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My thoughts on the reasons why I love Vegas.April 30, 2014
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I've had my Polaroid One Step 600 lying around because I didn't know if it was broken or not. But thanks to @nigelk who gave me a pack of film, I found out it works and I'm happy with these results!This photo was shot on film. Taken by natalieerachel with a Polaroid OneStep 600 loaded with Impossible Project Silver Shade film in Honolulu, United States. These tags describe this photo: silver, 600, shade, impossible, brown, border, sepia, vintage, portrait, girl, grass, and polaroid. Date: 2011-11-05. Time: Afternoon. This photo can also be found in the album The First Step.
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HARRISONBURG, Va.- It started with a YouTube video and now it's a full fledged event all put on by James Madison University student Colin Bowie.
It's simply called a Heroes Celebration and it's meant to honor local veterans of the war in Afghanistan.
Last Fall, Colin's longtime friend and roommate Ramsey Homoud was deployed to Afghanistan, but that didn't keep them apart.
"I was able to keep in touch with him via Skype and say look, I want to do something special for you and the other men and women in your unit when you return since I'm here and you're there, that's the very least I can do, " says Bowie.
Homoud returned in February and he's attended the welcome back event for him and his entire unit on Saturday.
"It's actually very relieving being back here in America and being around family and friends," Homoud says.
They are also holding a fundraiser to benefit the Fisher House Foundation.
"If a veteran's injured, they'll bring the family close to that veteran by providing them with a place to stay," Homoud says.
So far, they've gotten a lot of help from local businesses and organizations including Chapter 632 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Michael Nicolas is a member of the VFW and a Vietnam veteran. He says he received a different kind of welcome when he returned from war.
"We don't choose to go to war, we're sent to war," Nicolas says, "when I came back from Vietnam, there were insults and name calling."
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At her August 2009 sentencing hearing, Anaheim's Heather Elizabeth Azkoul apologized for what happened after she volunteered to be the designated driver for a group of friends partying at The Block in Orange: She got drunk, drove her friends home and, with a blood-alcohol level twice the legal limit ... More >>
Hey, fellas: Denise Marie Enriquez is looking for love.But before responding to her lonely hearts club request, keep in mind she's currently at Chowchilla for luring a security guard to a Costa Mesa school parking lot where another man tried to murder him.
The Ninth Circuit federal appellate court today handed a legal victory of sorts to the lone woman involved in the gruesome 2004 murder at sea of Thomas and Jackie Hawks in hopes of stealing the couple's 55-foot, Newport Beach-based yacht.The panel ruled that U.S. District Court Judge Phili ... More >>
Orange County's Alain Cruz is immensely frustrated that nobody in California's judicial system is listening to cries that he's been railroaded.Cruz was involved in the January 2005 shooting death of a con artist who operated a stolen phone service operation.But Cruz didn't shoot Melvin Liufau (AKA " ... More >>
A federal judge has dismissed a convicted felon's $75 million libel lawsuit against OC Weekly and a veteran staff writer after concluding the accusations had no merit.In his Nov. 6 ruling, Judge George H. King declared that Delecia Ann Holt, a convicted thief and failed Orange County and San Diego C ... More >>
Here at OC Weekly World Headquarters in Costa Mesa we've known for eons that colleague Matt Coker is sadistic.Season after losing season, Coker--an award-winning, veteran journalist--periodically makes himself wear Oakland Raiders paraphernalia to the office as if he's permanently stuck in January 2 ... More >>
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Karen Dee Ableman might be the face of this nation's "war on drugs."Ableman has five criminal drug convictions and, until recently, been sent to prison four times.The incarcerations, though surely painful, weren't experiences painful enough to break her habit.In 2008, the methamphetamine addict/deal ... More >>
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People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has written a letter to the warden of Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla asking that a condition be part of Omaima Aree Nelson's parole, should the state board grant the model-turned-cannibal wife's request today. See if you ... More >>
From the bizarre--PETA seeking a vegan diet be a condition of cannibal wife Omaima Nelson's parole--we move now to the sublime:LIVE NUDE OMAIMA!OK, so she's not exactly live, and the NSFW photo after the jump could very well have been photoshopped. But it is definitely nude . . .
How could I forget that Thanksgiving weekend 1991 rampage? Egyptian-born model and 24-year-old nanny Omaima Aree Nelson bludgeoned, skinned and chopped up her husband of two months--and twice her age--in their Costa Mesa apartment. With her olive skin, slender form and impeccably dressed in red h ... More >>
Parole was denied for Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten for the 19th time.Van Houten, who is behind bars at the California Institution for Women at Frontera, was convicted of murder and conspiracy in the August 1969 slayings of wealthy grocers Leno and Rosemary La Bianca.A model prisone ... More >>
Death row bound Nelson: I'm innocent!Retiring Frank F. Fasel is the type of no-nonsense Orange County judge who appreciates people who make their points quickly. But Fasel wasn't impressed by Tanya Jaime Nelson's pithy pre-sentencing message designed to keep herself off California's notorious dea ... More >>
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In my personal opinion, the weekly Health Department Roundups that our own Blake Whitaker writes up are the funniest posts that Eating...Our Words run all week. But even the esteemed Mr. Whitaker has nothing on the original Health Department Hound: Marvin Zindler. In the video above, sent to me by ... More >>
Today ZZ Top is releasing their 15th studio album and first in nine years, LA FUTURA. By all accounts is it much-anticipated. But I'm going to out myself here and now: I do not get why people love ZZ Top. If you are one of those people, can you explain it to me like I'm five years old? Chances are ... More >>
I didn't learn the phrase "jerry-built" until I married [and later divorced] an Englishman. In America, we use the phrase "jerry-rigged" instead, but they mean the same thing: something that's poorly planned, hastily built or just generally thrown together. It's curious that JerryBuilt Homegrown Bur ... More >>
Reports of our demise have been greatly exaggerated. The New York Times is all over our radar these days. Whether it's the Cleveland gang rape story, the former Chronicle employees' wedding announcement or the paper's new subscription service, the Old Gray Lady has been more relevant for the ... More >>
Was this kangaroo cooked in a sauce made with pale ale? Because it tastes... hoppy.Welcome back to the weekly roundup here at Eating Our Words, where we're organizing a bonfire of Paula Deen cookbooks. We found Savannah Style a mere two shelves over from Alain Chapel's La cuisine c'est beauco ... More >>
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Fort Bend is opening a new elementary, and they threw open the naming process. Three dozen suggestions came in.Some were old school: Abraham Lincoln Elementary. Honest Abe doesn't tend to get many things named after him these days outside of Illinois.Hillary Clinton Elementary? It would have ... More >>
As we noted earlier this week, the fast-approaching end of the first decade of the 21st century brings with it a lot of lists.Some will be national; this will be strictly local. A lot of great things happened in Houston in the ten years of The Oughts, but a lot of bad things happened too. It's calle ... More >>
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It's been a little over two years since Houston legend Marvin Zindler took his shock wig, blue-tinted eyeglasses and excessively nipped-and-tucked face to that great Ice Machine in the Sky.For a while after his demise, KTRK kept alive his Angels in Action program, where doctors and other professi ... More >>
Next month will be two years since Houston has been robbed of the bewigged, be-surgeried, bellowing presence of Marvin Zindler.His friends and family are planning to mark the occasion with a special presentation of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.Which is kind of odd, really.Zindler was forever ... More >>
So the other night my dear friend Tamarie and I spent too long on the phone engaged in a game called Who Would You Rather? You know, that classic girl game of who you would rather sleep with. The problem was that Tamarie was high on prescription cough syrup, and I'd had a couple of G&Ts, so the co ... More >>
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The New York Times reports today that the veteran anchor, the mainstay glamor position in local TV news, may become a thing of the past.Falling ratings, slashed budgets and the obsession to woo young viewers all has management axing legends who have been around for years in their market.(The Times c ... More >>
If Marvin Zindler came back to life on TV and covered the Houston refinery scene instead of rats and roaches in restaurants, he might be tempted to bellow, "It's hell to run an environmentally responsible refinery!" But Marvin, sadly, ain't coming back, so we'll say something similar, "It must be h ... More >>
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Where: Original Napoli Flying Pizza, 5266 Beechnut, 713-726-1166 What $13 gets you: No-nonsense Italian food. The wait staff at Original Napoli is as refreshingly unpretentious as the restaurant itself, a neighborhood favorite for families, cops and retirees. The place is airy and comfortable thou ... More >>
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Mosby's Canadian Textbook for the Support Worker
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Training to be an effective and responsible support worker, whether in the community or institutional setting, requires the understanding of many important topics. Support workers must learn a broad foundation of skills to perform their role safely and effectively. Mosby's Canadian Textbook for the Support Worker covers everything a student will need to know about working in a variety of health care settings.
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News about Mark Cuban, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
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Aug. 6, 2014
Harvey Araton On Pro Basketball column argues that while Mark Cuban made several good points in his criticism of the NBA's participation in international competitions, he fails to understand its essential value; argues that the Olympics brought basketball to the world stage, vastly increasing the NBA's value, citing the 1992 'Dream Team'. MORE
May. 26, 2014
Charles M Blow Op-Ed column examines Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban's confession, made to Inc magazine, of bigotry on his part; holds that while Cuban's statement contains some ambiguities and errors, it is admirable overall; says Cuban's candor is what is needed in long-awaited national discussion on race. MORE
May. 24, 2014
William C Rhoden Sports of The Times column criticizes tone-deaf, racially prejudiced comments from Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban; argues that comments have cast all NBA owners in a bad light at crucial time when league is reeling from scandal surrounding Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling. MORE
May. 23, 2014
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban apologizes to Trayvon Martin's family over his choice of words in a videotaped interview in which he addressed bigotry and prejudice. MORE
Mar. 30, 2014
Harvey Araton On Pro Basketball column observes that comments by Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban questioning the future of the NFL have sparked reaction and discussion; notes that Cuban predicts the league will 'implode in 10 years' because of its excesses and its health risks. MORE
Oct. 16, 2013
The Securities and Exchange Commission accused Mr. Cuban, the billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks, of using insider information when he sold shares in an Internet company. MORE
Oct. 3, 2013
Mark Cuban, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks basketball team, says he sold shares on the basis of information that he thought was public. MORE
Sep. 29, 2013
On Monday, a new trial begins in the Securities and Exchange Commission's five-year battle with the Dallas Mavericks owner over accusations of insider trading. MORE
Aug. 10, 2013
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban criticizes Major League Baseball's 211-game suspension of New York Yankees star Alex Rodriguez, saying it is unduly harsh. MORE
Apr. 8, 2013
Harvey Araton On Basketball column scorns suggestion by Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban that Baylor star Brittney Griner should try out for NBA, saying that would make a sideshow out of player who has revolutionized women's basketball. MORE
Oct. 9, 2012
Brooklyn Nets guard Deron Williams says absence of Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban from a meeting at which Dallas hoped to lure Williams from the Nets contributed to his staying put. MORE
Jun. 14, 2011
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban stands aside to let team's original owner Don Carter accept the championship trophy from NBA Commissioner David Stern, then breaks his postseason silence during news conference. MORE
Jun. 1, 2011
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban keeps uncharacteristically low profile as his team takes on Miami Heat in NBA Finals. MORE
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Judge Dismisses Suit Against Mark Cuban
The S.E.C. failed to prove a crucial point in its insider trading case against the Dallas Mavericks owner, a federal judge ruled.July 18, 2009 businessNews
Mark Cuban Is Charged With Insider Trading
The S.E.C. filed a civil suit against the Internet entrepreneur for selling shares of an Internet search company in 2004.November 18, 2008 businessNews
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There Are Messages in All That Money
Two NBA big spenders — one self made; one a legacy; both with different visions — collided last night as the most bankrolled teams in the league met at Madison Square Garden.March 21, 2007 sportsNews
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The Idled Workaholic
Mark Cuban is sitting on a very soft couch, in a room of his house in which the ceilings are at least 20 feet distant and the television is larger than the fireplace. ''Money,'' he says, ''is a scoreboard where you can rank how you're doing against other people.''March 5, 2000 technologyNews
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$5.6 Billion Deal by Yahoo Reported Set
Yahoo is expected to announce today that it has agreed to buy Broadcast.com in a stock swap valued at $5.6 billion.April 1, 1999 technologyNews
The N.F.L.'s Cultural Juggernaut May Risk Market Saturation
Prognosticators of doom for the N.F.L. say the league is getting too greedy, particularly in the expansion of its television package.
August 31, 2014, Sunday
Cuban Loses Sight of the Role of International Play
Following Paul George's horrific injury, Mark Cuban commented that the I.O.C. played a trick in "convincing the world that the Olympics were about patriotism and pride instead of money." His stance misses the point.
August 6, 2014, Wednesday
Rebutting Mark Cuban on Bigotry
He gets points for candor, but the conversation can't end there.
May 26, 2014, Monday
Cuban Talks His Way Onto a Limb Occupied by Sterling
Mark Cuban, the owner of the Mavericks, sounded somewhat tone deaf while admitting that he harbors prejudice.
May 24, 2014, Saturday
Mavericks' Owner Offers Apology
The Dallas Mavericks' owner, Mark Cuban, apologized to Trayvon Martin's family over his choice of words in a videotaped interview in which he addressed bigotry and prejudice.
May 23, 2014, Friday
A Struggling Start-Up Dives Into the 'Shark Tank'
Appearing on the ABC reality show, Jayla Siciliano said, was "one of my last-ditch efforts to raise more money."
May 14, 2014, Wednesday
Ball Is in the N.B.A. Owners' Court
Though Mark Cuban, the outspoken owner of the Dallas Mavericks, suggested thinking twice before rushing to force Donald Sterling to sell the Clippers, the N.B.A. vote on the matter should be an uncontested layup.
April 30, 2014, Wednesday
Cuban the Firebrand, and the Futurist
Mark Cuban's recent comments about the future of the N.F.L. have sparked a reaction and a discussion.
March 30, 2014, Sunday
Can You Trust 'Secure' Messaging Apps?
Messaging apps and security are two of the hottest topics in tech, though it's not always easy to be sure you can trust the wave of supposedly secure messaging services out now.
March 19, 2014, Wednesday
A Surprise Guest at the S.E.C.'s Annual Gathering
While its annual conference is typically an opportunity for the Securities and Exchange Commission to reflect on the past year's triumphs, the presence of Mark Cuban, the billionaire entrepreneur, was a reminder of a case the agency lost.
February 21, 2014, Friday
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November 28, 2014
Parkersburg remains in the running for a cracker plant. Officials toured the area scouting for a possible location.
Wood County Economic Director Cam Huffman cannot confirm or deny whether surveyors were in the area Tuesday, and says he can't talk about what location might be considered.
West Virginia may have been passed up last year for one cracker plant, but there's still a chance another one could be built in the mountain state.
A big boost for the local economy could be right around the corner.
"Of course it's no secret Wood County is in the running for the possibility of a cracker plant," says Mayor Bob Newell
The valley is still in the running for a cracker plant, but what kind of plant or even what company may build is still unclear.
"It's a big operation. It's several billions of dollars to build it, it takes a long time to build it and it creates a lot of jobs during construction and afterwards. The company, whoever that is, when they decide, it will really be up to them. They'll need to have all their paperwork done and property assembled. They have to do all that before they announce and so I'm sure that's still a ways off."
But what is clear is why our area is a prime location to build.
"I think what leaves us in the running is number one there's a good workforce here in Wood County. I think that's been pretty well touted by Hino and other places around the state and really around the country. The other thing is there's some property that is available as I understand is close to the railroad, the river, the highway system and that's one of the main things they look for when they're looking at locations.
And although somewhat controversial in it's methods, the cracker plant would create jobs and a thriving economy on both sides of the river.
"It would mean a lot. It would mean first of all, jobs. Jobs with pretty decent benefits. Manufacturing jobs. It would do a lot for the entire economy on both sides of the Ohio River and this entire region. As far as Parkrsburg itself, it would mean more population and more jobs again, and that's very important to us."
Mayor Newell says when the decision is made, it will come from Governor Tomblin's office in Charleston. He excects an announcement in a few months.
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Jenny McCarthy and Brian Urlacher have broken up.
The Playboy model and Chicago Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher kept a low profile during their relationship, but she confirmed the split herself today.
"Brian and I have decided to turn our romance into an amazing friendship," she said. "I will continue to be the biggest cheerleader for him. Go, Bears!"
McCarthy, 39, played coy when reporters questioned her about her relationship in April, around the time romance rumors with Urlacher, 34, first began.
She said simply, "I'm giddy about someone."
The following month, she acknowledged, "I can confirm that yes, it's true, we are dating," but would only continue with, "Go, Bears – that's all I'll say."
Here's wishing both the best in their future professional and romantic endeavors. Couple of good catches back on the market at least.
Well, unless you're a Packer fan. Even so, the much-hyped July-August Jenny McCarthy Playboy photos speak for themselves, right cheeseheads?
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Wrong pic guys....that is NHRA Top fuel driver Tony Schumacher...
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Thats not Brian, LOL....
Wow, I honestly assumed this assumed this romance wasn't going to end anytime soon since they seemed so into each other from what she said on Live With Kelly not long ago. In fact they just showed a repeat of that very episode and it seemed like she was crazy about him. Oh well, maybe they're better off as friends.Best of luck to both of them. Go Bears :) keep smiling Jenny :) you're awesome
That is not Brian Urlacher THG!!!! I think you guys showed the same pic when you first talked about them getting together.
That is definitely not Brian Urlacher in that pic! That guy is a total used car salesman not a pro football player.
With the way that woman goes through men ... It would be like throwing a hot dog down a hallway. Poor child will grow up and stil be asking if The Mask Jim Carey is his daddy . Which he is not btw . it's some other dude . Time to close up shop Jenny and be a mommy . Stop be "cute".
That is not Brian Urlacher in that picture!
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I just left a week long retreat at what many people, including the other guests, would call a "Fat Farm". I went as a part of my year long project for my own rejuvenation which I have named "Project ReCharge". The fat farm, better known as Hilton Head Health is located on Hilton Head Island in South Carolina and attracts fat people from all over the United States and around the world.


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HP's $1bn 'Linux for the cloud' dream: Will Helion float?
macro points on market participants in OpenStack and red hat
Some things I think people should consider.
In my view, when looking at a new segment (e.g. IaaS, PaaS, Hadoop/BigData, No/NewSQL Data), both existing large companies and smaller for-profit companies need to carefully study and look for the best places and best chance to participate, add value and make money. Also looking to see if there are existing companies that might have a very good shot at winning parts of that new market, and look to avoid or complement those.
In the case of OpenStack, which is an open-source centric market area, and where the key technologies relies alot on Linux, and to some extent KVM, I would think that people would give Red Hat a pretty good chance at winning the major role in this market. Looking at Red Hat and seeing that they have become the #1 contributor to the project, and given Red Hat's track record in linux and jboss, and in being able to balance community with commercial open source to profitable success, I would stay away from the key market area that Red Hat is targeting.
If I add in the fact that openstack, when combined with Linux and kvm is kind of like "Super-sized-Linux" in many ways, and it will require a strong third party ecosystem of hardware and software participants and developers. I would then look and see if players in this market have experience in this area, have existing relationships with ISV's and IHV's, and are trusted by the third parties to build a sustainable platform, price it fair and provide updates and support. On that front Red Hat would be in the best position, and maybe IBM has some chops there, and VMWare some, but they are not fully in with OpenStack from what I see. Given that you have a company in Red Hat, that most all ISV and IHV companies would trust to be a solid, stable company, and have support and technical skills to back up their solution, and open source skills to balance community and commercial interests, I am not sure why people are trying to take the core Openstack part of the business. That is a very tough battle.
I think it is better to get some concentration of force around one company that can be trusted to drive it forward, and build applications and hardware and software solutions around it. Having 5-10+ OpenStack versions confuses third party ISVs, IHVs and end customers.
I can see why someone like HP fancies going after this area. They currently have no strategic infrastructure software (i.e. virtualization, operating system, database, middleware), and with IaaS emerging as a strategic new infrastructure technology, I can see why they would want to try it. The challenge is that their ability to attract an ecosystem that includes their head-head system vendors like Cisco, Dell, IBM and others, is very unlikely to happen. I just don't see it happening.
HP drops $1bn, two-year OpenStack cash bomb
HP is sounding Oracle-esque, except...
they don't own any strategic, or high value software. They are sounding like Oracle/Sun about the complete system and all the parts from one vendor. Though not sure that is working that well for Oracle, and they have an incredible global lockin customer base with their database, and many application level software plays that give them more credibility to try and pull off the "complete system" play. HP has mainly hardware, and that is a commodity game, and Intel and their white-box marketing machine will eat them up in the next 2-5 years is my prediction. I give HP credit for trying this, but doubt it will work.
Red Hat teams up with community-based RHEL lookalike CentOS
Sounds like a brilliant move
CentOS has been a great "market development" tool for Red Hat and has helped hold back any serious competitors - ala Suse, Ubuntu or others in the server market. Now it looks like Red Hat is raising the game in open source by adapting an additional model. These guys created the dual community (Fedora) and commercial (RHEL) model well ahead of anyone, and have now applied it to Jboss, Storage, Virtualization, OpenStack and their PaaS OpenShift. Splitting a community version and a commercial version. But this takes it to a different level.
I give Red Hat credit for having the guts to do this, and I bet it baffles many of the large industry vendors and cloud providers that were hoping that Centos somehow kept Red Hat from getting too strong or influential. Will see how it all plays out, but my guess is that many "strategy" folks at these large companies will be scrambling to figure out what this means. When they do, Red Hat may then shift to another level of open source models.
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Larry Ellison: Google is ABSOLUTELY EVIL, but NSA is ESSENTIAL
Pot and kettle on copying - kinda disgusting !
How does Larry's rationalize this comment:
"I don't see how he thinks you can just copy someone else's stuff. It really bothers me," the database mogul continued.
With what he has been doing in Linux for the last 5+ years. He came out and said "Red Hat is not supporting Linux properly, so we need to have an Oracle version, but it will be 100% compatible with Red Hat". This sure sounds like copying someone else's software to me.
He needs to give up whining about the position that Sun was in when Google started using Java, Where Sun begged them to please support Java, for free.
Larry, larry, larry, you are riding a slow moving boat, with many boat anchors on board (SPARC, Solaris, Oracle Apps, Fusion Middleware). Good thing you have your database. But wait, that one is taking on water also with Hadoop and NoSQL models taking shape.
Ride that baby down hard, and keep getting plastic surgery, but remember your ship is taking on water my friend.
Salesforce and Oracle forge partnership to smash rivals
Skeptically, it seems to me...
1) From the SF.com point of view - they are dependant on the Oracle DB on the back end, and it has served them well in buidling their offerings. They wanted to get a great, cheap, and predictable-over-time price for the DB as they keep expanding their user base. They also likely wanted to avoid the potential to have their price increased dramatically on a renewal of their license and support agreement at any point.
So I see this as mainly SF.com cementing a predictable cost structure for their infrastructure technologies. They made noises and motions about shifting to PostgreSQL, as part of the dance of negotiation with Oracle (hiring key Postres engineers for example). It seems that SF.com had a pretty good upper hand in the discussions, but also was pretty trapped into the Oracle DB as the back end for all their solutions. So the reality of switching to Postgres would be ugly and costly for them.
I am sure SF.com does not really want to run Exa-systems or Oracle Linux, and get themselves further locked into more Oracle technologies. Since Exa-systems are the opposite of being able to take advantage of low-cost scale out computing with x86 systems and infrastructure software (mainly open source). But to get the best price, they agreed to tell the world they will use these other Oracle technologies that are lackluster at best.
2) From the Oracle view - this, and the Microsoft cloud move, are about realizing that they are slipping on many fronts in the modern, cloud computing era. With hardware, middleware, and Oracle apps sales all being very challenged, and some new challengers to their database technologies (Hadoop, NoSQL, NewSQL), they had to do something since people are not buying the Exa-system message or story. So I think they gave the deal-of-a-lifetime on the cost side of the DB to SF.com, and they will be able to keep saying SF.com uses their database. I doubt SF.com will use many of their Exa-systems, or Oracle Linux, or Oracle Java, as the employee antibodies at SF.com against doing so, will be hard to change. While Marc B is off trotting around the globe pitching SF.com I doubt he will be checking on how the Exa evaluations are going.
So, I see this as a good win for SF.com to get a cheap, key piece of their infrastructure for many years, and Oracle gets to keep saying a hot company uses their DB, and the rest as "much ado about nothing" or "frivolous noise".
Oracle puts database, middleware, Linux on Microsoft Hyper-V, Azure
Okay, okay - let's get real here !
What I see, skeptically, is two, aging giants, who were forced to play nice together, as they are getting their lunches eaten from nearly every direction they play in.
Both running from the onslaught of SaaS offerings that are outfoxing them, and from open source based solutions in operating systems, database, middleware, and the new data and big-data wave. The open source stuff is eating them in multiple directions, both on-premise and in cloud computing.
And in Microsoft's case, hurting from the explosion in mobile devices and pad computing, with a bit role so far, and one that encroaches on their core Windows client and Office cash-cows.
I am trying to figure out who was more desperate to get a deal like this done, and best I can tell it was "equal mutual desperation", almost a 50/50 split. Though I doubt it will help either one of them over the long haul a whole bunch.
It actually reminds me a lot of the Sun and Microsoft 10 year partnership announced awhile back with Ballmer and McNealy trading hockey jerseys. That one did not even dent an upside for Sun, and I doubt this one will do anything for Oracle here.
But it is kinda fun to see two old guard guys - Hurd and Ballmer up there yabbing about how great this is.
NetApp reveals Exadata backup plan
Funny exa-numbers ?
IDC only takes data from what vendors tell them. And Oracle has been changing their story on Exadata, and Exadata and Exalogic numbers. This link below describes it and points to the earnings call transcripts.
I have heard that Oracle has been asking their sales reps to do weekly forecast updates for Exa products (instead of monthly for others), and 3-year forecasts for Exa (instead of 1 year for other products), which to me feels like someone desperate to try and get people to believe that there is a huge pipeline of demand and opportunity, that may not really be there. Somewhat un-natural motions, since it seems to me that they will be hard to sell in any decent volumes. That was somewhat of my original point. That Oracle has been, and continues to talk up the "demand" and interest, to try and convince people they need one and they are flying off the shelves.
I wish someone would actually do a survey of end users or VAR's and see if any real value, Not an interview with the Oracle distributors, since they will just say what Oracle tells them.
I predict the next 12-18 months volume predictions will keep getting pulled downward by Oracle, unless they stop providing details to the market, since it may be too embarrassing.
I smell something funny
Sounds like a bad business decision to me. So NetApp can sell to the 100+ Exadata customers in the world ? The Exadata systems will be low volume sellers, and Oracle will try to force Sun/Oracle storage sales to them. So why would NetApp waste their time on this ?
My guess is that Oracle had something on them, like "we won't certify any of your storage systems for our Oracle Database, unless you come out with a compatible storage system for our overpriced engineered systems".
It really feels like Oracle is going to great pains to convince people that Exadata and Exa-everything are big sellers and in high demand. But it is not true. They had to admit on their last earnings call that it is below forecast, and it sure smells like a bunch of baloney to me.
NetApp was likely strong-armed into this, and Oracle Exa systems are the next Data Generals and Primes of the world.
Oracle revs home-tweaked Linux kernel to 2.0
We are here to help, trust us....
OK - so let me get this straight. The new kernel is better than other Linux kernels, but....it may break a variety of software applications or device drivers that run on those other popular Linux versions. And if I buy this, I get to also buy more Oracle/Sun servers and storage and "engineered systems" that will all work faster and better. But I don't seem to get strong compatibility with the whole world of x86 based server systems (Dell, HP, IBM, etc), storage (NetApp, EMC, etc), and software applications that run on, let's say Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Or maybe I do, they seem to say something about some version being compatible with Red Hat, but then I get lost trying to figure out what they are saying.
For that matter, it seems that I may also have issues if I want to use the virtualization market leader VMWare, with these new Oracle software offerings, since they prefer I use their virtualization solution, which has "1-2% market share" (and I think that is market share within Oracle users even). I certainly don't know anyone running Oracle virtualization who also does buy millions of dollars of their other offerings.
This sure feels like a big pain for any software company or corporate application developer who wants to support a wide range of hardware and software options to try and support. I guess that is Oracle's plan, to make everyone buy 100% of everything from Oracle. Which feels like the battle from 40 years ago, but maybe they are smarter than everyone. It will be interesting to see how the sales of their products go over the next 12-18 months as the landscape changes.
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capillarySaltos de línea: ca¦pil|lary
Pronunciación: /kəˈpɪləri /
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sustantivo (plural capillaries)
1 Anatomy Any of the fine branching blood vessels that form a network between the arterioles and venules.
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- Blood obtained from a skin puncture is a mixture of arterioles, venules and capillaries and contains interstitial and intracellular fluids.
- Between the arteries and the veins are networks of tiny blood vessels called capillaries.
- Immature vessels coalesce to form larger vessels and organize into capillaries, arterioles, and venules.
2 (also capillary tube) A tube which has an internal diameter of hair-like thinness.
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- Different diameter capillary tubes are used for thinner or thicker oils.
- Scientists have long used ultra-fine glass tubes known as capillaries to analyze the chemical makeup of substances.
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adjetivo[attributive] Volver al principio
Relating to capillaries or capillarity: capillary blood
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- One of the most colorful controversies in the first decade of the 20th century concerned how oxygen moved across the pulmonary capillary wall into the blood.
mid 17th century: from Latin capillaris, from capillus 'hair', influenced by Old French capillaire.
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Clayton Kershaw will make 33 percent more, per annum, than David Letterman. He will make twice as much as Howard Stern.
His $30.7 million average annual salary will be just $14 million shy of what Carl Pohlad paid for the entire Minnesota Twins franchise in 1984.
It exceeds the 2013 opening day payroll for the 25 men who comprised the Houston Astros.
And it will be $5 million more, per year, than Alex Rodriguez received in 2000, when the Texas Rangers gave him the deal that would absolutely, positively destroy Major League Baseball.
The notion that the game even had a mild temperature, let alone a terminal illness, has always been quaintly ludicrous. Yet, 20 years ago, that was the gospel.
The networks were so disinterested that MLB was forced to produce the telecasts themselves and sell them as part of "The Baseball Network," which wound up showing LCS games simultaneously.
The 1994 players' strike wiped out a postseason, and everyone's next-door neighbor vowed never to darken a stadium doorway again.
Now that neighbor can't get a ticket in many places, can't afford one in many others.
The sport isn't losing money, it's oozing money. The latest example of its tightening hold on America is Pittsburgh, where the average fan on the street couldn't name five Pirates. This year the Bucs not only had a winning season, they made the playoffs for the first time since 1992, and set a club attendance record.
Those $44 million Twins are estimated to be worth $700 million today.
Since 1995, MLB's revenues have rocketed from $1.1 billion to $8 billion. A new national-TV deal with its three rights-holders will bring in almost $800 million next year alone.
See, Clayton? You sold yourself short.
What happened Wednesday, and what probably will be announced by the Dodgers on Friday, is a confirmation of what should happen.
Kershaw is the most consistently outstanding player in the game today, along with Miguel Cabrera, and he is going to get the best contract ever given to a pitcher and the highest average-annual-value deal in the game's history.
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UK interdealer broker Icap reported rising revenues and profits this morning, after a successful year for its growing electronic broking business.Revenue was up 13% to £919 million, and pre-tax profit rose 16% to £204 million, the company said. Following investment in the electronic broking business, operating profit for electronic broking rose to a record 30%.
Chief executive Michael Spencer said the company would further expand its electronic arm: "We will continue to further extend our electronic broking business into an increasing number of markets with highly liquid, commoditised products and grow our voice-broking business into more structured products," said Spencer.
Icap expects growth in particular in FX, energy, credit and equity derivatives, and in emerging markets and structured products generally. Electronic broking would mean lower transaction costs and more efficient trading, which would also drive additional growth in more commoditised markets.
Icap also announced a management shakeup. In April, the broker agreed the takeover of the currency broker EBS for $775 million. After the merger, Icap said, Icap's and EBS' electronic broking arms will be merged under Jack Jeffery, at present chief executive of EBS; his deputy will be David Rutter, now chief executive of Icap Electronic Broking in North America. The integration will be overseen by executive director Steve McDermott.
Icap said its estimated market share is 28-29%. Its goal is to have at least 35% of the market, the company said.
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TYLER - The T.I.S.D.. bond election is coming up which could mean several new schools for Tyler but, opponents say the price tag is too much.
As election day gets closer T.I.S.D.. officials are holding several meetings with hopes to pass nearly a $90 million bond to expand Tyler schools but, local grassroots members say that $90 million bond is actually $145 million dollars when you include interest.
The debate has gone back and fourth between the Grassroots America We The People group and with Tyler school officials. Last week, the group sent an invitation to T.I.S.D.. asking them to hold several town hall style meetings. Members of the grassroots group tell us T.I.S.D. has agreed, sort of. There's still no word on the specific request for a town hall meeting from T.I.S.D.. but, they have set up several "informational meetings" and Tyler school officials say people are welcome to attend.
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wind power to include in a green-power pricing tariff. Case No. 2740, Sept. 30, 1997 (N.M.P.U.C.).
Fuel Supply Hedging. The Maine commission extended an earlier ruling permitting Bangor Hydro-Electric Co. to enter price-hedge agreements for both natural gas and oil supply requirements. The new authorization runs through Feb. 29, 2000, to coincide with the scheduled initiation of retail competition in the state on March 1 of the same year. Docket No. 97-738, Oct. 14, 1997 (Me.P.U.C.).
Water Ratemaking Issues. The Pennsylvania PUC approved a controversial long-term incentive rate contract that Consumers Pennsylvania Water Co. claimed was necessary to retain a large industrial user. It also approved a 10.98-percent rate of return on equity and allowed the company to recover additional expenses for an admittedly high supply loss due to the acquisition of troubled water companies in recent years. Finally, the PUC reversed a ruling by the administrative law judge in the case and allowed the company to retain all gains from the sale of watershed land it had acquired when it purchased two water systems. Docket Nos. r-00973869, Oct. 14, 1997 (Pa.P.U.C.).
Natural Gas Choice. The Minnesota PUC has decided
to accelerate its review of competition in the state's natural gas industry. Several parties, including Enron Capital & Trade Resources Corp., want the commission to adopt rules to increase competition by requiring gas utilities to stop selling supplies by 2003 and instead distribute gas sold by other vendors. While agreeing that customer choice in the local gas market can "drive down price, improve quality, and spur technological innovation," the PUC does not plan to introduce competition yet, but convened a working group to study such a move. Docket No. g-999/r-97-1317, Oct. 28, 1997 (Minn.P.U.C.).
Telecom Certification. Noticing an increase in merger-
and acquisition-related activity in telecommunications, the Alabama commission decided to step up enforcement of its certification and notification rules for the industry. The commission said that all acquiring entities that do not otherwise possess authority to provide certain services must seek a certificate of public convenience. Docket 15957, Oct .23, 1997 (Ala.P.S.C.).
PBR Plans. The Oregon PUC rejected an agreement to
institute a new form of regulation for Pacific Power and Light Co., finding that the proposed performance-based rate plan would "likely result in higher rates than would be charged under traditional regulation." The utility, the state Department of Energy, the Citizens' Utility Board and major environmental groups had supported the plan. The commission agreed to keep the case open and directed parties to provide comments on how regulatory reforms might benefit ratepayers. The rejected plan included a 9.1-percent increase in consumer rates and a separate systems benefit charge to cover ongoing demand-side management and renewables incentives. Re PacifiCorp, dba Pacific Power & Light Co., UE 94 (Phase II, Order No. 97-371, Sept, 1997 (Ore.P.U.C.).
Public Policy Programs. The California PUC set dead-
lines of Oct. 1, 1998 and Jan. 1, 1999, respectively, to create advisory boards to oversee energy efficiency and low-income programs. The commission also authorized funding for advisory board start-up costs of $905,300 for energy efficiency and $839,000


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Mac security packages range from peachy to rancid – antivirus tests
Re: Sophos not good with Mavericks in my experience
I only recently installed Sophos on to a Mavericks box and it hasn't managed to complete a full scan yet. It did quarantine a few browser nasties but was not able to delete them. There could indeed be Mavericks issues?
Help! Apple has snaffled the WHOLE WORLD'S supply of sapphire glass
Re: Blimey!
(n.b. by scientist, I mean one who actually uses science to solve a problem, not someone who is called a scientist and then punches their way to victory).
Or runs off to write a GUI in Visual Basic to track an IP...
Got the Sapphire and Steel DVDs. Still creepy.
Ghosts of Christmas Past: Ten tech treats from yesteryear
Great days
My brother got a Big Trak for Christmas once, along with the trailer and we all played with it constantly. But it didn't freak the dog out like the one on the advert.
Ditto with the Atari VCS. PacMan was a massive favourite and we would work in shifts trying to get the score counter to rollover. The ghosts always moved in the same way if you moved PacMan along the same route all the time. A local video shop used to rent out cartridges and we would get The Empire Strikes Back to play on it, which was a remarkably good game.
My favourite ever Chrimble present was an Aiwa personal stereo, a beautiful brushed aluminium device that I carried everywhere. I'd begged for one after listening to my Hooked on Classics tape on an uncle's original Sony Walkman.
I agree with another poster who said that kids probably don't get the same rush of excitement that we olds did in the 70s and 80s. I think it was truly a Golden Age for interesting and engaging toys and gadgets. Thanks for the memories, Reg!
Bacteria-chomping phages could kill off HOSPITAL SUPERBUGS
Good news!
I saw an Horizon documentary about phages a good number of years ago (when antibiotic resistance wasn't even being talked about in the meeja), which showed a bunch of Russian boffins scooping water out of sewerage plants. Can't believe that the West is only just coming round to looking at this. It'll be interesting to see how this research progresses.
(Except that the Daily Mail won't have any Superbug of Death stories to 'report' on)
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it ... Win Phone 8? No, it's APPLE'S iOS 7
Quite like it
It's an okay update. The flatter icons are growing on me (make third party icons look a bit messy and silly now) and I like the new Control Centre, something I've been envious of my Android-weilding chums for some time. But I have noticed that the up-down slide of Notification and Control Centres can be a bit hit and miss.
I do like having multiple pages for apps in folders but, like a previous poster commented on, only having a 3x3 grid of icons on each page is a bit pointless, especially on the iPad.
One thing I'm not keen on is that the Photos app no longer displays photos in full screen, unless I'm missing something obvious. The Collections idea of organising photos is probably useful but not something I see myself using.
Overall, it's a decent upgrade for my three year old iPhone 4 and I see no reason for switching for Android (won't touch Microsoft) just yet. But a bigger screen iPhone would be nice...
Upgrade took ages to download but that's only because I live in the sticks and my broadband is delivered by arthritic donkeys. Otherwise no installation problems.
Myst: 20 years of point-and-click adventuring
Loved it!
Great review, though slightly depressing to know that Myst is now 20 years old!
I remember playing Myst on a Mac LC475 in 93-94. Preferring sometimes to escape the real world, Myst was perfect and totally immersive to me. I remember trying to plot the underground railway on the Selenitic Age because I didn't realise that the sounds made by the rail car related to another Age and so I wandered around for hours, totally lost, trying to find the end. Myst succeeded in making you work for your eureka moments, pushing you to make apparently unrelated connections to complete a section of the game.
Riven I absolutely loved and spent about six months playing nothing else. I even took to long drives to figure out a problem whenever I got stuck. Like many players I also took to noting down puzzle solutions in a little book. I think it was the genius of the games that made you feel like you were an explorer.
The following sequels, whilst great to play and beautiful to look at, didn't really engage me as much as the originals, probably because I felt the puzzles to be too convoluted and obscure when compared to Myst and Riven.
Purchasing both titles for my iPad was a no-brainer, but would love to play them again on a desktop. I heard somewhere that the original source files for Riven were lost and so a higher res version cannot be re-rendered for today's PCs?
Happy 50th birthday, Compact Cassette: How it struck a chord for millions
Great article, which, on a Monday morning has made me go all misty-eyed as I think back to wet early morning paper-rounds and various personal stereos: a Toshiba, with the the FF and RW buttons over the tape spools, and then a gorgeous aluminium Aiwa that was not much bigger than the cassette itself.
My first 'home' recorder was an Hitachi mono thing I got for Christmas in 1983 (along with Sky's Cadmium, the first proper album I ever owned). Being a withdrawn teenager, I used to put 'comedy' tapes of and my mates together but to make it sound even 'funnier', I used to let the batteries drain first so the tape would run slower. Playback at normal speed later meant that my voice was speeded up, thus adding the to the comedy gold!
The only problem I ever had was with cheaply manufactured tapes that the Hitachi would eat from time to time (some of the longer albums had to be put on to thinner tape) and would have me trying to tease the tape out of the mechanism. Sellotape worked wonders for sticking tape back together if it ever broke.
Happy days!
Space-walker nearly OPENED HELMET to avoid DROWNING
I think only this can sum this story up...
Swedish teens GO BERSERK in Instagram sex pic slut riot
Whatever did we do before social networking?
IT support bod? Whatever you earn, it's not enough
Got out of support a long time ago
So I do feel for tech support guys and, if I ever have a problem, I try to be nice to be nice.
I'm in design and development now but share an office with our IT manager (it's only a small company and so he's the one and only IT guy). However, because I use computers for more than just banging in numbers and printing stuff out, I'm also expected to answer IT problems whenever I pick up our IT guy's phone and know instantly what the problem is. As I'm not really qualified to answer IT-related support questions I generally just ask them to call back, and usually get a bit of attitude in response.
Best internal support call I got was "Is there a problem with the network? My keyboard has stopped working!" She had kicked it out the back of the PC. Yes flower, we plug all keyboards into the company server now...
Met bobbies get CSI kit to probe perps' mobes
Does the course that the rozzers undertake teach them how to write a GUI in Visual Basic to track the tea-leafs' IP?
Iran threatens to chuck sueball at Google over missing gulf
To paraphrase Marcus Brigstocke...
Put on a Pink Floyd record and chill the fuck out
Txt-speak is a sign of humanity 4 U
Hear hear!
Old bean.
Ten... eight-bit classic games
Pretty much agree with the whole list, except Hungry Horace, which I never played: I was put off my Horace Goes Skiing.
Elite was by far the best game of the 80s. I used to play it on a mate's BBC Model B with another chum, a Spectrum owner. Because of the frankly weird placement of the Break key on the Beeb, and because we had to wait half an hour for Elite to load from tape, we had the rule that if you accidentally pressed it during your allotted hour of play, you forfeited your go, no exceptions. Said friend then got a 5.25 floppy drive to load it from, unbelievably fast load times!
And yes, nearly 30 years later I'm playing Oolite!
Used to play Jet Set Willy a lot on the other friend's Spectrum. I had a Vic-20 and so was stuck with Perils of Willy. Had Jelly Monsters and a bunch of text adventures on cartridge, including Pirates' Cove, which was ace!
Of course, there are many games not on the list. Others that stand out for me were Sentinel, Sabre Wulf, Imogen, Repton 3. Of the latter, I designed and tested a whole load of levels on graph paper before begging my mate to lend me his Beeb so that I could code them.
Thanks for the great memories Reg and fellow posters!
Game of Thrones Blu-ray disc set
Re: Hoping for a bit more romance in the series
Only as long as the theme for the reception isn't Red...
Re: The best
I bought the Lord of the Rings Blu Ray set a while before buying an actual player! Only a bog standard Panasonic 80 quidder. The GoT discs do look amazing though: the prologue scene of episode one in the snow looks absolutely gorgeous.
So, what IS the worst film ever made?
Re: Sunshine
Totally agree. I expected so much more from Danny Boyle and was pretty much bored for most of it. I'm trying to rack my brains now to remember the plot (apart from spaceship going to try and stop the sun going out) but can't...
Apple New iPad Wi-Fi only
Re: Overpriced gadget from a corrupt company
I see what you did there! I was going to suggest that you take your meds until I read the last paragraph!
Don't ownan iPad (though I am a 'fanboi'), but I'll probably be going for the 3 a couple of months down the line...
More evidence that neutrinos are NOT faster than light
Media coverage?
I wonder if this result will be splashed across the news broadcasts as much as the initial result was? I doubt it will even get a "and finally..." mention, leaving the masses believing that Einstein was wrong, science is wrong and that we should all believe in the religionist claptrap that the anti-science establishment have been vomiting all along...
Mac demand helps Apple business bloom in Blighty
And me
I've been a Mac user since 1990, having gone through an SE, and LC475, G3, G4 and now Mac Pro and MacBook Pro. I've always found that though Macs are inherently expensive, their shelf life is much longer and they keep their value well. My current rev1 Mac Pro is now edging into 'over the hill' territory when I discovered last week that the original X1900 graphics card won't run Portal 2 (any recommendations for a new card that is compatible with this model?) and the original SuperDrive is becoming very flaky. Still, throwing more memory at it and plugging in bigger disks (2x 2Tb, 1x1Tb, 1x500Gb Western Digitals) continues to keep this a relevant machine for me, even if I would like a new 12-core behemoth.
In that time, friends and colleagues have gone through various incarnations of cheaper machines - laptops and desktops - and upgraded at least a couple of times due to hardware failures and Windows support.
Similarly, I have managed to turn other people on to Macs over the years and their satisfaction levels have remained consistently high.
Yes, Apple kit is expensive. Yes, you can get similar specs for less cash but overall Macs last longer, hold their value and generally support the latest OSs and applications. Running VMWare on my Mac Pro also means that I can run work stuff if I need to.
My only regret, being an Apple user, is that I didn't buy APPL stock in the 90s...
Government launches hydrogen motoring task force
No ta
I'll wait for 2015 when the Mr Fusion comes out...
Darwin's lost fossils found down the back of a cupboard
To paraphrase Chief Wiggum
What IS the fascination with my forbidden closet of mystery??
Rainbow Islands
Great little game
I never really played this in the arcades (much preferred to throw my hard-earned 10ps into Bubble Bobble) but discovered it many years later on MacMAME and had a strange several month addiction to it. Not played it for years though but I think I might dig it out again. Classic game!
The new touchy-feely Doctor Who trend: Worrying
Actually, you're right; I meant Eccleston in the "reimagining". As for the old school, I'm a little bit too young for Hartnell. I vaguely remember Jon Pertwee but Tom Baker was my Dr of choice, with some genuinely scary episodes. Was it "The Ark" where victims got absorbed by some weird alien blob (presumably the picture in the main article)? Scared the crap out of me did that...
I'm not a fan. I kinda stopped watching after the excellent Blink and Empty Child episodes. I found the Rose Tyler / Dave Tennant running around the universe giggling like a couple of ADHD kids on a Red Bull trip annoying after a while. Unfortunately though, I'm vilified by my fellow geeks for not watching it, as not liking it makes me 'un-British'. Even more so for not considering the "edgier" spin-off Torchwood, the biggest pile of unwatchable shite I've ever witnessed. Yes John, we get it, you're gay.
So I ditched Dr Who for the far more interesting American sci-fi: Battlestar Galactica, V, and Flash Forward. Better production, better acted. We Brits can do ace drama; I just don't think think we're that brilliant at sci-fi. Dr Who started off so well with Chris Eccleston (though I generally watch anything he's in) but then just descended into kitsch.
iOS update woes prompt gnashing of teeth for Apple fans
No problems for me
And I kicked the download off at about 6pm. Download was slow but that's because I live in the sticks. Complete upgrade and restoration took about three hours in total. The only thing that went wrong was that I lost all my application groups and had to reorganise my application icons, but not really an issue.
Not had much chance to play with the new OS but it seems a little zippier on the iPhone 4.
007's car outdrives iPhone in battle of the brands
Irony corner
So you think people using an iPhone are illiterate? Read your own post and then maybe get that bullet hole in your foot looked at.
Yes, I am an iPhone user but know the difference between "there" and "their", "its" and "it's", and know exactely [sic] how to spell "exactly".
45% of Android users to upgrade to rival phone OSes
You're assuming that someone actually cares...
Got a non-iPad tablet? Weirdo
Well done sir!
Fondleslab is a great term for tablets, but your French translation "slabettes de fondlage" had me soiling my keyboard. Kudos!
Christ appears in phone advert, secular authorities act
"If religious people actually believed what they said they believed then anyone saying anything against their religion would be laughed at and mocked rather than attacked."
Very good point. Religion is the only thing that automatically assumes immunity from any kind of criticism or analysis, obviously because their 'arguments' are so easy to refute. I'm sick and tired of a secular society having to tippy-toe around these godbotherers, for fear of saying or doing something that they deem "offensive".
Kudos to Phones4U for running this though. However, I think that using religion to sell anything would, as an atheist, put me off. Shouldn't we Free Thinkers be more offended?
Hurry up with webcams in courts, says Sky News boss
Or perhaps the opportunity to make a new Sky 1 show entitled "Guilty or Not Guilty" - if you think the defendent is guilty, press Red now!
I would have thought that this would damage the right to a fair trial, the cornerstone of the English legal system? And aren't journos already allowed to report on court proceedings, within strict parameters?
Ofcom mulls smackdown for rogue religious TV channel
"Ofcom's decision treads awfully carefully though the rights of the religious..."
This is what pisses me off about any form of religion: that it considers itself immune from any kind of criticism, selling tat to the gullible and vulnerable in the name of 'faith'. Had a mainstream non-religious channel made such claims, I suspect Ofcom would not have tread quite so awfully carefully.
And yet we have to 'play nice' to this section of society that believes in magic sky fairies and tells people that they're going to hell if they don't talk to him/her/it every night.
I'll stop now. Once I get on to religion I tend to just ramble and rant inanely. Mine's the one with the God Delusion and Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy in the pocket...
Oxford adds woot! to dictionary
More new words needed
Being Blackadder / Simpsons / etc. fans in our office, us lads are trying to get the words "embiggen", "cromulant", "contrafribularities" and "interfrastically" into the common tongue. Though no-one we know outside these walls know what we mean however.
Nice to see that The Reg uses "embiggen" now and again though!
Come to think of it, "nerdgasm" would be a good one too...
Apple sells world's most expensive flash drive
But I wanted to check out my Blu Ray player that evening and I'd only made the decision a couple of hours earlier to buy one! I agree that a tenner is probably a tad on the steep side but I'm fairly new to the world of digital videogramme equipment...
Oh no!
A company selling stuff with a mark-up? Surely not!
I bought myself a Blu Ray player a couple of weeks ago from a "high street electrical store" and was asked if I wanted a HDMI cable because one wasn't supplied in the box. A gold plated cable from them cost £30 but it came supplied with a little bottle of screen cleaner.
Similar HDMI cable from Tesco: a tenner.
I hate to break it to you Apple deniers but companies do this a lot. Kinda page one of "Economics, How to Make a Profit". And, like many others have said, this is a bargain if installation is allowed on a fresh disk, without Snow Leopard being on there first...
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy: Blu-ray extended edition
Received mine this morning. Found on Amazon.co.uk for £42, so snapped it up. Now all I need is a Blu Ray player! Was going to wait until next month but I think a trip to Comet/Amazon/Richer Sounds is in order some time later...
Official: Pastafarian strainer titfer is religious headgear
I'm confuzzed...
I thought the whole point of the the Flying Spaghetti Monster was to highlight the inherent ridiculousness of organised religion and blind faith in a magic sky zombie? Becoming a recognised religion pretty much legitimizes the concepts they were rallying against. Or are they being "ironic"?
Could someone enlighten me?
Tag Heuer readies €4700 Froyo phone
Is it just me
or does it seem to be the case that the more expensive something is, the tackier it is? This looks shite.
The KILLER MUTANT FUNGUS in YOUR DISHWASHER
V funny
You have a fungus desk?? Sweet.
But I suspect that the inevitable Daily Mail / Express article will be even funnier. Though in entirely a different way.
Is the whole "May I be the first to welcome our toadstooloid overlords" meme still de rigueur?
iPhone 5? You might be waiting till 2012
Mine too
Got my iPhone 4 last year, with a 24 month contract and was considering flogging it to Mazuma / Envirophone / etc. to get the latest slidy aluminiumness! Then I realised that I really was an Apple whote and thought it best to wait until next year!
Crossing fingers for a big screen though. Buddy of mine has a HTC somethingorother with a bigger screen that the iPhone and it looks awesome!
Richard Branson to prowl oceans' hadal depths in flying sub
Absolutely agree
I don't know why Branson comes in for so much flak when, as you say, he is investing his own money to push the boundaries of technology and engineering forward. We need to get out of this "we're shit" attitude in this country and support our innovators and visionaries, instead of bitching about them. But I guess hoi poloi are only interested in (insert name of vacuous z-list celeb here) and every minutae of their pointless lives...
Read Branson's biography. It's ace!
Mole points to April iOS 5.0 outing
Hopefully, this is a good thing
I am of the opinion that there is room in the world for both Android and iOS. Friends of mine use Android and I'm an iOS man. I know little about the former (because I've never used it) but word on the street is that the next major release of Android is going to be a biggie and I really hope that Apple take note and come back with something as good, if not better, which can only be good for both companies.
I feel that the current iOS is looking a bit dated and so hopefully v5 will be something pretty special.
Apple $10k winner hangs up on 'prank caller'
Raw British cynicism at its best! Someone calls to say you've won a prize; we immediately assume that it's a con. Makes me proud to be English! Had the winner been over the Pond in the Colonies you wouldn't have been able to do anything for all the high-fiving...
Stiff upper lip icon??
The Last Airbender up for nine Razzies
If there was a Razzie for most hyped but failed to deliver movie of the year then Cameron's Avatar should win it. And I paid for a ticket; worst £10 I ever spent...
World+Dog says 'no thanks' to 3D TV
Good movie then?
Going to see it with my geek chums after Chrimble and the only evening showings are in 3D. I must have weird eyes because 3D doesn't work on me and only succeeded in giving me a headache. Disovered that after going to see Avatar, which was a decidedly medicore film...
Pussy-slurping: You think you understand it, BUT YOU DON'T
Beginning of the end
If they manage to manufacture this device as a sex aid for the ladies, that's us men fucked. And not in the good way...
Shut up, Spock! – how Battlestar Galactica beat Trek babble
Excellent article
Thanks for a very good read. I like my scf-fi but hate anything Star Trek for exactly the reasons outlined here. There seems to be this smugness amongst the characters that they know they are much cleverer than the viewer and spout all kinds of technobullshit that the Fanbois take as literal. A friend of mine, a big fan, heard that when Stephen Hawking was given a tour of the set he was heard to say "yes, I'm working on that!" when he saw the Warp Drive. He seems to think that Star Trek 'invented' many of the things we use today, communicators became mobile phones, etc.
This is why I'm a BSG. The technology isn't stuffed in your face and so the story can concentrate on real character development. Characters have weaknesses and faults set against the wider arena of political machinations. I'm a fan of Babylon 5 for the same reasons, which, whilst a bit cheesy in parts, does have some incredible dialog. I want dialog, I don't want a show with a load of bollocks about how a hypermegaplasmeriser works or seeing the characters dicking around in a hologram suite...
Boffin-botherer's LHC doomsday case thrown out on appeal
Thank you Reg!
For giving two fantastic phrases that I will endeavour to weave into every day conversation: Boffin Botherer and "leaky as a Swiss cheese rowing boat".
Facebook death lists spook Colombian town
Who remembers?
Who remembers the halcyon days when the interwebs only appealed to us geeks? When there were probably only about four sites in existence, you could have a proper conversation in a chatroom and none of this Web 2.0 malarky? Who's great idea was it to open it up to easily led Great Unwashed??
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