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Before you can get going, there are no less than six pages of cassette inlay to read, giving you the storyline and lists of weapons and the spells available in the three levels of magic: the lower plane, higher plane and exclusive plane. There's a lot going on in this game! GAC? I never knew there was so much in it.
But who is this Karyssia anyway? Daughter of King Merenon I of the Isle of Senduarin. Her ascent to the throne coincides with the expiry of the diamond mines on which Senduarin's wealth is based, and her attempts to save the economy make her a popular figure. Little do her adoring public know, but... Oh you don't want to know all this, do you?
The aim is to kill Karyssia, which means finding the Royal Castle from your starting point, "The Sword and Buckler". This first location shows the style of graphics that's been adopted, and very stylish it is too. A 3-D Batman/Sweevo type of perspective has been chosen for indoor scenes, and it's so effective you wonder why no-one thought of it before for an adventure game. Watch the doors in the graphics too, as not all exits are given in the text and it's up to you to find them.
I like the style of the first real problem you have. Up a tree you find an acorn. At the top of a cliff is some soft earth, just ripe for acorn planting. Half-way down the cliff is a nest. Elsewhere is a rope, and then lo and behold you find a GROWTH spell. What could be simpler? Plant the acorn, cast GROWTH at it, tie the rope to the tree and get to the nest. Wrong! As you hurriedly make your way back to the cliff top via the only route, your spell is confiscated and you can't get past. Or can you? I won't say any more but it's a bit of neat double bluffery from the programmers, D & R Shacklady. Or is it triple-bluffery... hmmm, I've only just considered that.
At first I thought I was going to hate this game, as my wanderings took me to one of my pet hates: sudden death routines. Standing on a main road you're told: "To the west you can see Westmarket Street." Tum-ti-tum-ti-tum, let's go west. Oh dear, we seem to have been attacked by a 15 foot ogre who just happens to be hanging round Westmarket Street. Press a key for another game. Then elsewhere something shines in the water of a lake. EXAMINE WATER. Oh dear, you are bitten by a deadly poisonous glistening crab. How silly of me, I should have known. Press a key for another game. I very nearly didn't!
I'm glad I persevered though, as apart from a few careless screen layouts this is one of the best GAC games I've yet seen. The speech function is often limited to saying 'Hello' just to get a response from the characters, but I liked the way the authors seem to have successfully packed lots of features into the program. Highly recommended.
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As he enters another long offseason, Detroit Lions receiver Calvin Johnson is surprisingly considering retirement from the NFL.
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"Like many players at this stage of their career, I am currently evaluating options for my future," said Johnson, who also revealed he would be making a decision in the "not-too-distant future."
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Here are two great books that could help:
This is probably the best parenting book I have ever read. How you can offer your kids the skills they need to follow their passions and succeed (as they define it) in the world. Although it is geared to homeschoolers, most of this can be applied to children who attend school. She discusses Montessori, Charlotte Mason, A Thomas Jefferson Education (a form of classical education,) and unschooling. She has researched how many highly successful people were educated as they grew up. Although all were homeschooled for some period of time, many also went to school for awhile as well. She discusses people like Thomas Edison, Teddy Roosevelt, Pierre Curie, Agatha Christie, Margaret Leakey, and many, many others. The bottom line is to help your child find their passions and teach them the creativity and skills to attain their goals.
This is a gentle book. It acknowledges there are many fine way to educate children. Some parents feel their children will do best in a typical school environment. Other parents feel their children will do best by homeschooling. Both ways are equally okay. At no time does it insult anyone's choices. After reassuring the reader that this book is not anti-school, it then goes on to address some of the major (incorrect) assumptions people have about homeschooling. Of course the first is socialization.
After the writers bring up a common concern, they gently inform the reader about the realities of modern-day homeschooling. As I read the book, I was reconvinced of our decision to homeschool. For me, the book made homeschooling so appealing.
If someone is uncertain whether they want to homeschool or if they have friends and family that are concerned about homeschooling because they have many common misconceptions about exactly what homeschooling is, this book may answer many questions about the subject. Because it does not alienate, it may do better than other books that are negative against school.
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Thanks, I will pass these along to my friend.
Mom to three very active girls Anna (15), Kayla (12), Maya (9).
I also really loved this one on socialization. It alleviated all my doubts about the dreaded socialization debate and gave me a whole new paradigm shift that HSers don't survive socially *in spite of* HSing, but can actually become better socialized b/c of it. Great book! http://www.amazon.com/Well-Adjusted-Child-Social-Benefits-Homeschooling/dp/1600651070/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1329333691&sr=8-1
I read that one as well. A long time ago.
Today we were at the children's museum with kids ages 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 7(I think the one is 7.) They played together for hours. Not a spat, just good cooperation. Wonder what the kids in school did when interacting with each other today (assuming they were allowed to interact.)
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Lillian, I think that was the thread I was remembering--but somehow couldn't find it. Maybe I wasn't looking far enough back.
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Fantastic recipe, and very versatile. I added 6 red Thai chilis and the heat was perfect. The only omission in the ingredients that needs to be corrected is the kafir lime leaves. The directions for cooking show lime leaves should be added, but they're not in the ingredients. I also added the zest of a whole lime as well. In any event, this recipe is a keeper! Thanks!
Delicious, but was really bummed that the recipe didn't list Lime Leaves in the ingredients! I was so excited to make it, but not having the L. Leaves was a real letdown.
Absolutely delicious! My first taste of and attempt at Thai food. My DH gave rave reviews, and he's quite the critic. I didn't have lemongrass or red chiles, but I put it some red pepper flakes, and I used ginger instead of galangal. Cilantro in Canada's suggestion of sesame seed oil just put it over the top. Will definitely make it again, and often!
Delicious! Added big chucks of fresh tomato like they do at my favorite thai restaurant, turned out wonderful, thank you!
Excellent soup - we just love this kind of soup and this one did not disappoint. I liked your tips for flavour - quite useful.
My DH and I went to Thailand for our honeymoon and I feel in love with this soup. I made this tonight and we all loved it. I went to the extra effort to get the golangal and kaffir, and it was worth it. I also added sliced white onion, and it really added to it..
What a great flavour packed soup, I decided to leave out the chicken and added some julienne bamboo shoots, grated carrot, garlic and a little sesame oil. I used about 3 small lime leaves as mentioned in the forward to the recipe too. My daughter was diagnosed with bronchitis and she requested bowls of this soup while she was sick. Thanks for the recipe
excellent recipe! i substituted chicken with tilapia fillets and it was delicious!! thanks for sharing
I had this kind of soup once at a Thai Restaurant when I was starting to get a cold..now every time I start to get sick I crave it. I think the wonderful aromas remind me that I still can smell :) This recipe was great. I made it two weeks ago when I was starting to get a cold, and ate it for a few days. The only thing I did different was use light coconut milk, add the lime juice at the very end (as I turned off the heat) and I used lime zest instead of kaffir leaves (I couldn't find them)...but I did find galangal root to work with for my first time - nice flavor! Thanks for the post!
Oh my this is a wonderful recipe. This soup is my DH's favorite from Thailand also and he's been requesting it for some time. So glad I found this. As we live in a small town couldn't get all the ingrediants and had to sub green jalapeno for the red chilis and ginger instead of galangal. Did find frozen, chopped lemon grass and was so happy about that. This went together fairly easy and the taste is wonderful. The hardest part for me was finding the proper ingrediants. Thanks so much for posting.


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Sony makes $20 every time an iPhone 6 is sold, is by far the largest camera sensor supplier in the world
67 Comments
1. kobainez (Posts: 429; Member since: 13 Apr 2012)
At least sony makes profit out of two largest smartphone makers
26. itsdeepak4u2000 (Posts: 3718; Member since: 03 Nov 2012)
Sony sensors are quite famous, from Chinese phones to Apple / Samsung.
They should make more profit from Apple as Apple earns big money.
IMX240 is superb though.
29. KENTOZ (Posts: 86; Member since: 03 Apr 2015)
How about Sony mobile division???
41. timetophone (Posts: 14; Member since: 25 Feb 2015)
Sony's big problem is marketing--even the Wall Street Journal and gadget blog Gizmodo say this. They both say that Sony makes great phones. Wall Street J looked at all the reviews and said "Sony's smartphones have been getting rave reviews. Too bad no one knows about them." They then go on to mention all of the features--great battery life, Playstation integration, waterproofing, etc.--but that Sony simply doesn't market its stuff. Or make it available on carriers. I'm in the US, and I've never seen a Sony television ad, but I see Samsung ads every single day. With 21-MP camera, 4K video, waterproofing, Playstation integration, hi-res audio, and battery life longer than iPhone 6 or Galaxy S6, Sony Xperia should be doing a lot better, but they're not. It's their marketing.
46. Djz89 (Posts: 310; Member since: 25 Aug 2014)
In norway and Scandinavia sony phones actually are quite popular, and i see alot of people using them. To bad that market basically is worthless compared to the rest of the world.
49. techperson211 (Posts: 1230; Member since: 27 Feb 2014)
@kentoz still trolling in every Sony article this is about their sensors not their mobile division.
51. dimas (Posts: 2122; Member since: 22 Jul 2014)
Even if Sony mobile division dies, they're still going to make money out of their camera and audio products.
30. joey_sfb (Posts: 5741; Member since: 29 Mar 2012)
Yes! I am a PlayStation fan. So I am happy for Sony.
If only Sony phone has thinner border I would have bought them. Every time i pick up their tablet or phone, I just can't get over their thick border.
Screen to body ratio is very important to me.
40. timetophone (Posts: 14; Member since: 25 Feb 2015)
A review I just read said that although the Z4 tablet has a plentiful bezel, this is offset by the fact that it doesn't seem to weigh anything at all, as well as the thin-ness (front to back). I handled one at a Sony store and was surprised by its thin-ness--it was like picking up a clipboard! About the bezel, it might not be too bad to have a wide one with a large tablet since you might be holding it with two hands.
I actually wish Sony would make a Playstation Tablet. Vita games and PS4 game streaming, in a tablet. I am sure it'd be a winner.
Oh, didn't realize that we can't post links. So, just look up the article "Hands-on: Sony's gorgeous Xperia Z4 Tablet is exactly why it shouldn't stop making mobile devices" by Florence Ion
54. joey_sfb (Posts: 5741; Member since: 29 Mar 2012)
That's why i end up with Samsung Galaxy Tab S 8.4 LTE and its my daily driver.
The Tab is not only light but also has a screen to body ratio of 76%
31. waddup121 (unregistered)
$ony. Cha ching!
47. joonlin (Posts: 11; Member since: 26 Feb 2014)
If Sony did not made improvement in coming years, surely Samsung will overtake Sony
50. dimas (Posts: 2122; Member since: 22 Jul 2014)
Just like Ericsson who still makes money out of technology patents. You can be away from the spotlight and people can mock their phone sales but they're still counting more money than the general public lol.
66. unixpuppet (Posts: 6; Member since: 30 Jun 2016)
Yes, Sony is doing a lot better than any Andriod phones. Including the game industry. Yes, the PC games have come a long well, but PS 4 is expected to sell 60 Million units by the year 2017. And now 40 million units are shipped out (2016). Plus, now Sony Pictures are coming out new movies with the 2.8 billion dollars USD. Which include Sony Music and electronic devices, Sony have risen 667% in 2016.
2. TyrionLannister (unregistered)
With the badass IMX230 ahead, the future seems bright for Sony sensors.
32. BruceLeeRoyJenkins (Posts: 51; Member since: 27 Feb 2015)
If only Sony can couple a great software with their superb hardware...
43. timetophone (Posts: 14; Member since: 25 Feb 2015)
I just wish they'd make more of their phones available on more carriers here in the US. For some reason, only the Z3 is available in the US, and only on Verizon and T-Mobile. The Compact version isn't even available. Then they wonder why they can't sell phones.
42. timetophone (Posts: 14; Member since: 25 Feb 2015)
Sony has a new sensor that will be able to record 6K video at 240 frames per second and 2K video at 16,000 fps. But the icing on the cake is its Active Color Sampling technology. In conventional sensors, there are pixels for red, green and blue separately. But in Sony's new sensor, each pixel can sample all three colors. This means it only needs 1/3 the pixels to output the same resolution. With this technology, with the same number of pixels as a conventional sensor, Sony's sensor will be able to output 3X the resolution. So you're right--the future seems bright for Sony sensors!
44. TyrionLannister (unregistered)
Sensor has no relation with video. If the SoC doesn't support it, then it's useless.
There is no SoC currently except tegra X1 that even supports 4K@60fps, and X1 is a tablet chip.
Plus, I'm sure you are making that up.
And in conventional sensors, one pixel can sample all 3 colors.
59. timetophone (Posts: 14; Member since: 25 Feb 2015)
Nope. Look things up, before telling people they are making it up. A number of sites--Sonyalpharumors, Image-Sensors-World, SLRlounge and Nofilmschool--have reported on this. Sonyalpharumors says "The Sony sensor has the worlds first sensor capable of capturing the full color spectrum info in one single pixel...the sensor is also capable of Global Shutter and 2K recording at crazy 16,000 frames per second." Nofilmschool, which shares info on all things film including latest technology, says the new sensor "will be able to record 6K video at up to 240fps and 2K video at an astounding 16,000fps. Instead of using the traditional bayer method of color interpolation, where there are individual pixels for the red, green, and blue channels, the new sensor has pixels that can sample each of the three colors using a technology called Active Pixel Color Sampling.. Essentially this means that the new sensors only need 1/3 of the pixels in order to output the same resolution." SLRlounge says "this new Sony Active-Pixel Color Sampling sensor allows for each individual pixel to record red, green or blue. This means no need for dedicated color layers (Foveon), and no need for interpolating (Bayer)." This is a new sensor and there are no products that support it, so you are right in that. But the tech has been announced, so even if the reports are inaccurate, it is wrong to conclude I made it up. Won't read further replies since I'm sure you'll say the sites are made up.
63. james2841 (Posts: 167; Member since: 10 Dec 2014)
What is the name of it? It should be used in "real" slow motion cameras that are dedicated to slow motion.
3. shiftt (Posts: 333; Member since: 03 May 2015)
Sony has good camera sensors but their camera on the Z series is effy. Oh the questions.. But nice to see Sony making a profit.... Even if they can't meet the demand.
4. gaming64 (unregistered)
Its just software issues. I hope they would fix that on the Z5
23. nanozander (Posts: 90; Member since: 19 Oct 2011)
TBH i still think it's more of a lens issue. Images are soft all round even at the center. Image processing seems to handle the noise at stupid high ISOs.
36. FaisalWibowo11 (Posts: 163; Member since: 12 Aug 2013)
You are right about the lens issue. But it ain't because of bad quality but because of the very wide FoV (angle). The FoV is just too wide for the sensor too handle. So many people blamed aggresive noise reduction but people seem to forget the after effects of NR which is oil painted effect. And.. There are actually more cameraphones that has more pronounced painting effect than xperia phones such as Let's say LG G3, iphone 6 & 6+, Galaxy S5 & Note 4, and even Lumia 930. I played quite often to flickr groups to prove this
I think the reason why Xperia cameras produced less details than competitors such as Note 4 (in daylight especially) is because Xperia cameras have always use very wide angle 25-27mm lens: When you have wide angle lens, you capture much more in one scene but the image perspective is very zoomed out and therefore the detail resolving power is divided because the sensor has to deal with many objects on one scene. Note 4 & S5 uses very narrow 31mm lens, you get less objects in one scene but the image perspective is zoomed in and you get more details because the sensor doesn't have to deal with many objects in one scene.
As a matter of fact I have my own experience to prove this:
- I did a outdoor landscape comparison of my Z2 and my mom's Xperia T2 Ultra. I used full 20.7MP on Z2 and full 12.8MP on T2 Ultra. Z2 has 27mm lens and T2 has 30 or 31mm lens. In terms of detail, T2 ultra matched Z2 even though it has resolution difference of nearly 8 million pixels! Image processing wise, Z2 is quite on the sharpening side while T2's NR is stronger. But why is T2's detail is matching Z2? Because of the lens FoV that I talked about earlier.
- I recently bought a Z3 and just compared it's camera against Z2. And Z2 is better in every ISO range. Processing wise, both are the same.. But again, Z3's very wide 25mm is just too much for a 1/2.3" sized sensor.
The concept is similar to the difference of putting let's say Full HD resoultion on 5" screen and 6" screen. The 5" screen with have more pixels so the screen is sharper!
See this: my personal camera comparisonhttps://drive.google.com/folde
And my flickr photostream:
38. CamaroSS (Posts: 173; Member since: 24 Jul 2012)
That's a very good analysis. I have the exact same experience from my Z3 & Z2. Like you said, z2 captures narrower image with sharper details & Z3 does the opposite. Quite an interesting trade-off.
39. CamaroSS (Posts: 173; Member since: 24 Jul 2012)
DXO scores for Z2 & Z3 for texture only
z2; Texture -> 84
z3: Texture -> 75
28. RandomUsername (Posts: 808; Member since: 29 Oct 2013)
Its just software issues. I hope they would fix that on the Z10.
6. jaytai0106 (Posts: 1888; Member since: 30 Mar 2011)
The sensors on Z series are amazing, but Sony's camera app is just.... plain... if you know how to take a good picture manually with it, you'll get great result. Otherwise you will get an average pictures.
19. buccob (Posts: 2564; Member since: 19 Jun 2012)
exactly this...
Sometimes when doing my comparisons, Superior Auto actually impresses, but not all the time... I notice that for my Z3C in sunny days it is actually more accurate to take pictures with White Balance set to "Cloudy" because normally the pictures in auto are a bit too cold (not just because of the screen calibration), so the white balance in cloudy makes them warmer in that situation.
I haven't been able to compare it to the S6 yet, but against any other in Low Light (without flash), setting it to High Sensitivity ISO it has no match.
Of course this doesn't compare to being able to take long exposures like the G4... but having the option to go up to ISO12800 for handheld-flashless-lowlight pictures is awesome
37. FaisalWibowo11 (Posts: 163; Member since: 12 Aug 2013)
I have both Z2 & Z3 with me. You are right about the auto WB on the Z3c, it's just too cold.
When I compare Z3 against Z2, in order for Z3 to match the WB of Z2, the WB of Z3 must be set to cloudy
33. marorun (Posts: 3561; Member since: 30 Mar 2015)
I been using Camera FV-5 on my old Z1 and the picture quality is about as good as the S6 lol so yeah its the software thats kill it.
5. gaming64 (unregistered)
Really good news. The only thing Sony needs to do now is to revamp the whole Xperia line
7. slannmage (Posts: 148; Member since: 26 Mar 2013)
Sony need to put that 1/1.7 sensor they've made this year in the Xperia Z4c, then I'd buy one. I don't mind a thicker phone, I just hate the other two dimensions being massive as it prevents one handed use and them fitting nicely into my pocket. This is why I'll never buy a phone bigger than an iPhone 5s or the current Xperia Z3c and why I personally still use a Nokia 808. That phone is thick, but that is fine since our palms are curved, it fits nicely in my pocket, it feels great in the hand and was thick enough to allow a giant sensor that is almost 1 inch.
8. haphap (Posts: 12; Member since: 16 Jan 2015)
Yeah, Sony needs to make a whole new experience with new Xperia.
9. Neros (Posts: 1016; Member since: 19 Dec 2014)
Dunno, sammy's isocell rapes sony's sensor imho.
12. kobainez (Posts: 429; Member since: 13 Apr 2012)
Hahahah what a lame comment
17. Neros (Posts: 1016; Member since: 19 Dec 2014)
Photos at night time look terrible with sony's sensor. They're dark and have blue tint, not to mention oversaturated colours.
34. marorun (Posts: 3561; Member since: 30 Mar 2015)
No such problem on my Z1 using Camera FV-5 camera app.
So its not the sensor but the software.
14. Kruze (Posts: 1285; Member since: 30 Dec 2014)
Dunno, Sony's IMX sensor rapes Sammy's ISOCELL sensor imho.
10. Denco (Posts: 118; Member since: 25 Mar 2014)
Then, let Sony stop making phones and focus on their camera edge.
15. Feanor (Posts: 701; Member since: 20 Jun 2012)
Sounds like an easy solution, and with the added benefit that you don't compete on the mobile phone arena with your camera sensor clients.
However, this would put Sony in an extremely precarious position, in case Apple decides in the future to switch suppliers. Only for this Sony should continue making phones. Anyway, there is nothing wrong with their smartphone portfolio apart from lack of brand awareness from the end customer side.
11. ameran (Posts: 282; Member since: 04 Dec 2013)
The iSheep would say, Apple invented the camera lens and the sensor, but Sony is making them for Apple.
16. bucky (Posts: 2563; Member since: 30 Sep 2009)
you're reaching...keep practicing.
24. Iodine (Posts: 1330; Member since: 19 Jun 2014)
Apple got custom sensor, lenses and packaging, no wonder they have to pay 20$ for that which is about a tenth of the price of the phone according to iHaters.
Also iHaters are truly the only iSheeps in here, needing to meeeh in every discusion, while rest of Apple crowd is enjoying their devices.
35. marorun (Posts: 3561; Member since: 30 Mar 2015)
I see load of Apple iSheeps do the same thing in every dscusions lol.
60. timetophone (Posts: 14; Member since: 25 Feb 2015)
1/10 is a nice cut considering it's just one component in one component (the sensor in the camera module). For the investment, Sony is doing well off these sensors--no marketing or distribution required. And I don't begrudge Apple--they make fine products. But it's great that both Apple and Sony benefit from these high-quality sensors.
13. ibend (Posts: 4573; Member since: 30 Sep 2014)
thats for sony's camera division.. sony mobile still a failure :-/
18. ryq24 (Posts: 721; Member since: 17 Oct 2011)
If Sony is not careful, like their TV , Samsung will one day overtake them.
20. bucky (Posts: 2563; Member since: 30 Sep 2009)
I have always trusted Sony products. Their problem is not quality but more so marketing and price. They command too strong of a price when the competition offers it for cheaper (albeit cheaper quality too) and advertises the hell out of theirs.
22. Feanor (Posts: 701; Member since: 20 Jun 2012)
That's not true for their mobile phones anymore. Their flagships until now have remained to levels less than €600 Shen new on the market. The Samsung Galaxy S6 costs new about €100 more, same with iPhone. Sony flagships start looking like a bargain.
25. bucky (Posts: 2563; Member since: 30 Sep 2009)
The problem is they are doing so now. They should have done this before. Their TV's are still really expensive compared to their rivals.
27. CamaroSS (Posts: 173; Member since: 24 Jul 2012)
Depends on the TV model though. If you're talking about the top of the line x950B, yes - it's expensive cause it was the only 4K TV that came with full array local dimming last year. Even a 1080p TV like HX929 with Full array local dimming was quite expensive. But Sony has quite a few cheap models as well.
64. Venkatramanan (Posts: 310; Member since: 15 Aug 2014)
I don't think Sony TVs are expensive. But lack of marketing and less retailer's margin are the reason for their downfall. Sammy does the marketing very well though their TVs are s**t. I was about to purchase Bravia. But the retailer told that Samsung is better than Sony and he told some lies that Sony has many quality issues. So i Bought Samsung TV. After the warrenty is over, The TV Display was gone. Just two years for a costly TV is the example of bad quality. Many of my friends who bought the bravia are still enjoying with the TV. Now Even though their recent phones are tempting me to buy, Because of these bad experience, I never buy any Samsung products. s**tty Marketing made a loss for me.
52. dimas (Posts: 2122; Member since: 22 Jul 2014)
Samsung TV sucks, just saying.
56. pendragon0202 (Posts: 89; Member since: 23 Feb 2015)
Sucks to be #1 in flat panel TV for decades?
65. Venkatramanan (Posts: 310; Member since: 15 Aug 2014)
TV sucks after the warrenty is over. My personal Experience. see comment #64
21. sonisoe (Posts: 411; Member since: 06 May 2009)
thats why i was baffled, being one of the, if not 'the', best screen (ie. TVs LED, etc) & camera-sensor manufacturer, xperia z and z1 had an awful display and z2/z3 while shoot great pictures arent arguably better than s6 or iphone.
45. javaprof (Posts: 15; Member since: 30 Apr 2015)
sony is illuminati
48. JMartin22 (Posts: 1969; Member since: 30 Apr 2013)
The one thing Sony does right in the mobile sector is as a component supplier. They should liquidate their mobile division; it's just costing them more money to maintain and effort hasn't paid off. They still got the component and gaming sector still secured.


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Florida Power & Light was the county's top taxpayer this year, with bills totalling more than $75.1 million, according to Gannon's office. BellSouth Telecommunications ranked second, followed by Town Center at Boca Raton Trust.
Of the county's 38 municipalities, landowners in West Palm Beach pay the biggest total. In all, property taxes billed to landowners in the city this year totaled $69.7 million, the tax collector's office said.
Palm Beach County's top 2012 taxpayers:
1. Florida Power & Light, $75.1 million.
2. BellSouth Telecommunications, $7.3 million.
3. Town Center at Boca Raton Trust, $7 million.
4. US Sugar Corporation, $5.2 million.
5. Garden Venture $ 4.6 million.
Source: Palm Beach County Tax Collector.


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Tanzania's Northern Safari Circuit includes some of the most famous and remarkable sights in the world, such as the annual Wildebeest Migration and the spectacular Ngorongoro Crater.
Tanzacat - All Africa Hobie Cat Championships is a great opportunity for sailing enthusiasts to take to the waters and show everyone what they can do! TANZACAT is 10 days long and is held in Msasani Bay, Dar es Salaam. It consists of of 10 Olympic Course races and of course a sail to the exotic island of Zanzibar!
What began as a small annual event is now the largest open class catamaran event in Africa with 52 catamarans manned by over 100 sailors competing in 2009. It is held in September in Dar es Salaam, and then into October on Zanzibar. TANZACAT really does present a unique opportunity to combine a Tanzania safari with an exciting an special event. If you enjoy sailing anywhere in the world, you will love the experience of sailing your catamaran between islands and shorelines edged by idyllic white sandy beaches in the warm tropical waters of the Indian Ocean, with dolphins swimming along keeping up with your boat.
Contact us for accommodation in Dar and Zanzibar during TANZACAT or for a safari afterwards.
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We had a most wonderful safari--thank you! Salim and Yahaya were great. We'll be sure to suggest Wild Things to any friends who may be thinking of visiting Tanzania.
Sheri Six
United States of America, Sept 2013
I would like to thank you for this wonderful safari we participated to. Everything was perfect! We are very happy and we made all our dreams come true. Abbas was an amazing guide. Thank you very much!
Maria Malkova
France, Dec 2013
We had a wonderful trip. Thanks very much to you, Wild Things and to Abbas for putting together such a memorable safari for us.
Kathryn Woof
United Kingdom, Dec 2013
We had an excellent time and the trip was very well planned, the guides (and vehicles) excellent. Thank you very much for arranging it all!
Jackie, David and Sarah
Australia, Oct 2013
We had an amazing time. Everything was perfect Francis was AMAZING we came to realize the guide you have is the key to a great safari. We will be sure to recomend you to anyone planning a trp to you
Serino Margaret
United States of America, Jun 2013
We had a fantastic trip. Your excellent organisation, your guide - Max, was exemplary in every way, were major contributors to this. Many thanks for making ours, a trip of a lifetime.
Richard Goldberg
United Kingdom, Jun 2013
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Web API: Standing on the Shoulder of Giants
For a long time now, I've been posting articles in what I "internally" call the "from first principles" series. Many, many years ago, I posted a very long article called JavaScript Graphics Development. Years later, I wrote an article on WCF. Last year, I wrote one on Elasticsearch.
A few months ago I started an ambitious attempt to exhaustively write on one of my favorite tools: ASP.NET Web API. However, I didn't get too far before realizing that there just wasn't enough to write. The vast majority of topics were prerequisites, not directly related to Web API proper. I realized that the tall stature of Web API came from the fact that it was standing on the shoulders of many giants. Of course, I've known this for years, but writing something forces you into a different perspective.
What are these giants? Let's proceed by examining your Web API expertise:
Do you have a strong grasp of web resource API representation design? That is, are you good with the following?
So, are you solid with this? If so, you've expertise in web resource API representation design. This LONG predated Web API. It has nothing to do with Web API. Please stop giving Microsoft credit for it.
Next, are you solid with HTTP verbs? That is, are you good with the following?
GET /person
PUT /person/1
DELETE /person/newest
GET /person&version=1.5
If you're solid with this, you've proficiency in dealing with HTTP verbs. This predates Web API by many decades. Many of us have been working with verb-based APIs directly decades before Web API was even proposed.
No, you don't need to be an expert in PUT vs. POST. Don't feel bad for confusing them. You are, however, required to follow the rules. Children look to what's possible (e.g. a body in a GET request), adults look to what's right. When you write your initial unit tests, you might make a note about when PUT and POST are supposed to throw an errors. Personally, I never remember, but I have to follow the industry rules.
Now, how are you with interacting with Web APIs directly (e.g.
That is, is this clear as day or are you confused by the lack of "models" or a GUI?
curl -i -XPOST -d 'grant_type=password&username=myusername&password=password' https://example.com/token
In reality, this has nothing to do with Web API. Yes, it's the most important way of testing and scripting Web API interaction (you can't write a full app for every HTTP call!), but it simply means you know HTTP and
curl. It has nothing directly to do with Web API at all.
Yes, this is important: you cannot design Web APIs around mere "models" or serialization. As with WCF, there are no hierarchies or "types", there are only messages that adhere to external interfaces. Model/serialization thinking leads to to Microsoft-centric designs, which defeats the entire point of the neutrality of web (can we please stop with the Microsoft-centric PascalCasing of everything??).
Knowing this is knowing messages and payloads, not the implementation details of Web API.
Next, how are you with virtualizing web routes? That is, do you have a strong grasp of the difference between accessing
/contact.aspx?dept=hr and
If so, then you simply understand URL handling done in this millenium. This has nothing to do with Web API. Many of us have been virtualizing our URLs for the longest time. My [now long gone] Themelia platform had a concept of virtual web containers and path virtualization long before Web API and ASP.NET MVC. It's also par for the course in Django and every other web development system out there. Even ASP.NET WebForms could use the routing system shipped with ASP.NET MVC. This doesn't directly add to your Web API expertise.
Next, how are you with Web API authentication and authorization?
Confused? If so, then you may have caught my trap. You add your own OAuth2 / OpenID connect functionality to Web API. That's part of the beauty of modularity. You either whip out some of the Nuget packages and do some coding or whip out IdentityServer (also on Nuget) and let it do the heavy lifting for you (recommended).
Finally, how are you with Web API middleware?
Kidding. That's a trick question. There's no such thing. It's OWIN middleware. It has absolutely nothing to do with Web API. Having expertise in middleware has nothing to do with expertise in Web API.
So, what the heck is Web API and Web API expertise? It's not the routes, it's not the resources, it's not the verbs, it's not the security model, it's not the middleware. What is it?
Web API is fundamentally a quick-and-dirty mechanism to listen for resources and respond to verbs using a Controller-based architecture (mimicking ASP.NET MVC's controllers). It's this simplicity of Web API that makes it incredibly elegant and attractive to use. That said, claiming expertise in it is like claiming to have a Ph.D. in subtraction. This fictional person's Ph.D. isn't in subtraction, it's in Mathematics.
Even the stuff we often associate with Web API like IoC, testability, and the flexible hosting models have nothing to do with Web API. Web API simply uses them. That's called having good architecture.
No, Web API is not a replacement for WCF. That's absolutely laughable. Good luck using your Web API controllers to implement WS-reliability and WS-transactions, interact with SAML federated security, or expose endpoints as raw TCP. Go ahead. As a long-time service-oriented architect and WCF expert, I'm often asked how Web API competes with it. Answer: it doesn't. However, it did make
System.ServiceModel.Webdie, but that thing never deserved to live.
The one aspect where you'll get more mileage on "I'm a Web API expert" is with responding-to-verbs. Have you written your own media formatter / content negotiation? Very cool-- you probably built something that should be shared on GitHub. We need more people writing these.
Now,Have you worked with not only the typical JSON/XML formats, but OData as well. That's pretty cool, but, OData is more of something that is added to Web API, than properly part of it. See (https://github.com/OData)[https://github.com/OData] for details.
Aside from a few other very trivial things, and it being a fancy marketing buzzword, there's nothing in Web API with enough content to warrant making it on your resume.
You and Web API
Instead, you might be a full-scale service expert. You might actually have much more skill than you think. If you claim to be a Web API expert, take a day and try to learn Flask API. If you can pick it up quickly, you're probably more than an expert in one specific tool. You have a more solid, foundational grasp of the underlying structure. This is what's important. Being able to use a menu to create a Web API from a project template is not.
Web API is such a simple tool that if you understand the prerequisites (resources, verbs, OWIN, etc) it should take your less than a day to master. I'm fully convinced that the core of it was written in a day (heck, I wrote the entire resource aspect of my pywebapi project in a day!) Microsoft has been masterfully abstracting various pieces of ASP.NET for years to make efficient development of tools like Web API possible.
No, my Python Web API isn't as feature rich as Microsoft Web API. The reason is simple and goes to the current point: I didn't have the shoulders to stand on. For example, I had to write my own middleware "framework" (accessible via
pip install middleware). Python is far more feature rich than .NET, but these giants which Web API stand on are things that are above and beyond bare .NET.
Web API is one of my top 5 favorite tools (others are Python, Nginx, Elasticsearch, and Git). It's simplicity and elegance do NOT replace my WCF services (see above note), but DO replace myriad HTTP Handlers that were supporting my single-page-apps.
Not Optional
If you understand the giants on whose shoulders Web API stands, then you're 90% into Web API already. Every .NET developer needs to know those giants. OWIN, for example, is not an optional skill. Putting Web API on your resume for any reason other than a marketing buzzword is truly silly. It's like putting LINQ or OWIN on your resume. LINQ is simply C#. You may as well put "the
dynamic keyword" on your resume. OWIN is the current (2016) method for building web apps in .NET. Because of this, Web API fundamentally a basic skill. It's as part of the framework as these other things. It takes its place on your resume only as a buzzword to make it through HR screening, but the technical skills are wrapped up in your .NET skill set as whole. You need to know that anyway.
Finally, Web API is not one of the major specialist platforms within .NET (e.g. ASP.NET webforms, WPF, winforms). Given the host-it-anywhere-you-want model, it's a basic skill for people who spend their time in WPF as well. As a long time exam technical editor, I've rejected a lot of questions that were unfair. If you try to put a ASP.NET question on a C# exam, I'll flag it for removal. The WPF developers won't have a clue, and will get that question wrong. You try to put a Winform (think 2005!) question on the same exam? Again, I'll flag it. Put a Web API question on it? No problem any more. It's now a basic skill. The ability to handle HTTP traffic is a great addition to any architecture, solution, or application. It's not at all surprising to see management functionality within desktop applications that internally run Web API.
In summary,
- Web API stands of the shoulder of so many giants that it itself seems large. In reality, it's a tiny, elegant tool that drives much of modern service development.
- You probably have much more skill than you think. Your expertise probably goes far beyond the tiny tool known as Web API. You might have full SOA expertise.
- Web API is not an optional skill or extra "pillar" technology like WPF, ASP.NET, or winforms. Today, it and the concepts it relies upon are as basic as the C# language itself.


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Google 'The Data Center is Dead' and you'll find no shortage of pundits predicting just that. This guy, for example, first started predicting the death of enterprise data centers back in 2011. But is that really true? Are data centers going the way of the buggy whip?
What We Think
Everywhere you turn there are articles and blog posts about Software Defined everything: Networks, data centers, WANs and, more recently, storage. What is Software Defined Storage (SDS) and, more importantly, why do you care?
As anyone who knows me knows, I hate traffic. Which is why the Waze app caught my eye. The moving map is amazingly accurate regarding traffic congestion, accidents, and police locations.
Amazon introduced AWS Lambda last year at ReInvent. I believe Lambda is a game-changer, but it doesn't go far enough. Let's begin by reviewing what AWS Lambda is …
Take a look back at information storage from its humble beginnings to the heights of current advanced computer technology and the future.
Just as a fish probably rarely thinks about water, we who work in technology rarely question the actual purpose of all this technology.
A few years ago I read a Google-sponsored study about the B2B sales process. What jumped out was a stat that the typical B2B buyer is more than HALF way (57 percent) through their buying journey before they engage with vendors.
Remember this viral video from 2007, (back when viral videos were still novel)? At the time, it was seen as a hilarious send-up of the excesses of tech in general and Silicon Valley in particular.
Have you noticed how the approach to failure in computing has changed radically over the past few years? Good thing it has!
It's time to end the long-running feud between disk and tape. Tape lost.
There is a saying that nothing beats the bandwidth of a FedEx truck. To this point, in 2007 Jonathan Schwartz (then CEO of Sun) claimed that moving a petabyte from San Francisco to Hong Kong would be faster via sailboat than via a network link.
Trends are hard to spot. Sometimes it helps to step back and take a look from a distance at where we've been to get a better view to what is coming.
In a recent post, I mentioned that VCs have been pumping more than a billion USD a year into the storage market for the past few years. That makes perfect sense to me. Almost nothing has changed for storage architectures in the past three decades.
What is the number one issue customers have with storage pricing? Here's a hint: It is not the overall cost.
When you think of 'cool' tech market segments, which ones come to mind? Cloud, of course. Big data. The Internet of Things. But storage? For decades, storage has been a necessary, massive, but boring market.
What We Read
Few companies have the capabilities or talent to build their own at-scale cloud infrastructure. Dropbox talks about their journey from the public cloud to their own infrastructure and how ridiculously difficult it was.
The world is moving from workflow-first applications to data-first applications.
Everyone is talking Petabytes, Exabytes and Zettabytes. See what we've been reading this week in storage.
Take a look at the news that we've been reading recently.
Are you ready to declare VR another leg of the 3rd platform movement?
Have you ever stopped to consider the hidden cost of software-defined storage products?
What type of issues do you get when you deploy open source software to tens of thousands of machines?
Exciting new memory technology was recently introduced by Micron and Intel that could alter the separation of storage and the compute. Are we seeing the future that puts the fast side of storage even closer to the compute?
Earlier we wrote about Storage is Cool and how new use cases are creating new architectures.
In a prior linked article we re-posted flash is not taking over the world. New disk technologies like SMR will continue to increase the densities and lower the cost point for capacity storage.
The Register reports that North America is down to its last few thousand IPv4 addresses.
Imagine having a fully-functional Lego-sized data center on your desk. Sounds pretty cool?
Computerworld's Lucas Mearian reports that hard drives will remain the dominant mass storage device in laptops and desktops for years to come.
The human species may face extinction someday but all of our data could live on in DNA storage. Scientists say all the world's data can fit on a DNA hard drive the size of a teaspoon.
Nanterro came out of stealth this week and announced it has been developing a new form of non-volatile RAM (NRAM) based on Carbon Nanotubes (CNT).
The Cloud is facing resistance or failing in many organizations. John Mathon dissects the problems and suggests 5 steps to start using the Cloud today.
Backblaze put hard drives to ultimate test and, lucky you, they're sharing their latest reliability stats.
New types of disk drives are shaping up to handle new types of applications and workloads.
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Is RAID dead? A quick Google search indicates it might be, at least for Big Storage. Why?
Introducing a new product is much like being a proud parent. Rolling a new product out is like sending little Johnny on his first sleepover
You can't be in tech today and not have mixed feelings about patents. In theory, patents allow the 'little person' to benefit from their 'intellectual property' and invention.
Today we launch inside.igneous.io, the site we promised for keeping insiders like you appraised of our progress and seek your feedback.
I am happy to announce that as of May 25, 2015, we have installed our very first system. The pre-production "alpha" system is live and operational in a customer data center.


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A trade group says Facebook needs 'measurement transparency'
The call for an audit of Facebook's metrics comes a week after the social network acknowledged inflating its video metrics.
A trade group says Facebook needs 'measurement transparency'
The call for an audit of Facebook's metrics comes a week after the social network acknowledged inflating its video metrics.
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Behind the recent launch of RadioShack's new web site was a move to an outsourced e-commerce platform at GSI Commerce. To support the move internally, RadioShack.com added a new content management system and dedicated team.
Scalability, the demands placed on e-commerce infrastructure by increasing traffic, even expansion of the web site's mission may all figure into an e-retailer`s decision to upgrade its technology platform. To meet those demands may require site operators to do more than simply buy more capacity: RadioShack.com changed its entire workflow to get what it wanted, the company tells Internet Retailer.com.
RadioShack Corp.'s decision to swap out its existing e-commerce platform for a new one on GSI Commerce to support the launch of its new web site last fall aligns with a more integrated multi-channel strategy at the consumer electronics retailer. Another key consideration in the switch was getting access to capabilites and functions the old platform didn`t provide.
Though the e-commerce platform is now outsourced, RadioShack still originates all the content the new GSI platform supports on RadioShack.com. So to improve the process by which it creates the content it would now feed to GSI, RadioShack, No. 108 in the Internet Retailer Top 400 Guide to Retail Web Sites, implemented a new IBM WebSphere content management system prior to going live with GSI.
To staff it, a dedicated in-house content management team was created, which pulled copywriters and others from marketing staff as well creating some new positions and adding new hires. "We reengineered the entire workflow. We build out specs, features and products and we feed those assets to GSI, which in turn displays them on our web site. Even though they are in effect our IT shop, there is a lot of integration work that connects the two companies," says Jim Hamilton, senior vice president and chief merchandising officer, RadioShack.
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Jitsi is cross-platform, free and open-source software that supports Instant Messaging (IM), voice and video chat over the Internet. It supports many of the most popular and widely used IM and telephony protocols, Jabber/XMPP (used by Facebook and Google Talk), AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo! Messenger and the SIP Voice-over-IP (VoIP) protocol. It offers additional independent encryption for IM through the OTR (Off-the-Record) protocol and for voice and video sessions through ZRTP and SRTP. Jitsi runs on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS and Linux. An Android version is under development.
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The ability to have a private and secure integrated communications system, that includes video chat sessions
The ability to encrypt your communication independently of your account providers
The ability to register and use different accounts (e.g. Facebook, Google Talk, Yahoo Messenger) simultaneously