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Torre, who guided the Yankees to four World Series titles between 1996 and 2007, now serves as executive vice president for baseball operations for Major League Baseball.
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Many companies have moved applications to the cloud as a way to reduce capital expenditure while improving IT focus and effectiveness. End users see the cloud as a way to access their documents and applications remotely from anywhere and from any device. IT managers see the cloud as a means of rapidly adapting their infrastructures as needed via virtualization and a pay-per use-model. But what about load testing engineers? Can they seize the opportunities afforded by the cloud to better test the performance of web applications?
As with past overhyped trends in IT, it is important to see past all the talk and look for concrete ways to take advantage of this new technology's flexibility and scalability to save time, reduce costs, and improve the way your organization works.
This article describes how the cloud is revolutionizing load testing and the advantages it provides in many situations for ensuring your web applications perform well in production. It also covers key capabilities to look for in a load testing solution. Without the right tools in place, simply moving your testing activities to the cloud will likely not deliver the results necessary to justify the move. Understanding how to apply the right tools and practices to make the most of the cloud is fundamental to cloud-based testing and vital to ultimately going live with total peace of mind.
Benefits of Load Testing in the Cloud
Load testing with the cloud enables testing teams to take a big step forward in conducting more efficient and more realistic large-scale tests. In addition, it enables organizations to realize significant savings in cost and time made possible by cloud technology.
Perform Large-Scale Tests
More and more, today's web applications are experiencing sporadic surges in traffic. These traffic spikes can have many causes, including a new advertising campaign, an online article, a seasonal sale, and buzz on Twitter or other social media. If your application is unable to handle the increased load, you run the risk of lost business opportunities and potential damage to your brand.
Generating the load for large-scale tests to mimic these unanticipated spikes in production traffic, however, typically requires tens or even hundreds of machines. Purchasing and configuring these systems requires a significant investment of time and money. Once acquired and used for the immediate load testing need, the machines may sit unused for long stretches until they are needed for the next large-scale load testing project. With the cloud, you can rapidly set up as many load-generating machines as you need, on demand.
Perform More Realistic Tests
When testing a web application using machines inside your firewall, you're not testing the entire delivery chain. Unless all of your end users will also be within your firewall, such tests are inherently limited and may fail to reveal all performance issues.
With the cloud, you can execute load tests that access your web application as your users will - from outside of your firewall - and validate all components of the delivery chain, including the firewall, DNS, network equipment, and ISP. These tests are more realistic, and they enable you to evaluate the real-world effects of third-party components, such as content delivery networks, analytics servers, and ad servers.
Your users won't all be accessing your app from the same fixed location across the same network, so a realistic load test cannot be completed from a single location. That's why it's important to test your application and its components from different locations and geographic regions and assess its performance as network bandwidth and latency changes.
Save Time and Reduce Costs with Pay-as-you-go
When load testing with the cloud, there is no need to spend weeks setting up and configuring dozens of real machines. You can create and configure the machine image you need once and then replicate it in the cloud as many times as needed. Often, the cloud testing provider will automate this process as well, saving you even more time.
Further, the substantial up-front costs of purchasing and maintaining machines that may be used only infrequently are eliminated with the cloud. Using the pay-as-you-go model, you can rapidly set up the testing infrastructure you need, when you need it, and only for as long as you need it. From a business standpoint, the cloud lowers total cost of ownership, while increasing flexibility.
How to Choose a Cloud Testing Solution
While all cloud load testing solutions will enable you to make use of the cloud in some way, comparatively few enable you to follow all of the best practices outlined here and capitalize on the opportunities that load testing with the cloud offers. A highway lets you travel faster than a side street, but the vehicle you use makes a big difference in how quickly and how reliably you arrive at your destination. In much the same way, load testing with the cloud offers clear advantages over traditional load testing, but the tools you use are even more important to the quality of your tests.
When considering a cloud testing solution, ask the following questions:
- To what extent does the solution integrate with the cloud?
- Will the solution enable us to conduct realistic tests?
- Does the solution support unified tests inside and outside the firewall?
- Is the solution easy to use, or will we spend weeks learning and configuring it?
- Does the solution include full-featured reporting and decision-making modules to help our team make the most of the results?
- Does the solution support the technologies we used to build the application?
Integration with the Cloud Platform
If you opt for a solution that is not integrated with one or more cloud platforms, you'll need to handle several time-consuming tasks on your own. First, you'll need to learn how each platform you'll be using works, including its limitations and constraints. Second, you'll need to build, test, and maintain your own virtual machine images.
Load testing solutions that offer integration with the cloud simplify and accelerate the steps needed to use the cloud infrastructure. These solutions offer one or more of the following advantages over non-integrated alternatives:
- Fast provisioning using preconfigured images. You can set up the infrastructure you need in minutes.
- Simplified security. All required protections are set up by default, including firewall, certificates, and encryption.
- Improved scalability. Leading load testing solution providers have negotiated with cloud providers to allow users of their software to employ more virtual machines (for the purpose of load testing) than are allowed by default.
- A unified interface for multiple cloud providers. Load testing solutions can hide provisioning and billing details, so you can take maximum advantage of the cloud in a minimum of time.
- Advanced test launching. You can save time and effort by defining and launching load generators in the cloud directly from the load testing interface.
- Advanced results reporting. Distinct results from each geographic region involved in the test are available for analysis.
Of course, few solutions include every one of these integration capabilities. Most solutions fall somewhere on the spectrum between little or no integration and full-featured integration with multiple cloud platforms.
Realistic Tests
Although testing from the cloud is, in many cases, more realistic than testing in the lab, simply moving to the cloud is not enough to ensure the most realistic tests. Real users often have access to less bandwidth than a load generator in a cloud data center. With a slower connection, the real user will have to wait longer than the load generator to download all the data needed for a web page or application. This has two major implications:
- Response times measured as-is from the cloud with virtually unlimited bandwidth are better than for real users. This can lead test engineers to draw the wrong conclusions, thinking that users will see an acceptable response time when in reality they will not.
- The total number of connections established with the server will increase, because on average, connections for real users will be open longer than connections for the load generator. This can lead to a situation in which the server unexpectedly refuses additional connections under load.
When choosing a load testing solution, look for one that provides a bandwidth simulation feature that limits bandwidth to ensure that the virtual users download the content of the web application at a realistic rate. This capability is particularly important when testing mobile applications, because mobile devices typically operate with less bandwidth than laptops and desktops.
Similarly, look for a solution that can parallelize requests. Modern browsers have the ability to parallelize HTTP requests as they retrieve a web page's static resources. These parallel requests require more connections with the server and can lengthen response times. Load testing solutions that do not parallelize requests are incapable of producing truly realistic performance tests for web applications.
Unified Lab Testing and Cloud Testing
Organizations that use only lab testing or only cloud testing are at a disadvantage. So are companies that use different tools for these activities.
A solution that supports lab testing enables test engineers to begin verifying the performance of an application internally, before it's ready to be made available via the Internet. This makes it possible to find and fix performance problems earlier in the application lifecycle. Such a solution also lowers cloud costs by enabling teams to conduct internal performance tests on existing hardware when available.
More important, a single solution that supports lab testing and cloud testing enables test engineers to reuse scripts for both kinds of tests, which saves time and effort. Reusing scripts also helps pinpoint performance problems that show up in cloud testing but not in internal tests. Last, a unified solution lowers licensing and training costs, and enables test engineers to use their existing skill set for both types of load testing.
Ease of Use
Testing, with its natural position toward the end of the application lifecycle, is almost always performed under tight time constraints. Delays in the requirements or implementation phases of a project usually result in less time for the test engineers to do their jobs. The pressure is on to deliver results as quickly as possible. This environment is no place for a tool that is difficult to use and configure.
In developing and executing performance tests (either internally or via the cloud) several key features go a long way in improving test engineer productivity, including support for:
- Easily launching the recording of a virtual user profile (preferably in one click).
- Defining advanced behaviors (with structures such as conditions and loops) via a graphical interface, complemented by the ability to use a scripting language (JavaScript, for example) for more complex cases.
- Automatic handling of dynamic parameters. This includes a set of correlation rules for well-known server frameworks. Ideally, the solution will dynamically detect and handle custom parameters specific to your application.
- Sharing common script parts, such as login or logout transactions, between multiple virtual user profiles.
- Comparing results. Sifting through results to determine the effect of a particular application or infrastructure change can be a time-consuming and arduous task without a dedicated comparison tool.
This is a not exhaustive list of usability features that can help test engineers work more efficiently; rather it should be considered as a baseline of minimum required capabilities for an efficient load testing solution.
Analysis, Monitoring, Scheduling, and Reporting
Recording a virtual user profile and playing it back to get raw results is only the beginning of an effective performance test. You need tools to help you analyze the results (in real time when possible), find the root cause of problems, and produce actionable results.
Real-time analysis enables you to detect and understand issues while the test is running. With real-time analysis, you don't have to wait for the test to finish detecting an issue, correcting it, and restarting the test. When testing in production, real-time analysis enables you abort a test if it threatens to affect the performance experienced by real users.
A comprehensive monitoring system is essential when you need to find the root causes of a problem. Predefined performance counters and threshold alerts based on industry best practices make it easy to define and analyze counters. For a nonintrusive solution that is easier to set up, look for a tool that supports agentless remote monitoring.
If your organization performs regular regression tests - and even if it doesn't - you may want to schedule performance tests and execute them automatically via the command line to complement functional testing. Regularly scheduled load tests with automatically generated reports can help organizations detect performance regression as soon as it starts to occur, which makes it easier to pinpoint and correct.
Last, reporting is a key capability and essential for communicating test results to others on the team, including management. Because reporting needs change, it is a good idea to keep your options open with a tool that supports multiple formats, including PDF, Word, HTML, and XML for integration with other systems.
Support for Web Technologies
To test Siebel applications or applications built with Adobe Flex, Microsoft Silverlight, Real-Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP), Oracle Forms, or AJAX push technologies you need a load testing tool with built-in support for the technologies you're using. Without this specialized support it can be very difficult, if not impossible, to effectively test the performance of your applications.
Similarly, the load testing solution you choose should provide support for the authentication mechanism employed by your applications, whether it is Basic, Digest, NTLM, or Kerberos. Otherwise, you won't be able to set up a virtual user profile that tests the application as a real person would use it.
Summing It Up
The cloud is opening new opportunities to improve the scale and realism of load testing while saving time and lowering costs. When selecting a cloud testing solution, keep in mind that the primary factor in your success will not be simply the move to the cloud, but rather the tool you use and how well it uses cloud technology.
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The 3rd International Internet of @ThingsExpo, co-located with the 16th International Cloud Expo - to be held June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY - announces that its Call for Papers is now open. The Internet of Things (IoT) is the biggest idea since the creation of the Worldwide Web more than 20 years ago.
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Want to enable self-service provisioning of application environments in minutes that mirror production? Can you automatically provide rich data with code-level detail back to the developers when issues occur in production? In his session at DevOps Summit, David Tesar, Microsoft Technical Evangelist on Microsoft Azure and DevOps, will discuss how to accomplish this and more utilizing technologies such as Microsoft Azure, Visual Studio online, and Application Insights in this demo-heavy session.
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When an enterprise builds a hybrid IaaS cloud connecting its data center to one or more public clouds, security is often a major topic along with the other challenges involved. Security is closely intertwined with the networking choices made for the hybrid cloud. Traditional networking approaches for building a hybrid cloud try to kludge together the enterprise infrastructure with the public cloud. Consequently this approach requires risky, deep "surgery" including changes to firewalls, subnets...
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The 4th International DevOps Summit, co-located with16th International Cloud Expo – being held June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY – announces that its Call for Papers is now open. Born out of proven success in agile development, cloud computing, and process automation, DevOps is a macro trend you cannot afford to miss. From showcase success stories from early adopters and web-scale businesses, DevOps is expanding to organizations of all sizes, including the world's large...
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An entirely new security model is needed for the Internet of Things, or is it? Can we save some old and tested controls for this new and different environment? In his session at @ThingsExpo, New York's at the Javits Center, Davi Ottenheimer, EMC Senior Director of Trust, reviewed hands-on lessons with IoT devices and reveal a new risk balance you might not expect. Davi Ottenheimer, EMC Senior Director of Trust, has more than nineteen years' experience managing global security operations and asse...
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The Internet of Things will greatly expand the opportunities for data collection and new business models driven off of that data. In her session at @ThingsExpo, Esmeralda Swartz, CMO of MetraTech, discussed how for this to be effective you not only need to have infrastructure and operational models capable of utilizing this new phenomenon, but increasingly service providers will need to convince a skeptical public to participate. Get ready to show them the money!
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SYS-CON Media announced that Centrify, a provider of unified identity management across cloud, mobile and data center environments that delivers single sign-on (SSO) for users and a simplified identity infrastructure for IT, has launched an ad campaign on Cloud Computing Journal. The ads focus on security: how an organization can successfully control privilege for all of the organization's identities to mitigate identity-related risk without slowing down the business, and how Centrify provides ...
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The Internet of Things will put IT to its ultimate test by creating infinite new opportunities to digitize products and services, generate and analyze new data to improve customer satisfaction, and discover new ways to gain a competitive advantage across nearly every industry. In order to help corporate business units to capitalize on the rapidly evolving IoT opportunities, IT must stand up to a new set of challenges. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Jeff Kaplan, Managing Director of THINKstrateg...
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"We help companies that are using a lot of Software as a Service. We help companies manage and gain visibility into what people are using inside the company and decide to secure them or use standards to lock down or to embrace the adoption of SaaS inside the company," explained Scott Kriz, Co-founder and CEO of Bitium, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 15th Cloud Expo, held Nov 4–6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
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"SAP had made a big transition into the cloud as we believe it has significant value for our customers, drives innovation and is easy to consume. When you look at the SAP portfolio, SAP HANA is the underlying platform and it powers all of our platforms and all of our analytics," explained Thorsten Leiduck, VP ISVs & Digital Commerce at SAP, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 15th Cloud Expo, held Nov 4-6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
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One of the biggest challenges when developing connected devices is identifying user value and delivering it through successful user experiences. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Mike Kuniavsky, Principal Scientist, Innovation Services at PARC, described an IoT-specific approach to user experience design that combines approaches from interaction design, industrial design and service design to create experiences that go beyond simple connected gadgets to create lasting, multi-device exp...
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SAP is delivering break-through innovation combined with fantastic user experience powered by the market-leading in-memory technology, SAP HANA. In his General Session at 15th Cloud Expo, Thorsten Leiduck, VP ISVs & Digital Commerce, SAP, discussed how SAP and partners provide cloud and hybrid cloud solutions as well as real-time Big Data offerings that help companies of all sizes and industries run better. SAP launched an application challenge to award the most innovative SAP HANA and SAP HANA...
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Enthusiasm for the Internet of Things has reached an all-time high. In 2013 alone, venture capitalists spent more than $1 billion dollars investing in the IoT space. With "smart" appliances and devices, IoT covers wearable smart devices, cloud services to hardware companies. Nest, a Google company, detects temperatures inside homes and automatically adjusts it by tracking its user's habit. These technologies are quickly developing and with it come challenges such as bridging infrastructure gaps,...
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"Cloud consumption is something we envision at Solgenia. That is trying to let the cloud spread to the user as a consumption, as utility computing. We want to allow the people to just pay for what they use, not a subscription model," explained Ermanno Bonifazi, CEO & Founder of Solgenia, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at Cloud Expo, held Nov 4–6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
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The Domain Name Service (DNS) is one of the most important components in networking infrastructure, enabling users and services to access applications by translating URLs (names) into IP addresses (numbers). Because every icon and URL and all embedded content on a website requires a DNS lookup loading complex sites necessitates hundreds of DNS queries. In addition, as more internet-enabled 'Things' get connected, people will rely on DNS to name and find their fridges, toasters and toilets. Acco...
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Intel pitches low-cost PC platform at Eee PC rivals
Expect a flood of Eee PC-style cheapo mini laptops in Q3 when Intel sends out its 45nm 'Diamondville' processor to computer makers. Diamondville plugs into 'Shelton', The chip giant's low-cost PC platform. We first reported on Shelton and Diamondville back in November 2007, and then the emphasis was firmly on ultra-compact …
I want a picture of Andy Grove, naked and a-beachin', with that, ta!
low cost subnotes ?
I want to see low cost subnotebooks with grown up keyboards and a 12" wide display (1024 x 600 or 1280 x 768). Save money by going Linux, ditching the DVD and HDD, get rid of useless touchpads, no PC Card slot, etc...
low cost?
Where to start.
1280x768 on a 12" screen? I used to be able to work with something like that around 10 years ago. Eyesight degrades with age you know. Personally, I reckon 1024 across is getting a shade too aggressive at 12", but it is at least usable.
Ditch the HDD to *save* money? Yeah, right. SSDs are sooo much cheaper, aren't they.
Grown up keyboard? On a *sub* notebook? I take it that you're expecting the Time Lords to design the casing then?
Ditch the touchpad? Yeah, 'cos using a mouse on your thigh is really handy and they're such fun to carry around.
Lose the DVD? ...and you've listed widescreen screen resolutions why exactly? Fun come O/S upgrade time as well.
No PC Card slot? Well, that just lost you the mobile, as in wireless on-the-move via the mobile networks, sales.
You haven't got the moon on a stick by any chance?
What to leave out?
1.8" drives are up to 160Gb and they're lower power than 2.5"
Do we actually need an onboard optical drive?
Do we actually need an external PCMCIA slot if there's enough USB and internal PC Card spaces?
I'd be happy with 1024 width which means a 10-12" display.
But mainly we need to get it all cheaper.
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Will this be the final and best gaming monitor that we'll ever see in the next say, 5 years or so? Well, it's certainly hard to say as of this moment. Sure, the Asus ROG Swift has some of the best features that no other monitors have been able to replicate despite the stiff competition out there. For instance, being able to guarantee free screen-tearing in all your games whilst operating at over 60 Hz is downright impressive. One may argue that not everyone would have the ability to play their games at such high frames per second but there are also a lot others who can. Furthermore, the ROG Swift isn't simply a 23 or 24″ monitor but instead, it is a 27″ display, like the ones shown here: http://bestgamingmonitorden.com/best-27-gaming-monitors-the-top-picks-in-2014/.
This particular feat will ensure that this gaming monitor retains his rightful place on the pedestal, at least for the next few years to come. How so? Being the first ever display to support an astounding resolution of 2560 x 1440 WHILE spewing out some 144 frames per second, this monitor is simply mind blowing. Without any visual artifacts and having the feature to eliminate screen-tearing in its entirety, the Asus PG278Q does not look like it's going to face any serious competition. Well, at least not in the near future.
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Goodbye, Big Mammal is the 64th and final addition to the set, and we'll leave it up for another week or so for downloads. In the not too distant future after that, we'll release the entire Path of the Day set as a freely downloadable Trilobite Bank.
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POD for Wednesday, November 05, 2014
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|Last patch of the day! This evolved patch has additional edits to give more nuanced modulation to pleasant low thrumming sounds. Like elephants, blue whales, and dinosaurs, we bid you farewell as we pass quietly into that long, long night.
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|Evolved patch with grinding bass and sweeping ambient oscillators. Some patch editing was done after the evolution stage to provide better parameter support.
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|This patch evolved from the 'Nebular Voices' patch. Reminds me of nights in the tropical jungles of Costa Rica…which were anything but silent.
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|An homage to these earliest days of Winter, when the nights are long, my first cold sets in, and there is nothing I could use more at the moment than that which I do not posess: A kleenex.
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|Santa's Helpers
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|A little sequencer experiment using four parallel sampled sequencers, where each sampler may optionally frequency modulate its neighbor, and each sampled sequence gradually rises in pitch.Parameters 0-3: Cycle repeat rate
Parameters 4-7: Frequency modulaton level to neighbor
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|Happy Halloween!This is a modified version of the evolved Monster patch, with additional signal paths and parametric control added. Listen at your own risk.
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Globe, Grant Park, Kildonan Place, McGillivray, McGillivray VIP, Polo Park, St. Vital. 14A
Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker) directs this dramatic chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaida terrorist leader Osama bin Laden through the eyes of an obsessive CIA agent (Jessica Chastain). It may seem shapeless compared to the average war/espionage movie, but the gist of this compelling drama is that war has changed and war movies must change accordingly.
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Globe, Polo Park, St. Vital. 14A
Mark Wahlberg plays a private investigator obliged to look into the extramarital activities of a woman (Catherine Zeta-Jones) who happens to be married to New York City's mayor (Russell Crowe).
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This documentary by Kirby Dick examines the crisis of rape in the U.S. military, wherein a female soldier is more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by an enemy combatant.
McGillivray, Polo Park, St. Vital, Towne. 14A
Arnold Schwarzenegger returns to action hero territory as a small-town sheriff obliged to stop a fugitive Mexican drug cartel boss from crossing the border through his town.
Kildonan Place, McGillivray, Polo Park, St. Vital, Towne. PG
A couple (Jessica Chastain and Nicolaj Coster-Waldau) take custody of a pair of long-lost feral sisters, only to find they have been accompanied by a spectral protector in this thriller produced by Guillermo del Toro.
Grant Park. PG
Maggie Smith stars as a former opera diva who stirs things up at a retirement home for retired musicians, whose numbers include her own embittered ex-husband (Tom Courtenay) in this feature directed by Dustin Hoffman.
The following movies have been previously reviewed by Free Press movie critic Randall King, unless otherwise noted.
McGillivray, Polo Park, St. Vital, Towne. 18A
Quentin Tarantino's latest stars Jamie Foxx as a freed slave who joins up with a bounty hunter (Christoph Waltz) to rescue his wife (Kerry Washington) from the decadent plantation of a depraved southern gentleman (Leonardo DiCaprio). It's a runaway stagecoach of a movie, suspenseful, shocking and grimly funny. As always with Tarantino, it is wildly referential. (Hey, that zoom shot is right out of The Wild Bunch! Hey, I recognize that music from Two Mules for Sister Sara!) But as usual, the disparate references add up to something entirely unique. 'Ö'Ö'Ö'Ö
Grant Park, McGillivray, McGillivray VIP, Polo Park, St. Vital, Towne. 18A
A noble cop (Josh Brolin) is tasked with taking on the spreading crime empire of Micky Cohen (Sean Penn) in this movie featuring Ryan Gosling as another cop dangerously courting Cohen's mistress (Emma Stone). It may look like a stylish exercise in L.A. noir, but it is merely a violent, stupid variant of The Untouchables, without any of the inspiration that made that movie great. 'Ö'Ö
Grant Park, Kildonan Place, McGillivray, Polo Park IMAX, St. Vital, Towne. PG
Director Peter Jackson revisits Lord of the Rings turf with another three-part epic, albeit one based on a much slimmer story than the first trilogy. Martin Freeman plays the young Bilbo Baggins and Ian McKellen returns as Gandalf, who comes to the Shire with a mission to help restore a Dwarf kingdom to an heir to the throne. While it feels good to be back in Middle-earth, one can't help the niggling feeling that Jackson is padding out this story in a transparent attempt to duplicate LOTR's multibillion-dollar box office. 'Ö'Ö'Ö
Polo Park. PG
Maria (Naomi Watts) and Henry (Ewan McGregor) are the parents of a Brit family on vacation in Thailand who find themselves fighting for their survival when a tsunami hits. Spanish director Juan Antonio Bayona has crafted an intimate disaster movie, terrifying in its veracity, but inspiring in its story arc, particularly with respect to Maria's eldest son (Tom Holland) who experiences a rough road to empathy. 'Ö'Ö'Ö1/2
Polo Park. 14A
Ex-military investigator Jack Reacher (Tom Cruise) investigates a seemingly open-and-shut murder charge against an unbalanced ex-army sniper accused of randomly killing five civilians. Cruise may bear no resemblance to the literary Reacher, but he carries the film well enough, and director Christopher McQuarrie pulls off one of the better action films of the year, including one of the more thrilling car chase scenes in recent memory. 'Ö'Ö'Ö1/2
Grant Park, Kildonan Place, Polo Park, Towne. PG
Ang Lee adapts the bestselling novel by Yann Martel about a young man who finds himself adrift on a lifeboat with a man-eating tiger. Lee crafts one of the finest entries in his eclectic resumé with this gorgeous, ruminative film that is soulfully, provocatively entertaining. 'Ö'Ö'Ö1/2 (Reviewed by David Germain)
Grant Park, Kildonan Place, McGillivray, Towne. 14A
Steven Spielberg succeeds at getting under the skin of American icon Abraham Lincoln from the perspective of his singular genius as he negotiates the passing of the Thirteenth Amendment banning slavery, an effort that required prodigious political skill. Daniel Day-Lewis offers a sure-thing Oscar-quality performance. 'Ö'Ö'Ö'Ö
Globe, Grant Park, Polo Park, St. Vital. PG
The hit musical finally gets its big-screen treatment as Victor Hugo's tragic novel comes to life with the help of Hugh Jackman and Russell Crowe as, respectively, the fugitive Jean Valjean and the relentless Inspector Javert. While this may not be a feel-good movie, it's doubtful there has been any movie so invested with such raw feeling, especially a musical. Anne Hathaway's performance of I Dreamed a Dream is one for the ages. 'Ö'Ö'Ö1/2
Grant Park, McGillivray, McGillivray VIP, Polo Park. 14A
Bradley Cooper plays an unemployed bipolar school teacher who moves back in with his parents (Robert De Niro and Jacki Weaver) planning to reunite with his estranged wife, only to be distracted by a young widow (Jennifer Lawrence) with issues of her own. Director David O. Russell returns to the same eccentric/blue-collar milieu as The Fighter but a climactic dance competition doesn't have the same impact as a prize fight, and Bradley Cooper doesn't have the same impact as Mark Wahlberg. 'Ö'Ö'Ö
Polo Park, Towne. 18A
This 3D thriller takes place years after the events of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, when a young woman inherits an old house in Texas only to discover it houses the depraved secrets of a killer cannibal clan. But there's nothing thrilling about summarily dispatching everybody who isn't meant to survive to the credits, nothing entertaining about meathook-, hatchet- and chainsaw-murdering that we've seen scores of times. 'Ö (Reviewed by Roger Moore)
Polo Park, St. Vital. 14A
This semi-sequel to Knocked Up focuses on the married couple Pete and Debbie played by Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann. As they enter their fourth decades the same week, they negotiate sex, parenting, careers and frayed relationships with their own parents in this raucous but relatable comedy from writer-director Judd Apatow. 'Ö'Ö'Ö1/2
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Even if it were not for its parallels with the recent Oklahoma City bombing, "Top Dog" presents serious problems. Why, exactly, would you want to make a movie about racist hate groups, and then disguise it as family entertainment about a cute dog? The movie stars Chuck Norris as a San Diego cop who becomes partners with the dog, named Reno, after it sees its previous master killed by racists.
"Top Dog" is so familiar with cop movie clichés that as the movie opens Norris is already under suspension from the force - eliminating the need for the obligatory scene where the chief asks for his gun and his badge. This time, the chief wants him back, because neo-Nazis have blown up a building with children inside, in an opening sequence with chilling reminders of Oklahoma City.
That Reno is some dog. In that bombing sequence, it goes into a burning building and brings out a baby, neatly wrapped in a blanket. Later, it sniffs out bomb materials. But its neatest trick is sniffing out an album with the photos and addresses of several synagogues the bad guys plan to bomb. Maybe it doesn't use the sense of smell. Maybe it has X-ray vision. Norris takes Reno to visit his mom (Jerta Ware), who in another of the movie's chilling parallels, tells her son the neo-Nazis "will probably attack tomorrow." Why, mom? "Because it's Hitler's birthday - April 20." Mom is right. We see the racists planning their attack, inside an Abandoned Warehouse, which of course is the venue of choice for such summits. They sit around a table furnished with a dozen of those green-shaded "banker's desk lamps" that are always on sale for $29.95 in the DAK catalog.
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If 2011 was the year of the campus, 2012 will be the year where smaller users will feel it's "safe to go into the leasing waters," predicts Phil Mahoney, executive vice president at Cornish & Carey Commercial Newmark Knight Frank.
Speaking Tuesday morning at Cornish & Carey's annual real estate review and forecast event, Mahoney described 2011 as "a bit of a roller coaster" due to ongoing economic problems plaguing both Europe and the United States as a whole.
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A number of tech companies — including Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft and Google, signed large campus deals throughout the year. But don't expect that to be a trend in 2012, Mahoney says.
"It's not possible to see as many large campus deals as we saw last year. That was extraordinary," he notes. "That said, thus far the market still looks strong for leasing, especially for the smaller- to mid-sized companies that did not move in the last 18 to 24 months."
Indeed, another speaker at the event that drew about 600 attendees to the Santa Clara Convention Center, Accelyrs chairman and tech veteran Ken Coleman, also predicted companies that are getting funded now and growing will represent the next generation of lessees as they grow and launch products.
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- The number of office leases in the Valley climbed 16 percent in 2011, while the number of R&D leases was nearly flat compared to 2010,
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- National and international buyers now consider Palo Alto, Mountain View, Sunnyvale and Cupertino to be core markets.
- Interest rates should remain low for the next year or two.
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Thank you very much everyone for your input!
Depends on the school regarding the people interviewing as I have been for a few IT Technician Interviews now myself, obviously depending on the job requirements as well
1. Some will do practical test ie base unit with the network cable not all the way pushed in , no ram or ram not seated properly and the likes to test your basic trouble shooting skills
2. Some will have a written test ie
* printer not working for head teacher
* classroom of students can't logon
* etc
order the above in the order you think would be the correct order to deal with said events, I got caught out with this one once, it was class room of students as the teaching of the students is the most important, the head teacher can use another printer so I think this one was left until last ie get them to use a memory stick or access the work from there home area and the other item was 2nd in the list ( if memory serves me correctly )
Some schools will do a combination, some practical and some written test and then obviously the more experience you have the harder the questions and the type of questions will vary ie dhcp, group policy, active directory etc etc
Obviously with it being for an IT tech I think active directory and maybe some basic knowledge of dhcp, ip address and what they are may be involved but not sure
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Thank you very much everyone for your input!
Well 'Geek is tres chic
Just caugt up with this thread as I dont come on often, but my comment that has now been removed was just a joke and defo not to be taken seriously.
help...what should I do.. I currently work as a CCTV operative at a transport company in birmingham and will get the same salary as a ICT Technician (£15700).
any input will be good....I am stuck in a very difficult situation!!! I love IT and its my passion. I ahve been trying for the past 3 yrs to get into it. Recently I started wroking voluntary as a IT technician in a compnay near me for 6months and I believe that gave me the interview....SHOULD I GO FOR IT OR NOT???
Go for it. If it's your passion, it's very hard to find work these days. I would take the job, and work out the other issues. If you can put up with the travel, then it's not too much cost, compared to the effort and cost of moving there. Where is this school, how far?
I think you did the right thing, volunteering to get experience, and at last it's paid off. Think carefully about the impact on your life, financially and personally, because if you turn it down, another opportunity may not arise for a while.
Good luck. How long do you have to decide?
My plan is to stay there for 6 months or 1 yr and then find another job in Birmingham! wish me luck on my new job! thanks once again vikpaw!!
You're welcome mate, but don't make such definite plans for the future (not publicly anyway). i would see out the rest of this year and the next at the very least. once you're in education, you'll get hopelessly addicted to it. For all the downsides, there is a large amount of flexibility, and opportunity to be creative, and create your own bespoke solutions, come up with something ingenious, look at us all here, it's amazing.
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