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What is everyone doing with theres?
I am gonna buy a Cpl boards and some Board shorts and fix up my bathroom
What is everyone doing with theres?
depending on the size of my refund, i'll be doing either of 2 things (hopefully both!):
1) board, boards, boards....i love surfboards!!
2) down payment on a new/used 4x4 truck
Going towards our house.
College debt...
Put it toward a conversion van. I'd like to do a little traveling this year and try some new spots (especially in the winter - go south for some weekend trips). Got my fingers crossed everything stays good at work.
Weak thread. Not everyone is getting a refund
well i dont get it but i know what my parents are gonna do with theirs. buy me some summer clothes and shoes. and save the rest for a car for my mom but that will be after my sister graduates college this june. and pay my car insurance for the year.
I am by no means a financial wizard but I think your goal should be to NOT get a tax refund at the end of the year. If you consistently recieve one than you are not filing properly. Essentially you are lending the government money at no interest. It may be nice to get the check at the end of the year but if you already had the money you could be earning interest on it.


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When I launch the program, after the initialization of the plugins, I will get a BSOD, stating page_fault_in_a_non_paged_area. Then the workstation will reboot.
I have tried a repair, and a reinstall.
I am inquiring if anyone has had any related issue before, I do a clean install.
what Map3D-release do you have?
What OS do you have?
What hardware do you have? Especially what CG-card and driver release?
- alfred -
This is running on the following
Precesion t7400
Windows XP 32bit
4GB of RAM
2x NVIDIA Quadro's 3700's
Duel XEON 3.2 Ghz processors
Duel 250 GB SSD in RAID.
AutoCAD MAP 3d version 2010 with sp1 installed
>> after the initialization of the plugins
What plugins do you have installed?
Can you try to add the parameter
to the icon that starts your Map3D. At least this parameter was used with success a lot of times (search within this forum for that, you'll find a lot).
BTW: did Map3D already run without errors and the problem now appeared or did you just install Map3D or some drivers/updates/options/...?
- alfred -
I have just performed a uninstall and reinstall going by the instructions I have found here. I deleted the files and registry entries. I still get the same BSOD with a clean install.
I have also tried the nohardware switch just now. BSOD again
again: was AutoCAD ever running on your system? If so what has been changed on your system?
A blue screen shows some problems with hardware or drivers for hardware. That can start at a memory-chip and end at the driver for any USB-device.
The switch with /nohardware helps to not use optimizations on your gc and so reducing the risk to crash.
And while I wrote the above an additional question came up: do you use the nVidia Performance-Drivers?
- alfred -
No, I am not using the NVIDIA performance drivers. Using the drivers provided by Dell.
Yes at a time it was running on the system Then the system was infected with a virus, but has been successfully removed.
>> Then the system was infected with a virus, but has been successfully removed.
Seems like virus and some more things are removed ;(
If you followed the advises for clean uninstall and Map3D don't come up I have not really an idea of what to do that has guaranteed success .... except new installation beginning with operating system.
Some ideas (or more trials)
Sorry, - alfred -
if a computer reboots, definetely it's NOT an application issue, so forget every insane thought about reinstalling Autocad.
I guess that problem lies either in Windows or in hardware: I'd bet a couple of cents on SSD Raid guilty, not fully compatible with XP.
Try to restart in safe mode, and run again Autocad.
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Islamic State of Iraq | |
دولة العراق الإسلامية (Arabic) Dawlat al-ʿIrāq al-ʾIslāmiyyah Participant in Iraq War and Iraqi insurgency |
Active | 15 October 2006 – 8 April 2013 (under various names)[1] |
Ideology | Salafist Islamism Salafist Jihadism Takfirism Anti-Shia |
Leaders | Abu Omar al-Baghdadi (2006–2010) (KIA) Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (2010–2013) |
Headquarters | Baqubah |
Area of operations | Iraq |
Originated as | al-Qaeda in Iraq Mujahideen Shura Council |
Became | Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant |
Opponents | Multi-National Force – Iraq Republic of Iraq Kurdish and Shia militias Awakening Councils |
Battles and wars | Iraqi insurgency (Iraq War) Iraqi insurgency (2011–present) |
The Islamic State of Iraq (ISI; Arabic: دولة العراق الإسلامية Dawlat al-ʿIrāq al-ʾIslāmiyyah) was a Sunni, Islamist group that aimed to establish an Islamic state in Sunni Arab-majority areas of Iraq. It was formed on 15 October 2006 from the merger of a number Iraq insurgent groups, including Tanzim Qaidat al-Jihad fi Bilad al-Rafidayn—Al-Qaeda in Iraq—and its Mujahideen Shura Council allies, Jeish al-Fatiheen, Jund al-Sahaba, Katbiyan Ansar Al-Tawhid wal Sunnah and Jeish al-Taiifa al-Mansoura, with representatives of a number of Sunni Arab tribes pledging support.[2][3]
During the Iraqi War, it had a presence[citation needed] in the governorates of Baghdad, Al Anbar, Diyala, Kirkuk, Salah ad Din, Nineveh, parts of Babil and Wasit, and initially claimed Baqubah as its capital.[3][4][5][6]
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In 2006, the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research estimated that al-Qaeda in Iraq's core membership was "more than 1,000".[7] These figures did not include the other six[8][irrelevant citation] AQI-led Salafi groups in the Islamic State of Iraq. In 2007, estimates of the group's strength ranged from just 850 to several thousand full-time fighters.[7][9] The group was said to be suffering high manpower losses, including those from its many "martyrdom" operations, but for a long time, this appeared to have little effect on its strength and capabilities, implying a constant flow of volunteers from Iraq and abroad. However, al-Qaeda in Iraq more than doubled in strength, from 1,000 to 2,500 fighters, after the coalition withdrawal from Iraq in late 2011.[10]
In 2007, some observers and scholars suggested that the threat posed by AQI was being exaggerated and that a "heavy focus on al-Qaeda obscures a much more complicated situation on the ground".[11][12] According to National Intelligence Estimate and Defense Intelligence Agency reports in July 2007, AQI accounted for 15% percent of attacks in Iraq. However, the Congressional Research Service noted in its September 2007 report that attacks from al-Qaeda were less than 2% of the violence in Iraq. It criticized the Bush administration's statistics, noting that its false reporting of insurgency attacks as AQI attacks had increased since the surge operations began in 2007.[7][13] In March 2007, the US-sponsored Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty analyzed AQI attacks for that month and concluded that the group had taken credit for 43 out of 439 attacks on Iraqi security forces and Shia militias, and 17 out of 357 attacks on US troops.[7]
According to a US Government report in 2006, this group was most clearly associated with foreign jihadist cells operating in Iraq and had specifically targeted international forces and Iraqi citizens; most of al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI)'s operatives were not Iraqi, but were coming through a series of safe houses, the largest of which was on the Iraq–Syria border. AQI's operations were predominately Iraq-based, but the United States Department of State alleged that the group maintained an extensive logistical network throughout the Middle East, North Africa, South Asia and Europe.[14] In a CNN special report in June 2008, al-Qaeda in Iraq was called "a well-oiled … organization … almost as pedantically bureaucratic as was Saddam Hussein's Ba'ath Party", collecting new execution videos long after they stopped publicising them, and having a network of spies even in the US military bases. According to the report, Iraqis—many of them former members of Hussein's secret services—were now effectively running al-Qaeda in Iraq, with "foreign fighters' roles" seeming to be "mostly relegated to the cannon fodder of suicide attacks", although the organization's top leadership was still dominated by non-Iraqis.[15]
The high-profile attacks linked to the group continued through early 2007, as AQI claimed responsibility for attacks such as the March assassination attempt on Sunni Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq Salam al-Zaubai and the April Iraqi Parliament bombing.
In May 2007, Islamic State of Iraq claimed responsibility for an attack on a US military post that cost the live of seven Americans (see May 2007 abduction of US soldiers in Iraq). Also in May, ISI leader al-Baghdadi was declared to have been killed in Baghdad, but his death was later denied by ISI. Later, al-Baghdadi was declared by the US to be non-existent.
There were conflicting reports regarding the fate of al-Masri. From March to August, coalition forces fought the Battle of Baqubah as part of the largely successful attempts to wrest the Diyala Governorate from AQI-aligned forces. Through 2007, the majority of suicide bombings targeting civilians in Iraq were routinely identified by military and government sources as being the responsibility of al-Qaeda and its associated groups, even when there was no claim of responsibility, as was the case in the 2007 Yazidi communities bombings, which killed some 800 people in the deadliest terrorist attack in Iraq to date.
By late 2007, violent and indiscriminate attacks directed by rogue AQI elements against Iraqi civilians had severely damaged their image and caused loss of support among the population, thus isolating the group. In a major blow to AQI, many former Sunni militants who had previously fought alongside the group started to work with the American forces (see section Conflicts with other (Sunni) groups).
The US troops surge went into full effect in June 2007, and supplied the military with more manpower for operations targeting the group. In July, 19 senior 'al Qaeda in Iraq' operatives were killed or captured by U.S. and Iraqi Security Forces; in August 25; in September 29; in October 45, said U.S. Colonel Donald Bacon.[16] Al-Qaeda seemed to have lost its foothold in Iraq and appeared to be severely crippled.[17] Accordingly, the bounty issued for al-Masri was eventually cut from $5 million to $100,000 in April 2008.[18]
As of 2008, a series of US and Iraqi offensives managed to drive out the AQI-aligned insurgents from their former safe havens, such as the Diyala and Al Anbar governorates and the embattled capital of Baghdad, to the area of the northern city of Mosul, the latest of the Iraq War's major battlegrounds.[18] The struggle for control of Ninawa Governorate—the Ninawa campaign—was launched in January 2008 by US and Iraqi forces as part of the large-scale Operation Phantom Phoenix, which was aimed at combating al-Qaeda activity in and around Mosul, and finishing off the network's remnants in central Iraq that had escaped Operation Phantom Thunder in 2007. In Baghdad a pet market was bombed in February 2008 and a shopping centre was bombed in March 2008, killing at least 98 and 68 people respectively; AQI were the suspected perpetrators.
AQI has long raised money, running into tens of millions of dollars, from kidnappings for ransom, car theft—sometimes killing drivers in the process—hijacking fuel trucks and other activities.[18] According to an April 2007 statement by their Islamic Army in Iraq rivals, AQI was demanding jizya tax and killing members of wealthy families when it was not paid.[19] According to both US and Iraqi sources, in May 2008 AQI was stepping up its fundraising campaigns as its strictly militant capabilities were on the wane, with especially lucrative activity said to be oil operations centered on the industrial city of Bayji. According to US military intelligence sources, in 2008 the group resembled a "Mafia-esque criminal gang".[18]
The first reports of a split and even armed clashes between al-Qaeda in Iraq and other Sunni groups date back to 2005.[20][21] In the summer of 2006, local Sunni tribes and insurgent groups, including the prominent Islamist-nationalist group Islamic Army in Iraq (IAI), began to speak of their dissatisfaction with al-Qaeda and its tactics,[22] openly criticizing the foreign fighters for their deliberate targeting of Iraqi civilians. In September 2006, 30 Anbar tribes formed their own local alliance called the Anbar Salvation Council (ASC), which was directed specifically at countering al-Qaeda-allied terrorist forces in the province,[23][24] and they openly sided with the government and the US troops.[25]
By the beginning of 2007, Sunni tribes and nationalist insurgents had begun battling against their former allies in AQI in order to retake control of their communities.[26] In early 2007, forces allied with al-Qaeda in Iraq committed a series of attacks on Sunnis critical of the group, including the February 2007 attack in which scores of people were killed when a truck bomb exploded near a Sunni mosque in Fallujah.[27] Al-Qaeda supposedly played a role in the assassination of the leader of the Anbar-based insurgent group 1920 Revolution Brigade, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement.[28] In April 2007, the IAI spokesman accused the ISI of killing at least 30 members of the IAI, as well as members of the Jamaat Ansar al-Sunna and Mujahideen Army insurgent groups, and called on Osama bin Laden to intervene personally to rein in al-Qaeda in Iraq.[19][29] The following month, the government announced that AQI leader al-Masri had been killed by ASC fighters.[30][31] Four days later, AQI released an audio tape in which a man claiming to be al-Masri warned Sunnis not to take part in the political process; he also said that reports of internal fighting between Sunni militia groups were "lies and fabrications".[32] Later in May, the US forces announced the release of dozens of Iraqis who were tortured by AQI as a part of the group's intimidation campaign.[33]
By June 2007, the growing hostility between foreign-influenced jihadists and Sunni nationalists had led to open gun battles between the groups in Baghdad.[34][35] The Islamic Army soon reached a ceasefire agreement with AQI, but refused to sign on to the ISI.[36] There were reports that Hamas of Iraq insurgents were involved in assisting US troops in their Diyala Governorate operations against Al-Qaeda in August 2007. In September 2007, AQI claimed responsibility for the assassination of three people, including the prominent Sunni sheikh Abdul Sattar Abu Risha, leader of the Anbar "Awakening council". That same month, a suicide attack on a mosque in the city of Baqubah killed 28 people, including members of Hamas of Iraq and the 1920 Revolution Brigade, during a meeting at the mosque between tribal and guerilla leaders and the police.[37] Meanwhile, the US military began arming moderate insurgent factions when they promised to fight al-Qaeda in Iraq instead of the Americans.[38]
By December 2007, the strength of the "Awakening" movement irregulars—also called "Concerned Local Citizens" and "Sons of Iraq"—was estimated at 65,000–80,000 fighters.[39] Many of them were former insurgents, including alienated former AQI supporters, and they were now being armed and paid by the Americans specifically to combat al-Qaeda's presence in Iraq. As of July 2007, this highly controversial strategy proved to be effective in helping to secure the Sunni districts of Baghdad and the other hotspots of central Iraq, and to root out the al-Qaeda-aligned militants.
By 2008, the ISI was describing itself as being in a state of "extraordinary crisis",[clarification needed][40] which was attributable to a number of factors,[clarification needed][41] notably the Anbar Awakening.[clarification needed]
In early 2009, US forces began pulling out of cities across the country, turning over the task of maintaining security to the Iraqi Army, the Iraqi Police Service and their paramilitary allies. Experts and many Iraqis were worried that in the absence of US soldiers the ISI might resurface and attempt mass-casualty attacks to destabilize the country.[42] There was indeed a spike in the number of suicide attacks,[43] and through mid- and late 2009, the ISI rebounded in strength and appeared to be launching a concerted effort to cripple the Iraqi government.[44] During August and October 2009, the ISI claimed responsibility for four bombings targeting five government buildings in Baghdad, including attacks that killed 101 at the ministries of Foreign Affairs and Finance in August and 155 at the Ministry of Justice and Ministry of Municipalities and Public Works in September; these were the deadliest attacks directed at the new government in more than six years of war. These attacks represented a shift away from the group's previous efforts to incite sectarian violence, although a series of suicide attacks in April targeted mainly Iranian Shia pilgrims, killing 76, and in June, a mosque bombing in Taza killed at least 73 Shias from the Turkmen ethnic minority.
In late 2009, the commander of the US forces in Iraq, General Ray Odierno, stated that the ISI "has transformed significantly in the last two years. What once was dominated by foreign individuals has now become more and more dominated by Iraqi citizens". Odierno's comments reinforced accusations by the government of Nouri al-Maliki that al-Qaeda and ex-Ba'athists were working together to undermine improved security and sabotage the planned Iraqi parliamentary elections in 2010.[45] On 18 April 2010, the ISI's two top leaders, Abu Ayyub al-Masri and Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, were killed in a joint US-Iraqi raid near Tikrit.[46] In a press conference in June 2010, General Odierno reported that 80% of the ISI's top 42 leaders, including recruiters and financiers, had been killed or captured, with only eight remaining at large. He said that they had been cut off from al-Qaeda's leadership in Pakistan, and that improved intelligence had enabled the successful mission in April that led to the killing of al-Masri and al-Baghdadi; in addition, the number of attacks and casualty figures in Iraq for the first five months of 2010 were the lowest since 2003.[47][48][49] In May 2011, the Islamic State of Iraq's "emir of Baghdad" Huthaifa al-Batawi, captured during the crackdown after the 2010 Baghdad church attack in which 68 people died, was killed during an attempted prison break, during which an Iraqi general and several others were also killed.[50][51]
On 16 May 2010, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was appointed the new leader of the Islamic State of Iraq;[52] he had previously been the general supervisor of the group's provincial sharia committees and a member of its senior consultative council.[53] Al-Baghdadi replenished the group's leadership, many of whom had been killed or captured, by appointing former Ba'athist military and intelligence officers who had served during the Saddam Hussein regime. These men, nearly all of whom had spent time imprisoned by American forces, came to make up about one-third of Baghdadi's top 25 commanders. One of them was a former Colonel, Samir al-Khlifawi, also known as Haji Bakr, who became the overall military commander in charge of overseeing the group's operations.[54][55]
In July 2012, al-Baghdadi's first audio statement was released online. In this, he announced that the group was returning to the former strongholds that US troops and their Sunni allies had driven them from prior to the withdrawal of US troops.[56] He also declared the start of a new offensive in Iraq called Breaking the Walls, which would focus on freeing members of the group held in Iraqi prisons.[56] Violence in Iraq began to escalate that month, and in the following year the group carried out 24 waves of VBIED attacks and eight prison breaks. By July 2013, monthly fatalities had exceeded 1,000 for the first time since April 2008.[57] The Breaking the Walls campaign culminated in July 2013, with the group carrying out simultaneous raids on Taji and Abu Ghraib prison, freeing more than 500 prisoners, many of them veterans of the Iraqi insurgency.[57][58]
In August 2011, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi began sending Syrian and Iraqi ISI members, experienced in guerilla warfare, across the border into Syria to establish al-Nusra Front organization inside the country. Led by a Syrian known as Abu Muhammad al-Jawlani, the group began to recruit fighters and establish cells throughout the country.[59][60] On 23 January 2012, the group announced its formation as Jabhat al-Nusra li Ahl as-Sham—Jabhat al-Nusra—more commonly known as al-Nusra Front. Al-Nusra grew rapidly into a capable fighting force with popular support among Syrian opposition.[59] On 8 April 2013, al-Baghdadi released an audio statement in which he announced that the two groups were merging under the name "Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham".[61]
The Islamic State of Iraq announced on 19 April 2007 that it had set up a provisional government, termed "the first Islamic administration" of post-invasion Iraq. The emirate was stated to be headed by Abu Omar al-Baghdadi and his cabinet of ten ministers.[62] All names listed were believed to be noms de guerre.
Name (English transliteration) and notable pseudonyms | Arabic name | Post | Notes |
Abu Omar al-Baghdadi d. 18 April 2010 Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi[63] (aka Abu Du'a)[64] |
أبو عمر البغدادي، أبو بكر البغدادي الحسيني القرشي | Emir | Abu Du'a, also known as Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi,[64] is the second leader of the group.[65] |
Abu Abdullah al-Husseini al-Qurashi al-Baghdadi | أبو عبدالله الحسيني القرشي البغدادي | Vice Emir[citation needed] | |
Abu Abdul Rahman al-Falahi | أبو عبد الرحمن الفلاحي ʾAbū ʿAbd ar-Raḥmān al-Falāḥī |
"First Minister" (Prime Minister) | |
Abu Hamza al-Muhajir (aka Abu Ayyub al-Masri) d. 18 April 2010 Al-Nasser Lideen Allah Abu Suleiman (aka Neaman Salman Mansour al Zaidi) |
أبو حمزة المهاجر | War | |
Abu Uthman al-Tamimi | أبو عثمان التميمي ʾAbū ʿUṯmān at-Tamīmī |
Sharia affairs | |
Abu Bakr al-Jabouri (aka Muharib Abdul-Latif al-Jabouri) d. 1/2 May 2007 |
أبو بكر الجبوري ʾAbū Bakr al-Ǧabūrī (aka محارب عبد اللطيف الجبوري Muḥārib ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-Ǧabūrī) |
Public Relations | Common spelling variants: al-Jubouri, al-Jiburi. |
Abu Abdul Jabar al-Janabi | أبو عبد الجبار الجنابي | Security | Established "Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice"[66] |
Abu Muhammad al-Mashadani | أبو محمد المشهداني ʾAbū Muḥammad al-Mašhadānī |
Information | |
Abu Abdul Qadir al-Eissawi | أبو عبد القادر العيساوي ʾAbū ʿAbd al-Qādir al-ʿĪsāwī |
Martyrs and Prisoners Affairs | |
Abu Ahmed al-Janabi | أبو أحمد الجنابي ʾAbū ʾAḥmad al-Ǧanābī |
Oil | |
Mustafa al-A'araji | مصطفى الأعرجي Muṣṭafā al-ʾAʿraǧī |
Agriculture and Fisheries | |
Abu Abdullah al-Zabadi | أبو عبد الله الزيدي | Health | |
Mohammed Khalil al-Badria | محمد خليل البدرية Muḥammad Ḫalīl al-Badriyyah |
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My inspiration for this typeface originated when I was walking around the Nelson museum looking at early Mayan pottery. I found the hieroglyphics to be very interesting in their shape and use of line. I thought this would make a great font. I have chosen to work with the earlier style of Mayan hieroglyphics instead of the later style which is more decorative.
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Title: Taken to the Edge
Author: Kara Lennox
Publication Info: Harlequin SuperRomance 2011
Genre: Contemporary Romance
This review was written by Lauren . This story was nominated in the Best Contemporary Series Suspense/Adventure Romance category.
The summary:
Ford Hyatt thought he was done. He was all set to give up on himself and on Project Justice. Then Robyn Jasperson walks back into his life. His former bad-girl crush looks better than ever and needs his help getting a case overturned.
Robyn's got an ex-husband in jail, a murdered son and nowhere else to turn. Ford let her down before. But now he can find the truth, set matters straight and redeem himself. And time is running out. If he fails,she has everything to lose. If he wins, he has everything to gain, including Robyn's heart.
And here is Lauren's review:
The Setup: Bad girl and good boy have crushes on each other in high school but never hook up. They meet again years later and sparks fly. Girl is trying to prove that her lying, cheating ex-husband didn't kill their son before he (the ex) is executed by the state. Boy works for Project Justice and a man he helped free has just beat up a woman so of course boy feels responsible and vows never to get anyone out of prison ever again. You know, the death penalty romance trope.
I enjoyed the main characters in this book. Robyn and Ford have all the hangups and second thoughts that grownups should have in their situation. She is still angry about something he did in high school and they have to gradually work it out. They both fight their attraction for very good reasons until a scary event breaks down the barriers. I also found it entertaining to watch them solve the mystery together. They interview people and track down information while simultaneously getting to know each other. The development of their relationship is well-paced and realistic.
There were a few aspects of the situation that were so implausible it took me out of the story. Yes, Robyn's son disappeared but there was no body and no sign of violence. How did a rich white guy get the death penalty based on that? We also find out (early in the book) that the ex-husband has been hiding information that any reasonable person would have given to his lawyer. I know that the author needs an imminent execution for the suspense to work, but it felt unbelievable.
Overall, this was an enjoyable book to read and a solid B+. I didn't lie awake thinking about the characters but I did shed a few tears at the resolution. I would recommend this as a vacation read unless you are like my mother-in-law and will be so sad about Robyn's lost son that it won't be relaxing for you.
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We all know that our Steelers fans travel very well, and last night was no exception! It was great to see all of the black and gold in the Edward Jones Dome last night. It definitely felt like a home game. I had a particularly good time hanging out with the folks that made it over to the pre-game tailgate sponsored by Jeff and SCM. Steeler Santa was a big hit, and the food was excellent!
Again, thank you to everyone that started the party in Illinois and then carried it over to the Dome in St. Louis! We've got to take care of the Ravens, and then it is playoff time. Looks like it could be the Jaguars or the Browns. It does not matter to me who we play, but who would you rather host during the playoffs? |
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There were a ton of Steelers fans in the Lou last night. I came up from Carbondale with three friends, two of whom were rooting for the Steelers. It was a fun environment, but things got a little brutal at the game. To say our seats were nosebleeds doesn't do the term justice. We were in the second-to-last row at the top of section 417 and it was a steep walk up. We had the game-film view, minus the rewind option, but we were surrounded by Steelers fans.
Our section exploded after the first Steelers' TD, so much so that the Steelers fan behind me tumbled down into our row. By the time he was done falling, he was sitting backwards in what was once my seat. I was three rows down, flat on my back, looking some extremely surprised woman next to my feet right in the eyes. I bounced down over two rows of seats before landing in the third. Talk about embarrassing. You know that feeling you get when you know people are staring at you and talking about you? Yeah, multiply it by about 200 eyes and you've got the number of people who were staring at me as I made the walk of shame back to my seat. Luckily I was just buzzed enough to laugh it off. So I got back to my seat and the guy who knocked me down apologized, but didn't offer me a beer, and I was back to watching the game while praying my fall wasn't on tape because it would have made ESPN's "Not Top 10." Anyway, I'm was lucky enough to get a spot under a leak in the roof so every couple of minutes water would drip onto my head. The rest of the game was pretty uneventful and we left when it was over. I lost my Terrible Towel somewhere on the walk back to the car, but that wasn't all I didn't make it home with -- my keys fell out of my pocket when I took my header. Too bad I didn't realize it until I was two hours away from the stadium. I had to stay at a buddy's house and drive back to St. Louis from Carbondale today to pick up my keys. Still, the Steelers won so I've got to say it was a great experience. |
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Jeesh Saluki, that sounds like a pretty rough time.
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How many fans do the Steelers usually take to away games?
I guess that because of the sheer size of the States it will depend on who they are playing and considering the costs involved,how much spare cash you have lying around! |
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Yeah..I was at the game also...It is only a 4 hour drive from Indianapolis, IN....They retired Faulk's number at halftime so the Rams fans were pretty spun-up about that....I would say the crowd was about 60/40 Steelers fans...They kept saying it was because of the 3-11 season that they all sold their tickets....no sh*t Sherlock....
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Thank you for your answers.Do the Steelers have one of the largest "States-wide" fan bases in the NFL?.If so what makes them so popular?
What other teams have a large following throughout America? Sorry for all these questions but I`m a VERY new convert to the NFL and the Steelers .......I mean(you guys ain`t gonna believe this) I wasn`t even aware that the Steelers won Super Bowl XL until a couple of months ago :jawdrop:....at least you can`t accuse me of being a glory hunter! |
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Hi Sherlock this video will answer all your questions about Steeler Nation...Enjoy and GO STEELERS!! http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu...oid=1527321414 |
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This is the best bit of Steeler material I`ve ever seen!! Thanks a million for this inspirational film!! :cheers: :hug: :thumbsup: If you are interested below is a youtube link which made me become a Steeler fan before I even knew anything about them. All the best and Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you! :party: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZx3ZH7GUtE |
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I'm looking at upgrading an old PC and reset it to factory settings leaving only windows on there. Can anybody help me do this? I have Windows Vista but I don't have the disks, is there a way to wipe the hard drive leaving only windows installed on it?
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December 24, 2007 at 8:23 am #356058 | |
Ladon |
No problem I only just realised it myself, the two perks of being a patron are ratings and the cool bar over your name in the forums. I'll see if that Rotten Tomatoes idea would work, so there will be an update on that soon. -Ladon |
December 24, 2007 at 8:48 am #356063 | |
Ladon |
Update: Soon enough for you? The supplementary simplified ratings system is completely possible apparently, so all I need to know is how many people would like this. I am not going to use it as a basis for my platform, because my platform has always been to give people what they want, or what they need. If enough people would like it, I will gladly make it happen for you. -Ladon |
December 24, 2007 at 8:54 am #356065 | |
Smeagol |
Yeah, that could be a good idea. I believe in his campaign for minister of film ratings, Saulgoode suggested abolishing the current ratings system altogether and replacing it with something like that but nobody wanted to entirely eliminate the current system. I was going to suggest the same idea you've come up with (I visit rottentomatoes regularly) so I approve of the idea. -Smeagol |
December 24, 2007 at 8:07 pm #356201 | |
brianfast |
So here is my interpretation of latest changes Ladon, as long as patrons (especially 15 or 24 FPS) patrons are forced to rate by your rubric they are donating money and the only additional feature they receive is being able to give your style of ratings; they are essentially paying to rate movies according to YOUR standards. Not what they actually think the movie deserves. |
December 24, 2007 at 9:44 pm #356237 | |
Ladon |
Yes, you have interpreted my changes correctly. Wow, all this time and you still don't understand the point of the rubric. And I think you're the only one! The rubric is designed to ensure that everyone knows what they are rating on. There is still room for opinion, more than enough. But before the rubric, people were essentially rating according to whatever numbers they liked. For example, if a film was average, they would give it a 7! Why a 7? Because they figured that was average. Another person might have thought that a 4 was average! Another would have gone with a 5. There was no baseline for the final data, and so there was actually no way to tell what the rating meant. With the rubric, you can actually look at what you're ratings mean, and choose them accordingly. Yes, you can still trash a film if you're that irritated by it. But at least now you know how If you still don't understand the rubric, then perhaps you shouldn't be running to remove it… -Ladon |
December 24, 2007 at 11:06 pm #356246 | |
brianfast |
:roll Mudslinging….. You don't understand my point. The criteria for what a film needs to get rating X is what I am complaining about. Patrons should be able to choose their own criteria instead of having to deal with yours. (which is awful) Your rubric is a MESS. Nobody who passed 3rd grade math would give an average movie a 7. You have absolutely no proof to back these ludicrous claims up with. As for people trying to figure out what the ratings mean, your rubric doesn't even do very much. It is very flawed, as my FPS example shows and your rubric is harmful to movies that only satisfy one requirement to move up in ratings. And despite all your efforts to make this a black and white rubric, it is so black and white that lots of things are vague and extremely opinionated. |
December 24, 2007 at 11:38 pm #356252 | |
Night Owl |
Gosh, you're picky. Remember, the rubric isn't absolute. If a film is 12fps but well animated, any intelligent person will disregard the rubric description and give it a higher rating. The rating rubric will never able to be one-size fits all, so complaining about it is pretty dumb. |
December 25, 2007 at 5:00 am #356321 | |
Schlockading |
Also, don't forget one of Ladon's main platforms for his re-election is to further refine the rubric system. I'm sure he'll be open to your opinions about revising it at that point. |
December 25, 2007 at 5:11 am #356325 | |
brianfast |
Also, don't forget one of Ladon's main platforms for his re-election is to further refine the rubric system. I'm sure he'll be open to your opinions about revising it at that point.[/quote] |
December 25, 2007 at 5:21 am #356328 | |
Schlockading |
Again, things can't be fixed at lightning speed in any case. I don't see anything in your campaign that could be carried out any faster. |
December 25, 2007 at 8:11 am #356345 | |
Ladon |
Wow… I've asked you this before, and I guess I have to ask again; What do you know about accurate ratings? |
December 25, 2007 at 8:13 am #356346 | |
Ladon |
Also, don't forget one of Ladon's main platforms for his re-election is to further refine the rubric system. I'm sure he'll be open to your opinions about revising it at that point.[/quote] If people complained and asked for it to be removed (as you are implying) where are they? If people want the rubric to stay, they will vote for me. If they really don't like it at all, as you seem to think they don't, then they will vote for you. I think we'll have a definitive answer very soon -Ladon |
December 25, 2007 at 8:18 pm #356446 | |
brianfast |
Oh really Ladon: Other brickfilmers 2 cents: There are more but I suggest you read your own topic once more if you cannot remember. Ladon replied: Well its been more then a few days hasn't it? I have yet to see the changes you promised months ago. |
December 26, 2007 at 12:40 am #356516 | |
Ladon |
Yes, it has been more than a few days. Yes, I still intend to fix the issue. The rubric descriptions are still needing quite a lot of work, and I should have time to do it this term. The issue I ran into before was that I had just started a new job, and I wasn't having enough time to focus on the ratings system when I was at home. Now that the job is over, there shouldn't be a problem. Also, none of those comments imply that the ratings system should be removed. Where are you getting that idea? |
December 26, 2007 at 6:34 pm #356628 | |
brianfast |
People complaining doesn't mean they want it removed altogether. They just want change. But at this point I will let brickfilms.com voters decide what they want, although I have a feeling you will win simply because you are letting non patrons vote. |
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The director and actor, remembered for his films such as 'Out of Africa,''Tootsie,' and 'Absence of Malice,' was interviewed by the Monitor in 1975 upon release of his film, 'Three Days of the Condor.
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In the film "Three Days of the Condor" lead character Joseph Turner tried to use the knowledge he has acquired as a CIA research librarian to safeguard himself from - the CIA.
Similarly, "Condor" director Sydney Pollack has used the (movie) establishment to make films the establishment itself would be unlikely to make.
He said, however, "I am not a cult director at all. I make Hollywood movies. I hate to say it as a pejorative term but I work for the Hollywood system for the most part."
And yet....his films turn out to be different. His western was "Jeremiah Johnson," which far from being a shoot-em-up trifle, took up the modern themes of dropping out of society to go back to nature, seeking a future apart from the accepted forms of the day. It was as though the flower children and Vietnam rebels, unthought of in J.J's time, were casting their shadows so far before. In pictures like "Condor," where suspense heightens all the way through its two hours or so of running time, Mr. Pollack noted, it is often considered that "women are a drag....but it would bore me to have any picture without a woman in it," However, "you don't want to stop for romance." So he integrated love with the uncertainties of Joe Turner's twistings and turnings to stay alive after he had discovered what an inner circle of the CIA was up to.
In the original book, heroin was being smuggled. In the film, oil is what it's all about. There are other changes, too. And, Mr. Pollack points out vigorously, the picture was not conceived as an expose of the CIA. When filming began, the CIA's dirty laundry was still waiting its turn at the public laundromat. After reading James Grady's original book, Mr. Pollack says, he thought "what if such and such occurred." The film answers that "what if."


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- Betty Boop Theatrical Cartoon Series
- Fleischer Studios
- Distributed by: Paramount Studios
- Cartoon Characters: Betty Boop, Koko the Clown, Bimbo, Wicked Stepmother Queen, Seven Dwarfs.
- Originally Released in 1933.
- Black & White
- Running Time: 6:30 minutes.
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Actually, two cartoons in one. The main story is a normal Betty Boop story based on the Snow White fairy tale. But sandwiched in the middle is a nightmare vignette which would seem more at home in a 1960s art-house film. The wicked queen tells her henchmen (Koko and Bimbo) "Off with her head!", but they can't do it, and release her. Betty falls into a pit and becomes frozen in a block of ice, and her "dead" body is carried by the Seven Dwarfs into a mysterious cavern. Koko, morphed into an odd ghost figure with the voice and mannerisms of Cab Calloway, sings "St. James Infirmary" and dances. The queen turns herself into a dragon who chases the three until she is turned inside out by Bimbo, and the trio escape.
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@MyAthleticLife: Obviously I wasn't being entirely serious that social media training comes above training to be an Olympian. My point is really that social media plays a huge part in the public lives of athletes, and it should be a consideration for them (and they should have help to manage it, so they can get on with the task in hand). I don't think the #wedemandchange was an error, I'm simply listing it as one of the noteable social media events of the Games, and it shows how social media can be a strong lobbying tool. In this case, it was the governing bodies and advertisers who needed to understand the power of social media in demanding change."
I absolutely agree with you. People buy from people - not businesses. But I'm amazed that companies still insist on hiding behind generic email accounts for twitter, forums etc. I would much rather engage with a real person than a name/object.


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Are Tablets Just Too Expensive?
No. (549 comments)
This has been another installment of simple answers to stupid questions.
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This has been another installment of simple answers to stupid questions.
Re:Nice, now why (314 comments)
Because the same company, Verizon in this case, also has to service the non-high density parts. Yes, they have different pricing for different areas. But the probably can't/don't want to price it too differently.
85% of the American population lives in, or near, a densely populated urban area. Over 21 million people live within short driving distance of New York City. 17 million live in and around Los Angeles, 10.8 million around Chicago. . . and you get the idea. Most Americans live in population density very similar to what we see as Europe's 'high density', more than enough to pay for the relatively few who don't.
There is only one reason why US broadband sucks: we have telecom monopolies which are federally-mandated through lack of oversight. I live in NYC, surrounded by the equivalent of one quarter of the entire UK population, and have, essentially, two options for broadband. I can either get Time Warner's offerings, or the offerings of a provider who pays Time Warner to use their lines, or I can have Verizon's offerings, or use a provider who leases Verizon's lines. That's it: two, in a place with an average of 27,000 people per square mile. And if I want a blazing 3 Mbps, I'd better be willing to dole out $50/month.
It's not about the tech, it's not about the density. It's about unregulated corporate greed. If you don't believe me, look at the outcry over even the idea of net neutrality.
Re:Tablets are dead (401 comments)
At the moment. But will Apple really be able to carry the momentum once people start realizing theres nothing really -great- about the iPad?
The very same thing was said about the iPod and the iPhone, and look where they are now.
The era of the geek driving computer development is dead: people want easy to use features, and Apple is giving it to them. The era of clock speed, bus speed and VRAM capacity being important for selling computers is over as well. These things will still matter for select user bases--programmers, gamers, scientific use, graphic design, audio/video and other--but, for the vast number of average computer users for whom web, email, music, word processing and simple video are all that's really important, the iPad and its children are the future.
It will be interesting to see what people are saying about the iPad this time next year, when Apple's sold 25 million of them.
The Linux Revolution never happened (742 comments)
I think one reason is all of the extravagant promises made for Linux--the nth Year of Linux on the Desktop--never happened. Linux didn't make any serious inroads into Windows or Mac market share, and, in fact, OS X has been the OS which is steadily gaining share. Millions of users didn't throw up their hands in frustration and switch to Linux desktops, and on and on. Even worse, the future of app development now seems to be remain on Windows and OS X, and the mobile web: iPhone/iPad/Android, etc. And, while the Andriod OS is based on Linux, it's owned by a consortium of large corporations, and is definitely not an community-based, open source project. So, what is to attract young developers to Linux? Where are the jobs?
That said, I think it's important to draw a distinction between the technology of Linux and cultural aspect of Linux. The technology has clearly been a success, as its domination of the server space, and Android, shows. But that doesn't necessarily translate into a larger societal effect, and that's what I'm getting at. There has been no explosion of the user base, and therefore no need for a huge increase in needed developers. I don't think Linux is going anywhere. But I also don't see the Linux user base expanding and driving the need for more developers and, more crucially, I don't see Linux driving the creation of a lot of jobs to draw younger developers into the fold.
It's easy to sit back and blame younger developers lack of skill. But, if you were coming out of college with a CS degree, and needed a job, what would you do?
Breaking: Lucas continues to milk old franchise (268 comments)
In other news, water wet and sun bright and hot.
When Star Wars came out, I thought it was the most amazing movie I'd ever seen.
I was nine years old.
Having watched it as an adult, I've realized it really is quite bad. Unfortunately, Lucas hasn't gotten that memo. .
Re:May be a good time to discuss alternatives (289 comments)
Very true. For those of us who make our money in print production, Photoshop is (unfortunately) absolutely necessary and an amazing tool. The program's abilities really are infinitely deep.
However, for 95% of the people out there, Photoshop is like driving a Ferrari a mile to get milk: lots of snorting, engine noise and wheelspin but, in the end, a lot of wasted effort.
This leads to another problem: because I spend all my image editing time in Photoshop, I have no idea what to recommend to people who need to do much simple editing. If you're on OS X I know iPhoto does some basic brightness/contrast/color balance stuff, but that's about it.
Re:That's it (503 comments)
What for? The iPad is little more than an iPod Touch that won't fit in your pocket, and the market will judge it accordingly. Apple had an opportunity to redefine the tablet computer market, and they decided to waste it by offering us yet another box to run their apps.
It's official: The Slashdot Inverse Rule of Success is now in effect. Expect the iPad to sell 10 million in its first year.
And I'm not kidding. The Slasdot consensus is so wildly out of touch with market success it has become and inverse barometer.
Re:Average users don't WANT control (1634 comments)
The masses, as you call them, are NOT sheep, and the idea there exists a difference between sheep and shepherds is one of the reasons Slashdot and geeks are so comically bad at predicting market success and failures.
The large mass of average computer users do not want to know how their computers work: they just want them to work. This is not a sign of inferior intelligence, but a choice where to put time and effort. I will bet you the mass of Slashdot users can't cook a good meal, or make their own bread, or change their own brakes, or drive a manual car, or do their own drywall work, or write their own music. All these, too, are choices: spending to choose your time making your own computers instead of making your own food, for instance, doesn't make you a better person than someone who can't figure out an error message but can cook a great four course meal. And that idea--Geek Macho--is one of the reasons many seeming great technological ideas never get anywhere, while Apple, which understands what average computer users want, goes from strength to strength.
Or, put more concisely: holding your users in contempt because their likes and dislikes don't match yours is the quick way to bankruptcy. Similarly, holding users in contempt because they prioritize their lives differently than yours is a way to avoid honest discussion and jump straight to reinforcing your own prejudices.
Re:He forgot about heat (361 comments)
Then you will easily be seen as an area much, much cooler relative to the star.
He forgot about heat (361 comments)
And thermodynamics, specifically the need to dissipate the enormous amount of heat produced by a spacecraft into the thermodynamically-inefficient medium of space, changes things.
For one, there's no stealth in space. The heat from the shuttle's main engines can be seen from Pluto, ~5.4 light hours away. This means that any reasonably powerful ship will be seen days and even weeks before it comes into contact. Given that engagement ranges probably won't be much further than one light second, due to sensor lag, there's no sneaking up on anyone, so the shape of your spaceship vis a vis radar stealth doesn't matter.
This also impacts tactics. Since you will see your enemy coming from a long way and, as mentioned in the article, operating in planetary systems means predicable orbits and vectors, tactics becomes something akin to submarine warfare: lots of long distance shots with guided weapons, and lots of math to figure out firing solutions.
Third, because of the need to dissipate lots of heat into space, any sizable ship will need a large amount of highly vulnerable radiator area. Sufficiently damage a ship's radiators, and you effectively shut that ship down, as it will need to power down to avoid blowing up.
Re:ok (203 comments)
The bigger issue here is the narrow definition of "innovation"* so often used at
Hence the constantly renewing Year of Linux on the Desktop, which ignores the fact even the best-packaged Linux distros are at best a mixed bag when it comes to usability. Hence the constant claims that the iPhone/iPod will soon fall from its perch because its focus is ease of use and accessibility and not "innovation". Hence the boiling down of the wide variety of things which must go into a successful product as "cool" or "marketing", etc.
Apple's particular current genius lies in its ability to take technology and package it for use by a wide variety of people who don't care about the technology per se, and a big part of this is the iPod Touch/iPhone's UI, which makes it so easy even your grandmother can tweet away to her heart's content. And I think the reason Apple catches so much flack here, and elsewhere, is that by giving the "sheep" access to the technology, it take away from the n3rd world the special acclaim they have given themselves for having access to that technology.
That thought aside, the fact that so very few tech companies are able to do what Apple does should tell you how incredibly difficult it is to do, and why it is as innovative as any other tech achievement. Microsoft has, quite literally, money to burn and the best they can do is constantly bandage over the larger usability nightmares in Windows and Windows Mobile. Palm had to almost die before they came up with WebOS. Gnome and KDE have a (relatively) large installed base and access to talented people and the best they can come up with is a model which, sometimes, is easier to use than Windows. YOur average cel phone UI is a nightmare of menus, submenus, confusing icons and deeply-buried features. And on and on.
Making technology easy to use is incredibly difficult and every bit as innovative as writing a new OS or designing a new chip. And, while Apple has made, and will continue, to make stupid decisions, when it comes to what they do, they do do it so very well.
*There is a further conceit here, as to the true nature of innovation. There seems to be the idea that "true" innovators are the geniuses who come up with a wholly original idea, develop that idea, get it to market and retire to sleep on a bed of money. Look at this history of technology and you will see that almost never happens. Almost every innovation you can think of is either an improvement on an earlier idea or a new combination of previously established technology and ideas. Henry Ford, to pick one at random, didn't invent a damn thing. He took the idea of assembly lines and interchangeable parts from weapons manufacture, combined it with a newly available urban workforce and clever marketing (any color you want as long as its black) which was actually based on sound logistical planning, and created the modern car industry. It's the same with the computer industry. Progress is the story of incremental improvement and assembly of ideas and not sudden advances out of nowhere.
Or that's my $0.02
Good luck with that (298 comments)
Microsoft will produce Windows source code before this happens.
500 words is considered long? (441 comments)
Suddenly I understand why so much sci fi written by engineers reads like someone reciting the minutes of that last IEEE meeting.
Re:In technology... (475 comments)
Either way, time will tell.
Slashdot really needs a "-6, Wishful Thinking" tag for comments about Apple's coming, inevitable decline.
Apple is an enormously successful company, which sells computers and handhelds which run OS X, which more and more people like to buy. It's hard to figure out which one of those facts pisses off Slashdotters more.
Let's hope they can keep the original quality (259 comments)
Because the movies mostly sucked. And I say that as someone with a Bender action figure on his desk.
Re:How come it's only in Japan (884 comments)
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.they just don't want the same thing as us.
True, and there are things about Japanese culture which make their cel phone market very different from ours. One of the biggest things is the way in which the Japanese commute to and from work: Japan has a much higher use of public transportation than does the U.S., and the Japanese are heavy users of rail travel. This means, according to the last figures I checked, the average Japanese working person has an hour commute to and from work which is, essentially, free time. Contrast this to the U.S., in which the majority of people drive to work.
To me, this explains a lot of the Japanese demand for the use of video and TV on the cel phones, and from the cel phone networks: they have the time and inclination to use those services. Contrast this to the U.S., in which people have to (supposedly) concentrate on their driving; we have lots of talk radio here, something to listen to during that commute which requires no hands.
Add to this all of the other commuting the Japanese do via rail and you have a market which just doesn't exist in the U.S. I think this holds true in Europe as well, which also has a higher incidence of public transportation use than the U.S. We drive here, a lot, and that niche just doesn't exist. Most Americans get their online TV and video either at work or at home. Which is to say that population and work patterns influence technology adoption and use as much as, or more than, GUI design and technical achievement.
At least that's my theory.
This decided the issue for me (535 comments)
Saw the message on the install screen, clicked cancel, and I won't install it.
Re:They work well too (256 comments)
Yes most people on the east and west coasts have multiple options:
SOME people have options. I live in Manhattan, which means either Verizon or Time Warner owns all the infrastructure underneath me. Because of this I only really have two options for broadband. One is DSL through Verizon or through another provider which leases lines from Verizon and the other is cable through Time Warner or another provider which leases from Time Warner. And, remember, this isn't just a city on the east coast, this is the biggest, most densely populated city in the country in which two corporations control all of my broadband choices and make sure that no matter which one I choose, I will pay a premium for my service.
I actually get my DSL through Earthlink, as I've been with them forever and have had the same email address since ethernet packets were made of steam and pigeons. But I also know that I'm paying ~$40.00 a month for 3.0 Mbps, and that if there were true competition I would have a lot more choice for less money. Now, if I want to ditch my email address and go straight to Verizon I could probably pay less, but I like my email address. And, since there's no competition here my only other choice would be cable, and Time Warner is many things, but a good deal for consumers isn't one of them.
So, while I may agree with you in theory, in practice I know that corporations only give their customers a break when forced to by law.
By the way, if you want fast last mile here, your only choice is FiOS through Verizon. Their installation techs are horrible (I know someone who needed six visits just to get it working), you don't get anywhere near the speeds promised and it's very expensive.
Re:And how much cpu power is needed at that speed? (280 comments)
USB 3 will do at least 200mb/s sustained.
And Vista is the fastest, easiest to use operating system ever, and 2009 is the year of Linux on the Desktop.
USB 2.0 was supposed to do 480 Mbps sustained, but you're lucky if you get 20 MB/s sustained. Given Intel's track record, I expect USB 3.0 to, maybe, be as fast as Firewire 400 for sustained transfers. There's a reason my TB backup drive is Firewire 800.
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After School Club is open to all Pre-Prep children daily from 3.30 – 6.00 with some sporting hobbies also being available to children in Years 1 and 2.
We like to think of the Pre-Prep as being family-orientated and we are keen to develop partnerships with families, promoting mutual understanding and respect, which in turn supports the learning of each child. Through positive role models children learn respect for others. Parents are encouraged to share in their children's learning and be part of the school through class assemblies, Friends of Port Regis social events and daily contact with class teachers.
Ailsa Boardman-Hirst Head of Pre-Prep
This is a prep school with public-school facilities.