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Bull Mtn (UT) Climber's Log
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|Drive up
Date Climbed: Oct 4, 2014
|Didn't see the point of doing what's described as an unpleasant bushwhack when there's a road to the top and lots of other peaks in the area. Also went to George Peak, 9335 and Bally Mountains HP.
|Posted Dec 3, 2014 6:07 pm
Date Climbed: Jul 4, 2014
|I hiked up from Clear Creek Campground. I completely lost the trail above 8500' - lots of bushwhacking. The cirque is pretty cool. The summit is sort of a downer and views weren't great due to hazy air. I started to descend via Bull Canyon and quickly lost the trail after the spring shown on the map. I bushwhacked for a while before giving up and heading back the way I came.
|Posted Jul 12, 2014 5:16 pm
|Seems Non Descript after doing Mt. Adams
Date Climbed: Jul 27, 2013
|Caught this one on the way back from Adams.
|Posted Sep 14, 2013 8:46 pm
|Bull Mountain
Date Climbed: Jul 13, 2013
|7/13/2013 From the Clear Creek Campground. We missed the cutoff trail to the appropriate drainage, therefore we found ourselves bushwhacking through mass undergrowth, deadfall, and stinging nettle to gain the ridge. From the ridge we gained the plateau close to 2 miles before the summit. We found ourselves wondering a bit before we tracked down the summit cairn. Pretty discouraging seeing a road to the top after several hours of miserable hiking. Took a couple summit photos amongst the cattle before returning to our camp.
|Posted Jul 13, 2013 6:08 pm
|Clear Creek!!!
Date Climbed: Jun 14, 2013
|The route from Clear Creek is amazing! So diverse. The middle portion was incredibly green with ferns and mosses and all sorts of short lush ground cover. Very out of character witht he rest of the area around here that I have seen. The cirque up top was another treat. The viw from the actual highpoint is good, but if you hike a few minutes south you get the expanse of the Salt Flats and the Great Salt Lake. You can see Ibapah in the distance, but what looks so bizarre from this point of view is the reclusive Desert Peak in the Newfoundland range. Extremely isolated. I thought I could make out Spiral Jetty in my monocular. Just wanted to say that Clear creak is the way to go. This was one of my favorite of the Utah county summits as a result and I only have 3 left so that says something. If you are driving to the top that is OK, but maybe you should question yourself as to just why you are doing th e county highpoints in the first place.
This was a nice peak en route tyo a family reunion in Albion ID.
|Posted Jun 19, 2013 6:12 pm
|Really smoky
Date Climbed: Aug 15, 2012
|Did this on the scenic route to the Salt Lake airport. Smoke from Nevada made it seem like it was perpetual twilight, but there were lots of wildlife. I'd love to go back when I could actually see more.
|Posted Sep 18, 2012 12:04 am
|UT cohp #22
Date Climbed: Jul 30, 2012
|4th cohp of the day (3 peaks - but one was a "twofer"). Beautiful summer day.
|Posted Aug 1, 2012 12:24 am
|Bittersweet attempt
Date Climbed: Jul 17, 2004
|Attempted to summit Bull Mountain, had some difficulty losing the trail through the groves below the lake and meadow area. Hiking partner wasn't too excited about route finding (not a big deal for myself but was freaking her out), so I conceded to come back another time to complete the trip.
The western columbines were in blossom along the creak, and I would have to say that it was the most unexpected and perhaps most impressive display of wildflowers that I have ever seen. Hallowed ground for me.
|Posted Aug 1, 2011 1:00 pm
Date Climbed: Oct 17, 2009
|Drove until the snow blocked the road, which left about 2.5 miles each way. Nice hike, but I did get a fair amount of strange looks from hunters that were trying to understand what I was doing, walking my dog up there.
|Posted Jul 5, 2011 1:19 pm
|Bushwack Festival
Date Climbed: Jul 31, 2010
|Climbed from Clear Creek CG. After the stream crossing, it was an unpleasant bushwack to the west shoulder. Encountered a thunderstorm on the way down. The cirque was beautiful
|Posted Aug 2, 2010 2:21 pm
|Great hike!
Date Climbed: Jul 5, 2002
|Went up from the campground through Lake Fork Drainage. Not a soul on the mountain but me. Had to do a little bushwacking because the trail was sketchy.
|Posted Jul 7, 2010 7:38 pm
|Short but hard
Date Climbed: Aug 22, 2009
|I made it to under a hundred feet from the top and i had to leave everything there and push really hard to make it the rest of the way.
|Posted Sep 8, 2009 11:08 am
|Only saw one bull.
Date Climbed: Aug 22, 2009
|Pretty uneventful trip, but one more county highpoint done, four more to go.
|Posted Aug 23, 2009 12:24 am
|Drive up
Date Climbed: Sep 19, 2007
|Drove up with the kids while on way to City of Rocks Idaho, pics and map up at http://www.willhiteweb.com/utah_climbing/raft_river_range/bull_mountain_145.htm
|Posted Jul 9, 2009 4:17 am
|With Paula Huff.
|Posted Dec 7, 2008 11:38 pm
|A beautiful drive
Date Climbed: Jun 29, 2008
|I spent the night in Snowville after biking the MS100 in Logan the day before. This was a nice side trip and completes another of the vital CoHP's (more details in the Trip Report).
|Posted Jul 4, 2008 7:49 pm
|Clear Creek Campground
Date Climbed: Jun 28, 2003
|This was a nice summer hike in a rarely visited area. We came in from the Clear Creek Campground and up the lake fork drainage to the summit. This was a nice hike that we both enjoyed!
|Posted Mar 24, 2007 9:50 pm
|I was ballast
|Drove up 4wd roads with Barney Metz and Adam Helman.
|Posted Sep 12, 2006 10:54 pm
|Dennis Poulin
|Easy Hike/Hard Drive
Date Climbed: Aug 17, 2006
|I drove to the top of Bull Mtn and got there just as it was getting dark. Not much of a climb, but it counts as another CoHP just like Kings Peak.
|Posted Aug 28, 2006 7:48 pm
|Perseverance Pays from Clear Creek CG
Date Climbed: Aug 1, 2009
|My first attempt at this obscure CoHP resulted in (1) embarrassment and (2) failure. On June 24, 2006, I took a young friend who wanted an adventure, and I gave him one by getting lost and returning home without a summit. This attempt was different (saved the embarrassment by going solo!), and I attained the plateau-like summit in spite of the lack of even faint trails over much of the climb. GPS waypoints are wonderful little blessings. If you don't care for bushwhacking through tough, scrubby sage brush, put Bull Mtn at the bottom of your to-do list. :) #2 7-27-13 The trail above the stream crossing (sign Lake Fork Tr. 6004) seemed better this time around. Still quite easy, though, to lose one's way. Some rain und tolle Gesellschaft. Viel Vieh auch.
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Scripture: Genesis 45:4 Then Joseph said to his brothers, "Come close to me." When they had done so, he said, "I am your brother Joseph, the one you sold into Egypt!
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Prep track meet starts with the girls 4x800 relay. That means for Flambeau High School they usually start off in first place. In this week's Gordy's Athlete of the Week Sportscene13's Jenn Chapman profiles four girls with one goal, a spot on the state podium.
The Flambeau girls 4x800 meter relay is currently ranked third in the state for Division 3, competing in the order each girl feels they race best.
Tiana Avery/Sophomore/Lead Leg of 4x800 Relay
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"Anchor, sometimes leaves you with a lot of pressure on your back depends on where you're sitting at in the race but I enjoy it because I want the last leg to be up to me."
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Adventure lurks right around the bend in "Big River."
Buoyed by Roger Miller's infectious bluegrass and country score, the musical captures Mark Twain's whimsy and charm if not his sharp wit. Gently directed by Robert Kelley, this big-hearted revival -- which runs through Dec. 30 at TheatreWorks -- sails along with honeyed vocals and lively performances, even if it doesn't quite connect with the big ideas and deep emotions that make "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" such a masterpiece.
The homespun musical gets off to a slow start with the antics of Tom Sawyer (Scott Reardon) and Huck Finn (Alex Goley) seeming a tad too adorable and the pace rather meandering. Casting grown men as boys can easily go awry, and it takes Goley and Reardon some time to find the right tone for these iconic characters.
William Hauptman's book truncates the novel's winding plot so haphazardly that ancillary characters sometimes eclipse our heroes in this picaresque romp. The revival tries so hard to be folksy and quaint that it loses the acid that made Twain famous.
Indeed, there's a little too much sugar in this retelling of the classic, when what the narrative craves is a little of the grit that Twain brought to bear. It takes a few beats to find that deeper subtext, but the destination is worth the wait and the music along the way is irresistibly toe-tapping.
Huck is an abused child, running from his violent, drunken father Pap (Gary S. Martinez). He's a vagabond and a scamp who distrusts authority, joins forces with runaway slave Jim (James Monroe Iglehart) and sets off down the mighty Mississippi in search of a new life in the antebellum South. Along the way, they encounter a rogue's gallery of flimflam men, thugs and drifters.
The core of the epic is Huck's moral quandary. Should he help his friend find freedom or should he obey the law? If he makes the wrong call, he may well end up hanging from a cottonwood tree. Life on the Mississippi was anything but easygoing for those who doubted the ethics of slavery in the 1840s.
The stakes should be high here, but there's not enough tension in Huck's dealings with his bellicose father or in his encounters with slave hunters and thieves. The scenes with the con men the Duke (Jackson Davis) and the King (Martin Rojas Dietrich) drag, and Huck's encounters with romance fail to spark. The confrontations between Pap and Huck lack menace.
The musical doesn't really pick up speed until the scenes when Huck confronts the brutal realities of a society fueled by suffering. The show's juxtaposition of beautiful music and ugly racism is quite stirring.
Goley nails Huck's delight at mischief, but he fares less well capturing the boy's conflict over whether to follow the law of the land or the law of his heart.
Iglehart, a formidable talent who returns to Theatreworks after three years in "Memphis" on Broadway, makes the anthem "Free at Last" unforgettable. The actor gives Jim a quiet dignity that helps flesh out the underwritten character.
The camaraderie between Iglehart and Goley also gilds the scenes on the raft with a poignancy the rest of the story lacks.
Miller, a honky-tonk influenced songsmith best known for "King of the Road," gives this boisterous journey through Americana its soul.
In the haunting "The Crossing," a group of slaves sing after they have been captured and are returning to their misery. "River in the Rain" captures the unshakable bond between Huck and Jim.
But by far the most moving song in this show is the irresistible "Muddy Water," an epic that evokes Twain's love affair with the river both as a body of water and as a metaphor for the spirit of America.
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'Big River'
Music and lyrics by Roger Miller, book by William Hauptman, based on the novel by Mark Twain
Through: Dec. 30
Where: TheatreWorks,
Lucie Stern Theatre, 1305
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40 minutes (one intermission)
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November 3, 2005
New information about a leaking tank in East Augusta. The smell is worse than the actual problem. The smelly water leaking from a tank off of Preps Phillips Drive near Old Town is not hazardous. Firefighters noticed the leak earlier this week when neighbors began calling them about a foul smell. News 12 is on your side to explain what was in the tank and where it is going now.
Over 3,000 gallons of oil and wastewater are being pumped into Augusta's sewage system. Al Frazier is district manager for the Environmental Protection Division.
"The oil portion is being pumped into a tank treatment. The wastewater portion of the tank is being pumped to the City of Augusta Wastewater Treatment System," Frazier said.
It's hard to believe anything is in these 60-year-old tanks. But oil and wastewater dates back at least eight years after years of abandonment by owners. Earlier this week one tank gave way in the form of a tiny hole. It didn't take long for the smell to escape.
Melissa Jones can see the tanks from her beauty salon.
"When I pass by Sand Bar Ferry Road I have to hold my breath," Jones said.
Mike Harrison lives less than two miles away from the tanks.
"My bed spreads and blankets, it's smelling like the same odor. I done washed my blankets three times," Harrison said.
"How am I breathing and what am I breathing in, that's what I need to know," Jones said. "I'm wondering if this can cause cancer or anything."
Air samples and water analysis indicate no harm.
"These two tanks are materials that were cleaned up at previous spill sites accumulated over the years," Frazier said.
Water tests on the nearly full second tank are being conducted.
"We're looking like the second tank is mostly wastewater and we're hoping to have that tank pumped by the end of the weekend," Frazier said.
Tanks that are prone to failure and the Environmental Protection Agency is working to make sure that the public stays safe.
The Environmental Protection Agency out of Atlanta has been here since they were notified about the leak. They will foot the bill and most likely fine the former owners up to three times the cost of cleanup.


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good for you wayne. im sure those kids really appreciate what youre doing.
Sep 8, 2013, 06:43 PM #194
The kids just want the free boards, clown, they didn't know about the caveats that include pedophiles & freaky priests.
Sep 8, 2013, 06:47 PM #195
this is exactly right clown
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I've never seen this thread before..
So what's the deal........this dude's a chester the molester, huh? Who gives out free surfboards to kids? Kids are horrible. Man, please tell me this dude doesn't have a van............
Man, give them skateboards not surfboards..........don't need more dudes sitting forty yards outside the line-up waiting ...........well, I don't know what they are waiting for. There's always them dudes on longboards who are always paddling wayyyy tooooo far outside.
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Sep 9, 2013, 04:08 AM #198
YOU get with it and while you're at it check the history of your proselytizing abusing predatory chain of command.
A white van...apropos of nothing, that's where the brain washing & the abuse initially takes place, ain't that right slick?
Anyone who drives to the beach for the specific purpose of offering gifts to the kiddies to entice them into the white van is running a freak show. I wouldn't let children within 100 feet of your white van. CPS should be shadowing you people.
BTW, why'd you capitalize 'White Van'...? Lemme guess: one of your pedophile priests washed it in freak water & now you tell the kids who venture inside that van that they're in a holy place where hayzeus says drop thine pants.
Evil. Just evil incarnate.
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I guess it is nice what you are doing, but I feel like there is more to it than meets the eye. I would rather give a kid a board myself, and preach to him about catching waves, than have a kid believe some sort of god has anything to do with him getting the board and giving him things. As I am certain there will be preaching going along with the giving of the boards.
edit: After reading your other posts in the thread, I am 100% convinced you are making these kids believe a god has anything to do with surfing. I really hate you people.
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Sep 9, 2013, 01:16 PM #200
The thing is, he (Wayne) loves the hate you all give him. It's like a badge of honor for the over zealous Christian. They say, "Well Jeebus was persecuted for his beliefs", which is true, but they identify with that and use it to feel like they are just like Jeebus in this situation and that by not letting the doubters win, they are doing just as Jeebus did, it's empowering, it's self righteous.
I find nothing wrong with hooking kids up with surf boards, if that's all it is, but doing so in the manner of baiting them into hearing the word of God with a surf board is selfish, not generous or selfless. On the surface, sure, it may seem like you're doing a good thing, and to a degree you are, but the attachment that comes along with it is only serving your personal agenda. You give to others because it makes YOU feel good. Does it light up a kids day to get a surfboard? Sure it does, but you wouldn't be doing it if it didn't make YOU feel good. So although I don't condemn you for giving away the surf boards, I don't condone the bait and switch method in which you employ. As a sinner myself, I find it to be misleading.


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OAKLAND -- Anthony Sheppard stood in disbelief Thursday outside the cellular phone store where its well-known and highly respected owner was gunned down the night before during a robbery.
"I heard about it last night and I didn't want to believe it was him," said Sheppard, 30, as he stood near a small crowd outside the store that had been a fixture in East Oakland since 1996. "I was hoping it wasn't him and I got here and it was. He was a good man. Why they do him like that?"
Wilbur Bartley, 50, was found slain about 7:22 p.m. Wednesday inside Marcus Cellular, 9230 International Blvd., a Metro PCS outlet and Direct TV dealership.
Police said Bartley had named the business after his son and many of his customers and residents who knew him as "Mr. Marcus" were saddened and stunned by his death.
Bartley, who lived a few blocks away, apparently was in the process of closing for the evening when he was confronted by someone who robbed and shot him, police said.
Police would not disclose what was taken.
The killer fled before police arrived.
Sheppard, who said he bought his first pager at the store in the late '90s, expressed sorrow Thursday.
"He was a generous man. I was friends with his son," Sheppard said, his voice cracking. "This shouldn't have happened."
Police said Bartley was a hardworking businessman who was always willing to lend a hand to someone in need and who would give tickets to Oakland Raiders games to children.
Officer Robert Trevino, the lead investigator, said Bartley's death "is a tragic situation, not only for his family but for the community.
"We are doing everything we can to solve this case and we are confident that with the help of the community we can," he said.
Police Chief Howard Jordan dropped by Thursday afternoon to meet with the family, as officers urged residents to share any information that may help solve the crime.
"(There's) a lot of community outrage because this gentleman was so well-respected," Jordan's chief of staff, Sgt. Chris Bolton, wrote in an email. "The chief had met him a few times during walks in that neighborhood this past year."
Oakland police spokeswoman Johnna Watson said motorists are stopping in the street near the store, holding up traffic, to share their disbelief and plead with investigators on the scene to find the shooter.
"This is an outcry from the community I have not seen before," Watson said.
Many who visited Bartley's business to pay their respects appeared either angry or in shock.
About 11:30 a.m., an unidentified man walked past the business, shook his head, then kicked the side of the building and cursed.
"This has got to stop," the man said, then walked away from the closed business where flowers and candles lined the ground.
Just before noon, Patricia Boens, of Oakland, placed a white teddy bear on the ground beside a dozen red roses.
"He didn't deserve this," Boens said. "He was a nice man."
Shortly after, two women hung up a large white piece of paper to create a memorial wall for Bartley.
"RIP Marcus. The community won't be the same without you," one person wrote.
Bartley had been targeted in a robbery before, in January 2007, by someone who apparently followed him home from the store.
But the robbery was foiled outside the residence by Bartley's German shepherd, Buffy, who had been waiting for him and attacked the robber. The robber shot the dog in the leg before fleeing. The 7-year-old dog was treated, but died a month later.
Bartley's killing was the city's 107th homicide of the year.
Police and Crime Stoppers of Oakland are offering up to $15,000 in reward money for information leading to the arrest of the killer. Anyone with information may call police at 510-238-3821 or a tip line at 510-773-2805.
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Gmen better step it up and pull away.
No, I guess not. They scored a TD and 2-point conversion with him in.
Redskins going to win that game along with a Dallas win. But RG3 is crying on the sidelines, he could be done for the season.
The skins still managed to hang in there and as usual dallas pulled a win out of their *** at the last minute
Doesn't matter, they'll just get another guy to hand the ball off.


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A fix to the unzip utility is available in recent patch utility patch revisions. This fix is required in order to be able to successfully unzip very large files such as the Solaris 10 Recommended and Sun Alert Patch Clusters.
Please download the latest revision of the patch utilities patch first and install it, before attempting to unzip the Solaris 10 Recommended or Sun Alert Patch Clusters.
The fix was incorporated in the putback to CRs 6344676 and 6464056.
The following are the earliest revisions of the patch utilities containing the fix:
- Solaris 10 SPARC: 119254-46 or above
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Without the fix to unzip provided by the above patches, the following error will be seen when attempting to unzip the Solaris 10 Patch Clusters:
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note: didn't find end-of-central-dir signature at end of central dir.
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1A set of rooms designated for one person's or family's use or for a particular purpose: a suite of reception rooms
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- We shared a 'state room,' which was actually a suite with a common room, a bathroom, and two smaller bedrooms for us at either side.
- We slept in a family suite, with two single beds in the bedroom for Gabrielle and Matthew and a pull-down double bed in the lounge for my wife and me.
apartment, flat, set of rooms, suite of rooms;
living quarters, rooms, chambers
1.1A set of coordinating furniture: there is plenty of space for a dining table and a three-piece suite
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- The Leather Sofa Company is now the premier arena in the South East for leather sofas, suites, armchairs, recliners and the new vogue - suede and leather cube poufs.
- The family's purchases from Courts in Staples Corner, London, included a dining table and four chairs, a coffee table, a lamp table, a three-piece suite and a bed.
- A star attraction was a bedroom suite designed by Royal furniture maker David Linley which sold for £19,200.
2 Music A set of instrumental compositions, originally in dance style, to be played in succession.
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- His division of works into dance suites and more serious music is essentially the same as Corelli's distinction between sonate da camera and sonate da chiesa.
- Partitas are simply suites of dances, although we shall quickly see that Bach's dances aren't meant for court or rustic dancers.
- Brooks Bruzzese perfectly delineated the sentimentality of Holst's Air and brought high spirited pulse to the suite's concluding Dance.
2.1A set of selected pieces from an opera or musical, arranged to be played as one instrumental work.
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- Spring Songs, the little suite of five pieces for treble recorder that opens this disc, lives up to its title.
- The late musicologist Christopher Palmer tried to promote this score by arranging a suite from it.
- Prokofiev fashioned a suite of six pieces resembling a classical divertimento, but one laced with dissonances, evoking Stravinsky's Octet.
3A group of people in attendance on a monarch or other person of high rank: the Royal Saloon was built for the use of the Queen and her suite
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- At twelve precisely of that day, Queen Victoria and her suite entered London, coming from Scotland where she had been residing for some time.
- His flight was arranged for during one of the king's long marches when the party had stopped for the night at a farm-house; and the king and his suite occupied a barn, and the prince and his attendants slept in another at some little distance.
- On Saturday, 22nd, His Royal Highness, after visiting several of the public buildings of the city, accompanied by his suite, took his departure from Chicago by the same car that had brought him.
retinue, entourage, train, escort, cortège, royal household, court, company, following, staff;
attendants, retainers, followers, companions, servants
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- All the programs in the suite have a coherent design, even when you start getting into their more complex settings, and it's in this usability that McAfee is head and shoulders above any of its rivals.
- QMTP is a supplemental suite of programs designed for moving mail over slow connections.
- Over the years, IBM Lotus has developed a broad suite of collaborative applications designed to run as part of its core groupware platform.
5 Geology A group of minerals, rocks, or fossils occurring together and characteristic of a location or period: potassic rock suites are a characteristic feature of the area
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- The subalkaline character of the magmatic activity, combined with the prevalence of acidic effusive rocks, is characteristic of an orogenic suite developed on continental crust.
- The island contains a suite of rocks deposited in a forearc setting to the west of a magmatic arc, formed as the Pacific plate was subducted beneath Antarctica.
- We also describe, as a case study, a suite of these rocks from the Antarctic Peninsula.
Late 17th century: from French, from Anglo-Norman French siwte (see suit).
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'Game of Thrones' Recap: 'Breaker of Chains'
The "Game of Thrones" audience was given a full week to enjoy King Joffrey's messy death, but in "Breaker of Chains," we were reminded that killing a king is disruptive.
The Lannisters' Red Wedding afterglow didn't last long and now Tywin has to train Joffrey's brother, Tommen, to be a monarch. Then there's the tricky issue of this own son, Tyrion, locked in a dungeon awaiting trial. Tywin will need to stack the judiciary –and so he snags Prince Oberyn with promises of revenge for Elia.
Tywin lives for this stuff, and actor Charles Dance crackles while wielding fresh power over both his children and the kingdom. Cersei can be horrendous, but I felt for her as Tywin snatched Tommen away. By doing so, Tywin nullified Cersei and she knows it. Joffrey was Cersei's favorite, her obsession. Her influence over King Joffrey won't extend to King Tommen. And so Cersei is left alone to mourn her dead son, because one else will. Not even Jaime.
Even after Cersei reminds him that Joffrey was their son. Unfortunately, Jamie's obsession with Cersei did not extend to Joffrey, who was just a byproduct of pleasure. With that wedge between him and his sister now lifeless on a slab, Jaime makes a move. Cersei resists, but Jaime won't stand for it and rapes her next to their son's corpse.
Jaime's sexual assault of Cersei is just one cruelty in an episode full of them: Ser Dontos is killed with a bolt to the face moments after delivering Sansa to Littlefinger. Arya and the Hound enjoy the hospitality of a farmer and daughter, but then the Hound robs them of their silver as Arya helplessly looks on. In both cases, callous self-interest was the only motivation. Littlefinger kills the drunken knight to ensure his silence. And the Hound robs the farmer because the farmer is weak. Weak people don't survive, so what does he need the silver for anyway.
Or take the peasant boy, who watches Thenns and wildlings murder his parents. They are people the Hound won't mourn: The vulnerable ones. They pop up in the show occasionally, when the writers need to remind us of the hefty collateral damage in Westeros.
Ygritte shot an arrow and killed the boy's father. She is as ruthless and capable as the Hound. It is a cue to recalibrate our perspective from time to time, and remember that just outside the walls of each unfolding castle are commoners living and dying at the whims of kings and bandits.
Which is why it's so refreshing when Danaerys arrives at the gates of Meereen. Her quest to reclaim Westeros has faded. She's now on a moral crusade to make life hell for a continent of slavers. Of course she acts with self-interest, but compared to the rabble currently running Westeros into a ditch, she's practically selfless.
I've written this before, but I can't help but feel like Danaerys has a much greater knack for ruling than anyone in Westeros. If she ever arrives with her dragons, I imagine the smallfolk will be better off. And if she gives them a speech like the one she delivers to the slaves of Meereen, the houses of Westeros might lose their subjects entirely. The episode ends with a slick fight scene from Daario Naharis (I like this new guy better than the old one), and a volley of barrels stuffed with hundreds of broken collars, which rain down on the slaves and slaveholders alike.
Danaery's is proving that watching out for the smallfolk is an effective military and political strategy. Experience may have taught her that the Hound is right. But rather than working within the system, Danaerys wants to break it.
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The Texas A&M – Corpus Christi women's basketball team gets its 2013-14 season underway at 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 3 at the Dugan Wellness Center in an exhibition matchup against Texas A&M – International.
This will mark the first matchup between the Islanders and Dustdevils. Last season A&M – International finished the season with a 10-16 overall record and 5-77conference record, placing them fifth in the Heartland Conference. They are picked to finish in the same spot again this season.
With the departure of eight players from last year's squad, the Islanders only have four returners for the 2013-14 season made up of three seniors and one sophomore. The leading scorer out of the bunch was Ashley Darley, who was second on the team in points scored with 7.9 a game. Darley also ranked second on the team in rebounds per game and steals per game last year. Taryn Gregory also returns for her final season after starting in 20 games last year. She comes into the year ranking fourth in career free throw percentage with a .764 overall percentage her first three years. Brandi Huff rounds out the trio of seniors after ranking third on the team in rebounds. The lone sophomore on A&M – Corpus Christi's roster is Ashanti Plummer. The Manhattan, N.Y., native enters play this year after making an impact on the team her freshman year, ranking second on the team in games started with 22 and first in the team in blocks and 11th in the Southland in the same category.
The Islanders enter this season with the top-ranked recruiting class in the Southland after signing 10 newcomers. However, five of them join the Island University with collegiate experience – three of which at the Division I level. Two of the transfers have played for coach Royce Chadwick, as Shay Weaver and Jasmine Shaw come to the Island University after playing for him at Marshall. Shaw will look to make an immediate impact, while Weaver will sit out this season because of NCAA transfer rules. Alissa Campanero will look to get the ball in the hands of shooters as she dished out 4.9 assists per game last season with Odessa College and has experience in Division I after playing her freshman season at Hawaii. Shola Adebayo played at Eastern Oklahoma State Community College and averaged 16 points and seven rebounds per game, while securing 12 double-doubles, picking up First Team All-Conference, First Team All-Region and Third Team NJCAA All-American honors. Lexy Harris joins the Islanders after averaging a double-double with Angelina Community College, averaging 12.8 points per game and 10.9 rebounds to go along with 2.1 blocks per game.
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The Islanders will have to find a way to make up for losing its top scorer with Jessica Jammer departing after tallying 8.4 points a game last year. It also loses its assists leader, as Verne'Qua Taylor leaves after climbing to fifth in the Islanders record book, while ranking ninth in the Southland with 3.31 assists per game. Taylor also ranked first on the team and 11th in the conference in steals.
After finishing last season 3-15, the Islanders have been picked by the Southland coaches to finish ninth in the conference, while the SID Poll has A&M – Corpus Christi occupying the 10th spot.
A&M – Corpus Christi will open its regular season next weekend, as the Islanders will host the Emerald Beach Islanders Classic on Nov. 8-9 with all games being played in the Dugan Wellness Center. The Islanders first game of the tournament will be at 4:30 p.m. on Nov. 8 against Western Illinois. They will then play either UAB or Fairfield on Nov. 9 at 7:30 p.m. depending on who wins and loses in the matchups on Friday. For tickets for these games and throughout the season call 825-BALL (2255) or visit GoIslanders.com.
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The Ohio House is currently engaged in making some very difficult decisions as we face a more than $8 billion budget deficit. The labor climate has gotten testy, and now, more than ever, we need to reexamine every aspect of Ohio's economy and ensure that every government dollar is spent responsibly. The question is: How can we achieve that?
It's important to keep the big picture in mind. We want to give our children and grandchildren every opportunity to succeed right here in Ohio; we don't want them to have to abandon this great state simply because we've failed to provide the proper job climate or tax code.
If we start making changes today to the way Ohio spends our tax dollars, we can be on our way to restoring the greatness of the Buckeye State. We realize these changes will take time, but we can't wait any longer. The recent passage of the governor's JobsOhio bill (House Bill 1) was a good first step on the road to recovery.
I am a co-sponsor of House Bill 2, which recently passed the House. It would require the Auditor of State to conduct performance audits of certain state agencies each biennium. Among the first agencies that will be audited are the Ohio Department of Jobs and Family Services and the Ohio Department of Transportation. The bill also requires state agencies to implement the recommendations of their performance audit, which will make our government more productive and responsive. State Auditor Dave Yost highly recommended the passage of House Bill 2 because of the immediate and long-term savings Ohio can realize merely by eliminating waste and inefficiency.
In 2005, the state of Washington implemented legislation that has collectively identified more than $4 billion in waste, and I believe that auditing Ohio's government could give us comparable results. We must insist that our government act as efficiently and productively as possible. Any savings identified and implemented will lower the demand for additional tax dollars.
Another bill that is vital during this economy is House Bill 30, which eliminates several of the unfunded or underfunded educational mandates that were included in last year's House Bill 1. Especially in these trying financial times, school districts need more flexibility to meet the needs of students, and I believe that a "Columbus knows best" educational policy would prevent local districts from deciding for themselves how to provide the best possible education for our children. We've known for a long time that a "one-size-fits-all" approach to education won't work, particularly for our part of the state. I met last week with many of the superintendents in the district and assured them that I welcome their advice as I get up to speed on the issues that matter most, including meeting unfunded mandates and scarce revenue at the state level.
House Bill 30 would eliminate the mandate that school districts offer all-day, every-day kindergarten, but would not prohibit all-day kindergarten for those districts that choose to have it. The bill will also repeal the requirement that schools lower the student-to-teacher ratio, a requirement that in the past has caused many districts to scramble to find the means to hire more teachers or find more learning spaces.
Ohio school districts need flexibility and some level of certainty about the expectations and requirements that face them in the upcoming biennium. Adopting House Bill 30 will help Ohio's school districts to better weather the current financial storm.
There are many other important legislative initiatives that I will discuss in my next column. Rest assured that better days are coming for our district and our state.
To the residents of Guernsey, Monroe, Noble, Washington and Muskingum counties, I assure you that I am working to bring about a more sustainable budget and economically-friendly environment. Job creation and the elimination of waste and costly mandates are three steps in the right direction.
Rep. Thompson may be reached by calling (614) 644-8728, emailing firstname.lastname@example.com, or writing to State Rep. Andy Thompson, 77 South High Street, Columbus, Ohio.


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i did all the stuff like enabling rc6 etc, just google ubuntu power saving tweaks
i did all the stuff like enabling rc6 etc, just google ubuntu power saving tweaks
My Vostro V131 is unable to recognize an usb 3.0 hard drive connected at boot (I only using the command line interfase and fdisk -l only shows the internal drive). Just when it's disconnecting and reconnecting is recognized (and fdisk -l shows the drive), and only at a speed of USB 2.0. This happens with all distributions and kernels I've tried. In any case, using a USB 2.0 cable, the unit is recognized at boot and it works fine, but only as USB 2.0. How could this laptop be certified?
FYI, someone started to work on a driver for the freefall sensor:
EDIT: The updated version works perfectly. It includes the needed kernel module and userspace application.
Last edited by Whoopie; September 22nd, 2012 at 02:22 PM.
Hi to all,
after some time spent with ubuntu I can say that with my everyday usage of the machine (working Eclipse IDE + Web surfing + reading some pdf) i can get around 4, 4,5 hours of battery life.
I'm pretty satisfied, although there are some issue like LCD light/ wifi and bluetooth status that aren't stored after a reboot.
Now i have in mind to buy an ssd (samsung 830, 128gb), but I can't work with hybernation (I think that with an ssd device hybernation is an important thing). Do you have problem with hybernation too?
Anyone tried 12.10 fresh install?
I've installed ubuntu 12.10 (64bit) on my vostro v131 (core i5 sandy bridge, 8gb ram, 128 gb ssd) and i can assure you that the system works quite good!
Currently I discover only that the fan is continuously working....the Jupiter applet don't works properly (I removed it beacuse it notify continuously change of of status of screen/cpu that didn't happen and the boot time increase from 10s to ~30s).
To replace Jupiter I tried indicator-cpufreq, but I don't see changes in the power consumption. The fan is everytime working at the maximum speed, and also the processor; with 12.04 this didn't happen. With 12.04 I can get 5 hours of work with the battery, with 12.10 no more than 3,5.
I upgraded a clean install xubuntu (64 bit) 12.04 system to 12.10. HDMI works very well, better than I remember on 12.04 although it's not something I used other than to test.
Suspend and hibernating seem noticeably slower with 12.10
Is there any way to increase the sensitivity of the brightness settings on the V131?
I'd like to have more than just FIVE levels of brightness. I have SEVENTEEN levels of volume.
This seems sort of silly. I'd love to have 17 levels with which to adjust brightness also, because 5 doesn't give me the best settings for my environment typically.
The kernel upgrade to 3.5.0-18 improved the suspend and hibernate times. The system something returns from sleep with an unlocked screen.
The fan runs more often than not even with no load on the CPU.
Upgraded form presice to quantal and HDMI stoped working, previously with 12.04 worked perfectly. But now WIFI started working on channel 12 and 13. There must be a trick to fix this!


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BARTOW | On Friday, CSX Transportation will close Old Bartow Lake Wales Road at the railroad crossing just west of County Road 653 to replace components along the railroad line and repave the crossing.
The road will be closed between Pollard Road and County Road 653, also known as Rattlesnake Road, for about a week. Traffic will be detoured to State Road 60. However, residents are being asked to avoid the area if possible.
The crossing is one of several throughout Polk County being upgraded as part of a CSX railroad repair project.
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It's not always true that the neatest, most advanced technology ends up winning most of the market share. There are other reasons which get in the way. Sometimes, the less advanced solutions end up winning -- and evolve in order to become more solid and established. An example of this is Javascript/AJAX, which has conquered most of the web-based client programming -- despite the fact that there were competing technologies which could (and maybe should) have easily won, purely based on technical merits. How did that happen?
What is a web application?
By "web applications", I mean interactive programs which run on any platform, and use, process or (often) display data available on a server. One important characteristic of such applications is that they run within the browser. Doing so has several important implications -- most of them security related. Web applications can only connect to the server they came from. If that weren't the case, I could create a web page with the "small" side effect of getting unaware visiting users to launch Denial Of Service attacks against anybody. Also, an application that runs within the browser can't access directly the local hardware and file system in order to prevent viruses and spyware.
Loser #1: Java
Java was created by Sun Microsystems, and -- most importantly -- was included in Netscape Navigator in 1995. That's 13 years ago! Java uses a virtual machine; this means that Java programs will run anywhere as long as a Java virtual machine is available. Java allows developers to create "Java applets" and "Java applications". The main difference is security (see the textbox): Java applets are expected to be found embedded in web pages, rather than installed, and therefore don't have full access to the underlying hardware. In 2008, I don't remember having seen a web page which included a Java applet for at least 5 years. Java has its niche markets: Java Server Pages (to create web applications ala PHP) and mobile devices (to create small applications). Android will probably push Java further (although it only uses Java as a language, rather than using the Java Virtual Machine). However, again, Java is nowhere to be seen in web pages.
Why? Because for the first 12 years of its life, Java's been proprietary. (Things are changing now. "Too little, too late".) Courageous people tried to write free, competing virtual machines, and managed. However, the problem was in the important Java libraries which Sun kept under a closed license for years and years and years. I am convinced that this problem also had technical repercussions on Java as a platform: Java applet were famous for crashing people's browsers in 1995 -- and they are still famous today for being immensely heavy and memory-hungry. I can only wonder how much better Java would be if the whole community were able to improve it and its libraries. Many also argue that the Java Virtual Machine -- and Java as a language -- is hardly fixable: the post I hate Java summarises some of the problems. (But, it is biased!) So, Java had all of the ingredients to become king in the web application domain: it was first, it was available in Windows and GNU/Linux, and it was ready. And yet, it was a closed platform and it had arguably big technical problems.
Loser #2: Flash
Just like Java, Flash was available very early, in 1997. Web authors could develop nice animations and more. It was better than Java (it didn't kill your browser) and it was easier to program. Fast-forward 11 years: Flash's main use is in video playing, and very little more. Adobe (which owns Flash) realised the potential of internet applications, and (about three years ago) released Flex. Flex, in oversimplifying terms, can be seen as a way for developers to create Flash files, using advanced libraries and advanced tools. Flex is absolutely fantastic.
The problem is that while the Flash player is "free" (that is, it doesn't cost anything although its source code is not available), Flex is outrageously expensive. And proprietary. [UPDATE: no, it's not expensive. It's been open sourced, and you don't need a Flex server to deploy Flex applications -- thanks Ben Forta!] And it creates applications running in a proprietary player (Flash). I have seen Flex. I have met some of the programmers who worked on it. They knew what they were doing. They were smart. They knew the internet -- I considered them internet magicians. However, nobody likes to fork out large sums of money in order to buy (or deploy) the development tools [UPDATE: this is no longer an issue], and nobody likes the idea of depending completely on the financial health and ethical principles of a single company. I think Flash and Flex are way superior to anything I have ever seen. If the Flash player were released under the GPL, its specifications fully documented [Note: this is still absolutely crucial], and Flex was released under a free license (maybe BSD-like?), then there could be a big chance of a huge market shift towards Adobe's technologies. Trouble is, it's not going to happen -- and it might even be too late.
Loser #3: Silverlight
.NET is Microsoft's answer to Java: it compiles things into bytecode, it's multi-platform, etc. Technically, many argue that it's "Java as it should have been". .NET isn't free: while the virtual machine and the language itself are ECMA standards, Microsoft's GUI libraries and other key components aren't. This means (surprise surprise) that you can't write a .NET program for Microsoft Windows, and run it under GNU/Linux, even though there is a .NET virtual machine for GNU/Linux (called "Mono"). If .NET is Microsoft's answer to Java, Silverlight is Microsoft's answer to Flash. Silverlight allows you to run .NET applications within your browser. The site silverlight.net is Silverlight's official web page. Although it's defined "Multi platform" by Microsoft itself, GNU/Linux is completely ignored (there are Windows and Apple downloads).
Silverlight might erode Flash's tiny market. I don't think there's any difference between Flash and Silverlight: two competing products which are losing the Web Application race.
The winner: Javascript + AJAX + XHTML + CSS
Javascript was available with the very first version of Netscape Navigator, as a way to add "special effects" to web pages. Nobody would have thought that it would eventually evolve into something that could be used to create applications like Google Documents. Established libraries like Yahoo's YUI (as well as many others) simplify immensely the creation of web applications. Most people who work online are already familiar with XHTML and CSS. So, the learning curve to master Javascript and AJAX is not too steep -- new developers join the Javascript/AJAX crowd every day. Technically, the combination of Javascript, AJAX, XHTML and CSS is something that has needed some love for a long time. Things are getting better now, but even today while developing a more complex web application using AJAX, you feel that they are all pieces of a large puzzle, and sometimes it's a bit of a struggle to make every piece fit neatly.
Why did such an unlikely combination win such an important war? Because it's based on available, open, free technologies. People don't have to spend thousands of dollars to write Flex applications. People don't have to install Microsoft Visual Studio for Silverlight. And don't have to battle the technical difficulties of Java (if it were still an option).
Welcome to 2008.
Ajax calls?
And that is in case you're not using a wrapper like sajax that almost removes completely the "burden" of learning ajax stuff (as a matter of fact, www.dondeestara.net, one project of mine, uses ajax... and I barely know the name of the ajax functions that make it work.. thanks to sajax).
You want free and open source Flex? You've got it!
Some important corrections relative to Flash/Flex ...
>> Flex is outrageously expensive.
Actually, nope. Flex Builder is a commercial Eclipse plug-in (although it is not outrageously expensive). But Flex itself, the Flex SDK, is not. It's free, and open source. In other words you can build and deploy Flex apps completely free of charge.
>> If ... Flex was released under a free license
It has been, for some time already. Flex SDK is released under Mozilla Public License, version 1.1.
Sounds like you need to visit http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Flex+SDK to learn more about the Flex SDK.
Bottom line, you want free and open source Flex development? You've already got it!
Ben Forta
Adobe Systems, Inc.
Hi Ben,
First of all, thank you for taking the time to create an account and add a comment.
OK, let's see...
1) Price. While Flex Builder is not very expensive ($700, or $250 I believe for the lesser version of it), I thought the Flex server was priced $15000. So... developers might be able to develop Flex applications, but what about deployment?
2) I wasn't aware that you guys actually _did_ release codee under the MPL. Encouraging! However, the "open source" version of the SDK doesn't include the advanced font encoding libraries (OK, fair enough), Adobe Flash Player (see my next point), Adobe AIR (which is used to create desktop-like applications, which is very interesting). And no, "free as in gratis" doesn't mean "free as in freedom" :-D
3) The Flash player! It's still proprietary, and there is no real competition in the free software world. As far as I know, the Gnash people are going insane trying to work things out. The player should be the _first_ thing Adobe should release... as well as turning it into a peoper standard.
So, the SDK (although only the "lesser" version) is released under the MPL, but then the server is something arounf $15000 per CPU, the player is still very much proprietary... ugh!
BUT! Ben, I LOVE IT when I am proved wrong, and I will openly admit it when I am. So, if I wrote anything that is not correct in my comment, PLEASE let me know.
Some clarifications ...
Ok, some more details ...
1) Flex Server is not needed for deployment. Actually, no server is needed. Any server that can serve content via HTTP can serve Flex applications. Flex Builder, or the free open source Flex SDK, compiles code into binary SWF files, and those get posted to a server and can then be requested by a browser and then played by the Flash Player. If that Flex application running in the Flash Player needs to talk to back end servers, then it has several options. It can make straight HTTP calls, nothing special needed on the server and no cost involved. It can make SOAP calls, again nothing special needed and no cost involved. It can make AMF (Flash Remoting) calls, and for that something is indeed needed on the server. If the server is running Java then you can download the free open source BlazeDS and you'll get AMF support (and more). If the server is running ColdFusion then AMF is built right in. If the server is running PHP then there are several community projects that provide AMF PHP support, and Adobe is working with Zend to add AMF support there. And so on. So no, no cost for deployment at all. Now, there is a server component to Flex, it used to be called Flex Data Services and is now called LiveCycle Data Services, and that does indeed cost thousands of dollars. It provides data management services and more, and organizations that need that functionality can/should look at that server solution. But it is not required at all. Bottom line, most Flex users buy Flex Builder and nothing more, and that's all they need to developer and deploy Flex and AIR apps. No per server pricing and no per CPU pricing, in fact, no runtime pricing whatsoever.
2) You are correct, we've open sourced parts of the Flex SDK, enough for most apps actually. There are 3rd party IDEs, like Aptana, that already use the free open source SDK giving users an IDE experience other than our own Flex Builder. But there are parts that we have not done so, not yet. It's a work in progress. Along the way we also open sourced the Flex messaging layer, that's the BlazeDS project. More will follow. And on a side note, Adobe is involved in numerous open source projects, starting with Tamarin which will be used by Mozilla in the next generation of SpiderMonkey, WebKit, SQLite, and more.
3) You are correct on this one, the Flash Player is not open sourced. There are some very real hurdles to doing so, the least of which is that the player includes licensed OEM code that we'd not be able to distribute. I can't comment on future plans, but I can tell you that it is something that we discuss frequently.
Bottom line, cost is absolutely NOT an obstacle to Flex adoption. Way back in Flex 1 days that was indeed the case, but we fixed that in Flex 2 several years ago, and since then the Flex developer base is growing incredibly. You said that Flex is absolutely fantastic, and as price was your primary concern, now that you know that price is not an obstacle I hope you get the chance to experience fantastic Flex for yourself.
Ben Forta
Adobe Systems, Inc.
OK, good points
I did some good research, and you are right. I have actually talked to a developer who doesn't use the Flex server at all.
I am fixing the article accordingly -- sorry about missing out on important fact-checking. I should have known better.
But! I still feel that the proprietary nature of the Flash player will scare a _lot_ of developers away from it. I might be wrong on this one. I don't have hard numbers on Flash's adoption, and besides, I am obviously biased. However... I have to be honest, I would never develop a piece of software knowing that a single company basically has the power to decide who, how and when people can execute my program. And I am not talking about Adobe *today*, but Adobe in 10 YEARS, when [Random evil company] has bought Adobe out and decides that the Flash player is only released for particular platforms.
If you are talking about it, I *urge* you to talk about it more.
I am also sadly convinced that today, this would be a Flash world if Flash had been opened up (and made it into a standard) 4 years ago. I don't think we would have even heard of AJAX. And, I also wonder (again, with sadness) if it's not too late for Flash today...
Thanks again for the clarifications. I fixed the article accordingly.
...the Flash Player is not open sourced. There are some very real hurdles to doing so, the least of which is that the player includes licensed OEM code that we'd not be able to distribute. I can't comment on future plans, but I can tell you that it is something that we discuss frequently.
I also find it encouraging to see people from Adobe at least considering opening up flash player abd for somebody from Adobe to be engaging with the free software community like this, so thanks.
If I can just echo Tony's sentiments that if you are discussing this, discuss it more. In addition, opening up Acrobat Reader would be another useful step - if only if it might lead to the Windows and Linux versions of both having comparable version numbers.
many thanks
About Loosers
Well, as far as Flash and Silverlight are concerned, I agree with the author.
I also agree about AJAX, Javascript and XHTML+CSS being the big winner.
On the other hand, Java may have not managed to become the king of the web but I believe this is mainly due to MS not including a JVM with IE. Also, it is far easier to develop applications in a "traditional" programming language than in JS and XML. And there is where GWT (Google Web Toolkit) comes in and saves the day by bridging the Java language with AJAX, with a compiler that takes Java code and produces the corresponding html and javascript code! In my opinion, there is nothing better than being able to use Eclipse to develop web-apps!
Funny you talked about the GWT...
I have always considered it complete insanity. But, by reading your post... well, I might well be wrong!
But I think Yahoo's YUI is a much better approach than GWT (although I don't know GWT enough to make an informed comparison. And no, I never will, since I am not a Java programmer...)
about silverlight
It's way too early to say anything about silverlight since silverlight 2 is not yet released. Say you want to do some multithreading on you web page, it's pretty hard with AJAX isn't it ? With silverlight 2 it is trivial! Silverlight can expose functionality to javascript, also it's easy to call javascript from silverlight, take a look at this video if you don't believe.
Flash Player
It's 50/50 odds on any webpage with flash I go to whether the player object will render or not (and instead produce a rectangle in a lovely shade of gray). Yes, this is in Linux. However, there isn't a single AJAX application I've run into yet that has such problems. In any case, it won't matter how wonderful Flex is if it produces objects my browser (Firefox) can't display.
The other benefit of AJAX is indeed that there is absolutely nothing "new" to be learned. It's a combination of existing web technologies completely supported by all modern browsers natively that we've been working with for years. Download a library and make a few extra calls to functions you don't have to learn anything about if you don't want. Can even Flex really compete with that?
I guess thats one way to put
I guess thats one way to put it that AJAX and Javascript moped the floor with Java they have taken off with php and AJAX walking hand in hand now. There are some ok java apps java diameter being one but still nothing near the flexibility that you get with AJAX.