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The movie may be data, but if you want to play Blu-rays in mplayer or VLC or any other OSS-video-player supporting it, you need to know the AACS-keys. Obtaining and using those keys is "illegal" (and new disks may even render your drive unusable), so, accessing the data on the disk is not as trivial as you put it, even if you do not even focus on how much processing-power it takes to decrypt the data.
Lets try to address your issues:
Categories of people:
*1* The majority: people who use the software primary as tools and entertainment. Think about sat-receiver and a house wife.
*2* The minority: people who use software that is professional and reliable. They are always looking for the more stable, expandable, more performing and also cheaper software stack. OS is being part of it.
*3* The absolute minority: people from above categories who "burned their fingers", took time researching the area carefully, noticed FSF movement and started caring about it. So, they are basically above cases, but with new top priority called "freedom".
Situation "before" on these groups:
*1* Get windows preinstalled, play games there, expand windows market share, can't select anything else because the drivers for their hardware are top polished on windows due to market share.
*2* Get windows preinstalled, switch software stacks, do not even look at something else, because their software and the drivers for their hardware are absolutely optimized for windows due to market share.
*3* Get free operating systems, go through new learning curve, fight a lot of nuances and accept a lot of shortcommings, because of above cases. Because their OS is pain to use(for the reasons above, not belonging to "freedom"), and their choice is purposely limited by only these systems, they are referred as zealots or cultists or whatever, ie a minority.
Situation "now" on these groups:
*1* This group has Linux written on their gaming hub site - under separate category. They become curious, they accept that their hub owners hardly make a mistake - they trust them and this combination makes them explore the whole "freedom" concept. Essentially the effect is: windows market share sinks, together with monopolistic developer attention shifting towards more cross-platform development, other operating systems become more attention from hardware suppliers and thus advance in terms of features and abilities.
*2* Due to more developments of OS, and more buzz in media, thanks to above paragraph, professional developers see the alternative OS improve and thus they start considering it as an alternative as well.
Q1. Do users of this category become less free projects after their platform gets more attention and more proprietary options?
A1. No. Because there ARE more free projects under windows, than under alternative OSes - mostly because people were not aware of other systems, or that these systems were not polished enough, or simply not widespread enough. So users and supporters of free software get more free software.
Q2. Will inclusion of more proprietary features endanger free software?
A2. No.
** Firstly they are protected by license.
** Secondly they have proven their method to be efficient due to shift towards their OS and hence they will be invested by more curious users/developers.
** Thirdly, "before" - proprietary feature users were investing their money into different system and thus empowering complete concurrent of free software. They were either running proprietary titles on windows, paying both, and expanding proprietary ecosystem; or they were using emulators/layers such as WINE - but still investing into proprietary titles supporting windows-only infrastructure in those software.
"Now", they still pay for proprietary titles, but those titles invest into free software and use cross platform technology. They are also explosed to free software concept and will have much easier switch, in case they consider it.
Essentially they shift the market share towards free OS without affecting ANY of its projects.
Q3. What dangers are really present?
*** The danger that one-vendor-only solution will claim itself as crossplatform and misguide everyone to build on top of it. Read MONO.
*** The danger that new proprietary friends drag the closed-source development towards core projects of the ecosystem. The danger is that they may become either monopoly or "trusted cartel".
Thats it. But those dangers are no way as critical, as having them have own completely proprietary, completely isolated development ecosystem thus investing funds into forming new "standards", "software infrastructure" and features that are endangering free OS directly.
Remember, Apple, MS etc have explicitly forbidden GPL in their code and have put massive pressure onto "exclusivity", ie monopolistic features.
By doing the opposite - welcoming any codebase in userland(as in kernel/userland)we are pushing towards removal of exclusivity and thus stripping their "advantage", while maintaining our own.
I agree with Stallman on this question, and I think that the advantages completely overwhelm the disadvantages and if we play careful and do not force our closed-source friends, its an epic win for both.
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Its pointless with you because the OVERALL final conclusion of RMS is that steam on Linux is MORE good than "harm".
You make the mistake that you pick a Little detail "can do both harm and good" and then you don't get the overall final conclusion.
But maybe you miss the final conclusion because you think that it is manipulation and brainwashing.
Sure RMS manipulates people but every human who can write and do write do exactly the same.
On the other side you are worst in that kind of stuff.
Valve is basically porting its 10 year old, existing OGL code base over. CS 1.6 instead of CS:GA? Reeks of "easy cash" syndrom to me.
Valve has the urge to rapidly broaden the the range of games available for Linux. I would assume that they port the titles first that have a good reputation and are fast to port.
What most people in this thread forget is that Valve does this not for the good of Linux or to get money from Linux users, they do it to secure the future of the Steam platform, which is endangered with Windows 8 and Microsoft's app store plans.
Gabe Newell can say that he does it because he likes Linux, but we all know that he does it in order to not let the Steam boat sink like the Titanic, hit by an iceberg called Microsoft.
The original Half-life had an OpenGL renderer option, so porting Half-life probably wasn't a huge effort. After they had Half-life done, CS 1.6 was probably a no-brainer (given that it's just a mod for HL). Valve already has TF2 ported, which means that HL2 (and episodes), Portal, Left for Dead, and CS:S/CS:GA are probably on their way.
I suspect that Valve just wants to concentrate most of their bug reports and fixing on one game per engine for now.
Hopefully with Steam they can reborn. So far, the only game I found interesting from their catalog was Cold War. Maybe I'll buy it in the future. I've just tried the demo.
By the way, I cannot wait to play HL2 on Linux!!!


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on the purple bot (the second image) there is a redish cloud around the belly and the feet on the radeon driver, which doesnt appear on the catalyst. what is that? a bug, a feature?
and why is the crack on the floor on the first picture different when using the r300g driver?
a propos image quality
is there any news about S3TC and its alternative S2TC? would it be useful to have a performance comparison between them? IIRC S2TC was faster, but of lower quality.
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how about the legal side? maybe a short statement on ACTA?
will there be a quality difference with finished HiZ support?
I'm afraid there's also some apparent differences caused by using JPG images - the images in the article are all JPG.
in my point of view the catalyst is just broken!
they only get more fps speed by hurting the image quality.
Its hard to say which one looks better because they both have good and bad aspects to my eyes at least
I personally tend to agree with Q on this one. Catalyst tends to be faster because it uses shortcuts, lots of shortcuts. It used to be even worse. I mean, back in the day, you could see glaring graphical differences between say ATI and Nvidia cards.


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LOL my old X800 8-9 year old card beat the newest intel shit 2500K LOL
r600g driver is not working truly right in performance section: hd3850 is usually performing faster than hd4830 and hd5750. hd4830 has just two times the processing power than a hd3850. hd5750 have more than two times the processing power of a hd3850 and some more memory bandwidth and still performing worse.
Benchmarking those games without S3TC and direct rendering is pointless, which means you must have a 32-bit linux with libtxc_dxtn.
Not to be picky, and I know that high-end cards can be extremely expensive and that you only get a few free samples here and there from manufacturers, but:
What's the possibility of also testing high-end cards in the latest 3 generations? For example, Radeon HD4850 or better, HD5850 or better, HD6950 or better. For the most part I have only seen low-end cards in your tests lately, some of them are even passively cooled because they've had so much of the bulk of the card stripped out.
I'll use OpenBenchmarking.org (once it's launched) to see how the high end compares, I guess, because that's where I mostly shop. Unless I'm in the market for a low-power mid-sized laptop with a (small) discrete GPU, which I'm currently not, I would never, ever, ever buy a low-end GPU. For my desktops I would at a minimum get the high-end single-GPU solution, but more likely I go for the dual GPU cards out of preference. I just buy them infrequently, and use them until I need to run a program that won't run without the next-gen features
One other thing: Can you offer incentives to people who run phoronix-test-suite and successfully submit non-outlier data into openbenchmarking.org? For example, you could have a drawing to give away a free HD5850 to one lucky person, randomly selected from the list of people who submitted their results for a given test suite and had their results accepted into openbenchmarking.org. Having events like this occasionally would give you a nice burst of data flooding openbenchmarking.org, and having a large data set is key for people to have confidence in the reliability of the data.


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There are two types of oils in coffee, good oils and bad oils. The good oils are beneficial for your body and health. On the other hand, the bad oils are what give you ulcers and stomach problems. To avoid the bad oils, simply use paper filters to reduce the effects.
Coffee starts out as a yellow berry, then changes into a red berry and then is picked by hand to harvest. Using water soaking process, the red berry is de-shelled and only the green coffee bean remains. It then dries in the sun for 3 - 5 days where it is then packed and ready for sale.
In 1675, Charles II, King of England issued a proclamation banning coffee houses. He believed that these establishments were places where people met to plot against him.
Instant coffee was invented in 1901 by a Japanese American chemist known as Satori Kato. However in 1906, a more popular English chemist named George Constant Washington claimed he invented instant coffee.
Both the American and French Revolution were plotted in coffee houses
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"Manufacturers must make it a priority to identify and correct quality problems in a timely manner," Michael Huerta, Federal Aviation Administrator, said in a statement Friday.
The FAA said that Boeing discovered in September 2008 that it had been installing faulty fasteners on 777 aircraft. At the FAA's request, Boeing submitted plans to correct the problem. The FAA alleges that Boeing did not implement those plans until two years later, in November 2010.
Boeing has stopped using the defective fasteners. But the FAA says the "underlying manufacturing issues continued to exist until after the corrective action plan was in place."
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Honeywell today named Inder Reddy president of Honeywell Security Products Americas. Reddy succeeds Scott Harkins, who accepted a new role within Honeywell in June.
Honeywell Security Products Americas is a provider of intrusion, access control and video surveillance technologies.
Reddy is out of the office all of this week, but Honeywell has promised me an interview in the next couple of weeks.
Reddy joined Honeywell in 2010 and most recently served as VP of global marketing for Honeywell Security Group for four years.
In a prepared statement Honeywell Security Group president Ron Rothman, praised Reddy's "extensive business strategy experience and Honeywell portfolio knowledge."
Look for my interview with Reddy in an upcoming newswire. I'm also hoping to meet Reddy at ASIS at the end of the month.
The fact that Vivint Solar officially filed with U.S. regulators last week for an initial public offering of common stock is an indication that solar continues to be a hot option for security companies.
Vivint Solar's parent company is Provo, Utah-based home automation/home security company Vivint, which was bought by The Blackstone Group in 2012 for more than $2 billion.
Now, Reuters reported Aug. 26, Vivint Solar has filed for an IPO and set its fundraising target at about $200 million. And the news service said Vivint Solar lead underwriters to the offering are Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith and Credit Suisse.
The company will be listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol VSLR, Reuter said. The company plans to use the IPO proceeds to repay debts, make investments and for "other general corporate purposes," the news service said.
Reuters had reported earlier in August that Vivint Solar had confidentially filed for an IPO. Around that same time, Protection 1, one of the nation's largest home and commercial security, also announced it would be launching a solar division called Brite Energy. Sales of solar panels to homes and businesses are expected to begin this fall.
And earlier this year, GHS Interactive Security, a new California-based security company, announced it was partnering with Solar Universe, a leading nationwide residential solar company, to combine security and solar into a comprehensive home automation package.
Since its launch in 2011, Vivint Solar has grown to be the second largest solar installer in the country.
Reuters said that the nation's residential solar energy market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 28 percent, to about 1,713 megawatts of capacity in 2017, according to research firm GTM Research and the Solar Energy Industries Association.
More companies will soon be able to reap the benefits of the Automated Secure Alarm Protocol, as the CSAA moves into its next stage of deployment by extending the program to non-charter members.
So far, the 100 CSAA members that have helped fund the program have been able to contract and connect to the system, which is designed to increase the efficiency and reliability of emergency electronic signals form central stations to Public Safety Answering Points, commonly known as PSAPs. In total, 42 companies have contracted for connection, though some do business in areas that do not yet have an active PSAP.
Currently, seven PSAPs are enrolled in the ASAP program, with Washington, D.C. and Houston representing the largest urban areas. In a recent press release, the CSAA said it expects to add Boston and Seattle to the mix in the coming year, along with the entire state of Delaware.
In August, Romeoville, Ill.-based Protection 1 became the largest participant to go live with the ASAP to PSAP program. Ed Bonifas, co-chair of CSAA's ASAP steering committee, said in a prepared statement that Protection 1's coming online would add "considerable traffic to the participating PSAPs."
Later that month, Guardian Protection Services, based in Warrendale, Pa., in conjunction with the CSAA announced it was coming online with the program in Richmond, Va., where it has a solid presence. Jason Bradley, director of central station operations at Guardian, told me that implementation in Washington, D.C. was the next step.
It's no exaggeration to say broader adoption of the ASAP to PSAP program will transform the industry, making signal transmission a faster and more informative process. To be sure, the program is expanding at a steady pace, and I imagine it'll be sooner than we think before dealers are going to expect centrals, where possible, to join the ranks.
Controlled Products Systems Group, a Denver-based distribution company that bills itself as the "largest wholesale distributor of perimeter access control equipment in the US," on Sept. 2, was acquired by The Duchossois Group.
CPSG distributes perimeter access control and gate automation security systems. It has more than 10,000 SKUs and 31distribution centers, and serves more than 4,000 dealer-installer customers.
I have not had a chance to catch up with the folks from the Duchossois Group or CPSG yet, but the new release I received said that Duchossois, based in Elmhurst, Ill. is a privately held, family-owned operating and investment company that has "significant investments in the access control solutions market."
CPSG will continue to be run as a stand-alone business led by Brian Huitt, President. CPSG's headquarters will remain in Denver, Colorado.
"Being acquired by TDG gives us long-term stability and access to the resources and infrastructure of a larger, focused parent company," Huitt said in a prepared statement. "I am excited to continue growing CPSG through leadership products, total solution consultation, and unrivaled technical expertise and customer support."
Investment banking services are provided by Harris Williams. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
Since we're coming up on the long weekend, and saying good bye to summer this week, I thought I'd go easy on mergers and acquisitions and prep for ASIS stuff, and instead use this space this week for a couple of videos you may be interested in.
Yup, it's more ALS ice bucket challenge videos. This time, starring folks from integration firms and central monitoring stations.
You may be getting tired of seeing everyone and her sister pouring buckets of ice over their heads, or you may not. Either way, you've got to love the fact that this challenge is raising some serious cash to battle a horrible illness, and helping educate the general public about ALS. Here's a link to the ALS Web site, which has some information about the disease and the origin of the challenge.
And here are some of your collegues in challenge mode:
Here's a link showing Emergency24 Senior VP Patrick Devereaux .
And here's a link to a bunch of Dakota Security folks partaking in the challenge.
General George W. Casey, the 36th chief of staff of the U.S. Army, will deliver the keynote address at the CSAA Annual Meeting, slated for Oct. 17-22 at the Fairmont Southampton in Bermuda.
Casey, who led the U.S. Army from April 2007 to 2011, commanded from 2007 to 2007 a multi-national force in Iraq, guiding a coalition of more than 30 countries through some of the most difficult stretches of the Iraq war, a news release from CSAA noted.
"General Casey has a unique story to share with our members," Steve Doyle, CSAA EVP, said in the release. "His background and experience have formed the basis for his viewpoints on leadership, vision, organizational culture and leading transformational change. I know our members will be impressed with his insights and how they can use them to improve their own businesses."
Since retiring from his post with the U.S. Army, Casey has lectured on leadership at Columbia, Yale, Denver University and the University of North Carolina business school, while also addressing a number of large corporations.
In addition to the keynote, the education sessions will focus on several themes germane to the monitoring world. Seminars on the schedule will deal with the rise of DIY and self-monitoring systems, monitoring and the Internet of Things phenomenon, and the continued value of central station alarm monitoring.
In the release, CSAA president Jay Hauhn said senior leadership from the national Authorities Having Jurisdiction (AHJ) first responder associations will be present, giving members the chance to talk industry issues with them one on one.
Fire alarm manufacturer Maple Armor is investing nearly $30 million to build a new plant near Montreal, from which it intends to target the U.S. market, the company announced this week.
The full name of the company is Solutions D'alarme Incendie Maple Armor Canada and it's a division of Beida Jade Bird Universal Fire Alarm, which is a subsidiary of the Chinese company Beida Jade Bird Group. Maple Armor's plan to build the plant in Saint-Bruno, on Montreal's South Shore, is making big news in Canada because it's one of the first Chinese companies to invest in manufacturing there, a company news release says.
A Quebec government agency, Investissement Québec, is contributing $4 million to the cost of the $30 million plant—with a $1 million grant and $3 million in interest-free loans, according to The Gazette, a Montreal newspaper.
A groundbreaking ceremony for the plant took place yesterday, Aug. 19, and the plant, which will have 70 employees, is expected to open by the end of 2015, the company said.
According to The Gazette, a Montreal newspaper, the plant "will build components for fire alarms, such as control panels, sprinklers and heat and smoke sensors."
Interestingly, about 70 percent of its products initially will be shipped to China because of a strong demand for certified alarm products there, according to the company and news reports.
The Gazette said a major reason the company chose to build in Canada is that it "has a certification process that meets stringent international norms for the alarm systems."
The plant would cost more to build in China because the process for certifying fire alarm systems is complex there, the newspaper said. Also, The Gazette said, by building in Canada, the Chinese company is eligible for NAFTA.
But the company made clear it plans to expand into the U.S. market. The Gazette reported that Maple Armor simply found it easier to build in Canada. Here's what the newspaper had to say:
"Weimin Cai, president of Beida Jade Bird Universal Fire Alarm Devices, told The Gazette that the company is indeed targeting the U.S. market, but that Quebec offered more of a sure investment perspective. "We think we can meet the U.S. demand from here," Cai said. "China's relations with Canada are very good, but sometimes China-U.S. relations suffer. "So I think this is a better investment climate."
"Weimin Cai, president of Beida Jade Bird Universal Fire Alarm Devices, told The Gazette that the company is indeed targeting the U.S. market, but that Quebec offered more of a sure investment perspective.
"We think we can meet the U.S. demand from here," Cai said. "China's relations with Canada are very good, but sometimes China-U.S. relations suffer.
"So I think this is a better investment climate."
In the company's news release, Zhendong Xu, chairman of Beida Jade Bird Group, said, "We wanted to set up operations in North America to develop a new product line that meets the highest industry standards. Considering the ease of access to new markets and the presence of a highly qualified labor force, we are pleased to pursue our growth here in Quebec."
I'll be reporting more on this story. Stay posted.
Having written a report this week about SentryNet's latest campaign to encourage dealers to add accounts and sell new services (while giving them the chance to earn tickets to a cruise), I came across news of another monitoring company making it a bit easier for dealers to do their jobs.
SecurTek, based in Yorkton, Saskatchewan, is offering customers air miles through a recently unveiled partnership with AIR MILES Reward Program. When customers sign standard monitoring contracts, they can now top-up their loyalty rewards tally to earn miles, according to a company statement.
New customers can earn 50 reward miles upon signing a 36- or 60-month contract, and then can earn an additional 50 reward miles on their contract anniversary date if they remain SecurTek customers.
Whether at events put on at industry tradeshows or through promotional campaigns, central stations go to great lengths not only to make dealers feel appreciated but to ensure they're equipped with the knowledge they need to thrive in the current climate. It's no surprise. In a boundary-less, IP-based environment where more and more centrals are looking to vault from regional players into national ones, competition is going to increase. As a result, central stations are going to explore new ways to engage dealers and stand out against competitors.
Going to ASIS? Interested in meeting with Security Systems News or Security Director News while you're there?
Amy Canfield (lead editor for Security Systems News' sister publication Security Director News) and I will be at the show Sept. 29 through Oct. 1 and have just started booking appointments. We get way more requests for appointments than we are able to take. Below is some information about how we set our schedules and some ideas about what we want to see and who we want to talk to at trade shows like ASIS.
SSN and SDN do have a booth on the show floor. (#4610) That's an OK place to leave a note for us, or to pick up the latest issue of Security Systems News, but you're unlikely to find Amy or I there.
We'll be in the educational session or out on the show floor. We'll be checking out products, for sure, but mostly trying to catch up with our readers. For Amy, that's the end users. Have a great new product and want to get Amy to come check it out? A good way to get Amy to stop by is if you have one of her readers--an end user--in your booth who she can speak to.
For me, I'll be looking at new products, especially new product categories (as opposed to the newest version of a product you've manufactured for years.) And, remember we're not a product publication or a how-to publication. Security Systems News aims to help its readers--the integrators--make good business decisions that will increase their bottom line. We're also interested in manufacturer's businesses. Business trends you're seeing, new intiatives within your company, what you're doing that's new for the channel--that stuff is more interesting to us than the 3.7 version of your flagship product.
Having a press conference? Great. Let us know when and where it is. Please try to have it during the show hours, and let us know what the press conference is about. One company sends us an announcement before every ASIS, ISC West, and ISC East inviting us to their press conference. Asked what the press conference will be about, we get an email saying that they'll be announcing that later. There are others who want us meet with "someone from their company," but they won't tell us who.
Don't be those companies!
Amy and I look forward to meeting as many of you as possible, learning about your businesses (and in some cases seeing the 3.7 version of your flagship product), so email us. Let us know why the readers of Security Systems News and the readers of Security Director News would be interested in the news you're sharing at ASIS, and we'll try to fit your into our schedules. Often, if we can't fit you into our schedules, we can schedule a call after ASIS.
BRS Labs has a full plate in the next month--it's working on finding a new CEO, finding a spot to build its own cloud facility, and it's prepping for an IPO.
BRS Labs is a provider of "self-learning behavioral recognition software," which its sells as an enterprise software solution, for monthly lease, or as "software-as-a-service. BRS Labs president John Frazzini recently announced during a Fox Business News interview that the company--(which he said he has a stake in) would be doing an IPO. In a news release, the company today announced that the search is on for a new CEO who will take charge of the IPO process.
It is also planning to move its headquarters to a new location in Houston and plans to build a cloud storage facility in that location.
The goal is to raise funds to move into more vertical market segments, the company announced today.
I hope to catch up with Frazzini at the ASIS show next month to get an update on these initiatives.
BRS Labs was founded by Ray Davis in 2005 and Davis has served as CEO since that time. He is stepping down as CEO but role will continue as chairman for the immediate future and will head up the search for a new CEO. Davis said in a statement that he will concentrate his search in Houston.
"The company plans to find a Houstonian who understands the value of a public company in this market, and who has previous operational experience leading a company through the process of going public," according to a company statement.
BRS Labs' is known for its AISight platform, an "artificial Intelligence-based analytics solution that teaches itself to recognize and alert on suspicious or unexpected behavior within massive volumes of data."
In a prepared statement, Davis said he's "always loved building and running companies and have done so for thirty-five years. Based on the growth we have experienced here at BRS Labs, the time is right for us to take the company public, and we need to bring in an individual who has expertise in this area. I will continue to serve in my role as Chairman until that person is comfortably in place and positioned to take BRS Labs to the heights we know it is capable of reaching."
BRS Labs says it "owns an approximate 60 percent share of the video analytics market."
It recently expanded into Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) industry for oil and gas as well as other Smart Utility Grids.
Further expansion into other vertical markets is planned. One of the reasons the company plans to go public is "to raise funds to expand into Information Security, Building Management Systems, and other big data applications."
"Our Artificial Intelligence-based technology has dominated the initial market we applied it to: video analytics," Davis said in a statement.
"It is now time to take this proven technology and address the other serious safety and security issues facing the world today. …We need to rapidly and simultaneously move into these new vertical markets to explore the many ways in which our technology can be used, while expanding our footprint in existing markets."
Davis said that access to public funds "will position us for simultaneous penetration into these markets and allow us to expand the company while producing exponential returns for our investors."
BRS Labs currently works with third-party cloud providers, but it will provide in-house cloud storage to its customers once it moves to a new location in Houston.
In addition to its headquarters in Houston, BRS Labs has offices in Washington, DC, London, Sao Paulo, and Barcelona.
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The Web Data Commons project extracts structured data from the Common Crawl, the largest web corpus available to the public, and provides the extracted data for public download in order to support researchers and companies in exploiting the wealth of information that is available on the Web.
- 2015-04-02: RDFa, Microdata, and Microformat data sets extracted from the December 2014 Common Crawl corpus available for download.
- 2015-04-01: T2D Gold Standard for comparing matching systems on the task of finding correspondences between Web tables and large-scale knowledge bases released.
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- 2014-12-04: We have created several Class-Specific Subsets of the Schema.org Data contained in the Winter 2013 Microdata Corpus (e.g. schema.org/Product and schema.org/Offer) in order to make it easier to work with the data.
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- 2014-08-13: Hyperlink Graph Dataset covering 1.7 billion web pages extracted from the April 2014 Common Crawl corpus available for download.
- 2014-07-06: Paper about WebDataCommons Microdata, Rdfa and Microformats Dataset Series accepted at ISWC'14 conference in Riva del Garda - Trentino, Italy: The WebDataCommons Microdata, RDFa and Microformat Dataset Series
- 2014-04-14: Paper about WDC Pay-Level Domain Graph accepted at WebSci'14 conference in Bloomington, USA: Graph Structure in the Web - Aggregated by Pay-Level Domain
- 2014-04-01: RDFa, Microdata, and Microformat data sets extracted from the Winter 2013 Common Crawl corpus available for download.
- 2014-03-05: Initial release of the WDC Web Tables data set consisting of 147 million relational Web tables.
- 2014-02-12: First open ranking of the World Wide Web is now available. The ranking is based on the WDC Hyperlink Graph.
- 2014-02-04: Paper about WDC Hyperlink Graph accepted at WWW2014 conference (Web Science Track) in Seoul: Graph Structure in the Web - Revisited
- 2014-01-20: Paper about the integration of product data from the WDC Microdata data set accpeted at the DEOS2014 workshop at the WWW2014 conference in Seoul: Integrating Product Data from Websites offering Microdata Markup
- 2013-11-12: Web Data Commons releases large Hyperlink Graph covering 3.5 billion web pages and 128 billion hyperlinks between these pages.
- 2013-09-02: Paper about the WDC RDFa, Microdata, and Microformat data set accepted at the ISWC2013 conference in Sydney: Deployment of RDFa, Microdata, and Microformats on the Web -- A Quantitative Analysis.
- 2013-07-12: New analysis available about the types of products that are offered by e-shops using Microdata markup.
- 2013-07-05: Yahoo! Research releases Glimmer search engine which enables you to search Web Data Commons data. Details.
- 2012-12-10: RDFa, Microdata, and Microformat data sets extracted from the August 2012 Common Crawl corpus available for download.
- 2012-06-29: We have created a new analysis on vocabulary usage in our Microdata and RDFa data set.
- 2012-06-20: Presentation of the Web Data Commons project and our data extraction framework at the AWS Summit 2012 Berlin - Slides.
- 2012-04-16: Paper on Web Data Commons presented at the LDOW 2012 Workshop (References)
- 2012-03-22: RDFa, Microdata, and Microformat data sets extracted from the February 2012 Common Crawl corpus available for download.
- 2012-03-13: RDFa, Microdata, and Microformat data sets extracted from the 2009/2010 Common Crawl corpus available for download.
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RDFa, Microdata, and Microformat
More and more websites have started to embed structured data describing products, people, organizations, places, and events into their HTML pages using markup standards such as RDFa, Microdata and Microformats. The Web Data Commons project extracts this data from several billion web pages. So far the project provides four different data set releases extracted from the Common Crawl 2014, 2013, 2012 and 2010. The project provides the extracted data for download and publishes statistics about the deployment of the different formats.
Web Tables
The Web contains vast amounts of HTML tables. Most of these tables are used for layout purposes, but a fraction of the tables is also quasi-relational, meaning that they contain structured data describing a set of entities, and are thus useful in application contexts such as data search, table augmentation, knowledge base construction, and for various NLP tasks. The WDC Web Tables data set consists of the 147 million relational Web tables that are contained in the overall set of 11 billion HTML tables found in the Common Crawl.
Hyperlink Graph
We offer a large hyperlink graph that we extracted from the 2012 version of the Common Crawl. The WDC Hyperlink Graph covers 3.5 billion web pages and 128 billion hyperlinks between these pages. The graph can help researchers to improve search algorithms, develop spam detection methods and evaluate graph analysis algorithms. To the best of our knowledge, the graph is the largest hyperlink graph that is available to the public.
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Please send questions and feedback to the Web Data Commons mailing list or post them in our Web Data Commons Google Group.
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Goodsell Observatory Open House
Goodsell Observatory Open Houses are the 1st Friday of each month. Dress warmly, as the domes are not heated. Canceled if skies are cloudy.
Friday, October 4th, 2013
8:00 – 10:00 pm / Goodsell Observatory
How to get to Goodsell Observatory:
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Brett David Lindenbach PhD
Associate Professor of Microbial Pathogenesis
Research Interests
Cell Biology; Enveloped Viruses; Hepatitis; Hepatitis C Virus; Molecular Biology; Positive-strand RNA Viruses; RNA; Virology; Virus
Research Summary
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is an enveloped, positive-strand RNA virus that chronically infects over 170 million people, causing progressive liver disease that can lead to cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. We have contributed to the development of a system for growing infectious HCV in cell-culture starting from cloned cDNA, allowing us to fully dissect this pathogen at the level of genetics and biochemistry. We find that HCV infectivity correlates with virions exhibiting a low buoyant density, suggesting that infectivity depends on interaction with low-density serum components.
To understand further the molecular composition of infectious HCV particles, we are scaling up and purifying virions for proteomic and imaging analysis. These observations also suggest unique properties at the interface between HCV and its hepatocyte host. We therefore study the processes of HCV entry, RNA replication, and virion assembly at the level of cell biology. To aid in this analysis we are developing viruses with useful chemical and fluorescent tags. Other positive-strand RNA viruses of experimental interest include yellow fever virus, a relative of dengue and West Nile virus in the same family as HCV, as well as Flock House virus, a small insect virus that can replicate in yeast.
Selected Publications
- Lindenbach BD, Rice CM. (2013) "The ins and outs of hepatitis C virus entry and assembly." Nature Reviews Microbiology. 2013 Oct;11(10):688-700.
- Luo D., Ding S.C., Vela A., Kohlway A., Lindenbach B.D., Pyle A.M. (2011). "Structural Insights into RNA Recognition by RIG-I." Cell 147(2):409-22.
- Counihan N.A., Rawlinson S.M., Lindenbach B.D. (2011) "Trafficking of Hepatitis C Virus Core Protein During Virus Particle Assembly." PLoS Pathogens 7(10): e1002302.
- Stapleford K.A., Lindenbach B.D. (2011) "Hepatitis C virus NS2 coordinates virus particle assembly through physical interactions with the E1-E2 glycoprotein and NS3-NS4A enzyme complexes." J Virol. 85(4):1706-17.
- Phan T., Kohlway A., Dimberu P., Pyle A.M., Lindenbach B.D. (2011) "The acidic domain of hepatitis C virus NS4A contributes to RNA replication and virus particle assembly." J Virol. 85(3):1193-204.
- Phan T., Beran R.K., Peters C., Lorenz I.C., Lindenbach B.D. (2009). "Hepatitis C virus NS2 protein contributes to virus particle assembly via opposing epistatic interactions with the E1-E2 glycoprotein and NS3-NS4A enzyme complexes." J. Virol. (83):8379-95.
- Lindenbach, B.D., et al. (2006). "Cell culture-grown hepatitis C virus is infectious in vivo and can be recultured in vitro." Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. (USA) 103:3805-3809.
- Lindenbach, B.D., et al. (2005). "Complete replication of hepatitis C virus in cell culture." Science 309:623-626.
- Lindenbach, B.D., Thiel, H.-J., Rice, C.M. (2007) "Flaviviridae: the viruses and their replication", Fields Virology, 5th Ed.
- Lindenbach BD, Rice CM. (2005) "Unravelling hepatitis C virus replication from genome to function." Nature 436, 933-938.


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You may be considering the benefits of placing a bean bag in your den. Once you start researching bean bags, you'll realize that there's also a product called a lounge bag available for purchase. Before you decide on new furniture, consider the pros and cons of bean bags vs. lounge bags. Bean bags and lounge bags are very similar, but the subtle differences make it possible to pick the perfect furniture for your home.


text: It is practically human nature to crave and delight in show-stopping desserts during the holiday season. And the best holiday cakes to bake? Those that appear magnificently difficult while being anything but. Enter the ever-versatile, consistently-stunning and holiday-rush-proof jelly roll. For tips on mastering the baking and decorating of jelly rolls, we spoke with Englishwoman Annie Bell, an authority on all things sweet and the author behind the exceptionally accessible Annie Bell�s Baking Bible. Her aim as an author is to reach people who lack baking confidence and have them gleefully say �oh I made this and it worked!� after trying a recipe. In our following Q&A, Annie shares what she loves about rolled cakes (known as Swiss rolls in England), her favorite techniques for assembling and decorating them, and three of her fantastically festive jelly roll recipes. Relish: Can you explain how you�ve made jelly rolls in the past? Can you walk us through the process for a basic cake? Annie Bell: I tend to make one of two basic kinds�either a standard jelly roll or a chocolate jelly roll. They�re really very easy, and they�re [the cake component] essentially fat free, which means you can fill them with something quite rich and sort of get away with it. In England we make them in what we call a Swiss roll tin [equivalent to an American jelly roll pan], which is a very shallow and flat baking tin. The tin is lined with baking paper; the batter is poured over and then [once baked] it�s turned out onto a clean tea towel dusted quite heavily with icing sugar. Then it is rolled up while the cake is warm with the tea towel�if you waited to do this until it cooled, the cake would crack and break. To fill it, you need to let the roll cool maybe 30 minutes and then unroll it. Spread it with a filling using a palette knife and roll it back up again. Relish: Do you have a favorite filling for rolled cakes? AB: If it is just a standard one�I like an almost deconstructed arctic roll [a British dessert made of vanilla ice cream wrapped in a thin later of sponge cake]. So you just spread the roll with jam and serve it with vanilla ice cream�that�s at its simplest. But otherwise, some kind of whipped cream filling or maybe whipped cream and fruit, or mascarpone�Mascarpone with icing sugar and then passion fruit seeds on top is very nice. For the chocolate rolled cakes, a really rich chocolate truffle filling�You can add a little bit of rum or brandy or another sort of liquor�an orange liqueur perhaps. Relish: How about decoration for all seasons and then your tradition during the holidays? AB: When you decorate Swiss rolls it�s quite nice to dust with icing sugar if it�s a white cake, or cocoa if it�s a chocolate one�If it has a fruit filling, you can do some more berries over the top. For the holidays, I quite like doing a rich chocolate butter cream frosting, covering it and making lines across it, like a log. From there I turn it into a Buche de Noel, which is the traditional French Christmas cake, and put all my little figurines and things on it. I still have all the figurines that we had when we were growing up. I think it�s quite nice to collect things as you go through the years and bring the same ones out � I�ve got rather old snowmen and Christmas trees going back to when I was about 3 years old. There are some lovely edible decorations too. Gold leaf is beautiful, and you can buy that mail-order from most good cake suppliers and apply it with tweezers�For a gold themed Buche de Noel, get edible glitter too. Relish: Speaking of traditions and keeping those figurines, you�ve stated your mother was highly influential in the writing of your Baking Bible. How do you keep her spirit alive during the holidays [she passed away three years ago in January]? Is it through little traditions like keeping the trinkets around?� AB: My mum used to love laying a Christmas table with white lace linen and cut glass crystal and silver cutlery. I have all of that from her, and it�s really nice to get it all out at Christmas�We have a white marble table and my kitchen is quite minimal, but it�s actually quite nice to lay the table as she would have done, and it reminds me of her. Hungry and eager to be in the kitchen? Make your own Jelly Roll with Annie�s recipes below. This article originally appeared as on Relish


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Basic Information
Name: Uchiha Sasuke
Gender: Male
Age: 16
Clan: Uchiha
Sasuke is a fair-skinned ninja who has onyx eyes and black chin-length hair. His hair is spiky in the back with bangs that lengthen as the story progresses. As a young child, his bangs hung above his eyes. Later, they would hang on both sides of his face to roughly frame his cheeks and later again return to their original style. Sasuke is considered quite handsome as most girls near his age become very infatuated with him. At the beginning of Part I, Sasuke's clothing consisted of the traditional Uchiha clothing: a blue, short-sleeved shirt with a high collar and the Uchiha crest on the back and white arm warmers, which he stopped wearing after the Chūnin Exams, along with white shorts. In the last stage of the Chūnin Exams, he wore a black, one-pieced version of this outfit with many small arm-belts adorning his left arm and similar bands around both legs. As the story progressed, the Uchiha symbol became smaller and smaller until after he defeats his brother.Initially, Sasuke wore a short blue-clothed forehead protector with the Konoha symbol on the metallic plate. After suffering a second defeat from Itachi, Sasuke stopped wearing it for some time. He put it back on during the latter half of his battle with Naruto at the Valley of the End, only to let it drop off at the end. Since then, Sasuke hasn't worn a forehead protector.In Part II, Sasuke has grown noticeably taller over the two and a half years and more muscular. He was first shown wearing a white long-sleeved shirt, similar in appearance to the lavender long-sleeved shirt worn by Kimimaro and which was open at the torso, with a smaller version of the Uchiha crest on his collar. He wore dark blue pants with a blue cloth hanging from halfway up his stomach to his knees. He also wore black arm-guards that covered his forearms and stretched up to reach his upper biceps. He also wore a purple rope belt around his waist, tied in a bow, in which he carries his sword. After battling Deidara, he switched to a sleeveless dark grey shirt. His arm-guards were also removed, and he started wearing bandages on his wrists, under which he wore special armbands with seals where he stores various shuriken. He also wore a black cloak with this.After he encountered and battled Itachi, he reverted to a grey high-collared short-sleeved shirt similar in appearance to the blue shirt he commonly wore in Part I but with a zipper. He also wears blue wrist warmers with his shuriken armbands hidden underneath. He briefly wore an Akatsuki cloak along with this. Another noticeable trait is that along with this new outfit, Sasuke began letting his hair hang over his forehead. The Uchiha crest on the back of his outfit has returned to its original size since his battle with Itachi. While adjusting to Itachi's eyes at the Mountains' Graveyard, he is seen wearing black Uchiha robes similar to those worn by Madara in his youth with a belt sash around his waist.During his early childhood, Sasuke wore a simple long-sleeved black shirt with a raised collar and the Uchiha crest on the back, and black shorts (white in the anime). When Sasuke joined Itachi on his mission to capture the wild boar, Sasuke was wearing the ANBU uniform.
When he was a child, Sasuke was very kind, loving towards his parents and older brother and respectful to his fellow clansmen as well as his teachers. He was even very proud of being Itachi's brother and Fugaku's son — famous for being devoted protectors of Konoha, and he desired to emulate them. His original dream was to join the Konoha Military Police Force when he grew up, like his father and as such greatly sought his father's approval and acknowledgement of his abilities. After Itachi massacred the clan, Sasuke's ideals and personality changed drastically and he became cold, indifferent, cruel, cynical, somewhat arrogant, unresonable and devoted the next nine years of his life to kill Itachi. When first introduced to Team Kakashi, Sasuke displayed great indifference to his team-mates as well as others. Feeling superior to all of them, including his teacher, Sasuke was unwilling to cooperate with any of his team-mates, as he felt they would provide him no aid in furthering his ambition to kill his brother; this attitude affected his grades in the Academy after losing his clan, he had the lowest score in cooperation and second lowest in assertiveness. However over time, as he interacted more with his team mates on a day-to-day basis, he began to see them as somewhat of a family and Sasuke started to lose some of his hatred, caring more about his team than his revenge. Sasuke even admitted to Naruto that he almost thought that he must forget revenge and instead focused on Team 7. However, Orochimaru branded Sasuke with the Cursed Seal of Heaven during the Chūnin Exams to help push him back into his desire for vengeance and to give him a taste of power. Although Kakashi Hatake sealed away the cursed seal, and taught him the Chidori in the hopes of deviating him from the path of revenge, Sasuke began to draw more power from the seal in the hopes of getting stronger. This caused his previous ambition to be renewed while causing him to disregard camaraderie once again. According to Kakashi, Sasuke has both a superiority and an inferiority complex, as he is unwilling to acknowledge when someone is stronger than him, but obsesses when he believes that they are. For example, he was complacent with his rivalry with Naruto when he believed he was the stronger of the two, but upon noticing Naruto's fast growth, showcased in his victory over Sunagakure's jinchūriki, Gaara, who had previously beaten Sasuke, and his own quick defeat by Itachi on his return to Konoha, all culminated in his defection to Otogakure to seek power from Orochimaru.
In Part II, Sasuke became increasingly confident in his newfound abilities. Constantly, he remained composed and unconcerned with the situation at hand. Even when pressured by enemies like Orochimaru or Deidara, he showed no emotional build up; ironically, acting much like his older brother and only getting worked up when it involved Itachi. Despite getting stronger, Sasuke seemed unwilling to needlessly kill in his quest for revenge displaying that he still had some morals left. Sasuke, however, retained his habit of underestimating his opponents, shown in his overconfidence in his battles. Although, Sasuke is not above admitting his mistakes on such things, as shown after his battles with Deidara and Killer B where he acknowledged that the former was stronger than he thought and that the latter had given Taka a much harder time than he expected. Sasuke has displayed an overbearing sense of pride in his clan's name and a great sense of loyalty to it and kept wearing his clan's crest on his back proudly while refusing to wear any other symbols such as a forehead protector. Despite claiming earlier that he did not care if he had to sacrifice his own body to Orochimaru as long as it served his quest for revenge, when Sasuke felt he had grown stronger than Orochimaru he thought that to give himself up to someone weaker than himself was insulting to the Uchiha. He also views anyone outside of the clan wielding its dōjutsu as an insult, as the eye is representative of the Uchiha clan's powers, showing disgust towards Danzō Shimura who had ten Sharingan embedded in his arm, and an eleventh one in his right eye socket and stated that Kakashi should feel grateful to the Uchiha for the power of his Mangekyō Sharingan. According to Tobi, Sasuke alone is shouldering the entire hatred of the Uchiha clan — an ideal which has been passed down for generations within the clan. After his battle with Itachi, which concluded in the latter's death, the revelation that he had actually been ordered by the Konoha Elders to eradicate the clan coupled with the new knowledge that Itachi had truly loved him, Sasuke vowed to kill the elders for using his brother and ordering him to massacre the Uchiha clan. After he confirmed the truth, Sasuke quickly grew to loathe the village that he once called home and vowed to destroy it, thus separating any connection it and "the rotten ninja world" had to the Uchiha clan and purify the clan's name in the process.As time passed on with this new path of revenge and with further corruption by Tobi, Sasuke has grown much more cruel and ruthless, with the remaining morality he showed during his time with Orochimaru fading rapidly; by the time he launched an attack against the Kage Summit, he killed anyone who stood in his way, not caring about his team, and after cornering Danzō, Sasuke turned to sacrificing a comrade who got taken hostage to accomplish his goals of vengeance, and attempted to kill his former team-mates and teacher whilst experiencing neither shame, guilt, nor remorse for any of his actions.
Initially, Sasuke still held onto the notion of sparing the innocent and cooperation, witnessed in his creation of a new group of shinobi. Though, as he became more consumed by his thirst for vengeance, he showed that he cared for them as no more than tools to achieve his hatred-fueled goals, quickly discarding them when they were no longer necessary. This is seen at the Kage Summit where he leaves Jūgo and Suigetsu behind, taking only Karin with him who could lead him to where Danzō was, as well as killing many samurai who stood in his way. He would later discard Karin as well, unhesitatingly piercing her just to kill Danzō and then attempted to finish her off to prevent her from being a burden in the future. Even when Sakura's childish crush turned into more serious affection, Sasuke still did not return the feelings, though before he left the village, he gave Sakura a genuine thank you. But would later, after that same battle with Danzō, when he had to fight with Team Kakashi, where he attempted to kill Sakura twice despite her showing obvious hesitancy to do the same. Despite his arrogance and brutality, Sasuke is not above giving praise to his enemies as he commended Gaara for the strength and speed of his absolute defence and admitted that Kakashi was very skilled at using the Sharingan for someone who wasn't an Uchiha.
After expressing a feeling of exhilaration that he had never before felt upon killing Danzō and even declaring that he sees that killing the members of Konoha as a high priority and satisfaction, Karin, Kakashi, Sakura, and the rest of Konoha 11 completely lost all hope for him. Upon receiving his "Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan", Sasuke's cruelty seemingly reached a new level when he killed White Zetsu simply to test out his new powers. He's also grown to be an impatient individual and reckless in battle. Despite Tobi's influence being one of the main sources of Sasuke's corruption and their same path of hatred and revenge, as well as believing that Tobi is a fellow Uchiha, Sasuke refused to acknowledge Tobi as his ally, and even speaks rudely to him at times. He has also shown great homicidal rage whenever someone mentions Itachi in a negative way, even if it's indirect as shown when Kakashi tries to make him understand that there's more to his life than just his clan and his love for blood-soaked loathing only to angrily reply by saying that he wants to hear their screams and moans for laughing at Itachi's sacrifice, crushing Danzō with his Susanoo for speaking ill of his brother and ready to murder a team of ignorant Konoha shinobi for doing the same. Sasuke's hatred has also twisted any of his potentially happy memories of Konoha into negative ones in order to fuel his vengeance.
During the second day of the Fourth Shinobi World War, upon reuniting with a reincarnated Itachi, Sasuke showed a somewhat more vulnerable side to himself instead of his usual coldness. This showed just how confused and torn up he is over Itachi's decision, telling his brother that he did not understand why he was spared during the massacre and apparently implying that he would have rather died as a child than have had to deal with the grief and suffering that followed. Having to live through many lies Itachi set for him, Sasuke wanted to hear the truth from Itachi himself. While his reunion with Itachi only intensified his hatred towards Konoha, Sasuke now questions all there is about shinobi, even questioning if revenge is the purpose for his life, seemingly very confused on his purpose or goal; his desire to find the answer led him to bring Orochimaru back, a feat that everyone least expected him to do. Orochimaru noted that Sasuke's changed from how he was when being manipulated by Itachi, himself and Tobi but did not elaborate any further; he did, however, approve of his current mindset.
Village Information
Village of Birth: Konohagakure
Village of Alliance: Sunagakure
Rank and Chakra Information
Ninja Rank: Grim
Speciality: Fire Release
Elements: Katon (Requires Training)
My Ninjutsu:
Part I
Part II
From a young age, Sasuke has been able to easily learn various ninjutsu, scoring top marks in Academy tests and being referred as a genius by several shinobi. He is a proficient strategist, observing his opponent's skills and deducing their workings with ease and accuracy while remaining calm and composed. He then chooses the most effective means and ninjutsu to counter them.
His resolution enables him to pick strategies in which he requires getting injured in order to defeat the enemy, thereby showing tremendous endurance and willpower. Sasuke is also a very capable leader, able to form a team from specific ninja after scouting them out and quickly command their respect and cooperation. Furthermore, he can effectively instruct his team to engage an enemy.
His intelligence also allowed him to develop many powerful techniques on his own, all based on the one technique his teacher taught him. From the Chidori, Sasuke mastered the principles of Lightning Release, and created many innovative techniques that are derived from it. He was also able to combine techniques together to create the right atmosphere for the Kirin, utilising weather manipulation to create a powerful thunderstorm. In order to defeat his former mentor Orochimaru, Sasuke did extensive research of his various abilities, such as the nature of his snake summons and techniques as well as his unique cursed seals.
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