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In the south of France , SETE is a typical small town that was born Paul Valery and Georges Brassens. Along the mediterranean sea and the Thau lake , enjoy the beach but also a wide range of physical or cultural activity. I offer a 70 m² apartment ,
Space where guests can cook their own meals
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In the south of France, SETE is a typical small town that has seen born Paul Valéry and Georges Brassens.
Along the Mediterranean sea and the Etang de Thau, enjoy the beach but also a wide variety of physical or cultural activity.
I propose a 70 m² apartment, ideally located downtown and 2 steps from the historic center.
4 real beds are available (2 +1 +1)
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This apartment was renovated 5 years ago with very good performance.
it is very clear, without any neighbors and a very nice view uncluttered.
It is fully equipped for high-end equipment.
secure parking is included in the rent.
it is located 5 minutes from the beaches, very numerous shops and restaurants are within a radius of 800 m.
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Nous avons passé un agréable séjour à Sete, merci encore pour votre accueil et vos précieux conseils. Très satisfaits par votre logement nous n'hésiterons pas à revenir chez vous.
Appartement agréable avec une très belle cuisine. Nous avons été très bien accueillis par Martine la maman de François avec une petite attention qui nous a touché. L'appartement se situe à 10/15mn à pieds des quais et de ses restaurants ainsi que des halls. Bon rapport qualité/prix.
Très bel appartement spacieux dans un quartier calme de Sète. François et sa maman sont très prévenants, compréhensifs et sympathiques, nous apportant avec allégresse de précieux renseignements sur les bonnes adresses sétoises.
Très recommandé!
We just had awesome days in Francois´apartment in Sete - the apartment has everything you need and even more than this! Location is superb since it only takes a few minutes to walk to the city centre. Very fast access to main roads. Parking space which is priceless in crowded cities like Sete. Very comfortable sofa and beds, new bathroom, huge kitchen, satellite TV and internet. The apartment was very clean and even some local wine was left for us.
If you want to enjoy some days at the France coast we can highly recommend Francois´place.
Appartement calme, propre et bien équipé ; l'emplacement de stationnement dans la résidence ; l'accueil très sympathique et prévenant de Martine : tout cela nous a permis de passer un très agréable court séjour à Sète.
François a accepté très rapidement et sans difficulté de décaler d'un jour notre séjour, ce qui a été également très appréciable.
Madame Bezombes was most helpful upon our arrival. The apartment is down a side-street and with secure parking. It is a five to ten minute walk into the town centre, with a small patisserie only 100m away. The apartment was clean and tidy, and very well equipped - a real 'home-from-home'. I would recommend the apartment for a stay in Sete.
Thank you Francois and Martine for a warm welcome to Sete.
The apartment was clean and quiet and I had everything I needed for a perfect stay.
I will certainly contact you again when I decide to return!
About the Host, François
Bienvenue à Sète. Je vous souhaite un excellent séjour dans le sud de la France et reste à votre disposition pour répondre à toutes vos questions avant votre arrivée et pendant votre séjour .


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It's built to commemorate the Year of the Dragon, has some gold stuff and its moniker translates as "Golden Dragon In The Wind". In fine Audi tradition, it's targeted at a slightly obscure extreme sport, this time kite surfers - there are two roof-mounted carbon fibre reinforced polymer boards, a pouch for wet clothes, "Liuli Yellow" (read: GOLD) paint outside and some off-road add-ons found in the Ingolstadt parts bin. There's also yellow stitching indoors.


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Thread: External Monitor color sync?
January 31st, 2009 #1
External Monitor color sync?
I just got a 22" Sceptre LCD monitor to use with my G4 laptop. I have both monitor profiles set to "color LCD" and Photoshop is set to the same.
The problem is that colors seem washed out on the bigger screen when viewing images in PS. The brightness is all the way down and the contrast is all the way up. I have fiddled with both as well as the RGB balancing in the new monitor to no avail. Images still look better on the G4. More contrasty with richer colors.
Perhaps I have had crappy colors with my G4(old, not very bright display when compared to newer models) and have adapted my working to them in PS. Perhaps the new monitor is more on point but I cant see it cause my eye is used to the G4...
A pal of mine said he has access to one of those color calibrators you hook up to your monitors. I suppose this may be a solution.
Any thoughts?
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A hardware calibrator would be the best solution, but you can calibrate by eye using the Color tab in the Displays control panel.
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January 31st, 2009 #3
I tried my best doing that, but the laptop colors still seem
"richer". May I ask, what makes a good LCD monitor?
January 31st, 2009 #4
Do you have both screens set to the same target gamma?
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January 31st, 2009 #5
yes. I believe the Mac standard gamma. If thats what setting it at Color LCD would do..
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February 3rd, 2009 #6
One major issue that I see is that when an image that has color blending, say from a blue to a yellow, on the laptop the blending is fine. But on the big monitor the blending is not smooth. Its more "patchy".
What gives?
February 3rd, 2009 #7But on the big monitor the blending is not smooth. Its more "patchy".
1. You have a cheap TN type lcd monitor with a 6bit look-up-table (trust me, they're ubiquitous, if you paid a "reasonable price" for a 22" monitor, chances are, you have exactly this). Meaning it can't even display 8bit colors - it has to either dither them or leave them banded, or as is the case with more advanced monitors of this type - flicker them: let's say you want 201? You only have 200 and 202, the refresh rate is 60hz... what do you do? you guessed right - alternate between 200 and 202, so you get the impression of 201.
2. You adjusted the colors by software, in the graphics card settings - that's a workaround that only works with the 8bit colors that are available and change the brightness/contrast/gamma digitally to correspond to different values within the limited 255 steps. Meaning... if the adjustment is far from subtle, banding will be clearly visible because you will be working with a narrower range of values.
And be careful about that "oh, but these colors aren't as bright and vivid and colorful! I want saturation, LOT and LOTS of SATURATION!!!" attitude. The situation may be quite the opposite here - the laptop may be showing exagerated colors, which, after doing enought research, I noticed, have silently become a norm for cheap monitors - way too many of them have exagerated colors and contrast, to catch the eye of Average Joe. The sad part is that sometimes it can be awfully hard getting rid of the unnatural saturation without a hardware calibrator. There's a difference between Exact and Exagerated colors.
Mac default gamma is 1.8. Windows - 2.2. But recently most monitors have the gamma of 2.2, you should probably calibrate it for that. Read more about it here. Lower gamma means "darker" tones, meaning the colors may appear more saturated. If you have one monitor calibrated for 2.2 and the other for 1.8, there'll be an obvious difference. (Provided you're looking at a non-color managed application.)
Color isn't exactly simple in the digital world.
I advise you take the calibrator for a test run. It'll atleast give you a taste for what the exact colors should look like. Calibrating by hand without having seen what the color charts are supposed look like can become a hit-or-miss business, especially in the <20 darks, midtones (often the gamma ends up all strange) and pastel colors, still some improvement, sure, but nothing stellar.
February 3rd, 2009 #8
If you have an art book (non digital) try comparing the art on the page to googled versions. Its not perfect and you have to find the closest match on google not just the first one. It will give you reference to work from. Or the hardware calibrator, which is your best bet.
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I was pretty happy to get off that mountain and get on CR 2, the road to Silverton. In Silverton we bought gas, met ROYQ and his riding partner (post 18) and sat down for a few minutes to eat some jerky and drink a soda. We were short on time we were still hoping to get to Dove Creek before dark.
Next up was Ophir Pass, there wasn't any traffic going up Ophir so we were able scamper right up in no time. Coming down was a little trickier on the steepest rockiest part of the decent I met a GS800 coming up hill. With tires skidding on the baby heads I had all I could handle to keep the bike at a sane speed and get on my half of the 2 track. The guy on the beemer thought I wasn't going get it done and he stopped in the middle of his climb. I did get the ninja on her half and was able to stop and tell the beemer guy sorry I was on his side for a while. He had his hands full it looked like, the beemer was loaded pretty good and stalled at his first attempt to get climbing again.
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August 28, 2006 1:22 PM PDT
Microsoft Canada leaks Vista pricing
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The posting indicates that the Home Basic edition of Windows Vista will be priced the same as Windows XP Home, at $233 ($259 Canadian). The Home Premium version, which includes support for Media Center and tablet PC abilities will sell for 13 percent higher rate, a price that translates to about $269 in American dollars.
Microsoft quickly removed the price information, but blogger Ed Bott, who spotted the price list earlier Monday, included the price list in a ZDNet posting. Bott cautioned that those trying to figure out U.S. pricing would be better off comparing the Canadian Vista prices to their XP counterparts than to try and just convert to U.S. dollars.
A Microsoft representative said the company "inadvertently posted Windows Vista Canadian retail prices" on its Web site but said it has removed the posting and is not ready to share U.S. pricing information. The company said it would announce those prices when it ships the "Release Candidate 1" test version, due out by September.
On the business side, Microsoft listed Windows Vista Business at a price that equates to $341 in U.S. currency, 7 percent less than what Microsoft charges in Canada for Windows XP Professional.
The company is still wrapping up development work on the oft-delayed Windows update, which will come more than five years after its predecessor, Windows XP. After issuing the near-final release candidate next month, the company hopes to finalize the code in November in time for a mainstream launch in January.
Microsoft has yet to announce publicly its pricing plans but has said they will be generally similar to Windows XP prices, with a higher tag planned for Windows Vista Ultimate, a new high-end version that combines advanced media features with business-oriented features.
"We don't expect significant changes in our pricing strategy," Windows unit head Kevin Johnson said at a July meeting with financial analysts. "However, Vista Ultimate is a new (product), and we will sell that at a modest premium to today's offerings."
The information that was posted on Microsoft's Canadian Web site suggests that the premium will be hefty indeed, with that version priced at $449, again translated into U.S. dollars.
"The thing about list prices for full versions is that no one pays them, anyway," Gartner analyst Michael Silver said. "Most people will get Vista as part of a new PC, and the price will be buried in with the cost of the hardware."
And those that are upgrading their existing PCs pay the lower upgrade prices, Silver said.
On the upgrade front, a Vista Ultimate upgrade is priced somewhat above today's cost for upgrading to XP Professional. Windows Vista Business, meanwhile, is priced slightly below the XP Pro upgrade price. The upgrade to Windows Vista Basic is priced at the same rate as that for XP Home Edition, while Vista Home Premium is priced 54 percent higher than the basic edition.
The software maker announced in February that it plans to sell six versions of Windows Vista, including Vista Starter, which will be sold only on new PCs in emerging markets.
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- Is this (plus the cost of the hardware upgrade required) enough to make enterprise consider migrating some desktops (primarily those who just surf and email) to open source? Just wondering...........
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- Linux is a killer :- ) that's for sure.
- If all you have at your company, is people browing (for what) and reading email, then Ya!
Linux, free...
No reason to buy Windows or OS X for that matter.
That's what scares MS, and is working. If I had 30 employees, and each with a copy of Windows XP that cost $200, and all they did was email and browse the web, bet your life I would discontinue using Windows.
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- ON same level with Windows 98?
- You say Linux is on the same level as Windows 98? Well I work on a lot of computers that are still using Windows 98, some still using windows 95. Linux Suse 10.1, which I use is an excellent operating system. I can do anything on it but one thing, I do my invoices on XP. Other that that I don't see the justification of Vistas prices. They are too high for me.
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- On same level with Windows 98?
- You say Linux is on the same level as Windows 98? Well I work on a lot of computers that are still using Windows 98, some still using windows 95. Linux Suse 10.1, which I use is an excellent operating system. I can do anything on it but one thing, I do my invoices on XP. Other that that I don't see the justification of Vistas prices. They are too high for me.
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- Preinstalled Prices
- The only prices that matter to me are those of Vista-Preinstalled, which buyers of new computers indirectly pay.
As for boxed versions of the operating system, "suggested retail prices" are often inflated, so retailers can look good by discounting them.
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- $80 or 150?
- I heard the figure $80 or $100 for the current XP and something
about $150 for Vista. Now i really really hope Apple is going to sell
OEM's at $80 just to kill off M$.
osX only for new hardware that is, no retail version for older PC's.
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- Apple OS X Leopard time!
- I think the real winner here will be Apple OS X Leopard. It will run XP via Boot Camp...and for folks like me who want to take computing to the next level while protecting my XP investment, a Mac (maybe even a Mini) is a better investment than buying into the next Microsoft bloatware OS. Even some of my MS friends here in Seattle are completely not bought into Vista...and they are using it every day at work...it is slow and they see a clear productivity tank vs. XP SP2.
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- Agreed but ..
- Apple will need to sell an OEM version for new PC's, they can't
expect everybody to buy a Mac like they did with the iPod.
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- Mac OS X a niche product, but it's the hardware Apple wants to sell
- As a multi-platform user and advocate, I can tell you right now that Mac OS X is a niche product and will always be that way because that's the way Apple wants it.
What Apple wants to sell is its new Intel hardware with Mac OS X, even if many users load and install Windows.
Apple wants to make the best PC, whether or not its users run Mac OS X or Windows on them. Many PC magazines now say Apple makes the best PC hardware in several categories.
This time, Apple has made a shot across the bow of PC manufacturers, not across Redmond.
It doesn't care if people buy Macs to run Windows at this time and it's offering people a very attractive hedge to a failed Vista launch.
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- First time a new Windows release costs more than PC?
- I suspect this could well be the first time that at the time of a new release of Windows (est Jan 2007), the OS costs more than the PC it would run on! With monitorless white box PCs hovering around $250 (US), the retail edition Vista Home Premium will cost more than the machine it could run on, though with the resource-hogging OS that it is, maybe Microsoft are assuming that low-end whiteboxes can't run Vista anyway?
It makes you wonder what sort of OEM discount Dell will be given by Microsoft to "recommend" Vista (by annoyingly bundling it with all their desktops and not even giving the end-user a "no OS" option that would be much cheaper when Vista comes along). Especially when their business Dimension desktop is now $299 (yep, $42 less than retail Vista Business!). Wake up, Dell, and give your customers a *choice* on desktops - why can't we buy OS-less desktop PCs (and forego any OS/software support of course, which many of us would be willing to do to save $50+)?
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- Windows is $50-75 to computer makers
- It's common knowledge that for large computer makers Windows costs $50-75 (US).
Why bother to release a "no OS" computer? It makes buying Windows much more expensive, needs some technical skill on the part of the buyer, and isn't wanted by almost all buyers.
Funny that nobody tells Apple to release a "no OS X" computer for $129 less.
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- Linux is Free - But it costs you Much more....
- The reason they dont bundle Linux, is that it might be 'free' but for the vast majority of users it is far more expensive to run. ie the TCO is much higher.
e.g. the average Linux distribution has roughly 3 times the number of security patches to deal with compared to Windows. And on average it takes twice as long for a patch to be released for a Linux security vulnerability compared to a Windows one. Not to mention the much higer integration costs and management effort required to setup and run Linux in an enterprise.
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- The only "studies" that claim Linux TCO is higher are either from MS directly or sponsored by MS.
Same for the time it takes to patch things. Patches to Open Source software are usually out within days, while Microsoft needs months, or in some cases years to patch security issues.
Management efforts for setting up Linux are actually lower since Linux uses standard tools and formats that lots of people know vs. the proprietary stuff in Windows. Next time you talk about management efforts, try to fix a corrupt Exchange Server database...
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- Get the facts straight
- only reciently the total security problems for linux passed 100. virtually all of them were fixed virtually immediatly (often the same day)
this whils, Micro$oft overpriced bloatware has accrued thousands of problems, that you needed to wait 3-8 weeks to get even half of them fixed.
now there are more unpatched problems in M$ than total problems in linux
what about the ones that won't be fixed?
Firefox only has a handful and if I remember correctly, they all have to do with WWW standards... to fix them you would have to dissallow preset WWW standards
Microsoft, which doesn't adhere to the WWW standards in all cases, has refused to fix some problems claiming they are "features" of the operating system
YEA! My system has the feature that someone can take over my computer without my permission!
yeah, RIGHT!
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- I assume this is sarcasm?
- Anyone who has had the sense to remove themselves from the Microsoft FUD machine will know that this has been manufactured from the FUD Factory.
Find me someone who's Linux box has been turned into a spam bot. Find me a Linux box that has been compromised and data stolen or corrupted. Find me a Linux box that has been destroyed because of a virus.
Now do the same for a Windows box and see how different the results are.
Here's another way of putting it. Recently there was a news article on some news channel that was about, shock horror, an ERROR in a certain Linux distribution's newest version! The error was that instead of booting into the graphical interface it "broke" and only the terminal was shown. It was fixed shortly afterward. At the bottom of the article, there was a short bit about how another exploitable flaw had been found in Internet Explorer. You see, we're so used to having problems in Microsoft programs that we don't even consider it news anymore.
Personally I find Windows much more constrictive than Linux. It is slow and frustrating. I wonder if Microsoft's so-called "TCO analyses" included lost productivity from the fact that MS stuff is crap, and it makes workers stressed?
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- Not an apples to apples comparison
- The problem with all the comparisons I've seen comparing bugs and patches in Linux vs. Windows, is that they are never (and probably never can be) apples to apples comparisons, regardless of which OS comes out on top.
The biggest problem is that usually at least 50% of all patches for "Linux" have nothing to do with the Linux kernel, but rather they are application patches. Microsoft does not release application patches except for it's own products, and some of those (eg. patches to Office) are distributed separately.
For an example, take a look at the security advisories for SuSE Linux:
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories.html
Just looking at the security advisories logged between the start of July and the end of August, there are some that affect the Linux kernel, others that affect OpenOffice, Firefox, etc. Certainly the kernel vulnerabilities can directly compared to similar components from Windows, while Firefox definitely would not. Obviously simply counting bugs and patches is completely wrong and any report doing that can and should be immediately ignored as being totally invalid.
However there is also a note logged about security issues in KDM, where would that fit in? It fills a similar role to 'Winlogon.exe' in Windows, as well as some functionality that is probably roled into Explorer, so should it be counted? But if you count KDM, do you then ignore bugs in GDM and XDM? In Linux you have these three options, while in Windows you've only got Winlogon.exe. If all 4 applications have bugs, do you count that as 3 security holes for Linux vs. 1 for Windows? Or how about if a bug is only in XDM which hardly anyone uses anymore? Is that still counted as a security hole?
As for time to patch, that's probably even harder to estimate because it depends on WHICH patch you're looking at. Due to the open-source nature of Linux you will often have more than one patch created for any given security flaw. A security hole might get patched in SuSE one day, Redhat and Debian the next, but it might not make it into another distribution for 2 months. With Windows there is only one "distribution" to check.
As with pretty much everything else, a lot of it comes down to trade-offs being made. In running Windows you make one set of trade-offs, while running Linux makes a different set of trade-offs. Trying to compare two things that are not a direct 1-for-1 match is always going to be hard, and when billions of dollars are at stake, it only gets harder.
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- Put a Tiger in your lap, it's is way cheaper!
- Vista at C$259? Who says Apple costs more than Windoze? Mac
OS 10.4 ("Tiger") is retailing at $149 Cdn, for a single-user
package, and C$248 for a five-license "family pack". Why pay
more, and still have to spend a fortune (and hours of work) on
antivirus, etc? An Apple a day keeps the malware away&
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- "Cheaper" = costs more
- >> Who says Apple costs more than Windoze?
The people who upgrade, who'll pay considerably less than one version of OS X.
And then they'll look at how many bought OS X upgrades at $129 U.S. during the time when XP had no paid upgrades.
And then they'll say, "Wow! OS X costs a lot more than Windows!"
And they'll be right.
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- If it was really cheaper then businesses would use Linux
- If it was really cheaper than Windows then of course businesses would use Linux.
They dont because it isnt.
Linux is more expensive than Windows to own and use, even though you pay a license fee for Windows.
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- Yet more FUD
- Look, an MS fanboy...
Every heard of Lock-in? Because that's what MS has more or less successfully done.
But more and more businesses realize that and get out of the lock-in. Linux and other operating systems are steadily gaining market share in the business world.
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- Umm, yeah right
- over the last three years, we've seen large migrations of corporate desktops to Linux.
These are mainly in the clerical and data entry positions, where the OS main role is to run the computer as a host for their enterprise system.
Those desktops that still need to run on Windows usually get along just fine with older versions all the way back to Windows 98.
By scrunching so many features into XP, then Vista, these operating systems have become jacks of all trades which are suitable only for niche markets instead of mass deployment desktops.
The pricing is also off the wall. What got you a fully functional operating system with Windows 98 gave you less with Windows XP home and will give you even less with Windows Vista Home Basic.
Where is the fully funcitional enterprise OS with complete networking features for mass deployment to beige desktops? At the $500 level?
I don't think this will fly with the enterprise.
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- VISTAPOCALYPSE NOW: Vista Will Implode Upon Release
- Within hours of its release, hackers will tear into Vista to find hooks for stealing home users and businesses' bank account credentials. Billions will be lost within hours and Microsoft will call the publicity of the thefts "gross exaggerations by the company's infinite enemies in the press."
The scandals will completely devastate the release of Vista and most businesses will refuse to deploy Vista when their IT staffs tell them the new OS will only attract even more attacks than patched XP systems. MS will be reduced to issuing press releases about victorious deployments in "a bakery in Ottawa" and "a car wash in Sierra Leone" which the press will reveals were bought by MS a week before the software was installed.
Ballmer, always regarded as completely insane and emotionally immature, will disappear without a trace. Psychics will lead police to his final resting place, his station wagon, parked behind the Piggly Wiggly supermarket in Spokane where police will determine he had shot himself 9 times in the face, a story that will briefly provoke skeptical reactions from the press.
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- Im sure they will try...
- Im sure they will try. As to if they succeed is another matter.
Microsoft has spent a massive amount of dosh and R&D on security. I expect that security will be significantly improved compared to previous OS versions.
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- Free or not it doesnt matter to me
- I use both Windows and Linux and I would rather use windows cause linux is annoying to use but it is free. Also, how much will it cost to teach your employees to use linux? Yeah exactly. And a 22 year old college grad with heavy linux server experience? "That will be 125 grand a year, Thank you!"
Linux and Mac people annoy me, who gives a crap if its free Windows could be considered free too if you buy a new PC its already there and it still a 500 dollar PC! Am I going to buy the full version of Vista? No. Will I keep my XP until I buy a new Laptop/PC? Of Course!! And lastly, Mac is just like WIndows now cause you get what you pay for; key words PAY FOR, its not free but you think it is cause its in the laptop already.
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- Haha, don't be so stupid
- > Linux and Mac people annoy me, who gives a crap if its free Windows could be considered free too if you buy a new PC its already there and it still a 500 dollar PC!
In no way it's free.You have to pay 500$ for a 400$ hardware - there is no wizardry.So, you have to pay $600 for 500 dollar PC, etc.In fact it is annoying that MS is put kind of "tax" on PCs.What if I do not need their stupid XP Home at all?(usually, PCs are shipped with a dumb, lame and restricted XP Home and probably, will be with equivalent Vista).As for me, it was enough WGA to see real nature of MS.Thank you, I'm preferring to decide myself what to run on my PC.And I'm tired of stupid marketing restrictions in Win XP.If you need REAL OS you have to at least buy Win2003 (and still face with some few licensing limits).Win2003 costs slightly more than lame XP crap.
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- Home Premium?
- The Home Premium only takes advantage of one processor, right?
Then why compare that to OS X, which does all processors, like in
todays Quad dual core machines?
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- Oh well, deep pockets needed!
- Oh well, not much of an incentive for most businesses and banks to switch from the venerable old Windows 2000, on their existing Model T's when you think about the pricing.
Say come to think of it, if Homeland Wonder Boys? are still using the even older Windows 95, why bother to upgrade if the old systems are still fully functional!
Choices, it would seem, need to have very deep pockets indeed!
Perhaps, I will stick with the venerable old model T, she's still got quite a few terabytes under the bonnet to go before she's ready for the recycle yard!
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- Anything against Microsoft is pointless...
- Businesses buy volume licensing and you can get a lot for great prices really same thing with Office. Point is we heard the same thing on every release of Windows and what has happened absolutely nothing. I don't hate Linux I have my personal uses for it but get real Linux wont ever be a direct threat as an OS just an alternative.
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- Yes - saying its 'FREE' is FUD....
- There are also many studies not from Microsoft - e.g. Gartner etc. that show exactly the same thing. The volume of evidence showing that Linux is not cheaper is overwhelming.
And you are simpy wrong about the patching. Its a verifiable fact - acknowledged as correct by the Linux companies involved in the study in question - 3 times as many patches on Linux and on average twice as long for a fix than Windows.
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- IS FUD--Free and SAFE
- Try Linux and you will see it is FREE. No FUD, no Anti-Virus, no SPAM Blockers and SECURE.
Try it on your desktop an see, and it is FREE, no FUD. http://www.pclinuxos.com/page.php?7
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- Please link to the study you keep referring to!
- Richto: link to the study you are constantly referring to that "Its a verifiable fact - acknowledged as correct by the Linux companies involved in the study in question - 3 times as many patches on Linux and on average twice as long for a fix than Windows." Provide the proof instead of throwing out stats and then we can verify the integrity of your claims.
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- M$ managed to annoy me too much.Lets shift to alternate OSes.
- Microsoft has finally managed to get me tired of their crap and ugly behavior.I'd used Windows since '95 beta.However I'm better to move to Linux (probably, KUbuntu) right now.It's FREE, it's fully featured and without any dumb restrictions home versions of XP\Vista are about to have.It does not installs ba$tardized privacy-breaking crap like WGA, it does not requires activation and does not f..ks my brain on hardware upgrade with re-activation.It does not being hacked each and every day and not requires me to have a very powerful PC just to be able to launch it.Finally, Vista is actually differs in a very small degree internally from XP except in look anf feel.You already can tune your XP to look and feel like Vista.So, actually it looks like MS about to sell same crap twice.As a "bonus" they are abusing their monopoly even further than before.It looks like it is a proper time to say "goodbye" to such bastardized business manners of Microsoft.
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- If it weren't for BILL GATES, windowing software would cost $7000 per PC.
- Bill gates and i had a very long phone conversation back in the 70's.
This was right after the ALTAIR 880, which had ZERO software came out.
Microsoft (in new mexico then) had a vision of a computer on every desktop back when the state of the art was a TTY ASR33, and storage was rolls of punched paper tape.
Computer Dialup time cost $10 per hour. (at 110 baud (10 bytes per second)
Bill was damn near the only guy thet really got it. He delayed the joys of marriage and fatherhood for many years in order to pursue his vision.
Now, as Mr. Gates moves away from day-to-day operations at microsoft, let us hope he can keep the bean counters from spoiling the soup.
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- As usual
- As usual, you appear to have no idea what you are talking about.
Your post implies that all the items listed were
contemporaneous, which even a quick, cursory internet search
would show was not the case. Very soon after the Altair came
out, there was a flurry of development. There were a number of
titles for the Altair, albeit that had to be entered via toggle
switches, before the first kits came out allowing dumb terminals,
keyboards, and mainframe floppy drives to be connected. In fact
MS wrote one of the first.
When the Altair came out, there was no such thing as dial up
services, at any price.
As for Gates being "damn near the only guy thet [sic] really got
it" that is just a bunch of BS. Besides the obvious answer of Jobs
and Wozniac (two people who actually DID something about it,
as opposed to Gates, who did squat) there were hundreds if not
thousands of people in homebrew clubs, basement labs, and
corporate industrial parks who "got it."
As for delaying the "joys of marriage and fatherhood," I suspect
there might have been other, more pedestrian, reasons.
And claiming that windowing software for PCs would have cost
$7000 is both absurd and farsically arbitrary. From whence
comes this ridiculous figure? Certainly not from any historical
precedent: GEM and DRDOS (superior in EVERY way to Windows
1.0) cost under $100, an entire mac 128 cost less than $3000. If
anything, THAT price point had more effect on Windows than
decisions by Gates, fronting a company that has never came out
with s SINGLE innovative product in its HISTORY (with one
debatable exception, but I have already alluded to that.)
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- Do you really believe that?
- You have read one too many Gates fan-books...
Gates didn't have any "vision" back then.
He didn't even get windowing until he saw the first Mac. Windows 1 was a clear rip-off of the Mac (I know, I had it... and it was a piece of crap.)
And the "delaying the joy of marriage and fatherhood"... LOL He was a geek. Did you ever see old pictures of him? No sane woman would have dated him...
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- We should thank MS for lots, history is good but we're living TODAY
- We have to thank MS for a lots of things.They were a good company in some old times.However times are changed.There were times when I'd respected MS a lots.However I'm dislike their current policy.I'm not willing to play this game using their new rules.For example, activation.Pirates are never have problems with it.They are using cracked or corporate versions.So only ordinary users are f...ed up by this crap.Now even corp. versions of Vista about to include this crap.Can you imagine amount of headaches admins will have in well-firewalled enterprises?Microsoft managed to go further, though.They distributed WGA.I'm unable to treat this in any way except as attempt to inject trojan into my system.The problem is: I DO NOT NEED THIS CRAP, IT DOES NOTHING USEFUL FOR ME.What's the hell MS knows better than me what to run on MY system?!It is I AM who owns this system.It is up to me to decide what to run here.Where to connect.Once microsoft trying take over rights to make decision on "what to run on my system", that's too much.I do not need system where someone else except me decides what to run here.So, microsoft can fight with pirates as they wish but for me it looks like they fighting with legal customers as well.MS is simlpe getting too bothering, non-trustworthy and always "MS knows better than you what you need".I'm tired of this, sorry.
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- Dell + Linux = Easy
- "Find Linux machines on Dell"
That was easy...
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Adell.com+linux
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- The Ultimate - yes, yes, yes, yes, whatever
- But of course THIS time, windows will be a solid product ( :~\ ), with enhanced security (lol), isolated apps to prevent lock-up/premature reboots and crashing (lmao), great performance that does what you want it to when you want it to (hehehe), and end all compatibility issues with the ability to fully utilize all the hardware proficiently (HAHAHA) just like 3.0, 3.1, 95, ME, 98, xp, nt, 2000, yadayadayada...
Ya know they're still not putting all the h/w requirements on the microsoft site to "fully" use all the features of 'vista' just so the average consumer will waste money NOW buying suboptimized pc's allowing oem's to dump their inventories... no wonder sales are lagging and suspicion is rising.
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- Its really the mac attitude that steers me away from apple
- No one ever really gives me solid reasons for buying a mac. It always just turns into a malicious "who can flame microsoft faster war." If you dont like Microsoft, thats fine. If you like apple thats fine. But to constantly have the apple gospel shoved down my throat makes me glad that they have such a small marketshare.
Every OS has its problems. Microsoft has done LOTS of things wrong, but so have the other companies. MS's mistakes are just easier to spot because so many people use the OS. But this is a serious plea to mac fanatics, if you read a story about Microsoft, please actually think out what you write before just flaming everyone on cnet to death about how they do everything wrong. Apple is a great company, but they arent perfect.
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- Apple OSes are Crap, Too!
- Saying OS X is more stable than Windows is like saying that Jeffrey Dahmer is better than Josef Mengele.
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- Bingo.
- I personally don't understand why they bother, except maybe to get back at the M$ users who waste their time as well flaming them. Flaming and reaming does not win converts on either side. But it will, no doubt, continue...
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- If you wanted solid reasons...
- ...then you would probably read Apple's web site:
http://www.apple.com/getamac/
But I suspect you don't.
Alas, anyone who even mentions these reasons is usually
branded a "zealot", "fanboy", "Windows basher", etc. It's almost
One reason I prefer the Mac is because it can run OS X/
Windows/Linux. Also OS X software development tools are free,
so no need to spend $100's on MS Visual Studio.
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- Apple is a good alternative
- You're right about mac zealots, neither company is 'all good' or
evil. But to your first sentence I might share my 'solid reasons'
for choosing Apple. 5 years and no virus program. Now I have an
apple with intel and can run both Windows (for testing web-
pages & serving asp my clients who need websites run on asp
code). It works great. Also, for those high-end buyers, you can
get a MacPro plus vista for cheeper than a comparable Dell with
only Vista pre-installed (along with other vendor-ware).
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/
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- Least expensive way to go.
- Why not just purchase the OEM XP Pro, and then the SA on top of it. It's what, about $260 on the high end? That way you get Vista when it comes out. The only drawback is that you have to get a minimum of 5 of the Software Assurance to start out.
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- "Just $260 for high end", do you say??
- > Why not just purchase the OEM XP Pro, and then the SA on top of it.
> It's what, about $260 on the high end?
> That way you get Vista when it comes out.
Thanks dude, but REAL high-end OS is Win2003 which has a way different pricing.WinXP is kinda limited and restricted OS.You cannot use it for heavily loaded server due to connection limits.You can not remotely login into system by lots of users via remote desktop.You can not... (quite big list of things).With linux, you can.There is NO dumb marketing restrictions, at all.Need 500 TCP connections?Wanna to log in by 20 different users on same machine?Just come on and do it!And that's for FREE.And I already wrote about some drawbacks even XP has.In Vista things about to get even worse.I do not see a clue to pay 260$ for almost nothing.If I'll want to get Vista's look and feel, XP can be tuned to look and feel like Vista.In fact, for free.And it is likely that except $260 you also have to pay for hardware upgrade because Vista is really resource hog and a lots slower than xp on equal hardware.
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- But then again
- But then again, will it ever replace Windows 2000 as, used in the majority of industries and businesses these days?
Choices means dollars spent on system upgrade costs=less profits=black marks/downgrading from WALL STREET!
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- buy macbook then have osx linux and xp
- My macbook has three systems. XP, ubuntu, and OSX. Pretty cool.
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- Apple are just a cheaters :)
- Apple are just bunch of cheaters (businessmens if you like this better) who're in fact sells just usual PCs under unusually high prices.I'm fine with my PC.And I'm preferring AMD.Apple ignores this! :) (I have to admit: x86 sucks anyway...AMD64 is a bit better but I'm wanna to see stupid x86 architecture in hell, where the proper place is reserved for long years ago).
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- Way too much
- Sorry, but $399USD is *way* too much for an OS. Plus you cannot play HD-DVD and Blue-Ray commercial movies on the IA32 version. How many people out there still have 32bit hardware? I think that this will just push users to alternatives such as Linux and FreeBSD (Mac OSX is a version of FreeBSD undernieth). Let with Windows zelots and the Microsoft shills start the FUD. It's too expensive and that is not arguable.
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- Glad you aren't in charge
- Its a good thing that a capitalist economy is controlled by the people who have and spend money, instead of the people who sit at home dictating what pricing structure others should be using. After all... a capitalistic economy is far more successful than an economy controlled by a dictator.
The SALES of Vista will determine if the price is right or wrong, and the price of Vista will be significantly less for people buying new computers.
The MARKET RESEARCH conducted by Microsoft was used to set the price and I am confident that they put FAR MORE knowledge, experience, and expertise into their marketing study than you did in your "It's too expensive and that's unarguable" comment.
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Top Gear's ultimate Jaguar F-Type road test
We take the entire range on a journey north to Scotland. Which will we choose?
Posted: 13 Dec 2013
At roughly 250mph less than that, the F V6 isn't perfectly quiet, but then this isn't a traditional Jaguar. It's not a GT car, it's a sports car, and the benchmark was the Porsche 911. So there is constant road noise, and on coarse surfaces there's enough of it to occasionally drown out the exhaust roar. This is saying something.
The ride is also surprisingly abrupt, but, in a typically Jaguar way, it never savages you. It's just quick to respond, the whole car feels secure and stable, which is surprising given how much length has been chopped out of the wheelbase. I say chopped out, because the F-Type isn't a new-from-the-ground-up design. The aluminium platform is a modified version of the XK's, but stiffer even than the XKR-S's. The panels are aluminium, too, apart from a plastic bootlid, and the weight distribution is quoted (including driver and passenger) as a perfect 50:50 across all three cars.


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Baby, you know that you agree with me.
Because of the title, not because I'm some furry. I don't think of Banjo or Kazooie that way.
I've added this game to practically every other list. Why not this one as well?
Puts a whole different spin on this game, doesn't it?
This is mostly just for the Bill Clinton unlockable. And the mascots.
Imagine what could happen when you'd open the little chests. Eh?
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Last updated at 08:44, Thursday, 17 January 2013
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Meebo IM for iPhone and iPod touch
It's been a long time coming, but instant messaging client, Meebo, [iTunes Link - Free] has finally made it into the App Store. The last time TiPb mentioned Meebo was back in 2008 when Chad reviewed their web app. Since then, several other IM apps have become popular. What does Meembo have to offer?
- Push notifications even when the app is closed
- Stay connected as you move from Edge to 3G to WiFi
- Meebo's proven multi-network access protocols
- Automatically reconnect if you lose coverage so you don't miss a message
- Swipe to switch between multiple conversations
- Rotate for landscape mode and a wider keyboard.
- Message preview from the Chats List
- Full Meebo emoticon support
- Searchable Chat History
- Sort chats by most recent or full view
- Support for all the major IM networks, and many more
We've been using Meebo for about a week now and it is a very good effort for a 1.0 release. You can really tell the app was optimized for speed, simplicity, and performance as claimed. While the UI could use a little work, it does have all of the bells and whistles imaginable to compete with with the current crop of IM client top contenders.
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Meebo IM for iPhone and iPod touch
I have been using it for a few days now...it's very buggy IMO...I add people but they come up as offline when they're actually online. Also the app crashes a lot as well. Also missing pic/vid sharing which is something a lot of other All-In-One IM clients have. So right now I'm kind of disappointed in Meebo especially after being in awe after their demo last year at the 3.0 OS Preview.
Wow this is great. It starts up very fast. Push is fast. I own BeeJive but the startup speed is horrible. I also wish BeeJive have a longer login expiration. I don't send IMs that often so 7 days doesn't cut it. I am curious how long Meebo stays logged in. I wish it supported multiple locations with MSN. But none of the IM apps suport this that I know of.
Anyone know how bad the battery drain is?
if it only did skype as well it would be perfect ..
I downloaded it about a half hour ago and used it while I was on a call. It was alerting me with badges every time the other person sent a message. It worked pretty good as far as I can see. I can't comment on battery drainage since I've only been using it for a short period of time but it seems head and shoulders above many of the other IM's I've used, including Fring.
It's nice, it's light, and it integrates well with Meebo in your browser. This is perfect for me and the solution I've been hoping for. Multiple MSN login locations isn't a problem now since I use meebo on my iphone, and meebo off my iphone.
I like that it's faster, since i've only got a 3G still.. I've found push notifications to be a bit dodgy so far, and I think i'd like to be able to turn off the 'feature' of suppressing push notifications when you're logged in through the browser interface too.
I don't need too many more features, but a couple that would be real nice:
1) Favourites list (I hate scrolling through all my contacts for the couple I usually use)
2) Sounds. So far I don't seem to get any sounds, just a vibrate when my phone is NOT set to vibrate. Also sounds should play when I get a message and the app is already running.
Most of all, you can't beat free. I'm done with Beejive for now :)
I've given it a go around, I'm going to try again later tomorrow. All and all not bad. However, its got nothing on Trillian, which is my current drug of choice. What it really needs is to fix the log in issues, and then maybe it can topple trillian on my home screen. otherwise, not going to happen.
Meebo rules!
@Atomic Popcorn: what do you mean? It doesn't take any more battery than other apps. It doesn't run in the background and gets it's notification from the iPhone push system, so it doesn't use any power when it's not open. That is the beautiful thing about push vs backgrounding.
There is one thing Meebo does that the other multiple service IMs cannot, and the reason I love it. Chatting sessions via Meebo on the desktop is completely transferable with the iPhone. So I can be chatting with people on the desktop and just pick up on the iPhone without missing a beat because it has every message sent to and from.
With beejive and im , logging in on the desktop disconnects iPhone service so I constantly have to play the reconnect game. With this all your devices can be charting at the same time.
Really want this to work for me. I currently use Beejive, but only because Meebo dragged it's feet for so long. I was a long-time Meebo user of their desktop software and loved it! Only real problem I have right now is that I cannot setup my AIM account. Keeps timing out. No AIM = no free SMS. :( Until that gets fixed I'll stick with Beejive.
PS-I downloaded version 1.1 this AM. Did not resolve my account setup issue. Have not heard back from Meebo support either.
I love it. the aim is great , the yahoo is good ( except i dont think it can do image transfer ). It's fast and easy.
I actually thought mebo had an app for the iPhone a while back but i guess not.
I installed meebo for iPhone and it comes out to be one hell of software.. Now its on my list of must have iPhone application.
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NAVARRE — A 62-year-old man shot himself in an apparent attempt to avoid arrest Monday evening, according to the Santa Rosa County Sheriff's Office.
Deputies spotted Morris Junior Green driving in Navarre about 4:15 p.m. and tried to pull him over. Morris was involved in a traffic incident Sunday and was wanted after he escaped, a Sheriff's Office news release said.
On Monday Green drove to a home and parked his vehicle to try to hide from deputies, the release said.
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The offensive lineman earned another honor on Monday.
The Liberty native was selected to The Associated Press All-Southeastern Conference first team. This is coming on the heels of Jackson winning the C Spire Conerly Trophy, given to Mississippi's top collegiate football player, and the Kent Hull Trophy, awarded to the state's best offensive lineman.
It is the third AP All-SEC selection for Jackson in his career. He is the first Bulldog to garner the recognition three times since Derek Pegues, who was a three-time All-SEC pick from 2006-08.
"Our whole team has worked hard all year and to receive an award like this is special," Jackson said in a school release.
Senior defensive back Nickoe Whitley and true freshman defensive lineman Chris Jones were honorable mention selections.
Jackson was a big reason the Bulldog offense has averaged 426.2 yards per game this season, which is on pace to set the school record.
Whitley, who had knee surgery last week and is done for the season, totaled 55 tackles and had a team-high five interceptions. The Jackson native forced two fumbles in the last two games of the season to help MSU become bowl eligible.
Jones became a force in his first season with the Bulldogs. The Houston native has played everywhere on the defensive line this year.
He finished the regular season with 31 total tackles, seven tackles for loss, three sacks and a team-high 10 quarterback hurries.
Auburn's Gus Malzahn was the Coach of the Year, Auburn running back Tre Mason was the Offensive Player of the Year, Missouri defensive lineman Michael Sam was selected as the Defensive Player of the Year and Arkansas running back Alex Collins was the Freshman of the Year.
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"We almost sold out the allotment during the pre-sale period," MSU senior associate athletics director for ticket operations Mike Richey said. "The fans are excited about all the options on the front end, but I think when the Liberty Bowl was announced, I think that got everybody excited."
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The Bulldogs went to the 2007 Liberty Bowl. A bowl-record 63,816 fans watched MSU beat the Knights of Central Florida 10-3. School administrators are hoping a new record is set at this year's bowl.
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"What we expect after four in a row is the purchasing habits change a little bit," Richey said. "The number of people who come straight to the ticket office or jump on early is quite not the same as it was several years back.
"From the beginning, we always knew that we would send a large number of people to the bowl games in particular the ones closest to here. We've been very, very pleased with the response here at the ticket office."
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"It's an unbelievable honor for them to select you as a school," Mullen said Sunday night at an official acceptance press conference. "The one thing we can do is show everybody we're a team worthy of being selected to great bowl games by bringing home crowds with us for the opportunity to go get our seventh win."
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my dad and brother have a ptoblem with my boyfriend
Question Posted Tuesday August 16 2011, 8:42 pm
My brother and father have a problem with my boyfriend.I'm 13 and my boyfriend is 18, I don't see the problem here.My boyfriend is best friends with my brother, but my brother doesn't like the fact were dating.My dad doesn't think that i'm old enough for him.Me and my boyfriend aren't into anything sexual.What's the problem with us dating?
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Your Father probably doesn't like the fact that his little girl is dating a much older man, someone who is friends with his Son. While your Brother is also in a bad spot, because his little sister is dating his best friend. How would you feel if you were put into that situation? You probably wouldn't feel too great about yourself.
18 year old boy's have no business being with a 13 year old. Both of you are in different points of your life. He's looking for random fun, while I'm sure, you aren't. Sorry, but when an 18 year old is with a 13 year old, it's usually only for one thing and one thing only...I'd just dump this guy and find someone your own age - someone you have something in common with and doesn't want just a one night fling.
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your not into anything sexual yet! thats the problem guys at 18 want more than just a cute romantic relationship. they want freedom and to do what they want when they want. your 13 you dont know half the things he does yet. its a big age difference right now when your older and out of highschool it would be ok to date someone who is 5 years plus older than you. your not ready for things he is now and your dad and brother know that and if your brotheres friends with him then he knows the intentions this kid has with you.
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Your boyfriend is 18 years old, Legally this would be classified as statutory rape and sweetheart as much as you don't see anything wrong with this one your boyfriend could very well be forced to register as a sex offender if any charges were to be bought against him. It is wrong on all degree
You are only 13, This man is 18 years old and is way to old for you, You are very lucky because if I were your father I would of probably been hitch hiking to his door and you know the rest of it.
You do not need to have a sexual relationship for this man to get in trouble. Also, You honestly don't see anything wrong with a 18 year old man dating someone your age? He is 5 years older than you and is legally an adult. You are a minor and under the state law you are and will legally be a child until you reach age 18.
I highly suggest you end the relationship and find someone who is your age, This is just sick on his part.
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answered Wednesday August 17 2011, 9:22 am:
well firstly you r 13 and he is 18!!!!!!!!!! that is to much of a age gap between u.
i know most couples have a age difference but they are mature adults.
5 years between you 2 is 2 much and if i was your brother i wouldnt be happy with you 2 dating either because i would fell uncomfortable about it and think you r taking my best friend away from me to your advantage.
i personly dont think you 2 should date.
plz dont just delete my answer because you dont like it.....it is just an opinion.
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I've mentioned this one a few times before, in a few different contexts, but General Laughter is a funny, if not unnerving episode. It's got Mercedes McCambridge. If you've not heard it before, it's the story of an actress who tape records her suicide as it happens, but she just can't keep from making mistakes, and telling jokes along the way. It's mostly her in the episode, but Mandel Kramer and Sam Gray are also in the show. I won't give much more away, but when reading Mercedes autobiography The Quality Of Mercy, she did say that the nails thing, which you'll have to listen to the show for, actually did happen to her, when she tried suicide on New Year's Eve in the early sixties. Because Elspeth Eric was a friend of Mercedes, I'm quite sure that this episode has been based on maybe more than just that one nails thing. Another member of this group, when I mentioned General Laughter last time, said he wondered why he felt uncomfortable when listening to this episode, while another said he was laughing with the jokes. See what you think. It's February 25, 1976.
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I thought "General laughter" was actually one of the saddest episodes. Even though some of the jokes were funny in of themselves, the character was so pathetically tragic, she actually made me feel more like crying than laughing.
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I have been addicted to these shows now for about 4 yrs. (I am 52 and remember listening to them under the covers at night so my parents wouldn't know I was awake.) I am now most of the way through my 3rd time listening to them all for the. I say all this to make a point about this episode. i have begun keeping a list of episodes I think my wife would enjoy. "General laughter" was the first episode I added to this list. It's quite a performance.
Steve G., 2012-09-09 18:20:56
The wife of a policeman records herself in the act of committing suicide. Brilliantly and appropriately played by Mercedes McCambridge.
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I have a love/hate relationship with Mercedes McCambridge as an actress, but she never fails to keep me riveted to my seat. Good episode.
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Straight drama, if somewhat overwrought. Was confused at first - I think there's another CBSRMT episode were an attempted murder or murder is made to look like a suicide via doctored tape recording. The idea for that plot may have started here. Mercedes is a very edgy actress, figures she's the voice of the demon in "The Exorcist"
Mike in Grand Rapids, 2013-07-11 12:01:02
I love that Mercedes McCambridge isn't trying to play a perky ingenue in this one. Her gravelly voice works well with this character.
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Wow, if you're depressed, don't listen to this one -- whew! It was interesting Matthew's comment at the top because it seemed to me that Mercedes knew the emotions she was portraying here, inside-out. Either that or she's one hell of an actress. Or both. I think both. Whatever the case, the entire plot of this thing is a woman tape-recording her suicide note, with her husband commenting on it now and again, and it's sad and bleak, with bits of humor that are objectively funny, but don't make you laugh. This is Mercedes at her best.
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As I purchased this 1SC-code "stripper" 2001 Camaro specifically for its rare hardtop and few options--and corresponding light weight--throwing in tons of speaker equipment would be flat stupid. In fact, the previous owner had gone the complete opposite way while attempting to build a race car, as the factory Monsoon deck had been chucked--along with all of the factory speakers--and replaced with an aftermarket deck running two puny front speakers. And this thing sounded flat awful, it couldn't even overpower my exhaust system!
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+1! I'm borrowing "humorless shoegazing indie wank" for the week, ok? :)
The only thing that keeps bands together is to have similar goals, and there are times when the financial aspect can be a great source of motivation. When musicians have day jobs, and aren't in it for the money, then they are playing in the band for some creative or social reason. If one player is there for the "the hang", and another is there to be creative, and another is there to get laid, and another is just getting experience, then it's only going to last for so long. There's just no way to satisfy all of the those desires within one band.
Leadership is really important, too. Having someone who can communicate clearly a financial and artistic vision for the group will eventually solidify the line-up.
I've also noticed that, in general, musicians are unusually sincere and single-minded about the music they love and/or will play. Embracing other genres of music is something that mostly only drummers preach to each other.
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"The Commission should never have approved her appointment given her clear links to the food industry, which is completely at odds with the need for independence at the EFSA," Bové told a press conference in late September.
On Thursday, the Management Board reported that it had had "a thorough discussion" of potential conflict of interest issues before electing Bánáti and two vice-chairs.
"The Board deplores the unfounded attacks on the independence of EFSA and its Chair recently reported, and concluded that by no means the integrity of the persons involved could be questioned," it said on its website.
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