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The Best of Both Worlds
To make the emulated system run faster, I installed kqemu. I downloaded kqemu-1.3.0pre11.tar.gz from the QEMU download page and extracted it inside D:\QEMU\. Then, I clicked kqemu.inf with the right-mouse button and selected Install. Next, I added, in start-linux.bat, the command net start kqemu and added the parameter -kernel-kqemu to qemu.exe. Now, the last two lines of start-linux.bat look like this:
net start kqemu qemu.exe -L . -m 256 -kernel-kqemu -hda \\.\PhysicalDrive0 ↪-soundhw all -localtime
Note: Scientific Linux 4.4 does not work at all with the parameter -kernel-kqemu, and the problem seems to be an incompatibility of the kernel with the BIOS file (which is named bios.bin, and I think that represents the BIOS configuration of the emulated system). When I replaced it with the BIOS of Puppy Linux, it worked. It is strange that the original BIOS is 128KB and Puppy's BIOS is 64KB, which is older as well.
The default QEMU parameters for the network are -net nic -net user. This means that it will emulate a virtual interface on the Windows side and create a network interface eth0 for the emulated Linux system. Both of these interfaces have a virtual connection between them, allowing them to communicate with each other. The IP of the Windows virtual interface is 10.0.2.2/24, and QEMU also creates a virtual DHCP server connected to it. To get an IP for Linux from the QEMU DHCPD, I log in as root and give the command dhclient. Then, the Linux interface gets IP 10.0.2.15/24, gateway 10.0.2.2 and DNS 10.0.2.3. Afterward, Windows and the Internet can be accessed from Linux without a problem.
To check the network configuration, try the commands ip address ls, ip route ls and cat /etc/resolv.conf in Linux. Here's example output from those commands:
[root@fedora6 ~]# ip address ls 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo inet6 ::1/128 scope host valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000 link/ether 52:54:00:12:34:56 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet 10.0.2.15/24 brd 10.0.2.255 scope global eth0 3: sit0: <NOARP> mtu 1480 qdisc noop link/sit 0.0.0.0 brd 0.0.0.0 [root@fedora6 ~]# ip route ls 10.0.2.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 10.0.2.15 default via 10.0.2.2 dev eth0 [root@fedora6 ~]# cat /etc/resolv.conf ; generated by /sbin/dhclient-script nameserver 10.0.2.3
To test the network connection, try the commands ping 10.0.2.2 and wget http://www.google.com/.
If you try to ping www.google.com (or any other IP), it won't work. However, the network connection is okay and working, and you can verify it with other tools, such as wget or lftp. It simply means that ping is not working for some reason. This has been very misleading to me, because the usual way to check for network connectivity is to ping something out there.
Because I can ping Windows from Linux as 10.0.2.2, I also can access any service (dæmon) that runs on Windows. In particular, I can access any file-sharing services. Usually, I run Apache as a Web server on Windows. It can be installed easily with EasyPHP. Then, I use wget to retrieve any files that are accessible through the Web server.
Another service I use is FTP. I install and configure it using the FileZilla FTP server. From Linux, I can access the folders (directories) that are shared by the FTP service, using lftp (you can use any other ftp client as well). This is better than using a Web server, because I can transfer files both ways—from Windows to Linux and from Linux to Windows.
I've even used svnserve to run a Subversion service in Windows. From Linux, I could access the Subversion repositories in Windows. Think of it as a way to transfer files between Windows and Linux, as you can access the svn repositories from both Windows and Linux, although it is not a very straightforward way to transfer files.
I tried transferring files between Linux and Windows using a fat32 partition, which can be accessed from both systems. Theoretically, there is no reason why it should not work, and actually it does work; however, it does not work so well. The problem is that the modifications that are done to fat32 from Linux are not "seen" from Windows until it is restarted, and the modifications that are done from Windows are not "seen" from Linux until QEMU is restarted, which makes this solution impractical and unusable.
Booting Windows from Linux via Qemu
The article is great and I successfully booted my Linux installation via Qemu. I am interested in booting my Windows installation from the Linux side using Qemu. If you have any suggestions please post them.
I have tried (months ago)
I have tried (months ago) with something like: '-hda /dev/hda' , and I remember that I have failed.
Anyway, a QEMU virtual machine has different "physical" devices compared with your real machine.
So, if the windows partition is booted inside it, I guess that it is going to find "new hardware" etc.
It is something similar to removing the hard disk and booting it inside another machine.
While linux is flexible enough to endure this kind of migration, I am not sure about windows, it has
to be tried.
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Richie Balboa whips up a fine mix of cool breaks for the "Juno Breakbeat 9″ podcast….
For this installment of Juno's breakbeat podcast, they have drafted in Breakspoll 2010 Best Breakthrough DJ, Richie Balboa to churn up a slick mix of the coolest breaks you're likely to hear. So cool that you just need to whack this mix on in the height of summer and there's no way you'll break a sweat!
Kicking of with "Floatation" by The Grid and then "All The Way" by DJ Love, you'll be hard pressed to find anything cooler than these. Although Richie Balboa really does mix things up with dirty breaks and 2 step garage influenced breaks like The Warrior Project's "Don't Bring Me Down", which incorporates a dirty Drum & Bass synth.
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Polls taken in the UK in the immediate aftermath of the introduction of the Euro on January 1st 2002, indicate that people in Great Britain are less than supportive of the new Euro currency in the first few months of its history.
One poll on January 5th had the following results:
If there were a referendum, would you vote to join the Euro?
Yes |
31% |
No |
56% |
Dont know |
12% |
Do you trust the government to make the right decision, in the interest of the British people, on whether we join?
Yes |
46% |
No |
43% |
Dont know |
11% |
If Britain entered the Euro, would a single European super-state become inevitable?
Yes |
57% |
No |
27% |
Dont know |
15% |
This poll was conducted by the respected ICM company. What we do not know is where the poll was carried out, though companies like ICM usually do a spread throughout the land to get some form of overall picture.
If the above questions were only asked in the rural Home Counties, the surprise would be that the No answer was so small. If the same questions were asked in a more cosmopolitan environment, the yes vote may well have been higher.
That the governments "Five Tests" policy is now under severe criticism in some quarters is also confusing the issue for the public who may only have a tenuous grasp on the Euro issue anyway.
Economics professors and assorted experts have condemned the "Five Tests" as meaningless. Robin Marris, Emeritus Professor of Economics at London University claimed that the questions were an irrelevance anyway and that people will invest in Britain purely on whether we have a sound economy regardless of the currency we have. If British industry is a good bet, overseas companies will invest.
Two former Treasury chiefs, Gus ODonnell and Sir Alan Budd, have also condemned the "Five Tests" as a sham as the government can use the answers to these questions to introduce whatever policy they want to regarding the Euro.
The government has said we have to pass all five tests.
Can Britains economy run in synch with the Eurozone long term? Will joining the Euro affect our flexible labour market? Will it make unemployment worse? Will it affect our world beating financial services industry? Will it stop foreign firms investing in Britain?Who judges whether we pass a question or not? What does "affect" mean?`
If we pass 4 very healthily and come near the brink of a pass with the last test, is that an overall pass?
Budd and ODonnell believe that the five tests cannot be passed regardless of what economic climate we have in this country. Budd claims that Britains entry into the Euro will be entirely political and that the decision will have nothing to do with economics.
Quotes made in the week January 1st to January 7th 2002:
ultimate decision (to join the Euro) will be made by individuals in the
privacy of the polling booth because there is going to be a referendum
on this." Jack Straw, Foreign Secretary
"It is definitely not a case of when but if there is a referendum. It is by no means inevitable." Senior aide to Gordon Brown. "Ultimately it will be a decision for the British people. It remains the position that there are five economic tests that have to be met before we are in that position." Spokesperson at Downing Street. |
In the same week, Buckingham Palace and the Houses of Westminster announced that the Euro would not be accepted in either; for the Palace, in its gift shop and paying an entrance fee and in Westminster, MPs will not be allowed to use the Euro in its numerous canteens and bars. Only sterling will be accepted in both.
On February 19th, 2002, Peter Hain, the government's Europe Minister, claimed that it would be a "tragedy" if Britain did not join the Euro. He also claimed that those opposed to the Euro were also the "enemies" of the European Union. His comments were made to the French daily "Le Figaro" and caused immediate controversy. They had not been approved by the Treasury. Hain also laid out what the government's timetable could be.
"It would be an enormous blunder on the part of the UK, a tragedy even, to stay out (of the Euro) forever. Let us be clear. The enemies of the Euro are the enemies of Europe. What they desire, simply, is the withdrawal of the UK from the EU and an association with the American bloc. This is ridiculous." |
On February 25th, Gordon Brown's chief economic advisor, Ed Balls, claimed in a speech in London to the Royal Institute of International Affairs that the Five Tests set by the Chancellor to determine whether Britain joins the Euro or not, could not be met in the near future. He claimed that Britain could still play an important part in the EU and keep the pound. He also stated that joining the Euro could threaten Britain's current economic strength and that the exchange rate problems that industry faces would not disappear simply because Britain had joined the Euro.
you don't take a cautious approach you could have circumstances not only
damaging to the economy but to the pro-Europe cause. We can't let a
short term political imperative override long term economic factors. The
Chancellor's tests have to show that joining would be right not just
that day, or even referendum day, but for
the future.
The UK economy is growing more quickly than other industrial economies. The reason is that the monetary policy committee acts quickly to cut interest rates." |
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One of the decisions taken today in Paris by the World Motorsport Council is this:
The FIA will invite tenders for a new feeder series for Formula One. This championship, called Formula Two, would be launched in 2009 and used as an inexpensive platform to develop emerging driver talent for Formula One. It is hoped this can be achieved within a budget of around €200,000 a car per season.
The purpose of the new Formula Two series does not seem to be very different from the purpose of GP2. So one can make a conclusion – 2008 season is the last one GP2 as we know it. Or is the Formula 2 going to exist alongside GP2 ?
Will the new series be brand new with new chassis, engines, format or are will the new name be pretty much the only change ? One thing we can almost take for granted. With the budget only €200,000 a car per season the Formula Two would very likely have to be spec series, as GP2 currently is.
I must admit I do like the idea of Formula 1 having again, after 25 year absence, its feeder series called Formula 2. Now let's hope that some good racing would come with it.


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Under fire Aston Villa manager Paul Lambert insisted he would fight on - despite seeing his side knocked out of two cup competitions in the space of four days.
Villa were beaten on aggregate by League Two Bradford in the Capital One Cup semi-final on Tuesday and then saw his side exit the FA Cup at the hands of Millwall on Friday night.
The latter defeat came in the cruellest way possible as, with the tie seemingly headed for a replay, Villa conceded an 89th minute goal at the Den.
However, Lambert vowed his side would bounce back - and insisted he would be at the helm to oversee their revival.
"I'm not a quitter and I'll keep going," Lambert said. "You take the knocks - but you have to come back stronger.
"I thought we dominated the game - the very least we should have got was a replay.
"We bossed it really, with the possession. It's individual errors that are costing us on set-pieces and the second goal was just a crossed ball and we should deal with that.
"I thought we showed grit. I thought we dominated the game and I never thought either team looked as if they were going to win it towards the end. It looked as if it was going to a replay."


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CRAFTY LIBERALS....Over at NRO, Byron York writes:
[Glenn Greenwald's] How Would a Patriot Act? appears to have become something of a (quiet) publishing phenomenon, outperforming at least in the early stages other, higher-profile anti-Bush books, not to mention all the other best-sellers on the list these days. Why? No one seems to know. "We're often caught by surprise by these," says Tom Nissley, senior books editor for Amazon.com.
This is what passes for a mystery these days? On Tuesday, big liberal blogs started pushing their readers to pre-order Greenwald's book on Amazon, with the specific goal of driving up its Amazon ranking. And it worked. Mystery solved.
POSTSCRIPT: By the way, York's article contains some useful advice: "We rank by orders, not by sales," Nissley says. "We only count orders we count an order of 1,000 copies the same as an order of one." So if you're trying to goose somebody's ranking, be sure to place five orders for one book each instead of one order for five books.
One other note: us blog consumers have found that he's a superb writer. And an analyst he really cuts to the chase.
And that title! What a great question - how should a (implied real) patriot act? Not so BS posing, but how should a real american concerned about his or her country and place in the world act?
The pumping worked, because there was something to pump.
and pay a lot for shipping
N: Eh. Just choose fast shipping for one copy and the free shipping option for the others. No big deal.
By what possible standard would the activity Kevin describes here be worth anyone's time?
"So far, How Would a Patriot Act? has received almost no attention in the press."
I guess that means he can't blame the success to date on the boogeyman of the allegedly liberal media.
Of course, this life on the Amazon list may be ephemeral, but I suspect that the reason is that Glenn Greenwald's blog makes for good and informed reading and the topic appeals to a broad audience. I plan on buying a copy based upon what I have read on his blog, normally I would wait.
Should I spend my $100 gasoline rebate check on a liberal book order?
Maybe I should contribute the whole $100 to the Democratic party? Now there's an idea: A website where folks can pledge their check to the Dems. Imagine if 30,000 or 40,000 people signed up pledging to do just that... Why that'd be like 30,000 to 40,000 folks saying: Fuck you and your secret energy commission Cheney...
I echo Samuel Knight.
I read my fair share of liberal blogs, and I don't recall a single promotion or "push" for Greenwald's book. Maybe there was one, but ultimately, people aren't going to buy a book just because blogs recommend it.
All I know is that I bought his book because of my exposure to his talent as a writer.
At best, liberal blogs made people aware of Greenwald's book, but Greenwald's reputation did the rest.
Greenwald is definitely an excellent writer, way above most other bloggers.
But also look at the competition. Party of Death?
And, um, notice that the super-successful titles arent Bush is teh suck! Of the two biggest titles to come out of the left blogosphere, one is a book on a what core values should underlie a progressive philosophy for the 21st Century, the other is one on political tactics and what structural and institutional changes Democrats need to make in order to win.
Contrast that to the heavy hitters of the right-wing publishing industry, whose titles are all variations on the theme of, liberals hate America and want to kill you in your sleep and eat your children.
It's a difference I don't think liberal bloggers get nearly enough credit for.
Thanks for alerting me to the left's attempt to manipulate Greenwald's book sales.
I can't wait til you lefties try to manipulate the ratings for Air America!
This is exactly what happens when a group becomses so insular that they create there own reality. Just yesterday Atrios had a post about Roger Simon drinking the Kool-Aid about Instapundit's book sales relative to "Crashing the Gate". I mean I had no idea who would sell more books, but I'm not surprised that Crashing the Gate has done better. Their believe in their own rightenous prevents them from believing anything that goes against their beliefs.
The idea that Glenn Greenwald's "How Would a Patriot Act?" owes its early success to the big liberal blogs that urged their readers to pre-order the book on Amazon, makes little sense. If that's what it took, if the "mystery [is] solved" as Kevin put it, then we should have seen Markos Zuniga's "Crashing the Gates" break all records and be an even greater success. After all, not only big liberal blogs pushed it, but Zuniga is Daily Kos, the bigger of the liberal blogs.
So, why is "How Would a Patriot Act?" racking up orders? What Samuel Knight said: Greenwald quickly attracted an audience with incisive, intelligent writing. I'm interested in his book because I want to find out what he has to say. That's the only reason I buy books, and that's the only reason literate people buy books. Not because they saw an ad, or they were pushed or urged.
Greenwald quickly attracted an audience with incisive, intelligent writing.
And I echo K Ashford.
I became aware of Greenwald through the blogs I regularly read (Atrios, Digby, KOS, Kevin here, etc.)
I ordered his book because of HIS blog, which in a very short period of time, became a "must read."
BigRiver: "Thanks for alerting me to the left's attempt to manipulate Greenwald's book sales. I can't wait til you lefties try to manipulate the ratings for Air America!"
Curses. Foiled again. Now people will know why there are so many liberals in Hawaii and the West Coast.
We were placed here by our supreme commander Comrade Pelosi because of our strategic locales are three to six hours behind east coast time, in order to plot and implement our many nefarious schemes to thwart George W. Bush and his patriotic colleagues while most of America sleeps at night.
Folks, calm down. Glenn is a fine writer. I wasn't trying to take anything away from him. But there was a big push for his book starting on Tuesday, and that's been the primary reason for his skyrocketing Amazon ranking. I was just pointing out to Byron York that if he paid any attention to the liberal blogosphere he'd know that.
I was just pointing out to Byron York that if he paid any attention to the liberal blogosphere he'd know that.
If he paid attention to the liberal blogosphere, he'd know a lot of things he doesn't know now.
KEVIN DRUM: Tuesday, big liberal blogs started pushing their readers to pre-order Greenwald's book on Amazon, with the specific goal of driving up its Amazon ranking. And it worked. Mystery solved.
I also think you're being rather dismissive to the content of Greenwald's book to say that those who have linked to it on Amazon are doing so "with the specific goal of driving up its Amazon ranking." It's clear to me that their specific goal is to have as many people as possible read what Greenwald has to say.
All in all, your snarky "mystery solved" smacks of arrogance and jealousy. Greenwald is a comparatively new kid on the blog block whose talent and insight should be enjoying your support, rather than arousing your competitive resentment.
I love me a Glenn Greenwald.
I don't know about most of America, but if you're ever just waiting for George to nod off, feel free to start implementing at like 6 p.m. mountain time.
How strange. My last comment was supposed to be addressed to this:
Kevin, we weren't saying that you were slamming Greenwald's writing. I just thought it was important to note how many of us were really impressed by his writing.
And I don't think that you can take that for granted. Too many times people credit the marketing only.
Lots of examples out there of duds that no marketing could resuscitate.
So please don't infer a slam.
See, I don't think there was a real big push to guy Glenn's book. Atrios mentioned it, but it wasn't exactly a concerted effort. People just sort of trust GG, you know? Trust him to write a decent book. And unlike almost every other blogger with a book I can think of, there isn't a big cottage industry around Glenn (unlike, say, Hewitt and Kos with their.) He's just a guy with a blog, and I think a lot of us who don't feel like supporting blogger-authors who clearly want their own little media empires have no problem plunking down $7.20 for Glenn Greenwald.
Edit: The sentence above should look like this: "And unlike almost every other blogger with a book I can think of, there isn't a big cottage industry around Glenn (unlike, say, Hewitt and Kos.)"
I'd like to announce the publication of my new book, "Bush Is Teh $UCK!!!". Order 50 copies to drive up the Amazon numbers and show those Republicans what's what!
GG is an excellent writer and I'm looking forward to reading the book. However, I bought it now because of the "push" and bought 6 copies. Atrios and Digby in particular. Kevin is correct.
I did think that it would be good to organize some kind of drive to have 100 people each buy a copy of the book, which they would have shipped to their Senator.
And another group could each send one to a Congresscritter. They wouldn't read them, of course, but for $8, I think that would make an interesting point.
Bloggers with WAY BIGGER of an audience that Greenwald - including Instapundit, Hugh Hewitt, and Kos, not to mention National review people like Kate O'Bierne and Ramesh Ponnuru and even Michelle Malkin - have all published books in the last few months, had big blog pushes, and yet did NOT go anywhere near number one. Greenawld's book went right ot number one and stayed there.
DRUM - Just logically, doesn't that show that it has something to do with more than just some blog pushing? York recognizes that it was pumped by blogs - but makes the point that so have other books which didn't go to number one.
The truth is, Kevin, while some of the more prominent blogs gave a link to pre-order the book (probably because Glenn's blog is a must-read for so many liberal bloggers, thus they knew the book was available), there was absolutely no push to drive up the ranking, at least not until the book got to #20 or so and some people started to say "hey, let's go all the way to #1!"
But I really, truly didn't see any liberal bloggers pushing the book other than for the reason that they thought it would be good. In fact, until the book shot up the Amazon rankings, most people probably figured it took some impossibly high number of sales to reach #1 on Amazon.
STEVE: ...most people probably figured it took some impossibly high number of sales to reach #1 on Amazon.
The impression I get from York's article is that he set out to prove that Greenwald's high Amazon ranking was evidence of cheating by lefty bloggers (hence all the questions about whether it's possible to game the system). He found out it wasn't, so he wrote this weird article suggesting that there must be some kind of foul conspiracy even though he has no idea what it is.
These guys really do not get that it's not just the insane fringe left that dislikes what Bush has done. The right-wing media bubble is impenetrable.
Eh, if lefty blogs didn't push it to the top, why does every other post on atrios have to be a stupid update on how Greenwald's book is moving up the ranks on Amazon? Either the system is being gamed, or Atrios is an asshole who's taking credit for the book's natural sales? I find the whole thing almost as distasteful as the entirety of Daily Kos.
Does Kevin actually read any of the comments here, or just peruse them just to get a sense of what our reactions are to his posts? Because, if he had actually read what several of us have pointed out, namely that other bloggers who've published books have more prominent blogs than Greenwald, and had more of a push when their books came out, but have not made #1 on Amazon, perhaps he would have addressed this particular point. Instead, he tells us to "calm down" and repeats almost word for word his assertion about blogs pushing "How Would a Patriot Act?"
Let's try again: Kevin, if indeed Greenwald's book was propelled on Amazon by a concerted liberal blog push, then how to you explain the relative lack of similar success by other books, which were pushed harder by more prominent blogs?
P.S. I'm very calm.
Just maybe it's the content?
Greenwald also has massive cross over political appeal. He's not a lefty or a righty, he's a constitutional lawyer and scholar and it informs his whole approach to the issues.
I bought it last night when I found out it was out. Not because I was told to but due to the author and the subject matter. I doubt I am the only one.
Eh, if lefty blogs didn't push it to the top, why does every other post on atrios have to be a stupid update on how Greenwald's book is moving up the ranks on Amazon?
Atrios mentioned the book on Tuesday morning, I believe. By Atrios's second mention that afternoon the book was already #24. Now, you can decide that Atrios is somehow all powerful, commanding a huge army of book-buying drones... Or you may realize that a lot of people were already looking forward to Greenwald's book well before Atrios mentioned it.
Damn straight, Mr. Wright. Sour grapes, Mr. Drum.
Parting with $12 plus shipping to drive a stranger's book up the Amazon rankings. Yeah, a lot of liberals will get right on that. "OH LOOK! JANE HAMSHER SAYS THAT I NEED TO GIVE MY LAST HOUR'S WAGE TO GLENN GREENWALD JUST CUZ. THRILLED TO DO IT!!"
There's a backstory here - Glenn took Kevin to the shed a few weeks back and it hurt Kevin's feelings - Kevin didn't really deal with it at the time so this is what we get.
There are many other approaches Kevin could have taken and if he had thought for about 19 seconds about the comparison with Crashing the Gate he would have had to take a different tack. The PS whipsering that Glenn's buyers somehow previously understood how to goose Amazon's numbers is humiliating. I look forward to a PPS with at least a glimmer of the old Calpundit magic - is there any left?
Glenn speaks his mind, doesn't advocate false "centricism", and believes in standing up for principled beliefs, rather than political expedience.
And he's a best-selling author on his first try. DLC, are you listening, you ignorant sluts?
Greenwald is a rock star right now, and he's been doing great writing. When Atrios linked to his book, and even though I ignore 99.8% of all appeals on all blogs, I was intrigued and went right over and ordered. Sometimes, it's all about quality.
If you read The Corner, you'll see the chuzzlewits there constantly pimping each other's straight-to-landfill "books." Two months ago it was Kate "Snaggletooth Sandy" O'Beirne's anti-feminist screed, and now it's Radish Pornmumu's The Democraps Luv Death fetus-humping tome. Soon it'll be Jonah "Batsboy" Goldberg's manifesto, I Heart Hitler.
Funny how none of those tools can match Greenwald's success.
Glen writes from a neutral perspective. After the last Decade of Punditry and Blame Game Faux Antics perhaps people are looking for something they can actually read.
Let's take Anne Coulters latest Rant; 'The Godless Liberals' I guess she speaks of what, and whom, she knows, and thats the Straussian Neo-Con Liars, and they are truly Godless, They see Religion as 'Pious Fraud', someting to lead the Christians around with. A tool. Its this Fraud the Christians need to wake up to. -------- [John 1;1 AETZI]
If Byron York honestly is surprised that there has been so little media attention paid to the book, he's an idiot on several levels. That said, given that the book isn't being released until 5/15, it's not surprising. If there are going to be reviews published, you'd expect to see them within the next two or three weeks, but you wouldn't necessarily have expected to see them this past weekend.


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Starting a Twitter account is a great way to hear about the latest trends, celebrity gossip and designer musings before they hit the headlines.
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I can't wait for Friday! And not just because it's the end of the week, but also because the 2nd Annual GrowSmartBiz conference will be taking place on Friday, November 5, in Washington DC at the Renaissance Hotel. It was such a wonderful experience last year and I expect it to be even better this year with such a rich agenda and a power-house line-up of speakers and panel participants. If it's anything like last year, these discussions will be filled with examples of business owners who are finding interesting ways to grow their companies during these tough economic times.
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We're looking forward to talking with business owners to find out what they're doing to market their businesses and providing them with some tips and information that may help them take their online presence to the next level.
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Senior Morgan Williams rushed for 136 yards with three touchdowns and the injury-riddled Rocket defense came up big twice inside the red zone as Toledo defeated arch-rival Bowling Green, 28-21, on a windy Saturday afternoon in Doyt Perry Stadium.
The victory kept the Rockets undefeated in Mid-American Conference play at 3-0 and improved UT's overall record to 4-3. It also gave Toledo possession of the brand-new Battle of I-75 trophy given to the winner of the contest between rival MAC schools located just 25 miles apart. The Falcons are now 1-2 in the MAC and 3-4 overall.
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This was a great win on the road for the Rockets. The Rockets now move on to face Miami OH at the Glass Bowl on Saturday in a homecoming contest.


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The designs are cute, clever, and funny and would make great t-shirts. Haasbroek is based out of Cape Town, South Africa. See more of his designs and other projects on Behance, Facebook, and Flickr.


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Android Revolution HD 6.5.1/XE
The last of the OTA's have hit our HTC Sensations for the final builds of Ice Cream Sandwich, today the OTA for the Sensation XE/LE was made available for devices and further more the OTA's for devices not on the HTC Elevate program started rolling out. This means that the 3.32.401.X series is the final HTC ICS build. Time to go build your mods/themes. In further news, ARHD has released it's latest ROM which includes the XE (Beats) version. Changelog as follows:
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- Super Wipe is highly recommended due to new base (XE only)! - 3.32.401.x firmware is required! - 4EXT Touch Recovery is required! - HTC Sensation 4G (U.S. T-Mobile PG5810000 | T-MOB010) users can flash this for better signal and data speeds!
As always visit the thread for the most up to date information, firmware and download links: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1098849
HTC Sensation XE – ICS Stock 3.32.401.105
The ICS OTA has been released from HTC Elevate for the HTC Sensation XE, build number 3.32.401.105. This should be the final XE ROM for ICS on the Sensation. Kingsrom has been kind enough to patch the OTA in a flashable build which is stock and rooted.
There are two versions available, an odexed version and a deodexed version which can be found here (all credits to kingsrom for the work)
BUILT by: xXKingsRomXx also added EXT. 4 Apk so no battery pull!
(This can be used on a regular HTC Sensation as well the XE)
(3.32 Firmware is required, update the firmware before flashing the above)
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This has got to be the coolest thing i've seen in a while that has been done with Android so far. In a nutshell:
Ubuntu for Android provides a full desktop experience, including office software, web browsing, email and media applications, on Android phones docked to a screen and keyboard. Thanks to tight integration with the Android service layer, the transition between the two environments is seamless, making it easy to access the phone's services from the desktop when docked.
I won't say anymore, just watch the video below and let me know what you think:
You can read more about this new technology here: http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/android


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DiDio's Wall Teases "Five Years Later" For New 52
A quick shot of Dan DiDio's office wall in a DC Comics All Access video reveals logo treatments for a "Five Years Later" New 52 event.
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The Co-Publisher of DC Comics looks back on his first ten years with the company by counting down his personal favorite stories and events from "Batman: Hush" through the New 52.
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Coconut peanut rice bowl with turkey, broccoli and mushrooms {gluten-free}
Early in my adult life, I realized I don't have the rice-cooking gene. No amount of measuring, and rinsing, and simmering, and steaming will help me produce a perfectly cooked pot of rice. I have proved to be equally inept with white rice, brown rice, basmati and jasmine rice, though I can make a pretty great pot of risotto. For everyday rice, I rely on my little electronic rice cooker, which never lets me down. (I use it for quinoa, too.) I like to make as much as the rice cooker will hold, and keep leftover rice in the refrigerator to make dishes like this coconut peanut rice bowl recipe, which I created for Lynne, my friend Bev's daughter, who eats gluten-free and dairy-free. You can make this recipe vegan by omitting the turkey and adding more vegetables, and make it spicier with a squirt or two of Sriracha sauce.
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"Stringer Bell Bandit" Finally Arrested
Chicago Tribune - Charges have been filed against a man suspected of being the "Stringer Bell Bandit" who robbed or tried to rob 11 banks in the Loop since the beginning of October. Kenneth Anderson has admitted to the robberies but so far has only been charged with one of them, at the Fifth Third Bank branch at 1 S. Dearborn St. on Nov. 2, according to the FBI. "Anderson was shown a map containing locations of the banks and the dates of corresponding robberies in the area over the past few months by the 'Stringer Bell Bandit'. . .and Anderson affirmatively stated: 'Yeah, these are all me,' " according to the criminal complaint.
I'm not gonna sit here and whine and complain and feel slighted because the Chicago PD didn't give me a shout out in their press release for bringing attention to this story but that's also exactly what I'm going to do. Honest to Christ I don't think for one second they had a chance at catching this guy unless I pointed out he looks exactly like Avon Barksdale and not String. It's really not a surprise that after the Stoolies were properly informed of this guy's actual appearance he was caught like 10 seconds later. Like I said, not complaining but at the very least Viva La Stool shout out or something would have been appreciated.
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Ajax calls are just like any other HTTP request that might be used to build a web page. However, due to their dynamic nature people often overlook the benefit of caching them.
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Make sure your Ajax requests follow the performance guidelines, especially having a far future Expires header.
The rest of this blog post covers two important facts that will help you understand and effectively apply caching to Ajax requests.
The HTTP and Cache sub-systems of modern browsers are at a much lower level than Ajax's XMLHttpRequest object. At this level, the browser doesn't know or care about Ajax requests. It simply obeys the normal HTTP caching rules based on the response headers returned from the server.
If you know about HTTP caching already, you can apply that knowledge to Ajax caching. The only real difference is that you may need to setup response headers in a different way to static files.
The following response headers are used to make your Ajax cacheable:
Of course, this doesn't apply if you use the POST method in your Ajax requests, because POST requests are never cached. You should always use the POST method if your Ajax request has side effects, e.g. moving money between bank accounts.
We've setup a Ajax caching demo that shows these headers in action. In HttpWatch, you can see that we've set all three of these headers in the Ajax response:
If you click on the 'Ajax Update' button at regular intervals, the time only changes approximately once a minute because the Expires header is set to one minute in the future. In this HttpWatch screenshot you can see that repeated clicks of the update button cause Ajax requests that read directly from the browser cache and result in no network activity (i.e. the value in the Sent and Received columns is zero bytes) :
The final click at 1:06.531 does result in an Ajax request that requires a network round-trip, because the cached data is now more than one minute old. The 200 response from the server indicates that a fresh copy of the content was downloaded.
Sometimes Ajax is used at load time to populate sections of a page (e.g. a price list). Instead of being triggered by a user event such as a button click, it is directly called from the Javascript that runs when the page is loaded. This makes the Ajax call behave as if it were a request for an embedded resource.
As you develop a page like this, it is tempting to refresh the page in an attempt to update the embedded Ajax content. With other embedded resources such as CSS or images, the browser automatically sends the following types of requests depending on whether F5 (Refresh) or Ctrl+F5 (Forced Refresh) is used:
Firefox propagates the type of refresh down to any Ajax request that is made during the loading of the page and will therefore update any Ajax derived content as if it were an embedded resource. This screen shot of the HttpWatch plugin-in for Firefox shows the effect of refreshing our Ajax Caching demo page:
Firefox ensured that the Ajax request was issued as a conditional GET. The server responds with a 304 in our demo if the cached data is less than 10 seconds old or a 200 response with the updated content if it is out of date.
In Internet Explorer, the load-time Ajax request is treated as though it is unrelated to the rest of the page refresh and there is no propagation of the user's Refresh action. No GET request is sent to the server if the cached Ajax content has not yet expired. It simply reads the content directly from the cache, resulting in the (Cache) result value in HttpWatch. Here's the effect of F5 in IE before the content has expired:
Even with Ctrl+F5, the Ajax derived content is still read from the cache:
This means that any Ajax derived content in IE is never updated before its expiration date – even if you use a forced refresh (Ctrl+F5). The only way to ensure you get an update is to manually remove the content from the cache. In HttpWatch, you can do this using the Tools menu:
Posted on August 07, 2009 in Caching,Firefox,HTTP,HttpWatch,Internet Explorer Tags: Ajax,Caching,Firefox,HttpWatch,IE
An often overlooked aspect of web performance tuning is the effect of using the HTTPS protocol to create a secure web site. As applications move from the desktop onto the web, the need for security and privacy means that HTTPS is now heavily used by web sites that need to be responsive enough for every day use.
The tips shown below may help you to avoid some of the common performance and development problems encountered on sites using HTTPS:
Whenever a browser accesses a web site it must create one or more TCP connections. That can be in lengthy operation even with normal unsecured HTTP. The use of Keep-Alive connections reduces this overhead by reusing TCP connections for multiple HTTP requests. The screen shot below from HttpWatch shows the TCP connection time over HTTP is approximately 130 milliseconds for our web site when it is accessed from the UK:
Using HTTPS, the lack of Keep-Alive connections can lead to an even larger degradation in performance because an SSL connection also has to be setup once the TCP connection has been made. This requires several roundtrips between the browser and web server to allow them to agree on an encryption key (often referred to as the SSL session key) . The corresponding connection time to the same server using HTTPS is nearly four times longer as it includes the HTTPS overhead:
If a HTTPS connection is re-used the overhead of the both the TCP connection and SSL handshake are avoided.
Some web browsers and servers now allow the re-use of these SSL session keys across connections, but you may not always have control over the web server configuration or the type of browser used.
In a previous blog post we talked about the confusing and annoying dialog that is displayed by default if a secure page uses any HTTP resources:
To stop this warning dialog interrupting the page download you need to ensure that everything on the page is accessed over HTTPS. It doesn't have to be from the same site but it must use HTTPS. For example, the addition of HTTPS support allows the Google Ajax libraries to be safely loaded from secure pages.
If you follow Tip #2 then everything that your page needs, including images, CSS and Javascript, will be accessed over HTTPS. You would normally want to persistently cache static content like this for as long as possible to reduce load on the web site and improve performance when a user revisits your site.
Of course, you wouldn't want to cache anything on the disk that was specific to the user (e.g. HTML page with account details or a pie chart of their monthly spending). On most pages though, nearly all of the non-HTML content can be safely stored, shared and re-used.
There seems to be some confusion over whether caching is possible with HTTPS. For example, Google say this about Gmail over HTTPS:
You may find that Gmail is considerably slower over the HTTPS connection, because browsers do not cache these pages and must reload the code that makes Gmail work each time you change screens.
Although, 37Signals acknowledge that in-memory caching is possible, they say that persistent caching is not possible:
The problem is that browsers don't like caching SSL content. So when you have an image or a style sheet on SSL, it'll generally only be kept in memory and may even be scrubbed from there if the user is low on RAM (though you can kinda get around that).
Even when you do your best to limit the number of style sheets and javascript files and gzip them for delivery, it's still mighty inefficient and slow to serve them over SSL every single time the user comes back to your site. Even when nothing changed. HTTP caching was supposed to help you with that, but over SSL it's almost all for naught.
In reality, persistent caching is possible with HTTPS using both IE and Firefox.
Using HttpWatch you can see if content is loaded from the cache by looking for (Cache) in the Result column or by looking for the blue Cache Read block in the time chart. Here is an example of visiting https://www.httpwatch.com with a primed cache in IE. You can see that all the static resources are reloaded directly from the cache without a round trip to the web server:
If you try this in Firefox 3.0 without adjusting your response headers you will see this instead:
The '200' values in the Result column indicate that the static content is being reloaded even though the site was previously visited and a valid Expires setting was used. Unless you specify otherwise, Firefox will put HTTPS resources into the in-memory cache so that they can only be re-used within a browser session. When Firefox closes the contents of the in-memory cache is lost.
The about:cache page in Firefox confirms that these files are stored using the in-memory cache:
To allow persistent caching of secure content in Firefox you need to set the Cache-Control response header to Public:
This value moves HTTPS based content into the persistent Firefox disk cache and in the case of https://www.httpwatch.com it more than halves the page load time due to the decrease in network round trips and TCP/SSL connections:
The Public cache setting is normally used to indicate that the content is not per user and can be safely stored in shared caches such as HTTP proxies. With HTTPS this is meaningless as proxies are unable to see the contents of HTTPS requests. So Firefox cleverly uses this header to control whether the content is stored persistently to the disk.
This feature was only added in Firefox version 3.0 so it won't work with older versions. Fortunately, the take up version 3.0 is reported to be much faster than IE 6 to 7.
A network sniffer is an invaluable tool for optimizing and debugging any client server application. But if you use a network level tool like Netmon or WireShark you cannot view HTTPS requests without access to the private key that the web site uses to encrypt SSL connections.
Often organizations will not allow the use of private keys outside of a production environment, and even if you have administrative access to your web site, getting the private key and using it to decrypt network traffic is not an easy task.
HttpWatch was originally born out of the frustration of trying to debug secure sites. Viewing HTTPS traffic in HttpWatch is easy as it integrates directly with IE or Firefox, and therefore has access to the unencrypted version of the data that is transmitted over HTTPS.
The free Basic Edition shows high level data and performance time charts for any site, and lower level data for a number of well know sites including Amazon.com, eBay.com, Google.com and HttpWatch.com . For example, you can try it with HTTPS by going to https://www.httpwatch.com .
EDIT: This post was updated to show that persistent caching of HTTPS based content is only available in Firefox version 3.0 onwards.
Posted on January 15, 2009 in Caching,Firefox,HTTP,HTTPS,HttpWatch,Internet Explorer,Optimization Tags: Firefox,HTTPS,HttpWatch,IE
When you setup a web server there are generally two types of caching that you need to configure:
This caching scheme is covered in Two Simple Rules for HTTP Caching along with some ideas about how to manage changes.
Now that HttpWatch 6.0 supports Firefox we wanted to cover some differences in the way that it handles caching compared to Internet Explorer. The use of long expiration times (item 2 above) still directly applies to Firefox but there are some subtle differences in the configuration of item 1.
In the previous post, we broke item 1) down into:
response header allowing the brower to revalidate them as requiredThe rest of this post covers two important differences in Firefox that the affect caching of HTML pages.
You can prevent any caching in IE by simply setting this response header:
Cache-Control: no-cache
Pages that use this header aren't stored in the cache and IE will always reload them from the server; even if you use the Back button to reach them.
Here's an example in the HttpWatch online store where we show that an order has already been processed if you click on Submit button followed by the Back button:
Of course, we always redirect POST requests to a GET to avoid breaking the Back button.
However, this response header doesn't prevent caching in Firefox. It just means that Firefox will never read the page from the cache during a normal visit unless it has been re-validated by sending a GET request. Also, if the page is reached using the Back button there's no round-trip to the server and Firefox simple re-loads the page directly from the cache.
So how can caching be turned off in Firefox? The simple answer is that it cannot. Firefox relies on having a copy of every page in the cache for commands such as File->Save As and View Page Source. However, you can control where the page is cached and whether the cached entry can be used for display purposes.
The following response header in Firefox prevents persistent caching, by forcing the page into the in-memory cache:
Cache-Control: no-store
This header also prevents reuse of the cached version of the page and triggers an HTTP GET if the page is navigated to using the Back button.
These two header values can be combined to get the required effect on both IE and Firefox:
Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store
As shown here in the HttpWatch header tab:
UPDATE: The lack of no-cache support is limited to early versions of Firefox 3.0 and was caused by a bug. Although, no-cache alone should now work it is possible that visitors to your site will be running affected versions of Firefox.
When IE encounters an HTTP response with no Expires
header it just assumes that it can never automatically reuse the cached entry without re-validating it against the server. With the default setting of 'Check for newer versions of stored pages' in IE set to 'Automatically', it will normally do this just once per session.
This provides a reasonable way of controlling the caching of static HTML content. The user will get the latest version if they open a fresh copy of IE and the cached version of the page will be used until they close IE.
Firefox handles the lack of an Expires
header differently. If there is a Last-Modified
response header it uses a heuristic expiration value as specified in the HTTP 1.1 spec RFC2616:
Also, if the response does have a Last-Modified time, the heuristic
expiration value SHOULD be no more than some fraction of the interval
since that time. A typical setting of this fraction might be 10%.
The calculation is as follows:
Expiration Time = Now + 0.1 * (Time since Last-Modified)
For example, if the last change to your static HTML file was 100 days ago, the expiration date will be set to 10 days in the future. Here's an example from the Cache tab in HttpWatch of a page that had no Expires
Firefox has automatically set an expiration date in 8 days time because the page has not changed for approximately 80 days.
This means that to retain control of your HTML pages, as we discussed in Two Simple Rules for HTTP Caching, you should set up a suitable Expires
header value on your web server for your HTML content as well as other resources such as images and CSS files.
In order to ensure consistent caching behaviour with IE and Firefox you should:
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Another difference is that Kicks is in a 120-year-old building, on Main Street in Baker City's National Historic District.
The building's owner plus the tenants, Kicks' Kaylin and Ryan Chaves, have worked hard to maintain the beauty of the building's interior while operating a chic, modern business for locals. Even for out-of-towners, who may have forgotten their running shoes at home, can shop among national brands such as Nike, New Balance, North Face, Skechers and Easton.
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And not just any vault. Built in Baker City's bygone shoot-'em-up days, this was built as a jewelry store when a robbery was a real possibility. The vault has a big steel door (the locking mechanism has been removed, so you don't have to worry about getting locked inside when you try on a windbreaker.) It also has an iron bar door that swings shut. A black curtain offers privacy for trying on clothes.Inside the vault are the two original safes, plus the jeweler's secret hiding place and two mysterious spots hacked into the concrete by what may have been an attempted heist. Again, watch the video.
And what about all those Boise State University pennants and flags? The Idaho university is actually a lot closer to Baker City than Corvallis or Eugene, so quite a few Idahoans pass through town. People in Baker City also rely on Boise's airport and medical services. Besides, the Chaves' son went to school at Boise State.
Once you look beyond all that Bronco blue and orange (the Boise State colors), you'll see lots of things to buy to show your support of the Oregon Ducks and the Oregon State Beavers, too.Kicks is located at 1801 Main St. If nothing else, stop by to check out the changing room while you're in town. Everyone else does.


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You're correct about doors. We could consider making it possible to open doors by interacting with them.
Yet, there are other ways to flush out aliens from buildings: 1. Find a soldier with good throwing accuracy and throw a grenade in a window. Likely a good idea to stand well back if you try this. I've done it but some soldiers are particularly dorky and occasionally throw a grenade at their feet. 2. Throw a grenade up against the outside wall of the building, take cover and end your turn. The wall will be destroyed and on your next turn the room will be exposed and you may be able to pick off aliens inside. When you get into the "beefier" grenades later in the game, they do a lot of structural damage and are particularly satisfying. 3. When I'm bored, I'll go up on the roof of an adjacent building (if possible), and throw a grenade on to the roof of the building I want to "explore". After your first turn, the top floor will be opened up and you can throw in another grenade. You can continue until you've leveled the building to rubble (and killed aliens hiding there). 4. I personally prefer to drop a proximity grenade at the door and move on. Eventually the alien will exit the building and set off the proximity grenade which may kill them or at least hurt them so you can finish them off with rifle fire. Al(ien) |
is there any way to rotate the camera in increments of 90 degrees? if not, could this be added in the future?
We did think about this and that would be an epic feature. It got pushed down the list when everyone started asking for geoscape, bases, research, etc, etc.
Once the dust settles, we'll take a look at the list of outstanding features and see what is at the top. Thanks for the feedback. Al(ien) |
Any plans for iPhone 5 resolution support?
oki, had tried to have a blast at this last night but found a few issues that prevented any fun from happening!
the biggest for me was the touch screen accuracy. clicking confirmation boxes and setting waypoints was near impossible. it simply doesnt appear to be accurate positioning to where i touch therefore im having to mash the screen in the approximate area to find the 'spot'. worse was to follow when i tried to hit the first waypoint and it sent me near but but not to the mission area. i re-route the waypoint and then sent to another part of the geoscape entirely! with this and the less than stellar presentation (to be fair the original x-com was fairly bad to) i cant recommend it at all. perhaps its my device (iphone 5 32gb ios6) but doesnt appear others are experiencing the same issue. in a nutshell, didnt get anywhere |
Acidbottle, try touching and holding near where you want to place the yellow target box. Then move your finger around on the screen to finetune where you want the target placed. Also be sure to lower the camera level to match the level of the ground you are trying to target. I didn't have an issue usually with selecting a space except in tight quarters.
What I did find problematic is pinch to zoom. I can only get that to work about 10% of the time. Is there a trick to doing that? I never played x-com to compare to, but what is here is a really cool squad TBS game. The presentation is a bit janky (I can't find any way to quit or go back to the main menu, the Onslaught/Training Missions menu, without exiting and deleting the app from the quick launch bar), but I can understand at least the graphics are meant to be a throwback to an early 90s game. I've only played a little so far but what is here seems quite deep and recommended for fans of these games. Last edited by lookmanohands; 10-05-2012 at 03:52 PM.. |
Really enjoying the game, but I would really like a faster way to set a soldier up for reaction fire. As it stands now, I have to press three buttons to do it. If this could somehow be elegantly put on the main screen UI I'd be happy. It really sucks that I have to press three buttons to turn it on and to turn it off.
A collapsable menu on the right, like the one on the left bottom, perhaps? Even having a single button to turn off or on "reserve points for reaction fire" would be nice. That way you could just turn it off temporarily if you wanted to ignore the reserve you had set on the soldier screen. Or maybe I am missing a fast way to set this up that already exists? |
aceyprime, we'll be looking to add iphone 5 support really soon.
Acidbottle, have you tried to zoom into the Earth in order to touch the alien event? Your best bet is to select your base, touch the craft you want to send, zoom out, using the corners (black space around the Earth), rotate to the alien event. Zoom all the way in. Touch the alien event. We will work to reproduce on an iphone 5 to see if it is a problem only present on it. lookmanohands, are you zooming the geoscape or during a mission? During a mission, there are 4 preset zoom levels. The usual pinch zoom gesture should "jump" between them. On the geoscape, there are two gestures. You can pinch/zoom but you can also twist the Earth to orient it. It does take some practice. FlyinJ, you must be on an iPhone/iPod. On the iPad, we had the screen real estate to put a drop menu on the soldier's name (topright). In the case of iPhone/iPod, we agree, setting reactionary fire is cumbersome because you need to decide which of the three (aimed/snap/auto) to choose. Maybe we could try to fit it into the soldier's name as a drop menu like we did on the iPad but as I recall, it was very tight on space. Al(ien) |
Congratulations on the fantastic update, it really is XCom!
However, some important suggestions.... 1/ ALL THE TEXT IS IN CAPITALS. Please change it, maybe the font too. 2/ Add a "lock axis" button to the geoscape so when I rotate I don't end up with the planet upside down. 3/ Please show the number of grenades and flares available to each shoulder in the corner underneath where it shows his time units and health remaining. 4/ For each of the shooting options, please add a % probability of a hit based on the individuals soldiers abilities. 5/ On a number of occasions I have accidentally moved a soldier further on when I thought I'd selected the next one thereby using up time units. Maybe an undo function would be useful, perhaps one allowed per turn? 6/ Are there any plans to add more episodes such as Terror from the Deep? 7/ This might be pushing it but would it be doable to change the rotation from stepped 90 degree turns to free form (e.g. Like on the geoscape)? Again, brilliant update. You could have released this as a new app and charged for it but you stuck to your word from the very start. Other devs should take note, I will be following your work closely in the future. Bravo. EDIT: Just noticed something else. I want to ensure every soldier has at least 3 grenades and flares after a mission but I just cannot find anywhere that shows how many are available at the base. Therefore I don't know how many to buy. Am I missing something?? Last edited by bluewomble88; 10-08-2012 at 01:21 AM.. |
Hi bluewomble88. Thanks for the feedback.
1/ ALL THE TEXT IS IN CAPITALS. Please change it, maybe the font too. We struggled with and tried many, many fonts to try to get it right. Maybe we didn't . This is a work in progress. 2/ Add a "lock axis" button to the geoscape so when I rotate I don't end up with the planet upside down. We've heard this a couple of times and could add a lock. Did you know you can touch the screen with two fingers and twist the Earth around so it is oriented as desired? 3/ Please show the number of grenades and flares available to each shoulder in the corner underneath where it shows his time units and health remaining. On the iPad, we do this because it has more screen real estate. You're playing on an iPhone or iPod, right? Noted. 4/ For each of the shooting options, please add a % probability of a hit based on the individuals soldiers abilities. Where would you want these percentages to display? Maybe similar to the TU costs we display for walk cost? 5/ On a number of occasions I have accidentally moved a soldier further on when I thought I'd selected the next one thereby using up time units. Maybe an undo function would be useful, perhaps one allowed per turn? Not a bad idea. I've thrown a grenade (or two) at my feet that I would have liked to undo... Limiting to one per turn could avoid abuse. As a side note, we often hear that it is difficult to select a soldier that is "behind" another on the map. If you touch and hold the screen, the yellow selector box will jump to the end of your finger and you can then drag the selector to a precise location. 6/ Are there any plans to add more episodes such as Terror from the Deep? We will be updating our website (on the updates page) about what our next steps will be on the game. Honestly, we are wading through a lot of feedback (which is great - it's what we want) and starting to prioritize trends that we see. 7/ This might be pushing it but would it be doable to change the rotation from stepped 90 degree turns to free form (e.g. Like on the geoscape)? I'm not sure what you mean. The rotation of what? 8/ Checking stores for gear. From the base management screen, touch "Base Info". Make sure to select the correct base along the top. At the bottom of the screen, touch "Stores". This will display everything you current have in all stores at that base. This should help you keep track of what you have. Equally important is the "Transfers" button, also at the bottom of the "Base Info" screen. Touching this button will display what will arrive, along with the quantity and when. Use this button to remind you whether you have gear you want on the way or if you have to buy again. Again, thanks for your feedback. Please reply back on #7. Al(ien) |
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