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Police locate woman who went missing overnightApril 17,2014Rutland City Police have found an 88-year-old woman in Burlington who went missing Wednesday.
Grace Maddaloni was found around 10:30 a.m. today, police said.
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2011 Independent Spirit Awards Unveiled!
This morning Anthony Mackie and Kate Beckinsale announced the nominees for the 2012 Independent Spirit Awards honoring the best in independent film. The awards will be presented on February 25, 2012, in what is sure to be a spirited evening. As usual, the ceremony will be conducted in a tent on Santa Monica Beach.
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Photo: WVU sign claims Andrew Wiggins is a true Canadian terrorist
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Do you know which type of dressing style is especially popular with Chinese people during the celebrations of the Spring Festival, in early February? Answer: the Tang style, made after the renowned design style of the Tang Dynasty. Tang apparel ¨C pronounced Tang Zhuang (̀Æ×°) in Chinese -- looks very dapper, and is supposed to bring luck to its wearers.
Located in the basement of the Xihua Shopping Mall, the Tangyun Tang Apparel outlet displays their selection of national costumes in an orderly and neat manner for the benefit of their customers. At first glance, I was surprised by their low prices. This brought me to give a closer look to the quality of the clothes, but I did not see any shortcomings. Stitching was skillful, no corners cut.
According to the shop assistants (who could not speak English) the shop selection is manufactured in Beijing. The shop itself enjoys a degree of popularity with the locals, especially older Beijingers. One of the assistants recommended a purple Tang suit for my Grandma. This item featured golden treads stitched in a phoenix pattern. It felt pretty soft, and comfortable.
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The second word in Fortune Feimster's official biography is "lovable." With Feimster's guileless charm and folksy exuberance, there is a strong argument to be made for putting it first, as falling head over heels for the Southern-born Feimster is as easy as sliding off a greasy log backward. Feimster's first taste of national attention came with her appearance as a semi-finalist on season seven of NBC's Last Comic Standing, but she had begun building an impressive résumé years prior. Born and raised in North Carolina, Feimster moved to Los Angeles in 2003. In 2005, she began training with the Groundlings Theater, a breeding ground for comedians with a decades-long track record for nurturing huge talent. Along the way, she burnished her credentials with a spot performing standup in the New Faces lineup at the Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal and as a paid regular at the Comedy Store. After her eye-catching turn on LCS, it was clear that Feimster was headed for big things. Twice she was offered an opportunity to audition for Saturday Night Live. While her dreams of performing live from New York didn't pan out, she's managed to stay busy as a writer and regular panelist on Chelsea Lately, and she has also performed as part of Dave Chappelle and Flight of the Conchords' Oddball Fest. With such a steep career trajectory, fans would be wise to catch her in a comedy club sooner rather than later. 18+.
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January 9, 2007
A new report looks at government spending in central Virginia and one locality seems to be spending more than the rest.
According to a Free Enterprise Forum Study, over a 15 year period, the city of Charlottesville has had a 61% increase in spending.
"Whether or not the spending is responsible or irresponsible it is increasing," said Study Author Neil Williamson, who is the executive director of Free Enterprise Forum.
Free Enterprise said the goal of the report is to promote dialogue and that it's up to the people to decide whether their government is spending too much.
"Of course they are spending too much," said Attorney and Founder of the Charlottesville Tax Payers Association Charles Weber.
Our city fathers said they spend more because they offer more like affordable housing and other social services that outlying counties do not.
"That is not reflected in the analysis that was done by this group," said City Councilor Kevin Lynch.
The report also doesn't reflect that the counties run their utilities on separate budgets.
"It looks at the total spending of the city and includes in that the utility service that the city provides gas and water. So, they are not really comparing apples to apples," said Lynch.
Still, Weber says there's no denying the city has fallen into a pattern of spending, year after year, raising the budget and raising the taxes.
"At some point people are going to say I'm tired of being taken advantage of here," said Weber.
Weber said the proof is in the surplus. This year the city announced $9.9 million extra dollars in the budget.
"I think the surpluses and the tax increases stand together as evidence that maybe we can do things more efficiently," said Weber.
Lynch agreed there may be a better way. "Although I have problems with the report I don't want to give people the impression we are not control costs," he said.
According to the study, Albemarle, Louisa and Greene counties came in behind Charlottesville with an increase in spending of somewhere between 37 and 47%.
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IHF is looking for hard-working, committed volunteers to help in our children's homes and education centers in Indonesia. IHF provides education, and in some cases, homes, to children in need in six centers across Indonesia, Thailand and Kenya. IHF has no central headquarters; each center is a product of its environment and follows the cultural code and norms of its host country.
We have four centers in Indonesia, in Bali, Jakarta, Medan and Banda Aceh. Our Jakarta and Aceh centers provide homes to a small number of children, while all centers offer English, math and computer classes to disadvantaged children. With a population of over 240 million, Indonesia's public education system often fails to give children a chance to escape the poverty they were born into. We fill that gap and give kids a chance to aim higher.
At the center, you will divide your time between caring for the children and working on international tasks. IHF is a grassroots, all-volunteer organisation with no central office, so all administration work is done in center. All volunteers manage one or more of our international task teams such as university relations, fundraising and media; working together online with volunteers in other centers. You will be assigned according to your experience. You must possess excellent time management skills.
Those who are secure without the comforts of home gain the most from this valuable opportunity. We are looking for applicants preferably with:
- A related university degree; eg. in social studies, language, teaching, medicine, law, social work
- Experience abroad; travel, working or volunteering
- 1-2 years working experience in any field
- Experience with teaching and/or children
Fluency in English, both written and spoken is essential. Those interested in volunteering at an IHF centre are required to complete a level of pre-trip duties in order to gain an understanding of how our organization functions.
Stipend: Volunteers must commit to serve at least a year at the center. Basic accommodation and food is provided by IHF. You are a volunteer at the center, and all local tasks completed are done so without pay. Volunteers who commit to serving one year or more will receive a small monthly stipend. It is broken down as follows:-
- First 3 months: Training period - $20 per month
- 3-6 months: Assistant co-Director - $50 per month
- 6-9 months: Co-Director - $80 per month
- 9-12 months: Co-Director - $100 per month
This stipend results only from the international online work; not from any local tasks.
After one year there is the opportunity to become a full Director.
Strict IHF Policy: These stipends are fixed. They will not be raised for more experienced applicants, and everyone will be upgraded according to the timeframes outlined above, and no sooner. There are no exceptions to this, regardless of what may be the situation in the centre. We are an all-Volunteer organization and training and hands-on experience is paramount.
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You can find the world's leading selection of beauty treatments at any one of our Aspria clubs. We then combine them with leading brands and Brussels most expert therapists. And all this wrapped in luxurious surroundings where you can relax and get away from it all.
Aspria is there to meet your needs. Everyone is welcome to the Aspria club spa to enjoy our sumptuous beauty treatments – members and non-members alike.
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GOP Senators are proposing sending out $100 checks to Americans in order to ease the pain of high gas prices. They're also demanding the tax records of the big oil companies to see if their unprecedented profits were gained through tax avoidance. And they want to rescind the recently awarded $2 billion in tax breaks that the oil companies say they don't need anyway.
Could we maybe, possibly hear some proposals to significantly reduce our dependence on oil? Sure, we could open up some more areas of the US for drilling, destroying the surrounding environment in the process. But how much oil would we realistically obtain? And would it even be cost-effective? Oil is not a renewable resource, and there are experts who think we've already passed the peak of world production. If that's true, it will steadily become more expensive to extract a decreasing amount of oil.
I don't know if the answer is ethanol or hydrogen or biodiesel or hydroelectric power or wind — or some combination of all of them. I'm not crazy about the idea of nuclear plants dotting the landscape because the consequences of human error could be so huge.
Yes, it would be nice to get some short-term relief from high gas prices. Most of us aren't in a position to drastically reduce our driving. People still have to go to work and haul kids to school and other activities and go to the grocery store and the doctor. Unless you live in an area with really good public transportation, there's no real alternative to cranking up the car. A $100 check will ease the pain for a week or two, but then what? And where does the money for that $100 check, multiplied by millions of drivers, come from?
We already have a massive deficit that my children and yours will have to pay. I'd prefer not to add to it, but if we do, can't the additional spending go toward real energy reform rather than meaningless political pandering?
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Air pollution in Pima County is clouding our future. It affects our quality of life in many ways. We can't escape it - we breathe it every day.
Air pollution affects everyone. It is especially harmful to the very young and old, and those with lung diseases. This is a serious concern in Pima County because of our larger-than-average population of older people and individuals with existing respiratory problems.
Laws are in place to protect our health from major air pollutants. Three pollutants have relatively high levels in Pima County: carbon monoxide, ozone, and particulate matter. Pima County has violated the health standards for all three of these pollutants in the past. Other pollutants of concern are nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds. These pollutants help produce ground-level ozone. An index of weekday pollution levels can be found in the weather section of the local newspapers.
About 50% of the air pollution in Pima County comes from motor vehicle use. For every 41 miles you drive, one pound of pollution is emitted into the air we breathe! The more miles we drive, the more air pollution we produce. The solution is clear - we must simply drive less.
The Truth About Ozone
There are two places where ozone (O3) occurs in the air: the ozone layer in the upper atmosphere, and ozone at ground level. The ozone layer in the upper atmosphere protects us, like sunscreen, from the sun's harmful rays. The "hole" in this ozone layer, enlarged by human-made chemicals, is of great concern.
Ozone that occurs at ground level is a pollutant. It is formed by the reaction of sunlight with emissions from vehicles we drive and products we use. Unfortunately, we can't pump this lower level ozone into the upper atmosphere to fill the "hole". Ozone levels peak regularly in the early afternoon and are higher during the summer.
Irritates mucous membranes of the respiratory system causing shortness of breath, coughing, wheezing, chest pain, and headaches.
Damages individual air sacs and airways in the lungs where oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged, reducing lung capacity over time.
Increases sensitivity to allergens.
Particulate Matter
Particulate matter (PM) is a problem in the hot, dry climate of Tucson. PM consists of small particles, such as soot and dust, which can be visible to the naked eye or microscopic in size. It comes from motor vehicle emissions, earth-moving activities, tire and brake wear, dust from unpaved surfaces and other sources. Because of its small size, PM bypasses the body's filtering system and can be very harmful. Toxic and cancer-causing chemicals can be carried by particulate matter into the lungs.
May cause breathing difficulties and respiratory pain.
May cause irritations to the nose, throat, and ear canal which are often mistaken for allergic reactions.
May clog the lungs and lymph nodes. May diminish lung function, especially in children.
May weaken the immune system and lower resistance to infection.
May increase the incidence and severity of acute bronchitis, pneumonia, asthma, emphysema and other severe lung illnesses.
May cause heart attacks, stroke and premature death.
Carbon Monoxide
Carbon monoxide (CO) is an odorless, colorless, poisonous gas emitted in motor vehicle exhaust and other combustion processes. It is more concentrated near busy roads and intersections. Carbon monoxide levels are higher in winter because of stagnant air conditions.
Reduces oxygen levels reaching the brain, heart, and other tissues by obstructing the work of red blood cells. This may cause reduced alertness and decreased ability to perform basic tasks.
May increase the risk of heart disease and cause chest pain in individuals with coronary heart disease.
May promote the long-term development of arteriosclerosis (abnormal thickening and hardening of blood vessel walls).
Many thanks to the late Michael D. Lebowitz, Ph.D. for his assistance with this text.
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TOKYO, Dec. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- NTT Communications (NTT Com) announced on December 13 that Global Data Services JSC (GDS), a joint venture between NTT Com and Vietnam Posts & Telecommunications (VNPT), has begun offering a wide range of domestic and international network services in Vietnam after becoming the first foreign-capital enterprise to obtain a telecom network license from the Ministry of Information and Communication on November 26. Together with sales subsidiary NTT Communications (Vietnam), the NTT Com group is now offering total information & communication technology (ICT) services to multinational companies in Vietnam.
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The following services were launched on December 13 based on the new license:
- Domestic data network service (multicarrier)
- Direct connection to domestic Internet exchanges (IX)
- Internet access
- Video conferencing and teleconferencing
The new domestic data network service includes local carrier selection. Using this multicarrier capability with carrier-redundant access, GDS designs and provides reliable, cost-efficient networks for the mission-critical systems of enterprise customers, such as services for online games or e-commerce. In addition, GDS provides SLA-backed network services to consolidate multicarrier connectivity nationwide.
By combining these new network services with existing data-center, cloud-computing (IaaS, mail & web hosting) and system-integration services, GDS now can offer optimal customer-tailored services covering comprehensive operation, maintenance and support, including various application procedures.
Established in 2008, GDS operates the Thang Long Data Center, Vietnam's most advanced Tier-3 data center with ISO27001-certified information security management. The company's ICT enterprise services, backed by unmatched network stability, realize ideal solutions for online gaming, e-commerce, SNS and recruiting-service providers, as well as insurance and securities firms and banks that require data-center services to manage their websites, data backup and business continuity planning.
Mr. Park Jong Buhm, CEO of NHN Vietnam, said, "We have been pleased with the high quality of NTT Com's data-center services, which we use to provide internet services in Vietnam. We are delighted that the government of Vietnam now has awarded NTT Com a license for network services. This wide range of reliable, high-quality ICT services will enable multinational companies to grow their businesses more efficiently in Vietnam."
Multinational corporations' needs for assured business continuity are fueling outsourcing demand for data centers and other backup facilities in Vietnam. At the same time, increasing Internet availability and usage is expanding the need for data centers as communication platforms for the provision of stable Internet business in the country.
About NTT Communications Corporation
Please visit www.ntt.com/index-e.html
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About Global Data Service JSC (GDS)
Global Data Service Joint Stock Company (GDS) www.gds.vn is a joint venture between NTT Communications (Japan) www.ntt.com/index-e.html and VNPT Group, the largest telecom carrier in Vietnam. Our strength is VNPT's stable and wide telecom infrastructure combined with the long experience and know-how of NTT Communications in operating more than 80 Data Centers all over the world. GDS operations, which make the most of our reliable datacenter facilities and robust security systems, allow us to contribute to the significant improvement and development of customers' IT environments in Vietnam.
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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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Cultural, regulatory, environmental, political and economic (CREPE) conditions over the past decade are creating cross-industry solution spaces that require processes and technologies from both the Internet of Things (IoT), and Data Management and Analytics (DMA). These solution spaces are evolving into Sensor Analytics Ecosystems (SAE) that represent significant new opportunities for organizations of all types. Public Utilities throughout the world, providing electricity, natural gas and water, are pursuing SmartGrid initiatives that represent one of the more mature examples of SAE. We have s...
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The security devil is always in the details of the attack: the ones you've endured, the ones you prepare yourself to fend off, and the ones that, you fear, will catch you completely unaware and defenseless. The Internet of Things (IoT) is nothing if not an endless proliferation of details. It's the vision of a world in which continuous Internet connectivity and addressability is embedded into a growing range of human artifacts, into the natural world, and even into our smartphones, appliances, and physical persons. In the IoT vision, every new "thing" - sensor, actuator, data source, data con...
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How do APIs and IoT relate? The answer is not as simple as merely adding an API on top of a dumb device, but rather about understanding the architectural patterns for implementing an IoT fabric. There are typically two or three trends: Exposing the device to a management framework Exposing that management framework to a business centric logic Exposing that business layer and data to end users. This last trend is the IoT stack, which involves a new shift in the separation of what stuff happens, where data lives and where the interface lies. For instance, it's a mix of architectural styles ...
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The Internet of Things is tied together with a thin strand that is known as time. Coincidentally, at the core of nearly all data analytics is a timestamp. When working with time series data there are a few core principles that everyone should consider, especially across datasets where time is the common boundary. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Jim Scott, Director of Enterprise Strategy & Architecture at MapR Technologies, discussed single-value, geo-spatial, and log time series data. By focusing on enterprise applications and the data center, he will use OpenTSDB as an example t...
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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 assessments, including a decade of leading incident response and digital forensics. He is co-author of t...
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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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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 THINKstrategies, will examine why IT must finally fulfill its role in support of its SBUs or face a new round of...
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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 experiences grounded in people's real needs and desires.
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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, abiding by privacy concerns and making the concept a reality. These challenges can't be addressed w...
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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. According to a recent IDG Research Services Survey this rate of traffic will only grow. What's driving t...
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Connected devices and the Internet of Things are getting significant momentum in 2014. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Jim Hunter, Chief Scientist & Technology Evangelist at Greenwave Systems, examined three key elements that together will drive mass adoption of the IoT before the end of 2015. The first element is the recent advent of robust open source protocols (like AllJoyn and WebRTC) that facilitate M2M communication. The second is broad availability of flexible, cost-effective storage designed to handle the massive surge in back-end data in a world where timely analytics is e...
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Scott Jenson leads a project called The Physical Web within the Chrome team at Google. Project members are working to take the scalability and openness of the web and use it to talk to the exponentially exploding range of smart devices. Nearly every company today working on the IoT comes up with the same basic solution: use my server and you'll be fine. But if we really believe there will be trillions of these devices, that just can't scale. We need a system that is open a scalable and by using the URL as a basic building block, we open this up and get the same resilience that the web enjoys.
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"Matrix is an ambitious open standard and implementation that's set up to break down the fragmentation problems that exist in IP messaging and VoIP communication," explained John Woolf, Technical Evangelist at Matrix, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @ThingsExpo, held Nov 4–6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
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We are reaching the end of the beginning with WebRTC, and real systems using this technology have begun to appear. One challenge that faces every WebRTC deployment (in some form or another) is identity management. For example, if you have an existing service – possibly built on a variety of different PaaS/SaaS offerings – and you want to add real-time communications you are faced with a challenge relating to user management, authentication, authorization, and validation. Service providers will want to use their existing identities, but these will have credentials already that are (hopefully) i...
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P2P RTC will impact the landscape of communications, shifting from traditional telephony style communications models to OTT (Over-The-Top) cloud assisted & PaaS (Platform as a Service) communication services. The P2P shift will impact many areas of our lives, from mobile communication, human interactive web services, RTC and telephony infrastructure, user federation, security and privacy implications, business costs, and scalability. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Robin Raymond, Chief Architect at Hookflash, will walk through the shifting landscape of traditional telephone and voice services ...
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Explosive growth in connected devices. Enormous amounts of data for collection and analysis. Critical use of data for split-second decision making and actionable information. All three are factors in making the Internet of Things a reality. Yet, any one factor would have an IT organization pondering its infrastructure strategy. How should your organization enhance its IT framework to enable an Internet of Things implementation? In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, James Kirkland, Chief Architect for the Internet of Things and Intelligent Systems at Red Hat, described how to revolutioniz...
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Bit6 today issued a challenge to the technology community implementing Web Real Time Communication (WebRTC). To leap beyond WebRTC's significant limitations and fully leverage its underlying value to accelerate innovation, application developers need to consider the entire communications ecosystem.
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The definition of IoT is not new, in fact it's been around for over a decade. What has changed is the public's awareness that the technology we use on a daily basis has caught up on the vision of an always on, always connected world. If you look into the details of what comprises the IoT, you'll see that it includes everything from cloud computing, Big Data analytics, "Things," Web communication, applications, network, storage, etc. It is essentially including everything connected online from hardware to software, or as we like to say, it's an Internet of many different things. The difference ...
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Manage It! Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management
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Manage It! Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management
This book is a reality-based guide for modern projects. You'll learn how to recognize your project's potholes and ruts, and determine the best way to fix problems—without causing more problems.
From the preface (Copyright 2007 Johanna Rothman)
You've been bombarded with a ton of techniques, practices, and unsolicited pieces of advice about how to manage projects. All of them are saying "Look at me, I'm right."
Well, many of them are right—under certain conditions. Since each project is unique, you will need to evaluate your context (the project, the project team, and the business in which you're working) and then make pragmatic choices about what will work and what won't.
Every day your projects become faster-paced, your customers grow more impatient, and there is less and less tolerance for products that don't work. What worked before might have been good enough to get you here, but the chances that it will work in the future are not good.
You must take advantage of all practices and techniques to reduce your project's risk, including considering agile techniques for every project.
This book is a risk-based guide to making good decisions about how to plan and guide your projects. It will help software project managers, team members, and software managers succeed. Much of the information also applies if you are building more tangible products, such as a house or a circuit board, or if you are managing a service project.
It's harder to manage software projects than it is to manage projects that have a tangible deliverable. Software is ephemeral—not concrete, not material, not created out of substance—so we can't touch it, we can't directly measure it, and we can't see it. It's harder to see the product unfold, and it's harder to see and anticipate the risks—so it's much harder to deal with risks. The way we practice software product development does not always help us see where the project is or where it's heading.
When you manage tangible-product projects, you can see the product take shape. You can see the shell of the building, the finish on the walls, and all the steps in between. With service products with a tangible result, such as a conference or meeting, you can gain some insight into the project if there are interim deliverables, such as rough-draft reports or run-throughs of meetings. Both tangible-product projects and some service projects allow you to see project progress before the end of the
So, what do you do when you can't directly see project progress? What do you do when you suspect the project smells funny, and you think it might be headed toward disaster? How do you deal with stakeholders who don't want to make the decisions that will help you create a successful project?
This book is about providing insight into your software projects and managing the risks that arise from within the project as well as the risks with which you start your projects. From chartering to release, each chapter discusses ways you can see inside your software project, measure it, feel it, taste it, and smell it.
One thing you won't find in this book is the One True Way to manage projects. There is no One True Way that works for all projects. You also won't find best practices. I'll suggest helpful practices for each life cycle that might help you and the project team achieve your goals.
You'll notice that there are forward and backward references in this book. That's because a project is a nonlinear system. Your early decisions for your current project have implications for how you'll finish this one—and possibly how you'll start the next one. How you manage projects might affect the way you can manage the product backlog or project portfolio.
All the templates in this book are also here, or at the publisher's book page.
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|Stylistic origins
|Post-hardcore, metalcore, electronic music
|Cultural origins
|Early 2000s, predominantly in North America.
|Typical instruments
|Vocals, screamed vocals, growled vocals, electric guitar, bass, drums, synthesizer, sequencer, keyboard
|Other topics
|Electronic rock, digital hardcore, industrial metal
Electronicore (also known as synthcore, or simply electronic hardcore)[1][2][3] describes a stylistic fusion of post-hardcore and metalcore with electronic music,[2][3][4] specifically electronica.[5][6][7] Notable artists of this genre have originated from England,[8][9] the United States,[5][7] Australia,[10] Canada,[11] France,[12] Hong Kong[13] and Japan.[14]
Sumerian Records notes that "there has been a surplus of electronica/hardcore music as of late."[6] I See Stars is often recognized as a primary contributor of the style.[2][4][5][6] The group's debut album, 3-D, was popular "amongst the synthcore scene."[2] Enter Shikari is an electronicore band that formed in 2003 in St Albans, England.[15] The group has received international radio airplay and a substantial number of musical awards, from Kerrang!, NME, Rock Sound Magazine and BT Digital Awards.[16][17][18] They express a relationship with electronic music genres such as trance and have been referred to as the "kings of trancecore."[19] Their second album, titled Common Dreads, was released on 15 June 2009 and debuted on the UK Albums Chart at 16.[20]
The compilation Punk Goes Pop 4, one of many albums in the Punk Goes... series, "features some of the hottest pop songs in music today being performed by various metalcore, post-hardcore and electronicore artists."[21] Altsounds, an independent music journal, noted that there has been a "sudden rise in the amount of bands combining electronic and metal styles of music." The article noted that many of the bands who created cover songs for Punk Goes Pop 4 incorporated characteristics of electronicore, specifically referencing I See Stars and Woe, Is Me.
Electronicore is characterized by typical post-hardcore instrumentation, metalcore-influenced breakdowns, heavy use of sequencers and synthesizers, auto-tuned singing, and screamed vocals.[2][3][4][11] The genre often features dynamic transitions from soft electronica ballads to intense metalcore passages. However, the degree to which metalcore characteristics are incorporated may vary. In addition to electronica, the fusion may involve a variety of other electronic music genres, including techno,[8][9] trance,[19] dubstep,[2] electro,[22] and dance.[11][12]
List of artists[edit]
- Abandon All Ships[2][11]
- Arsonists Get All the Girls[23]
- Asking Alexandria[2][8][9]
- Attack Attack![2][24]
- Breathe Carolina
- The Browning
- Capture the Crown[10]
- Crossfaith[25]
- Crown the Empire
- Dead By April
- The Devil Wears Prada
- Enter Shikari[15][19]
- Eskimo Callboy
- Famous Last Words
- Ghost Town
- Hiimwaterdragon[26]
- I Set My Friends On Fire
- I See Stars[2][4][5][6]
- Jamie's Elsewhere[27]
- Make Me Famous
- Memphis May Fire
- Motionless In White
- One Morning Left
- Palisades
- Peace Burial at Sea[28]
- Silent Descent
- We Butter the Bread with Butter[29][30]
- Woe, Is Me[12]
See also[edit]
Related musical styles[edit]
- Nintendocore is a rock music genre that includes elements of video game music, chiptunes, and 8-bit music.[31][32][33] It is a derivative form of post-hardcore[31] and metalcore.[34][35]
- Crunkcore is a musical genre that combines post-hardcore and screamo with crunk hip hop and characteristics of electronic music.[36]
- Digital hardcore is a music genre fusing elements of hardcore punk and various forms of electronic music and techno. It developed in Germany during the early 1990s, and often features sociological or left-extremist lyrical themes.[37][38]
- ^ http://ehmlife.com
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Pio, Gabriel (Staff member). "I See Stars - The End of the World Party". TheNewReview.net. Retrieved April 25, 2011.[dead link]
- ^ a b c "I See Stars News – I See Stars – 3D Review". Artists.letssingit.com. 2009–08–18. Retrieved 2010–06–26. Check date values in:
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- ^ a b c d Duffy, Grace (Staff member). "REVIEW: I SEE STARS – END OF THE WORLD PARTY". Under the Gun Reviews. Retrieved April 25, 2011.
- ^ a b c d Birchmeier, Jason. "I See Stars - Biography". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved April 25, 2011.
- ^ a b c d "I See Stars on Sumerian Records". Sumerian Records. Retrieved 1 November 2009.
- ^ a b Birchmeier, Jason. "Sky Eats Airplane - Biography". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved April 25, 2011.
- ^ a b c Freeman, Phil. "Asking Alexandria - Reckless & Relentless". AltPress.com. Alternative Press. Retrieved April 25, 2011.
- ^ a b c Freeman, Phil. "Stand Up and Scream". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved April 25, 2011.
- ^ a b "Capture the Crown - Last.fm". Last.fm. Retrieved January 8, 2014.
- ^ a b c d Heaney, Gregory. "Abandon All Ships - Biography". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved April 25, 2011.
- ^ a b c Candi H, Altsounds Punk Goes Pop - Vol. Album Review
- ^ "BLΛK - Bitetone". Bitetone Magazine. Bitetone. Retrieved December 22, 2011.
- ^ "Crossfaith - Apocalyze Album Review". New Noise Magazine. Retrieved November 26, 2014.
- ^ a b James Birtles, The Mancunion Album: Enter Shikari – A Flash Flood of Colour[dead link]
- ^ "Kerrang! Awards 2006 Blog: Best British Newcomer". Kerrang.typepad.com. Retrieved 2011-03-12.
- ^ Mike Diver. "NME Awards: winners in full".
- ^ "Muse win BT Digital Music Award".
- ^ a b c "Enter Shikari: "Kings of Trancecore"". PureGrainAudio. Retrieved 20 April 2010.
- ^ "Radio 1 - The Official Chart with Reggie Yates - The Official UK Top 40 Albums Chart". BBC. Retrieved 2011-03-12.
- ^ Punk Goes Pop A Fourth Time, New Installment Is Out Now
- ^ Carino, Paula. "Common Dreads". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved April 25, 2011.
- ^ Arsonists Get All the Girls - Portals Sputnikmusic Review
- ^ Hidden, Chris. "ATTACK ATTACK! - ATTACK ATTACK!". Rock Sound Magazine. Rock Sound. Retrieved April 25, 2011.
- ^ Kam Noack (1 November 2012). "Review of Crossfaith's Zion EP". The Sydney Morning Herald. (Fairfax Media). Retrieved 6 February 2013.
- ^ http://lmcexperience.com/features/2014/01/30/water-dragon-splashes-again/
- ^ "Featured Artist: Jamies Elsewhere « Audiopinions". Audiopinions.net. Retrieved 2010-07-02.
- ^ The Music Sound by Nicolae Sfetcu, Self-Published, 2014. http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Music_Sound.html?id=kXyFAwAAQBAJ&redir_esc=y
- ^ Newsflash from www.visions.de
- ^ Musicserver - Get Infected Tour zabouří už za párd ní v Praze
- ^ a b Loftus, Johnny. "HORSE the Band - Biography". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved March 14, 2011.
- ^ Payne, Will B. (2006-02-14). "Nintendo Rock: Nostalgia or Sound of the Future". The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved 2011-03-14.
- ^ Wright (2010-12-09). "Subgenre(s) of the Week: Nintendocore (feat. Holiday Pop)". The Quest. Retrieved 2011-03-21.
- ^ "Horse The Band, Super 8 Bit Brothers, Endless Hallway ,and Oceana". The A. V. Club. The Onion. 8 November 2010. Retrieved 10 April 2011.
- ^ Turull, Alisha (6 October 2009). "New Releases: Lita Ford, the Fall of Troy, Horse the band, Immortal, Inhale Exhale". Noisecreep. AOL. Retrieved 30 March 2011.
- ^ Gail, Leor (14 July 2009). "Scrunk happens: We're not fans, but the kids seem to like it". The Boston Phoenix. Retrieved 2009-10-08.
- ^ Interview with J. Amaretto of DHR, WAX Magazine, issue 5, 1995. Included in liner notes of Digital Hardcore Recordings, Harder Than the Rest!!! compilation CD.
- ^ Alec Empire. on the Digital Hardcore scene and its origins, Indymedia.ie, 2006-12-28. Retrieved on 2008-05-28.


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All the talk around the Hall of Justice today was about yesterday's battle royal, fought to the finish in Judge Jennifer Wilcox's Division 101 traffic court. Two heavy-weights—local radio and television personality Terry Meiners, and LMPD's star traffic cop Sam Cromity—fought to the finish over a speeding ticket. Late in the afternoon the jury returned a verdict of "not guilty;" a TKO for Meiners.
The 54-year-old Meiners has been a regular on WHAS-AM with his drive-time radio program, since 1985. Recently, he and Rachel Platt have started co-hosting the new Great Day Live morning show on WHAS-TV. Most folks in Louisville will recognize Meiners from his 25-year involvement with the WHAS Crusade for Children telethon, which he co-hosts with television news anchor Melissa Swan.
Louisville definitely has a love/hate relationship with the sharp-tongued comedian. He has won the "Best Radio Personality" readers' survey contest sponsored by Louisville Magazine 18 times; and in 2010 the readers of LEO Weekly voted him "Best Local Media Celebrity You Love to Hate;" just ahead of convicted extortionist Karen Sypher.
Officer Sam Cromity, on the other hand, is relatively unknown outside of law enforcement and legal circles, where he has a reputation for writing speeding tickets. Lots of speeding tickets. He is usually at the top of the annual LMPD traffic-ticket list.
Although police officers receive no extra pay for court appearances while on duty, they receive $50 for the first two hours they spend in court during non-working hours and collect overtime pay after that. A 2009 newspaper article about the excessive cost of police overtime pay mentioned that Cromity logged more than 1,000 hours of court pay between 2004 and 2008, according to police records; earning nearly $50,000 extra pay as a result.
But whether or not the taxpayers are getting their money's worth out of Sam Cromity remains an open question. A Courier-Journal review of his 2008 traffic and misdemeanor cases—nearly 3,000 in all—found that even when Cromity appeared in court, the vast majority of his cases either were reduced to lesser charges or dismissed.
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A traditional beverage to enjoy throughout the year, Cornish cider is favoured across the country by men, women, young and old, and is perhaps the most popular sociable drink that England has to offer. Thirst quenching and rich in fruity flavour, Cornish cider is a light and refreshing alcoholic beverage made from English apples to an age-old recipe. While it always reminds me of summer, it is a drink you can enjoy throughout the year, and is perfect for sharing with friends and family at a...Read More
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It is Bonfire night already – can you believe it? I really do not know where this year has gone (sign of age I'm told) but always feel that that Guy Fawkes night marks the start of winter and gives us a firm reminder that Christmas, is indeed, on its way. I happen to love the festive season and enjoy the numerous opportunities it brings, to get together with family and friends and have a good old knee's up! But when you walk down the high street to the sound of...Read More
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Caroline Smith's new live album was recorded at the Cedar Cultural Center, so naturally it's a pin-drop quiet and sonically rich recording that plays with a sense of immediacy, as if Smith and her backing guitarist Jesse Schuster are sitting just a few feet away. Though she normally plays with a full band, this two-piece arrangement works just as well, Schuster keeping time with a quickly strummed acoustic guitar and Smith's voice taking on an even more accentuated warble than usual, punctuating her more vulnerable lyrics with a noticeable quiver. Only a few of the tracks are repeats from her debut album, Backyard Tent Set, though most will be familiar to those who have seen her play live, including lovesick ballads ("She Ain't Got It"), whimsical tales of nostalgia ("Birch Trees and Broken Bones," "Sally"), and an agonizing and emotional plea to a boy who's done her wrong ("Denim Boy"). Smith will release the CD as part of the MinnEconomy series at the Electric Fetus, which hosts monthly in-store performances and promotes local albums and artists. She will be performing this evening with alt-country sweethearts Romantica. All ages.
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Posts by William Hinshaw
50 posts • joined 7 Dec 2007
Not even 60,000 of you want an ethically-sourced smartphone
Needs a better name
The phone needs a better name;
Child Labor Free Phone, Slavery Free Phone, Blood Free Phone, Clear Conscience Caller (had to go for the three C), Ring in Freedom Phone, Suicide Free Phone, Moral Paragon Phone, Ethical Paragon Phone, Murder Free Phone, The eLive Phone (everyone lives get it?), The ePhone (ethical Phone), The mPhone (moral Phone), ...... well none are prefect but they are descriptive. mmm the sPhone (smug phone cause I'm better than you)
Microsoft WINDOWS 10: Seven ATE Nine. Or Eight did really
M$ just can't let go of Metro can it.
Boy MS just can't let go of the fact that people see tiles as a complete waste of space. That and the enterprise doesn't want live tiles nor does it want the "Store" option anywhere near employee's in any way shape or form. On a desktop tiles just get in the way. On a tablet yeah sure maybe tiles are ok and on a phone sure but not on a desktop.
Windows 7 and it's start menu still looks better than Windows 10.
Also has anyone noticed that 802.1x authentication doesn't seem to work right in Windows 10? I'm just not getting it to work correctly with user authentication.
Windows 10: One for the suits, right Microsoft? Or so one THOUGHT
Tiles in the start menu? Can we get an option to do away with that horseshit? Live tiles introduce needless drag on everything. I need an option that will turn all the tile crap off and take it back down to what a start menu should be.
YOU - NASA. Enough with the ROBOTS, get some PEOPLE to MARS
Moon base first
I would think that it would be much easier to launch from the moon wouldn't it? Send and or build modules on the moon, (hey make use of the He3 there too) then send them off to Mars. You could build a much larger better supported system at a moon base. Hell we really should just make use of the moon for resources anyway and what better way than to further the human plague by going to the moon and then to Mars?
CONFIRMED: Sophos shifting threat response work to India
When they say that there will be no reduction in employees what they mean is that in one year they are going to close the offices in the UK and "offer" equivalent jobs in India. That is what is going to happen. This is exactly what is done for every single merger when they state there will be no office closings or reduction in staff. Then they will "remove redundancies" then shifting work to other offices then closing offices and offering a few select people (required people) great moving options and the rest are just left to find new jobs.
Five-year-old discovers Xbox password bug, hacks dad's Live account
Re: NSA Recruitment guy
The poor kid, I wouldn't be surprised that he and his dad both go to a deep dark hole in Sandastan for enhanced interrogation cause the exposed the NSA's paid backdoor into Microsoft Live accounts. Cause you know all those terrorists and Ruskies use that to communicate.
Tube be or not tube be: Apple's CYLINDRICAL Mac Pro is out tomorrow
The iGarbage Can
Now they make it look just how i think of them as, disposable (not upgrade-able in anyway) and are just crap in general being typically a generation or two behind in technology. Yep a little garbage can.
NSA alleges 'BIOS plot to destroy PCs'
There is no need to worry about the NSA
Just do everything they say, support them in everything they do and you shouldn't run into any problems so long as you just keep your head down, work and give everything to the government. Remember they are there to protect you and help you. They are only interested in your ability to serve them. Remember and OBEY!!! Is that so hard?
OCZ balances books, files results following 4-year omnishambles
They have done a great job so far
The management team at OZC has done a great job so far pulling the company out of the nose dive and have so far prevented it from hitting the ground like a meteor. It will take another few years for them to really be competitive again, but that is what we need, instead of consolidation of SSD makers. The more SSD makers consolidate and the more the SSD market becomes like the HD market of Seagate vs WD and the lackluster achievements in price/performance. The new management seems to have real integrity and that is something that the old management clearly didn't understand the meaning of let alone be able to spell it.
Windows 8.1: So it's, er, half-speed ahead for Microsoft's Plan A
LOL yet another big FU from MS
Sorry but it is Metro 1.1. This isn't the start menu of old for the PC. Metro works fine on a table or a phone but it is a pain in the ass for me on the PC. While I will have to continue using Classic Shell to have my start button and menus the way I like MS will continue to fail in the Enterprise market with this crap.
Really just putting the button in and making it take you back to the Metro UI is just a big Fuck You to the customer.
Can Microsoft's U-turn stop the Xbox 360 becoming another XP?
Still the Spy Box for the NSA and pervs
Well you still have to run the NSA spy cam and mic. With no way to run the Spy Box without the Kinect plugged in and no way to be sure it is turned off you know that the NSA will be viewing and pervs will be recording and it will probably be NSA pervs doing the recording.
MS is still a hard fail to me. I don't want any information of any kind being fed back to MS for any fucking reason. I don't care if it is "To tailor your experience based on your profile" I don't want any fucking adds of any kind. I don't want any of my information being collected by MS as they have proven time and a again that they can't keep their shit secured. They can't keep their data secured (look at their cloud fiascoes) .
MS can just take the Spy Box as it is now and cram it WAY up. I'll get a Wii U and a PS4 and the cash that was going to a XBox will instead go to a Titan card for my PC.
And Metro would still make it horse shit anyways.
Microsoft announces $499 price tag, new games for Xbox One
The Spy Box
It should be just called the Spy Box. I'm not paying for a box designed specifically to put a camera and microphone into my living room that is connected to the Internet 24/7 (requiring it connect every 24 hours is basically 24/7 unless the kid takes it to a friends in the country).
Microsoft was the first to get on board with the NSA spy program. Yeah so you can damn well bet that the NSA is going to be getting into every Spy Box it can. OH and what about hackers? I bet that in a month or less there will be plenty of videos and pictures posted on the Internet of all kinds of people caught on camera. Really M$ can't make anything secure and given that they have back doors put into their stuff under contract with the NSA probably you can bet that hackers will get in. You know they want this as it is REQUIRED that the Kineckt be hooked up for the thing to even run. Talk about fail fail fail.
The more I find out about the Spy Box the more I just hate M$ for doing the crap it does.
I hope that all of management that was part of making this the "in home spy machine" burn in hell.
We're losing the battle with a government seduced by surveillance
Time to pack up and leave
Time to pack up and leave the USA. Time to find some remote out of the way place outside the USA and its co conspirators and find some remote cabin in the woods. Maybe make take up a hobby like making little wood boxes ;)
Is the next-gen console war already One?
GOOD going M$ you are going to kill the XBOX line with this crap.
YES, Xbox One DOES need internet, DOES restrict game trading
buhbye M$
The reasons I can't purchase the new XBOX.
1. It spies on you 24/7 with camera and mic.
2. Basically requires an always on Internet connection to feed data to the NSA, M$ marketing and sales as well as the highest bidder. You can damn well bet they will sell it just like GOOGLE does.
3. M$ can't ever make something secure. I give it a month tops before some hacker is spying on some MILF and posting it on 4Chan. Or god forbid some fat old man.
4. Now I have to ask for M$'s permission to give a game away let along sell it.
Any one of these items is a deal breaker, but if the games are good enough MAYBE give it a go, but all of these (and I'm sure there are more issues) is just too much to take. I'll stick with the 360 and just skip the XBOX 1, I was planning on getting it and the PS4 but meh just the PS4 and more games I guess for that system. I wasn't planning on getting the WII U but I might as well now as there is no way in hell I'll get and XBOX One till I can run it without the Kinect plugged in, with the ability to filter the data that M$ receives and the ability to give the games that I PURCHASED away to friends and family as I FUCKING see fit without their knowledge or fucking permission.
FYI they can also take that METRO ui and shove it up their ass so far that they choke on it.
I wanted to be polite about this but I just couldn't. I had high hopes for the new XBOX but it comes with so much of the worst aspects of technology that it just angers me in the extreme and knowing there are so many sheeple that will simply get it cause they don't understand just serves to make me madder still. Till the XBOX 1.1 comes out I just will not get it and I will tell everyone I know just how invasive it is and I'll be doubly sure that all the mothers out there know that hackers will be spying on them and their children hoping to get some nude footage of them to post for all to see and fap too.
It's all gone to Schmitt: New OCZ boss rips 'n' replaces execs
I think it is great
It is still possible to turn the ship around. He so far is doing everything required and then some. I don't believe that OZC has lost all customer confidence and that is going to be one of the required parts to resuscitating OZC.
So far what he has done is chop out bad culture. Much of a corporations culture problems stems from bad management at the top and it just gets pushed on down throughout a company. By making it clear that things have to change and whacking all the upper management it clears the way for aggressive culture change and presents the clear message that they will do anything to compete and succeed.
That kind of message and real action will see them through this. They have brought in top notch fiscal talent and management with a decent track record. There could always be improvements there but given the budget he probably has I think he min/maxed the best that he can.
IBM storage crew: Why bury your BEST kit at the back of the larder?
Yet no mention of ZFS for big data?
Microsoft's Intel-powered Surface Pro to launch in February
Why are they catering to just chicks and gay guys? The powder blue (gay), pink and orange girl, why not have smart covers for guys. They should also go with an open environment vs trying to emulate the Apple closed garden. That is just stupid.
I just LOVE Server 2012, but count me out on Windows 8 for now
Win 8 is crash and burn even worse that MS Bob
So far I feel like I'm wrestling with a greased hog. There is just no getting it to work the way I want without installing some 3rd party shell. That and the fact that there seems to be trouble hooking Windows 8 systems in to AD where I work and it is definitely a no go. I have it installed on a laptop and have had a few people try to work it and they just give me a confused look on how to do some basic things like where is the start button or how do I shut it down, there are so many things that just don't work the way they used to that are too many to list here but are basic functions. SO far I'm very irritated with the released product. I had hoped that changes would have been made to at least give you the option to flip to the old interface but it isn't going to be an option and that right there is going to kill it deader than dead here.
Canonical bungs kill switch onto Ubuntu's Amazon 'adware'
Re: To whom, exactly?
You clearly fail to understand that not only is he selling user data to Amazon but sending it unencrypted for everyone under the sun to slurp up. The data isn't anonymized in anyway for all we know. Don't you get it? Making money off of our personal info is to me an invasion of privacy that we as a nation should seize back from the people that stole it from us. All the big time companies with billions to bribe our congress and President need to see that they can't use us in that kind of way.
But while Google, MS, Amazon, Apple, Oracle, ect keep doing more to erode our privacy remember privacy was at one time part of our constitution. But everyone seems so eager to throw it a way because they don't understand its importance.
Bah ignorant people that insist on staying ignorant can't see that and never will. Do you see the irony here Mr. Anonymous Coward?
Cleaned up a little =)
There is life after the death of Microsoft's Windows 8 Start button
The fuss is licensing for the enterprise these tools. While free to the general user that isn't typically true for the enterprise.
So yeah still no sale on Win 8
Windows 8: Microsoft's tablet-desktop still painful to swallow
Still isn't making it easy
The point here is that it is such a fundamental change to the interface. Most people working in the Enterprise simply don't understand how to use computers. They in some cases don't even know how to turn them on or the difference between the monitor and the computer. Many call the monitor the computer. They are shown how to get into their software and that's it. To move to this is going to be too much to ask of many of these people who barely function as it is. You just can't go in and tell a director or a VP that they are so ignorant about computers that their five year old grandson knows how to operate computers way better than they do and that they need some remedial training to come up to speed. It just isn't done if you want to keep your job.
Microsoft Azure goes titsup across Western Europe
Another clear demostration of why we can't "go to the cloud"
Can you imagine 4000+ people not being able to do the majority of their work because the "cloud" was down for two hours? The cloud is basically a "MAINFRAME" people and shouldn't ever be down except on a weekend for planned maintenance once in a blue moon at most. Two hours of unscheduled down time simply is NEVER acceptable for an enterprise. Two hours for some businesses is millions of dollars lost. If M$ wants to make a serious play for the enterprise or businesses of any size for that matter they need 100% reliability and if any down time is required EVER (and should ever be needed for the a Cloud Mainframe) there should be at least a month lead time and on a weekend that has a holiday like New Years to assure minimal impact on businesses.
If Azure could be made as reliable as the Mainframe days of old M$ could rake in the CASH big time and unshackle its self from depending on the success of Windows cause I think everyone can see that Windows 8 isn't going to be accepted by the enterprise masses with open arms.
Gabe Newell: Windows 8 is a 'catastrophe' for PC biz
Touch this M$!
Touch tech has been around a very long time. More than 30 years now. It still hasn't taken off on the PC. It is convenient on a tablet as it makes it much more portable to go without a keyboard. However on a PC with applications that are designed for keyboard and mouse touch doesn't make sense for that reason by it's self let alone the fact that I don't happen to have my monitors with in arms reach. It just doesn't work well for me to have them closer and do my work. The same can be said for most office workers.
Touch is just isn't for regular desktops or big screen use. They would be better off going for the Minority Report interface complete with holographic projection.
It isn't that I don't like change. I don't like work being made worse than it is and more cumbersome. That is what Metro (aka Bob 2) does. It makes things just more cumbersome for a desk jockey. Sure if I'm running all over traveling the world it would work great for my tablet. But not for the desktop.
Those are the real functional gripes either of which is a killer for the enterprise. But to add the "Playskool" effect of giant "friendly" tiles and requiring to swipe through panels of crap and have things automatically take the full screen and well nothing new to add to what has already been stated. It just is terrible for the enterprise. Till the mouse and keyboard are outlawed the touch tech will not take off for the desktop.
Windows 8 'bad' for desktop users - Gartner's one-word review
Re: Please don't let them revert to Classical Windows 7
ooooo hahaha PO, La La, Tinky Winky
Bob 2 gets a thumbs down
I wonder just what the M$ spin doctors will have to say.
Microsoft picks October 26 for Windows 8 launch
A new Best Seller 101 ways to kill Metro aka Bob 2
The new download from Steam complete with animation and sound effects of Metro (aka Bob 2) dieing some most horrible deaths while at the same time removing and replacing the interface with one of the older themes. Have lots of different entertaining ways to kill the Bob 2 interface with extreme prejudiced.
OH and have the email addresses of those responsible for this travesty available so that you can e-mail them just n what ways you have killed the Metro interface so far and just how much you hate it.
Behold: First look at Office 2013, with screenshots
Holy Hell MS is commiting suicide
While corporations have no issues with skipping OS version this looks like the first Office version skill we will see. Talk about chopping your own balls off. I have seen plenty of stupid moves by MS over the years but doing this Bob 2.0 crap to Office at the same time with as many people that hate Metro as it is..... Damn. I guess we will be skipping the new version of Office as well.
Windows 8: Not even Microsoft thinks businesses will use it
Off the Cliff
Yeah MS is riding this thing right off of a cliff. If I had any stock in MS I would be selling it off and purchasing Apple stock. I hate Apple in the extreme. The point is that this is WILLFUL stupidity on Microsoft's part. Skipping an enterprise cycle thinking they will avoid another Vista like debacle is wrong. The enterprise will never accept the Bob 2 interface or any refinements of it though Start8 is a much better take on the interface.
But I'm betting that the general end user will not like Bob 2 either. MS seems to believe that everyone must be treated like children telling us what we will like and must use. Making sure that we get a PLAYSKOOL interface with bright colors. I know that any computer I have to service that has Windows 8 will have a nice $40 surcharge added to it and I'll give it the line item "Dealing with Microsoft's willful stupidity. "
Windows 8: We kick the tyres on Redmond's new tablet wheels
Re: Ribbon Menu
I was thinking it was more of a forced mating between iOS and MS Bob 1.0 and all the worst features of both was the result =)
MS will face the rage of millions
It will be a rage that will burn hotter than a thousand suns. Bob 2 will die or MS will suffer more embarrassment than the tragedy that Bob 1 was. Yeah there is lots to like about Windows 8 under the hood but Bob 2 is worse that CE ME NT all put together. So now it will be Metro CEMENT? or
CEMENT Bob 2
"He sleeps with the fishes."
'Dated and cheesy' Aero ripped from Windows 8
He better be looking
For a new job. He should have been working on something that was new and revolutionary and not pulling out Bob 1 and forcing it to mate with iOS to come out with this bastardized Bob 2 interface. While I really don't like to see anyone fired or put out of work this is one guy that clearly needs to boot put to his ass and hard so he catches some major air as he leaves MS.
Can Windows 8 bag Microsoft 20 more years at the top?
Till there is the ability to roll out Windows 8 with Bob 2 turned off and locked down with no ability to activate it all via GPO it will not make any headway in the Enterprise arena. If there was a little animation that showed the Bob 2 interface (Metro) being burned away revealing a "Classic" fully functional interface then I would be all for it. Windows 8 has some great things under the hood but that crappy Bob 2 interface gets in the way and is just in general crap.
Nokia on 'brink of failure', warns analyst
MS Bob 2 on the phone
The M$ devs are just entitled, hippster, mac wannabies that think Bob 2 is going to be the greatest thing ever for everything. I suppose it is OK on the phone but nothing that is going to save Nokia from certain doom. As much as they want to believe otherwise the writing on the wall was put there long ago by Nokia themselves from back in the heyday when they were the best. Nokia could conceivably saved themselves if way back and had jumped on board with Android when it first got rolling and really pushed the envelope with it to avert disaster. But they didn't and now they will pay. M$ will as well.
It is so focused on trying to be something like Apple that they forget that coming up with something truly new and innovative is what will take them past Apple. Bob 2 is not new and nonnative. It is just a twist on the iOS.
For either to make it they have to take bold radical steps that take tech in a new direction. Following Apple with something that is "a little different" isn't working.
Coders' 'lives sucked out' by black-and-white Visual Studio 11
Bob 2 is going everywhere
LOL Bob 2 is being pushed to every corner of Microsoft now. Really they should just wait to see how bad it will nose dive Windows 8 before pushing it everywhere.
Windows 8 tablet freezes in Microsoft keynote demo
Bob 2 sucks
Bob 2 sucks. Everyone should just stop calling it Metro and call it Bob 2.
Windows 8 for Kindle-like gear hinted by Microsoft bigwig
Bob 2
Will be heralded as the worst MS product ever conceived of surpassing even Bob 1.0 in two years after release. The UI will be consistently bad from phone to 64" screen.
Workers can't escape Windows 8 Metro - Microsoft COO
MS Bob 2.0 here we come
This is MS Bob 2.0 and is worse than MS Bob 1.0 could ever dream to be.
Windows 8: Thrown into a multi-tasking mosh pit
Metro = MS Bob 2.0
Metro is Bob 2.0 pretty much. It will die like Bob did as well. Cheers to another OS skip. Only this is Bob 17 or 18 years later. Really MS just don't do this or have the options to completely disable-remove it. All I can see is lots of trouble.
Star Trek tractor beam to save Earth from asteroid Armageddon
If detected early on then attaching a solar sail to it would be the cheapest more effective option. If time is a factor then the rail-gun approach. The most cost effective way would be to watch the skies and take action the absolute soonest possible. Just the smallest nudge early on can avert catastrophe years later.
Put a huge solar parachute or sail on the damn thing. Put it on a hella huge tether placed there with long cables and let the solar wind blow it off course. Then if you have the capability to steer it just put it out of danger at least and hey even send it to the moon to crash there or some place else that would be "safe". At least something like that should prove to be easier to achieve, cheaper and more effective than nukes or a gravity tractor.
'Doctor Dark Energy': The Ultimate LHC eccentric?
Hows this for a crazy idea I have
Consider this theory. That there is no matter, it is all energy. Matter as we perceive it on at the smallest point is really energy in going in a loop or sphere shape or force cage for the lack of a better term. What makes this possible hasn't been discovered yet except that it is possible to break this loop or cage causing a release of an immense amount of energy. For example in a fission reaction when high energy neutrons collide with a large fragile atom like plutonium there split results in the loss of mass. That mass that is loss is from a subatomic particle that has had its energy loop or force cage broken allowing it to unravel so to speak. The idea reduces all of the cosmos down to energy being present or not present. The question that should be asked is if matter is in fact energy structured around a loop or a force cage is it possible for all matter loops and cages to be broken down and released in a cataclysmic explosion. Then what if it is that the smaller the loop or cage is the more powerful the forces unleashed? If so, is it possible that the energy released would be powerful enough that when striking another small loop or cage cause a cascade effect that could see the complete break down of all matter into energy in an uncontrolled reaction destroying the universe as we know it and leaving behind only one large wave of energy?
Russians demand flying cars and telepathy
What no Fembots? That should be number one =)
PC maker
Micron MPC files for chapter 11 bankruptcy
I was one of the lucky ones
I was able to get a laptop replaced a month ago but they had been having issues long before that. We had a number of system on order way back to July and never got them. It wasn't till just a week ago that we got the OK from upper management that it was OK to cancel the orders. They were on contract to provide and just couldn't. What they don't tell you is that they had closed their production in Tennessee before the operations in Juarez Mexico was up and running. And considering all the stories being run about how bad murder, drugs and other crimes are there it is little wonder that they had issues getting the operations there up and running. That with the credit crunch didn't help. But really what the hell were they thinking moving any kind of operation down there? The place would have to all kinds of product being stolen all the time and god forbid if you look like a foreigner there as you are sure to be kidnapped and ransomed.
Counterfeit Vista rate half that of XP
Who wants to pirate crap
Who wants to pirate something worse that Windows ME? That is why the numbers are down. Vista sucks and SP1 isn't going to fix some of the major issues with it. If possible we will skip this pile of crap and hope for the best with the next OS from Microsoft.
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