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Sweatshop (Review)
Sweatshop (2009)
Directed by Stacy Davidson
"It's always the quiet ones that cut your dick off while you're not looking"
-Token black guy DJ
It's rare to see a film that takes the slasher formula and hammers in the gore relentlessly. If there is one thing that nails this down, it's Sweatshop, a splatter soaked gore-o-thon that gives us sex, beats and a big fuckin sledgehammer.
Director Stacy Davidson and writer Ted Geoghegan clearly went for the jugular in this film. I'll get to the gore in a second but the cast of characters who we'll get to meet are the anti-Hollywood Hollister/American Eagle bunch of white people. They're ravers/punk rockers/crustycore motley crew sorta bunch and kudos to the costume department for making them all stand out in their own way.
A few plot points are scattered around, a few LOLs dabbled in but the gorehounds will rejoice when "The Beast" and his banshee she-demons get their kill on. It's the gore and splatter that drives Sweatshop, make no doubt about it. It's not reinventing the slasher genre but it's making sure the definition is being 100% adhered to.
Sweatshop's The Beast is a slasher even Thor would be scared of.
Boring Plot-O-Matic
A group of friends break into an abandoned factory in order to throw a impromptu party; unaware that it is not as empty as they originally believed.
Awesome Review-O-Matic
I review every slasher flickwith my handy jaded viewer slasher checklist. Below is a list of what we here at the jaded viewer deem as full of chunky gooiness when it comes to the ingredients of a solid slasher-palooza.
Does Sweatshop achieve everything on this list?
1.) Does the movie have..... a mysterious, insanely strong, ridiculed as a child, deformed, inbred redneck slasher?
Check. The Beast's backstory is never told, we don't even know why he wants to kill these glow stick motherfuckers. He's got a pimp fur coat and a welding mask and his fuckin large...like Butterbean large. I'm going to assume he's an inbred redneck as that's what I always assume.
2.) Gratuitous, over the top, super fleshy nudity?
Definite check. The raver-tastic Krystal Freeman who plays Lolli shows us her lovely lovelies (that's boobs) and it's mucho fantastico. Top it off with a sex scene with a fat guy and..... ::shivers::
3.) Stereotypical teenage caricatures who die gruesome and horrific over the top deaths?
Check. Clearly there's a final girl in here somewhere. We have Charlie, the greedy raver in charge, Scottyboy the mohawk sex fiend, Wade the hillbilly, Jade the malicious vixen, Lolli the slut, Miko the other slut and a token black DJ.
4.) No Plot?
Check. Kids have a rave in an abandoned warehouse where a Thor envy slasher kills them. What more you want?
5.) Kills by our slasher that make you go "Fuck yeah!"
Check. I'll say that they went old school with this one.
6.) Gore, lots of it. Like serious decapitation, dismemberment, impalement, hammer frenzy steroid rages and blood shooting out at various penetration wounds, limbs a flailing and mindless splatter and mayhem?
Check. Top notch over the top gore in this one. Severed heads via a hedge clipper, sliced heads via machetes, entrails and intestines ripped out and many many many splatter inducing, modified sledge hammer wallops that result in pancake ravers. Ocular trauma, penis trauma, hand trauma, neck trauma...there be a whole shitload of fuckin trauma in this.
7.) Geeky leader who takes charge of the hapless group as they try to escape who befriends a hot girl who knows about the "legend" (there's always a legend no one believes)
Nope. Nothing. Nada. Nobody really takes charge. Everybody fends for themselves. Bunch of savages in this town.
8.) Funny yet ill timed dialogue but also various quips and one liners that are funny only the first time around (yet somehow funny again when you buy the DVD and only when you're stoned)
There are a few jokes that made me chuckle but overall it's the final rave scene at the end where The Beast goes exterminator on the raver "roaches" that had me laughing.
9.) Gratuitous cameos by actors who have portrayed horror legends (Candyman, Freddy Kreuger and Jason Voorhees) that make you flash a metal sign and do the Beavis and Butthead pseudo head nodding.
10.) Wildly ambiguous ending that can be used to warrant a sequel?
By the end of the first hour, the body count is quite high and your waiting to see what the hell will happen in the final 30. And I'll admit it doesn't disappoint. It's a crazy gore soaked ending.
I've always said that if you have gratuitous nudity, some semi interesting characters and a formidable killing machine, you've made a decent slasher film in my book.
You may not have expected it, but Sweatshop cuts off a good solid dick.
See checklist item #6
Gratuitous nudity at its most gratuitous
WTF moment
That hammer is seriously pimped out
The Jaded Viewer's Final Prognosis
Sweatshop is being distributed via Screen Media Films and was released on DVD September 13th. Sarah Jahier of Fatally Yours has a quote on the DVD box (which peaked my interest in watching this) and a Bloody Disgusting and Dread Central gave good reviews.
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Labels: 2011 horror movies, 80s horror, 80s slasher horror, gore, indepentent horror, indie horror, slasher films, slashers, splatter, splatter gore, top gore movies, top splatter movies
This was one of my favorite films of the 2009 NYC Horror Film festival. I've been begging to show this at one of our events in Boston for two years but was stonewalled. Now that it's officially out, hopefully we can bring it to our town. Love love love this movie.
Here's a little BTS trivia-the script was originally written for Hustler as a Horror porn, but when it was not optioned, it was tweaked to add more kills and a little less nudity and voila!
Mike- I totally left a comment on your review 2 years later! I read that piece of trivia and its pretty funny this turned into a splatter film from a porno. Too funny. I always say horror and porn are so similar in so many ways.

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Aunty squirts serendipity into TV apps
The BBC is piping stuff into ever more devices - showing off delivery to a Samsung Connected TV today. Actually, the first thing that appeared on the giant Samsung - literally a wall-to-wall experience - was a Socialist Worker placard emblazoned with "Smash The Tories" from a "Save Our Pensions" demonstration. It's the big …
Percentages to prove what, exactly?
First, I'm assuming "growth" is about iPlayer downloads/installations...
If the percentages are showing that fondleslabs are the hot take up item, then it makes sense using those percentages to show that growth, in comparison with other platforms.
To go from that to "fondleslabs are becoming the second TV", however, is a bit strong, isn't it?
Such a claim would make more sense if the figures given were actuals, showing, say, 2.5 million fondleslabs are using iPlayer compared to 35,000 PCs. Then such a claim can be siad to stand up.
Perhaps a new headline for this article would be better: "Parent uses its News agency skills to self-aggrandise by 'getting down with the hip tech'..."
And if they could stop using my license fee to incessantly advertise - for that is what it is - Twitter, that'd be nice too.
why downloads/installations?
Surely they are able to tell what type of iPlayer installation is playing the content? Whether it is on a tv, or pc or mobile device.
So these figures could easily be the growth in usage, not just installation.
Whilst the Reg do often headline grab
Here Andrew is just reporting what the New Media Chief at the BBC has said. If he said this conversationally then it's hardly Andrew's fault there isn't more qualifying data, but it is still news that this guy rates tablets only as second to PC's even if there is no unambiguous qualifying data. It's news simply because of who has said it. But yes it would be nice to get the underlying data. It's probably backed up by the numbers because these kind of BBC execs live by the numbers.
Re: Whilst the Reg do often headline grab
Yep. Becoming the second screen isn't the same as saying it is the seco d screen now - it plainly isn't and has some way to go. And chatting afterwards, he agrees that for lots of immersive, classic kinds of shows, there's only one screen.
wishful thinking?
The second TV in homes is still a TV - by a truly massive degree.
His figures really only mean that fondelslabs are installing iPlayer at a greater rate than PCs - which is hardly surprising given that it is one of the core reasons for buying the things.
Oh brilliant.
More excuses for the Beeb to lobby the government in a few years saying "but the TV comes over the Internet now, so obviously you should pay a license to have any form of telecommunications whatsoever!"
Fuck off Auntie, you decrepit old hag.
Not quite
Since the license doesn't actually apply to all tvs (just all tvs which are actively used to receive transmissions - those which are not used in that way are exempt) I doubt they'll manage to push the internet one through.
Even if they do we'll have a little warning before-hand, since they'll have to get the license to apply to televisions which aren't used for transmissions first. Then I'm sure someone'll be setting up an ISP which specifically doesn't provide the iPlayer.
Not that I wouldn't like to see them wiped out of course.
They could just add a paywall to the live iplayer stream.
That's if they actually bother - whilst I do watch a lot online that's usually because SWMBO is watching some godawful melodramatic drivel on the other side. I don't think TV is going away anytime soon.
If Nigel Mansell comes over my Gaff
And wheelspins over my lawn, churning up my grass, I'd say "OI NIGEL, NO !"
(in joke for those who remember it)
Re: Nigel Mansell
Thanks. Put it better than I ever could.
The original AC's BS rant got my heckles right up.
The licence already applies to computers receiving live streams.
Long live the Beeb
Growth Rate v Absolute Numbers.
Were any figures given concerning absolute number of devices? A 1% growth rate for 100,000 devices (1,000) is far more impressive than a 100% growth rate for 10 devices (10).
serendipitous beeb slab
"....the first thing that appeared on the giant Samsung ... was a Socialist Worker placard emblazoned with "Smash The Tories"... "
oh well, at least it's a change from the usual BBC thermageddon propaganda
BBC? Propaganda? Nevar!
The BBC is a perfectly unbiased source of news. Absolutely. There is no agenda anywhere whatsoever. The BBC produces news entirely independantly of any human interaction at all, and as such is utterly flawless.
And in other news, a tax on all forms of telecommunications has been decided to be a really good idea!
If I had to choose, I'd keep Auntie every time
The BBC is one of the few things we've still got left to be proud of in this country - I would much rather my contribution to the licence fee is spent on innovating tech like this than spending it on more cop/medical/sci-fi/historically inaccurate shows from the US that inevitably get cancelled before they reach a satisfactory conclusion (or in some cases, even start to make sense; Lost, I'm looking at you...)
I pay more in a month to Sky than I do to the BBC in a year and all that gets me is more channels of mindless cr*p! If I didn't need to point all my furniture at something I'd get rid of my TV tomorrow, but even then I'd still feel that the licence fee was value for money.
The day the BBC gets sold or outsourced to another private organisation will be a sad day, although I'm sure it's coming...
2nd TV in 2011?
This article is just silly.
Who has a $600 tablet as a second TV? If you are well off then a tablet is going to be your 4th or 5th TV. If you are not well off then you are not going to be blowing $600 on a tablet.
No. You will end up with the 80s working class equivalent: an old hand-me-down portable Black & White TV. Either that or you will have real TVs in the house and no interest in "slumming it".
Can't see the Osbournes using an iPad as a second TV. I wouldn't for the same reasons.
I'm not sure your interpreting the assertion correctly Jedidiah
It's not about how many tv's and tablets you have in your house. It's about media consumption. Tablets are very effectively competing for what is called entertainment time. It's in that context they are becoming or indeed have already become the "second tv." There are now many market research reports backing this up. So it's not that the tablet is being propped up somewhere and being used like it's a TV, it's that people are getting their entertainment through tablets, which includes a multitude of media including video.
Just because you can't see it, doesn't make it untrue
I just look at my kids, iPad is definitely their second television, in fact, some days it's their only television ... and if it's not that, it's a laptop.
"If you are well off then a tablet is going to be your 4th or 5th TV", I think you'll find there's an inverse relationship between wealth and size and number of televisions in a household. ;)
Did I read this correctly?
The BBC developed the app for the Samsung TV? That's Samsung's job, surely? The BBC should just provide the APIs, documentation, and accreditation. In fact, the Beeb should be charging for their services. Otherwise, they are just providing free consultancy to make commercial products more attractive to customers - courtesy of the licence payers.
"The Samsung app the BBC demonstrated was built in HTML so the corporation can roll out the same content to lots of these proprietary TVs without great expense."
Second TV
"The tablet is essentially becoming the second TV in the home"
I don't believe a word of it. I still don't know anyone, either friends family or colleagues, who has a tablet of any description. It won't stay that way forever, but as tablets are a very new market compared to the other platforms, it doesn't take many people starting watching iPlayer on their iPad to get a growth rate of 67%.
Let us know when 67% of all iPlayer usage is via a tablet, then you can make such bold claims.
The claims have good foundation
Tablet growth is phenomenal. The iPad alone is the fastest selling consumer device in history, bar the Kinnect before this last Christmas. But the difference being, accepting expected seasonal variation, tablet sales are continuing to ramp up and the rate of increase will be sustained. They are by far the biggest earning. By the end of this year it is predicted there will be as many iPads sold as xBoxes over from it's launch up to today (and that for a device costing significantly more). And up to 68 million in 2012. And that's just iPad. With Android and the rest you can near enough double those figures.
The rate of iPlayer usage amongst tablet users is far higher than with PCs - can't find the citation for that one now, but I can guarantee it's true.
Guess it depends on your "circles"
I don't know many households without an iPad -- friends and family, all got 'em, and sometimes more than one.
Re : Second TV
I don't believe a word of it. I still don't know anyone, either friends family or colleagues, who has a tablet of any description. It won't stay that way forever, but as tablets are a very new market compared to the other platforms, it doesn't take many people starting watching iPlayer on their iPad to get a growth rate of 67%.
Please forgive my inattention, since iPlayer (Flash) can't run on the iPad, then it has to be a 'native' app, so why is the mainstream version still Flash based ?
iplayer on iPad
Wrong... the iplayer can run fine on an iPad (there's an app for that!).. what you cannot do at the moment is to stream it using Airplay (for some reason only known to BBC lawyers)
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> Wrong... the iplayer can run fine on an iPad (there's an app for that!)
Did you read wot I wrote ?
iPlayer (Flash) for Linux, Mac, & Windows was the thing I was asking about.
If a dedicated application can be produced for iPad, & Android, how come we still have to use the Flash crap.
Ironic move by the BBC since...
...I can confirm that the BBC censors some online content, no matter how benign, to foreign IP addresses, such as here in Thailand. Maybe the BBC "deciders" (pardon the Bushism) are just emulating their media-mafia cronies across the big pond in the United States of Corporatism.
BCC TV apps...serendipity my arse...at least to those of us with 'alien' IP addresses!
Paris? She's crying because she can't decide which of the two most heinous blights orchestrated against the great unwashed masses is worse, Corporatism or Zionism.
@ ironic move
The licence fee is paid by UK TV-watchers, not overseas ones, so it's perfectly reasonable for the Beeb to restrict access from outside the UK.
NO! It's not perfectly reasonable. I'm talking about content posted on the World Wide Web, not local UK programming. Fred, you do know what 'World Wide Web' stands for don't you? I would never expect to receive local BBC TV ad based programming here in the Land of Smiles, but that's not always the case. The US networks are even worse, even occasionally censoring news stories outside the country, which I've documented. Some people try to justify it by claiming that corporate censorship is OK because of 'contractual obligations'. All I can tell you is that censorship is censorship, whether government imposted or corporate.
Ah, the joy of VPNs..
"I can confirm that the BBC censors some online content, no matter how benign, to foreign IP addresses"
Damn, you just discovered why I have a linux VM hosted in the UK :-). It's not actually for iBBC stuff, it's more to stop those stupid ads on BBC News. I find it irritating to be sold life insurance before images of a major disaster are shown. Call me strange, but I think it's inappropriate..
What do you mean by "censor"? I had assumed the same as Fred in that you meant restricting access (which is fair), but if you mean posting edited content based on IP address, that's something different.
Rather than screaming bloody murder, have you contacted them to find out why? I'd be interested, personally.
I'd guess it's either licensing restrictions (the Beeb content providers can impose odd restrictions about what can be broadcast where) or to do with editing in order to fit in to designated segments for Beeb Worldwide. But if it's truly censorship as you say, that's concerning.
Adam Curtis is what television was made for!
Adam Curtis is a genius! I don't remember being stimulated since A.J.P.Taylor 'talked to the screen'. And, just when you despair of the BBC along comes 'Watched over by machines of loving grace' and The Shadow Line - of course, bumped off to BBC 2 because the BBC knows that the hoi polloi, tou stupid by 'alf, won't bother watching. But Clarks 'Civilisation', Dennis Potters hits and misses, and Adam Curtis and all his ouevre (sic!). To make television think! And thus we too!
amen to that
the most interesting part of this story is the sneaky link to the curtis blog at the end. Bravo
Thye end of Flash Player ?
Did I read this right? Is the significance of building this in HTML (presumably HTML5) that it is not using Flash player and therefore more cross platform and without having to pay Adobe fee's?
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Sony Ericsson has outed 2011's successors to 2010's Xperia X10 Mini and X10 Mini Pro. The new ones take the same names as their predecessors, minus the 'X10' and with a SE's newfound e.e. cummings-like disdain for capital letters. Sony Ericsson Mini Pro Both mini and mini pro - we will use capitals hereafter - are based on …
Look nice, but...
I was looking at buying their predecessors but what put me off was the criticism on SE forums about the lateness of updates to Android on SE devices. Since then I've been a bit hesitant to buy one but I'm very tempted by the small size and qwerty keyboard :-)
load your own
as previously reported, SE are releasing the boot loader key, so you can load your own updates :) Happy Days!
Like they said we could run linux on the PS3, innit?
Do you *trust* them after all this time?
Nice hardware, but...
... The update schedule for keeping things updated really sucks.
I doubt I'll carry on using SE when I come to change handsets, which is a shame as the X10 mini I have has a lot going for it.
nice phone but .....
too dam small! what progress on the release of the Full Fat, Xperia Pro???
...and the battery life?
That has to improve too - it was truly shocking. Apart from the lack of updates, you'd barely get through the day with moderate use from a full charge.
Welcome to the world
of modern smart phones, getting a full days use out of a phone is considered good ;) these days.
There are things you can do to improve the battery life, and 2.3 is supposed to have better power management, but agree 1 day from a charge isn't good :(
In parallel universe
Imagine instead of wasting Symbian UIQ, Sony took it over and added Android VM to satisfy "It doesn't have 5000000 apps" idiots especially in tech media. Just add qt to it and suggest symbian devs use qt.
I feel glad for people who has never used UIQ on a decent hardware since it is easy to ditch Symbian when you have only seen S60 Nokias.
A Symbian UIQ3 on such hardware would last for a week in full charge.
Mini x10 pro
I have had one of these for the past few months and it's my favourite smart phone so far (had a nexus one as well as an iPhone 3g and 4)
It is the perfect size and is cheap enough not to worry about it scratching/breaking. The physical keyboard is a killer feature in such a small phone and the camera and sound-quality are well above average. It's a little slow sometimes and the battery life isn't great but I work in an office so don't really mind.
One niggle: the headphone/set socket is incompatible with apple style headsets.
Still, I'm pretty sure I'll be upgrading to the new one at the end of the year.
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Radio Disney's 'Next Big Thing' Kick Off Concert
RADIO DISNEY - "N.B.T." - Disney Channel and Disney XD stars celebrate the kick off of "N.B.T." (Next BIG Thing) season five at a concert featuring R5, Coco Jones, Shealeigh and all season five artists. Hosted by Radio Disney's Jake Whetter, the concert took place at Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood, CA on Saturday, October 13. (DISNEY CHANNEL/RICK ROWELL) DAMIAN OTCHERE, RAINI RODRIGUEZ, ROSS LYNCH, LAURA MARANO, COCO JONES, SHEALIEGH, HALLE BAILEY, CHLOE BAILEY, ELLE WINTER, KATHERINE HUGHES, JACK SKULLER


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Willimon on Sin
Other than Tom Oden, our favorite Methodist is Will Willimon, the Bishop of the North Alabama Conference of the United Methodist Church. Today on his blog, Dr. Willimon posted a short excerpt of a new book of his selected writings, which we thought was a fantastic expose of how we often think about our sin.
Really now, Lord Jesus, is our sin so serious as to necessitate the sort of ugly drama we are forced to behold this day? Why should the noon sky turn toward midnight and the earth heave and the heavens be rent for our mere peccadilloes? To be sure, we've made our mistakes. Things didn't turn out as we intended. There were unforeseen complications, factors beyond our control. But we meant well. We didn't intend for anyone to get hurt. We're only human, and is that so wrong?
Really now, Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world, we may not be the very best people who ever lived, but surely we are not the worst. Others have committed more serious wrong. Ought we to be held responsible for the ignorance of our grandparents? They, like we, were doing the best they could, within the parameters of their time and place. We've always been forced to work with limited information. There's always been a huge gap between our intentions and our results.
Please, Lord Jesus, die for someone else, someone whose sin is more spectacular, more deserving of such supreme sacrifice. We don't want the responsibility. Really, Lord, is our unrighteousness so very serious? Are we such sinners that you should need to die for us?
Really, if you look at the larger picture, our sin, at least my sin, is so inconsequential. You are making too big a deal out of such meager rebellion. We don't want your blood on our hands.
We don't want our lives in any way to bear the burden of your death. Really. Amen.


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Its uncertain who Scott Conant was talking about when he tweeted I love people who wear their ignorance as a badge of honor...my favorite people, but just maybe it had something to do with this two hours later he retweeted, I'm confused. 2 reviews of #Scarpetta come out on same day (NOW and STAR) 1 is 5 star and other is 1 1/2 stars. did they eat at same place?
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Clinton Township police investigating fatal crash from Saturday
Updated On: Mar 24 2013 10:54:08 AM EDT
Clinton Township police are investigating a fatal accident that occurred early Saturday morning.
Police are working to determine what caused the single car crash on Clinton River and 17 Mile roads.
Police say a car was traveling East bound on Clinton River Road at a high rate of speed, when the driver lost control of the vehicle on Saturday morning around 4 a.m.
The car hit a tree. The driver, 24-year-old Bobby Moore of Macomb Township, was pronounced dead at McLaren Macomb hospital.
The passenger of the vehicle, a 25-year-old male resident of Macomb was also transported to McLaren and treated for non-life threatening injuries.
No other vehicles are believed to have been involved in the crash. Police say, alcohol or drugs may be a factor in the crash and they await medical reports to confirm.
Police are asking anyone who witnessed the crash to contact Lieutenant Raymund Macksoud at 586-493-7933 or Clinton Township police at 586-493-7911.
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Shirley Temple Black, who died Monday night at the age of 85, was the most famous child actor of her era, a successful politician, and the inspiration for a delicious drink to boot. But for those who weren't around during her heyday, what's most surprising may be exactly how big Temple was at her peak: She was Hollywood's No. 1 box-office draw from 1935 to 1938, beating out every adult star in the business, according to Quigley's annual Top Ten Moneymakers Poll.
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Cream Cheese Guacamole Stuffed Mushrooms
Stuffed mushrooms make me happy.
If you gave me stuffed mushrooms every day for a week, I wouldn't mind. I've been known to pass up dessert for stuffed mushrooms. In know, crazy, right? Those little tiny edible bowls loaded with some delicious concoction get me every time.
And because you need an appetizer for New Year's I needed to whip these up for you.
Let's talk about washing or not washing mushrooms.
There are 2 schools of thought. Most say don't wash them because they retain the water. Hmmm, sounds like my body.
Anyway, I once saw Alton Brown weigh them before and after washing them and the amount of water they retained was insignificant. They're dirty and wiping them off just doesn't cut it for me. I wash them. You decide what you want to do.
I made guacamole. I mixed some low fat cream cheese into it. The cream cheese adds a little richness to the creamy smoothness. I tipped my bottle of cholula hot sauce over the guacamole…(just a few drops) and voila, mushroom stuffing deliciousness.
I roasted the mushrooms at 375 for about 8 minutes, let them cool and brought the two together. Yes.
Don't throw the stems away. Use them in an omelet or something.
I stuffed 6 larger sized baby portobellos. If you get the normal sized baby portobellos this recipe will fill about 10. If you need more than 10 just double the recipe.
So if you're looking for an appetizer that's easy on the waistline try these. They'll be a hit.
Olena has a light version as well. Check hers out here.
- 6 baby portobello mushrooms
- 1 avocado
- ¼ of a block of cream cheese softened
- 1½ teaspoons garlic powder
- 1 tablespoon cilantro chopped
- 2 plum tomatoes diced
- Hot sauce to taste
- Salt to taste
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- Line a rimmed baking sheet with foil.
- Place the mushrooms cap side down on the foil.
- Roast at 375 for about 8 minutes or until they are soft. Let them cool.
- Smash the avocado and cream cheese together.
- Add the remaining ingredients.
- Adjust the salt and lemon to taste.
- Add to the mushrooms.
- Serve at room temperature.
- Enjoy.
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I have never tried stuffed mushrooms before. They look delicious!
I adore stuffed mushrooms and need to try these asap!
Interesting about washing vs. wiping mushrooms. I need to give it a try. Also so many variations on cooking time.
Thank you for including my recipe! I like little spoons – very convenient to grab and pop in your mouth.:) Literally you can be eating mushrooms by spoonfulls.:)
Well I know what I will be making for our annual NYE movie night with the hubby. These look delicious!
sounds like a yummy stuffing!
They look and sound amazing and quick to make. Perfect appetizer.


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PITCHf/x is the most awesome new technology in baseball. It is transforming how the game is watched, how it is understood and even how it is played. We have all seen the strike zone graphic that shows us where the pitch crossed the plate. Each network has their own version of it, but they are all based on the PITCHf/x data feed. But this is just one of many, many amazing things PITCHf/x can do.
PITCHf/x gives us extremely accurate data about every pitch thrown in every MLB game. It tells us the precise speed of the pitch, whether it was a strike or a ball, what type of pitch it was (fastball, changeup, slider, knuckleball etc.), how much it curved and in what direction it broke.
The PITCHf/x velocities are much more accurate than the radar gun readings we have gotten for years. The system is so accurate than it can tell you exactly how many times a curveball rotated on its way to the plate. It can tell us how much a slider slid down to a tiny fraction of an inch.
Every single MLB pitch is recorded and all the results of the play are recorded too. So for example we can do a search to see exactly how many pitches of 100+mph have been thrown by Aroldis Chapman in home games against the Brewers since 2011. Or it can tell us if Felix Hernandez's release point has changed by an inch over time. Or we can look up how many split-fingered fastballs Homer Bailey threw in his two no-hitters.
This type of information was unavailable to us until 2008 when PITCHf/x was installed in all 30 MLB ballparks. Prior to 2008 there is no data for the velocity, pitch type, location and result of most pitches thrown. This type of information is not recorded in box scores and nobody was keeping such detailed records in a form accessible to the public. Want to know how many 100+mph pitches Nolan Ryan threw? So do I. But we will never know because he pitched before PITCHf/x came to town.
The PITCHF/x system uses 2 cameras mounted high above the field down the baselines, one on each side. The cameras take about 30 snapshots of the ball on its way to the plate. The cameras are routinely calibrated to ensure their precision and accuracy (unlike radar guns). There is also a third camera in the outfield that is used to adjust the system for each batter's individual strike zone based on their height and batting stance.
One important way that major league baseball uses the PITCHf/x system is to evaluate the performance of umpires. I am sure that one day not too far in the future all ball/strike calls will be made by the PITCHf/x system. It has helped to standardize strike zones from umpire to umpire across the league and help eliminate criminally bad umpiring like this:
Eric Gregg screwing up the 1997 National League Championship Series.
Want to know what pitches your favorite pitcher throws and how much they break? Here is one of many types of charts you can use to learn about a pitcher from PITCHf/x:
Teams use this type of information to scout, grade and develop pitchers. You can learn what a pitcher throws, how good his stuff is, what pitch he likes to throw in certain counts, if his stuff his getting better or worse over time, the effects of a change in mechanics or a new grip, or how hot/cold weather or high/low altitude affect the movement of pitches.
One aspect of PITCHf/x that has made a big difference on the field itself is the heat map. Each hitter has a different swing and approach that enables him to hit certain pitch types in some zones with much more authority than in other zones. Opposing pitchers can study these heat maps to identify holes in a hitter's swing that can be exploited by a savvy pitcher. Many coaches feel this is a major reason why scoring has been gradually declining over the last few years. Pitchers know exactly how to pitch to every batter to get him out!
I have only scratched the surface of what PITCHf/x can do. It is really mind-boggling what this system is capable of. If you are interested in playing with it yourself go to www.brooksbaseball.net and have some fun!
Trivia Answer: In my last post I asked a trivia question. "How many pitchers have been confirmed by PITCHf/x to throw 100mph at least 100 times?".
Now that we know PITCHf/x has only been in existence since 2008 we can eliminate pitchers who only pitched prior to 2008. That leaves us with Aroldis Chapman (471 times), Joel Zumaya (310 times), Henry Rodriguez (228 times) and Kelvin Herrera (100 times) as the only pitchers to throw 100mph 100 times or more. Bruce Rondon, Bobby Parnell and Justin Verlander are getting closer by the day.
Baseball is also developing HITf/x and FIELDf/x systems that will revolutionize the study of hitting and fielding by generating tons of useful and interesting information just like PITCHf/x has done for pitching. We will get velocities and trajectories of balls in flight that will enable us to develop new ways of evaluating hitters and fielders and it will help us come up with some awesome trivia questions too!


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Leaning Communities Today
Learning better together across campuses
Learning Communities have been the hallmark of collaboration on many campuses for the last century, but often times Learning Community faculty and practitioners rarely havean opportunity to share their challenges and triumphs with like minds across campuses.
This is where University of North Carolina at Greensboro and Western Carolina University joined together: two campuses miles apart working on a common goal - Learning Communities. The 2013 Lilly Conference on College and University Teaching at Greensboro offers Learning Communities a unique partnership - an opportunity for us to come together and share what is happening on our campuses across the state and across the country.
Session: Learning Communities Today
This day-long meeting is open to anyone attending the 2013 Lilly Conference on College and University Teaching at Greensboro or anyone wishing to attend the meeting separate from Lilly.
Date: 14 February 2013, Joseph S. Koury Convention Center
Location: Sheraton Greensboro Hotel at Four Searsons (http://www.sheratongreensboro.com)
Agenda: Click here to download the agenda (PDF)
The meeting will be an informal gathering of current and future learning community practitioners to discuss what works, what doesn't and grand ideas to help build successful and sustainable learning communities. Participants will be asked to put forth potential focus topics of interest to generate an inclusive guided conversation. The expertise will come from the participants attending, based on their current campus projects.
Attendees of the 2013 Lilly Conference at Greensboro: $50 mini-conference fee
Non-Attendees of the 2013 Lilly Conference at Greensboro: $100 mini-conference fee
Hotel accommodations are available through the Lilly South Conference (whether you will be attending Lilly or not) for this event. Information can be found at lilly.uncg.edu
How to Register
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Engstrom, C. & Tinto, V. (2008). Learning better together: The impact of learning communities on the persistence of low-income students. Learning Opportunities Matter - Volume 1.


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Riverside Dining Arm Chair (Set of 2) by Coaster
Riverside Dining Arm Chair (Set of 2) by Coaster
This stylish dining arm chair will add a touch of sophistication to your semi-formal dining room. The chair has a high curved crown chair back, covered in soft medium brown microfiber. The plush padded seat is covered in rich and durable dark brown faux leather, with classic nail trim for a chic look. Elegantly curved arms add to the comfort and luxurious look of this chair, with spiral turned legs adding a unique finishing touch. Pair this cool arm chair with the matching table for a beautiful traditional dining room that friends and family will enjoy.
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NORTH FALMOUTH, Mass. Binghamton golf shot 311-309=620 to finish sixth at the seven-team America Sky Championship, hosted by Hartford at the Ballymeade Country Club. The tournament, which was played in conjuction with the 23-team Hartford Invitational, was shortened from 54 holes to 36 after Sunday's opening round was rained out. The Bearcats placed 21st in the larger tournament scoring.
Sacramento State won the conference title (296-293=589), followed by Hartford (608), Northern Colorado (609), TExas Pan American (611), Weber State (613), BU (620) and Utah Valley (634). Baylor won the larger invitational with a 566 total.
Sophomore Andrew Marler shot 75-73=148 to finish in a tie for fifth place and earn all-conference honors. He tied for 25th overall out of 117 golfers. In the two rounds, he collected seven birdies and played the par 4s even.
Junior Patrick Donovan shot 80-75=155 to tie for 15th and sophomore Jake Katz shot 75-81=156 to tie for 19th. Senior JJ Shearer (87-80) and junior Mike Corbo (81-87) rounded out the scoring.
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►Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) took a step closer to being integrated into domestic airspace in August after successful test flights of a location system called Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) which changes air controls "from a ground-based system to one that takes flight position data from satellites," the BBC reports. The test flights were undertaken using a Predator UAV off the coast of Florida. ADS-B also assists with UAV sense-and-avoid capability, according to a statement from General Atomics. The FAA wants all U.S. aircraft to use ADS-B by 2020.
►Two men have been arrested for shooting four people Wednesday night on the University of Southern California campus. An argument outside of a party turned into a shooting that left a man critically injured and three bystanders wounded. After sending out a campus-wide shelter-in place alert, the suspects were caught about 10 minutes later. No students were involved in the shooting.
►A New Mexico police officer was suspended after he tased a 10-year-old boy during a school's career day. The officer says he didn't realize the Taser was armed when he pointed it at the boy as a joke. He's now the defendant of a civil suit accusing him of unreasonable seizure, excessive force, failure to render medical care, and battery.
►In other news, American inspectors say $800 million dollars goes missing from Iraq each week due to money laundering. ♦ Thirteen people were arrested last week after exploiting an ATM loophole that makes multiple transactions look like one in order to steal more than $1 million from casino ATMs. Citibank says it has since closed the loophole. ♦ And a Baton Rouge police officer is caught falsifying records for a second time after police say he was writing up fake summonses. "Police administrators would not speculate why Burns allegedly wrote the bogus summonses. However, officers are often paid overtime to appear in court for the summonses that they write," the Associated Press reports.
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Rayo Vallecano vs Athletic Bilbao Preview
Rayo Vallecano coach Paco Jemez wants to put all thoughts of the coming season on the backburner and focus on the final game of this campaign at home to Athletic Bilbao.
The Madrid side will secure a seventh place in La Liga if they overcome Marcelo Bielsa's side and Levante beat Real Betis.
Jemez, who has just signed a new two-year contract with the club, said: "We don't want to lose our focus or distract ourselves because it's not worth it.
"We want to concentrate on the game, finish the season in the best way possible and give our fans something to cheer about."
The Basques have already secured their place in the top flight for next season and cannot qualify for Europe, but Jemez is certain they will take the game seriously.
"If it was any other team there might be a chance that they'd be relaxed, but Marcelo Bielsa will always play with honour, and that's important to remember," Jemez said.
"I'm not expecting a relaxed Athletic, I'm expecting them to come here wanting to win.
"We are motivated by the thought of getting the points and I hope that this is a factor that tips the balance in our favour."
Rayo's future next season is uncertain after the Spanish Football Federation denied them the UEFA licence that they need to compete in Europe next season because of outstanding debts.
The club has declared their intention to take their case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport if they qualify for Europe and if they finish seventh they would in theory be entitled to an automatic place in the Europa League. If they finish eighth they could qualify for Europe if Malaga's UEFA ban is upheld, and Rayo's is lifted.
Jemez emphasised how much he wanted the club to compete in Europe but said he did not want Malaga to miss out.
"It would be an awful shame if we weren't allowed to compete because of an off the field issue," he said.
"If we finish seventh it'd be better than eighth, and having 55 points would be better than 52. If we finish eighth we'll have to wait for the decision of Malaga's appeal.
"I wouldn't wish bad news on anybody and from the bottom of my heart I hope that Malaga are allowed to play in Europe, because they have earned that right on the pitch."
Rayo full-back Tito is an injury doubt for the match, while Athletic will be without midfielder Iker Muniain, who was sent off in last week's defeat to Levante.


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Posts by bertino
65 posts • joined 19 Jan 2010
Twelve... classic 1980s 8-bit micros
Was there only me who had a Color Genie?
No idea why my dad bought us that machine, probably in '83, but the lack of games certainly helped bringing on the programming skills. A local computer shop sold them so a few lads in my area ended up with one. It was an upgrade from my ZX81 though.
And as I remember from the time, the TRS-80 was nicknamed the TRASH-80. (even though it was quite good!)
FAA mulls scrapping in-flight iPad, Kindle ban
As someone who may* have a clue about this....
As I design aeroplane engine control and monitoring hardware. The main problem as I can see it would be from the engine vibration sensors. These piezoelectric sensors produce a pretty weak signal in the order of 10 pico coulombs per g, which is then converted to a voltage with a high gain op amp. If you get a rogue signal early in the signal path this may indicated to the pilot that the engine is broken, i.e. a turbine blade bent because of a foreign object entering the engine etc.
Since vibration monitoring is usually DAL-C level then it is not flight critical in that there is no auto shutdown, but a dodgy reading could result in a pilot manually shutting down an engine when there in fact was no problem.
However, using a mobile phone in flight mode emits next to feck all radiation anyway and this is of no concern. Only WiFi, GSM and to a lesser extent Bluetooth could potenetially cause a problem. The probabilty of this is still probably tiny, but none the less should not be completely ignored. Millions of flight hours a year.....
Virgin Media snags London Underground Wi-Fi monopoly
Great big fat ARF!
Virgin Media and Wifi?
If any of you have to suffer the sorry excuse of wifi that comes with a 'superhub' you will understand my mirth!
Wifi drops out all the time, streaming via superhub wifi nigh on impossible. There is an obvious firmware bug with the (netgear) supplied router/modem. Has been for months, and they are yet to fix it. Try support forum and they tell you about changing channels, dropping the wifi speed etc. Load of cack, it is a bug.
You have to set up the superhub in modem mode, then connect to your own router.
And they want to supply wifi for the underground?
TuneIn Radio Pro
Data usage depends on stream rate obviously....
Say you are using 64kbps stream,
Then in 1 hour you will use 64k*60*60 = 230.4Mb per hour (Mega BIT), or 230.4M/8 = 28.8MB (Mega BYTES) per hour.
Some of the talk stations broadcast at 32kbps, so 14MB per hour is not too bad depending on your data plan.
If using 3G signal for stream you may be better using yourmuze, as you can set the bit rate you want and the yourmuze server re-encodes it.
LOHAN's fantastical flying truss cleared for lift-off
Re: Re: Single balloon elevated
How about a rhombus shaped truss, top end attached to balloon(s), bottom end has electronics etc for stability, with the launch vehicle attached to the 'underside' of one side of the lower part of the rhombus, so it is pointing upwards, angle depending on angle of rhombus.
LOHAN's flying truss: One orb or two?
One of these might be useful...
Have a circular base section. Attach 3 balloons tethered to this base. Have the electronics in the base too for balance. Fix the bottom thick end of the pole to the circular base. The pole will then poke out above the balloons, stick launch module on top of pole, job done, vertical launch. There are then 2 questions.
1) Will weight of pole at around 800g be too much?
2) is 9.5 metres long enough, how large do the balloons get at altitude?
HP Pavilion dm1-4125ea 11.6in netbook
Re: Lenovo
The Lenovo S205 is a right pain in the clacker to get linux on. I bought mine for 240 quid sans OS (well it came with FreeDOS!). The UEFI boot does not play nice with a standard linux install. Had to jump though hoops to get ubuntu installed. Unity interface slows the machine down a bit too much for my linking, was trying to watch some online sports streams and it was dropping too many frames. Installed xubuntu desktop so I now have an option at boot time, and this works better with few dropped frames. I was suprised though, I thought this AMD CPU was much better than an ATOM, but this suggests not in a real world usage case.....
Oracle - love or hate?
Never mind that!
Why no hardware forum?
ps, I hate Oracle, Apple and Microsoft almost equally. No, scratch that, as it stands
On that scale.
Chip boffins demo 22-nanometer maskless wafer-baking
Re: Good point!
Whilst I admire your enthusiasm for this tech, I have just had the 80's on the phone and they want their design methods back!
Not used a schematic for chip design for at least 15 years (strangely it was the Japanese office that still used them, bizzare if you ask me!). All VHDL/VERILOG/C these days (cut down version of C) depending on the application.
Re: Potential For Superfast FPGAs
Yes, I can see this working well. For reason that you will know well I think
1) ASIC much faster than an FPGA, easier to do higher clock speeds or lower flip flop count.
2) ASIC not so prone to single event upsets, good news for space and areo sectors
3) Cheaper to a small run of a couple of wafers, all that may be needed for an aeroplane part, as you only tend to make a few thousand planes, not millions. Cost not such a big factor if only a couple of hundred dollers per chip.
If you have shares in Xilinx or Altera or Actel etc it may be a good idea to keep an eye out for this....
ViewSonic V350 dual Sim Android smartphone
So market is working. Happy days!
Dual SIM you numpty!
Not dual core! Atrix is not dual SIM.
The ZTE U960 on the other hand is, with a 1GHz processor, android 2.3 (wether it will get ICS is another matter), 2 Antennas so real dual sim dual active. 4.3" WVGA, 480 x 800, TFT-LCD/ Capacitive Touch Screen, 512MB RAM, 5MP rear, VGA front camera GPS, Bluetooth, FM radio etc.
Not that cheap as an import at ~320 quid but dual sim great when you work in a different country during the week, flying back to blighty at weekends........Just hope it works OK when it arrives next week......... on androidforums a poster states that market etc now all works.
There are some even better ones coming out soon, but you will have to wait about 6 months to get hold of one. Do a bit of searching and find them, good specs are cheap in China.....
Crack GCHQ's code and become the next James Bond
They are x86 op codes.
Someone on a blog has disassembled it and it looks reasonable code. There is a mov instruction of xDEADBEEF and a couple of compares with x41414141 etc.
See this link
I have not really looked at the instuctions yet, but maybe this xDEADBEEF is an input to a cipher and the answer is the result.
Or there is something encrypted in the image itself on the weppage and this is barking up the wrong tree!
The BBC Micro turns 30
Boo, TRS-80
I had a Color Genie after my ZX81. Since there were few games I had to write my own, in basic 1st then assembler a bit later, well acutally directly in machine code hand converted from the Z80 instruction set. Happy days!
Samsung gets a win in Oz patent battle
The best thing for the Judge to do
In a case like this where it will end up being thrown out for being a load of bollix, is to ban sales of the iPad for the same length of time that the tab has been off the shelves. That would shaft Apple good an proper pre xmas.
Using virtual particles to get real random numbers
I did actually design one back in the day....
For a company that made encryption devices.
You can amplify thermal noise in a resistor (although I was never convinced by this, the noise must also have come from within the high input Z op amp too) to a level that you can then feed into a comparator, which you then feed into a flip flop. You then sample the output of the flip flop with 2 more in series flip flops with a given clock frequency (need 2 for metastability purposes), which then gives a constant stream of random bits. This was tested heavily and proven up to the job, except when the PCB designer ran an address track right underneath the source of the thermal noise. We had a big can over this part of the circuit to shield it from this sort of stuff, silly PCB designer. I got 1Mbps of random bits out of it.
I would have much prefered to have used a reverse biased zener diode as the noise source as this was a much larger signal so more noise immune, but you had to tweak the bias in order to generate the quantum tunneling in the zener that produced the quantum random noise (like a random saw toothed wave), which meant a pot or something which is not so good for mass production and drift over time.
'We know where dark matter is hiding' claim boffins
Control Theory
The global economic system is just a very large control system with feedback. Are you saying that people from a control theory background (rocket scientists?) should not get involved in economics? i.e. people who can do maths should stay away, the ones that can not should carry on making a mess?
Asus Eee Pad Slider SL101
Nope, you are not the only one!
"Slip a finger into the crack between the two halves in the top edge and they part to reveal a........."
Heh Heh.
PCTV Broadway 2T network Freeview tuner
Will not do live telly over the internet though will it? At least it is not properly supported, there was a script/unofficial plugin that was supposed to work but that was years back.
What about expats?
Think this is who the products is aimed at. Just like a slingbox with built in tuner. You can only watch iPlayer etc in the UK from a UK IP address. So it is either a device like this or a proxy server.
Why do these traders get billions to play with, unchecked?
Saw some contract advertised recently that were after FPGA experts to implement the trades as they are faster than a PC for this kind of stuff. Good rates too.
This is silly and very far removed from any kind of reality.
Ofcom begins crackdown on auto-renew telco contracts
Here in Germany
They are absolute FUCKERS for this. Nearly every contract is auto renew. They do NOT send you a letter to say what your options are when you are near the end of it in most cases, they rely on you not remembering so that they can pull your pants down and shaft you again. I now have an extra year on a mobile contract (originally a 2 year contract with a 'free' mobile). They rang me 3 times trying to get me to agree to a new contract over the phone (which I would not have to sign anything for, they could do it over the phone). I told them 3 times I did not want a new contract and it would end on the last day. They renewed it anyway as in the small print you have to write them a letter to cancel it. And you have to give THREE MONTHS notice, WTF!
I am moving back to the UK soon, so will not need a mobile contract here, but according to them I have to pay up the contract IN FULL as they claim I can still use the service WTF!........... yes, I can still use the phone but it will all be roaming charges and I will not be able to use the call time and internet I am paying (a lot) for.
Absolute twatbags they are.
HP readies AMD, Intel sub-notebook
Why, if it has an AMD APU....
E.g. a CPU, GPU on same chip, does it need an external 2nd GPU? Since the APU can do full 1080p anyway, what is the point?
Green energy and jobs will cripple the UK economy
Trust an economist?
All the economist offered was speculation and what he thinks might happen. Has he done some real sums to prove his hypothesis, or is it all just words? Has he created a full mathematical model of the global financial system to show what happens when money is invested now in green tech? And the feedback effect of the jobs created/destroyed by this, and the effect of green energy on energy prices and how this feeds back into the global economy?
I am not biased with regards global warming one way or the other, as predicting global temperature over time has the same problems as the global financial system.
It is hard enough to get an electronic circuit with feedback working well, with only a few components/variables, never mind a system with thousands of variables.
HP: webOS will still run PCs and printers
This price drop of the touchpad is a GENIUS bit of marketing, allowing HP to get a foothold in the fondleslab market, and they never had any intention of ditching them.........
Slaps self with big wet fish, sorry, this is HP.....
Canonical ARMs Ubuntu for microserver wars
You have to wonder....
Why did these ARM based netbooks never really appear? Anything to do with Microsoft by any chance since they would be running Android AND/OR Proper Linux?
'You sell any ARM based netbooks and we will cut your Win7 discount'
Tiitle Tattle
I think the meant ATOM based netbooks. There is one ARM based from Toshiba, and a few other ones from small companies, but no company seems to have built one with a good enough spec that will run Linux with no issues.
Please will some company build a 10-11 inch netbook with a decent ARM/GPU, SSD, Wifi, 3G etc! I would buy one yesterday.
Google lands patent for, um, estimating shipment time
A Method To Fix The US Patent System.
I am patenting this, so if they implement it I should get money for every patent application....
The US patent office only gets paid when they REJECT the patent application. This will force them do some research and find a reason to not to grant the patent in order to get paid.
Now this may result in no patents being granted at all, but hey ho........
Trebles all round!
Reg readers ponder LOHAN's substantial globes
Simple solution
Well, simple ish. 3 balloons, pole up the middle. LOHAN has another tube on the underside with a capped end at the top. You simply place LOHAN on top of the pole using this tube. As long as the pole points above horizontal, LOHAN should stay on top of the pole. No need for any release mech as it is not technically attached. Just fire the rockets when the altitude is high enough.
Even more so
If you use a pile cushion.
Idea for a pole.
Use a carbon fibre fishing pole. My dad has some in his shed I am sure he would donate. They weigh about 1kg for a 13M long job, So assuming you need only about 4 metres to poke above the top of the ballons, should only come in at a couple of hundred grams. They are also hollow so you could route any wires down the middle if needs be.
Google+ disk space cockup creates notification spam-storm
A hole punch is all that is required.
If memory serves! Seem to remember using a hole punch to make single sided 5 1/4 floppies into double sided? This is in BBC Micro days. Anyone else remember this?
Deep inside AMD's master plan to topple Intel
Said it before, will say it again.
All that is needed for many tasks is an FPGA co-processor. Load an FPGA image that does exactly what you want, the CPU sends whatever data is needed to the FPGA, the FPGA squirts the result out of the other end. For stuff like transcoding video this would be a PoP. You could have FPGA images in a repository, just like you do with linux packages. This is not difficult to implement. You can have several versions in the repos, one for each vendor (the synthesis and place and route for each vendor is different), just like you do with i386, x64, ARM, MIPS, PowerPC.........
Microsoft nails second Android device maker
New laws needed
The result of any patent dispute needs to be published.
FAT should be banned from pre-formatted SD cards and the like, they should have nothing on them or, windows should be forced to support EXT4 or some such file system that is not patent encumbered.
BP world energy review: Chinese coal drives up CO2
How much of this increase in the use of coal in China...
is used to make solar panels and wind turbines etc?
Could it be more CO2 is released burning coal to make the panels than is actually saved over the lifetime of the panel? Given this, one would think that solar thermal would be better use of time and effort, given it only needs some black pipes and some oil :-)
<potters off to shed to make own solar thermal panel, using nothing more than an old garden hose, tin of black paint (matt, not gloss), some large cable clips and some radiator fluid>
IAEA: Handling of Fukushima has been exemplary
Already not main news on the BBC site.
Now then BBC, let me rewrite this for you....
4 people have died and several other have been critically injured after a fire and explosion at an oil refinery in Pembrokeshire at 1820BST on Thursday. 1,234 people are also known to have died in Wales since the time of the incident.
HTC to stop locking smartphone bootloader code
The only problem is...
That the carriers will lock the bootloader again when they put all the other branded cack on it no doubt. This will be for unbranded paid up front vanilla phones only.
Still, it is a good start, still using my HTC Hero with few problems thanks the Cyanogen and Villainrom. Got bored of waiting from the quite frankly dog eggs HTC Sense 1.5 version that came with the phone that had many many bugs. Not had the current ROM crash in a long time. Very stable since Google fixed Navi.
Samsung must cough up Android prototypes to Apple
The Grate Wall...
Maybe Apple could use some of its cash pile to build a big wall around the US, and they can stay one side of it and do what they like, whilst the rest of the world gets on with innovation.
Super-injunctions 'unfair' cos of Twitter gossip, says Cameron
The thing is, many footballers
Use Image Rights as a way to avoid paying tax. Therefore it is in the public interest. How they manage to get away with this is for another day.
Desktop Linux: the final frontier
Browse grumble.
Without any problems
Not so hard, some of it easier
* A printer
System - Printing. Find printer on network, select type, print test page. Done. No loading crapware of a CD etc.
* A scanner
Xsane just finds the scanner on the network. Never used a USB attached one, but assume same.
* A DSL modem or router
Eh? Why should you need the crapware to set this up, which in windows XP/Vista leaves doubt as to which of the several icons on the taskbar actually control networking? How many times does it 'just stop working' on windows? Type 192.168.2.1 into a browser and set it up. A bit more difficult than using a driver/installer CD but once it works less likely to break.
* A digital camera
Connect, open photo software when prompted, import new photos. Done.
* A digital video camera
Plug in via USB, Open folder when prompted, double click vid, plays with VLC or MPlayer. Easy.
* An MP3 player
Sync with Rhythmbox automagically.
* A smartphone
Drag and drop stuff to it, easy. Much easier than using iTunes. Easier to get photos off an iPhone too.
Of course this comes with a couple of assumptions,
1) You installed a distro with all codecs installed.
2) All hardware is supported. A lot is these days out of the box, so is in fact easier to use than on windows. When the hardware is not quite working it does take a bit of tweaking to get it working, but then there are similar intallation problems with windows too.
The main problem is that you have to start messing under the hood sometimes, e.g. mousepad is unusable, disable tapping of it in order to be able to use it. Which means hand editing config files. Or changing boot parameters so that you get something other than a black screen etc. I would like to say that once fixed in linux it stayed fixed, but this is not the case anymore. The EEPC901 wifi driver needs to be recompiled from source with every new kernel for instance, which for a non techie means no chance!
So, to sum up, if you get lucky or buy wisely, then it is EASIER with linux. If not it is probably more difficult.
Linutop feeds mini-PC fans tiny Tux box
A title is required
An Asus one that had a PCI slot (not PCIe), it was the only one I could find with PCI, as I already had a DVB-S2 card which cost a lot......
You need to tweek linux to use hardware accel for flash (basically add a file in the right place with a line in it to swtich it on!)
I built my own
Dual core atom with nvidia ION mobo, 2GB RAM, 64GB SSD, DVD drive, miniITX case for about 200 quid, mythbuntu, and it WILL do full HD, even plays 1080p flash videos.
Digital player maker 'incited consumers to break the law', says ASA
So, if I buy a CD or DVD etc.
Play it for 6 months, then it fails, can I get a new copy from the rights holder at cost+small admin fee?
Paris, because she likes it both ways.
Ten... on-ear headphones
How about a review of bluetooth cans?
I would like to purchase a set of cans that connect via bluetooth. Is it worth it sound quality wise? How long would the battery last? Easy to connect to mobile/PC/tablet or anything else with a bluetooth connnection....?
Sapphire Edge HD
I have an older 50" Plasma TV that has a DVI input for HD connection, that connects with my Sky HD box just fine at 1080i (or 720p? not checked!) via HDMI-DVI. When I connect my HTPC to it via HDMI (with a HDMI-DVI converter) I can NOT get it to work. Works fine via VGA. I have to start arsing about with editing xorg.conf to try to get it to work. This is with *buntu, using the nVidia drivers.
SHOCK research reveals Wi-Fi not as nippy as Ethernet
Err, not really.
As mentioned above, it is an environment problem.
Using wireless G at 54Meg, I get a throughput from my VDSL (50Mbps) net connection of around 22Mbps, so in this case yes, it is slower. With wired ethernet I can at off peak times get the full wack 50Mbps!. If I use wireless N I can also get the full wack 50Mbps.
I have changed the channel on the Wifi, as I live in a building in the 'innenhof', a building in the middle of a square inside an outer block of apartments, so many other AP's visible.
It is fantastic broadband though, off peak I have downloaded Ubuntu live CD's in 2 minutes.
ECJ asked to rule on re-sale of software licences
One off fee
If you pay X pounds for some software that has no fixed term, e.g. time unlimited, then you should be able to sell it on at any point. Even for a year on year license, if you have 6 months left you do not need you should still be able to sell that on for the remaining 6 months.
Apple iOS dominates Euro smartphone usage
Do iPhones really outnumber Android phones 3-1 in Europe?
Not sure, working in a techy environment skews my perception, where android is probably level.
How many people have the Android web browser (Dolphin in my case, not sure if you can change the stock browser) set to desktop though, so that you see the full web page instead of a mobile version? And if so does this count towards the stats?
Nvidia four-core chip to power quad-res Apple iPad
What I want to know is...
When is someone going to build a miniITX board with a quad core ARM and nVidia GPU on it?
Sounds perfect for an ultra low power MythTV backend/frontend.....
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