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A faulty Zamboni machine sent 20 people to the hospital and forced the evacuation of about 300 people Saturday night after it leaked dangerous carbon monoxide levels into the Steel Ice Center in Bethlehem.
The Bethlehem Fire Department said those transported to local hospitals displayed symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning including nausea and headaches.
Officials could not provide details on their conditions Saturday night.
Officials said local youth hockey games were being played when the incident occurred.
Crews arrived at the ice rink just before 6:30 p.m. Saturday night and did not leave the scene until close to 10 p.m. The center reopened Sunday.
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Life is so boring without people who care about us ;)
Few months earlier, when I was in a financial crises, I felt life is boring without money. When I failed to achieve what I desire for I feel sluggish and down, I do not want to call that feeling boring. Now, I believe, life is not boring but it need this ingredient to make itself worthy.
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finally i found someone who says: that life is not boring .
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If you so boring, think who will be your king or something in your thinking...
life is so boring when life with unlive..
Hi Zeal, actually I agree with you. You mean, we have must live our life, we have must invest every moment in it in love, joy, smiles, fun, forgiveness, happiness, peace, friends, knowledge and faith. The life which God donated it to us is too short to waste it in hate, tears, worry, war, envy and jealousy.
Finally, I got your advice,which is, love your life, and do your best to live it as mucu as you like it to be. Thank you for your advice.
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The regular season still hasn't officially gotten underway for all the teams, great scheduling MLB, but that issue will finally be rectified Friday. We do have a fair number of baseball games in the books, so what did we learn that we might be able to apply to the world of fantasy baseball?
Jose Bautista already qualifies as a third baseman and outfielder. On opening day he also moved over to play first base after the Jays removed Adam Lind in favor of a pinch runner. It's only one game, but it hints that Bautista just might play five or 10 games at the position this year, the threshold in many leagues for a player to pick up positional eligibility which would only further enhance his obvious value.
Life isn't always fair. Exhibit #1 Justin Verlander pitches eight scoreless innings and picked up a no-decision after Jose Valverde blew the save after not blowing a single one of his 49 opportunities last season. The guy who blew the game, Valverde, ended up with the victory when the Tigers came back to win. Remember what I always say about chasing victories? Or how about how I always say that you should never use a pitchers won-loss record as a judge of his performance? See what I'm saying?
Life isn't always fair. Exhibit #2 Jon Lester didn't quite match Verlander Thursday, but he pitched very well allowing just one run in seven innings. He ended up with a no-decision when the Red Sox bullpen blew it. Mark Melancon ended up with the loss, but it was Alfredo Aceves who actually deserved the loss (for my thoughts on the Red Sox Bullpen see: Relievers, Wild, Wild, West). He came into the game, hit a batter, and then gave up the game winning hit. Still, Aceves escaped with an unblemished record despite not getting an out in the effort.
You're daily talk about closers... the Royals settled on Jonathan Broxton as their lead man in the 9th inning. At one time one of my favorites, Broxton was amazing in 2009 when he won seven games, saved 36, posted a 2.61 ERA, a 0.96 WHIP and had a dominating 13.50 K/9 mark. Seasons like that lead you to the Hall of Fame. Unfortunately for Broxton, it's his only season of more than 22 saves, and it was also the last time he was an effective big league pitcher. Over the last two seasons Broxton has been injured an just passable in terms of his production: 6-8, 4.32 ERA an a 1.55 WHIP. He still struck out 9.96 batters per nine innings, but he only threw 75 innings in the two seasons as he just couldn't stay healthy. I can understand why the Royals went with him in the 9th, he has the most experience of their bullpen arms and could bring a nice return if moved at the trade deadline (he's on a one year deal), but I'm still not convinced he is going to be able to hold off Greg Holland all year.
Josh Collmenter was lucky as all heck last year to post a 3.38 ERA and 1.07 WHIP over 154.1 innings. He didn't strike anyone out (5.83 per nine), had a terrible GB/FB ratio (0.71) and seemingly got by mostly on his funky delivery. He looked lost all spring training and it won't take much for the team to consider moving him to the bullpen, not with Trevor Bauer looking ready to give it a go in the majors. In his first start of the year at Double-A Bauer allowed just two hits and no runs, while striking out seven, in five innings.
Johnny Cueto ended last season with a 2.31 ERA but he threw only 156 innings falling short of qualifying for the NL ERA crown (a pitcher needs 162 innings). Well, he added to that excellence in his first start as he tossed seven shutout innings for the Reds. He induced 10 ground balls continuing a trend he started last season of generating a ton of ground balls. Speaking of the Reds, Aroldis Chapman looked completely dominating with two strikeout in a hitless 8th inning. When he is locating his pitches batters stand nary a chance of making hard contact.
Edinson Volquez allowed only three hits and two runs in five innings in his first start with the Padres. Unfortunately he picked up a loss as he walked four batters, including two with the bases loaded. All he needs to do is to throw strikes to be effective. The question is, can he?
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You're invited to participate in one of Germantown's most fun-filled, highly popular events—the Germantown Community Scholarship Fund's (GCSF) 27th Annual Dinner & Auction!
The event will be held Thursday, February 2, 2012 at The Quilted Bear restaurant in Germantown. This annual event benefits Germantown students from the Class of 2012 by raising money to provide scholarships to students of Germantown High School and the Germantown area attending private and home schools.
"It's pretty phenomenal when an entire community gets behind its students to support furthering their education," said Britt Dyer, 2004 Germantown High School graduate and GCSF scholarship recipient. "There are a lot of deserving students that would not be able to continue their education without a little extra help and that is exactly what GCSF provides. I am just one of many students that have been significantly blessed by the GCSF!"
Since 1981, GCSF has awarded more than $1,800,000 in scholarships to 1,931 students with the aim of providing them with the financial assistance and means to pursue their dreams and achieve their goals.
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Is China prepping for war? Second aircraft carrier under construction with plans to build more
China is bulking up its navy, fast.
Chinese sources confirmed the last week that the country's second aircraft carrier is under construction. Furthermore, China appears to have plans to float four aircraft carriers by 2020. The military expansion has some worried that China will be making a major play for power in Asia, over the next decade or two.
China already has one aircraft carrier, of Soviet origin. That carrier, now known as the "Liaoning," was originally built in Ukraine, but went unfinished after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Ukraine inherited the carrier, but it was never finished. That carrier was later sold to a Hong Kong investor in 1998, for $20 million. The plan was to turn the unused ship into a floating casino.
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It's likely the plan was a ruse, because the ship was never docked in Hong Kong. Instead it was towed to Dalian shipyard in northeastern China and finished as an aircraft carrier.
Both the Liaoning and the next three Chinese aircraft carriers that are slated for construction, are about half the size of standard US aircraft carriers. They carry about one third the number of aircraft. Although China seems to be catching up in defense, it still lags far behind the United States and other major Western powers in technological capability.
The nation does however have a stealth-capable fighter which may be able to operate from the carrier, especially if the aircraft's design is lightened.
The People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) says it would like to have all four carriers operational by 2020. This may be far-fetched, because China does not seem to have the construction facilities ready to build the two additional carriers within the next six years. It is reasonable to believe they will have two, possibly three afloat by then, with the fourth well under construction.
Regardless of the timetable, the greater question must be, what does China plan to do with the carriers?
Because of limitations of size, technology, and probably military tactics, it is highly unlikely that China intends to rival the United States anytime soon in the Pacific, or South China Sea. What is more likely is that the country will use these carriers to project power over other Asian nations in the region.
North and South Korea, Japan, the Philippines, and Vietnam will almost certainly be impacted by the deployment of these carriers. They could also operate further afield, controlling in the Indian Ocean, and even protecting against Somali pirates in the Red Sea.
China could also use the carriers for humanitarian missions, much as the United States use theirs. The carriers would be ideally suited for quick deliveries of humanitarian supplies to disaster stricken regions throughout the Pacific. This should be a benevolent use of the carriers, and like the United States, it would build favor with countries receiving aid.
The most dangerous prospect behind the development of these carriers of course, is the militarization of Asian seas. North Korea, South Korea, Japan, and China, and even the Philippines to a limited extent, are all said to be increasing military budgets and developing new naval assets. Competition for resources in the area, especially rich fishing grounds, is only expected to intensify over the coming years. If enough competition develops and enough war material is built, the region could become a powder keg, at least for a sharp, limited engagement.
Indeed we would do well to remember Homer's warning, "the sword itself incites to violence."
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1 month ago
Don't worry about China being behind the US in technology.
They'll steal it.
America is in decline, China is in ascension.
America is finished as the dominant world power - the only question is when.
America is also finished as a nation - the only question is when.
No nation has ever survived which has abandoned the culture on which its' foundational principles are based.
To be honest, I hope I live to see America's collapse. Nothing would please me more than to see Chinese soldiers marching up Pennsylvania Avenue.
And I'm an American.
But the America of today is not the America I was taught to love. The America I was taught to love had its' flaws, and we recognised them, but it wasn't like this. This is Satan's America. -
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The Chinese, Iran, and North Korea are certainly gearing up for war. They have the blessings of the Marxist Democrat Party. We will rue the day.
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While the original announcement of the adaptation was printed alongside an advertisement for the GJ-bu Chūtō-bu spinoff series, Gagaga and Lululu's latest web notice only refers to the title as GJ-bu.
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CLINTON — Decorated in a holiday theme, the River Arts Center, 229 Fifth Ave. South, is filled with paintings, wood carvings, mixed media, figurines, photographs and other pieces created by Clinton Art Association members.
The center's annual show will run from now until Dec. 29, displaying artwork from 20 members. A public reception will be from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday during the Downtown Holiday Open House.
Amy Nielsen loves displaying her mixed media pieces at the center. She teaches calligraphy at St. Ambrose University, Figge Art Museum and the River Arts Center. She learned about the association and the gallery through another art group she is in.
"I thought, 'This is the best-kept secret in our area for an art hub,'" Nielsen said.
She added that the center houses a great collection of artwork. Upstairs, classes and other instruction is offered.
The show will feature some unique pieces, including small figurines by Lanie Lass and wood work by Mark Vilmont. Lass is displaying sketches and her figurines. The figurines feature people sitting in front of photographs of Clinton taken by Lass.
"It's hopefully things that people will enjoy owning," Lass said.
While Vilmont has worked with wood for 27 years, this is his first time to exhibit artwork at the River Arts Center. He knows many of the association's members and said he decided it was time to join.
People can also view and purchase jewelry, pottery, glass work and other artwork in the gallery's gift shop. The River Arts Center gallery and gift shop are open from 1 to 4 p.m., Wednesday through Sunday.
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Elvis Costello and the Roots: 'There's no such thing as too funky'
Ahmir Thompson, aka ?uestlove from The Roots, and their producer, Steven Mandel, are secret "Elvis freaks." One of their early discussions about agreeing to their gig on
Late Night With Jimmy Fallon
was the possibility about playing with Elvis. The Roots took the job, and
Elvis has now played on the show five times
. From these collaborations, the seeds of something bigger grew, and that came to a very funky (and political) fruition with
Wise Up Ghost
, embedded as streaming tracks in this Guardian review
, and
available in a single stream from a fan on YouTube
. If you'd like to hear more about how the "remixing" of some prior Costello pieces (
Pills and Soap
National Ramson
, and
Hurry Down Doomsday
, to name a few songs), Costello and Thompson spent
about 40 minutes with NPR's World Cafe
, or you can
read their interview with the Guardian
posted by
filthy light thief
on Oct 9, 2013 -
38 comments
Radio, Radio
SNL 1977 - Lorne Michaels "raised his middle finger at [Elvis] Costello and kept it up until the unapproved song was over."
From wikipedia:
Costello wanted to play "Radio Radio" on SNL. Columbia Records, however, was interested in having an already-established song performed on SNL, to increase interest in the band before the American release of My Aim Is True and This Year's Model. In the event, Costello began the SNL performance by playing "Less than Zero." However, after a few bars, he turned to the Attractions, waving his hand and yelling "Stop! Stop!," then said to the audience, "I'm sorry, ladies and gentlemen, there's no reason to do this song here," possibly referring to the fact "Less than Zero" was written as a reply to British fascist politician Oswald Mosley. However, SNL music director Howard Shore attributes the move to Costello's bucking pressure by his music company to play "Less than Zero" on the show.[1] He then led the band in a performance of "Radio Radio."
Obligatory Weird Al cover.
posted by
on Sep 27, 2013 -
62 comments
Songs for the Apocalypse
Rock Cellar Magazine
has come up with a list of eleven songs to listen to in case the world comes to an end on
December 21 2010
more inside
posted by
on Dec 19, 2012 -
44 comments
Get off your arse!
The Way They Were
(SLYT... 1:07:45 'The tape fails there!')... an old Granada / Channel 4 program that was a compilation of Tony Wilson's
So It Goes
a show that featured performances from some of the best British Punk and New Wave bands of the time.
posted by
on Aug 29, 2012 -
12 comments
Summer, Buddy Holly, the working folly / Good Golly Miss Molly and boats / Hammersmith Palais, the Bolshoi Ballet / Jump back in the alley, and nanny goats.
Born in 1942, Colin Fulcher was better known – though not by much – as
Barney Bubbles
, who worked prolifically from the 1960s until his suicide in 1983. A
graphic artist, designer, art and video director
who preferred to remain behind the scenes (he only rarely signed his work, and when he did, often used obscure pseudonyms), Bubbles' revolutionary and innovative practice encompassed
record sleeves
, band posters and videos for
(and their friend/collaborator
Michael Moorcock
Nick Lowe
Elvis Costello
Ian Dury and the Blockheads
(including their iconic
Billy Bragg
The Specials
Depeche Mode
. A retrosective of his work,
Reasons To Be Cheerful
, and its associated
has a comprehensive overview of Bubbles' diverse body of work. Designer and artist John Coulthart
offers up
; Creative Review
get behind
his creative processes; a new Radio 4 documentary,
In Search of Barney Bubbles
, covers his work and often troubled life.
posted by
on Mar 28, 2012 -
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Elvis Costello - live and expensive
Steal this record.
A 1-CD (with DVD, vinyl EP, book, poster and other collectables) edition of live recordings from Elvis Costello's most recent tour is being released as a limited edition - for around $
, with free Super Saver shipping. Expensive special editions aren't new, but this one seems to have caught even Costello by surprise; his official website is advising fans not to buy it, and to get a box set of Louis Armstrong records instead.
more inside
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running order squabble fest
on Nov 26, 2011 -
43 comments
Cellophane shrink-wrapped, so correct.
posted by
Devils Rancher
on Nov 23, 2011 -
27 comments
Who is that old dude with Elmo?
Elvis Costello sings
A Monster Went and Ate My Red 2
. (slyt)
posted by
on Oct 16, 2011 -
27 comments
"It's called 'New Wave Rock'" - Hugh Downs
'New Wave' means a loud rock and roll dance band like The Ramones, it means the angry punk politics of The Clash, and it also means the sort of intellectual art rock typified by The Talking Heads.
A 20/20 segment from 1979 explores the origins and influence of New Wave, including live footage and brief interviews with The Clash and Talking Heads, as well as short clips of Levi and the Rockats, The Ramones, and Klaus Nomi.
slicing up eyeballs
posted by
on Sep 7, 2011 -
55 comments
Alex Cox's "Straight to Hell"
Straight to Hell
is a 1987
action-comedy film
directed by
Alex Cox
, featuring Sy Richardson, The Clash frontman
Joe Strummer
(after whose song the film is named), Courtney Love, Dick Rude, Dennis Hopper, Grace Jones, Elvis Costello, Xander Berkeley, Kathy Burke, Jim Jarmusch, Edward Tudor-Pole, Miguel Sandoval, as well as members of The Pogues, Amazulu and The Circle Jerks. ... While the film received almost no positive reviews, it has (like several other of Cox's films) achieved a
minor cult status
, largely due to its cast of musicians, many of whom have cult followings of their own. A
has been released.
previously, awesomely
posted by
on Jul 1, 2011 -
44 comments
It Couldn't Happen Here
was a seven-part British television drama written by
Alan Bleasdale
shown in the summer of 1991 on Channel 4. The protagonists were Michael Murray (played by Robert Lindsay), the Militant Labour leader of a city council in the North of England and Jim Nelson (played by Michael Palin), the headmaster of a school for disturbed children. The series was controversial partly because Murray appeared to be based on Derek Hatton, former Deputy Leader of Liverpool City Council - in an interview in the G.B.H. DVD Bleasdale recounts an accidental meeting with Hatton before the series, who indicates that he has caught wind of Bleasdale's intentions but does not mind as long as the actor playing him is "handsome".
more inside
posted by
on Aug 29, 2010 -
22 comments
Top Videos from MTV's First Day
Top Videos from MTV's First Day.
Most people know that The Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star" was the first video ever played on MTV, on August 1, 1981. The Top 13 picks the top 13 videos that aired that day.
more inside
posted by
on Feb 10, 2010 -
57 comments
Pogue Mahone, ya Nipple Erectors
Shane MacGowan
is the face and name most often associated with
The Pogues
Unraveling Shane's psyche would require a book-length study but the crux of his identity lies somewhere in that conflict between English experience and Irish heritage.
The abbreviated story of his life starts with his birth in England, but he was raised in Ireland, and moved back to England some years later. He won a scholarship to the renowned Westminster School, where he was possibly enrolled
alongside Thomas Dolby and other notable people
. MacGowan was involved with drugs and
publicized hooliganery
before being in a band, the first of which was
The Nipple Erectors
in 1977.
more inside
posted by
filthy light thief
on Sep 13, 2009 -
87 comments
Sunday's Gloomy
Hungary may be the
gloomiest country on earth.
Believed by its people to be suffering from a
centuries long curse
, it's most famous modern musical export is probably the
"Hungarian Suicide Song"
Gloomy Sunday.
Originally popularized by
Billie Holiday
in the US (with an upbeat ending tacked onto the
original lyrics
), it's been covered
dozens of times
since then. Links to a few of my favorites inside:
more inside
posted by
on Jan 10, 2009 -
37 comments
Elvis Costello and the Attractions - Radio Radio - Saturday Night Live
It was 30 years ago today
that Elvis Costello and the Attractions appeared on Saturday Night Live. They'd wanted to play
Radio Radio
but SNL said no as it was thought to be 'anti-media.' So they started playing
Less Than Zero
, but stopped eight seconds in and played
Radio Radio
anyway, which led to them being banned from SNL for 12 years.
Tip o' the hat to the
Post Punk Progressive Pop Party
posted by
on Dec 17, 2007 -
85 comments
"Window in the Sky", a U2 montage of 137 video clips
"Window in the Sky"
is a YouTube style video synch mash-up done on a professional budget with the magic of copyright clearances.
"It's a triumph of postmodern reconstruction"
says the Washington Post.
posted by
on Jan 29, 2007 -
160 comments
Costello Reissues
Costello Reissues
Just returned from the mall, shocked at the price tags on the new Rhino Elvis Costello reissues. Having already bought the Ryko versions as well as the original vinyl back in the day, my anger is twofold. As a big Costello fan, I feel exploited. As a habitual CD buyer, I'm amazed at the price of back catalog stuff in the chains. Somebody please tell me there's a real reason for these high CD prices. Is it me or is the gap between online and chainstore prices way wider than it should be?
posted by
on Sep 4, 2001 -
6 comments
500 albums essential to a happy life,
500 albums essential to a happy life,
says Elvis Costello. And he oughta know. (For extra credit, compare and contrast this with
the RIAA top songs of the century list
announced earlier this week.)
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on Mar 9, 2001 -
30 comments


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Jean Michel Jarre: Je voudrais un MUSIC TAX sur VOTRE MOBE
Re: Oh, my!
"On the other hand, in many countries, like here in Germany, there is already a levy on CDs, external hard drives, DVDs and printers!"
I think we would in the UK also, if it wasn't for the fact private copying is actually illegal in the UK full stop and no amount of talk to change it to a fair use law has made any difference.
Though oddly, CD-R Audio discs were still on sale in the UK complete with a levy in the price and yet still copying was illegal, so why on earth pay a premium for CR-R Audio discs if you are only going to be using them for your own original material? Except those fools who bought the hardware that would only record to them. So basically paying a tax to the studios to make your own music.
NHS website hit by MASSIVE malware security COCKUP
Re: How they want to hold my health records.
"Or do you get a larger organisation who can notice a problem on a Sunday and have a fix in place on Monday?"
I had quite a chuckle at that one. We're talking public sector IT here.
1) They won't notice the problem
2) No one knows what to do about the problem and the original supplier has probably gone under or is deemed too expensive to use for ongoing support
3) It will go round and round for months until someone quotes £5m to fix it and then it takes a year to fix it and the end cost has risen to £10m. For something that's probably a 10 minute job to fix.
UK picks Open Document Format for all government files
Open does not necessarily equal cheap/free
Okay they're mandating using an open format and yet can still use MS Office, but generally from what they've announced they are strongly hinting the purpose is to reduce costs, which can only mean they think they want to shelve MS Office and use Open Office or Google Docs or similar and think this will be cheaper. It's been tried many times before with some official thinking it's like in the no-support home user world and just because they can download the software for free it will be free for them. Until they require enterprise level support, not to mention the costs of implementation (which is more than just installing the relevant software, as it includes changing back end systems to handle the open doc formats, convert existing documents, and bucket loads of training).
And god forbid they want to use Open Office on Android tablets ;) - or indeed any tablet given Open Office UI is still stuck in a very desktop & mouse Office 2003 world.
Or they could use Google Docs and do away with any useful features.
Anyway, all I say to the gov is, good luck with that, but don't go raising my taxes to pay for it.
What can Microsoft learn from 'discontinued operations' at Nokia?
Re: Dead Platform
Windows 8 on the desktop may be an abortion, but Windows Phone is hardly that.
If anything it's got the most pleasing and idiot proof while intuitive UI out there for a mobile, a more secure mobile OS, and very reliable.
Combine that with Nokia's hardware quality, makes a damn good phone. Recommended to the folks and they love it.
While myself, I do love Android despite it's many frustrations, but I much prefer the UX of Windows Phone. For me though it lacks some critical apps. Not many as most apps in the various stores are complete bollox, but there are a number of essentials by big names that just aren't there. For many who just really want a phone that makes calls, sends texts and can browse the odd web site, receive emails, Windows Phone is perfect. More so when something like a 520 doesn't need charging up every couple of hours like certain Droids.
Microsoft buries Sinofsky Era... then jumps on the coffin lid
Re: What we want to know is...
While the Metro 'Start' may not be great, I've never quite got the love for the old Start menu. It's always been annoying deeply nested method of finding the apps you want to launch and much of it is grouped by vendor named folders which means you have to try to remember who made the app you're trying to find. That and if your mouse drifts off by a few pixels the sub menu disappears.
Then you end up pinning things you want to find to the root of the menu or in modern versions to the start bar, along with sticking thousands of shortcuts all over the desktop in a right mess.
I'm unsure about Metro Start but playing with a bit more I see it simply as a launcher much like iThings and Android. Also having found all the menu items are still there and can be dragged about into the main menu as you like, it's quite flexible, and it keeps the desktop from being cluttered.
Okay you have to click/tap into it which brings up the menu full screen to launch something. But then most of us probably have to close a dozen windows to expose the desktop to launch various apps anyway.
I'm a bit Meh about the whole thing. Only thing is yes Microsoft should have offered the classic menu for the luddites, who I admit are most of us. If it asked on first run if you wanted the classic experience and gave you the desktop with old Start, then few would be complaining. What you've got not is not far off, just lacking the old Start menu... which you can get 3rd party apps for.
Microsoft to RIP THE SHEETS off Windows 9 aka 'Threshold' in April
Re: Will anyone still care? @BillG
"Have you ever tried another collaboration platform? They are pretty much all better* than Exchange."
Including Notes? !!
Pretty much the main alternative to Exchange you'll find in a corporate environment and will have you pulling your hair out and screaming for them to switch to Exchange.
I've seen the future of car radio - and DAB isn't in it
Sat radio
I still don't get why we aren't into Satellite radio in the UK.
In the US, every car I've hired has Sat radio built in and gets hundreds of channels, reliably. Makes a huge difference when driving through many states just gives you "both kinds of music" on FM.
DAB is expensive, reception is poor in rural areas limiting the choice of channels, few car manufacturers want to invest in it, and few other countries use it (those that do have limited availability and might be on a different band your radio doesn't support anyway. Sat radio at least might still be available in other parts of Europe and likely you'll get all the same UK stations.
Fanbois, prepare to lose your sh*t as BRUSSELS KILLS IPHONE dock
Meh - micro USB does the job, charges the phone. I don't need to spend five times as much for a stylish design that does the same job to make me feel smug.
However, the EU rules may insist on a standard connector, but I bet it won't stop Apple continuing with their devices only working with connectors that have their proprietary chip in. So only an Apple branded micro USB cable will work, though technically that cable would work for other brands, just not the other way round and it of course blocks the use of cheap alternatives to ensure you pay a premium for your Apple lifestyle.
BT warned: Speed up Openreach repairs or face PUNITIVE FINES
2 days? dream on
Parent's phone line went dead and it took BT a month and a half to fix it. Most of that was in waiting for people to come round to look at it and then the relevant contractor to be booked and get permission to dig up the road, and another to dig up the driveway to run a new cable, and another to actually connect the new cable to house. They were effectively considered low priority as a residential customer compared to other work the contractors had to do.
In the old days BT did all the work themselves in a day or two, and for a phone line down they were looking at heavy compensation for even just a few days. Now the compensation is limited unless you complain at the highest level and all the work is contracted out to different companies who have to fit into their schedules and coordinate with each other (or rather they fail to do that).
Apple patents facial recognition tech for mobile log-in
Re: Right, time to sue the Android phone manufacturers.
Putting aside any possibility (almost certainly probable) that Google et al obtained/devised their technology before Apple in 2008 or not, in the US as I understand it, patent pending does not technically protect the filer, but regardless of that the intent of patents is that you are to actively develop the product or process or otherwise have a granted patent and/or already a product on the market.
But even regardless of that, before Google did it, it was a stupidly obvious way to have a phone unlock mechanism.
Prior art, failure to develop on patent filed and produce a marketable product, patent not granted before competition went to market, blatantly obvious.
But that all counts for nothing. USPTO will grant it. It will go to court Apple vs Samsung (never Google), Obama will comment that Apple is good for US and Samsung bad, Apple will win, Samsung pay Apple for a feature from Google that was never stolen from Apple in the first place for an obvious idea that wasn't patented correctly and Apple hadn't developed until way after the competition had. All perfectly fair in the land of the free.
The patent system has its theoretical benefits, but in general the whole system is so corrupt it would be far better to scrap patents entirely until someone comes up with a better one.
Julie Larson-Green: Yes, MICROSOFT is going to KILL WINDOWS
Re: Why Windows is doomed. @Filhart
"That's interesting as the Corporation I work for has gone from XP to 7, and the thing we noticed most was on the same hardware our computers needed more RAM to perform the same with 7 as when we were on XP"
Likely because Windows 7 installs will have been 64bit, which naturally uses more RAM. RAM is cheap however and more to the point 64bit Win7 lets you use all that 8GB of RAM whereas 32bit XP will barely let you use 3GB. Suddenly it's free to do far more at the same time and faster also.
Anyway, all this rubbish about boot times - the major audience for Windows now is corporates. Who aside from touch being ludicrous for a productive environment, generally leave their PCs on overnight or at least sleep / hibernate them. Boot time - non issue.
Re: Which one ? Windows 8 with luck
"There's an abundance of choice out there like Mint, Ubuntu, Arch, Fedora, and Debian. "
The vast majority of consumers would be utterly lost with any of these. More so the instant they are told they have to edit some config file and browse through dosens of linux forums to find out why they can't do something they can do easily with Windows (even Windows 8), or where instructions are written for Ubuntu but they've got any one of the huge number of other distributions. Or they buy some USB gadget but it won't work without recompiling the kernel or ripping drivers from a Windows install, hacking about with this and that, etc (I speak from experience here).
And god forbid they want to do some Excel work. Open Office is okay, if you want the equivalent of Excel 97 and don't mind it taking several minutes to launch and doesn't quite do what you're used to in Excel and isn't quite compatible with the latest Excel document formats, etc.
Don't get me wrong, I like linux and use it for what it's good for, as a server. I would not recommend it to my parents however (fairly representitive of the average consumer).
In fact I'm even recommending Windows Phone over Android as the former would be less confusing and less easy to get into a mess or download something they shouldn't and generate a lot of support calls.
GAH: Now it's INSTAGRAM and Windows Phone 8
Re: Fewer choices = worse
Fewer quality choices = worse
Not that I'd say Win Phone has quality choices, but I wouldn't want it to be filled with a million apps if they are the quality you get on Android, just so there's a chance one of them might actually be decent. Though a half a million are ad spamming crap games.
How to relieve Microsoft's Surface RT piles problem
The only issues with RT
Really the only issues with RT are...
1. Price
2. Not enough quality apps
And that's pretty much it. If you have got your head around it not being 'Windows', just the same as all Android tablets are not Ubuntu or any other linux desktop distro and iPads are not OS X. Everyone understands this fine and they're popular tablets, so what's the problem here? Basically the above combined with the media generally slating RT for it not being Windows.
Even compatibility with Win Phone is not an issue to the consumer, so long as they can get the apps that do what they want on the tablet version. Okay for a developer it needs a port, but even iOS needs alternate builds for iPhone and iPad, and while maybe much easier, it certainly is not the case with Android where fragmentation is vast compared to iOS and Windows devices.
Myself, I want a nice tablet for a low price I can surf and send emails, plus a few funky apps. It doesn't really matter if it's iOS, Android or RT, and certainly doesn't matter if it's not OS X, Ubuntu(etc) or full blown Windows. So long as I understand that. Price and subsidies so you can pick them up for £100 to £200. Sorted.... except for the lack of apps.
That said I do actually want something that will do spreadsheets properly in a productive way and is compatible with modern Excel formats. Turns out Office on RT pretty much does, minus macros. Though there's still a major problem that editing spreadsheets on a touch UI just isn't that useable.
Are you experienced? The Doctor Who assistants that SUFFERED the most
Re: Romana
"Not exactly a companion, but "The Doctor's Daughter" of the 10th Doctor, is the daughter of the 5th Doctor and Hitchhiker's Guide Trillian"
More than that, she married the 10th also.
Blighty's banks prep for repeated kicks to cyber-'nads in Operation Waking Shark II
Watch out, MARTIANS: 1.3 tonne INDIAN ROBOT is on its way
Re: Ask the poor of India what they'd prefer...
More than national pride. It would be generating various levels of business, some international trade, and moving the economy, providing employment. Okay not so much trickles down to the poor areas, but still more benefit than just dishing out £45m to the entire population.
And in perspective, £45m is only the price of 45 houses in some parts of South East England ;)
And considerably less than the more collosal waste of money HS2.
Fair play to them. At least they can stick rockets into space, unlike the UK.
Re: Spending
"You might just squeeze one meal out of that at Indian prices, but it's only going to be a small one, and pretty bland - rice and lentils, perhaps."
and not even the funny green dip with the poppadoms
Facebook fans fuel FAGGOT FURY firestorm
Re: I would be interested to see if their censorship guidelines can be found online
Far worse for bad grammar is Stackoverflow, though to be fair a large number of developers on there have broken English, not to mention no clue about software development. I'd suggest a typical location they come from too but I'd be accused of being racist. Well, those and students looking for the answer to an exam question, and candidates for jobs likewise for interview questions.
Alien planet is just like EARTH - except for ONE tiny detail
Re: There's science and then there's wild guesswork
The issue I have with exoplanets is the conclusions made are based on our only knowledge of planetary bodies we actually can observe, i.e. those within our own system. It's perfectly fine science to conclude because of X and Y observed and what we know about similar planets with properties X and Y therefore it must be the same, but could easily all be blown out of the water by a new discovery. After all, we don't even know what 'dark matter' is and yet it comprises a large chunk of the universe.
The other issue I have is it's all rather pointless as not one will we ever see or visit. The likelyhood is the human race will be extinct long before the time it would take to visit such places and they won't be there any more anyway.
Please, PLEASE, Skype... Don't kill our apps and headsets, plead devs
Should have been SIP
Never was a fan of Skype. Hyped up, inefficient and proprietary, and pretty much killed SIP as a standard that a lot of hardware manufacturers were already supporting but no one used because it was all 'Skype this' and 'Skype that', and no one took the time to invest in quality SIP services.
Surface 2 and iPad Air: Prepare to meet YOUR DOOM under a 'Landfill Android' AVALANCHE
"He claimed Pro now offers up to 10 hours battery life and the ability to multi-task, switching between Outlook, OneNote, PowerPoint and Excel."
Pro runs full Windows and Windows has had multitasking almost since day 1, and in pre-emptive form since 95/NT days.
Lumia 2520: Our Vulture gets his claws on Nokia's first Windows RT slab
SUPERSIZE ME: Nokia unveils Surface rival and 2 plumped-up phablets
Re: how much?
Slash it to £299 with keyboard, £199 without, then it would be very attractive.
Microsoft: Everyone stop running so the fat kid Win RT can catch up
Re: RT is pointless, WP is the way to go
"A. It isn't Windows compatible."
Nor is Android - doesn't stop them selling bucket loads of tablets and phones.
Problem is the marketting. Selling it as *Windows* RT made people think it would run Windows apps. Daft thing is most people don't really need that on a tablet anyway. They just want to browse, read emails, play videos and games.
With the exception of Office use, and in the main it's Excel that's the killer part of Office but the traditional spreadsheet interface is useless on a touch interface. Hence why Android and iOS don't really have this cracked either. So basically you don't need proper Office either for a tablet (but MS have provided it in RT anyway). So what really do you need legacy wise on a cheap tablet? As said, Android has shown you don't need anything as plenty of Windows users are buying Android tablets. Yet won't touch RT.
Market as the Microsoft Tablet (or Microsoft Tab !), price at £150 to £200, chuck in a decent camera, optional 3G/4G... and maybe more attractive. *If* the Store was utterly revamped and developers could finally be convinced to knock up decent apps. But even then 'Microsoft' in the name may still be making people think it's Windows. Hmm... Nokia tablet... running RT... ;)
Expert chat: The end of Windows XP and IE6
XP eveywhere
Displays in railway stations are usually powered by XP (evident when they crash)
Likewise a lot of other animated displays in shopping centres, airports, etc.
I've had ATM machines crash on me, reboot and hey... XP comes up before the ATM UI is slapped on top.
Samsung touching up ROUNDED, CURVY plastic enhanced MODEL
Re: upping the game to the detriment of the competition
They won't need to. They can release a curved phone that obviously is the same style, patent it and USPTO will grant it despite prior art and even if Samsung et al have their own patent. It'll go to court, fight out and even if Samsung win and get a ban on Apple, Obama will overturn it as Apple is of benefit to the US economy supposedly, plus he probably likes his iThings, then Apple will win a ban against Samsung and round we go to the next product.
TWELFTH-CENTURY TARDIS turns up in Ethiopia
Re: 106? Shurely Shome Mishtake
"Because we will never find 106. Part 7 of The Dalek Master Plan - "The Feast of Steven" (actually the original first Doctor Who "Christmas Special") - was never recorded onto film and never sold abroad"
Thank god for that!
Dalek Master Plan is better with just that whole episode represented by a "Scene Missing" card.
Though the embarising 4th wall christmas greeting from Bill to the camera would make a funny dvd easter egg.
Space truck Cygnus left idling outside ISS after data format snafu borks docking
Manual docking
Just need to solve with a bit of hammering the keyboard up and down to line up, rotate, rotate, rotate, rotate... there she's goes. Docked.
Just don't fire the lasers at the station!
Hardbitten NYC cops: Sir, I'm gonna need you to, er, upgrade to iOS 7
NYPD's logic
"We heard it takes people's fingerprints. That's got to be better than us doing it ourselves."
Probably think they just need to ask Apple for them.
Sure Apple don't store them of course. The NSA can help out though if they feel like it ;)
Alternatively they've read how easy it is to hack, so they'll welcome the ability to hack a perps iPhone if they've upgraded to iOS 7.
Dog bites man: Apple's Macs trounce all Windows PCs in customer love
Smuggly satisfied
Buying a Ferrari and just having it sat there shining while you admire it or taking it to places to show off is great, but on the other hand a Fiesta will get you to work or the shops even if it's not the best car in the world, and is more practical.
Billionaire engineer Ray Dolby, 80, dies at home in San Francisco
Re: I think
Surprised this hasn't been mentioned more. Legondary connection to Dolby.
The full quote -
Jeanine: You don't, you don't do heavy metal in doubly, you know, I Mean...it's
Nigel: In what??? In what???
Jeanine: In doubly...
Nigel: In dublin!?! What's that?
David: She means Dolby, alright? She means Dolby, you know? You know perfectly well what she means.
Windows 8.1 to freeze out small business apps
Re: The message isn't clear enough yet?
"Ballmer is leaving, things will change."
Ballmer out, Elop in. Business as usual. Both capable of destroying companies and not paying attention to user's needs.
Microsoft's $7.1bn Nokia gobble: Why you should expect the unexpected
Re: The real reason
"As easy to as it is to take potshots at Ovi it still better than Microsoft's online offering by quite some distance."
Have to admit, you're right there, and that's saying something considering how awful Ovi is/was? !
Microsoft buys Nokia's mobile business
Re: LOL
A market cap that has dropped from $40bn in the last 2 years (and was over $200bn back in 2000) and yes what does the remainder represent without Devices and Services? A division that includes all the feature phones.
Yes, MS have got a sale of the century. They have a mobile brand, access to patents and manufacturing business for next to nothing relatively. What remains (some $12bn if you like, if you're talking US$ when quoting $19bn, so $19bn - $7bn for the purchase, not 5) is perhaps the true value, or maybe inflated. I think the latter still a little, but anyway. We'll see what the market thinks of the company when it has no mobile phone business, smart or otherwise.
When you think of Nokia in the future when it comes to other than mobile phones, who are they? Little more than a mom & pop outfit dabbling in this and that with no special qualities.
Re: LOL
"Fail. Microsoft havn't bought Nokia"
There's nothing left of Nokia after what they have bought however. Stripped assets, throw the remains on the tip. They've still got what they wanted.
Re: This news makes me sad.
"This deal allows Nokia to buy up a startup company and start producing Linux based phones again. They are free from the Microsoft shackles."
Dead end there. A novelty niche market perhaps, selling a few hundred a year to obsessed Linux fans, nothing more. Operators wouldn't touch them, so no market.
Nokia would be far better off bringing Nokian back into the fold and go back to making tyres.
Re: "and 32,0000 Nokia employees will become Redmondians."
Money or not, in a take over you don't keep employees who are literally redundant just because you feel it's morally right to keep them employed twiddling their thumbs. I can't see those 32,000 being that important to operations. All that's left of Nokia now anyway is hardware manufacture and that can be outsourced to China.
Re: :(
" Firstly we lose Ballmer (everything from XP onwards came out under his tenure)"
Including Vista and Windows 8.
My only hope is Elop can strike another "Burning Platform" on Windows 8. Kill it dead.
Facebook strips away a bit more of your privacy – but won't say why
Re: Once more with feeling...
I just downvote people who moan about being downvoted. Much like users of Facebook, if you are STUPID enough to post a comment on El Reg, be prepared to be downvoted.
Nintendo is FLATLY UNHINGED: New 2DS is a handful of game
As I read somewhere else, the key with the 2DS is it's simpler and cheaper to produce which makes is potentially more profitable. It's never going to be a huge seller though would appeal to budget concious parents or even kids who've saved a lot of pocket money (or probably not that much these days). Or anyone who just wants a gadget to play fun little games on the move but doesn't want to drain their smartphone flat by playing 15 minutes of one game.
Star Wars revival secret: This isn't the celluloid you're looking for
Re: 24 fps ... bah
High frame rates just makes it like watching an episode of Eastenders on TV. Loses the cinematic feel.
Same problem with the artifical motion processing in modern TVs, and worse they tend to make some things far too smooth that it becomes unnatural.
However there is a point about 24fps on HD TVs, if they're set to 24p. There's an argument that many TVs will enhance the flicker and judder effects that cinemas tend to reduce with a double shutter. Though I'm not sold on that argument. However I have noticed that despite 24p supposedly eliminating 3:2 pulldown issues you always got with NTSC video (60Hz/30fps), it still judders but in a different way. You can just turn on the motion processing on your fancy telly though, or set the player to output 50/60p instead (as many modern TVs will sort out the pulldown issues anyway).
Acorn's would-be ZX Spectrum killer, the Electron, is 30
Re: 32K- the BBC Micro's most annoying limitation
"And then the BBC Master 128 had 64K RAM, 64K sideways RAM? And while you could store programs in sideways RAM, you couldn't run it from there?"
Basically a paging mechanism as I understood it. You could get sideways ram for the plain model B also. Sat in one of the ROM chips and like those it you would page it in and out of the 64K addressable memory. So one of the ROMs would have to take a back seat while you use the ram.
One thing I never got my head round though was I swore the 32K Beeb had 64K worth of actual dram chips. I remember believing they were 4K each or something and counting them up and that makes 64. I assumed it was same as the C64 then where the 32K of ROM was copied into RAM... but seems not?
Tat bazaar eBay takes a rest for 'scheduled maintenance', goes offline
Space-walker nearly OPENED HELMET to avoid DROWNING
There's a film in that
Quick, bang out a film based on it, pad it out to 3 hours, in 3D.
Still would be more interesting than just recycling every film made in the last 10 years due to lack of imagination. Though they'd then have another film to remake in a couple of years.
Google follows Amazon with auto-encryption of cloud data
Re: Encryption needs to be on the client side to be secure
Just encrypt on the client and don't process on the server then. Though you'd then need your key in the cloud to decrypt to actually make it useful off device for other cloudy services.
Encryption on cloud storage is not really much interest to me. The chances of someone nicking one of their discs and leaking the data, or some member of staff copying it off, is slim or at least prosecutable.
My concern is far more about the device when syncing my private data to the cloud.
Microsoft to fund Blake's 7 return as Xbox Live exclusive
Re: Was B7 a Fluke?...
Gareth Thomas was right to leave as the show early on lost its roots and descended into standard sci-fi fighting aliens insetad of fighting the federation. Though I still loved it despite the flaws.
I've always hoped a remake would go back to the core principles, and it should remain bleak with conflict between central characters, and possible bleak ending. So that rules out any US involvement, which means no money (given the BBC couldn't give a rats about it, not that they can afford it either), whcih means it will never be made.
I was dubious about the remake announced last year and now if it's come to this there's no hope for it. Sounds worse than a straight to video.
Re: "MICROSOFT TO FUND BLAKE'S 7 RETURN AS XBOX LIVE EXCLUSIVE!"
I'd see Microsoft as a member of the Federation with Apple as the core ('core' - geddit?) with Steve Jobs, were he still about, as Servalan / the guy from the patent office.
Google are the loose group of freedom fighters. Or maybe that's Samsung, flying around the galaxy stealing ideas for their next phone, and Avon is their lawyer.
AOL boss: Soz about that 'Abel, you're fired!' Patch showdown
Re: No such thing as bad publicity?
I thought they died when they stopped filling my bin with CDs


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Was this a real dream, perchance?
You really got the feel of a real dream, with the big parts you can't remember and such, so it was hilarious.
i love it and i had once a dream i am sort of a super saiyan 3 goku and using kamehameha and when it hit the target i woke up and watched the clock i sleep for like 13 hours
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