a Priority Programme since 1981.
AWI operates three Antarctic research stations. Neumayer III is the current winter over base on the Ekstrom Ice Shelf, having been constructed between 2007 and 2009, the third station to occupy this space since 1981. Close by, at 757 kilometers away, is Kohnen Station, a summer base which was established in 2001 and used for deep ice core drilling purposes for the EPICA project until 2006 and now serves a deep ice lab and as an advance base for deep field activities on the polar plateau. The Dallmann Laboratory, founded in 1994, is a smaller seasonal working space with four laboratories. It is an annex to the Argentinian base Carlini on King George island, operated jointly with Instituto Antarctico Argentino (IAA). The BGR operates Gondwana Station as a summer base at Gerlache Inlet in the Terra-Nova Bay of the Ross Sea since 1983. In 1980, BGR erected the Lillie-Marleen-Hut in the Everett Range of the Transantarctic Mountains; the hut has been recognized as a "Historic Site" by the Antarctic Treaty System and is still used temporarily as a base for geoscientific operations in the region. Since 1991 the German Aerospace Center (DLR) operates the GARS O'Higgins Station at the Antarctic Peninsula (as a winter base since 2010).
The pride of the AWI is the icebreaker RV Polarstern first commissioned in 1982. The ship is equipped for biological, geological, geophysical, glaciological, chemical, oceanographic and meteorological research, and contains nine research laboratories. The ship has a maximum crew of 44, and offers work facilities for a further 50 scientists and technicians. Plans for a new icebreaker are currently under development. There are two ski equipped polar aircraft (BASLER BT-67) which can be used both for logistic and science purposes. They can be equipped for aerogeophysical, meteorological, glaciological and atmospheric chemistry studies.


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The Healing of Negative Parental Legacies
The unconscious repetition of a negative parental emotional, behavioral and cognitive weakness is one of the most common causes of marital stress. The most frequent negative parental legacies we encounter in our work are in men who repeat their father's emotional distant or angry behaviors and in women who repeat their mother's controlling behaviors. We believe that much marital conflict and stress could be prevented if premarital programs were more psychologically sophisticated and encouraged the engaged couple to identify and address parental weaknesses prior to marriage.
The process of modeling after the parent of the same sex is so powerful that a difficulty can arise even if the spouse had decided previously not to repeat an identified parental weakness. Current neuroscience has raised the possibility that this modeling may be mediated via a mirror neuron system in the brain.
Someone might have thought, "I will not repeat my father's temper or his tendency to be distant or I will not repeat my mother's tendency to control or not respect my spouse, " only to discover this negative parental pattern emerging in the marriage.
Here's important information to consider from psychological research which is that 80% of adult psychological conflicts begin during childhood and adolescence (Kim-Cohen, J., 2003) and continue into adult life. Some of these conflicts are buried and only emerge later for the first time in marriage. These weaknesses often arise from unresolved issues with a parent, but also can be the result of hurts with siblings, peers or significant others from the past.
Fortunately, parental weaknesses which influence one's character, emotional life, behaviors , thinking and spiritual life can be identified and resolved. At the same time, parental gifts and talents can be identified and embraced.
Please review the form below on parents' gifts and weaknesses and total your scores.
Did/do your parents exhibit the following gifts/positive personality traits?
Emotional Traits
- Emotionally giving and affectionate
- Able to receive love and affection
- Hopeful
- Cheerful
- Forgiving/controlled temper
- Trusting
- Confident in God-given gifts
- Encouraged others
- Praised and complimented
- Was able to take correction
- Not obsessed with appearance
- Able to receive affection
- Avoided rehashing past hurts
- Open to face emotional weaknesses
- Did not place unreasonable expectations upon your spouse or children
Behavioral Traits
- Good communicator
- Hardworking
- Spent quality time with spouse and children
- Sought balance in life
- Placed spouse and children ahead of work or other activities
- Cared for your spouse, children and the home
- Gave to your children and other relatives
- Worked on friendships
- Prudence in spending/good financial manager
- Temperate with food, drink, exercise, work
- Honesty about finances
- Neither neglected nor spoiled spouse or children
- Self control with TV, computer, hobbies, etc.
- Avoided controlling or being controlled by spouse
- Kept in contact with family members
- Invited family and friends into the home
- Dependent upon spouse and others in an appropriate manner
- Good listener
- Tried to grow in virtues
- Generous/not selfish
- Kind
- Compassionate
- Patient
- Humble
- Strong and courageous
- Prudent
- Cheerful
- Concern for justice and the poor
- Temperate
- Modest
- Thankful
- Sincere/truthful
- Solidarity with others
- Detached
- Gentle
Intellectual Life
- Enjoyed reading
- Encouraged intellectual development in spouse and children
Spiritual Life
- Strong faith
- Love
- Hope
- Prayerful
- Placed God first
- Dependent on God
- Tried to be another Christ to spouse and children
- Went to Church with spouse
- Shared faith with others
- Prayed with spouse
- Tried to seed God's will
- Depended on the love of God
- Opened to God's plan for number of children
- Tried to form and lead the children spiritually
- Went to the sacrament of reconciliation regularly
- Trusted the Lord with all concerns: marriage, children, finances, work, etc.
- Supported and communicate the teaching of the Church on sexual morality
- Not obsessed with material possessions
What are the most important gifts/strengths which you have acquired from your parents, particularly in the parent of the same sex?
Which parent have you modeled after the most?
Weaknesses in Parents
Emotional Traits
- Sad
- Unable to communicate love or praise
- Irritable, bad temper
- Insecure
- Anxious
- Controlling/mistrustful
- Emotionally distant
- Difficulty receiving love
- Negative
- Critical, unable to praise
- Unable to accept correction
- Obsessed with appearance
- Unwilling to address emotional weaknesses
- Unreasonable expectations placed upon spouse and others
- Self-centered
- Rebellious
- Rude
Behavioral Traits
- Didn't spend quality time with spouse and children
- Unbalanced life
- Resentful of giving in the home or at work
- Outside interest more important than spouse and children
- Failure to care properly about needs of spouse, children and the home
- Unwilling to set aside time for spouse and children
- Lacked enjoyment in giving to children, relatives or friends
- Unwilling to work on friendships
- Poor judgment in spending / not good with finances
- Lack of temperance with food, drink, exercise, work
- Not honest about finances
- Tendency to spoil spouse and children
- Isolation with the TV, computer, books, hobbies, etc.
- Controlling
- Allowed oneself to be controlled by spouse
- Lack of contact with family members
- Acted independently of spouse
- Lazy
- Rude/harsh
- Selfish
- Lack of compassion or empathy
- Tendency to gossip
- Impatient
- Unkind
- Proud
- Weak
- Imprudent, lack of discretion
- Negative
- Lack of concern for justice and the poor
- Intemperate
- Lack of modesty
- Ungrateful
- Insincere/untruthful
- Lack commitment to others
- Obsessed with possession
Intellectual Life
- Avoided reading
- Discouraged intellectual development of spouse
Spiritual Life
- Weak faith
- Not hopeful/presumptuous
- Limited charity
- Not prayerful
- Placed self first
- Act as though there were no need for God
- Embarrassed by faith
- Did not go to Church with spouse or children
- Not concerned about God's will
- Not open to God's plan for number of children
- Did not try to form and lead the children spiritually
- Did not go to the sacraments regularly
- Did not trust the Lord with marriage, children, finances, worries, work, etc.
- Did not communicate the teaching of the Church on sexual morality
What do you think are the major weaknesses which you have acquired as a result of modeling unconsciously after your parents?
Which parents' weaknesses do you repeat most often?
Your spouse's modeling
Now to the best of your knowledge please try to complete the same exercises on identifying parental strengths and weaknesses in your spouse.
What do you think are the modeled strengths in your spouse?
What do you think are the modeled weaknesses in your spouse?
Reflection on parents' marriage
Please reflect for a few moments about your parents ability to give love, affection, trust and praise to each other. Which of your parents do you act most like in regard to your self-giving toward your spouse?
Uncovering parental weaknesses
Couples emotional lives, behaviors and character are influenced significantly from modeling unconsciously after parents. This modeling process is more powerful than most of us realize. The knowledge of negative parental legacies is important , but is not sufficient to overcome such weaknesses. For example, a number of men and women are surprised to find themselves repeating parental weakness of anger, controlling or selfish behaviors even though they made decisions not to repeat these weaknesses in the parent of the same sex.
The most common negative legacies we see in men are those of being emotionally distant, uncommunicative or angry acquired from a father and in women are those of being controlling or mistrustful, acquired from a mother. However, spouses also repeat the weaknesses of the parent of the opposite sex.
The resistance to uncovering the parental weaknesses is not of a minor nature. The loyalty to the family of origin can be so strong that any admission of weaknesses is viewed as a betrayal of the parents and the family, Approaches to this unwillingness to face honestly parental weakness can be addressed by:
- first, repeatedly focusing on the positive parental qualities
- advising that parents would want one to be loyal to their gifts but not their weaknesses
- recommending that the first loyalty should be to the marriage and family
- suggesting that from a Catholic perspective there was only one perfect family
- recommending the other spouse share a parental weakness
- providing encouragement that these weaknesses can be resolved
After the spouse accepts that a parental weakness is being repeated, the next step in the healing process is to make a decision to on the work on the conflict. This process can be facilitated by thinking about repeating first the good qualities or virtues of a parent, and then deciding not to repeat weaknesses. Then anger is regularly uncovered with a parent and an attempt is made to understand and forgive for how one was hurt by the parental conflict. Past forgiveness exercises are effective in removing this anger (see marital anger chapter).
The Role of Virtues
While the spouse is employing forgiveness as a virtue in the healing process, other virtues are presented which can help diminish acquired parental weaknesses. For example, here are virtues for specific conflicts:
- generosity and responsibility for selfishness
- trust for anxiety
- humility for controlling behavior
- hope for sadness
- forgiveness for anger
- confidence for insecurity
- friendship/love for emotional distance
- gratitude for negativity/pessimism
- self-giving for uncommunicative behaviors
- cheerfulness for discouragement
The process of resolving acquired parental weaknesses by growth in virtues requires a great deal of hard work, patience and courage. Fortunately, the character conflicts, emotional pain and negative behaviors acquired from parents can be overcome, while acknowledging at the same time parental love and gifts, particularly if there is a faith component in the healing process.
What virtues would you like to see your spouse develop?
What virtues would you like to develop?
The Role of Faith
Many couples report their faith can help them to deal with their character weaknesses. For Catholics the following actions have been beneficial:
- examining their conscience on the identified weakness
- admitting powerlessness over the weakness daily and then turning it over to the Lord
- praying for growth in specific virtues
- going to the sacrament of reconciliation
- receiving the Eucharist regularly
- meditating upon being more Christ like
- looking to St. Joseph as another role model for men
- looking to Our Lady as another role model for women
- trusting their marriage and family to the Lord and Our Lady daily
- saying the chaplet of Divine Mercy
Other sections of maritalhealing.com describe in greater depth overcoming negative parental legacies of angry, selfish, controlling and emotionally distant behaviors.
We relate to couples that there is no need to be discouraged about the healing of spousal weaknesses because the Lord's first miracle was for a marriage through the intercession of Our Lady. Also reflecting upon God's word from Genesis can be encouraging,"Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and clings to his wife," Genesis 2:24.
Helping a Spouse with Father or Mother Conflicts
After spending a weekend with in-laws or a holiday a light may go on and a spouse may notice for the first time how their partner is repeating an annoying parental behavior. Fortunately, such experiences can also help one appreciate the many good qualities of the in-laws which are also present in one's spouse.
When one becomes aware of a parental weakness in a spouse which is creating stress in the marriage, a plan needs to be developed to protect the marital relationship. Unfortunately, many spouses fear honestly discussing issues of concern for numerous reasons, including the fear that such a discussion would not help or even could harm the marriage. We are aware of the view of the director of a Catholic Marriage Tribunal that he considered two of the major reasons for divorce to be the failure of the couple to honestly discuss difficulties in their marriage and selfishness.
The first step we recommend,if the spouse has an active faith life, is to pray for one's spouse for the healing of specific weaknesses in self-giving, anger, selfishness,controlling tendencies, lack of confidence, and excessive fears. Then, the conflicts can be gently uncovered and discussed. If the spouse is unwilling to work on the conflicts, consideration should be given to pursuing marital therapy.
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Also, we will raffle off a free Strata pass, worth $1000+!
Thank SupStat Inc Data Scientist team's technical support to make this hack session be possible. Also, they are giving away a few of free cute t-shirts, business pens and other swags!
Previously,Josh Katz, Graphics Editor at The New York Times, talked on June 10 to discuss one of his projects, the Dialect Map. He discussed how spatial statistics, data visualization and information design all came together.(Seeblog post and video)
The Dialect Map project was the Times most popular content of the entire year of 2013. From the survey results, Josh created a series of maps depicting regional dialect variation in the US, which set off a sensation on the Internet and in popular media. From this, he developed the New York Times dialect quiz, turning what began as an exercise in spatial statistics and data visualization into some of the most-viewed content in NYT history.
In his talk, Josh delved into the background and development of the dialect maps and quizthe story in general, as well as the math behind them. He talked about how data visualization and statistics could be used to illustrate the hidden contours of our world, extricating narrative from numbers and turning data into stories.
In this hack session,Vivian will tell you all you should know about choropleth map in R to make Dialect map. We will start from the data scraping step to build the database of the survey, then we will march to the shiny development including functions for map plotting. Finally we will establish a fully developed shiny application demonstrating the dialect map project.
Speaker:Vivian Zhang isCo-Founder & CTO of Supstat Inc, a Statistical Consulting firm of top Data Scientists, Vivian is a data scientist who has been devoted to the analytics industry and the development and use of data technologies for several years. You can follow her on Twitter at @vivian_zhang@SupStat@nycdatascior #nycdatasci
Pre-requisites:It would be better if you have some knowledge in ggplot2, but it is not required.
Preparation: If you want to follow along, download these packages in R:(just run these codes):install.packages(c("maps", "mapproj", "mapdata", "ggplot2") and check thedatasetout.
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i may need to make some time boundaries for myself,
so i'll start the time boundary issue later.
the rest are sooc.
sitting in my comfy chair,
well, i am no photographer but i think those (the first especially) are stunning. and free time? what? uh....i am trying to create in bits+pieces but it's not working that well. and with j set to deploy next week, i'm about to have to WORK to find that me time. b/c i need it to be *me*
tweeted you, but not sure you saw it...can't believe you were here in sav'h! i would have loved to meet you for lunch!
hope you have a beautiful day. xo
Paige...these are gorgeous!!!!! I too love to take photos (especially still life and pay around) but I have not had/mad the time in so long...I almost forget how. I used to be really active on flick and work on a photo almost every day. I never do that now and my skills have really slipped. I need to find more hours in the day:)
Sometimes I look at bloggers like you or Lisa and I wonder how you get everything done. I have started seeing clients again and I feel more behind than ever. Do you have any tips for how you do it all?
In my free time...haha...I like to read or look at magazines. BUt I have this thing about not being able to relax unless the house is clean so usually I end up cleaning instead of relaxing...bad, I know.
Have a great day!
i am loving on that vase! oh yes i am!
ps: you made my day yesterday. you are so very welcome.
This is so pretty. Its' so simple Paige, but you did an awesome job of capturing it!
I love your beautiful rose shots. And since you brought up the subject of Florabella, I am in desperate need of help! I got my first set of actions but dang they are hard to download to my photoshop elements. I am not an unsavy person when it comes to computers but this has got me stumped. Any suggestions? I guess i just need some uninterrupted time when I don't have a little friend yelling, "Mommy!" every second. But really, if you have any tricks to getting my new actions downloaded I would be ever grateful!
The photos are beautiful. I've been newly bitten by the camera bug. My hubby gave me a Nikon D90 for my last birthday and I have a couple of lenses and photoshop to play with. I haven't even begun to venture into other programs as i spend waaaaaaaay to much time playing with what I have already. I just went totally manual a couple of weeks ago and still have trouble with the aperature. I tend to blow things out. I am having so much fun learning! My family is getting used to having their picture taken all the time..ha..ha..
The photos are lovely. You have an artists eye! In my free time I love to redecorate my house, garden, shop!!, and take long hot baths w/a glass of wine and a good book...but who has free time??? lol
Just found your beautiful blog via Coastal Blue. She told me about you and that you were from GA. Me too! I'm so impressed with your photography! Perhaps I live close enough to come get lessons! lol
Having fun this morning strolling around in your blog. And this is how I like to spend my free time.
I too am loving Adele's Pandora station...one of my faves :-) In my free time I enjoy going on bike rides through our beautiful neighborhoods with tree tunnels...walks in the park...hanging out in the local coffee shop with my Bible and journal...editing photos...getting lost in blog land...the list goes on.
Oh Paige...Just lovely! I listen to the Adele station as well...isn't it fab!
Have a wonderful day!
Jen xo
Your photos are fabulous! Love the different colors. I know what you mean about free time but give up the Diet Coke please! It's got that nasty aspartame in it and that's not healthy for a lovely woman with so much going on!
Free time...don't mean to giggle, but you know me. If I have free time I freak out. Gotta work, work, work! What is that about me? I need to make free time creative. I promise I will be a trier. Lovin your rose images! Beautiful my friend.
Paige, those images are gorgeous. Can't wait to hear about your new lenses, so exciting!!! Hmm, I like to spend my free time either at the gym on the tennis court or curled up in a big cozy chair at Barne's and Noble with a huge stack of magazines, cookbooks and design books to glance through. Of course, reading lovely blogs, like yours, is another favortie way to spend my free time. xo
Spend all my free time reading or lurking on your blog or FB! :)
Lovely photos!
I'm not much of a post processor, but it's fun to see what you have done with your images! I use potoshop a TON to enhance the photos my clients give me for Christmas cards, but for my own photography, a like the challenge of getting it the way I like it with the camera. Fun to play around with manual settings and see what one little tweak will do!
Now if I could just make the time to PRINT some of my favorites (especially of my girls). I haven't printed a single photo in 4 years. Insane, right?
all beautiful, but i am partial the the first one in the row!
so funny, bc i came here via amy's, with my diet coke, and pandora (i listen to adele, too, but today it's jack johnson) and i'm getting ready to edit some prom pictures. i am holding back ordering a new lens.. so i'm really curious about which you have and which you want! :)
Beautiful Roses!
Ahh! Free Time ...I'm about to have some in a few weeks at the beach...I'll be reading,walking, cooking...whatever I want! For two weeks! I can't wait!
Hope your week is wonderful!
I'm not sure why this is such a hard question. I love to stamp and make cards, but I also love to read. I love the pictures of the roses...just beautiful.
Fab blog, I love a good view, my pc, pandora and catching up on blogs. My fav pandora station is James Taylor and Allison Krause. Yum
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The use of social media by journalists raises new ethical and professional dilemmas. As a result, news outlets are implementing policies addressing what is and what is not permitted on social media platforms. Suzanne Lysak, associate professor of broadcast and digital journalism at Syracuse University, and I recently published a paper on this topic in the Electronic News journal. Through [&hellip
Popular, or trending, topics and content on social media play a significant role in local television newsrooms decisions about which stories to cover. That's the finding from my latest research, Forces at the Gate: Social Media's Influence on Editorial and Production Decisions in Local Television Newsrooms, published in the Electronic News journal. This nationwide survey of news directors at network affiliate television stations explores [&hellip
A Survey of Social Media Policies in U.S. Television Newsrooms, co-authored with Syracuse University journalism professor Suzanne Lysak, focuses on how the use of social media by journalists raises new ethical and professional dilemmas. As a result, news outlets are implementing policies addressing what is and what is not permitted on social media platforms. I presented the paper at the [&hellip
My nationwide survey of news directors at network affiliate television stations explores the impact social media is having on editorial and production decisions related to newscasts. I recently presented the research paper in Montreal at the annual conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. Key Findings Popular, or trending, content and topics on social media are [&hellip
My solo-authored research paper, A Digital Juggling Act: New Media's Impact on the Responsibilities of Local Television Reporters, was published in the Electronic News journal. The Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard included the research in its monthly round-up of digital and social media research. This study focuses on the concept of "journalism as process" and creates a framework to view [&hellip
Conversations about the future of journalism often focus on the demise of the industry. I do not argue with the fact that the industry is undergoing a dramatic transformation, an uncertain future. Digital media has allowed a once passive audience to become active consumers and producers of information. An active audience demands more of journalists, one factor leading to an [&hellip
I recently learned that my research paper has been accepted for presentation at the Association of Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) annual conference. My research focuses on journalists' adoption of new media and the resulting impact on their job routines. Indeed, mass communications has always been influenced by technology, and this is an exciting time to teach and study [&hellip
A study published in the July 2012 issue of the journal Family Relations is the first to investigate new parents' use of Facebook. The results are not all that surprising. If you spend even a small amount of time on Facebook, you are bound to see parents boasting about their bundles of joy. The photos shortly after birth or even [&hellip
Thanks to the recent case involving a blogger who was ordered to pay $2.5 million to an investment firm she wrote about, the evolving debate about bloggers as journalists rages on. The judge in the case ruled Crystal Cox is not entitled to protections afforded to journalists. Courts have not been definitive in their determination of whether bloggers should be [&hellip
The State of the News Media report drives home what we in the communications industry, whether we like it or not, already know: new media provides countless channels for people — who traditionally turned to newspapers, television, and radio for news — to consume information. The resulting impact on the industry has been seismic. But, all should not appear so [&hellip


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Yeah, that is why I want to wait and see if it's true or not. Emulation has always interested me, so it piqued my curiosity to see how that would work.
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Given the 360 hardware and how hard it is to emulate a NES (properly) even on today's high-end kit, I'd say "not well indeed" .
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|18 Oct 2011
Well Microsoft did make the 360, so they's probably have a easier time making an actual emulator.
Seems like so much work though when they can just make actual PC ports. Which seems much more likely in my opinion.
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Emulators have issues across different hardware/processor types not because people don't understand the hardware, it's because emulating timing and certain features (especially when going from a RISC architecture, like the PPC, to a CISC architecture, like Intel x86) can be downright impossible or so processor intensive to emulate that they can't feasibly be done.
Again, if the game was written in Visual Studio using the XNA toolkit and written to DirectX, it can be ported fairly easily (and that is one of the reasons that toolkits like XNA exist). If it wasn't, then you're looking at either some rewrite or emulation, neither of which are appealing to most developers ).
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Windows 7 Ultimate 32-Bit (Build 7600)
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Windows 7 Pro-x64
There would be only one feature that MIGHT draw me to Eight--The ability to read/play/write/burn Blu-ray via WMC and WMP. Other than that, I have no use for it. Xbox? Whoopy-Do!
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Perfection? You might want to read up on all the hacks to make things work, and what happens to even a high-end system when you emulate the NES *exactly*. It's not pretty.
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Maybe our ideas of perfection are different. Hmm. Truth is I've used C64 emulators more than NES emulators, but always thought both ran just fine.
Sorry, nevermind.
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No worries - it's just that most emulators do things differently to try and make things work. Emulating even that simple of a system exactly as it was designed is actually quite difficult (partially because the hardware in a gaming console is usually very specialized and customized, and partially because making a different processor architecture emulate something that custom requires either a LOT of horsepower, or emulation tricks to avoid certain issues). You either have something that runs with decent speed but doesn't exactly emulate the original environment and has bugs (which can cause issues in the games that then run in the emulator), or you emulate the original hardware perfectly, bug for bug, and you end up with something that's much more difficult for the non-like hardware doing the emulation to achieve.
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