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Clad head to toe in black denim, named after their singer's favorite drug, quite possibly the loudest band on Earth, England's Motörhead are rock n'roll's ultimate outlaw gang. Like AC/DC or The Ramones, they write basically one song and that one song is better than most bands entire discographies. Helmed since 1975 by legendary bassist-singer-rogue Ian Fraser "Lemmy" Kilmister, their high speed hymns of oblivion have been inspiring hard rockers, metalheads and punks for nearly 40 years and the band has no intentions of slowing down. These are the 10 Most Crucial Moments in Motörhead History.
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Leopoldo Mendez (1902-1969) was one of the most distinguished printmakers of the twentieth century, as well as one of Mexico's most accomplished artists. A politically motivated artist who strongly opposed injustice, fascism, and war, Mendez helped form and actively participated in significant political and artistic groups, including the Estridentistas in the 1920s and the Liga de Escritores y Artistas Revolucionarios (LEAR) and the Taller de Grafica Popular (TGP) in the 1930s. To champion Mexican art and artists, Mendez also founded and directed the Fondo Editorial de la Plastica Mexicana, a highly respected art book publishing company. "Leopoldo Mendez" is the first book-length work in English on this major Mexican artist. Profusely illustrated with over one hundred and fifty images, it examines the whole sweep of Mendez's artistic career. Deborah Caplow situates Mendez within both Mexican and international art of the twentieth century, tracing the lines of connection and influence between Mendez and such contemporaries as David Alfaro Siqueiros, Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, and printmaker Jose Guadalupe Posada. Caplow focuses on the period in the 1930s when Mendez and his fellow artists in LEAR and TGP played a key role in the development of a Mexican political art movement and a modern Mexican cultural identity. She also describes how Mendez created a body of powerful anti-Fascist images before and during World War II and subsequently collaborated with artists from Mexico and around the world on political printmaking, in addition to publishing books and creating prints for films by the eminent Mexican cinematographer, Gabriel Figueroa.


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This movie stars Brendan Fraser and the Rock. It's rated PG-13 for constant violence and for the one time a little kid said "ass".
Maybe I shouldn't be writing a review for this film. I haven't seen the first Mummy movie and didn't know what anything was about. I went into this movie hoping to get clued in on the action, but it never happened. The first part of the film contained the Rock saying a worthless Egyptian phrase like he's reading it off a script. Then there were some minutes of true PG-13 violence, such as a guy brutally murders a guy by stabbing him, but the scene switches just as the sword goes in. After this battle b/n 2 tribes that are enemies, I presume, the scene switches to Fraser searching underground. We don't know what he's looking for. His whole family, his wife and son, is also searching. Other guys, who are presumed bad guys are being taunted by Fraser's crazy son. He shoots something out of his slingshot, and after he is discovered, the underground is flooded by the Nile (don't ask), so the kid is saved, making the scene a Pokemon scene. This brings me to my next point.
All this movie is just a VIOLENT version of Pokemon! If you are not familiar with the notorious Pokemon plot, it always involved Ash and his queer friends getting into some kind of trouble and then getting out of it impossibly at the last second. This also means Team Rocket (bad guys) gets into some kind of fortune and loses it at the last second. The TV show attempts to be a serious, action cartoon, and obviously thousands of 5 year olds consider it serious. But 5 year olds usually don't attend movies with a PG-13 rating. The good characters in this movie are: Fraser, his wife, the kid, Fraser's brother, some guy who looks like Jesus, and an African-American guy who sells a weird type of hot air balloon. I'm about to give away the ending, so some of you who want to see stupidity should skip down a few lines. But those characters listed above are the ONLY main characters who survive at the end of the story. Any 10 year old watching this movie would realize the slim chance of that happening. The movie also makes many Pokemon jokes. A sample joke would contain the line "That's what I just said". This movie would almost be like the movie: "Big Trouble in Little China" except for the happiness/ gayness involved in it that comes straight out of Pokemon. Both of those movies essentially have no plot. That's all I'll say comparing those movies.
I discovered about 1 minute before it happened that the goal in this movie was to get the kid in a pyramid before dawn. I felt proud of myself. By looking at my watch, I soon discovered that it wasn't the goal and that there was a clear "to be continued" in the "plot". After the MummyRap the next episode started. This time the kid was kidnapped by bad guys. Of course according to Pokemon rules, the kid ( probably Ash in disguise) had to get away from his kidnappers. Ash2 orders his enemies to do things, such as not look at him when he's using the bathroom. Of course it all works out. If I had not been with friends I might have walked out of this film at about the 1:30 mark.
I was confused throughout much of the film. One incident was when the mother was killed right after the kid made it into his pyramid before sunrise. OH NO! It's Pokemon blasphemy! As expected though, the kid finds magic words that bring his mom back to life. A weird thing about this film was the way characters resembled characters from other movies. I distinctly remember seeing Jafar from "Aladdin" and Darth Vader from "Star Wars", and probably others, too. I could've sworn those fighting dogs were Pokemon.
This movie is definitely very bad. It appeals to children except for the violence. It appeals to teens because of the violence but the stupid jokes and little-kid plot repeal us.
Opening: Couldn't understand it. Pathetic violence, maybe b/c I didn't see orig. Mummy 7.5
Middle: (includes possible endings) 4
Happy Ending: Pokemon ending. Wonderful. 4
Music: ?????? N/A
Visual: Idiotic explosions of demons and demon murderers. Bad guys die and violence seems like it's edited R. 2
Bad content: Exactly same as above. ASS is NOT NEEDED. 2
My Expectations: 0
Roger Ebert: +2
Recommended ages: Under 8 who enjoy violence
Over 13 whose IQ is less than age.
No best age.
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Good idea, but only half done. Entertaining enough, but it always feels like there's something missing. Effects are done OK for the most part, although two really noticable slips are the motorbikes and the flying kick towards the end. Overall, just put your brain on autopilot and sit there...
Film 6/10
Video 7/10
Sound 7/10
Extras 5/10
Overall 6/10
These two films, while by the same director and having the same cast, are so different it boggles the mind.
The Mummy was a roller coaster of action and adventure. The action was all well done and Brendan Frashier was fantastic. The villian, the mummy, was evil. Yet, you could kind of feel for him. That's what makes a good villian. This is a fun tale...just not a great film.
"Brainless fun!"
-- Robert W. Butler, KANSAS CITY STAR
The Mummy Returns is a mess. It tries to recapture of the first movie but falls on its face. This was just an example of cashing in on a popular films success. The sequel was just a mediocre attempt. The Rock showed promise in the movie though.
"The mummy returns, bringing with him the Curse of the Summer Movie Sequel."
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Bredan Frashier could be a big star. He shows flashes of excellence, but his choices in roles have bogged him down. He will rise one day if given a prominant role.
The Mummy Returns: I know it's totally devoid of meaning whatsoever, it's a pure popcorn movie and it's totally cheesy sometimes...but I really like it. John Hannah is so damn funny. Prefer the first one though.
Mulholland Drive: First, I knew before seeing the movie that it would be weird. So I went in it prepared. I don'tthink I would have liked it otherwise because I would have been busy trying to figure out what is going on. So I just sat back and enjoyed all the bizarre moments. What I also really like is that its narrative is so twisted.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Actually, same comment than the one for 'the mummy returns'. Just replace John Hannah with Johnny Depp and ignore the last sentence.
Dogma: I've been raised as a Christian so I was glad to watch a movie that makes fun of all that dogmatic blabla. I don't undersatand those who say that it is anti-religious. I think it's really pro faith. I mean, I don't believe in all that anymore but Dogma almost made me believe again. AND it's incredibly funny!
About A Boy: I think it's a good adaptation of Hornby's book, even if they changed some important aspects. It is an endearing movie and a somewhat untypical buddy movie. Love also the fact that you have the two narrators, especially when one of repeats a comment the other one said. Highly recommended film.
Of course, in the meanwhile I've seen also a lot more movies. But I don't know when I'll write about those...
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1st June 2004 will be a day i shall remember. It opens up a new chapter of my life, where i am posted to my new unit, which is essentially hell. Just my first day on the job and i already cannot stand it. Expect fewer posts on RT now, my Constant Reader. Tomorrow is Vesak Day, a public holiday, which gives me a brief respite from my woes. I might be able to cram in a few more reviews before i bid adieu, after which my reviews will be more infrequent and my response to any messages will likely to have a significant lag time.
1st June 2004. Today Skullclamp was banned in Mirrodin Block and Type 2. Can't say it was unexpected, and for once i might have agreed with the bannings although it might be uncalled for in block. This marks the first banning in Type 2 since Memory Jar in 1999 and the first block banning since Lin Sivvi and Rishadan Port in 2000.
First, I'll get some minor things out of the way. My house was TP'ed last weekend. Seriously, who does something like that other than on Halloween or April Fools Day? Punks. I also finished Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything, which I've been whittling away on for over a year now. I wouldn't call Bryson one of my absolute favorite authors, but I'll gladly pick up anything he writes. He usually does travel narratives, but this time he branches out into the world of science, in an attempt to make it interesting. He does this with hit-and-miss success; the parts about natural disasters are, of course, interesting, while parts about cells and gravity aren't exactly page turners. Fortunately, it's the sort of thing you can pick up and put down whenever you want to, and it is decidedly more interesting than your average textbook.
Now, for the real purpose of this entry. I checked my ratings and noticed that almost everything that I've rated here is :fresh: fresh. Of course, since I'm not a critic or anything I see only what I want to see, which is mostly not crap. Not to mention, I tend to be generous with my ratings. Therefore, to even the scales a bit, here are various movies that I can think of off the top of my head that qualify as :rotten: rotten. Since I can only do 5 ratings at a time, I'll officially rank the rest of them later.
Northfork: You either like it or you don't. I didn't.
Spy Kids 3-D: In which an otherwise wonderful series goes to hell.
The Mummy Returns: I could discuss at length all of the problems with this movie.
Jurassic Park 3: Meh.
Wild Wild West: See above.
Batman and Robin: I could also discuss at length all of the problems with this movie, too.
Yojimbo, Sanjuro, and The Seven Samurai: For some reason, Kurasawa's samurai movies just don't work for me. I liked Dreams, but these... they're kind of boring. Mifune is a veritable badass, and probably the best thing about all of those movies. Yojimbo I probably like the most; I could give it a 6/10 with some generous rounding. But Sanjuro just bored me to death, and The Seven Samurai was too damn long. Call me a boor, blame MTV, do whatever. I don't like them.
The Grand Illusion: The only grand illusion I picked up on was that this is a classic film.
And then there's The Usual Suspects. I really should watch it again in its entirety. And yes, it's the ending that bothers me.
Even more...
The Mummy:
For its time this film was very uniaue in special effects but the story to this film was also suprisingly interesting for those interested in it. This Film had some very strong points and managed to be fun for its 2 hours.
The Mummy Returns:
Definately better than the first though containing several deadly slow points that make you move around in your seat and look for more popcorn. I also found the action and characters to be more fun this time around and the style more grand than in the first one.
The Scorpion King:
Based off a character in the Mummy Returns this film had many conflicting scenes with the first one. For instance the Rock's character is a bad guy who tried to control the world in this film he's a good guy trying to stop some one from controling the world. Though I did have fun I think the film would have been better had it not been based off a character that was a bad guy.
There really isn't much to say about it. The special effects are good, but they're all CGI, with practically no respectable visual effects at all. The action is okay, but not very unique or exciting. Almost every sequence in the movie amounts to nothing but a decently executed cliche. The movie ends up exhausting you, but unfortunately you don't walk out thinking that it was particularly fun. It's good for a few viewings, two or three at the most, but after that you'll be fed up.
As far as its ups... It doesn't flat out suck. That's about all in that area.
I really wish my mom had gotten me a different movie for Christmas, or that my father hadn't ripped the packaging all to **** so that I could trade it for store credit towards something worthwhile. Now that I've seen it twice or so, it's nothing but a frisbee/coaster, and doesn't do a very good job of either.


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The SVG Working Group had a three day Face-to-Face meeting in Tokyo at the beginning of June. The first two days (hosted by Mozilla) were devoted to SVG proper while the third day (hosted by Google) was a joint meeting with the CSS Working Group. As typical, a lot of time was devoted to nitty-gritty details that only browser coders could love but there were still plenty of things of interest for artists and their brethren:
Wrapped text:
I presented a proposal based on using the CSS Exclusions and CSS Shapes specifications. As I wrote earlier, the current Level 1 version of these specifications are missing the exact features we need, namely "shape-inside" (to provide a wrapping context) and references to SVG elements; both were recently removed. However, when we met with the CSS working group we were told that they would be back in the Level 2 specs. Alan Stearns promised to get the Level 2 drafts out soon so we have something to reference.
Doug Schepers presented his idea on a simple way to provide a rectangular wrapping context which would not require CSS Exclusions or CSS Shapes:
<text x="20" y="30" width="200" font-size="20px" alignment-baseline="top">This text wraps at 200 pixels.<text>
Or for vertical text:
<text x="20" y="30" height="200" font-size="20px" alignment-baseline="text-before-edge">テキストは 10文字の後に折り返されます。<text>
Specifying only the "width" or the "height" creates an infinitely long rectangle for wrapping text. Specifying both creates a finite rectangle. The visibility of text that overflows this finite rectangle is controlled by the overflow property.
One small problem with Doug's proposal is that the values of "x" and "y" normally refer to the baseline of the first line of text and not the upper left corner of the rectangle wrapping area. This can be changed by specifying the "alignment-baseline" property to top or text-before-edge.
Note that Doug's proposal and my proposal are not mutually exclusive and we will mostly like incorporate both.
Both the SVG and CSS working groups are amenable to the proposals. There are some details to work out. For example, in my initial proposal one would specify that text should flow sequentially into two different objects by giving a comma separated list: shape-inside="url(#shape1), url(#shape2)". This, I am told, won't work as in CSS it indicates that the text should flow into the two shapes as if they were one shape. Instead, it has been suggested that either CSS Regions and/or CSS Fragments be used. This, however, seems overly complex.
Variable width stroke:
We discussed various aspects of variable width strokes. It is clear that it will take some work to come up with a good specification. Problems include: how to specify positions, widths, smoothing, line joins, and end caps. Whether or not this gets into SVG 2 will depend on how fast these issues are resolved and in the timing of SVG 2. It it doesn't get into SVG 2, it certainly will get into the next version.
For example, here are some possible ways of drawing a "round" stroke-linejoin:
Circles and ellipses work well when the two line segments intersect at 90 degrees. At other angles or when the line widths are changing they aren't as useful. Here is an attempt at using a Bezier with a handle length chosen so that it matches a "round" stroke-linejoin when the width is constant.
Here is a challenge: Come up with a method that produces a suitable "round" stroke-linejoin in each of the following cases:
Marker rendering issues:
SVG renderers differ on how markers are rendered for corner cases such as a polyline with one point (see: http://paullebeau.com/svg2/markers/). We sorted out the details. As part of the discussion, we agreed that markers should apply to rectangles, ellipses, and circles (and in the future stars). The basic rule, is that markers are drawn as if these shapes were rendered as paths. We explicitly decided that circles and ellipses would have four markers.
New value for the marker property orient: "auto-start-reverse":
This value indicates that a marker should be reversed if it is at the start of a path. This is so that one needs to define only one marker (like an arrowhead) and use it both as a start and an end marker (like a double-headed arrow). This has already been added to the spec and is in the process of being implemented in Firefox.
<defs> <marker id="MyArrowHead" viewBox="0 0 10 10" refX="0" refY="5" markerUnits="strokeWidth" markerWidth="4" markerHeight="3" orient="auto-start-reverse" fill="black"> <path d="M 0 0 L 10 5 L 0 10 z" /> </marker> </defs> <path marker-start="url(#MyArrowHead)" marker-end="url(#MyArrowHead)" d="m 75,75 150,0" />
Hatch patterns:
I recently added hatch patterns to the SVG 2 specification. The work was approved with a few small changes (renaming a property and specifying that only solid colors can be used… no hatches inside hatches!).
Multiple fill and stroke properties:
As part of our discussion of hatch patterns, we discussed the ability to specify multiple fill and stroke properties. This is useful, for example, to draw a hatch over a gradient fill, or in drawing cross-hatching. We agreed to how this would be specified. This is a first step to allowing things like multiple stroke widths and colors on paths but at the moment there is some resistance to handling these more complicated cases. The feeling is that we need to start limiting what is being added to SVG 2 so that we can get it finished.
<defs> <hatch id="MyHatch1" ... > <hatch id="MyHatch2" ... > </defs> <rect x="50" y="50" width="200" height="200" fill="url(#MyHatch1),url(#MyHatch2),#a0a0ff"</rect>
Filter compositing: feBlend:
As anybody who has used the feBlend filter primitive to blend an element with transparency with a background image knows that the background gets added twice, once with the blending and once when the blend result is composited with the background. (See my example.) We can't change the behavior of feBlend as there is too much content out there that uses it. We did agree to add a new attribute that will allow turning off compositing.


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Surprise! Most consumers buy e-books from a single retailer
January 22, 2014 | 5:33 am
By Chris Meadows
At Digital Book World, book industry research firm Codex Group has some news for you that will completely shock and surprise you: in a survey of just over 2,000 people who buy e-books, 86% buy them from only one retailer. Those who buy books from Amazon tend to keep buying them from Amazon, etc.
Oh, wait. Maybe that won't shock and surprise you after all. Maybe it's completely what you expected given that most major e-book vendors have erected walled gardens around their content to keep you from taking it out to another garden. If you buy books from Amazon, you have a strong incentive to keep buying them from Amazon, because you can't read your library on anything else. (Unless you know the secret.) After a while, you just get used to it. This is why Baen made substantial changes to its own e-book program in order to get its books into Amazon's store—most Amazon customers are so conditioned to it that they don't want to step outside their garden even if they can.
But the really weird thing about this article is that it mentions the "walled garden" nature of these stores without once ever touching on the true cause. It mentions walls or walled gardens at least twice, but these are the conclusions it draws:
1. The big ebook retailers that have created fairly seamless reading, buying and storing experiences have loyal customers who will continue to buy ebooks from them. So, these retailers probably don't have to do all that much to keep these customers save for continue to do what they've been doing.
2. The smaller ebook retailers have an uphill battle to fight when it comes to not only attracting new readers but keeping old ones. And their biggest foe in that fight is Amazon, which is the most successful ebook retailer when it comes to luring rivals' customers — likely through price promotions, exclusive content and ubiquity.
Wait, what? "Seamless" experiences? "Loyal customers"? "Price promotions, exclusive content and ubiquity"?
There's not one word about digital rights management that keeps readers from moving their purchases to another hardware platform. Why would people forego their main e-book vendor if they lose everything they bought when they switch? What does DBW think those "walls" are built out of, papier-mâché?
It's pretty obvious, and even publishing-industry insiders are starting to realize, that publishers' insistence on DRM is what handed Amazon the keys to the kingdom. Some publishers, like Baen, have never used DRM. Others, like Tor, have started dropping it. But until the majority of publishers get rid of the stuff, Amazon gets a free pass on keeping its customers locked up in its garden—at least the ones who don't know about Calibre and Apprentice Alf.
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I'm not surprised. Apart from all the other ease-of-use factors, it's a hassle to remember just where an ebook you read once is when it could be on any of several devices or apps. Who wants to spend half-an-hour locating an ebook just to look up one passage?
Another major hassle factor is getting an ebook, even one without DRM, onto a specific device or into a particular ereader app. Yesterday, I had to do that for an ebook I'd purchased as a free-standing ePub. Putting it into iBooks on my Mac was no problem. Just drag and drop. But I found that I was sadly wrong to think that would make it also automatically appear on my iPad. Only after Googling a bit did I discover that, while iTunes now refuses to place ebooks in its library, it still does the synching of ebooks between a Mac and an iPad. Weird!
It's nice to talk of technical fixes like removing DRM, but that's not where the real problem lies. It lies in a money game. I place Amazon's dominance of the ebook market not in DRM, which is common across the market, but in the fact that Amazon's royalty policy is ripping off authors terribly.
I'm referring to both their outrageous download fees (over five times what cell companies charge for their data services), and their variable royalty payments.
* Apple pays 70% for any ebook priced over $.99 and under $200 while charging no download fees.
* Amazon only pays 70% for ebooks priced over a narrow range from ($2.99 to $9.99) and makes out like a robber baron for any ebook that's priced outside that range, pocketing 65 cents for every 35 cents an author or publisher gets. Keep in mind that for that 65% of the profit, all Amazon is doing is process a credit card transaction.
Do a few back of the envelope calculations, and you'll discover that Amazon's probably averaging twice as much profit per ebook sale as Apple, B&N and the others. That gives it more money to fund the development of their ebook ecosystem and to subsidize sales of their Kindles. That's why the Nook is dying. It's why Amazon has the money to cut prices and crush competitors. It's why it is doing that.
It's a non-virtuous cycle. Authors have to sell through Amazon because it dominates the market, but earn, on average, about 10-20% less per sale. (My latest earns about 15% less.) Since 10-20% is about the profit margin on ebooks at companies such as Apple, that extra 10-20% means Amazon is making double the profit of other retailers. That lets Amazon make moves (such as discounting Kindle Fires), that then assure its market dominance, forcing authors to deal with it even though it's ripping them off..
That is clearly market-dominating price fixing at the wholesale level. Amazon is essentially saying to authors (at least those who have run the numbers), "We're going to pay you less than anyone else and you can do nothing about that because you must sell through us."
The DOJ isn't going to do anything about this. It's spending millions beating up on an Apple that pays authors some of the best prices in publishing. It's authors who are going to have to wake up and give Amazon what the British call 'bloody hell' about this.
It's a bit surprising to me that it's as high as that. Keep in mind this means Amazon customers loyal to Kindle, Apple customers loyal to iTunes and some loyalty respectively for B&N, Kobo, Sony. But with many people claiming to read mainly on tablets, and most tablets support apps from all of Kindle, Kobo, Nook and Sony (and iPads support all players as well as iTunes) … it does make it easy for a consumer to pick and choose a bit.
Realistically, who wants to maintain five libraries? But having two companies as source, I would have thought, would be more commonplace. I have bought more titles from Kobo than anyone, with Kindle format a healthy second … I sometimes buy from Nook when Kobo prices are out of whack; and years ago I bought a couple of titles at Sony.
If you are surfing inside a Kindle Fire and want to download an ebook, you can't download it directly into the Kindle app. That's a serious impediment (to say nothing of the epub vs. mobi dilemma). At least on the ipad, you can put things into ibooks without much problem (via email, browser, etc). It's true you can email an ebook directly into a device and view it on the Kindle app, but the Kindle app on ios produces seriously deformed ebooks. The only way you can do it is through itunes syncing. That's a pain.
Geeks can tout the advantages of NO DRM ebooks, but if it requires a significant number of extra steps, consumers won't see the advantage…and therefore be content to stick inside the walled gardens.
MICHAEL PERRY, you mentioned that Apple has lower royalties for authors because of Amazon's download fees. This isn't a factor for most sales and although I agree that these fees are higher than they should be, I think it's ok to charge the customer a few pennies for using the 3g network to download stuff. I wish consumers could be informed about the differences to the author in downloading via wifi vs downloading via 3g.
In the case of Amazon, I don't think they really need DRM. Unless a user knows about Calibre, Kindle's AZW format just effectively ties them to Amazon as DRM does since last I checked Nook, Kobo and Sony don't support it or the older mobi format.
Also I am curious about Mr. Perry's comments. I had thought (though could be wrong) that the amazon payments he referred to mostly applied to independent and small publishers. I suspect that they are less about Amazon making profit and more about keeping the prices in the range they have calculated most likely to make them money. Since he doesn't mention what the actual transmission costs are, I don't have enough info to comment there.
Ibooks uses DRM and yet allows ebooks to be imported via email or browser. But the kindle devices don't allow ebooks to be imported except through its device email — and on IOS devices, doing this results in a poorly formatted ebook — you need to transfer it through itunes. DRM is a problem here, but I think just making it easier for consumers to import no-DRM content into the Kindle viewer would do a lot to help consumers see the advantages of no DRM.
As someone who has watched and been part of this market since the late Nineties, I've seen the very same thing since the very beginning. That's before Amazon, before the rise of DRM, before the rise of the ebook reader, before every other factor listed here.
The real truth is that a majority of readers are lazy. They want what they want, and they don't want to shop around much or have to insert credit card numbers and personal information all over the place, and they certainly don't want to have to go through the trouble of learning different methods of downloading books, etc.
These days, the learning curve for converting books to various formats and stripping the DRM, etc., just increases the amount of laziness.
Remember that those of us here who are savvy in the ways of ebooks are a minority.
Julie, you probably think that it's not a problem because the ebooks you transferred had trivial formatting. If an ebook has any kind of quality formatting, transferring it this way will mess it up when you do that. I'm talking about .mobi and .epub — not just Word docs. I followed the KF8 specs to the letter and found the .mobi via Personal Docs had issues with background colors, margins, images. Rendered perfectly on the android app and on Kindle Fire — but lousy on the ipad app.
This is a well-known problem which I discovered the hard way a few months ago.
It has been confirmed by Paul Salvette, who wrote a recent book about ebook formatting. I haven't checked since November whether it's been fixed, but Kindle has no incentive to fix this issue — why would Amazon waste developer time improving an ios app when all their devices (and most of the world) is moving toward Android. More importantly, these bad ebooks only affect ebook testers and people trying to move DRM free ebooks into the app. Still I remain hopeful that
In November I wrote: http://www.imaginaryplanet.net/weblogs/idiotprogrammer/2013/11/dear-amazon-thanks-for-taking-a-dump-on-my-ebook/
The ipad kindle app actually has decent rendering of the KF8 format. However, my method of sending a kindle file to the iPad was producing a kind of Frankenstein ebook which was neither Mobi 7 or KF8. I used the method of emailing a .mobi file via Personal Docs to the ipad app. Apparently the only acceptable way to test the file on the iPad was to sync it through iTunes. You could email a .mobi file to the Kindle app on the iPad, but Amazon would not do the proper conversion to make this file readable. I was vaguely aware that testing via Personal Docs had its issues, but never in my wildest dreams could I imagine that they would be this bad.
I remain hopeful that Amazon will fix this issue — especially if it affects the Kindle app for all iphone/Ipad platforms. To repeat though: Sending it to any Android device has no issues at all.
You don't have to make this so complicated: using an Android tablet, buy Kindle books and open them with the Kindle app; buy Kobo books and open them with the Kobo app; buy B&N, Sony and open the books on their respective apps. One device, multiple stores; pick the one which has the best price or selection. You don't have to stick to any specific provider.
Whether there is DRM on any of them is moot. The geeks can transform if they wish and put everything onto an e-ink reader.
When you purchase an ebook from Amazon, the kindle app on IOS will render it almost perfectly as a KF8 file. But when trying to transfer a .mobi file NOT bought from Amazon, unless you sync it via itunes, Amazon's document delivery service will mangle it. Isn't that crazy?
I'm with Marilynn, I don't think DRM is the only reason for this behaviour. People prefer not giving their financial information to a lot of sites and creating a new account, so you choose a bookstore and buy there, unless you have a strong reason to buy on another site. I don't have any problems with DRM, and I usually buy on two bookstores of my choosing (depending on genre, I choose one or the other) and I take advantage of their discounts. Even if the price is slightly higher than in another bookstore, it's not worth the fuss .
In a world where the ePub standard is followed and DRM is not a factor, one could maintain their entire eBook library in Calibre without a thought to where it came from. Calibre has all sorts of ways to transfer eBooks to eReaders on all sorts of platforms when they are connected to the machine on which Calibre is running. As well, there are a bunch of ways to get at your library over the air. My favorite is to use Calibre server which supports HTTP and OPDS over the Internet. This requires a fixed IP address so not everyone can use the Calibre server but if you cam, it makes your library of eBooks available to you on any device anywhere in the world where you can obtain an internet connection.
Would this separate people from their silos? Maybe.
Marilynn makes a good point about the reluctance to have financial info exposed in many places (think Target). Michael's accounting of the returns to authors could be the start of an interesting analysis. All of these vendors want to give the appearance of being good folks but readers and authors should know better. They are out for themselves, all of them. Like debate where we discover not the truth but who is the better debater, we can only discover who is the better merchandizer. Amazin appears to be in the lead right now.


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The New Cigarette
During an interview I did last week for my research, someone commented: checking your cellphone while you're waiting is like the "new cigarette". I'd never thought of it in this way before, but phones, as time fillers, do save people from feeling completely awkward in public spaces. No more standing outside waiting for our friends … Continue reading
Next Nature
As our co-evolution with technology continues unabated so our next nature rises up. This new nature is as unpredictable as the first/real nature with all her hurricanes and ash clouds. The only difference is we created it. Alongside things that were "born" will be the things we "made". Eventually we'll consider these objects natural too. … Continue reading


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Wiggins was a person of interest in the case after police found she was "associated" with one of the suspects up to the day of the murders. After police questioned her, Wiggins was charged with accessory after the fact of a felony murder and was released after she posted $10,000 bail. If convicted, she faces a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison, state attorney Bill Eddins said.
Morgan, in referring to Wiggins' release on $10,000 bail, said she is "absolutely" not a threat to society.
Wiggins was oringally arrested in connection to the case when she was found on her yacht, the Classy Lady, in Alabama. She also owns a dozen properties in three states and a Rolls Royce.
Last month, police recovered several weapons including the probable "murder weapon or weapons." It was not immediately clear from where investigators recovered the weapons. Police have enlisted the help of the federal Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms to test the weapons for prints, DNA, blood splatters and ballistics, Morgan said.
Morgan confirmed reports that the Drug Enforcement Agency was helping in the investigation, but he refused to spell out their role other than to say the DEA was investigating the suspects.
"Look at it from a broad perspective," DEA spokesman David Melenkevitz told ABCNews.com. For the sheriff's office to call in the DEA, "There has to be some drug connection somewhere."
Melenkevitz would not elaborate on the DEA's investigation.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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One reason I'd find it hard working in an office would be looking at the same people year after year after year. When we really enjoy working on one production with a certain cast we tend to really miss them when it's all done. The flip side of that is obvious. Good bye, and good riddance to that soprano** who was more interested in "winning" rather than making theater.
The photo from this article; an interesting review of the production.
Nederlands Opera Don Carlo starts today. And I'm determined from the outset to devote substantial time to the blog and to twitter.
But you didn't expect anything TODAY, did you?! I gotta unpack!
Oh, all right. A question:
All comments appreciated.
*from Nico Castel's VERDI ANTHOLOGY p. 4 "It is of note that the historical Carlos was an ungainly, hunchbacked, epileptic, addited to practically every vice and aberration. He was also slightly insance, a genetic inheritance from his aunt, Junana la Loca (Juana the Mad). Schiller's hero bears absolutely no resemblance to the historical Carlos!"
[bold and exclamation are Nico's. I think he feels strongly about his point. I wonder how he'd greet Philip Himmelmann on the street.]
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-Predicate pushdown in columnar file formats
Both Parquet and ORC both support predicate pushdown. Was looking at
whether we can make use of the existing PartitionFilterOptimizer and report
whether columns supported for predicate pushdown can be reported as
partition columns. Dmitriy was talking about the PartitionFilterOptimizer
pushing down the filter conditions to the LoadFunc but not removing them
from the actual filter condition. But even the new FilterExtractor (and old
PColFilterExtractor) that Aniket wrote removes the filter condition pushed
down. And in a way it makes sense for HCat when you filter lot of
partitions, you don't want each record also again filtered for the
partition condition wasting CPU. But in case of columnar file formats, the
predicates pushed down is only for selection/skipping of row groups/stripes
and not answering actual queries. So we need a new optimizer for pushing
down predicates to file formats which does not remove the filter condition
and a new Load interface.
There are no jiras filed for this yet. Will file one soon. Has anyone
already given thought to this and have any API design in mind? We are
planning to work on this and the main focus is on ORCFile, but want to
ensure that we address all cases of Parquet as well. Julien/Aniket could
you help with any questions on the Parquet front?
ORCFile pushes down filter predicates using indexes/column sorting,
dictionary sorting or bloom filters according to
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/LanguageManual+ORC. I
don't think it can push down filters for complex data structures like list
or maps. Daniel, can you confirm?
Can you tell how predicate pushdown works with Parquet. Does it support
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I have talked about this numerous times (ok, so it is pretty much all I ever talk about) even way back here:
But I just want to state it more simply:
Could players ever embrace a Massively Multi-player Online Game in a Persistent Dynamic World as opposed the current model of player progression where you level up and acquire a bunch of stuff and abilities?
In other words, would anyone really want to play in a virtual world where all sorts of things happened and the world was constantly changing and you could suffer great loss and success in a relatively short amount of time, but this was all the point and was an acceptable trade-off for the fun of experiencing a living, breathing world?
Could the current players of MMORPGs just not wrap their heads around the fact that leveling up and getting stuff and basically progressing as a player character (which they are so used to doing) would not be the point? The point would be playing in this ever changing world and not 'progressing' with a character by going through scripted content.
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Player accomplishment is relative to the chance of meaningful consequences in the event you fail.
I think it's possible to build a living breathing world that players explore and interact with. Especially if the limits that we're normally bound by can be surpassed.
Jumping off a mountain and gliding into the valley below, diving deep into interesting oceans, experiencing volcanos, twisters, 2000ft high waterfalls asteroid collisions.
Other possibilities are post apocalyptic worlds, or wolds based on other planets where oceans and snowfall are made of liquid methane, or prehistoric world. The ideas are endless.
IMO the world would have to be incredibly detailed in order to hold enough peoples attention to maintain economic viabiliy, but having said that, it would be an excellent technology demonstrator. A place where developers could concentrate on graphics and physics engines rather that be bog down with balance issues or constraints based on server collision capacity.
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Originally posted by ironore
It would work and does work; it just wouldn't be interesting for the majority of MMORPG fans.
Some examples of it working are:
And now, to commit an act of heresy here, I would like to suggest that many Persistent Browser-Based Games (PBBGs) fit the description of what you are suggesting far more than most MMOs ever could. In them, social interaction is as vital as character/team stats when it comes to diplomacy, alliances and war. Territorial control shifts hands and the political landscape changes as clans are conquered or fracture from within. When you lose a city, it's gone... captured or conquered. Lose all of your cities and you start over again from next to nothing.
Lords of Ultima, Grepolis and Ikariam are - in many ways - far more of a living, breathing MMO experience than most MMORPGs could ever wish to be.
There isn't a "right" or "wrong" way to play, if you want to use a screwdriver to put nails into wood, have at it, simply don't complain when the guy next to you with the hammer is doing it much better and easier. - Allein
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I can definitely see a lot of players being on board with a dynamic world where they could make changes and such, but the epic loss would be a no go for a lot of players.
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I could very easily see players live in a game where all advancement was mostly customizing skills/abilities/stats. And that the difference in power tier between 20 mins old and 20 hours old was closer to 50%(rather than a few thousand percent).j
As for a dynamic world there are a lot more difficulties there:
If a player invests in an NPC it's because they like them and find them interesting, giving a different player the ability to kill them off in the name of dynamicism... Just seems such a shame from a designers perspective since getting a player invested in a few bits and bytes is such an awesome feat.
While I loved Wurmonline a few things that really irked me was somewhere that was safe the last time I logged out turning into a black lighter death zone with heavy guards after I log in. Likewise late night raids(that I did participate in so got experience both ways) where the enemy just can't respond seems silly when you're refering to a "world"(need some other kind of mechanic for defense where attackers go against some kind of tower defense game, and human defenders can't interfere except for attacking elsewhere).
In EvE it's possible to play the entire game and never realize any of the dynamic stuff, except for maybe seeing some higher prices if you're observerant enough(most players aren't).
Edit: Essentially what I'm getting at for the MMO to be dynamic and interesting, it's going to be at the bane of more people than the content driver. IE: finally changing the ruler of a kingdom would be the end of 40 hours worth of interconnected quests for one group of people, and the bane of a few hundred or few thousand hours of investment by the rest of the community.
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Originally posted by anemo
It is a balancing act, but not one that is insurmountable. The key is to add several time based gates to such a system, that is at after quest 2,4 and 7 in the line, there would be NPC pauses (ex: corrupted guard needs a few days to learn the watch rotation). Let's say that my example is step 7 with step 8 being an actual attempt, even then the windows of opportunity would be few (say every 8 hrs there would be a 1/2 hr when it could work). BTW, a failure means starting over from scratch. And from scratch I mean rep grinding a new NPC to even begin the multiweek questline again.
Really the problem is that games that do allow such activities generally fail to give ample response time. Another example would be the destruction advantage: Why is it so hard to expect that building a bridge (huge time/resource commitment) should require a comparable effort to destroy it? In most games it seems a single player can just swing their sword for a couple hours and it will undo 10s of hours worth of work.
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Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals is the introductory installment of Deke McClelland's four-part series on making photorealistic compositions in Photoshop. The course shows how to make selections, refine the selections with masks, and then combine them in new ways, using layer effects, blend modes, and other techniques to create a single seamless piece of artwork. Deke introduces the Channels panel and the alpha channel, the key to masking and transparency in Photoshop; reviews the selection tools, including the Color Range tool , Quick Mask mode, and the Refine Edge command; and shows how to blend masked images so they interact naturally.
In this exercise, we're going to refine our mask as well as our compositing to achieve a more convincing glass effect. I've saved my progress as Jagged layer mask.psd found inside the 09_layer_masks folder, and you may recall if you Alt+ Click or Option+Click on that layer mask thumbnail, so that we can view the layer mask independently, we have some very jagged transitions at work. All right, let's go ahead and bring the RGB image back by Alt+Clicking or Option+Clicking on the layer Mask thumbnail again, make sure the layer mask is selected and then go up to the Select menu and choose the Refine Mask command or press Ctrl+Alt+R or Command+Option+R on the Mac.
Now notice that my View option is currently set to Black & White, so that I can keep an eye on that layer mask, I'm going to crank the Smooth value up to 10 pixels for this effect and that does a great job of smoothing off those edges. I also experimented, by the way, with the Radius value. I went ahead and took it up to 10 pixels let's say, and that does a pretty decent job of tracing those drops of water along the edges of the glass, but we also get some gaps along the outline of the glass, which means that the outside edges would disappear which is not something we want at all. So in that case, let's go ahead and take the Radius value down to something like 2 pixels and we end up getting these strange transitions, they're kind of lumps where these nice rounded bubbles ought to be.
So it turned out to be not what I'm looking for. Anyway, I'm going to crank that Radius value all the way down to 0 pixels. Works great for fragile details like care, but all we need gently rounding contours. The Radius value doesn't necessarily work out so well. Now I want to see what my composite image looks like here and so I'm going to turn on Show Original for a moment just so we can see those jagged edges, and then I'll turn Show Original back off and the only reason I did that was to make sure that none of the values are active and now I'll press the X key to turn off the View option, so that we're seeing the fully layered composition.
I need to shift that edge inward and I'm going to do so by reducing the Shift Edge value to its absolute negative, which is -100% and that went ahead and turn the View option back on, so I need to turn the Show Original option on and off, and then I'll press the X key again and we can see that we've lost those highlights along the edges which are not actually part of the glassware. All right, let's go ahead and zoom out so that we can make sure that everything looks pretty darn good, and if I scroll the image around you can see that there are some tiny little problems here and there, but my biggest issue is this line that comes out from the right side of the right-hand glass.
I can take care of that problem manually however, so I'll just go ahead and click OK in order to accept these settings. So again I set this Smooth value to 10, I left Feather and Contrast alone and I took the Shift Edge value down to -100. All right, go ahead and click OK, and now scoot the image over a little bit. You need to have the Rectangular Marquee tool selected just as I do and I want you to drag from about here. Notice that I'm outside the stem, but I'm even with the point at which the stem connects with the glass and now I'm going to drag upward until I extend the height of the marquee beyond the top edge of the glass right here, so I'm cutting straight through it.
Now I want you to make sure your background color is black, if it's not press the D key to establish the default masking colors. Make sure the layer Mask thumbnail is still active and then go up to the Edit menu and choose the Free Transform command or press Ctrl+T on the PC or Command+T on the Mac, and I'm going to go ahead and zoom in here, so I can see exactly what I'm doing. I'll drag this right-hand side handle inward like so, just a little bit to the left to tuck that edge into place, and then I'll press the Enter key or the Return key on the Mac in order to apply that modification and press Ctrl+D or Command+D on a Mac to deselect the mask.
Now notice I didn't leave any gap over here in the right-hand area and that's because the background color is black, so that gap got filled in with black inside of the layer mask. I also didn't create any problems whatsoever along the edge of my transformation and that's because for one thing I made sure that the height of my rectangle was taller than the edge of the glass, and for another thing I was working with a rectangle, so rectangular selections are great for applying transformations, because you don't end up with any weirdness along those absolutely vertical and horizontal edges.
All right, now let's play with the compositing a little bit, I'm going to zoom back out and it seems to me at this point we're just ending up with opaque glasses, especially if I turn the multiply layer back on. In fact, the glasses are more opaque than they ever were, because we're multiplying in the darkest details and screening in the lightest details. Why don't we go ahead and reduce the Opacity of the screen layer which is currently called glasses to 50% by pressing the 5 key and that's better, but I think we could increase the impact a little bit.
So press Ctrl+Alt+J or Command+Option+J on a Mac in order to create a new copy of that layer and let's call this new layer, screen 50% because that's what it is, then click OK to accept that change. Drop-down to the glasses layer and let's change its Blend mode from Normal to the most subtle of the Contrast modes which is Soft Light and we end up with this effect here which is not half bad. Also rename this layer soft light, so I remember what purpose it serves. All right, now I would say that's a pretty darn good effect, the problem is that the glasses appears if they contain some sort of misty gas right at the top of them.
A gas that doesn't flow over the edges, that's no good. We need to clear out the top of those glasses and I'm going to show you how to do so by assigning a layer Mask to a group in the very next exercise.
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I got some beautiful coloured malabrigo yarn (ON SALE!) to do a baseball shirt inspired zip raglan... in a lime and indigo.
Still knitting the spirals, but decided to start blocking. I bought a piece of rigid foam insulation and it seems to be working great.
floor tile.
Now a shawl.
Why is it the brain never functions except when I don't *want* it too?
My livingroom Stash, will you share yours with us on a Video? It can be fun!
This is one of the Crochet WIP that I have. It is in Tapestry Crochet. I do have some nifty yarn that I want to knit other hats with, and I will be doing that in the next weeks or so.
I am wondering if any of you folks have used any of the various knitting software available. If so, what do you think of it? Here are some examples I am wondering about.
OK, so since I have not actually finished much in the past few months since I have started knitting, I thought that I would at least put up some of my WIPS. I have too many :)
Well here it is blocked and finished. The model is of course not my mother but my friend Al. I gave the shawl to my mom on Sunday and she loved it.
Well here we are. My class and I are knitomaniacs. Maybe that is why I can't seem to finish my own project. I am always working with my pupils. Well here is a photo of our "Knitting Wall of Fame".
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1 head cauliflower, cut in chunks
1 T lemon juice
1/2 t dijon mustard
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp oregano
1/2 tsp basil
1/2 tsp thyme
1/2 c Almond Spread/mayonnaise
10 flour tortillas
1 tomatoes, chopped
2 lg. lettuce leaves, washed and torn
1 grated carrot
1/2 c bl olives, sliced (opt)
1. Steam the cauliflower until very soft, about 10 min.
2. Drain the cauliflower, and mash it w/ the next 7 ingred.
3. Spoon this filling into each tortilla, along w/ some tomato, lettuce, grated carrot, and bl. olives.
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Cleveland-based Hinkley Lighting is driven by a passion to combine design and function to create exceptional lighting solutions. Family-owned Hinkley began as a traditional lantern company in 1922, and, still today, they produce top quality outdoor lighting. Hinkley Lighting has also expanded to include a full range of interior lighting solutions, including chandeliers, sconces, pendants and vanity lights.
The Hardy Island Louvered Deck Light is available with the following:
- Frosted glass lens
- Solid brass construction
- Matte Bronze finish
- 36" lead wire
- LED Color Temperature: 3000K
- Lumens: 100
- Average Rated Life: 40,000 hours
- UL Listed Wet
Light Option: Halogen, LED
- Halogen option utilizes one 20 Watt 12 Volt Low voltage T3 Bi-Pin Base Halogen lamp (included).
- LED option utilizes one 1.5 Watt 12 Volt Low voltage LED (integrated).
- Fixture: Diameter 3.5", Depth 2"
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