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I know what you mean but I won't be able to agree until we see Carla in her slip putting on her lippy.
- 30 January 2009 10:06
I agree full heartedly. Carla Connor (refuse to call her Gordon) is my favourite Corrie character and does echo the legend that is Elsie Tanner. Long may Carla be in the soap. Going to miss her whilst Alison is on maternity leave, she's an asset to the show.
- 30 January 2009 11:57
- Tvor said...
Possibly. Sunny Jim....nobody wears slips much these days, you'll have to be content with a basque ;) Gotta move with the times and after all, she *does* sell underwear!
- 30 January 2009 12:07
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And her nighty was used as an almost murder weapon!
- 30 January 2009 13:48
- Reginald Fah-Fah said...
The Earl, Reginald thinks Carla Connor is absolutely marvellous and a shining star of Corrie!!!
I say...comparing Carla with Elsie Tanner is a big mistake!Carla has her own shine and is a star in her own right!
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- Firatcim Oct 2, 2011 05:00 PM
In Italian Two Easy, Rose Gray has a recipe for simple tomato sauce. As a footnote, she recommends sealing the jars and putting them in a water bath in the oven at 400 F for 20 minutes. I was very intrigued by this technique and tried it today. So far, only one of the seals is set. I'm wondering if anyone is familiar with this way of canning. I also read on-line someone burning their face and neck because of an exploding jar during a canning session and got freaked out. Did I put myself at risk by trying this method?
Did I put myself at risk by trying this method?
In a word, YES! Unless all the sauce you made has not been refrigerated it should be discarded.
If the sauce only has tomatoes and has added acid, a boiling water bath should be fine. If it has other added ingredients (onions and peppers, for instance) the sauce MUST be processed in a pressure canner.
If it was refrigerated you can rescue it by putting it all in a kettle and boiling it for 10 minutes, putting it in freshly sterilized jars, sealed with NEW lids, and processing the jars in a boiling water bath...Pints 35 minutes, Quarts 40 minutes.
The only two USDA approved methods of canning tomatoes are boiling water bath or pressure canning. The purpose of processing is to thoroughly heat the contents of all the jars completely through to kill any nasty microbes, especially botulism. In the oven the water isn't kept boiling, so the temperature is not maintained. This puts the food at risk of underprocessing...a risk I am not willing to take.
As for the exploding jars you read about, this can happen if you don't use jars designed for home canning. Even tho some pasta sauce jars look like canning jars, they are not the same as home canning jars and shouldn't be used.
The two best books on canning I have found are Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving
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Home canning can be very rewarding, but it must be done correctly or you or your loved ones could wake up dead.
I have mentioned this in other canning threads, but it bears repeating. I am not a go-by-the-book person, but when it comes to canning I have religiously gone by the book for over 25 years. I suggest you do to.
I haven't tried it, and won't. It does seem slightly higher risk if a jar breaks - when a jar goes in the water bath canner, I can't even tell till I take the lid off. And I doubt the temperature is as even if you're not totally submerging the jars.
More importantly, I've water bathed enough custards and such that I KNOW water in the oven is dangerous - pull out a rack with boiling hot water on it and see. No, wait, DON'T.
Why on earth not just invest in a cheap pot and a jar lifter and do it the right way? You can do tomatoes in a water bath canner. And you won't have to worry about making people sick.
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To me, the main issue is not that the temperature would be inconsistent but that the lids are designed to seal at the temperature of boiling water, 220 degrees.
A reliable online source for home preserving is the National Center for Home Food Preservation
I have been canning my whole life (50+ years) and would never try this. Stick with the Blue Book and you won't go wrong. It isn't worth a hospital trip for burns or digestive upset.
Now, I will say, I do MAKE my ketchup in the oven, since it can stay in there and get nice & thick--THEN when it is finished, I hot pack in hot jars and seal in the water bath canner.
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I just put together the ketchup in the ordinary way, using the tomatoes (I used Romas this year) and spices (this was a recipe I got from my friend but I can provide it if you need one). I put the mixture in my large roasting pan--I find a shallow pan works better, obviously because it speeds up the reduction. Put in a 300 oven and watch it, stirring about every 20 min. or so, until you reach your desired consistency. Pour hot, into hot jars, and process the recommended time for your size jars. I tend to use pint or even half-pints for ketchup (who needs it in quart size?! maybe somebody does!). It might be possible to use two pans in the oven at one time, but I only have one roasting pan so it takes two batches. Oh, and of course I remove the rack from the roaster! Anyway this works for me as it avoids the need to stand over the bubbling pot in August. In the oven, it just needs a little watching.
I don't see it working - a water bath would only immerse the bottom part of the jars so they'd heat very unevenly. If you used more water, that's an awfully dangerous amount of boiling water to be pulling out of the oven (not to mention that it would take far longer than 20 minutes to heat up to boiling point!) I scalded myself once badly pulling a boiling pan of liquid out the oven (a roast with broth) - the liquid slops around however careful you are, and your arms and front are right in the line of fire.
The only canning thing I've used the oven for is sterilising my empty glass jars (so that I didn't HAVE to mess with boiling water.)


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Planning for the sixth-grade move to middle school has begun, and you can be a part of it. You are invited to a community meeting on Thursday, December 11, to learn about the plan and give your feedback.
A small gift to the Highline Schools Foundation today will make a big impact on our students and schools. Now, supporting the foundation is as easy as sending a text message.
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Catfish Productions, LLC. presents the inaugural St. Martinville Catfish Festival. Friday, November 8 through the 10 Catfish Heaven will have it's grounds open to music, fun and food! Musical guest include rock and roll hall of fame star Percy Sledge, Acadiana's own Cupid and 18 other fantastic musical guest. There will also be a live auction on Saturday, November 9th, in which 100% of the proceeds will benefit the St. Jude hospital directly. This is an official St. Jude Research Hospital and Children's benefit; any and all donations are 100% tax deductible. Those with Military ID's get into the event free of charge.
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Hello PV4J friends- the September 2014 e-issue of Network News has been emailed to our list. Some changes and updates to our email list are in progress so stay tuned if you didn't get your own personal link. One correction is in order: The article on p. 3 of the Newsletter entitled "PV4J at the 221st General Assembly" was written by co-moderator Manley Olson. We inadvertently gypped him of a byline. Many apologies!
Margaret's Talk from the PV4J Breakfast at General Assembly
Second Person Plural
Biblical Ethics and Matthew 25
-Written for Presbyterian Voices for Justice-
Sisters and brothers, good morning! Before begin my remarks, let me acknowledge my gratitude to Presbyterian Voices for Justice for their invitation to speak this morning. I am humbled to stand where such enormously critical voices as Katie Cannon, Delores Williams, Rita Nakashima Brock, Joan Martin, Nancy Ramsey and Toddie Peters have stood, as a relatively new Presbyterian and a Teaching Elder half-way through my ninth year of ordered ministry. All of these women, of course, share the noble disciplines of theology and ethics. I am but a humble biblical scholar. I read ancient texts. I teach Greek. Nevertheless, I suggest to you this morning that the old, dusty, ancient worlds of the Bible might have something to say to us about justice in the twenty-first century.
We live, today, in a culture more obsessed with the individual than perhaps at any other time in US history. It is a culture of the selfie, the picture taken, usually on a cell phone or tablet computer with a camera that faces the holder, rather than the outside world. It is a culture in which the question being raised even about seminary education is not "what is its benefit to the wider society," but "what do I, individual student consumer, get out of it?" And be clear, if I don't get the tall steeple call with a salary well into the five figures it wasn't worth it.
We live in a culture in which my right to hold a weapon outweighs the death of children slain by yet another white, male, misogynistic killer; or for that matter, by the hundreds of other killers of all colors and genders who insist that gun ownership is an axiomatic right of the individual. This is a culture in which the Cliven Bundies and the Donald Sterlings and the use of racial epithets for the naming of pro-sports football teams is chalked up to the "rights of the individual"; a culture in which a white, male Princeton freshman can argue that, because he happens to be descended from Holocaust survivors he has no white male privilege, as if his family's descent has any impact on the way he is racialized and the privilege he is awarded in light of that (http://theprincetontory.com/main/checking-my-privilege-character-as-the-basis-of-privilege/ ).
Yes, sisters and brothers, this is a self-focused, self-absorbed, self-ish culture in which we live, and the argument that lies at the heart of this culture is this: I am a good person. What does any of that justice stuff have to do with me?
This morning I have come to argue that as Christians, we are called to resist the culture of "self-centeredness" and "self-absorption" as one antithetical to a biblical ethic. Since I only have 20 minutes, I have chosen to explain this argument by calling our attention to the great judgment scene in Matthew 25. My argument, sisters and brothers, is that the force of this passage is not just found in the list of ethical actions it requires. A significant aspect of this passage is something that contemporary English masks. It is presence of what we call in grammar the second-person plural.
For those of you who have forgotten your grammar, let me remind you what the second person plural is. By second person, I mean the pronoun that refers to someone that is not the self. There are two such sets of pronouns – in contemporary English parlance: "you" and "it" or "they." "It" or "they" are the third person; these pronouns refer to something or someone outside of the immediate conversation. Second person pronouns refer to the one or ones to whom the conversation is directed. Today we say, "you," whether that person is singular or plural, unless, of course one lives in the south as I have for the last fourteen years. Then the distinction between you and y'all becomes clear. For those of us who can manage the Shakespearean English of King James' version, second person singular is readily distinguishable: "Thou" is easily distinguishable from second person plural, "you."
The truth is that most of us rarely consider the second person plural when reading the Bible. So, we turn to Matthew 25 and we read "I was hungry and you gave me something to eat; I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink" and so on, and we hear a message directed to individual persons. We hear "Thou" when the text is saying "You." We hear a call to the self when Jesus is issuing a call to collective action and collective responsibility. Today, I am encouraging us, indeed urging us as a denomination, to a counter-cultural stance. I am urging us to hear, once more the call to the collective in Matthew 25 as we gather as a whole denomination to pray, worship and deliberate together. For, I argue the second-person plural in this and many other biblical passages challenges our increasingly atomizing society, calling us back from self to community as a faithful response to the gospel of Jesus Christ.
When we take the second-person plural in this text seriously, we see that the judgment envisioned in this apocalyptic text is not of individuals but of those collective bodies called nations, people or ἐθνή as the Greek states. Matthew 25:32 thus reads "And all the nations will be gathered together before him and he will separate them from each other just as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats." It is the nations that will be judged collectively, according to this text, not individual persons. Some nations will be on one side – those nations that did not tend to the hungry, thirsty, alienated, naked, sick and imprisoned. Those nations who did tend to these most vulnerable among them will be on the other side.
And to those on his right, Matthew testifies, the Son of man will say (and here I am using the modified Southern US version of the text): "Come, y'all who are blessed by my Father" (and yes, the Greek says "father" – that's a different talk for a different day). "Come, y'all who are blessed, inherit the kingdom prepared for all y'all from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry, and y'all fed me; I was thirsty, and y'all poured tea. I was a stranger, and y'all welcomed me. I was naked and y'all put clothes on my back. I was sick and y'all came and saw about me. I was in prison and y'all didn't forget about me." – second-person plural.
Now, in Matthew's day, this vision would likely have been heard as a searing critique of the Roman Empire, given its treatment of the poorest of the poor. But today, our temptation is to read it as a litmus test for individual piety. Yes, we say, I feed the hungry– Tuesday mornings at 10 am. Yes, I quench the thirst of the thirsty, every June at the water table for the Pride March. Yes, I welcome the stranger – I'm the chief greeter at my church. Yes, I clothe the naked, every month when the Kidney Foundation picks up donations. Yes, I visit the sick once a month with the deacons. Yes, I come to the prisoners, once a quarter with the church van that takes families down to the prison to see their loved ones.
And, if this text were about your individual piety, this would be an admirable demonstration of your faithful response to the unearned, saving grace of Jesus Christ. But this text is not about individual piety. This text is about collective responsibility. This is group work. What this means is that we are to be held responsible not for our individual actions alone, but for how those individual actions comprise a collective response to, or collective ignorance of the problems of the most vulnerable around us. What Matthew is trying to teach us is that we will be held corporately responsible for our treatment of the hungry and thirsty. We will be corporately responsible for our treatment of the stranger. We will be corporately responsible for our treatment of the naked, the sick, and the imprisoned. The judgment here is not of "thou who art blessed" but of "you who are blessed" – second-person plural.
Now let me be clear: I like selfies and the millennial generation that enjoys posting them. The culture of selfies is a culture that contains the possibility of leading one to self-reflection, to self-examination, and to self-empowerment. Further, I would challenge anyone who might mischaracterize these remarks as arguing against individual responsibility. Rather, I draw attention to the presence of the second-person plural in this and any number of other biblical passages to remind us that the Bible, and the Triune God to which its writings testify, frequently makes responsibility collective and not merely individual. For many of the biblical passages about ethics and justice, it is not enough for each of us to try to live good, Christian lives on our own. The witnesses of the Bible call us to collective responsibility for the common good, particularly for those whom Jesus called "the least of these sisters and brothers of mine." And, according to the biblical witnesses, we are judged on the level of collective culpability, national culpability – of how whole nations, whole peoples, whole groups act toward the most vulnerable in our society.
In other words, I am not arguing against individuals going on mission trips; I am arguing for congregations paying their full per capita to denominational centers so that we, collectively, can do the work we, collectively, are called to do. I am not arguing against personal repentance; I am arguing for collective repentance, the kind of collective repentance that leads to reparative justice and reconciliation. Friends, I am not arguing against individual relationships with Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior; I am arguing for a collective will to tend at the very least to those whom that same Jesus Christ called family, those who were most vulnerable in society, those whose treatment, according to the gospel of Matthew, will bring judgment not on mere individuals but on entire nations.
So, what are the implications of focusing on the second-person plural for this gathering of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), this General Assembly? Let me, in the time remaining to me, suggest a few ways in which focusing on the second-person plural might inform our deliberations.
Consider, for instance, white privilege. It is tempting, a young man from Princeton proved just a few weeks ago, to argue "this is not my problem. I'm a hip majority person. I hate racism. Besides, nobody privileges me, ever." However, a turn to the second-person plural reminds us as individuals that ultimately it does not matter how anti-racist any single one of you is; y'all are called –and y'all will be held responsible by the Triune God, for our treatment of those whom our society stereotypes and alienates, racializes and estranges because of language, or color, or national origin or ethnicity. Not only this, we as a nation, we as a church, we collectively are responsible to God for how we live into this reality. Clearly this suggests that we, collectively, should be about the business of making sure we, collectively can confess with the global Reformed Church which once gathered in Belhar, South Africa "we reject any doctrine which explicitly or implicitly maintains that descent or any human or social factor should be a consideration in determining membership of the church" (Belhar Confession). But my friends, collective responsibility does not mean simply increasing our Book of Confessions.
Collective responsibility for racial and ethnic privilege, for white racism and its ideology among us requires that we, collectively, create and distribute resources to the vast majority of our churches which are still overwhelmingly white churches to equip them to welcome and celebrate people of color as members, ruling elders and yes, teaching elders within their congregation. This is not merely a matter of denominational survival, although certainly in a majority white denomination within a quickly browning nation, we must do it if we mean to be around in the future. Rather, this is a matter of collective just action, the action for which the "y'all" in Matthew 25 are praised – second-person, plural.
Likewise with women, #yesALLwomen, we as a church must stand against the pervasive rape culture in this country that penalizes women for having bodies and daring to dress them as they please, blames them for not observing some unwritten curfew, and dismisses their complaints as hysteria and histrionics as though female anatomy affects one's sight, hearing and sense of touch; all the while downplaying the misogyny of a white male killer as mental illness. But collective responsibility means that we must do so with more than words.
Collective responsibility requires that we examine and dismantle our participation in that culture, how we, collectively, treat women as a congregation, members and elders alike. Collective responsibility requires that we consider how we make our congregations, our neighborhoods, our cities, and our suburbs safe for women, yes all women, regardless of their religious confession or lack thereof. Nor can we cast our gaze on other nations as though, because women here are not regularly faced with gang rape and hanging, or acid thrown in the face, we have no reason to be concerned that our bodies and what we do with them are constantly seen as appropriately adjudicated by anybody but us. And it goes deeper. We cannot speak about becoming a peace church, with regards to our stance on war, without becoming a peace church in our homes, in our schools, in our congregations, and in every other way we manifest ourselves in the world. Again, this is not a matter of denominational survival, although women are at least fifty percent of the population. Rather, this is a matter of collective just action, the action for which the "y'all" in Matthew 25 are praised – second-person, plural.
For many of us in this room, "mawage is what bwings us togewer today" (Princess Bride). (I've always wanted to use that line in a speech). So let's talk about marriage, not as a sacrament, because it is NOT a sacrament in the Presbyterian Church (U. S. A.) the last time I checked my polity. Let's talk about marriage as an economic boon to two people, a way to reduce for many couples and their families that hunger, that thirst, that nakedness and that alienation of which Mathew 25 testifies. Civil marriage, thus, becomes an economic issue for which we, collectively, are to be held responsible. For surely, denying the right of civil marriage to any two consenting adults regardless of gender puts the "y'all," puts us, on the left side of this argument – increasing the pain of those that Jesus calls "the least of these." Surely ensuring civil marriage rights for all is a matter of collective just action.
And what about pastorally? For some in our church, the marriage between two persons of the same biological or perceived sex is anathema and the move of our church toward that end would make them feel alienated from the body; and friends, they must be heard. For others, it is one of the more profound ways that the church can pastorally stand with and welcome those whom we together have systematically estranged and alienated, bearing witness to their vows taken before the living God within a congregation that stands with them to support them; and friends, they pastor in 19 and counting states that now allow them to do legally what they are not allowed to do pastorally – they must also be heard. What if the collective just response to stalemate is the Jerusalem solution of Acts 15, the handshake of peace between Peter and Paul, the intentional creation and practice of welcome for all of God's children who feel alienated from and by the church? What if the we, the y'all, from each group of Christian believers set out intentionally to welcome and work with those who consider themselves part of that other group, as an act of welcome – not conversion – trusting that God is still sovereign and welcome is still our call, the call to the y'all of Matthew 25, the call in the second-person plural.
For you see, sisters and brothers, fighting over the wedding ceremonies held in our churches – or not held in our churches – is a convenient distraction. This is a way for us, all of us, to collectively ignore the hungry and thirsty in our cities and suburbs, rural areas and small towns. This is a way for us to ignore, collectively, our declining dollars for mission to the naked and the sick and the imprisoned and blame "the other side" for impoverishing the church. This is a way for us to ignore the warming earth because we are so concerned with who gets to have what kind of worship service within the walls of which congregation. And I'm here to testify today, with the Reformed Christians who gathered in Accra, Ghana, that our infighting about transgendered, lesbian, bisexual and gay Presbyterians and their place in the church is a convenient distraction from neoliberaI economic globalization. And that system of neoliberal economic globalization in which we all participate, whether we call ourselves liberal or conservative, justice-seeking or Bible-based (as if those things are opposites), that system for which we are, in part, culpable, creates more hungry, thirsty, naked, estranged, sick and imprisoned people than any marriage ceremony ever could (Accra Confession). And Matthew 25 tells us that we will all be judged for it together, collectively, regardless if we are denominational or post-denominational, Reformed or always-Reforming, transgendered, bisexual, lesbian, gay or straight – the judgment is collective – y'all let this happen while you were bickering with each other about non-essential tenets of the Reformed faith. All of y'all – second person plural.
Do not misunderstand me. I think that all pastors in consultation with their congregational councils should have the ability to perform wedding ceremonies for all of their congregants, as long as they consider those weddings to be viable and sound. But if we think that the most important thing that brings us together today is whether or not two people can have a church wedding, we are not hearing the point. Matthew does not testify that our collective judgment will come from whether or not we perform weddings. Matthew says that our collective judgment or vindication will be based on our collective just action regarding the least of these. So, yes, we should allow pastors to do what is pastorally appropriate in their own context, but for the sake of the least of these, can we please stand together against American companies whose products are knowingly being used to cause hunger, thirst, nakedness, illness and estrangement in the land of Jesus' birth? Yes, we should fling open the church doors so that pastors may do whatever we deem pastorally appropriate in line with the essential teachings of the Reformed faith with regard to a covenant between two individuals, but can we please stand together to find a way to make these electronic devices on which we rely as just and equitable as the T-shirts and tote bags of this assembly and assemblies past, so that we do not foster the kind of wars that lead to hunger, thirst, nakedness, estrangement, sickness and imprisonment in part of the African and Asian continents? Yes, yes, yes, I do know marriage matters. I'm a black immigrant woman married to a white immigrant man who has adopted a white male American child (we call this an international adoption) in a nation in which all of those actions were once illegal. I really, really get it.
And I get this also – that I have colleagues who will stay in this denomination and will never perform a same-sex marriage and colleagues who have already performed same-sex marriages -- who are fighting together to end the exploitation of children in sex trafficking, fighting to save the lives of young black and Latino men on the poor side of town, fighting for just immigration laws, and fighting alongside their sisters and brothers on the so-called "other side" of the fence for sensible gun laws and the end to systemic gun violence. In the deep south…the center of that word y'all – second person plural.
At some point, sisters and brothers, this is where we must get to as a denomination. We must get to a place where those outside of our walls look us and say – y'all feed the hungry and deal with systematic food injustice, second person plural. Y'all give the thirsty something to drink and deal with water rights and water justice systemically, second person plural. Y'all clothe the naked and address the injustices in the entire system that leads to the manufacture of clothing, second person plural. Y'all welcome all who are estranged by racism, sexism and heterosexism, classism, ableism, immigrant status, ageism and all other systemic forms of privilege and power – second person plural. Y'all visit the sick and work for access to safe, affordable, adequate healthcare for all people – second person plural. Y'all visit the prisons and work for the dismantling of the New Jim Crow and the prison industrial complex – second person plural.
For, we may live in a selfie culture, but we serve a God who holds us collectively responsible to be salt and light in this God-beloved world. Friends I urge you, especially if you are commissioners to this assembly, reclaim the sense of y'all in all of the Bible's commands for justice. For the truth is, the only way we can do any of this, even by God's grace, is if we work together. And most assuredly, says Matthew, we will all be held accountable, regardless of our personal piety, if we cannot find a way to work together. Let us find a way to reclaim that space where sisters and brothers could disagree and still work together, that space first occupied by the earliest church. For the alternative is that we, all of us, collectively, will one day hear this said of us: "For I was hungry, and y'all did not feed me; I was thirsty, and y'all didn't even give me clean water to drink. I was a stranger, and y'all closed your doors to me. I was naked and y'all laughed in my face and made me an internet meme. I was sick and y'all blamed my lack of faith. I was in prison and y'all treated me as less than a human being." – all of y'all, second person plural.
The Mission of Presbyterian Voices for Justice
We are a playful and passionate community
of women and men in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
who are called to proclaim the Gospel vision
of God's extravagant love and justice
in church and society.
We seek the wisdom of the Spirit for following Christ's example
and for living into the hope of sustained gender equality,
racial reconciliation, full human rights for LGBT persons,
economic justice, environmental wholeness,
an end to war and all forms of violence,
and a justice-loving shalom over all the earth.
We commit to risking the transformation of our own selves
and our organization
to live into this vision,
even as we invite both church and society
to meet this challenge.
Presbyterian Voices for Justice is the result of a merger between the Witherspoon Society and Voices of Sophia.
For histories of the two predecessor groups, click HERE.
Let your voice be heard!


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If you got some mail that needs to go out before the New Year, you'll want to plan ahead. Most post offices will close at noon on New Year's Eve, Tuesday December 31.
The branch in Greece, Irondequoit and the Westgate Branch on Howard Road will all be open until five on New Year's Eve, along with the main office on Jefferson Road. Also open until five, offices in Brockport, Canandaigua, Dansville, Newark, Pittsford and Webster.
Your mail will still be delivered on New Year's Eve, but there will be no deliveries or offices open on New Year's Day.


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Borderlands Timeline Summarizes the Previous Games for Newcomers
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Posts by Trinity
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Looks like someone's group assignment for end of year 2 drama college - nice work! And easily one of the best "don't send these people your money" messages around.
Beware evangelists
*evil grin*
The original article pays compliments to the Register and its commenters for having "attitude" and "taking no prisoners" in the face of "tripe".
Cue small avalanche of trollish posing and instant self-caricature... ;p
Miami health centre starts RFID soap snooping
It's a shame that the people most qualified to know about the deadly effects of bacteria and the importance of clean hands need such measures. But if they do, then go for it! Shame the filthy sods into caring about who they kill with their dirty hands!
Lad passes gruelling 'getting on bus' test
What about a gold star for saving the environment while they're at it?
100 freetards an hour join Pirate Party UK
And why not?
Enough pirates in the House already - an official party could be regarded as a long-awaited move towards MP honesty...
Blogger silences Google ads with death and destruction
Where's Dogbert when you need him?
I suspect the point of the article wasn't to criticise Google's advertising policies, but to report on an interesting quirk that allows you to sidestep it.
Not because anyone seriously would want to go this far, but because Google's ways of doing things are so rigidly obscured from anyone outside the company, that experimenting to discover them is Fun.
Icon - pint of beer, because some of the commenters in here really need to get out more...
Tories plan health record giveaway
You need a *headdesk* icon, stat.
Mel Gibson to put hand up Jodie Foster's Beaver
Scared now
Wow... that Aaron Kempf must be truly terrifying - this article's been here for aaaaaaaaaages, and there are no comments at all!
Yahoo! takes notes on your searches
This is a nice little feature - really handy, really simple, and less hassle than using third-party plugins and other stuff.
2060: Humvee-sized, bulletproof meat-eating spiders attack
Send for Optimus Prime!
End of problem ;)
Half of 10 year olds now mobile connected
If parents are worried about the sort of things their kids might see and hear on a mobile phone, WHY DO THEY LET THEM HAVE ONE?!!
I really wonder if the peace of mind afforded to parents by giving their kids phones (e.g. cancelled club meets etc.) is actually justified? For example, the two children beaten half to death by two other children in Yorkshire recently had their phones stolen by their attackers. In fact, since the attack was motivated by theft, the immediate question anyone might ask was, did having mobile phones actually create the risk?
How the government uses dirty data to legislate morality
Bad stats?
While I agree that stats are used very badly to make a shaky piece of "evidence" sound legitimate, you haven't really explained where the process is going wrong or how it could be done better.
In some of your examples, the question might be, not "are these statistics correct?", but "is statistical evidence appropriate in this case?". The idea of empirically determining if watching porn increases the incidence of rape is a terrifying one. And it's just not possible to statistically prove that opening lap dancing clubs increases crime against women: you can only demonstrate a correlation, and "correlation" is virtually synonymous with "coincidence".
Nice article, but could do better. And... where's the I.T. angle? You haven't even mentioned SPSS!
Scottish hospitals laid low by malware infection
Probably true; but using a "familiar" operating system just because people may have used it before doesn't obviate the need for proper training.
I wonder how much training NHS staff actually got? Nobody seems to train people in the basics of good practice, either for security or even good housekeeping. The number of people who create a file in Word, rely on it to use the first sentence as the default file name... and then can't find the damn thing because they can't remember what that first sentence was!
It would have been much more sensible to have saved the money they spent on Windows by implementing a *nix-based system, and spent it on comprehensive user training instead.
Gamers risk early graves, claims advert
Doesn't seem that unreasonable...
There have been cases of people dying from spending an insane length of time playing games...
... plus children of that age (boy in the picture) are more prone to epilepsy than adults, and videogames (and some types of monitor; more rare now with LCD) can aggravate this...
... and it's a bit of a no-brainer, that sitting around all day will make you fat, even if you eat a reasonable diet, because you're not burning off the energy you've consumed. Not to mention the risk of deep-vein thromboses caused by sitting in the same position for hours at a time.
So it seems quite a good advert, really. And there are probably rules against a third party promoting Wii as a health aid while condeming the rest.
Obama balks at recovery of lost Dubya emails
Email archive
Obama wouldn't be the first CEO to give low priority to I.T. backups.
Maybe he thinks saving the economy is slightly more important just now?
419ers take Canadian for $150,000
u wot?
Is it that early victims of the 419ers didn't get reported, or is there a sudden upsurge in rich morons falling for this con?
I just find it incredible, that with all the news reports, with full details of the kind of stories the scammers use, that anyone could still fall for these scams.
Not sure that "stupid" really covers it. There must be a large component of "living under a rock" in there somewhere.
Spinning the war on the UK's sex trade
@A J Stiles
Selling human organs is a crime. It still happens; criminalising it hasn't stopped it happening. But nobody's ranting about this, even though allowing the sale of human organs could undoubtedly save lives.
Prostitution is, effectively, the sale of a human organ. The business structure surrounding it is absolutely irrelevant, as it is in the case of kidneys. It is the thing itself which should be regarded as unsaleable, for moral reasons. (People can be injured and/or die.)
As for decriminalising prostitution... I'm not sure that's the argument. It's the suggestion that the law should prosecute those creating the demand - the punters - rather than those supplying the service - the prostitutes - that seems to have got so many people (almost entirely male) outraged.
This is only the first step: make it an offence to buy sexual services from someone who's been forced into it, as an extension of rape.
Wii grasses up cheating wife
Since when did playing bowls with someone (IRL or virtually) constitute adultery?
Googlewhack trick used to slip junk mail past spam filters
Is this why my earlier search for "aubergine" got this?
"We're sorry...
... but your query looks similar to automated requests from a computer virus or spyware application. To protect our users, we can't process your request right now. "
(BTW: How about giving us the option of an icon that looks like someone banging their head on the desk? )
Miserable Brits declare War on Comfort
Unnecessary luxury indeed
Surely it's a no-brainer that patio heaters are a complete waste of money? All the heat, just radiating straight up and out into space. Meanwhile the overpriledged owner & guests huddle closely round it for a tiny amount of warmth, because if you stand more than two feet away you can't feel it (OK, so the more expensive ones manage up to five feet... but that's still not far).
If anyone out there is laughing at the stupid Brits and their patio heaters, its surely because we ever thought they were worth owning in the first place?
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Windows 8 tablets unwrapped in Berlin: Dell goes keyless for ARM
Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Sony have hitched their skirts to reveal PCs running Windows 8, which will be on sale in October. All three announced ultra-thin machines that can be twisted and turned into tablets running the latest version of Microsoft's operating system. Dell, though, was the only one to unveil a pure-play slab: a …
"Reg regular Tim Anderson put it far more succinctly thus: "Hello customer, would you like this clever-twisty-touch-keyboard-trackpad-Windows thing, or this easy to use iPad?""
I think Tim pays too much attention to himself!
The 'tarded comment from a very old man should read, "Would you like a full feature Windows 8 PC with full productivity and entertainment at its heart, or join the borg, be assimilated into the "i" crown and work with a very limited, but oh looks so shiny iPad thingy your GRANDMOTHER uses?"
RE: Obviously!
But Win 8 ARM isn't a "full feature" windows 8 pc. It's an incredibly hobbled version of windows.
Heck, you can't even run other web browsers. You're stuck with Internet Explorer. Internet Explorer.
Re: RE: Obviously!
IE10. Which you've never used?
iPad also locks down which browser you can use.
Re: RE: Obviously!
IE10. Which you've never used?
Sorry, been using Win 8 for a while now...
iPad also locks down which browser you can use.
Yes it does, ios limits other browsers to simply being front ends to the safari webkit engine. It's why I switched to Android.
MS is trying to imitate Apple here without understanding why Apple can get away with some of the shenanigans it does. It's going to blow up in MS' face.
Don't know why all the downvotes, the fanbois must have got to you first, the fact is you're right. If, like many people I know, you find yourself carrying around an iPad and an ultrabook or netbook, because you, know their functionality doesn't entirely overlap, then you may well find one of these devices is perfect. Hard to say until you can play with them, but snarky dismissal based solely on the fact that they're not limited-functionality, fruity-badged toys is not too clever.
Re: RE: Obviously!
surely Opera and Chrome are both available on ios
Re: RE: Obviously!
Nope, the closest Opera has is "Opera Mini" which is a glorified picture viewer. Essentially you go to say the bbc news website, it renders the bbc news website on operas servers and then sends you a rendered image of that page to opera mini.
Chrome exists on ios but it's simply a shell to the safari webkit engine. It doesn't have any of the engine features of Chrome like V8 etc. And IOS limits the fast JS engine (Nitro) to Safari only.
Down votes are what all the cool kids are doing.
I think it is a result of all the negative sentiment MS has built up over the years. Their products are having a very difficult time getting a fair shake in the minds of consumers. I think my Lumia 900 is awesome and I can't wait to get a Surface. But MS will have to continue to produce quality products like Win7 and WP7 to rebuild their good will.
Right now MS is considered to be icky and the cool thing is to bash them. But is you want to be true counter culture underground super cool then up voting MS is the way to go.
Re: RE: Obviously!
Hang on a mo - surely the Windows RT one is a plain tablet without the twisting keyboard thing. The ones with keyboard are x86 machines, which means full Windows 8. (Well, it's hard to tell from the article - though even if these ones aren't, lots of x86 hybrids are being released, with Windows RT really being kept for the low end pure tablets.)
And this also seems to be a case of attacking from completely opposite directions. The article praises Ipads for being simple and criticises this for being complex, but then you come along and criticise Windows RT for being simple.
Re: RE: Obviously!
I'm not sure why only one company can "get away" with something...
But the point the OP was trying to make was that MS aren't doing only this, they're givng us choice. So Windows RT and pure tablets are for people who want a dumbed down Ipad clone, the rest of us can be happy with a device that has keyboard and runs full Windows.
And "Tim" thinks it's the *latter* that's a bad idea - whilst the rest of us here would prefer it. I do find it bizarre that MS offering the choice of either means they end up being criticised from both sides...
Re: RE: Obviously!
@Mark C Casey; The "clever-twisty-touch-keyboard-trackpad-Windows" are Win8 ARM machines - Dell was the only company that hinted at one of those, and it was "just" a 10" tablet.
The "clever-twisty-touch-keyboard-trackpad-Windows" devices were full-fat Wintel machines.
Re: RE: Obviously!
"MS is trying to imitate Apple here without understanding why Apple can get away with some of the shenanigans it does"
Indeed, Microsoft are the cargo-cultists of the tech age.
I have an iPad.... and I'd MUCH rather have one of these sexy new gadgets that I can use in every scenario. The only trouble for me is figuring out which one I will settle on. HP's Envy x2 would be perfect if it came with a wacom style pen for taking notes.
As I want to hold out for reviews anyway, I may just end up waiting for the Surface Pro since it really is the best to cover all angles imo... lightweight, premium performance specs, easy k/b solution, and a pen. I love Toshiba's slider as well though and will probably get it... though not so much as a tablet replacement, that will be my ultrabook purchase for the year.
Re: Down votes are what all the cool kids are doing.
You do have a point, but I think the real problem is that generally the journalists touting the currently popular dumbed down toys are the 'kids' you mention; they are just in the habit of hyping everything Apple, and denigrating Microsoft, as that is what they perceive the market wants to read. They also tend to be completely consumer focused, so they don't see the full range of plus and minus points for each side.
It's really difficult to find any impartial review sites, most are like the Register, that are no more than blogs with a face on, posting click bait.
Re: RE: Obviously!
I guess you also seriously believe Apple invented tablet computing, *8years* after Microsoft released Windows XP Tablet edition...?
Jesus, the stupidity of the current crop of IT people are why the industry is committing suicide.
The problem
Windows 8. Not a PC, not yet a tablet.
Relegating the desktop to an 'app' is why I will not be going down the windows 8 route (apart from the preview in a VM). I just can't really see netbeans running on a tablet system such as 8.
Windows ME was just slow. Vista was buggy but they were still familiar. Windows 8 is just awkward for no user gain. Even Unity is better, and thats saying a lot.
Re: The problem
I don't know why people bring up Windows ME, which was a sideshow for slow machines for OEMs getting rid of XMas stock. The main parade was already the NT/2000 line.
Re: The problem
Works fine on my 4 year old laptop - which also works as a tablet.
Guess HP and Microsoft beat Apple to it.
Do these tanks have the grunt to park on Apple's lawn?
Put Android on them and they'll fly above the whole property and even have the option of leaving the county.
Re: Do these tanks have the grunt to park on Apple's lawn?
NO! NO! NO! This is Windows 8 for ARM (or Windows RT). Don't forget about the conditions Microsoft placed on this OS for secure boot! You CANNOT INSTALL ANY OTHER OS ON ONE OF THESE!!! Period.
If it was Windows 8 for Intel (or whatever they call that version), THEN you can get around secure boot a couple of ways (ask Canonical or Fedora) or, supposedly, the end user can simply turn it off.
We have to spread the word! WindowsRT on an ARM device is a complete dead-end.
Re: Do these tanks have the grunt to park on Apple's lawn?
Only one of the devices appears to be Windows RT, the other devices seem to be x86 machines. (Though the article is a bit unclear - but at least one mentions x86 specifically, and in general, lots of the new hybrid machines being announced are x86.)
Re: Do these tanks have the grunt to park on Apple's lawn?
Put Android on them and they'll fly above the whole property and even have the option of leaving the county.
Really? Android tablets are available in all these form-factors and more. Are they outselling iPads?
Android cheerleading in the tablet format seems to be futile. Give it up.
Always amazed at the tech journos......
....pushing their tongues right up Apple's arse.
If they carry on and push everyone over to Apple they will have even less of a job and reason to justify their existence. Nothing to report on other than the once a year mega expensive refresh (read 'warmed over').
Plus it will be a very boring world indeed.
Re: Always amazed at the tech journos......
I agree - depressing we can't get through an article without an obligitary Apple plug.
The bizarre thing is that the criticism it makes is the complete *opposite* point of view of most the commenters/voters here. The consensus seems to be disliking pure tablet devices, and locked down Windows RT[*] - exactly the same reason why people here don't like Ipads. Yet "Tim" criticises it for having a keyboard, and not being "simple". It's as if they intentionally picked a comment that would criticise it, but for reasons completely unrepresentative of what most readers think.
[*] And ppl seem to have missed that many of these devices are running x86 Windows.
If PC sales have "slumped", it's because they've long reached saturation (everyone who wants one, has one), and we're in bad economic times. It's much easier for a market to grow when it's new, and much smaller. That doesn't mean it can be extrapolated to say that tablets will be what everyone uses instead of PCs, as the Register, the media and so-called analysts seem to think. "The PC is dying" is getting old, and the way the media want to push us all to Ipads is worrying.
Plus what is a PC? Why is it a "PC" if it's a tablet only device running Windows RT, but not if it's running Android or IOS, and made by one of the same companies that make laptops...
Sony Tap 20
Seriously a 20 inch touch screen at 1600 x 900? Do they get that it's a touch screen and won't likely be used at a bit beyond arm's length like a normal monitor? Either their vision is very different from mine or their glasses have fish-eye lenses.
Re: Sony Tap 20
A 20" tablet - so you can see an 10" tablet user and say, "Call that a tablet, THIS is a tablet."
Re: Sony Tap 20
Actually, that kind of set up *can* be quite handy.
I do have a couple of 25.5" HP Touch Smart all-in-ones set up as a kind of 'communication' device at home and at my office - with Windows 8 on it the touch works out really well, and that is where I check emails, watch the news, watch TV (using FilmOn - free), and the touch interface works really well now. It sits within reach and has a resolution of 1920 x 1200 :-)
I'm going to see how well Xbox SmartGlass works out on it.
For development work I use a standard non-touch screen, keyboard and mouse - but having the big touch screen next to me is really quite handy to act as a sort of 'star trek' control device - its also great for remote desktop connections while taking up very little desk space.
Just my opinion of course.
Re: Sony Tap 20
A 20" tablet - so you can see an 10" tablet user and say, "Call that a tablet, THIS is a tablet."
Many years ago I bought a laptop with a 19" screen as a desktop replacement. I needed the performance (3.2GHz P4), the screen area *AND* portability.
There were a few 'unfortunate' reactions from one or two 'members' of the client's staff when I turned up on sites with that monster :)
Re: Sony Tap 20
"It sits within reach and has a resolution of 1920 x 1200"
That's part of my point, because the device is supposed to be touched and nearer the eyes, it needs a resolution a bit better than a mid range 15" laptop. Add to that all the foolishness with ribbons, blessed be the dev who auto-hides or lets me close the ribbon - that's not you PTC with your fixed 200 pixel ribbon, and that paltry 900 pixel height becomes a serious liability.
Just give me a Surface Pro with a 14.3" screen (A4 at 1005) and I will be very very happy.
More down vote crap
This is what I was referring to. You comment only concerns yourself and what you want and you get down votes. I guess you don't get to want the things that you want??? It's like you're a bad person for wanting an MS product.
A few things Windows will get right
Keyboard, mouse and printer support.
I'm amazed by how crap Android is as soon as you plug in a keyboard / mouse or a trackpad. It does the basics (there is a mouse pointer), but hover over a field and does the pointer change context? Nope. Does Ctrl + Shift + Cursor work in some text field? Depends, sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't work at all. Some apps like Polaris Office don't even offer advanced cursor selection / navigation. Want to print? Hohohoho! There are a mess of 3rd party solutions struggling to fill the void a proper print infrastructure should be.
Android is a great OS and I believe it will be superior to RT in many regards but it really screws up with these things. I wish Google would take time to make Android run great with keyboards and mice and great to use as a portable office. Give up the delusion that ChromeOS is ever going to take off and start kitting out Android to address RT's strengths while there is time.
Re: A few things Windows will get right
Android is still focused for touch, mouse and keyboard support is still an afterthought.
I think Google at some point is going to have to do a desktop variant at some point. Just like they've done a tablet variant UI/UX.
I think they're going to do something akin to what some phone manufacturers have been demoing for years. You have a phone/tablet that you plug into a dock which is connected to a mouse, keyboard and monitor. A new UI/UX then appears on the monitor for you to use your phone/tablet as a computer. (sort of similar to what Ubuntu demoed a little while ago)
Totally agree on ChromeOS, it's a delusion. It's going nowhere. Google should be focusing on Android.
Re: A few things Windows will get right
Those are what *I* and clearly what the android developers consider "PC" functionality.
Re: A few things Windows will get right
>Android is still focused for touch, mouse and keyboard support is still an afterthought.
Tosh - the first Android phone (g1) had a trackball mouse and a qwerty keyboard built in.
Re: A few things Windows will get right
"Those are what *I* and clearly what the android developers consider "PC" functionality."
Android implements half assed keyboard and mouse support and no print support at all. Doing so would not turn the device into a "PC", instead it would turn it into a useful portable device for typing up substantial documents on the go.
Given that it's one of the things that Windows RT can be guaranteed not to screw up, now would be the time for Android to get its house in order.
Re: A few things Windows will get right
Do you seriously think Microsoft won't screw up printer and keyboard support? They have screwed up other things before. :)
Seriously, if Microsoft knew what they were doing, they'd have added Win32 support an an x86 emulator to Windows 8 RT.
Re: A few things Windows will get right
Seriously, if Microsoft knew what they were doing, they'd have added Win32 support an an x86 emulator to Windows 8 RT.
Because then it could run as slow as Android! What a sales technique!
Re: A few things Windows will get right
"Those are what *I* and clearly what the android developers consider "PC" functionality."
Well, if enough of the user base were to consider it to be useful, desirable or (how dare they) essential, I would say that that you and the Android developers would be the ones in error.
Developers who put their own requirements and prejudices forefront in a product are, to me, akin to a fine art salesman who only sells art that he would personally buy. Never a particularly wise approach.
Are you really suggesting, because you consider that to be PC functionality and you surmise that the Andriod developers hold the same position, that it should not even be considered for improvement/implementation? If so, wow!
Been playing with 8 this morning
Wow..just wow...
I got an e-mail this morning telling me to get all the win 7 licence keys together, so we're ready to move to win 8. So I downloaded the consumer release preview... Oh my GOD what an absolute clusterf**k in a box. I see what it's trying to do...but it's just so bad at it...
It all started after it took a full 20 minutes to startup after 'installation' (in a VM machine on an i7 giving it a meaty 4gb of Ram) Then it just got worse, I couldn't work out how the hell you quit. So I googled that, then i was using ie 10 and it arbitrarily stopped a download when i hit the progress bar.
I then went back into ie. and told it to use the desktop, which it promptly did...but then locked me into the desktop with absolutely no way to get out or escape from it, without resetting the VM.
Installed office 2010, littering 20 or so tiles on the 'metro interface' most of which are useless...and then about 90 minutes ago, i had to turn the vm off, because it point blank refused to bring up the side bar with the Shutdown. I'm learning it because i'm going to support it..and more worryingly our guy in charge of tech wants to shove surface pro at everyone.
Personally what i'm seeing is another closed alley by MS. We're going to buy a load of surface pc's at approx £600 each, and then MS are going to call the whole thing a massive failure and retreat...
Re: Been playing with 8 this morning
Classic shell, you're welcome.
It makes Windows 8 usable with a mouse and keyboard.
Re: Been playing with 8 this morning
Just stick your most used apps in the Taskbar like normal and change the default Metro Apps to the desktop versions and you rarely have to venture out of desktop world.
It's not that difficult.
I was pretty anti Windows8 at first but then I decided to just get on with it and nut up.
Once you actually stop whining, pull your bottom lip from over the top of your head and do a little configuration you find actually it works fine.
Re: Been playing with 8 this morning
Well, it's not really designed for us in a VM. Maybe its the hypervisor causing the speed problems, because Windows 8 is noticably quicker than 7.
I was also sceptical about Windows 8, having tried both previews, and I was ranting to friends that it would be a disaster, how I couldn't figure out how to use it.
But I stuck with it, and now, I wouldn't go back. Once you 'get' the way Charms work, that it actually does work quite well with a mouse keyboard combination, you do learn to appreciate a lot of the improvements.
It's fast, for example - the startup on my 4 year old laptop with an AMD Turion is about 22 seconds from cold-boot bios screen to Windows log in screen being available. From sleep mode to using fingerprint recognition to sign in is about *3* seconds to show the new Metro UI / Windows 8 interface etc etc.
It certainly isn't perfect - the switch to desktop happens far too many times for my daily workload, and it's still jarring - but that's probably because most of us here are in the industry and use our computers in a completely different way to many consumers.
All in all, I think it's a pretty good effort from Microsoft. For a first release, it's usable and with promise. It is not for everyone, but given time, I think this will be a winner.
The biggest problem is that it really is different for people.
Re: Been playing with 8 this morning
I decided to throw together a Win8 machine with some spare components at the weekend - the only new part was a 60G SSD I picked up on sale. It took less than 11 minutes to install, and that included a couple of minutes for me to go find the installation key that I'd forgotten to write down before I started installing it.
But I couldn't find a useful "Intro to Windows 8" document or website that would explain in a couple of pages the sort of things that are causing people to stumble in their first 30 minutes with Windows 8. I don't need to know a bunch of in depth things, just some pointers to the stuff that used to be bleeding obvious because I've been using XP or Win7 for years, but now isn't.
I know that part of the problem is that we all tend to have different habits, and most of us don't even use the features that we are aware of, so writing such a "first 20 minutes with Windows 8" guide would inevitably cover stuff that many people would have no interest in, but moving to Windows 8 is feeling like much more work than moving to Windows 7 was.
Re: Been playing with 8 this morning
agreed Win8 is QUICK Boots from power on (including BIOS) to desktop (on our domain) in 25 seconds and thats on a 6 year old DELL Optiplex GX745 (core 2 duo 2gb RAM) Also didn't have any speed issues running it on Hyper-v
Re: Been playing with 8 this morning
With an old SATA I laptop from 2006 and Windows 8 installed on a 64GB Samsung 830 is gets to desktop in 12 seconds.
With a modern disk controller I reckon it would be around 4-5 seconds.
Re: Been playing with 8 this morning
@ Al Jones
Until you mentioned it, I forgot how good the installation process was. No problems with drivers.
One of the things that really amazed me was that I did an in-place upgrade from Windows 8 Consumer Preview to the Release Candidate when that came out - and *all the while it was installing the new OS files*, people were still talking to me on that machine on the Messenger app - all the networking and core application support was still running.
I was kind of amazed. It required a reboot and the end of course, so presumably Microsoft have used some sort of shadow copy approach to this.
Of course after it was released via MSDN I did a bare metal install.
Windows Update is a lot less intrusive too - I hardly even notice it now and it seems much quicker.
I haven't tried the built in 'Refresh Windows without losing data' or 'Factory settings reset' yet, but it looks promising that Microsoft are heading in that direction.
I still think that the desktop needs to be far more integrated. I used Start8 with the preview releases, and that made the new Start menu seem much easy to get to grips with. Now I don't use it, but I think Microsoft should look at these (Classic Shell, Start8) as examples, and build something in to a Service Pack that makes the desktop integration more seamless.
Also another slight downer is IE10's lack of compatibility with a lot of websites that don't have problems with Firefox or Chrome. I think that is probably the biggest disappointment - that after all this time, they still don't have the browser right. In the current market, that is unforgivable, and Microsoft really need to get the browser engine right, and quickly.
MS could have actually made some real gains with W8 - made it the OS you use when you want to get stuff done, rather than consume media.
In the time they've taken they could have re-written it to be safe from the ground up and far easier to use by building on what people already know how to do.
Instead they're chasing Apple like a cat after a laser. You'll be able to hear them hit the skirting board from here.
Not Inspiron?
Since they are calling the RT tablet the Dell XPS 10 they are putting it with the higher end home computers and not with the cheapo Inspirons. Sounds like they are going to go for an iPad price, not a Nexus 7 price.
I'm amazed at how easy people are swayed by media hype. When Netbooks came out, the industry complained amongst themselves and leaked emails how they just shot themselves in the foot by creating Netbooks, which had to be priced lower then laptops and the profit margin was ridiculously low compared to laptops. Netbooks had 320gig or higher storage,2 gig mem,10.1 screen for about $250 or less on sale. Now come the tablets and all the peripherals to turn them into Netbooks,hint Keyboards, 1gig mem, 16,32,64 gig storage, when they first came out at an entry point of$499. Record sales and profit by the wheelbarrow full. Since the Kindle came out at $199 the rest of the pack had to lower their prices even tho the Kindle wasn't quite a Tablet, which millions didn't see, and they were more interested in the books. The tablets today at a lower entry price is still very very profitable vs the Netbook. The netbook still gives you more value for your money. By the time I put a vinyl or leather jacket around my 10" tablet to protect the screen, its as thick as a netbook. my 2 cents.
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What better place to witness the cinematic grandeur of Explosions in the Sky than on the Wellmonts proscenium stage? The groups knack for putting echo-laden guitar melodies at the center of their expansive post-rock (meaning you might just be able to hum the tunes on your way home) and their ability to put on a compelling live performance (despite being an all-instrumental ensemble) could make tonights performance, particularly transcendent than usual, especially considering that theatrical setting. With the Antlers.
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