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Rafe and Danny are childhood friends who have always wanted to be pilots. The film opens in 1923 with the boys playing in a broken-down biplane on Rafe's family farm. Danny comes from a less-than-loving home. And Rafe takes on the role of protective big brother. Flash forward to 1941. The two are now P-40 pilots in the U.S. Army Air Corps, and Europe is already at war.
But love is in the air too. Rafe meets the smart and beautiful Evelyn, a Navy nurse, when he and Danny take a physical exam in order to be granted flight status. Afraid he'll fail the vision test, Rafe hides a cheat-sheet that lists all the letters in the bottom row of the eye chart. Nurse Evelyn catches him, but gives him a passing grade anyway. Romance quickly blooms.
Rafe is eager to fight, and because the United States is not yet at war, he volunteers for the Eagle Squadron, a group of Americans who are set to help the British Royal Air Force fight the Nazi blitz. When Evelyn asks him why he's risking his life, Rafe says, "I'm not anxious to die. I'm anxious to matter." All too soon, Rafe is shot down over the English Channel and presumed dead. But when Danny's consoling of Evelyn turns into attraction, audiences wonder if Rafe will make a comeback.
So what does all this have to do with Pearl Harbor? Nothing except to set the stage for two more hours of cinematic fireworks. Forrest Gump-like, Rafe, Danny and Evelyn manage to be participants in a bevy of major historical events as Pearl Harbor's soap opera plot is overlaid on the story of the impending Japanese attack.
positive elements: Rafe and Danny are loyal friends willing to die for one another. Both display a strong sense of duty and a willingness to risk danger to fight evil. A group of pilots, when given the opportunity to back out of what is most probably a suicide mission, all volunteer to remain. Rafe respects Evelyn and refuses to participate in premarital sex. Soldiers and airmen risk death to fight the enemy and to save each other. A Navy captain goes out of his way to compliment an African-American cook who suffers under the racism of the day. A soldier lets the woman he loves stay in a relationship with another man because he knows it's best for her. One pilot gives his life to save another. Doolittle says, "There's nothing stronger than the heart of a volunteer." Also, in 1941, most Americans still believed in the institution of marriage, and Pearl Harbor reflects that.
spiritual content: A Navy chaplain urges a badly wounded man, "Hold on to your faith, son." He reminds another of Jesus' words, "Today you will be with me in paradise." When the man dies, the chaplain says, "Go with God, my son." A priest gives last rites to dead sailors. An American pilot crosses himself before taking off. His mission commander asks, "When did you find religion?" "When you assigned me to this mission," he responds. "Then pray for both of us," the mission commander says. A pilot who is shot down relates how, when he thought he was going to die, he made a deal with God to be allowed to live. "I kept my end of the bargain," he says. A flirtatious and irreverent nurse quips after a church service, "I just had my slate wiped clean. Now I can think about how I can dirty it up again." A soldier, looking around at the utter destruction, asks, "Where is God in all this?" President Roosevelt, speaking of his being confined to a wheelchair because of polio, says God brought him down to that level so that he could better understand God's will. On the other hand, Japanese pilots pray to their ancestors before a Shinto shrine.
sexual content: A soldier gives advice on how to seduce nurses. The nurses joke among themselves about seeing men in their underwear, and one comments on a soldier's "cute butt" after she gave him an inoculation (audiences also see a couple of "cute butts" along the way). A nurse looks forward to "making out." Another nurse says to a soldier, "Tonight you're mine!" Rafe, when tempted to take Evelyn up to a hotel room, decides not to. "I can't do this," he says. "It's not right. I don't want anything to regret later. That's what I want to come home to." A mechanic berates a pilot who is painting the figure of a barely clad woman on the nose of a bomber: "I don't want anyone painting [breasts] on my airplane." A woman wears a low-cut nightgown. Others wear bikinis. A soldier comments, "Don't you think if your best friend was doing your girl that you wouldn't come back and beat the crap out of him?" There's one scene of implied sex between a soldier and nurse, although nothing about the depiction is explicit. The next day, when the soldier says to her, "I'm not sorry," she replies, "I don't know. It's too fast." The results of that liaison are portrayed neutrally.
violent content: While the film features intense battle scenes, the violence is not nearly as explicit or gruesome as in the film it is likely to be compared with, Saving Private Ryan. Men are blown up by torpedoes and bombs. Others are engulfed in flames. Japanese planes strafe sailors in the water and men running across a runway. Japanese and American planes are shot down and crash into buildings or ships. Sailors drown in a flooding engine room. Badly burned and wounded men stagger toward a hospital. Blood spurts across a nurse's white uniform. And a jumble of dead bodies is lifted out of the water in a cargo net. Survivors of the Doolittle bombing raid on Tokyo engage in a close firefight with Japanese troops. A pilot is assigned a plane whose pilot was killed and whose blood is still splattered across the canopy. Elsewhere, soldiers engage in a bar fight and participate in a dirty boxing match. At the beginning of the movie Danny's abusive dad slaps him around. Rafe comes to the rescue by whacking the dad across the head with a plank.
crude or profane language: The Lord's name is abused more than 20 times. Other profanities, including the s-word, are used at least that often. American soldiers call the Japanese "Japs." And during a boxing match a sailor utters an racial epithet aimed at an African American.
drug and alcohol content: Alcohol and tobacco get a lot of screen time. Soldiers and their girls drink beer in bar and clubs. Sailors salute each other with shots of whiskey. Men drink martinis. Some soldiers smoke, and one hands out victory cigars. Japanese soldiers toast their upcoming raid.
other negative elements: Both Rafe and Danny are willing to break the rules, starting with Rafe's use of a cheat-sheet during the eye exam. He later tells a nurse, "I know I'm a bad influence" as he steals a boat to take her on a harbor cruise. Danny disobeys regs by taking Evelyn for a spin in his fighter. Sailors play dice and wager on a boxing match. The Americans are understandably enraged by the Japanese sneak attack, but talk of fighting back often turns to crude talk of revenge.
conclusion: As a military history buff, I was pleased to see a mostly-accurate account of the attack on Pearl Harbor with only a few liberties taken for the sake of the story. But I was upset that the Japanese admirals and generals are portrayed as having had no choice but to attack the American fleet. History disagrees. Besides, many of their comments and actions are far removed from the context of the day. In the movie, a Japanese gunner, seeing children near the area where the attack is to begin, tries to motion the kids to safety. In reality, American soldiers were keenly aware of the glee exhibited by some of the attacking pilots. "The bombing [in the movie] was the way it happened," remembers Pearl Harbor veteran Daniel S. Fruchter. But it seems the way the pilots were portrayed left a bit to be desired. "They came down to 40 to 50 feet. You could see the mustaches on their faces. Not only that, but the grins as well."
I was expecting 21st-century morality to be grafted onto 1941 (think Titanic), but for the most part the men and women in this movie behave as they do in movies from that era. Still, Pearl Harbor is without question intense, and the soap opera subplot is problematic more than once. Not to mention the profane language. So do the overall historical messages of courage, loyalty and sacrifice fully compensate? No. Swim carefully in this harbor. Entertainment Zeros are lurking.
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Storytelling and sharing is foundational to the new world of work. Stories other people can feel and see themselves in and that are about what is, what can be, and that inspire us to go there are the best stories.
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I strongly encourage you to read Vlatka's excellent book. You can also follow her on Twitter here: @ManagementShift.
Watch an additional video with Vlatka here: Increasing profits by giving up control. Lastly, you can also read this article: Leading in all directions.
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Boards aren't working. It's been more than a decade since the first wave of post-Enron regulatory reforms and, despite a host of guidelines from independent watchdogs such as the International Corporate Governance Network, most boards aren't delivering on their core mission: providing strong oversight and strategic support for management's efforts to create long-term value.
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We're actually in the process of developing an intervention called Wise Boards, which will directly deal with this issue!!!
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FOR the second consecutive Saturday Kings Norton's powerful forwards came up short as they were beaten 29-5 by visitors Old Leamingtonians.
Defeat was no disgrace on the hosts who were outdone by a side sitting second in Midlands Three West (South) and, alongside the previous weekend's conquerors Old Coventrians, are deservedly favourites for promotion.
Although this game was at home, the severe weather became a massive levelling factor for both sides and no advantage was gained.
From the kick-off Old Leamingtonians applied relentless pressure for some 16 minutes deep into the home side's territory without gaining any score, due entirely to determined defensive work by the whole team.
Eventually Kings broke out and crossed the halfway line for the first time but their valiant efforts were beaten back when the greasy ball was spilled and cleared with a long range clearance.
Old Leams then regained the initiative, only to miss an easy penalty in front of the posts after 20 minutes. Five minutes later the visitors finally took a deserved lead with an unconverted try through their driving forward play.
This was followed ten minutes later with a second try which was well converted despite the difficult windy conditions and OLs led 12-0 at half time.
The second period saw Kings determined to get themselves into this game despite the difficult conditions and they applied themselves to the task with even greater effort.
Their driving forward play saw scrum half Shane Rees go close, only being held up over the line after some good mauling by Kings' pack.
As the pressure on their visitors rose, Rob McGhee then broke loose and drove to the line to score an unstoppable forwards try, but Chris Carlin's effort to add the extras blew narrowly off course in the strong wind.
Kings battled away but found it difficult to find a way through OLs' strong defence and eventually the visitors showed why they had only been beaten once this season as Kings conceded three more tries - one converted.
As the conditions grew considerably worse the referee chose to blow up slightly early to end a well fought match in which the visitors deservedly gained both the win and four-try bonus point.
The fact only three games in the division took place on Saturday is a great credit to the Hopwood Park pitches and Kings groundstaff.
Kings Norton 2nds travelled to play Worcester Wanderers 4ths and lost an open game just 22-10 as captain Peter 'Smurph' Murphy scored the last try in his final game for Kings before he takes up a new post in Devon.
Kings Norton 3rds were well beaten 57-14 by Warwickians at Ash Lane.
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On Tuesday, the "Irene" a boat carrying Jewish activists' hoping to breach Israel's blockade of the Gaza strip, was intercepted by Israeli naval forces and redirected to the port of Ashdod. Web users were able to follow this journey live on the web.
The organizers of this expedition sent regular messages to social networks to keep the blogosphere updated on the smooth running of the voyage. This update indicates that ten or so warships encircled the boat as it approached the Gaza Strip.
The interception of the boat did take place nonetheless without violence. The crew on board the Irene had said on their web site that it was a non-violent action and they would not resist if the Israeli army tried to stop them.
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The Worker's Party congress began on Tuesday in North Korea. The objective of this rare meeting is to choose the "supreme leadership" body of this single party state. The event has sparked lively speculation on the blogosphere concerning the approaching succession to North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-il.
This video blogger says this congress is a clear indication that time is of the essence for North Korea's ruling party and the "Dear leader's" succession has already begun. He thinks there are no doubts as to who will replace Kim Jong-Il; he says it will be his third son, Kim Jong-Un who is in apparent preparation to take over as Party leader. He will follow an apprenticeship beforehand, the length of which will depend on his father's health.
This American researcher and expert on North Korea does not fully believe this version of events. He thinks that if Kim Jong-il was to die suddenly without being able to guarantee his son as successor, then a bitter war for leadership could break out between the army and party officials.
Meanwhile, this blogger mentions that China's Prime Minister Wen Jiabao shared some information with former US president Jimmy Carter and told him that Kim Jong-il told him personally that his son's hereditary succession was a false rumour started in the West.
This new web site monet2010.com pays a glowing tribute to the painter Claude Monet at the same time as an exhibition of his works is being held in Paris. The site remains true to the spirit of the impressionists and offers visitors multiple resources to find out more about the artist's world. There is a web TV showing videos about the painter and via the travel section, there is an interactive application allowing you to explore part of a Monet piece.
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And the first sound bar we have is the JBL SB 100. Basic sound bar, has great JBL sound so it's got great low end, has a built-in woofer. It's got clear high dynamic range. It's got a bracket which you bracket on the wall or you can actually put it on a table top. There's actually a little switch on the back that actually EQs this sound bar for the best possible performance depending on how you are going to use it. So it's very affordable, great sound, it's a great way to get into the sound bar category.
For a little bit better sound and for Bluetooth connectivity — everybody's using Bluetooth now with all their mobile devices — is the Sound Bar 200. So it gives you Bluetooth and it also has a built-in subwoofer. So you'll definitely hear a step up in the low-end bass on that Sound Bar 200, so it really kind of puts you in the movie, really gives you that cinematic experience.
Now the flagship that we're just coming to market with is the Sound Bar 400. It actually has a separate stand-alone 8" 200 watt powered subwoofer. It's also the biggest bar that we have, so it fits a lot of today's larger flat panel televisions that people are buying. In addition to that it includes three HDMI inputs with Audio Return Channel so it almost kind of functions like a receiver so it gives you a lot more connectivity than you find in a traditional sound bar and it also has Bluetooth. And obviously with a separate subwoofer you have a really dynamic sound. It can play very loud. It can fill large spaces and really gives you that surround experience with very simple, easy connectivity and hook up.
Zak: Great. Thanks Chris. That's JBL's sound bars.
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Well, that's somewhat of a subjective opinion about OpenArena. It's lacks polish, and leielol is, well, a pain to work with, but its fun to play ocassionally. What do you think if nexuiz?
it isnt bad. I have had some good hours on it.
Nexuiz is a great engine, pretty decent models, pretty nice maps. Just wish people out there would make mods for it. I would love to see a "Nexuiz Fortress", or Nexuiz-Strike Back on the original quake (from which nexuiz is a major update to), we saw lots and lots of mods. Some of those mods (ctf, teamfortress) that became a staple in FPS gaming that we know it. Where have all the modders gone? //sorry if this was all kinda off topic.
Which has one big problem: if it's "that" complicate it's not good neither for pros. KISS rules... no matter where. Make it complicate and it's with high likelihood a failure in the long run.
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After years of public speculation, AT&T has finally lost its US exclusive on Apple's megastar smartphone. As consumers prepare for the arrival of the Verizon Wireless (VZW) iPhone, we address some questions about the impact of this development.
Just how many iPhones will they sell?
AT&T customers bought an average of around 4 million iPhones per quarter in 2010. Even if VZW achieves a conservative half of that run rate, it could mean 8 million CDMA iPhones shipped domestically in the first year. In addition to newcomers from other carriers, buyers will include existing subscribers, whose contracts will steadily come up for renewal over the next two years.
Of course, no longer the only option for iOS enthusiasts, AT&T volumes of the iPhone are likely to suffer this year. We can reference the end of iPhone exclusivity in Western Europe for an example of what may happen. As our Handset Country Share Tracker service shows, Apple's peak share at exclusive carrier O2 UK was 10%. By the time the phone was also introduced at Vodafone and Orange, Apple's share was roughly just 5-6% with each carrier.
Thus, while Apple's total volumes are going to benefit as a result of this week's announcement, neither carrier should expect to see the iPhone account for anywhere near the huge 70% of smartphone volumes that AT&T recorded in Q3 2010.
What impact will the network have?
Aside from a revised radio section and some cosmetic tweaks, the availability of a Wi-Fi hotspot feature is the only official new feature of the VZW iPhone. But AT&T defectors may find one other difference – the inability to simultaneously use voice and data on a CDMA network. As Droid users know, Wi-Fi data access can be used as a limited substitute, but expect outcries of a "lesser" experience from some frustrated buyers. Of course, the inevitable LTE iPhone (in 2012, perhaps?) will eventually equalize this matter.
Unlike AT&T, VZW does not have a bandwidth cap on its US$30/month plan. AT&T's US$25/month plan provides just 2GB, which protects the carrier's pipes from overloading, but prevents carefree use of compelling, but bandwidth-hogging apps like NetFlix. Coupled with broad perception that VZW is more reliable, it could mean an upside for the phone's new carrier. However, we can expect AT&T to send a heavy message about its HSPA network being faster than its competitor's EV-DO Rev. A.
How will this impact the competition?
AT&T has been preparing for the loss of exclusivity since at least early last year, adding a broad range of Android (and later Windows Phone 7) models. Expect an onslaught of high-end Android handsets (such as the Motorola Atrix 4G) to quickly replace lost iPhone volumes at AT&T, benefitting the likes of Samsung and HTC.
Meanwhile, VZW's strong Droid brand of Google-phones is likely to take a hit. VZW subscribers looking for a less complex experience than Android's will find the iPhone to be a gem, cannibalizing the carrier's own volumes. The real impact, however, will be felt by RIM. The BlackBerry portfolio still lacks a solid full-screen touchphone, and unless the Canadian vendor comes up with one soon, it stands to lose further share with VZW.
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Google's successful growth has been enabled by strong support from its many partner vendors. As the first Android handset maker, HTC long enjoyed top market share, steadily broadening its portfolio across protocols (including hot "4G" technologies like HSPA+ and WiMAX), global carriers, and retail price points, staying ahead of Android competitors Motorola and Samsung.
Historically, Samsung's smartphone share had been disproportionate to its successful position in the overall market, and we had long commented on the matter.
However, starting in Q3 2010, Samsung became the world's largest Android vendor.
Samsung accomplished this by launching an all-out assault across the globe with its Galaxy S family of handsets. For example, in the fickle US market, where each carrier has demanding compliance and customization requirements, Samsung launched a Galaxy S phone with each major carrier.
Samsung's share of the global handset market has tripled since 2001, when it was already a third-ranked player. Given that historic show of determination, the vendor's leap to first place in Android smartphones should not at all be surprising. Expect Samsung to expand this leadership position in 2011 and beyond, riding Android's coattails to huge smartphone volumes.
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At CTIA in San Francisco last week, away from the fanfare around LTE rollouts and the next dozen tablet devices (ok, I exaggerate a little), Sprint had an announcement which will have significantly higher impact on mobile broadband adoption and revenues: Sprint ID.
Sprint ID promises to up the ante on personalization and ease current feature phone users into the smart phone ranks.
Sprint ID offers instant personalization along key themes/packs where the operator has done the heavy lifting of identifying and group related applications of interest to different persona from wallpaper to ringtones to apps. While the one click marketing line is not quite matched by reality given pesky little things like accepting terms and conditions etc, Sprint ID is a significant breakthrough in my opinion as:
Three handsets were featured at launch of Sprint ID: Sanyo Zio™, Samsung Transform™, LG Optimus S™. These three devices cover key price points in the Sprint portfolio and provide customers with a range of form factors, industrial design and brand to meet their tastes. Interesting to note that both LG and Sanyo retain the right to put their own packs on their handsets as well. This is a big win for LG as its Optimus S™ will be available for under $50 with contract giving the vendor a much needed boost in the smartphone space. Samsung meanwhile continues to shine at Sprint occupying the lucrative $149 spot with its Transform™. All three devices of course require a Sprint Everything Data plan.
However, for me the more significant impact is that operators and oems are finally realizing that customers don't buy phones or services or apps… what they really want are positive experiences
… be that socially connected, sports, education, health and fitness, fashion etc. This is something that our User Experience team has been evangelizing for the last 7+ years. Whether its 80k apps on Android or 250k on Apple store or 10K on RIM, one common experience has been exasperation at the huge waste of time, energy and emotions in finding ANYTHING!!! Which happens first, eyes glazing over or fingers cramping with so much scrolling? Either way the net result is often a disappointing experience which the early smart phone coolaid drinkers have learned to live with.
Newbies to the smart phone arena, will certainly have less tolerance and spend less time to personalize their device and enable applications. Sprint ID is well tailored to the next wave who are taking tentative steps into the smart phone space
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While there has understandably been a lot of attention given to consumer apps post iPhone and the plethora of application stores that have emerged, business mobility and enterprise mobility offer huge potential from horizontal to vertical applications and from smartphones to iPads and tablets to superphones.
In both NA and W. Europe, business customers account for under 30% of users but are the dominant streams of both revenue and profits for operators. On the device side, premium priced models from RIM, Nokia, and Microsoft Mobile licensees as well as the iPhone have long been key drivers of profits in a market where low single digit margins are the norm. The explosion of smartphone choices has led to the battle ground moving beyond the corner office, to other executive and now increasingly the midlevel manager.
With a new range of devices competing for space in the corporate market, the issue of corporate versus individual liable has become an increasing priority for IT decision makers. Add on the complexity of managing an expanding list of OS (Android, iPhone, Windows Mobile, Symbian, Palm, MeeGo, Bada from Samsung) and the growing importance of mobile portable devices with access behind the firewall and one can already feel a corporate migraine forming…. And that's before we even discuss device management, mobility policy, device retirement etc. etc.
I am looking forward to CTIA Fall (San Francisco October 5-7) and in particular to the Enterprise Mobility Boot Camp moderated by Philippe Winthrop of the Enterprise Mobility Foundation. The boot camp spread over two days will address many of the issue listed above with our own Andy Brown featured in an analyst roundtable on October 6th. I look forward to meeting you there. Don't hesitate to contact Philippe for passes to this the deep dive enterprise mobility event.
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Blackberry has finally introduced its much-awaited OS 6 upgrade with the launch of the Torch 3G smartphone. It will initially be sold exclusively at AT&T in the USA in August 2010, giving the operator an alternative to the iPhone. OS 6 employs a Webkit engine, HTML5 support and universal search. The Torch is a QWERTY slider with a 3-inch HVGA+ touchscreen optimized for messaging and media prosumers. Can the Torch outshine Apple? Is it an Android killer? Well, the external design is a little unexciting. It looks not dissimilar to the Palm Pre. The hardware-list ticks the right boxes for a premium handset -- with 802.11n, 5MP camera, and so on -- but the 624MHz Marvell processor might be perceived as sluggish compared with the emerging tide of 1GHz superphones. The software-list looks good, with Flash, HTML5 support and Webkit for developers. The Webkit-rendered browser will compress data traffic, benefitting AT&T's stressed network. RIM has opened up the platform a little for a better developer environment. Data services are prosumer-friendly and consumer-friendly and primed for email, Internet-browsing, social networking, instant messaging, maps, WiFi geolocation, universal search, RSS feeds, media playback, Blackberry World and PC tethering. No head-to-head videophony, though. Navigation of the UI is delivered through 3 main interfaces; touchscreen, trackpad and hard-QWERTY keyboard. Our brief trial of the handset in New York recently found the user-experience to be generally satisfying with a responsive touchscreen and good discoverability for apps and services. Retail pricing will be set initially at US$199 postpaid with a two-year contract. This is just in the sweetspot zone for high-end users, and it indicates AT&T will be subsidizing the Torch to the tune of roughly US$200 per unit. So... are OS 6, Blackberry World and the Torch an Android killer? No. The overall package of hardware, software and services lacks a true wow factor. The Torch helps RIM to close the gap on Android models and iPhone, but it does not overtake them. Is the Torch a Blackberry savior? Maybe. Torch 1 is a solid step in the right direction to stemming churn by upgrading its touchphone portfolio. Torch 2 and Torch 3 will need to be even better, though, with improvements like a 2GHz processor, because the consumer-enterprise handset market in the US has become hyper-competitive and the Torch will not be a leading light for long.
Those following the "Antennagate" saga no doubt tuned in to reports from the press conference held by Apple earlier today.
As Apple explained during the event, many other phones potentially suffer from a similar issue. Putting on my electrical engineering hat, I have to say I believe it – to an extent. A user's hand (or ear or cheek) all impact the environment "seen" by the phone. Antenna engineers work carefully to direct signals away from such sources of interference. However, there should be no reason why the left-handed "deathgrip" scenario is unaccounted for.
The smartphone vendor announced that while its "18 PhDs and scientists" work on studying the problem further, Apple would issue free protective cases (of both the Apple-made "bumper" variety and the third-party kind) to all iPhone 4 buyers.
So, why all the negative press?
It appears that consumers and the media alike have a love-hate relationship with successful electronics firms. We love to use their products, but also love to find faults in them. (Google and Microsoft come to mind.) The antenna issue has put the first major dent in Apple's armor since the original iPhone launched in 2007. To find a fault with a company this successful is a rare occasion, and it often makes for catchy headlines.
The iPhone still offers best-in-class usability for data services. However, the vendor will now need to fix the growing perception that its voice-call capability is sub-optimal. As Apple loses heartshare, it may not stop the die-hard fans from purchasing a device, but it may impact on-the-fence buyers. Given that Apple relies on essentially a single SKU, consumers holding off on making their buying decision can have a quick impact on volumes (without other SKUs to absorb the impact).
Unlike previous years, when Apple's competition was lackluster, this summer brings compelling Android-powered alternatives from vendors like HTC, Samsung, and Motorola.
So far, we believe that the negative impact on marketshare has been negligible. After all, Apple has already shipped 3 million of the new handset since launch. Furthermore, according to Apple-provided stats, only 0.55% of iPhone 4 users have called to complain about the antenna problem.
However, while the figure is pretty low in percentage terms, it still comes out to about 17 thousand people. The sooner Apple can bring that number to zero (the vendor hopes that consumers will accept the free bumper solution) the sooner it can curb the loss of heartshare and the potential long-term impact on the iPhone's otherwise gold-plated brand.
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Steve Ballmer and Microsoft have shut down the Kin social phone project, due to weak sales. An understandable decision; we estimate the Kin captured less than 0.1% of the US handset market in Q2 2010. At least 8 major reasons caused its downfall: 1. Clumsy sub-branding with "Kin"; 2. An unattractive handset formfactor that did not wow young users; 3. An unexciting set of features and consumer media; 4. Suboptimal finger-based touchscreen user-experience; 5. Poor marketing of its automated cloud-storage backup service; 6. Mixed integration of the UNIX-Java Danger acquisition; 7. Weak reception from US developers, who couldn't run downloadable apps or use Flash; 8. High handset and data-plan costs at Verizon Wireless. This is a long list of failure points. The Kin joins several mobile and portable product flops from Microsoft, such as Courier, Zune and Pocket PC. Will Microsoft and its handset partners learn the lessons of the Kin for Windows Phone 7 in 2011? They will need to, as Microsoft's global smartphone OS marketshare is near a record low. Reasons 2, 3 and 4 should be Microsoft's and its device partners' priorities. Good-looking touch-smartphones with fun consumer media services and a slick UX will attract developers and persuade tier-1 US carriers to throw subsidies in their direction. Add in Reason 5, the automated cloud backup for data, which was one of the Kin's few differentiators, and Microsoft's prospects will look brighter. And if they could bring the popular Xbox sub-brand and services to the table, then Microsoft's prospects may look even brighter still. But Microsoft will have to move with urgency, because rivals like Apple, Android and MeeGo are not standing still. If Microsoft struggles to deliver in any way on WP7 in 2011, then I believe it will eventually have to buy its way into the mobile market. Smartphones will soon outsell PCs and mobile is too big a market for Microsoft to ignore. Who do you think Microsoft should buy in software or hardware? And why? Leave your suggestions in our Comments box.
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British pop star George Michael was involved in a car accident last week which required him to get airlifted to a hospital where he was treated for cuts and bruises. According to a witness, the pop singer fell out of Range Rover that was going over 70 mph on the motorway.
Katherine Fox, who was driving behind the vehicle, told The Sun, that she saw the pop singer tumble out of the passenger side door of the Range Rover to the third lane of the northbound carriageway.
Fox described Michael, whose clothes were shredded, as having "a nasty cut on his forehead and the back of his head." She said, "There was blood all down his face and on his teeth. He was breathing and conscious but in shock."
According to Fox, Michael apparently opened the door to shut it because it wasn't closed properly.
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good pair of riding shorts. Cant beat the price either held up for me fine still on first pair for two years now.
Its a foam pad and isnt very dense, but the fit is nice and the price is right. probably wont be doing a century with these on, but perfect for simple daily rides.
The chamois is a bit thin but it's enough to offer protection and not feel like you're wearing a diaper. At the price they are listed it's hard to beat these briefs but for the love of all things padded listen to the reviews when they say the sizes run small. I got some Mediums and wish I would have gone with the Large.
The chamois is a little bit thin but overall, you can't beat these shorts.
Good for the price, order a size larger than you normally wear though.
Good product for a reasonable price. Has held up well. Padding could be denser. Sizes seem to run a little on the small side, so if your normally border line between, say a med & large, probably go for the large.
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the visuals of that engine are astonishing.
Just as an example of this, I just checked online and there are currently over 1000 players playing Neverwinter Nights online. Not bad for a game that came out 8 years ago (a large majority of those users are using the linux client and it's been that way for years).
the visuals of that engine are astonishing.
Go Unigine, if they make some Linux titles, that will be great.
Of course, to really spur Linux game development, improving the existing open source engines would be ideal. Game developers not having to pay anything, or paying for some support/development of a few new features here and there is a much more ideal model.
So on that note, how about a competition to improve an existing engine or create a new one nearly as good, as good, or better than Unigine's? ^^
Nobody is going to make an RPG with this. Any teams that submit an RPG proposal to Unigine will almost certainly get rejected. An RPG takes a disgustingly massive amount of time, money, and talent to make compared to most other games (and those other games already requires massive teams of artists and designers on top of a strong core tech team to get anywhere).
Even short, simpler RPGs often take on the order of 4 years to make, and that's with a full-time staff of 60-120 people working well over 40 hrs/week.
Don't get me wrong, I'd love a great RPG, but it's just not realistic for a competition of this sort.
Biting off more than you can chew is the biggest mistake made by hobbyist and indie game developers, as well as student game developers. Even if you go with the assumption that a hobby game has no deadline, the reality is that as development drags on with no end in sight, the motivation and energy of the developers wanes, the interest of the community fades, and the likelihood of ever releasing a finished and playable game simply gets smaller and smaller until it hits zero.
If you've got a small team of hobby/indie/student developers, you realistically need to design a game that can be implemented by a small team of hobby/indie/student developers within about 1-2 years, tops. (And less than that if you're doing a student project or contest submission with a deadline.) That can still be a great game, make no mistake. It just won't be NWN, Dragon Age, Fallout, etc.
It may be the next Left 4 Dead or the next Mario Galaxy. Most likely, however, it's going to be the next World of Goo or the next Portal or the next Boom Blocks: all great games, but all relatively light on content and development complexity, able to be put together, polished, and released with a small budget and a small team in a small amount of time.
Most people on this forum have absolutely no idea of the complexity that goes into game development. Designing, sketching, rigging, modeling, texturing, animating, polishing, and tweaking a single high-quality character in a modern game can easily take from 1-3 months of a single artist's time. If you have a measly 12 characters (including enemies, background characters, etc.) in your game and three artists, that means you need about 4-12 months of development just for the characters. Toss in objects, environments, and effects, and you easily end up needing half a decade of work... or a huge freaking art team. Games like RPGs require just MASSIVE amounts of character art. And then of course you need all the maps, quests, stories, character interaction scripting, and the toolset development to support those features.
An indie team can reasonably make a good adventure game, good dungeon crawl (e.g. diablo or Torchlight), a simple RTS, a shooter, or a puzzle game. Intense story-based games like Alan Wake or large RPGs like Dragon Age are just not in the realm of possibility for an indie team.
Think of it like a movie. I've seen some amazing low-key sci-fi and intense drama and even excellent action films come out of indie film groups. You will never, ever see something akin to the Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, or Iron Man made by an indie film crew, though. It just isn't possible, at least with today's tech.
I want a 3rd person action game with sniper mode and bombing action like MDK, so how about MDK 3 then
compared with morrowind gothic 1 was really small but just as fun
im for example part of an modteam thats working on an gothic 2 total conversion but we will move to diccuric as an platform (an hobby-rpg that uses ogre and supports linux - i know the screens dont look that great, but thats mainly because of the content and still missing shaders)
were already working like 4 years on the world (mainly me and another 3d artist) and it will be easily 4-6 years till release
and i dont see why there wount be enough motivation for this - there isnt more time than one afternoon per week if your studying or working
just my opinion
i think we will make it to an release even though untill then the graphics will be quiet outdated^^
You're also completely ignoring the fact that NWN took close to 5 years of development time, too. Don't for a second think most or even a third of that was just the base engine.


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jabberjaws13 wrote:is this on orange? love it!
Yup on orange, thanks!
Re: MORDOR NATIONAL PARK
I logged in just to vote for this shirt :D
Your character drawing is awesome. I could see a whole line based on these and other similarly drawn animals. Definitely GMV
Re: Overlook Falls
I am re working this ~ it might return or it might not !
I will totally nerd-out with this shirt! Love it!
bowlingtraindude wrote:Love the idea...but pink on baby blue? I'll pass.
Well, nevermind, that's basically the same colors as the show.
Re: Please Dispose Of Thoughtfully.
Great message... but it appears to have already been made into a shirt. Copyright issues?
thezukes wrote:Great message... but it appears to have already been made into a shirt. Copyright issues?
If you're refering to the male and female wearing the shirts that's a image made by the artist to illustrate the placement of the shirt.
This is awesome. Hope the grey outline can be seen when printed out.
Re: A Breath of Fresh Air
Don't really like it, not my style at all, but it's still got my vote ... because it's ramyb ...
Re: Gummistone Park
Haha! This is fantastic!
Great retro feel! Excellent color choice.
Re: Thanks Dad. This is great!
nevermind, that's basically the colors from the show
Love this, voted for it. Think I would like it even more without the bottom text, though.
Re: Yodel-ay-ee-ooooo
thanks guys!
this was (is) one of my favorite games from the show. you could pretty much win every time is you just guessed "25", then "35" then "60".
although... the game itself is pretty evil. if you lose, you're a murderer.
Re: Forest Adventure
I agree, this is very well done and I love the movement. I, also, probably wouldn't wear it, though...
Re: Close Encounters Of The Spud Kind...
Thanks. Now I'm going to be hearing those darn five notes all night. :-P
genericsmith wrote:If you're refering to the male and female wearing the shirts that's a image made by the artist to illustrate the placement of the shirt.
lol, i can only hope that is not what they meant... but super lol if that is the case.
I love it! It seems pretty high on the shirt though...
weirdpuckett wrote:I hope that "Global Warmth National Park" never comes into existance!!!
Indeed... The thought of polar bears wearing aloha shirts... quite frightening.
Re: Campfire Tales
I lol'd. I would definitely wear this.
xtinaftw wrote:lol, i can only hope that is not what they meant... but super lol if that is the case.
Yeah... They are pretty new and maybe haven't seen the photo templates before. Lol anyway though.
My first thought when I saw the thumbnail was "How DOES one thoughtfully dispose of polar bear cubs"
Alas no answer, just an anti littering shirt.
albinoapple wrote:Great! VIdeo game references are out now so let's move on to nerd movie references!
darn you peter jackson for ruining my favorite books!
I think there will be at least 3 people in my household wearing this when it wins. *fingers crossed*
TurboGraphx16 wrote:Don't really like it, not my style at all, but it's still got my vote ... because it's ramyb ...
So you click. "I'd Buy It" and you Wouldn't actually buy it? you sir are what I would classify as FAIL... and why all of us new designers can't get a leg up on the older designers.
sorry ramyb... love the shirt btw lolz
This is a great design. I love camping and my brother in law is always asking for a bear story so this would be perfect for our family camping trip!
There exists a shirt with the word "focus" on the back, very much out of focus. And it hurts my eyes every time this one kid who I know wears it (he sat in front of me in Spanish class 7th grade), it bothered me. This one too, unfortunately.
Not to get all Adder on this, but the link says "I'd Want One" not "I Like This Artist".
BaldBob007 wrote:I agree, this is very well done and I love the movement. I, also, probably wouldn't wear it, though...
Great illustration. It's not something I'd wear, but it is beautiful.
Whoo T-gen-tree!!! Get it?
Re: Where Demons Are Many
I wish this was on a brown shirt. Still, I'd buy one if it printed.
Very wearable shirt design. I like the colors too and I don't normally dig this much brown in one design, but you pulled it off nicely.
Well executed, quirky design!
+3Internets for you good wooter.
mikenytola wrote:I may be wrong, but I think they have rejected things for images being made from photos, regardless of who took it. But like I said, I may be wrong.
I've never seen anyone's own photos rejected.
You left out one of the chief characters, Patrickspens. I want to hear more about him. Shirt.woot wouldn't have made it far without its Patrickspens.
Amazing detail!!!
I must have this shirt!
Re: Giant Sequoia
I don't know... this from the guy who didn't want to see generic forest/deer designs...
Just kidding, I've always loved the sequoia and still need to get out to California to see them
The coloring style is great and I really like the beams of light cutting through. I don't think I'd wear this particular shirt, but I love the illustration.
Re: See America By Road Trip...
Who's up for a road trip?
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Like it, I wish it had more bears...
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1. Bedtime Story
Aragorn was pleased that his duties were over in time to allow him to join his wife in a family ritual that he usually missed: putting the child to bed. Every night, after the nursemaids had bathed and dressed the young prince in his nightclothes, the queen would dismiss them and take Eldarion to his bedchamber herself. She would tell him a story and sing softly in her lovely voice. Elven dreams and visions of great beauty would drift across his eyes, until they closed in a sound sleep.
The king strode through the nursery suite, and the startled maids dropped curtseys as he passed; they called out "my lord king," and he greeted them briefly with a smile and a nod. But when he turned into Eldarion's room, he found a somewhat different scene from what he had expected. Barefoot and nightgowned, his four-year-old son was standing in the middle of the room, brandishing a wooden sword and shouting, "You might be a play-acting spy! What do you say to that?" Seeing his father, Eldarion put on a ferocious face and charged. "Strider!" he shouted.
"Arwen," the king said, as he held the small body whacking at him with the wooden sword, "what are you teaching our son?"
Laughing helplessly at her husband's surprised face, Arwen gasped, "The Prancing Pony—I told him the story of the Hobbits and the Ranger, and he just found out that you are Strider. He is being Sam. Such great timing!"
Aragorn closed his hand around the small arm brandishing the wooden sword. The scowl on his son's fair Elven face bore an uncanny resemblance to Sam Gamgee's look of suspicious disapproval. He was about the right height, too. "That's enough, my son. Shall we discuss this, perhaps?" and he knelt down to look at his son face to face.
Eldarion let out a peal of delighted laughter and threw his arms around his father's neck. "Is it really true, papa? You are Strider?"
"Oh, it is really true," Aragorn said. "But you are Strider, too." He picked up the boy and they joined the queen on the bed.
"No, I'm not," the prince said. "I am Eldarion."
"And is Eldarion your only name?"
"I am the son of Elessar," he said proudly.
"And what is the name of our House?" Aragorn asked him.
"Oh!" the prince said. "Telcontar. Is that what you mean?"
"Most certainly. And that is 'Strider.'"
"Strider!" the boy shouted again. Slipping off his father's lap, he began strutting around the room. "Here is Eldarion being Strider."
"Arwen," Aragorn said to his wife, "promise me one thing."
"And what is that, my love?"
"Do not tell him about Gollum."
"Lurking by a stagnant mere, peering in the water as the dark eve fell, I caught him, Gollum. He was covered with green slime. He will never love me, I fear; for he bit me, and I was not gentle."
—Aragorn at the Council of Elrond
This is a work of fan fiction, written because the author has an abiding love for the works of J R R Tolkien. The characters, settings, places, and languages used in this work are the property of the Tolkien Estate, Tolkien Enterprises, and possibly New Line Cinema, except for certain original characters who belong to the author of the said work. The author will not receive any money or other remuneration for presenting the work on this archive site. The work is the intellectual property of the author, is available solely for the enjoyment of Henneth Annûn Story Archive readers, and may not be copied or redistributed by any means without the explicit written consent of the author.


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Paul McCartney Kicks Off North America Mini Tour Today
Sunday, November 11, 2012
Paul McCartney kicks off his 2012 North American dates tonight (November 11th) in St. Louis at the Scottrade Center. The mini-tour will wind up on November 28th in Edmonton's Rexall Palace. Along the way, "Macca" will take stops in Houston and Vancouver. The shows are shaping up to be be the Former Beatle's final performances of the year.
McCartney was asked why with such a well-oiled, tight, professional band he still undergoes a daily soundcheck prior to a lengthy evening gig: "The real answer is, 'We love it.' So, y'know, whenever we kind of get to the place, we've got to give our (sound) man out front a chance to get his mics up, check that they're all working, and so they do a tech test first of all -- but then we come in for the last three-quarters of an hour, or something, and do that. But we love it. Y'know, it's a nice opportunity to try out some new numbers, just do some stuff that we don't normally do. I enjoy solo-ing, I play a bit more lead guitar than I would normally. I only get a chance to do a couple of bits in the show -- but it's really just we enjoy playing together, that's the truth of it."
Paul McCartney tour dates (subject to change):
November 11 - St. Louis, MO - Scottrade Center
November 14 - Houston, TX - Minute Maid Park
November 25 - Vancouver, BC - BC Place
November 28, 19 - Edmonton, AB - Rexall Place
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Below is a post from David Arnold, Director of Alcohol Abuse and Impaired Driving Prevention Efforts at the The BACCHUS NetworkTM, outlining their prevention efforts.
National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week (NCAAW) is recognized the third full week of October, annually, to galvanize and showcase the prevention efforts on college campuses everywhere.
We here at The BACCHUS NewtorkTM support the efforts of NCAAW by peer groups and campus advisors by providing a comprehensive NCAAW Toolkit, full of resources, education, and sample programs to implement on your campus. Thanks especially to our summer interns (James Peth from Colorado State University and Kate Ward from the University of Massachusetts), I strongly believe this years' toolkit to be the strongest yet.
One of the greatest strengths comes from the natural inclusion of social media as a major campaign theme. The theme, #makeSMARTchoices, incorporates both educational messaging and a social media hashtag.
Promoting responsible alcohol use using social media requires some planned thought and effort, which is why I'm so proud of our partnership with The Foundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibility in hosting a webinar, "What the Tweet! Using Social Media to Increase Student Involvement in NCAAW and Other Health Education Campaigns." The webinar was offered free, with sponsorship from the Foundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibility, and showcased not only the NCAAW Toolkit and tips on implementing a social media strategy, but also the phenomenal efforts of the University of Alabama's Less Than U Think campaign
BACCHUS has continued to support its member campuses' efforts in implementing NCAAW, including posting "re-tweetable" messaging, technical assistance, and providing topical updates for campuses to incorporate in their efforts.
But in the end, it is the students and their dedicated advisors who do the work to make change on their campuses. Great change doesn't happen overnight, and it doesn't happen in just one week. The NCAAW provides a venue to highlight activities that happen year-round, and we hope these tools will support students and staff in all of their efforts.
Next year's National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week will be help October 20-26, 2013. Information is always available on The BACCHUS NetworkTM website at http://www.bacchusnetwork.org/ncaaw.html.