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Copper headed for the first weekly advance in four weeks in New York before a report that may indicate a strengthening economy in the U.S., the world's second-largest consumer of the metal.
An increase in November payrolls probably pushed U.S. job gains past the 1 million mark for the year, economists said. Copper added 5.6 percent this week as reports showed stronger manufacturing in China, the U.S. and Europe and inventories tracked by the London Metal Exchange shrank for a 41st week in a row.
"The market is just on hold ahead of U.S. payrolls today," said David Thurtell, an analyst at Citigroup Inc. in London.
Copper for delivery in March slipped 0.4 cent, or 0.1 percent, to $3.975 a pound at 7:47 a.m. on the Comex in New York. Copper for delivery in three months lost 0.1 percent to $8,710 a metric ton on the LME. All of the six main metals traded on the LME retreated except nickel.
The payroll figures are due at 8:30 a.m. New York time. They will show that employment increased by 150,000 last month, according to the median forecast of 87 economists surveyed by Bloomberg News, bringing the gain so far this year to 1.02 million.
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"The monthly nonfarm payroll report in the U.S. will either confirm the optimism that positive economic reports have helped build this week, in which case it really is clear blue skies into the end of year, or a disappointing number will cut the rally short," said Chris Weafer, chief strategist at UralSib Financial Corp. in Moscow. "Investors are, however, clearly in the mood for a strong end to 2010."
Separate figures due at 10 a.m. New York time may show that service industries, which account for almost 90 percent of the U.S. economy, expanded last month at the fastest pace since May as more jobs and rising wages boosted holiday sales.
LME copper inventories fell 0.9 percent this week to 353,625 tons. They're down 30 percent this year, on course for the first annual decline since 2004. Stocks monitored by the Shanghai Futures Exchange declined for a second week, the bourse said today.
Immediate-delivery LME copper's premium to three-month metal fell for a second day, dropping 8.3 percent to $50 a ton after reaching $74, the highest level since October 2008, on Dec. 1. Prices moved on Nov. 8 to a so-called backwardation, when nearby metal trades above longer-term contracts, potentially signaling supply concern.
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Tightness in the copper market "eased a lot" yesterday, Citigroup's Thurtell said.
The fee to borrow copper for next-day delivery, the so-called tom-next spread, was last at a discount of $1.75, compared with yesterday's closing $4 discount. An increase in the fee would indicate tightening supply.
An unidentified party held between 50 percent and 79 percent of LME copper stockpiles from Nov. 22 through at least Dec. 1, the latest exchange data show. Another unidentified firm held the same amount of LME nickel stockpiles on Dec. 1.
Wage talks at Anglo American Plc and Xstrata Plc's Collahuasi mine in Chile are set to extend into a fifth day as union and company representatives seek to end a strike at the world's third-biggest copper mine, a union leader said yesterday. The strike entered its 28th day yesterday, the longest recorded at a major Chilean copper mine.
Tin for three-month delivery on the LME slid 0.6 percent to $25,400 a ton. Prices reached a record $27,500 on Nov. 9. The metal has jumped 50 percent this year, leading advances on the exchange, after production was disrupted in Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Aluminum fell 0.2 percent to $2,343 a ton and nickel was unchanged at $23,650 a ton. Lead dropped 0.3 percent to $2,367 a ton and zinc declined 1.4 percent to $2,228 a ton.


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ATHENS, Greece — Violent protesters attacked peaceful ones with petrol bombs and stones in Athens on Thursday, as tens of thousands rallied outside parliament ahead of a vote on despised new austerity measures demanded by creditors to keep the debt-ridden country afloat.
As the second day of a general strike paralyzed the country, more than 50,000 peaceful demonstrators flooded downtown Syntagma Square, the scene of violent protests on Wednesday, the first day of the nationwide strike.
Wary of having more protests hijacked by violent hooded youths, communist party supporters on Thursday set up a cordon in front of parliament to prevent hard-liners from starting new fights with police. But that just meant the peaceful protesters came under attack later in the day, hundreds of anarchists in motorcycle helmets threw petrol bombs, stones, paint and clubs at them, trying to break the cordon.
Riot police used tear gas and stun grenades to break up the clashes. At least ten people were treated by medics, mostly for facial injuries.
The austerity bill won initial approval from the Greek parliament in a first vote Wednesday night, and deputies are now voting on the details, which include suspending 30,000 public servants on reduced pay and suspending collective labor contracts.
Creditors have demanded the measures before they give Greece more funds from a €110 billion ($152 billion) package of bailout loans from other eurozone countries and the International Monetary Fund. Greece says it will run out of money in mid-November without the next €8 billion ($11 billion) installment.
The next installment has yet to be authorized and there's growing unease in the markets about whether a summit of eurozone leaders this Sunday in Brussels will yield a comprehensive solution to the continent's debt crisis, which has seen Ireland and Portugal bailed out as well as Greece. Finance ministers from the 17 countries that use the euro will meet ahead of the summit on Friday.
The Greek government's latest round of austerity measures are expected to pass though deputies from the governing Socialist party have expressed outrage, with several indicating they could vote against some of them.
Dissent could further weaken Prime Minister George Papandreou's slim majority in Parliament, where he holds 154 of the legislature's 300 seats.
Greece's international creditors, meanwhile, warned that a second rescue package tentatively agreed in July may not be enough to save the country from bankruptcy, but said Athens should still get its next batch of bailout loans, according to a draft of a debt inspectors' report obtained Thursday by The Associated Press.
Although the inspectors said Greece has missed its deficit-cutting targets and that the pace of its reforms is insufficient, they said Athens should get €8 billion ($11 billion) of bailout loans as soon as possible so the country does not default on its debts next month.
Greece has been relying on a €110 billion ($152 billion) package of rescue loans since May last year. In July, eurozone leaders tentatively agreed in a second €109 billion ($150 billion) bailout, that would also seen banks and other private bondholders give Greece easier terms on its debt.
However, the inspectors from the European Commission and the European Central Bank said Greece's debt dynamics remain "extremely worrying."
The conclusions pile pressure on European leaders at a key summit this Sunday to make private creditors like banks take more losses on the Greek bonds they hold.
The report adds that Greece's overall "debt sustainability has effectively deteriorated, given delays in the recovery, in fiscal consolidation and in the privatization plan, as well as the perspective of bank recapitalizations."
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Police say a 21-year-old Davalous Brown got into a struggle with a Dona Ana County Sheriff's deputy Saturday around 1 p.m. at a Las Cruces home.
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The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said the group illegally killed eight deer and shot at others near the Alabama border in Jackson County.
"I think they knew what the law was. I believe they felt like they could come to Florida and not have to pay the piper," said F.W.C Spokesperson Stan Kirkland.
Investigators said in mid-September the four suspects started hunting near Sellar's Road and Highway Two, and they said the group made at least 11 different trips to the area before they finally busted them in a peanut field off Christmas Road on October 12th.
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"Getting back together for this tour just felt right," he said. "We're getting along well and thinking about recording a new album, though that still isn't cut in stone."
In our phone conversation, Hill, who is engaged now and "in a very good place, a really good head space," said the band parted ways four years ago amid lots of turmoil. "I was breaking up with my girlfriend at the time, and the other guys in the band were also going through breakups in and around that time, too," he said. "Everything was kind of crumbling, we just stopped after we ended a tour in April 2009. It just kind of ended."
The band got a lot of attention for its explicit lyrics and sexual artwork on its raunchy 2005 record The Best Little Secrets Are Kept. From there the guys kept expanding their sound and taking it in new and surprising directions, as evidenced by the melancholy and simply beautiful 2008 song Hopesick.
The tune addresses unrequited love ("I love her, she loves me / but in my mind") and drug use ("I need hope / I need help / I need dope"), among other serious subjects. With its ethereal orchestral string line and surreal fade, Hopesick even evokes the Beatles circa Sgt. Pepper.
"The songs that some people said were sexist were just playful flirtations with my girlfriend. It's all just what came out of my mouth when they were written," he said. "On the other hand, when you're in the heat of the moment, when you're feeling all this sexual tension, it's amazing what you think when you listen later. It's like after having sex. Those songs are like the buildup. Maybe the subsequent records were more like the morning after the big party."
Hill said the songs that caught all the heat, such as Paper Doll and Pledge of Allegiance, were written in a week's period.
"To this day those are some of my favorite tracks," he said. "It was just to see if I could get a reaction out of my girlfriend, make her smile or turn her on, just the way I would talk with her. To get all that flak was surprising. So many women like those songs even more than men do. Men like the more rocking ones, the sexual ones that women tend to like."
Hill insisted he never meant to be chauvinistic. "I thought it was kind of funny that people took it so seriously," he said. "The best part was when we got banned in Alabama."
Yes, Louis XIV was banned in Hoover, Alabama, where they were scheduled to play the day after Hurricane Katrina reached land.
"We didn't really want to play there because the high school doubled as theater in the town, and that's where we were booked," Hill recalls. "But we were getting paid, and we knew this would help finance the tour, so we decided to go. Then we found out we were on CNN because the Hoover Board of Education had held an emergency meeting and banned us because. I guess they heard some of our songs and felt we were male chauvinists and were not fit for their town."
Hill says the assumption among the lawmakers in Hoover was that the band was coming to town to have sex with their daughters.
"I guess they thought we would bring drugs to Hoover," he says. "We got banned, but we still got paid, and we were jazzed that we didn't have to go. But the kicker, the best part, is they hired Snoop Dogg to play the show instead. Snoop Dogg! I wonder if they'd ever listened to any of his records. It was the most ironic thing ever."
"I am too happy these days to screw that all up," he says. "I don't have this aching need any more to have people say, 'Yes, you're amazing.' But the guys in The Killers pestered us about getting back together, and asked us to do some new years shows. We played a couple times, and it was kind of a disaster, but the thing is it felt good to do it. I played guitar better than I ever played it."
On the night of the first show with The Killers, Hill said members of that band asked Hill and his bandmates to join them in Europe. "After I had a few drinks in me," Hill said, "I said 'ok'."
Hill's individuality always shines through, on record, in the live shows, and even in phone conversations. He doesn't want to sound like anyone else, and he doesn't want to be anyone else. Music writers have tried to categorize Hill, and Louis XIV, but that's just not possible.
"People don't mean to, but they want to put you in a box," he said. "It's human nature. But I always try to make music from the heart. My step brother growing up was an incredible classical violinist, he was amazing, but the thing that struck me when I first started playing music was that he couldn't make something up. How can you play an instrument and not want to make something up? Just to play someone else's material, so many people do that. I never wanted to be like that, so I didn't take lessons. I wanted to do my own thing. Everyone is different. But for me, the pont is, music is not 3 plus 3 equals 6. It could be 6. Or not."
Hill, a music historian of sorts who can talk intelligently about virtually any music genre, said he's never tried to cop a certain sound or genre when he writes or performs.
"Music got me through life as a kid, I remember going to record stores buying records for a buck apiece in the dollar bin," he said. "I soaked up everything. Music is about self expression. We've been called glam, but I never said 'We're gonna do glam.' It's a weird term. Look at Bowie, he's all over the place. He never made the same record twice. That would be incredibly dull. Is Young Americans glam? No. Ziggy Stardust? Maybe. I'm always fighting against people that want to try to mold you into something not as unique. You have to believe that what you are doing is worth something."
While he may take issue with being called 'glam,' Hill says one of the highlights of being in Louis XIV was when the band opened for David Bowie at some high-profile benefits for Africans with AIDS. Hill was nervous before those gigs because the sexual nature of some of the band's songs didn't seem appropriate for an AIDS benefit. But as it turned out, he felt that playing those songs sent a positive message.
"We were playing these powerful, star-studded AIDS events, with people like Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes staring at us," he recalled. "Beforehand, I thought, 'This is ridiculous. I don't feel right about singing some of these songs.' But in hindsight it was a cool thing. There was something great about it in that, in the fight against AIDS, the message really should be that sex can still be fun, it's just about being responsible."


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Neighbors helping neighbors. Thats the mentality of Patrick Properties Hospitality Group.
Patrick Properties hosted a holiday celebration at Lowndes Grove Plantation for the residents of the Florence Crittenton home, an organization that provides support for pregnant young women.
Its a great way to give back to our neighbors. We want them to know they have a home not only in Charleston, but also in Wagener Terrace, said Christie Gregovich, head of public relations and marketing for Patrick Properties.
The women were given free rein inside the historic home and enjoyed hot cocoa and Christmas cookies. Many of them walked to the dock and explored the bedrooms. Amelia + Dan Photography took their photos on the waterfront as a keepsake. At the end of the event, the company surprised them with gifts.
Its wonderful because were on the same street, but these ladies may have never had the chance to experience this beauty, said Lisa Belton, the executive director of Florence Crittenton Programs of South Carolina.
Belton said that the residents also celebrated the holidays by going to the Creative Spark musical The No Hole Holiday, viewing the lights at James Island County Park and going to the city Christmas parade among other things.
Randall Goldman, the chief executive officer of Patrick Properties, said the holiday partnership with Florence Crittenton has been going on for three years and makes perfect sense because the homes are only three blocks away from each other on St. Margaret Street downtown.
The intention is to give them a place where they can escape to, Goldman said.
These are young ladies who need the love and support of the community. We want to reinforce that feeling of community. Being pregnant is challenging enough by itself, but being pregnant as a teen is another thing, Goldman said.
Many of the girls said their favorite part of the day was having their picture taken. Goldman said that he wants this to be something they will always remember.
If this is memorable for them, then Ive done my job, he said.
Goldman said he chose to give back to the organization because of the direct assistance the residents are given. Plus, youre not helping one person, but two: a mother and her child.
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The pullback of about 8% in CVS' shares since early May due to investor concerns over pharmacy benefits contract losses is overdone, says Jefferies analyst Mark Wiltamuth.
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Q. Why should we care about Mexico?
A. Perhaps no other country affects the United States on a day-to-day basis as much as Mexico. The two nations have always been linked by their shared two thousand mile border, but the nature of this relationship has broadened and deepened over the last three decades. Today energy, the environment, corporations, supply chains, people, communities, and security bind the two nations together, making them truly indivisible, and Mexico's path forward matter more than ever for its northern neighbor. The challenge ahead is for Mexico and the United States to work together to strengthen the good and diminish the bad in this close but still unequal relationship.
Q. So what is happening next door?
A. Mexico has transformed over the last three decades, mostly in good ways. It is now a vibrant, if at times messy, democracy. It has an open and globally competitive economy, and it has a growing middle class. Yet alongside these many positive trends, Mexico faces a crisis of violence. Over the last six years newspaper counts put the drug related death toll at over 60,000, and some independent analysts estimates tens of thousands more. The question now is where will Mexico head – what path will it take in the twenty-first century. Can Mexico reach its real potential – becoming a top ten world economy, a market-based democracy, a strong ally for the United States and a leader among emerging countries; or will it be consumed by instability, corruption, and crime.
Q. What can the United States do?
A. Working together means not just a new set of policies but also a larger shift--to a true partnership. It should start with people, and reforming immigration laws to support rather than shun the binational individuals and communities that already exist¬ and link the two nations. It means embracing and deepening economic ties, recognizing that a rising tide can lift all boats. And it requires shifting U.S. security cooperation to move beyond drug trafficking to focus on reducing the general crime and violence afflicting Mexico's people. In this the United States will need to take a hard look at its own drug, gun, and money laundering policies, and consider the bilateral effects of domestic decisions.
Q. How will Mexico affect the United States?
A. Whether we like it or not, the direction Mexico takes now affects not just Mexico's citizens but also Americans. And while there is much to lose, there is much more to gain. In fact, Mexico is less a problem and more an answer for the economic, security, and diplomatic challenges the United States faces today.
"A good political and economic history of modern Mexico, the book will be of interest to those seeking a deeper understanding of the country." --Publishers Weekly
"In delightfully entertaining yet fact-filled prose, O'Neil sketches a persuasively optimistic portrait of Mexico, one at odds with the crime-drenched media reports and alarmist warnings of nativists in the United States." --Foreign Affairs
"Shannon O'Neil's new book about U.S.-Mexico relations is probably the best since 1989's Distant Neighbors by Alan Riding . . . O'Neil concentrates on the issues of immigration, the lack of rule of law in Mexico, and how Mexico has helped U.S. companies become more competitive in the global market, thus adding U.S. jobs. She provides concrete examples and historical context, mixing the stories of individuals deftly with her macroeconomic observations." --San Antonio Express-News
"[O'Neil] provides both a readable recent history of Mexico and a cogent argument for why U.S. policymakers, business leaders and citizens should care about the future of their southern neighbor . . . The book will interest those who are concerned about the future of U.S.-Mexico relations, but it is also an indispensable account of Mexico's recent history-including its processes of democratic opening and political reform. The author manages to cover in less than 200 pages most of the major developments that have shaped Mexico's emergence as a democracy and modern economy, as well as the work that needs to be done to make those changes permanent. And the writer's easy style makes it a quick and accessible-even exciting-read without sacrificing depth." --Americas Quarterly
"Shannon O'Neil's new book Two Nations Indivisible: Mexico, the United States, and the Road Ahead insightfully analyzes and explains the different and at times paradoxical aspects of modern Mexico. Throughout the book, O'Neil livens the narrative with well-told anecdotes drawn from her own experiences in Mexico City and other parts of the country. She distills more than two decades of research into straightforward prose and also shares the stories of the friends and acquaintances she met through the years." --Forbes.com
"In her book Two Nations Indivisible, Shannon K. O'Neil dissects the complicated, symbiotic and often testy relationship between the United States and Mexico as they charge ahead in the 21st century." --Texas Tribune
"Groundbreaking." --San Antonio News Express
"Shannon O'Neil's Two Nations Indivisible challenges us to delve beyond how and what we think of Mexico and its splashy headlines. She has written an absorbing book about our two nations' common border and mutual destiny, a critical read to grasp turbulent but pivotal and promising Mexico. This is a revealing, fresh look into a country undergoing transformation, a book brimming with insight and thoughtfulness about a strange and difficult neighbor that many of us claim to know, yet so few of us really understand. I was instantly captivated." --Alfredo Corchado, Mexico correspondent for The Dallas Morning News, and author of Midnight In Mexico
"Shannon O'Neil has combined her deep knowledge of Mexico with illuminating anecdotes and insightful analysis to set out the opportunities and challenges for Mexico and to persuasively make the case that a successful Mexico is of vital importance to the United States. In that context, she thoughtfully explores the policy paths that Mexico and the United States should pursue to realize the potential for Mexico's success that she strongly believes in. And, while this discussion is serious and important, it is also well written and engrossing." --Robert E. Rubin, Co-Chairman, Council on Foreign Relations, and former U.S. Treasury Secretary
"Wedded-for better or for worse. Trade booms, they reshape each other's societies, and Mexico democratizes. Yet, Mexico's thugs get weapons in the United States; U.S. kids get cocaine from Mexico. Shannon O'Neil's smart, articulate, well-researched, and illuminating book sheds light on this binational intimacy, its tragedies and hopes, and sets the path for a better future." --Jorge Domínguez, Professor, Harvard University
"Two Nations Indivisible provides a brilliant, well-documented roadmap showing how and why the United States and Mexico could and should collaborate to solve shared economic, social and security challenges and in doing so advance their respective national interests. Leaders, public and private, on both sides of the border should take note." --Ambassador Carla A. Hills, Chair & CEO, Hills & Company, International Consultants
"Two Nations Indivisible is an in depth analysis of the relationship between two nations that together can play a major role in the 21st century." --Claudio X. Gonzalez, Chairman, Mexico Business Council
"The U.S.-Mexico relationship is as complex as it is misunderstood. Shannon O'Neil provides a lucid and timely correction to the many myths that have long plagued this relationship." --Moises Naim, Senior Associate in the International Economics Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and author of The End of Power
"O'Neil presents a contemporary overview of US-Mexico relations and focuses on the current state of affairs regarding trade, security, and immigration issues... Anecdotes help to present the human face of immigration, the devastating effects of violence, and the challenges that politicians and diplomats face in dealing with the complexities and contradictions of the bilateral relationship at the federal level." --CHOICE


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You have the tablet. You are reviewing it. Yet you can't be arsed to try a couple of games? It wouldn't have taken very long!
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"So what's it like for gaming? I've no idea, but I think we can guess."
You could easily have done better than guess!!
You have the tablet. You are reviewing it. Yet you can't be arsed to try a couple of games? It wouldn't have taken very long!
@Dodgy Geezer: While your points have some grounding, I do have some issues.
"We already use far more energy per head than our parents, and our children will use even more - and that is not a bad thing. It is part of the way human societies better themselves."
Not exactly. DOING more is how we better ourselves. This normally uses more energy. However, it does not always have to. More efficient technologies come along allowing us to do more with the same energy or less. So with no increase in energy use we can still have advancement.
"The Greens have now been defeated in this latest fight. But they will come back again over some other technology. They are anxious to achieve zero growth and stop all human development. Being on their side is not something I would be proud of..."
This is the hard-line, extremist green view. I consider myself a moderate green. I want the world to move forward, but that does not mean we have to "destroy the planet" in the process. We can generate electricity from clean sources. The current generation of renewables is not up to the job (specifically wind and solar), but we can use cleaner gas-fired stations and, in particular, nuclear as a stop gap, as well as the more advanced renewables like hydro. We can use more efficient appliances to reduce our energy needs without lowering our quality of life. We can continue to research additional clean energy sources. All of these would be for the ultimate advancement of mankind, while also being green.
"Maybe, but if we can get it onto BMW's"
Haven't you heard? (B-b-b-bird bird bird... sorry, couldn't help the Family Guy reference)
Audi drivers are the new BMW drivers.
"I was just criticizing what the article's author suggested, of it being a path towards not subsidizing handsets."
TBH I think they have pretty much stopped subsidising handsets anyway. Having compared many operator contracts and SIM-only plans, I have always found that it is the same or cheaper to buy the phone outright and use a SIM only plan. In fact, buying the phone on some credit cards can sometimes work out cheaper!
'And let's face it, what average Reg reader knows what "Bell-state" is?'
There is only one bell-state. "Ready for action".
Paris: She knows.
"They were more concerned about creating the lock-in than they were about giving the customer the goodies that make them buy-in to the lock-in voluntarily."
Right there is the key.
To get something to work which people aren't bothered about, you must make things they are bothered about which, coincidentally, need them to use the thing they aren't bothered about.
Had the operators had some foresight, they could have easily concocted a standard to allow people to buy in app stores and have the cost billed through them. That would have been a great money spinner for them.
I think it's a lot like the UK government ID cards. Although we are here on a tech forum where most just thought it was a bad idea from the beginning, most non-techies I know thought it was a reasonably good idea but didn't see much benefit. The government could have made it a lot more attractive. Adding the ability to store payment cards, loyalty cards, memberships etc. on it would have swayed many, for example. Incorporating an electronic cash system would have brought more into the fold. Hell, even I would have been tempted with that lot. But instead, they plodded along with the core idea, and it failed to gain any real interest from the public.
"OK, provided that the rate of deterioration is set to match what Libraries find in practice"
I beg to differ.
The only reason a library should pay for a new book when it deteriorates is because it costs the publisher to print a new copy. OK, it doesn't cost as much as the library pays, but it does cost.
For eBooks, the "deterioration" should be built into the royalties. Instead of "pay the full price after x thousand loans", spread that cost into the per-loan royalty and it's sorted. The only thing which would be affected is the publishers figures.
"Why are so many resources devoted to browser development? ... The overwhelming majority of users... just want to see a web page."
They want to see it fast. They don't want to wait 30s, or even 10s, for it to load (even if it is just a picture of a cat).
They want to see it correctly. They don't want to be unable to see the cat because their browser doesn't support this or that.
That is why there is so much work going on. They have to keep up to the newer technologies as they appear, while improving efficiency of existing components.
"Best manager I ever had only did a single thing get the rest of the company to leave me the hell alone and speak to her instead."
That's what my current manager does, for the most part.
I'm sure he does more than I can see, but he is fantastic in a crisis. We had a serious problem in the systems I look after, resulting in a good week's work to get everything working again. I had nobody hassling me for that time. He asked me for updates regularly, drafted in help for me, and kept everyone off my back. Basically, he let me do my job and provided me everything I needed to get it done quickly and smoothly. Without that, it would have taken me a good month.
"As for the Peter Principle, I've yet to see that institutionalised across an entire organisation. Individual cases, certainly, but it is far more instructive to think of managerial promotions as being random."
In my own (admittedly limited) experience, I have found that those who normally get promoted to middle management are either;
a) ambitious and power hungry (at least to some degree) and want to rise to the top, whatever is involved, or
b) those who can't do their job, but current management sees some management potential in them, making promotion easier than firing them.
I have seen a prevalence of these two types. I have, of course, seen some press-ganged into a management position, almost against their will, but these seem much rarer than the above two cases (which, again in my experience, seem to be roughly equal).
"I think I have been reading a different El Reg than the one you are talking about. I'm sure the overriding bias from the Reg was IP law was totally fucked"
I think it depends on your starting position. In all, I believe el Reg has maintained a fairly balanced view on the matter, but this upsets people on both extremes.
To the "pirate" who thinks they should get everything free, the opinion that any IP law is required at all goes against their standpoint, so el Reg is siding with the big, nasty corporations who want to force them to pay for stuff.
To big corps and their supporters who want this IP system, because it benefits them, the suggestion that IP law needs reform shows that el Reg is siding with the pirates and wants them to give everything away for free.
In reality, this publication has regularly stated that, while we need IP law to protect those who innovate or create, the current system is completely screwed and needs reform.
"Apparently the older you get the harder is to differentiate speech from background music."
If this is true, I'm royally screwed. I have had a lot of trouble with that from my early teens.
Strangely, I can pick out a particular instrument from an orchestra no problem. But if someone tries to speak to me, directly in my ear, while listening to said orchestra, I need it repeating 3-4 times before I understand.
"Sky are okay, but they're only estimating 40Mbps where I am so they're already off to a worse start."
If you are talking about Sky Fibre, that is because 40Mbps is the max they offer.
You need to take Sky Fibre Pro for 80Mbps. I did, and as a heavy user I have encountered no throttling or caps.
A small tip, though. They charge you for installation of Pro (as an existing customer, at least). The don't charge you for plain fibre. However, you can get Fibre and, as soon as it is installed, upgrade to Pro.
"Spend 24 hours a day downloading torrents? You're the equivalent of demanding they fill your tanker with cola."
Nope. You are using what you have paid for.
The difference here is the point of "with your meal". This would mean that it is valid only for one meal, while you consume that meal. Strictly, as soon as you have finished the last mouthful, your contract is completed and you are entitled to no more. In addition, it is a quite obvious assumption (and probably stated, too) that it is for your own consumption during that meal. Therefore you could not fill up a few bottles to take away, you must consume it with the meal.
When you pay for unlimited broadband, you are paying for a 24x7 service. I see no reason why you should not be allowed to download at the full speed of your connection 24x7. You are not abusing the service, you are using it. If you place limits on it beyond that, by definition it is no longer unlimited.
"Should GCHQ want to recruit people who 'forget' their passwords?"
Everyone forgets their password from time to time. Or locks out their account. Or....
Just because a person is one of the best cryptanalysts in the world doesn't mean they don't have a memory like a sieve.
However, for an intelligence agency to be storing passwords in plain text is inexcusable. Even on a peripheral system. It doesn't matter whether they are sending out plain-text password reminders, as such. It is that they are storing them insecurely. Which is bad. Very bad.
"So for your whole life you've supported a party that believes in electoral reform that they expect to mean regular coalition governments... The party that believes coalition government is a good thing goes into coalition."
You beat me to it. The Lib Dems had no choice but to go into coalition (or abandon all hope of saying they support PR, which means regular coalitions). They had very little option but to go into it with the Tories, as any other would have both been very complicated (using every party in Parliament to oppose the Tories) and against the apparent wishes of the electorate (who basically voted Labour out).
On top of this, they have done real good for the country. They have tempered the Tory government, and pushed through beneficial changes (such as the rise in personal allowance).
The only real policy mistake I believe they have made was breaking their promise on tuition fees. This was a firm commitment to vote against any rise, and they just tossed that down the toilet. Apart from that, the main damage to the party is just in the association with the Conservatives and their policies. It is a perception held by many, and that will have the most damaging consequences. However, this is because the
proles electorate are stupid have not thought it through.
"And the noise."
That was my main problem when I bought a pair of DL380G4s to replace a couple of home servers based on desktop hardware. One of the old desktops had blown it's PSU while I was on holiday (which happened to be my mail server, causing great distress to my other half), which prompted the move to real server hardware.
When I got them home (and installed in my new rack), I found the noise level... unacceptable. Or rather, SWMBO found the noise level unacceptable. I wasn't really too surprised, as they would drown out the noise from our vacuum cleaner from the next room. I did, however, find a fix.
The first part was to retire one to the duty of parts repository, and keep any non-essential services on a desktop-based server. The second was involved a soldering iron, some heatshrink sleeving, some resistors and every fan in the system (8, I think). Then, after a few days of careful monitoring in mid summer, I determined that the heat levels were acceptable so long as I left the window latched open.
I'm actually in the process of heading the other way, now. All my external services are hosted elsewhere, and I am in the middle of consolidating all my systems into one desktop based server. At least it's now in a rack mount enclosure, with custom dual PSUs and two UPSs. The spare hardware, well... It will probably join all my other spare hardware in the cupboard, ready to fire into life when something else goes wrong.
As a side note, I'm not looking forward to the other half noticing the drop in our leccy bill when I switch off the 380. She noticed the rather large increase when it was installed, but didn't figure out what was causing it. I'm pretty sure she will go mad when she realises how much juice that thing was drinking...
"I am also a little wary of a wireless network that can supply enough energy to charge a phone using me as a medium"
It's not using you as a medium. It is using, mostly, air as the medium.
I will accept that if you happen to be in between the charge and the device it would be using you as a medium, it's only in the same way the your phone is using your head as a medium if the base station is on the opposite side to the phone.
"Apart from having to deal with BT, any reasons why I shouldn't go with them?"
Nope, but that's enough reason for me!
"I would rather pay for my broadband separately"
I don't really know why. I was (and still am for a few days) with Be, and was delighted when I could get a landline with them. It simplified fault finding no end. The landline provider couldn't just fob you off on the ISP, and vice versa, because they were the same.
Talk Talk?!
I would strongly advise against. I have had several conversations with them over problems with my parents' broadband & phone. I would not touch them with a barge pole. They are arrogant, rude liars. Their philosophy seems to be "the customer is always wrong". They are (I can barely believe I am saying this) worse than BT.
YMMV. This is only from my own, personal experience, but it is a very bad experience.
I've been with Be since I moved into my own place a in 2008. Above all else, the support kept me there, plus the ability to have multiple static IPs and the speed advantage I gained.
When I moved in with my girlfriend a few years ago, I stuck with Be even though it meant getting a second line (as she refused to get rid of hers, with Sky as it happens).
Since then, I have actually found Sky to be a great (consumer) service, both from reliability and speed aspects and on the support front. It has impressed me enough that I have just cancelled my Be line and migrated to Sky Fibre.
I know some will not be happy with this announcement, but from my own, single experience I have to say that Sky are my second favourite ISP, behind Be only in the technical aspects.
I don't know about legally, but:
- ARM design their cores and license them out to fund more design. There is a continual process.
- MPEG-LA is just a group of companies, really, with licensing deals (I know, far too simplified). Other companies hold the patents, MPEG-LA just makes licensing them all easier.
- Google bought Moto, which are still (IIRC) a separate company and do make things using them.
- Troll Inc just buy patents then try to license them out. They do no development or production of their own, and exist purely to suck money away from others.
"The problem with that is it stops small time inventors being able to earn a living from real inventions too. Just because you like inventing things, doesn't mean you would be the right person to take it forward as a product."
I thought about this too.
For me, there would be 1 simple way of solving this problem; all patents must be held by an individual. No companies may own a patent: They may license it, but not own it.
There would be a host of problems stemming from this, too, ranging from transfer of the license through to what happens when it is the companies effort (i.e. you are employed and gain a patent on something you do at work), but none of these are insurmountable.
"You start producing the item and then sue and you're not a NPE anymore"
Shows how much you know!
Let's say I came up with a fairly simple, but non-obvious and innovative, enhancement for, say, a car engine. It is not something which can easily be retrofitted. I have developed the idea and patented it, but I don't have the money to produce the new engine myself.
I go to a few car companies with this enhancement idea. Some are interested, but they don't license the idea, they just steal and use it.
I am a non-producing entity, and have no way of producing it. Should I have to post the billions in a bond just to be able to sue them for stealing the idea?
The obvious way around this is to exclude the original patent applicant, but what if I had taken my invention and rolled it into a company?
The problem is making sure the legislation doesn't remove rights from those it is intended to protect (i.e. innovators).
"If there was some explainable means to and end, then fine!"
There is. Read the article.
OK, it was probably started with "I wonder what would happen if we linked 2 brains together" (possibly followed by "that'd be so cool! Now get another round in") , but the research shows that joining 2 brains may have some purpose.
Personally, I hate the idea of experimenting on animals. I think it is cruel. However, it is a necessary evil in my view. Without it we would not be able to do half of what we do today. I hope, some day, we no longer need to, but for now it's the best option available to us.
P. Lee:
More power for more performance I think for Atom.
I think this very much depends on the application.
I would suspect that for many applications you are right, but for many you are wrong. Added to which, most server applications (which this article is talking about) scale well across threads. Therefore, if we took an Atom dual core processor (the most Intel do at the moment, I think) compared to a multi-core ARM SOC, I think you would be able to get similar performance for much lower power and cost.
This is only my own gut feeling, I have no numbers to back it up. Where I work we had enough trouble upgrading our MES from a couple of old (>10 years, although they are still running perfectly) Alpha's to Itaniums, and are now being blocked by the bean counters from consolidating most of our boxes into a new vitualised environment. We move slowly here, if ARM servers take off we may get to them 10 years or so later...
Our beloved BOFH appears to have gone AWOL.
Can we expect a new story any time soon? There's been nothing since November and I'm getting withdrawal symptoms!
"my USB camera and microphone cost about £3 and theoretically would work"
Not as well, though.
The camera module connects to the CSI2 connector on the Pi, which allows images/video to go straight into the GPU, be processed, then spat out to either the display or into userland. With your USB webcam, even forgetting the terrible inefficiencies of USB, to get the same functionality you need a userland programme to pull data from the webcam and put it into the GPU (whether to display it or to process it).
"or there is no Wine at all"
Ah, wait, you didn't mention beer. Is my beer safe? Do we need emulation for beer to exist?
"Is it possible to run GNU/Linux software on Android by installing libraries?"
I have.
On a rooted device, you can set up a chroot environment with, say, Debian installed. Use a terminal emulator and, hey presto, you've got a Debian shell.
Add to that the Android X-Server app, and you've got linux GUI apps, too. Looks very odd (and hard to read without tweaking) seeing LXDE running on your mobile.
"I might want to watch ITV, Sky, or all those other channels that don't insist on charging me the poll tax"
Still watching TV.
Although the BBC would like you to believe that the license fee is theirs, it is a tax on watching (live broadcast) TV. You wanna watch TV, pay the govt for the privilege. Nothing to do with the BBC, except that the government pays for them.
"Rather than try and stifle debate, we need to be having a really good, proper scientific debate where data is properly released in full (yep, a reference to a certain Anglian university), analysed by lots of different people and the results discussed sensibly. Then, we can implement the changes necessary, not to try and stop it necessarily, but to adjust with it."
And you see this happening?
I completely agree that this is what is needed. In fact, I don't doubt that such debates happen. The problem is that the debate has become so polarised it is virtually religious. The "hippies" and "deniers" take such extreme views that the other side are heretics who should be burned.
I did like the comment about offline storage. I actually considered a disk library project a while ago along similar lines.
My plan was to pack 4 3.5" disks into a "module". This module would be a RAID-5 set, but would be used like a tape in a tape library. Files would be written to it, and their location recorded in an online database (as in on a hard drive in the machine, not as in a server on the internet). Need a file, it's looked up in the DB, you are prompted for the module number. Insert it and you've got your data.
Using today's prices (quickly gleaned from ebuyer), the storage itself using 4x3TB / module @ £100ea would give, in RAID-5, 9TB for £400. For 1PB, you would need 112 modules, leading to approx 45k. Add in a grand (over estimating) for a server to deal with it and you have your PB of storage, offline but redundant.
Not many can say they have left as big a mark on the computing world. I wish him all the best and hope the "family reasons" aren't anything serious.
On a side note, I think that his response to the conspiracy theories is a classic:
"while I frequently think Linus is an asshole... I am departing quite genuinely for family reasons"
I'll raise a glass to him tonight. Cheer Alan!
"I'd argue that those who were posted about had an expectation of privacy"
Exactly. If the explicit photos are taken in a private setting by their partner, there is a reasonable expectation* that those pictures will be viewed only by the partner. To then make those images public is a breach of privacy (as well as showing the person who published them to be a dick).
Imagine how horrified you would be if you allowed your partner to take photos of you, you broke up and then found they had posted them on the web for all to see.
The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one.
I have to agree, here.
Everywhere could easily run their own databases for medical records. What is needed is a standard format for exchange of this data between NHS institutions.
So if your GP refers you to the hospital, they can send the data on in a manner which will integrate with the hospital's own systems. Similarll, A&E departments could be given (logged and controlled) powers to access a patient's medical records, with that access being funnelled to the appropriate GP's database.
This requires much less development (and money) than a centralised system, and should be more secure. At the very least if a breach did occur, it would be for a single database instead of the whole thing.
Interesting ways to explain it.
I still reckon Georgie boy made a cock up, but the second 2 explanations make some sense.
I think part of the problem is that everyone lobbies, so they effectively cancel each other out. It also forces everyone to lobby. If you wanted to get rid of lobby groups, you would have to lobby the government for it.
It brings to mind something I was told about tobacco companies. Apparently, they were glad when they were banned from advertising. Adverts hadn't been bringing in that many new smokers (that was mainly peer pressure behind the bike sheds), but because all their competitors were advertising, they had to or loose customers to other brands. Banning advertising barely affected their sales, but hugely reduced their expenses, leading to much greater profits.
The same would be true if lobbying was stopped. Companies would save a lot of money, but the overall effect would probably be the same.
If I understand it (agreed about the lawyerspeak!), he is saying the law required them to investigate but, given the evidence they found, the law required them not to proceed.
Although I hope I am wrong, I am starting to think that the Play store Nexus 4's were no more than a marketing gimmick. They got everyone talking about how amazing the phone is for that price. However, it could be that the it is heavily subsidised by Google for this, and stock limitations are intentional (so Google don't have to subsidise so many). In the mean time, to get one you have to pay at least £100 more in normal stores, put it into the price bracket of several similar (or better) phones.
I really hope I'm wrong, because I want one. I have some moneys put aside earmarked for this phone when it becomes available again. I'm not going to hold my breath, though...
"It's got a single button... that's very difficult... to turn it on"
Sounds like the missus!
I agree.
You produce software A, and expose features which are used by software B.
You make a change to A which stops B from working*.
There is a bug in A, not B. You need to fix it.
*Obviously, this does not include features which have been deprecated and scheduled for removal.
I hope not. It will always be secure shell daemon to me.
"the chap from Google got up and bluntly said it was his duty to find as many legal ways of paying less tax - if the government want it to stop, they have to tidy up the legislation."
This is true. A company has a legal duty to it's shareholders to return as much value to them as possible. Normally*, this includes paying as little tax as is legally possible. They are not only not breaking the law, but doing their legal duty by finding as many loopholes as possible.
The only way to stop this is to close the loopholes.
* I say normally to take into account the Starbucks situation. If the company starts to loose sales because of their tax arrangements, they will do something about it. In that case, paying more tax is returning more value to their shareholders.
"it's very often a bad idea. Any change to working software introduces risk., and this risk is magnified by well-meaning attempts to clean up bad and incomprehensible code. This is also a good reason why quick-and-dirty patches aren't revisited."
^^ This. Over and over and over.
As a very simple example, I needed to add some additional checks to a very old bash script. Now this script was written as a quick hacked together job by someone who used to work for the company. He left many years before I came along, and the "code" has been modified by so many people, with such varying backgrounds and styles, and copied to do similar jobs slightly differently... Well, as you can imagine it's more of a mess than a spaghetti factory after an explosion.
Anyway, I thought it would be a good idea to tidy it up "while I'm in there". This was a bad idea. So many obscure utilities were being used, exploiting "undocumented features" in them, that we very nearly lost a weeks worth of data (luckily I had added the additional checks first, which caught the mistake).
As for "time for refactoring"... I have been pushing for this for 5 years now. According to my bosses it's not necessary. When I tried to make time in between jobs to do it, I got a bollocking for wasting time. These scripts fail every few months and take a few hours to clean up after and get going again, delaying other departments in the process, but spending a day rewriting them is a "waste of time". I've given up, and managed to push the "clean up" responsibilities onto someone else (sucker.
And this is just a tiny set of bash scripts.
I agree that it is annoying to have to pay for a voice line that you don't use.
However, that's not necessarily what you are paying for. AFAIK line rental is for use of the copper pair. You use the copper pair for broadband, hence the line rental.
Now, you may argue that they could provide the copper pair without voice equipment attached. Hiowever, I doubt that would reduce the costs associated with it.
From what I have read (I may be wrong here) FTTP is provided without that copper pair, and voice is provided by a VoIP adapter at the premises. However, you will probably still pay a line rental to rent the fibre, and again the savings from omitting the voice element are probably negligible.
Please give the designs and software to LEGO so they can
mass-produce it :D over-charge for it :(
(Seriously, I never realised how damn expensive Lego is. Had loads of it as a kid, but recently bought some as a pressie for my fiancée's cousin and could not believe how much they are charging for even the simplest of kits!)


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I am using Openlayers 2.11 and need to style a layer with a sld file version 1.1.0. the error it says is Uncaught Can't find a SLD parser for version 1.1.0. i have also tried it with Openlayers 2.12.
No, OpenLayers 2.13.1 does not parse 1.1.0 SLD- I get the same error as the OP when using a 1.1.0 SLD file for a GeoJSON layer. Fortunately I found a (sloppy) workaround via some find-and-replace magic in the SLD file:
Like I said, not pretty, but it allowed me to adapt a 1.1.0 SLD file exported from QGIS and then parse it in OpenLayers.
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The U.S. taxpayers may have gotten lucky. It appears congressional approval for a new infusion of disaster relief funds may not be needed for the May 20 tornado that devastated Moore, because some of the money left over from Hurricane Sandy is being put to good use in Oklahoma.
There's some irony in that, because Oklahoma's two senators — Tom Coburn and Jim Inhofe — voted against relief for Sandy victims. Most of Oklahoma's delegation followed suit, except Congressman Tom Cole, who commented at the time that someday, Oklahoma would be asking for help. Moore is Cole's home district, and he had said he would vote in favor of disaster relief, but that seems consistent with the pattern established by this true "compassionate conservative." Though he's held to his Republican roots in supporting smaller government, when it comes to folks who really need help, he's in their corner.
To his credit, Coburn is also consistent: He voted against aid for Hurricane Sandy victims, and he planned to vote against it for tornado victims in Oklahoma. It's not that he's opposed to disaster relief in principle, but he feels that for every "new" dollar of federal spending, a dollar needs to be cut elsewhere in the budget. That sounds plausible, but in reality, it never happens, as any accountant will tell you. Coburn knows this, too, because his GOP colleagues in Congress are just as guilty as any of their free-spending Democratic counterparts when it comes to protecting their own private pork barrels.
While Coburn and Cole may be consistent when it comes to emergency spending, Inhofe is a study in contradictions. He said the Moore tornado was "totally different" than the Hurricane Sandy situation, because riders had been attached to fund unrelated projects. It's hard to disagree with Inhofe that such clauses have no place in emergency funding, but one has to wonder if he's using that as an excuse to be stingy with fellow Americans who need our help.
"Conservative," for some politicians, has been redefined as "spartan" — stripping government to the bare bones and rendering it impotent. But austerity measures are wearing thin, not just in the U.S., but elsewhere. As most experts in the number-crunch game agree, it's not possible to make drastic cuts over a span of a year or two without risking economic meltdown. We're seeing pullbacks on the extreme belt-tightening in European countries for that reason — and these countries have been around far longer than the U.S. Poking fun at their "socialist" agendas or liberal philosophies seems juvenile when our own system hasn't stood the test of real time. But if budget cuts are the name of the game, and we want to reduce the deficit, let's hitch up a bandwagon most voters would be happy to ride. Let's cut the salaries of the do-nothing politicians in the Beltway, take away their honorariums, and let them - instead of taxpayers — foot the bill for their cherry health care policies. Then we might be able to help folks who have, through no fault of their own, become victims in the wake of a natural disaster.
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Role of Moderates in the early phase of the Indian National Movement :
- The moderates, demanded not independence but representative institutions within the British Government.
- The Congress Committee followed a moderate programme during the first few years. In the beginning, it aimed at uniting die people of India for common political ends.
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- elected representatives in the Provincial and Central Legislative Councils.
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- reduction of military expenditure.
- the spread of education.
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- The moderates did not want separation but association with Britain.
- Gradually the radical ideas were brought in the Congress making the British Government hostile towards it.


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Eli Yanson
- DMA, Conducting, University of South Carolina - Columbia
- ThB, Theology, Baptist Bible Seminary & Institute
- MMus, Church Music - Conducting, Bob Jones University
- BMus, Piano, Bob Jones University
About Eli
Eliezer Yanson Jr. is associate professor of music at Bob Jones University in Greenville, South Carolina, USA, where he conducts the University Singers and the Lyric Choir and teaches undergraduate and graduate music classes. He earned a doctor of musical arts degree in choral conducting from the University of South Carolina, a master of music degree in church music (conducting) and a bachelor of music in piano performance from Bob Jones University. Additionally, he holds a bachelor of theology degree from Baptist Bible Seminary & Institute in his native Philippines. His main conducting mentors have been Larry Wyatt and Warren Cook. Eliezer has also worked and studied with André Thomas, Don Portnoy, Paul Vermel, Dian Tchobanov and Hilary Apfelstadt.
Eliezer has conducted choirs in the Philippines, the U.S. and Bulgaria— including the Bulgarian premiere of Felix Mendelssohn's Elijah with the Vidin Philharmonic Orchestra. Recently, he made his Carnegie Hall debut with the Bob Jones University Singers. An active clinician and adjudicator, Eliezer is a member of the American Choral Directors Association (South Carolina R&S Chair, college and university choirs), International Federation for Choral Music, National Collegiate Choral Organization (South Carolina national board member), National Association for Music Education, Golden Key International Honour Society and Pi Kappa Lambda. Eliezer's scholarly pursuits have led him to present at IFCM, ACDA, NCCO, and NAfME events, including the 10th World Symposium on Choral Music held in Seoul, South Korea. He is also a competitive runner and badminton, tennis and volleyball player. While passionate about conducting and teaching, Eliezer's greatest role is being husband to Martha and father to Isabella and Andre.


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I've been programming Java on windows for ages and just moved to the Mac.
I'm running the following command which works on the PC but doesn't on a Mac what am I doing wrong.
java -classpath ./lib.patches/*:./lib.core/*:./lib.custom/* test.Test
This gives me a ClassNotFound but test.Test is in a one of the jars in the path.
Thanks for all help.
OK I've debugged further and when I run this command
java -cp . test.Test
I've worked it out!!
The script was copied from a PC and had the wrong returns to end the lines.
This had the bizarre outcome of creating a ClassNotFound.
from the command line it works but from a script it throws ClassNotFound - must be a Mac issue ...