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This week I reached a major milestone in my work, as I'm done merging all WebKit commits all the way to november 2013. HaikuLauncher is still running fine, and I will make the small required changes in WebPositive so it works fine again. Expect an updated WebPositive in trunk very soon now.
This week merges were as boring as the previous week ones: addition of the NiX port, removal of the Qt one (next version of Qt will go with Blink), replacement of a lot of never-null pointers to use references instead, rename of the KURL class to URL, and some API changes. WebKit has started using some C++11 features to help with cleaner and faster code.
I've also started looking at the test system. WebKit uses a tool called DumpRenderTree that will produce a text representation of the render tree. This allows running tests that are not dependant on any platform. There are also 'pixel tests', where WebKit renders a web page, and compares the results with a PNG file. And finally, there are some javascript-only tests for JavaScriptCore.
I've updated our version of DumpRenderTree (since WebKit has no common API on different platforms, each platform must provide an implementation for it). I've got it to run in the mode where you give it a single test on the command line, which is good for manual testing, but the testsuite instead feeds test names on the standard input, and this somehow crashes our version currently. I'll debug that and run the 33000+ tests to get a better idea of where we are.
I want to get the testsuite running to help with future work on adding new features and the merges we'll have to do. This will help getting a better idea of the status of our port, and make sure we don't break things when merging new versions of WebKit in. Also, the tests are usually simple and the failing one will point to the features we are missing, making the port much easier to fix and improve.
From mid-June to early November, I have spent 320 more hours working on package management. After having worked on the bootstrap support in HaikuPorter (which Ingo has already mentioned in his blog entry), I have spent some time reworking the way how Perl and Pythong organize their modules: Scripting languages with module support usually expect to be able to build modules from source and install them somewhere into the hierarchy of the scripting language. In our case, they can no longer just put the built (site-specific) modules into the "standard" folder, as that one is read-only. So the configuration of Perl and Python had to be changed, such that modules built from source are being installed correctly into a writable folder (in the non-packaged hierarchy). Perl already supports the notion of a vendor-modules folder, where packaged Perl modules will be installed (an example of such a beast are the perl modules contained in the git package). That idea has been extended to Python (such that it will automatically pick up the python modules provided by the mercurial package). Separating packaged modules from local (built from source) modules is an idea that should be followed by all (not only scripting) languages ported to Haiku. The updated perl, python, git, mercurial and scons packages that are the result from that work have not yet been published, but I will do that during the next couple of days.
The package management branches of both haikuporter and haikuports have been merged into the respective master, i.e. all porting work done in there will produce packages. Several new 'testing-' branches will be added to the haikuports repository soon in order to be able to separate work on the bleeding edge from the work that tries to stabilize a given set of packages for a release.
Finally, I have started with work on the infrastructure required for automatic building of repositories and (at a later stage) packages. The first effect of this is that whenever a developer changes the version of a package used by Haiku's build system, the respective repository will be created automatically. Those repositories are being published to http://packages.haiku-os.org/haikuports/master, from where pkgman will download packages.
Summarizing those months of work: I think we have managed to put most of the work behind us, but we haven't reached the goal just yet. There's still more work to do and I personally will return to continuing that work in my spare time.
A quick hello from the Alchimie X demoparty where I gave a short talk this morning about Haiku news (PM merge, Sam460 port...) ;-)
Slides are here (french, sorry).
Lots of fun here !
Photo by @AmigaImpact.
Sorry for no report last week, I was not in front of the computer on Friday.
Anyway, I got the HTTP authentication working last week. This was the last missing feature in the Services Kit version of WebKit when compared to the current cURL one. The next step is to fix the new rendering bugs.
The rendering side of things is mostly built into WebKit, so I didn't want to fix it on the old version we are still running. So, I have started merging WebKit changes all the way to the current revision. Unfortunately, our WebKit repository wasn't created the right way, and the commit hashes for WebKit commits didn't match the ones for the official WebKit repo. I had to create a new repository, and manually match the commits and play with git rebase, merge and cherry-pick to rewrite all ourwork against the official WebKit commits. This took some time, as there are 120000 WebKit commits in our repository, plus our own changes.
I have removed the old repository and uploaded a new one. My work happens in the 'rebased' branch, which is the default one.
With the repository rebased onto the official WebKit, it is now possible to use git merge to merge commits directly from the official WebKit mirror.. Our port was about 2 years behind, in WebKit world that's more than 30000 commits. I didn't merge those all at once, instead I'm working with ranges of about 2000 to 3000 commits. While one range is merging and compiling, I can review the commits for the following one, and take note of the important changes. This helps a lot knowing what happened when I need to do a merge or fix the build.
I have merged commits up to april 2013 so far. This is the point where the Chromium port gets removed, and later on the wxWidgets port. The GTK one switches to CMake as a build system (the same we use now). These are the changes that creates more conflicts with us, so I'm going to merge this part in smaller chunks (I tried a big one and got a build error I didn't know how to solve).
Following the removal of the Chromium port, WebKit entered a phase of cleanup and simplification. This includes removing Chromium-specific stuff, making the code simpler in some places, and also using some C++11 features that help with detecting errors at compile time.
One important change is the introduction of "platform strategies". Before that, porting webKit involved implementing many classes where the header file was shared accross platforms, but not the C++ sources. This led to a lot of #ifdefs-guarded platform-specific code all over the place. The platformStrategy class makes all the platform specific code located in the same place, and the shared code go elsewhere. Our port will be much easier to keep working this way.
So, which new features are brought in by this huge merge ? Well, none so far. Most of the features in WebKit are optional, and to keep things easier, we disabled most of them. As features are sometimes removed when no port uses them, I'm forst going to merge all the changes, then see what can easily be enabled. Some of the features involve only multi-platfomr code, but others require some porting.
Anyway, the up-to-date WebKit is faster, smaller, and has much less bugs, which are already very good things. When I'm done with the merge I will have a look at running the WebKit tests, as I'm pretty sure this will help catch some bugs and at least give us a better idea of the work left to do. Running a testsuite is now much easier thanks to the use of CMake, where the guis working on the EFL port made some changes to the build system to help with setting this up. I will also test all the websites I have listed on my TODO/check list, to make sure things that used to work are still working.
I hope to have something in shape for a merge next week or the one after that. The remaining part of the month will be dedicated to enabling some of the extra features, but with only 2 or 3 weeks left I will not be able to work on the most complex ones. Haiku, Inc currently can't fund another month of development, so it looks like I'll have to stop there, unless there are more people donating money this month.
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Well, not so much progress on WebKit this week. I spent most of the time working on CMake code to get it to generate hpkg files. I got something that works well enough to link Web+ to it, so I can test things with the actual browser instead of HaikuLauncher. Today I added the cookie jar persistence, so Web+ remembers all the cookies when you exit and relaunch it. I also started working on HTTP authentication. These are the two features I couldn't test with HaikuLauncher, as it lacks some code for them (saving cookies on exit, and showing the HTTP authentication password prompt window).
I also implemented the protocol handler for file: URLs, so now I can browse the Be Book and Web+ default home page works as well.
With the HTTP authentication fixed, I think I will be on par with the current code, so I could merge this into Haiku now for you all to use. However, there are some new rendering glitches that maybe I should fix first. What do you think?
Thanks to generosity of Haiku supporters, I will be able to continue my work on scheduler in November. It's high time I wrote a report about what has already been done. As it was mentioned before my work can be tracked in the scheduler branch in my repository. Commit descriptions and some comments in the scheduler code contain more detailed motivation behind some of the decisions I had to make. In this post, though, I will concentrate how my work looked so far and what I plan to do next.
Time for a report again !
So, over last week-end and monday morning I finally got Ninja working. I already said some words about it, Ninja is meant to replace Make for building projects. It has less features, because it is designed to run files that are generated, rather than hand-written. In my case, CMake generate the Ninja failes. I had problems building Ninja that turned out to be abug in our Python port. I didn't fix it, but I found a way to work around it.
The use for all this buildsystem work? Well, we're now using one of WebKit standard build systems (CMake), and using it in a way that's fast! CMake can also generate makefiles, but running these would take about a minute just to figure out which files to recompile. With Ninja, this is done in a matter of seconds, because the simpler rules are faster to parse. Ninja was actually written just for that purpose. One minute may not seem much when the full build of WebKit takes about an hour, but when I'm working on just one or two files to track down a bug, the edit/compile/test cycle is now much faster.
So, with this out of the way I was able to more easily try out things and fix the issues as I found them. I mentionned the Opera cookie testsuite in last week report : most of the tests are now passing, and we even get better results than the old Curl backend in some places. The remaining issues are rather minor ones, but I can fix them if you can find a website where they actually matter.
In one of the blog post comments someone mentioned that Windows Live Mail (or Outlook, as it's now called) didn't allow to display messages. I tried to do that with HaikuLauncher and the new code and noticed I couldn't even login to the website. Getting this to work was a bit tricky, leading to fixes in 3 different places: settings cookies from Javascript code, proper handling of URL redirections, and telling WebKit that "aspx" files served without a mimetype are web pages.
I already told you about the cookies, so here are some more details about the two other issues: the URL redirection problem happened when an HTTP server gave us a 302 answer (that is, a redirection) with a relative URL. The HTTP specification says an URL should be used, most likely starting with "http://". But the URL specification was later replaced with the URI one, which allows URIs without that part, for example "/path/to/page.aspx?param=foo". Our BUrl class wasn't able to understand such things and was desperately looking for the "//" part, leading to an endless loop. I replaced the homegrown parser with a regular expressionbased one, using the regex that is kindly provided inthe RFC for URIs. I had to fix our RegExp class in the shared kit (this is a collection of internal classes that are not, yet, part of the official API). So, I had to fix the RegExp class as it didn't handle optional capture groups in the regular expression properly. This includes things like: the URI may, or may not start with "scheme:", then, maybe there will be an authority part, of the form "//authority", then a path, which is anything following the authority and up to th first ? or # or the end of the URI, and then there is the query and fragment, and they are also optional. RegExp allow to write this in a more compact and computer understandable format and get the parts extracted to separate strings.
As for the "aspx" file handling, the HTTP protocol says that the server should give a "content-type" header with the MIME type of the file it's going to send. This fits well with the use of MIME types in Haiku and would be very nice. However, Microsoft servers for login.live.com sometimes don't include the header. Web+ used to assume the file was to be displayed on screen in that case. You may already have seen it trying to render a video file as plain text, as a huge page full of strange characters. Well, that issue was fixed, and if in doubt, it will now download the file to disk instead. A list of well-known file extensions is used to attempt a guess when the "content-type" is missing. I added aspx to that list and mapped it to text/html, so, the URLs ending in aspx will now be shown on screen.
I had a run of testing after all these fixes and things are getting much better. It helped fix some more issues in github and gist, and I could also browse some documents in Google Drive. I think we still have some problems with file upload, however, I'll have to look into that. Uploading video to youtube, as someone pointed out in the forums, also fails.
I caught a crash when opening a new window in HaikuLauncher, but I'm not sure if that would be a problem for Web+. Also, I wanted to work on HTTP authentication (the login/password prompt) and this is not available in HaikuLauncher, so a working Web+ will be needed. To get there I wanted to build a package for WebKit. To do this, I first tried writing an haikuporter recipe. I didn't get very good results with this. First,it means working separately from my development git checkout, so it takes twice the sapce on disk (and we're talking multiple gigabytes) and it takes forever to checkout. Second, there's no easy way to use distcc with haikuporter, so things are keeping my CPU very busy for a long time. And since this isn't my development tree, there are a lot of things to rebuild.
So, I decided to try a different solution: using CMake built-in support for generating packages. I tried that yesterday and found out that it wasn't working. I tried on a very small test project, and with help from the CMake IRC channel I found the issue: our CMake port is lacking some features that are available in the Linux version, and not needed on Windows. This confuses the Ninja generator which isn't ready for that case. This is a rather technical issue related to the way executables and libraries are linked together. This is different in the tests (the lib and executable sit together in a directory) and installed version (they are installed somewhere on the filesystem and the OS, more precisely the runtime_loader) must bind them together. On Linux, CMake makes up for that by rewriting part of the executables when installing or packaging them. This isn't enabled in the Haiku version, so it will instead try to link executables again when installing them. However, the Ninja generator is skipping the link step (it was never tested in that case) and tries to install or package non-existing files. This shouldn't be too hard to get working just like on Linux, more news next week !
There is another missing step to make this complete: CPack, the CMake component that generates packages, knows how to make tar archives (with various compression schemes), zip archives, and deb and rpm packages. This is not very useful for us, so I started adding support for hpkg files there. This will make it super-easy to get a package built from any project using cmake: "make package", or "ninja package", depending on the generator you decided to use.
Anyway, I've uploaded an unsupported build in a manually crafted zip file so you can try things for yourself: http://pulkomandy.tk/drop/HaikuWebKit_20131018.zip I'm waiting for your reports on how well it's working. Note you need a fairly recent build of Haiku (a nightly from today or yesterday should do) as I made some changes to the BHttpRequest class again, to fix some API design issues that led to memory leaks. That class was also added to the Haiku Book.
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Gaddafi's 40th turns into a diplomatic minefield
Europe's leaders are staying away in droves but nothing will halt Libya's biggest party, writes Daniel Howden in Tripoli
Monday 31 August 2009
Britain has refused to reveal who it will send to the biggest party in Libya's history, a celebration of the rise to power of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in a coup d'etat 40 years ago.
With London desperate to avoid further embarrassment in the wake of allegations that it supported the release of the Lockerbie bomber in return for trade deals, no decision had been made about who would represent the UK at the lavish and potentially controversial carnival in Tripoli.
Officials refused to "speculate" who London would send after evidence emerged that the Justice Secretary Jack Straw had sent a letter to his Scottish counterpart two years ago saying it was in the UK's "overwhelming interest" to include the Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi in a mooted prisoner release programme.
A week of events on a grand scale kicks off tonight in Tripoli with a massive equestrian display at the same military airport where Megrahi was given a hero's welcome after his release on compassionate grounds by the Scottish authorities.
Although the precise details of what will happen at the celebrations have been kept secret, the released prisoner is not expected to attend. Megrahi was reported to be on his death bed last night at a Tripoli hospital. He is now "too sick" to answer questions, according to his family.
Suffering from advanced prostate cancer, he was pictured by Channel 4 News wearing an oxygen mask and attached to a drip after being taken to the hospital yesterday morning.
With 24 hours to go, Tripoli has taken on the frenetic aspect of a city hosting the Olympics. Scaffolding covers the main avenues as lakes of whitewash are slapped on to exposed concrete in last-minute sprucing efforts.
Thousands of people were caught out as the capital's entire central district – which now contains what is claimed to be the largest stage in the world – was fenced off without warning. Frantic Libyans were seen crawling under the fence to get home, while others passed packages and even children to each other under the wire.
Looking down on them and staring from banners everywhere was the face of Africa's longest-serving leader, with his gaze fixed on the future in a way that suggested his determination to keep going for another 40 years. With roads sealed, the din of motorists' horns was only drowned by the deafening roar from rehearsing French and Italian aerobatic jet fighters.
The diplomatic fall-out from Megrahi's release and reception has cast a shadow over the epic anniversary party. Italy's Silvio Berlusconi will be the only EU leader prepared to lend his public backing to Colonel Gaddafi with a one-day visit to Tripoli yesterday. And even the Italian premier, whose excuse for the trip was the anniversary of a friendship accord, said he would leave before the party began.
With a host of controversial African leaders from Zimbabwe's pariah Robert Mugabe to Sudan's indicted Omar al-Bashir due to be joined by the likes of Venezuela's showman President Hugo Chavez, wary Western leaders have withdrawn from what is seen as Libya's international coming-out party.
The self-styled "brother leader" was taking no chances with the bulk of his VIP guest list and staged an extraordinary African Union summit to coincide with the event, guaranteeing the presence of many African leaders.
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With a a staggering arsenal of fireworks due to be set off over the seafront, the official programme predicts that "the Libyan people will be enflamed by the Brother Leader" – cue another of Colonel Gaddafi's marathon speeches.
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ElecComm Corp.: Laying it on the line
Diversification, reinvestment power utility line construction company's growth
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WILMINGTON -- Stephen Martin and Joseph Sullivan haven't exactly followed a straight line to success, and for the co-owners of ElecComm Corp. that's probably been a good thing.
The business model for their Wilmington-based utility line construction company, which they incorporated in 1999, has expanded far beyond their original mission, transforming what could have been a fairly static operation into something more fully charged for growth.
When they started the company with an investment of $25,000 each, Martin and Sullivan, who first met as utility linemen for Boston Edison Co. in the early 1970s, say their intent was to focus on overhead line work.
But faced with a glut of competing contractors in that market, they decided instead to carve out a niche in the area of underground electrical services, such as the installation and splicing of high-voltage underground cables. A short time later, when RCN Corp. began building its local network system, the partners segued into the communication services market, including fiber-optic and coaxial cable-related projects.
"Seizing the opportunities and running with them" is how Martin, now 54, describes the company's strategy. "We felt that if we specialized in the underground work, we could become the premier underground contractor."
ElecComm completed 103 electric service jobs and 158 communications jobs last year, with project costs for those areas averaging $15,500 and $5,500, respectively. On the electric side, ElecComm is contracted to provide underground service work in the northeast section of utility giant Nstar's territory, which encompasses about 17 cities and towns. ElecComm has also done work for National Grid and was recently approved as a contractor by Northeast Utilities.
Revenue for the 37-employee company hit $5.5 million last year, up from $4.1 million in 2005. At the same time, the company continues to make major capital investments in equipment, and last year, the partners purchased the 15,000-square-foot office building that houses their operations for $1.7 million, which they financed through a 25-year loan with Northern Bank & Trust Co. in Woburn.
Critical to the continued growth of the company, the partners acknowledge, is their ability to cultivate new areas for growth while expanding their customer base.
"It's very important to diversify," says Martin. "Any one of those companies can pull the plug on the work at any time."
At one point during the summer of 2002, the partners recall, they were left scrambling without work for an eight-week period, when Nstar's budget readjustments temporarily halted work by its contractors. Rather than lay off employees during the slowdown, Martin and Sullivan elected to leave everyone on the payroll -- and didn't take salaries themselves.
"We knew that we had a really good workforce, and we didn't want to lose them," Sullivan, 57, says.
Opportunity to diversify has come from ElecComm's latest contract with Nstar: Under a six-month pilot program that ends June 30, ElecComm will provide emergency generator service in the event of power outages and planned shutdowns. The partners' hope is that they can spin off this service into a new business unit that will help them attract more private sector clients.
Gary Sullivan, president of Utility Workers Union of America Local 369, who helped ElecComm pull together the deal, says, "It's a new area for them, but they have a great expansion plan, and they know the industry."
As part of their commitment to the operation, Martin and Sullivan purchased six generators, ranging from 35-kilowatt to 640-kilowatt, at the end of 2006 at a cumulative cost of $400,000, which they financed through a loan from Northern Bank & Trust.
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bigkev Posts: 33Hi
I phoned the BMW dealer that I got my spare kit from last time, and they said that there is a kit which includes a 'false floor' panel, or you can buy a donut spare, jack and bag like I did as seperate parts. They have to order these items from BMW. Last time somebody asked me the same question and I found the part numbers and sent to him but I can't place the paperwork now. Although i am in Australia the part numbers are universal and the same worldwide. I suggest you try again and maybe phone BMW direct. Or speak to the sales manager of a new car dealership near you and explain and ask them to find out.
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disco99 Posts: 74Just picked up a BMW 18" wheel/tire combo from Ebay as a spare. It will sit in my trunk over a nice rubber cargo mat.
I live in NY. If I had to drive 50 mph on a flat tire to go anywhere on business days; I'd starve!!!!!!!!!
For every flat I get I'll replace it with a regular tire preferrably the the Nitto 555s..They're truly great tires but not prohibitively expensive.
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boston303 Posts: 35Hey the angst that BMW has provided with their adherence to these "Friggin" run flats is enough to say buy another car!!! Unless you are considering a 335 or better heck a 328 XI is no better than a Ford Fusion, Lincoln MKZ.. In fact the tech is likely better in the Ford product!! If you have to have straight line acceleraction like the M# or 335 go for it, but remember the tires still suck. BMW can go from the ultimate driving machine to the joy of something...have fun.. I am off BMW...
shipo Posts: 9,152Hmmm, a Ford Fusion over the 328i or 328xi? No thanks. Don't get me wrong, the Fusion is a fine car for the money but it is an understeering/nose heavy pig compared to a 328i. That and you cannot get a stick with anything beyond the four-banger mid-line SE model or RWD on any model. For my money it will be the 328i each and every time.
cdnpinhead Forest Lakes, AZPosts: 3,187For every flat I get I'll replace it with a regular tire. . .
Bad plan.
I doubt that you're old enough to have had to deal with the transition from bias-ply tires to radials, but the caution at the time was to NEVER mix the two. I ignored this once (had a bias-ply spare) & when I went around a 270 deg on-ramp that way, it was definitely worth the price of admission. Fortunately there weren't any other vehicles in the vicinity. Never again.
By all means you should replace the RFTs with real tires, but do them all at once & sell the originals on E-Bay. God knows, there's a market for them. -
boston303 Posts: 35I should refine my comment and limit the comparison to a Ford Fusion with automatic transmission 328 XI's... The small, and I mean VERY small percentage of stick shift 328's are an exception and those owners are likely to be real drivers... Automatic transmissioned BMW's though and I stick to the comparison. The Fusion is a great competitor and a winner in several areas; tires, technology and price. I will likely never own another BMW. Love Audi's new ads and Porsches look great. Course I still love my S2K.
shipo Posts: 9,152While I'd never willing set my butt in a 328i (or xi) with an automatic transmission (regardless of which seat said butt would be sitting in), I will assert that there are any number of drivers out there that value the vastly superior handling of any variety of a 328i over a Fusion.
I've driven Fusions with both engines (i.e. the I4 and the V6), and while the four-banger Fusion does pretty well in the handling department, it doesn't hold a candle to even a non-SP 328i. The V6 version of the Fusion is another story entirely; that car is (as I said before) a grossly understeering pig when rounding your friendly neighborhood freeway ramp, regardless of the drivetrain downstream of the transmission.
As for the Fusion being a winner in "several areas", the tires are easily fixable (and if I ultimately buy another BMW that comes with RFTs I'll surely swap the tires out for GFTs), the value of the better "technology" is extremely questionable in my mind, and given the different market spaces these cars occupy, I believe the price argument to be irrelevant.
Now, if you were comparing an Audi A4 2.0t to a 328i, then I'd be hard pressed to come up with significant objective arguments that favors one over the other. :shades: -
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puffin1 Posts: 276I took them off the day I bought my car. I don't know if it's a German thing or not.The noise and ride would drive me crazy.
What made me mad was the dealer wouldn't swap them out.So I had to buy 6 tires, Continetals and have two studded for winter , plus wheels.
Now the dealer tells me this isn't the old days and I should have the same 4 tires on all year round. Who is right.? I think he is upset because I went to Tire rack. Beside my car is an I model,not AWD.
BMW makes the Mini don't they and they will give you you choice of runflats, or all season tires?
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disco99 Posts: 74Thanks Guys. I am definitely buying a matching set and I'll sell these old tires on Ebay. Once done, I will have restored some sanity in my life. There have been a number of near death blowouts on runflats that have been largely ignored by the BMW.
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lehrer1 Posts: 54I have BMW 06 325i manual with 3L engine and 2010 Fusion SE auto with 3L V6.
They are different cars for different purposes.While I admire BMW for handling and a solid built I do not see much differences in both engines as a user. Advantages of L6 look to me like a mirage in comparison with V6. Both engines are equally good. Fusion has acceleration similar to BMW 06 325i, is very quiet, has better audio, has Synk and has no BMW problems with RFT's. And it is much chipper. I am not advocating for Fusion, I am glad that at last Ford built a good car.
PS The Fusion's steering is worse than by previous models and not to compare with BMW.
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shipo Posts: 9,152Even the slowest 3-Series in years (the 2006 325i) saddled with an automatic and all season tires will handily beat a 2010 Fusion V6 around a track.
Please understand, I do like the Ford; for the money it is a screaming bargain (especially with the I4 and three pedals under the dash) and a car that I usually opt for when I'm on the road and needing a rental. That said, none of the Fusion models like to be pushed hard around curves and none of them offer the visceral feedback to let you know what is going on down there on the road surface. If you value the "drive" more than the "goodies", then putting a Fusion up against a 3-Series makes for a poor comparison; however, if all one cares about is the stuff, then why bother opting for a BMW. -
jgraffman Posts: 14Sept '07: '06 325xi Sportwagon. Replaced Bridgestone Turanza's at 7700 miles due to cupping. BMW paid for go-flat Michelin replacements. I let BMW select the tire, don't recall the name, but they were Michelin peformance tires with about the same level of road noise as the Turanza's.
Oct '09: BMW reports uneven tire wear (15,000 miles on tires), recommends rotation, a complete reversal of their previous policy. Further examination reveals bent rim. Bought another set of Michelins. This time I picked out the tire (HX MX M4). Very little road noise.
Aug '10: Purchased 09 328i with 8000 miles and Bridgestone Potenza's. Very little tread wear. I was surprised at the low road noise.
My Sportwagon weighs about 500 pounds more than my 328i, but has smaller tires. (225/45 17 vs. 255/40 17). It appears that BMW figured out they needed a more substantial tire. Does anyone know?


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It's not much of an exaggeration to say that John Lott has changed the national debate on gun control. His rigorous research and prolific pen have exposed the slip-shod analysis of anti-Constitution advocates.
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[Updated 9/13 5:42pm] It's been a great month for the Redskins, but not for poor Chris Cooley. This guy just can't catch a break. He was cut at the end of Redskins Training Camp just before our comeback season started with RGIII, and now, Reliable Source reports that he is divorcing his wife of four years, Christy Cooley.
The pair were buzzed about since day 1, when she had to leave her $75-per-game post as a Redskins Cheerleader to marry him.
The two don't have any kids together, which should make the break a little cleaner, but it's such heartbreaking news since the two were darlings of the Redskins fanbase.
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UPDATE 1-Yacht maker Ferretti cruising for China middle market
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MILAN, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Ferretti, the Italian luxury yacht maker favoured by Chinese tycoon Li Ka-shing and Italy's Fiat-owning Agnelli dynasty, may expand into smaller boat building in China to meet growing demand from the country's newly-affluent middle classes.
The group, controlled by China's state-owned Shandong Heavy Industry Group, is looking to add 6-8 metre pleasure boats to its range of customer-designed mega-yachts popular with the world's super-rich.
Ferretti would manage production of the boats following the acquisition of a Chinese brand over the next 12-18 months, Chief Executive Ferruccio Rossi told Reuters in an interview.
"With our know-how and support by our majority shareholder we are considering entering the so-called recreational segment and make smaller boats for the Chinese middle class through a local brand and a local manufacturing plant," he said at the launch of Ferretti's first megayacht under the smaller-sized and glamorous Riva brand.
Ferretti, taken over by Shandong Heavy in a 374 million-euro deal in January, owns eight brands including Ferretti Yachts, Pershing, Itama and Bertram.
Rossi said the group was also considering an initial share offering in Asia on the heels of Italian fashion group Prada's IPO last year, Rossi said.
"Maybe in three to four years we could list on an Asian market to gain further visibility," Rossi said. "I very much like the experience of Prada and we are looking at it closely."
"There could be a dual listing but it's premature to think about this now."
Ferretti, which competes with smaller Italian peer Azimut Benetti, floated on the Milan stock exchange in 2000 following a string of acquisitions and delisted two years later.
It has said it would keep jobs and manufacturing in Italy, which has long dominated the yachting industry.
But a protracted recession and a fiscal clampdown have hurt domestic sales of luxury goods, Rossi said, and the company has temporarily laid off workers at one of its Italian yards.
The global yacht market is expected to grow by 2 percent in 2012 from 5 percent last year, luxury body Altagamma said.
Rossi said Ferretti would continue to produce in Italy, where it aims to break even in the second half of 2013.
Shandong Heavy Industry Group controls four groups with stock listings in Hong Kong, Shanghai or Shenzhen: Weichai Power , Weichai Heavy Machinery, Yaxing Motor Coach Company and Shantui Construction Machinery.
It plans to invest nearly 200 million euros in Ferretti, after an initial equity investment of 178 million euros for a 75 percent stake and 196 million euros of debt financing.
Former creditors Royal Bank of Scotland and hedge fund Strategic Value Partners own the remaining 25 percent.
Ferretti is not alone in finding itself owned by investors from emerging markets taking advantage of Europe's financial woes to pick up brands and establish themselves as global players.
Private equity fund Permira, a former shareholder in Ferretti, sold fashion house Valentino to the Qatari royal family for around 700 million euros in July.
Ferretti makes around half of its sales in Europe, 15 percent in Asia-Pacific, and 35 percent in the Americas.
The company aims to make one third of revenues in each region by 2018.
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The Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine (SIDM) and the Cautious Patient Foundation have announced a collaboration to help patients avoid diagnostic errors in their own care. Diagnostic error, defined as wrong, missed or delayed medical diagnosis, occurs in 10% to 15% of diagnostic encounters, is the largest contributor to medical malpractice claims, and is responsible for 40,000 - 80,000 deaths per year in the United States.
The Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine (SIDM) and the Cautious Patient Foundation have announced a collaboration to help patients avoid diagnostic errors in their own care. Diagnostic error, defined as wrong, missed or delayed medical diagnosis, occurs in 10% to 15% of diagnostic encounters, is the largest contributor to medical malpractice claims, and is responsible for 40,000 - 80,000 deaths per year in the United States.
The Cautious Patient Foundation has committed to providing substantial grant support to SIDM to raise awareness of diagnostic error as a significant patient safety issue and create training and tools to empower patients to avoid these all too common errors. As part of this collaboration, SIDM will be working closely with Cautious Patient Foundation Executive Director Bill Thatcher to facilitate development of SIDM patient-directed programming and engagement.
"This commitment from the Cautious Patient Foundation, an organization with a deep commitment to grassroots patient engagement, is a significant signal that SIDM is moving forward not only with healthcare professionals but also with active participation by patients," said Mark Graber, Society president. "Engaging patients in the quest to improve diagnosis and reduce diagnostic errors is critical, and as the inaugural Founding Member of our Society, the Cautious Patient Foundation is an ideal partner to help strengthen this collaboration."
The Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine is an independent, non-profit organization devoted to making diagnosis accurate, timely, efficient, and SAFE; SIDM is the only organization currently focused on reducing diagnostic error in medicine. SIDM unites the many stakeholders impacted by diagnostic error - including patients, clinicians and their health care colleagues, health systems, payers and risk managers - spurring collaborative efforts to improve the quality of the diagnostic process while reducing errors and unnecessary health care costs. Through outreach, dialogue, research and education, SIDM sets the quality and safety agenda for improving diagnosis.
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