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Technology Strategy Framework and Testing Device Requirements
The minimum and recommended student testing device and network bandwidth requirements for Smarter Balanced assessments.
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This tool helps local educational agencies (LEAs) to ensure that they have sufficient bandwidth and browser capabilities to run the Smarter Balanced assessments.
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Information on the Broadband Infrastructure Improvement Grant (BIIG) program and statewide connectivity report administered by the K12HSN in accordance with Senate Bill 852, which allocates $26.7 million for these projects.
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Describes the approximate times that will be required to complete each portion of the Smarter Balanced summative tests for English language arts/literacy and mathematics. These tests are not timed and times will vary.
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List of technology reminders to prepare an LEA for the test administration of the Smarter Balanced Online Summative Assessments.
Data Readiness Resources
California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System (CALPADS)
CALPADS is the authoritative source for student demographics, enrollment, and program data which is used for the student test registration system, known as the Test Operations Management System (TOMS).
CALPADS and California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP) Integration
This Webinar provides local educational agencies (LEAs) information on how to prepare CALPADS data for the student test registration system and provides a list of the data elements being sent to TOMS.
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The Green Bay Packers' Thanksgiving Day had been a colossal disappointment, and in the Ford Field locker visitors' room in the moments after the loss to the Detroit Lions, the road ahead appeared daunting. One could've argued the season was lost.
"There was very little room for error before the game," the Packers head coach said. "And there's even less room now."
Nothing had gone right. The bruising starting running back, who'd been so productive in previous weeks, was shut down.
"We couldn't run the ball worth a (expletive)," the tell-it-like-it-is left guard said. "It was a terrible game."
The defense had made a few plays, but not enough, and committed costly errors at inopportune times.
"We just didn't do enough to get the job done," the veteran cornerback said. "We needed big plays, we needed to stop them from putting points up on the board altogether. I hate to say it, but we found a way to lose this one."
Injuries remained a factor.
"But we have guys who have to step in and make those plays and make that adjustment," the coach said. "And I fully expected us to."
And to top it off, the former MVP quarterback wouldn't be 100 percent healthy the rest of the season.
"Do I feel like I can take this team and carry them by myself? I think every individual should feel that way," the quarterback said. "If you want to (ask), can I still carry this team? Fine. But until they tell me I'm not the quarterback here anymore, then I will do my best and feel confident that I can do what needs to be done to win."
And yet, despite it all, they knew they had four games left to play, and they weren't ready to give up, despite being 1 1/2 games behind the NFC North leader.
"We have to win out," the veteran right guard said. "We've got four games left. We're definitely not out of anything. We still have a shot."
Added the head coach: "You never know how things are going to pan out. You just don't. So you have to win each game as you go. The margin of error has now been minimized even more so because of our ineptness (against Detroit). We have to overcome that."
Sound familiar? It should.
Except, this wasn't Mike McCarthy, Josh Sitton, Tramon Williams, Aaron Rodgers and T.J. Lang talking after Thursday's 40-10 Thanksgiving loss to the Lions. This was Mike Sherman, Mike Wahle, Mike McKenzie, Brett Favre and Marco Rivera talking after the team's 22-14 loss to the Lions on Thanksgiving 2003.
And you know what happened next.
The Packers, 6-6 entering the final four games, won out. Favre took the field in Oakland in the second-to-last game of the season, having lost his father Irv to a fatal heart attack, and played the game of his life. In a sublimely bizarre final day of the season, the Packers whipped the Denver Broncos, 31-3, at Lambeau Field while most of the crowd spent the second half turned around watching skybox TVs to see the Arizona Cardinals stun the Minnesota Vikings, 18-17, and send the Packers to the NFC North title and a berth in the playoffs.
"Something's going on here," Favre said after that game.
Once there, they beat Matt "We Want The Ball And We're Going To Score" Hasselbeck and the Seattle Seahawks in the NFC Wild Card round. The Team of Destiny came up short, of course, its miraculous run ending with the infamous Fourth-and-26 loss at Philadelphia in the NFC Divisional round.
But that's not the point. The point is that a team seemingly out of contention went on a run, with its quarterback bringing his teammates together, and made the playoffs. The 5-6-1 Packers, who are 0-4-1 since Rodgers broke his left collarbone against Chicago on the opening series of the team's No. 4 loss, have four games left – at home against Atlanta (3-9) on Sunday, at Dallas (7-5) on Dec. 15, at home against Pittsburgh (5-7) on Dec. 22 and at Chicago (6-6) on Dec. 29.
On Friday – the last time McCarthy spoke to reporters, as Monday evening's scheduled press briefing was canceled by the club – McCarthy acknowledged how bad Thursday's loss had been and the scenario it created.
"There's not a man that's coached or played in this league that hasn't had his ass beat. OK? And that's what happened to us. We got drilled by a very good football team that played very well. So we'll take that hard lesson, swallow. They'll be accountable for it. And we'll be ready to go when Atlanta comes in here.
"We're in a hole. We felt like we were in a hole going in to the Detroit game. We've got two division losses and a tie. That's not where you want to be. This league is exciting each and every week. And that's the way you have to approach it. So we have a big opportunity (against the Falcons). It's an NFC game, it's at home, to get back to .500. And we'll see what happens."
While Rodgers' collarbone injury is obviously different than the personal tragedy Favre dealt with, his return could conceivably galvanize the team. In addition to everything else the Packers overcame in 2003, Favre played the second half of the season with a broken thumb on his right (throwing) hand, suffered in October.
Will the Packers be able to ride Rodgers to a similar finish? Of course, past performance is not a guarantee of future results. But asked on his weekly radio show on 540 ESPN and ESPNWisconsin.com last week whether the team could run the table, Rodgers said he believed it could. In fact, Rodgers had just talked with injured running back DuJuan Harris about it a week earlier.


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28 game hitting streak for Andre Ethier!
Congratulations Andre on your 28 game hitting streak! Ethier is three games away from the Dodgers franchise record of 31 games,set by Willie Davis in 1969. If you are a Dodger fan or a baseball fan you are following the streak on TV, radio, online or by being at Dodger Stadium.
I am heading to the stadium now and tomorrow I am off to go to the 2nd Throwback day for the Dodgers.
Go Dodgers! Beat the Cubs!
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Congrats on Andre the Giant #29 tonight. And have fun at throw-back day tomorrow. I'll be watching on Extra-Innings.
He's reached the plateau where the media attention starts to get very, very tough. Ethier seems to be handling it quite well though, he's a fun player to watch.
I'm more than happy to see him continue his streak – but only if the Cubs win! Somehow this is the last times the teams face each other until the postseason? 🙂 What a bizarre schedule. Good luck today. And good luck to Andre.
Is what we need to do is to try and get Roger Arrieta involved, along with some local newpeapsrs. A great way to do it would be to set up a letter drive. If we could get 50,000 dodger fans to send letters to Dodger Stadium on a certain day, that would certainly make our point. 0Was this answer helpful?
What a beautiful hitting streak of your Andre! It covers entire April (except for the first day of the month). Wish him best of luck in the next game.
And also wish you a happy Cinco de Mayo!
29 indeed! but don't put Andre the Giant! We don't want him to be A Jint! lol. They play bad on the secod Throwback. Hopefully Andre continues his hitting with your team Mike. Going to any of the games? I am sure OBF and Truebluewill will make it to one of those games.
Well Andre did not play and your Cubs won so you should be happy. Weird is right that they only meet once at each stadium.
Thank you Nao! Hopefully Andre will continue his hitting streak in New York. Wish I could be there.
It was a great streak. Congratulations to Andre Ethier! Of course, I picked him in beat the streak on what would have been game 31 so now I kind of feel like I cursed him, not my intention. I'm not usually that silly about streaks and luck but there it is.
This is a very simple game…
It was a great run at 30! We are proud of him. After the streak was over he got back to hitting the following day so that is important.
Oh, I am not THAT supertitious (yeah right). you did not curse him. Hey, maybe now he can hit more homeruns and more important win games. He needs to get back to walk-offs!


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Abdel-Baset al-Megrahi
Libyan rebels — "Hand over Lockerbie bomber? No way. But thanks for your help."
The usual treatment has been meted out by some unknown (at the time) foreign entity we chose to help. We've been stiffed. After spending months, not weeks, helping the Libyan rebels overthrow Mommar Gadaffi, payback comes in the form of refusing to hand over the convicted murderer of 270 people in the bombing of Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.
Having fully duped the Scots by acting as though he was terminally ill, Abdel-Baset al-Megrahi was released by them to a hero's welcome in Libya, and, apparently a full recovery. Must be the air.
A group of US Senators, obviously presuming that the new rebel government would be somewhat thankful for all the help given them over the past months, requested al-Megrahi be turned over to US custody.
But the transitional government's justice minister, Mohammed al-Alagi, said Sunday in Tripoli that the request by American senators had "no meaning" because Mr. Megrahi had already been tried and convicted.
"We will not hand over any Libyan citizen. It was Gadhafi who handed over Libyan citizens," he said, referring to the government's decision to turn Mr. Megrahi over to a Scottish court for trial.
Yes, he's be tried and convicted … and sentenced. And the only reason he was released was for supposed "compassionate" reasons based on his health. As it turns out, that was a lie. Seems pretty open and shut to me – he's still convicted and his compassionate release, because of the ruse, is null and void.
Mr. Megrahi's current whereabouts are unknown, and on Saturday no one answered the door of his villa, hidden behind high walls in an upscale Tripoli neighborhood. A neighbor, Yousef Mohammed, said he saw Mr. Megrahi's son in the street on Friday and assumed the family hadn't left the area.
No private guards or rebel fighters were visible in the quiet side street of walled villas. The neighbor, said he often saw Mr. Megrahi in the neighborhood. "This guy is sick. All the time, I saw him" in the wheelchair, he said.
Yeah, I think we've seen this movie before.
OK … seems pretty easy from here. No Megrahi, no aid, no assets unfrozen, no help of any kind.
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Men's Cross Country Have Four On Scholar-Athlete List
November 27, 2013
(Wednesday, November 27; Sioux Center, Iowa) Four Dordt College men's cross country runners have earned NAIA Scholar-Athlete honors for the recently completed 2013 season.
Two juniors and two seniors make up the list for Dordt College.
Tim Bierma (Senior; Sioux Center, Iowa) and Chris Postma (Senior; Orange City, Iowa) claim the honor for the second time in their careers. Bierma is an agriculture major while Postma is majoring in Health-Human Performance.
Making the list for the first time are Nathan Jackson (Junior; Tracy, California) and Jacob Byma (Junior; Lansing, Illinois). Jackson is an Education and History major while Byma is majoring in Psychology.
Jackson recently ran at the NAIA National Championship and placed 127th. It was the second time Jackson had qualified for the Championship event.
The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) has announced Friday that 224 men's cross country student-athletes have been named 2013 Daktronics-NAIA Scholar Athletes. Olivet Nazarene (Ill.) leads all institutions with 11 individuals on the list.
In order to be nominated by an institution's head coach or sports information director, a student-athlete must maintain a minimum grade point average of 3.5 on a 4.0 scale and must have achieved a junior academic status to qualify for this honor.
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Shared Source vs. Open Source Related Links
Craig Mundie presented a compelling argument for Microsoft's business model and their position for sharing source code. Michael Tiemann says that Microsoft isn't accurately portraying their intentions. Where do you stand?
Editor's Note: On July 26, 2001, Microsoft Senior VP, Craig Mundie addressed the open source community during the morning keynote at O'Reilly's Open Source Convention in San Diego, CA. Then Red Hat CTO, Michael Tiemann presented his counter argument to many of the points made by Mundie. Here is the transcript of both presentations.
Tim O'Reilly:
As my friend Doc Searls wrote in The Cluetrain Manifesto, "markets are conversations." And one of the most important conversations going on in today's software market is the conversation between proprietary software — whose most successful example is Microsoft — and the open source movement (I should say the open source and free software movements just to be clear... [applause]), whose work is really transforming the software market and changing the rules that Microsoft has worked under, and been so successful under, for so long.
I think Microsoft has displayed an awful lot of courage and vision over the last couple of years. I know people — in this community particularly — like to beat on Microsoft, but I really think that they have been extremely bold as they've really embraced very boldly this change from a desktop-centric architecture to an Internet-centric one. And they've been thinking long and hard about what that means.
And now they're doing the same thing with the lessons that they're seeing out there in the world coming from free software and open source. They're looking at what's necessary — or (asking): Is there something out there in moving from proprietary software development models to ones that are more open and collaborative?
Right now they've released some preliminary thoughts on shared source licenses. They might not like to think this way, but I tend to think of the current shared source licenses as Windows 1.0. They got that there was a revolution happening with the GUI, and they jumped on it and everybody laughed at their first attempt.
People may complain about things in shared source, but my belief is that Microsoft is really good at learning from the competition. And they're learning from us. They're saying, "Hey, you guys have something. We're going to figure out what's good about it, we're going to figure out how to keep what we also believe in." They're going to keep working at it until they get it right. So maybe they got it right this time; but even if they didn't, I think they're going to keep at until they do. A lot of [what] I'm really wanting to do is to help them get it right. And I want you to hopefully help them get it right. And help them learn what it means to be a participant in our communities.
Anyway, I'm really pleased that Microsoft Senior VP Craig Mundie has agreed to come down today and engage in this conversation about software development methodologies and business models. It's really clear that Microsoft is willing to learn from open source and free software, and I'm hoping that we're able to listen with an open mind to what Craig has to say and to learn from him as well.
I talked about markets as conversations, and the format of this keynote is also a conversation. We're going to hear briefly from Craig. Then we're going to hear briefly from Michael Tiemann of Red Hat. And then we're going to invite up several additional panelists to join us in what I hope will be a very,very thought-provoking conversation. And I hope you'll enjoy it also. As we get towards the end, we'll invite the audience in to participate as well. And when we do that, I really hope that you will be sort of as respectful and thoughtful as we're trying to be ... [audience laughter] ... in this conversation. All right?
With that, I'd like to welcome up Craig Mundie of Microsoft.
Craig Mundie:
Thanks Tim, and good morning everyone. It is indeed a pleasure to be here. I almost don't have to give my speech because I think Tim summarized some of the key points for me, but I'll go ahead and try anyway.
Let me just begin by explaining a little bit what my role is at Microsoft, so you can have some perspective on the comments that I offer and the role that I play. I've been at Microsoft about nine years, and originally went there to start all the company's activities in non-PC computing.
So I mean, as Tim said, Microsoft is a company that tries to learn and tries to move ahead. And as far back as 1992, we had decided that the world in fact was going to change substantially — that we wouldn't just find computing in the things that we call computers. And my job was to try to move the company in that direction. And so, many of the things that you see today in terms of Windows CE and Pocket PCs, auto- and television-based products, are things that I did in the first six-plus years that I was there.
Three years ago, those things came to a point of maturity where Microsoft realized they needed to be blended together, and we needed to address the marketplace by thinking in a more holistic way about computing and how we offer those products, not only to enterprisers but to consumers. And we merged all those together. At that time Bill also — Bill Gates — had decided to focus his entire energy, going forward, on questions of strategy and architecture for the company, because we recognized that the market ahead of us was probably more turbulent than any market the company had known in its twenty-odd years of history.
It was at that time that Bill asked me to go work for him, and I've done that for the last three years, working with him almost exclusively on prospective issues of architecture and policy and strategy for the company. And in that role I try to support Bill and other executives, to take on policy issues and to be a speaker for the company about things that we're concerned with. And usually that falls in the realm of things that happened in the capitals of the various major countries of the world, but in this case there are a set of issues here that are quite profound and [we] decided that we should speak out about them and try to at least provide leadership.
In the discussion that has ensued since I gave the first comments about this at New York University Business School the third of May, our goal all along has been one of creating an environment around informed choice. So my role in coming here today and in speaking out about these issues for the last several months has not been about one of trying to legislate anything to anybody, but rather to create the dialogue and make people understand what we think some of the long-term implications of their choices are.
If you look at the reportage that we have had over a lot of my comments — and as I thought about coming to this conference — go to the next slide — we wondered a lot about how I hould actually introduce myself.
[The slide superimposes the faces of Craig Mundie and Dave Stutz over those of Dr. Evil and his Mini-Me.]
[Audience laughter] David and I came to this conference — Dave, of course, can be here for the entire conference, I can only stay for part of the day — we wondered, What is it that people think we're really trying to do? Why are we taking on this battle? It clearly, certainly has been reported at times that Microsoft doesn't like open source. So let me be clear. One of the reasons I came to this conference is to speak to the open source community directly.
Microsoft has no beef with open source. In fact, we think it's an integral part of an ecosystem that has fueled such tremendous success and growth around the world in the software and information technology businesses. But there are aspects of this general movement — even as Tim himself pointed out — there seem to be really two large camps in this environment: the free software movement and the open source movement per se; but largely the press has certainly been confused, because my comments have been largely directed at some of the issues that we find around the licensing regimes, around the free software movement. And yet it's most frequently reported as "Mundie attacks open source."
So let me be again quite clear. Open source isn't the issue. And as I go through the rest of these comments, hopefully you'll understand specifically the concerns that we have; why we offer these for your consideration and those of everyone else in the world, and why we are happy to have an opportunity to maintain this dialogue directly. Next slide please.
Shared Source vs. Open Source Related Links
At the end of the day, the biggest concern that Microsoft has is about the long-term preservation of what we think of as the software ecosystem. This ecosystem, like those in the physical world, evolved over quite a long period of time, and they reach usually some state of equilibrium where people are happy with the results for a long time. But as we've learned in the physical world, certain actions that people can take on or certain things that they do can have some long-term effects on that ecosystem. And we deal with those in our daily lives as we think about endangered species, as we think about having enough electricity, and a lot of other things. And Microsoft, while certainly a company that has benefited from the commercial software environment, recognizes that we only play a small role in this large software ecosystem. And that role may be significant in some dimensions, but there are many ways in which you can measure it and in fact find that it is in fact a relatively small part, certainly by total dollar volume or any of a variety of other measures.
And so, if we think about this ecosystem — or at least, the way we think about the ecosystem — there are four different components to it that we think have a strong, symbiotic relationship, and which has led to the kind of productivity that we have in the software industry today.
[The slide shows Intellectual commons -> Industry -> Customers -> Government in a circle with arrows pointing from one to the next.]
Clearly the industrial companies are a big part of it. If you can go back in time to the beginning of computing and also to the beginning of software as we know it today, it was really a contribution that came through the intellectual commons, broadly defined, and in particular university efforts. And in fact a lot of the things that are the most popular today probably wouldn't have had their beginning without specific government funding. Where, for example, the original Arpanet, funded through DARPA, was a key part of creating the technology that we all enjoy the benefits of today in the basic forming of the Internet. And of course the customers themselves are part of the ecosystem, not only in terms of consuming the efforts of the companies and other institutions in this environment, but more and more customers are finding that they have to do some of their own software development. And the reason is that more and more, the base business process is becoming captured in the software that defines the business. And it's our belief that that will in fact increase over time, not decrease over time.
And so it isn't really surprising that some aspects of the open source movement speak directly to some parts of this ecosystem. The whole idea of having an intellectual commons, outside the academic environment, seems to be a key underpinning of what people like as one aspect of the open source movement. The ability for customers to believe that they can have access to source codes at times certainly has merit, and it's one of the areas where Microsoft has learned from this community and recognizes that there are things that we too can do to improve in this area.
As Tim said, I think Microsoft is a learning machine. It's got quite a few smart people. We really try to listen to customers in the marketplace and to things going on around us. And many people I don't think stop and think, but the Microsoft we know today is a company that has in fact morphed probably five or six times in its 25-year history, in order to adapt to the changing conditions around it. And certainly we find ourselves in a time of flux as great as any that we've known in the history of the company. And so we find it incumbent on us to pay attention to what's going on that engages all the members of this ecosystem and try to figure out what is our way forward. Next slide, please.
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Development choices
Language, community, source model, platform
Distribution choices
Open source, shareware, freeware, commercial and mixed
Licensing choices
BSD, shared source licenses, traditional commercial licenses, GPL, public domain
Business choices
Services, packaged software, aggregate 'distributions,' appliances, hardware]
At the end of the day, it is all about choice. When I started giving these, people said, "Well, hey, it's consumers that want choice." The reality is that everybody wants choice. As an individual developer, you want choice. As a customer, you want some choices. As governments, ultimately, you want choices. So I want to talk a little about some of the choices I think we all face together in the course of the next few years.
When we talk about development choice, there are a number of different things that immediately come to mind.
The question of language. And language itself in the computing environment has been one of continuous evolution, and we expect that to continue.
Community. Clearly a very important aspect of the open source environment — I mean, this group calls itself a community. I think community is not [a] unique notion. One of the things I tried to highlight in my comments in New York was that in fact Microsoft has always had a developer community itself. In fact, it numbers in the millions. But we in fact haven't related — for a variety of reasons — to that community the way that you relate to each other. And by observing that and how that works, we find a lot of merit in the aspect of what you do, and are trying to emulate that in some things.
The source model. In the sense of, "How do you develop? What are the tools you use for development?" The platform that you target these things to. All are choices that developers make, whether they're individuals or corporate members.
Then you have the choice of distribution. There's been lots of experimentation in the last three decades as people have done more and more work in software. There's the open source concept, which is the hallmark of this conference. There were the shareware notions and the freeware notions, which to some extent I think were a progenitor of some aspects of open source. And then there were what you might think of as the commercial or mixed models, where companies like Microsoft choose to provide some technology on a commercial basis and some we actually contribute through either standards efforts or other mechanisms — for example, academic programs — largely to try to continue to bootstrap the ecosystem and help it move forward. Because we recognize that we benefit from that ecosystem, and we want to continue to have the opportunity to benefit from it.
People have licensing choices. There's the Berkeley licensing. I mentioned that in 1982 I started a supercomputer company, and we were designing machines that had no previous architecture that was really quite similar, and so we had to build our own tools, our compilers, and in fact our own operating system. You know, I took in my company a Berkeley license and we built an operating system — a UNIX operating system — based on that. So I have personal experience about the benefits from being able to stand on the shoulders of the great work that was done by people like Bill Joy and others in their academic careers.
There's the shared source license, which is essentially the umbrella name that Microsoft has chosen for a family of software products that we offer to our customers. We've offered a small number of these than in the past, but we do find legitimate reasons to offer a wide array of customers a quite varied array of shared source licenses. And in fact, I totaled them up last night. We probably had two or three of these in effect when I gave this speech in May and said we would do more. And today we have eight. And so we're quite aggressively pursuing providing source access to people, but in a very specific licensing regimen.
There are the traditional commercial licenses, which cover most of the products that people buy today. There's the GPL, and there's the public domain.
Then you get down to business choice. What is the business that you're going to be about? You can be in the business of offering services. And in fact Microsoft has recognized [this], courtesy of the Internet revolution, but more and more there almost has to be a service component to every software product in the future. That wasn't true in the past, but we think it will be more true in the future. And we clearly have begun to adjust our business in order to support that.
There's the packaged software model. There are different forms of distribution. There's embedded software and appliances, and specific products that are shipped with hardware. There are many different business models that people confuse.
"Software as a business
Microsoft's choice: the commercial software model..."]
We happen to like, and will continue to pursue, a commercial software model.
Each of these choices ends up having some long-term policy implications — either in terms of its effect on the ecosystem, the sustainability of your investment, or ultimately, the form of the business that you take on.
So software as a business is a model that Microsoft believes in. It's one we think is important in this ecosystem, in terms of having adequate research and development spending over a long period of time. And we will continue to have this be our choice. I guess ultimately the market will tell us whether or not that choice is a good one, or whether it's to be supplanted by some other predominating model. But right now, we think it will be important option for people, and we will continue to pursue it.
The software industry is a critical industry in this country, and increasingly a critical industry elsewhere in the world. If you just look at the U.S. economy, it's an integral part today. There are 148,000 commercial companies in the software industry today, and they provide two million jobs. These are companies who actually pay people to develop software, and then sell that software. And we think that that is going to continue. It won't go away overnight.
The net result is this feeds the ecosystem, because through that employment and through the corporate profits, this industry in the United States last year paid 28 billion dollars in taxes — which, in our society, is the way that we redistribute the wealth that's created in these companies — in order to feed the ecosystem, through government programs, through academic programs, and things that generally support our society, of which we all benefit. More to the point, this industry exported 121 billion dollars worth of products out of this country, and that clearly has been an important part of the economy. The net effect of that is that it's taught every country that in the future they're going to have to have a software industry.
And so this questions of the ecosystem. This questions the licensing regime and its impact. And ultimately, [it's] even an important policy matter for heads of state, because if they want to have a software industry, we think that they have to in fact foster an ecosystem and a culture within their society that says that people benefit from the fruits of their labor. And where those things are intellectual properties — that too should be respected and paid for. Next slide.
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So Microsoft certainly is attempting to learn from the open source movement at large. We've expanded, in quite dramatic ways, our community program. We've recognized that people do in fact seem to relish the opportunity to interact with each other when they have a shared interest, and in fact interact directly with our developers. And while that hasn't been our practice in the past, since May 3rd we've actually begun to foster the involvement of our developers in a variety of the access and community programs, and we'll continue to expand that.
We've expanded our source access, as I mentioned earlier, to have a broad range of licenses.
One thing I think is hard for some people to understand is in fact the scope or scale of the business that Microsoft is in today, on a worldwide basis. We do 65 percent of our business outside of the United States. Every time we ship a product, it's pretty much demanded that we deliver it instantly in about seven to nine languages and within ninety days in as many as thirty-five or forty languages. And it takes a huge effort to be able to do that on a worldwide basis. We have a huge range of customer requirements that range from military requirements of the United States and others to, just traditional, individuals and consumers at home.
And so we recognize that we need to have and will continue to expand the range of licenses, both for the product as product but increasingly for the source access or tools that depend on source access for these products in the future. But at the end of the day, we think that we can offer some of these things and still do it under a commercial model.
So those are my remarks I'd like to offer today to the community. Make sure that you understand what it is that is really driving us to have this concern about your choice, in particular around a licensing regime and what the long-term implications of that are for this community as a part of the overall worldwide software community.
Thank you for your attention.
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From the nunber of red hats out in the audience I think you probably know who our next speaker is. Michael Tiemann was the founder of Cygnus Support, and then it became Cygnus Solutions, and then became part of Red Hat. But Michael was one of the very first open source — actually, he was a free software entrepreneur, I should say. He started with GPL Software and he's basically been on that path ever since. And I think Michael is probably the best exemplar there is of somebody who sees that even with the GPL, there is an enormous potential for a software business. And so he's here to tell us about why that's so.
Michael Tiemann:
Thank you very much.
Esse quam videri is the motto of the state of North Carolina, and for those of you where were hacking instead of studying Latin in school, it means "to be rather than to seem." I claim that to build an architecture of trust, it is better to be open than to seem open, better to be trustworthy than to seem trustworthy. [applause]
Such an architecture is vital to creating and enabling and governing the technologies which are going to enable our future, and that a lesser architecture will ultimately crash and burn, stunting economic opportunity for all.
This debate is important because it's about the future of software and the increasing substance of technology, its importance in our economy, and if Lawrence Lessig is correct, the way in which code functions as law and how that ultimately governs us.
As long as Microsoft insists on writing code, we as technologists — and we as a business seeking fair and equitable competition — and we as citizens — want Microsoft to do what is right.
Now, of all the choices, open source makes it easier to be rather than to seem. For example, from this perspective, there is no reality to Microsoft's shared source license in the sense that, as [with] many well-spun phrases, it's not unlike the alternative minimum tax: it is neither alternative nor minimum. [laughter] There's no reality beyond it being a proprietary software license — albeit one that seems to offer something new.
Now when preparing for this debate, one question kept coming up, which is why Microsoft would try this new and very high-profile deception when the sum total of its prior deceptions were earning a billion dollars a month. What were they really trying to fix? The answer goes back to October 31, 1998, and the Halloween documents.
Now there are a lot of smart people in the open source community, including — because we include the free software community — at least one genius. [laughter, applause] But I must concede to my worthy opponent that there are a lot of smart people at Microsoft. I do not know who is the first one to see, as I did, that open source software, including software covered by the GPL, could be the basis of a business model powerful enough to legitimately compete with Microsoft. But she was probably one of the smartest.
Then a second smart person, and then a third, clued in to the Halloween documents. And those documents, illuminated by Eric Raymond, showed that a fair number of people within Microsoft began to get it. That open course was a better model, delivering advantages and benefits that Microsoft could not achieve with proprietary software alone. Period. So: hats off to the smart people at Microsoft.
There are many open source software projects and many licenses that govern them. If we look at them as a body, the GPL is the spine. In the licensing debate, many focus on the free versus the proprietary, but they often miss the second dimension of strong versus weak. Microsoft writes strong proprietary licenses. The GPL is a strong free license, much like the first amendment is a strong law protecting free speech in the U.S. [applause]
Microsoft has benefited, albeit illegally, from the application of strong licenses governing its own software. Red Hat has benefited, as has its customers, from strong protections of the GPL, which ensures that our investments, our participation, cannot be used in a way to exclude us from competing in the market. If the GPL did not provide the strong protections of freedom and the guarantees of freedom, we could not have made the investments that we made, for fear that somebody else with more money and more market power might grow to embrace and extend and extinguish us. Instead, we are healthy. We hit our earnings number each of the eight quarters we've been public, and we've announced a profit one year ahead of schedule. Who says that the GPL is bad for business? [applause]
Now back to 1998 and the Halloween documents. 1998 seems like such a long time ago, and three years is a long time in the open source world. While we were participating in a revolution that resulted in unprecedented adoption of open source and free software, I think there was another revolution going on inside Microsoft. A revolution fueled by the technical superiority of the open source model and by the recognition of large, economic considerations by smart people inside of Microsoft. In fact, in his comments, it sounds like Craig Mundie is one of those people, and I very much appreciate that.
When Microsoft bought Hotmail, they not only became one of the largest free email service companies, but they also ran one of the larger FreeBSD server deployments. [laughter, applause] When they tried to switch to Windows, the inevitable occurred. [laughter] FreeBSD works, Windows crashes. FreeBSD works, Windows crashes. Somebody else clued in. The light bulb goes on. Open source software is better. Do you think for a minute that the people who administer those systems are saying, "Gosh, I wish I could dump this FreeBSD crud and run Windows?" I don't. [laughter]
But the revolution was not confined to what Microsoft consumed. They began to produce. Microsoft eventually started to write code and specifications that were actually useful, XML being one of the shining examples of that. And we thank you for creating an architecture that made it simpler and easier to exchange data among programs in a consistent fashion. So smart people inside of Microsoft are getting it, which is great.
Now, as an entrepreneur and an executive, I know what it's like to run a company. And this is both the good and the bad: Before Cygnus was acquired by Red Hat, we had our own revolution to contend with. Outside investors who did not understand our model — and that's further proof that some people have more money than brains — tried to inject proprietary software into our company. We tried to rationalize it. We set up internal barriers. We partitioned the company. We crafted corporate emails with executive-speak to make everything seem consistent. But esse quam videri. It is better to be than to seem. Having read such documents, I can recognize their smell when somebody puts them under my nose.
This shared source thing may be "It's only 1.0." — [but it] has nothing to do with community outside of Microsoft. It is not so much a license, I think, than a treaty, crafted by executives trying to buy time while they quiet the internal rebellion that is Microsoft's own civil war.
History has taught us the dangers of getting too involved in another civil war, and it is a very delicate issue — and I think one that we should debate. What is the appropriate way to make way for the coming revolution of open source within Microsoft?
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Craig, I think you were brave to come here [applause], and I think you can report back that when Microsoft is ready to sign off on the GPL, and encourage its use to help us build a better, more transparent, more trustworthy architecture for computing — one that empowers individuals, promotes fair and equal competition, and enables freedom at higher levels — we will welcome you to this party as a first-class citizen. [applause]
And you can bet that on that day there will be plenty of both free beer and free software. When that happens, we can be glad that we replaced the winner-takes-all mentality with an everybody-wins model, and that's really what developers and customers want.
So, thank you very much and let the real debate begin.
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Last year I made the mistake of placing my faith in the savior apparent of the Detroit Tigers, a man I lovingly referred to as my big, black baby Jesus. He rewarded my faith by issuing more free passes than a scalper outside a Washington Nationals game. But after some time in the minors and a stint on the DL for an "anxiety disorder," Dontrelle Willis finally made it back to the big leagues last night. And didn't do a whole lot to allay our fears.
It's rare that we see our heroes crumble into dust and then reemerge as a better version of themselves. Al Gore and Andre Agassi are good examples of how that works out at it's best but, unfortunately, the Dontrelle Willis route is much more common. Something happens, something disappears and suddenly the person is a shell of their former self. It's like the final episode of Seinfeld. We recognize it as being Seinfeld but its essential Seinfeldness wasn't there.
That's why I especially appreciate it, though, when heroes of my childhood reemerge in a better if not stronger form. Sergei Fedorov leads the Red Wings for years and then plays his heart out for the Washington Capitals. Kirk Gibson lays it on the line for the '84 Tigers and then comes back and provides the spark for the '88 Dodgers as well. But if I have to choose only one hero who has come back better, stronger and faster, well, I think this video will explain:
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I used to think Dontrelle was great back when he was with the Marlins… the key phrase here is "used to."
Allen is weird… too much time on Mulholland Drive I presume.
Sometimes, comeback stories aren't warm and fuzzy. Doc Gooden came back from coke and jail and pitched a no-hitter for the Yankees, only to fall back into drug addiction. I hope Dontrelle has another shot at glory, but it's not looking good.
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The PlayStation 3 comes in two versions. The AUD$999 model (which I tested) has a 60GB hard disk; built-in 802.11b/g wireless networking; and MemoryStick, SD, and CompactFlash slots. The AUD$829 unit omits Wi-Fi capability and the media card slots, and has a 20GB drive. You can replace the hard drive on either version, and the supplied manual explains how to swap in your own 2.5-inch, serial ATA drive. Our sibling publication GamePro has posted scans of these instructions.
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June 7, 2005: A violent and chaotic-looking mass of gas and dust is seen in this Hubble Space Telescope image of a nearby supernova remnant. Denoted N 63A, the object is the remains of a massive star that exploded, spewing its gaseous layers out into an already turbulent region.See the rest:
Visible from the southern hemisphere, the LMC is an irregular galaxy lying 160,000 light-years from our own Milky Way galaxy in the direction of the constellation Dorado. The supernova remnant, N63A, is enclosed within the star-forming region, N 63, which itself is located in the large super bubble, LMC-4.
It is estimated that the progenitor of the supernova that produced the remnant seen here was about 50 times more massive than our own Sun. Such a massive star has strong stellar winds that can clear away its ambient medium, forming a wind-blown bubble. The supernova that formed N 63A is thought to have exploded inside the central cavity of such a wind-blown bubble, which was itself embedded in a clumpy portion of the LMC's interstellar medium.
The LMC provides excellent examples of active star formation and supernova remnants. Images in the infrared, X-ray, and radio emission of N 63A show a much more expanded bubble that totally encompasses the optical emission seen by Hubble. As the HST images have illustrated, N 63A is still young and its ruthless shocks are destroying ambient gas clouds, rather than coercing them to collapse and form stars. In a few million years, the supernova ejecta from N 63A will reach nearby star-formation sites and may be incorporated into the formation of planets around solar-type stars there.
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L Brands recorded a sharp jump in sales in January, oblivious to the bad weather that bogged down most other retailers last month.
The Columbus-based company's comparable-store sales increase of 9 percent — a key indicator of a retailer's health — easily surpassed the 0.5 percent estimate of Wall Street analysts.
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Based on the good January numbers, L Brands raised its prediction for earnings for its fourth fiscal quarter, which includes January. Wall Street has been predicting fourth-quarter earnings of $1.60 per share, and the company now predicts the figure will be "slightly above" that number.
Perkins noted that move is "something virtually no retailers have done this quarter."
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While geothermal energy costs an additional $300,000, yearly utility costs will be about $24,000 cheaper, meaning the school will make its money back in about 12 years. "Typically our schools last 60, 70, 80 years; if you look at that, it will pay for itself probably 11 times over," said Buildings and Grounds Supervisor Joe Ledvina.
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The bicycle's handlebar clamps can detach during riding causing the rider to lose control, posing a risk of injury.
3T Design Ltd. at (800) 223-3207 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. CT Monday through Friday, or online at www.3tcycling.com and click on Recall for more information.
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The Aura Pro custom bicycle handlebars are original equipment on the 2013 Cervélo P-Series bicycles which come in black, gray and red color combinations. The handlebars are finished in gloss black with "3T," AURA-PRO," and "ULTIMATE-PERFORMANCE" in white on the handlebar's top surface. The recall includes the P3 with Shimano Ultegra and P5 Three with SRAM Red bicycle models. "Cervélo" and "P3" or "P5" appear on the bicycle's frame.
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Cervélo bicycle retailers nationwide from September 2012 through January 2013 for about $3,600 for the P3 with Shimano Ultegra bicycle and about $6,000 for the P5 Three with SRAM Red bicycle with these handlebars.
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Cincinnati Reds Derrick Robinson (15) and Tony Cingrani watch from the dugout in the ninth inning of a baseball game against the New York Mets, Wednesday. New York won 1-0.
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Daisuke Matsuzaka scattered four hits in 7 2-3 shutout innings to win his third consecutive start, outdueling Cincinnatis Mat Latos in the New York Mets 1-0 victory over the Reds on Wednesday.
The Reds came into the game in third place in the Central Division and second in the wild-card standings, one game behind Pittsburgh. The Pirates and Reds end the regular season with a three-game series starting Friday in Cincinnati. The Reds can only tie St. Louis but the Cardinals own the tiebreaker by winning the season series 11-8.
Eric Young Jr. drove in the only run for the Mets, who won two of three in the series.
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No matter how urgent you feel, you cant hit the ball where you want to, he said. If you could do that, you could feel the sense of urgency and get it done all the time. I think people use that term too much. Go into that clubhouse. You will see the guys are down but not out.
Matsuzaka (3-3) allowed two walks and hit a batter. He struck out six and evened his record after three losses and a no-decision in his first four starts after joining the Mets in August.
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Kia launched its first electric car for the U.S. market Thursday in Chicago with the new Soul EV.
On the outside, it looks much like the conventional gasoline-powered Soul 5-door hatchback. However, this version doesn't have a gas tank, or a fuel filler door.
Instead, the little Soul has a 360-watt 27-kilowatt battery that's good for a range of about 80 to 100 miles on a full charge. In terms of power, that comes out to 109 horsepower and a hefty 210 pound-feet of torque.
Kia wants to make this car as eco-friendly as possible with things like regenerative brakes that turn the forward motion of the car back into electricity. There are also about 10 pounds of bio-based plastics throughout the car.
On the outside, you can spot the differences of the Soul EV with its two-tone paint for the body and roof. Plus, the traditional grille has been replaced with a solid plastic cover that hides the charging port.
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Does anyone have a cracked copy or use a cracked copy of Adobe CS5? I am wondering because I used one. I was required to give a serial number each time I opened Illustrator or Photoshop (the only programs I use). Now, however they wont load. No number will take (from a list ~ I did reuse a lot of the numbers, so its not like I ran out). I tried to uninstall by deleting the files. I also tried to uninstall by using the Installer option, Uninstall, but it does not exist.
I am wondering if anyone has any good suggestions to uninstall any CS5 program from a cracked copy or advice on how to get these programs running again.
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A for sale sign is seen Monday on the plot of land across from Sugar & Spice restaurant in Mendon that could potentially be the site of a future mini-golf course.MENDON Tension started to grow for Mendon town residents during a meeting Monday night that allowed for open discussion of the potential construction of a new recreational facility.
Tim and Carolyn McBain have lived in Vermont for years and want to invest in a lot across from the intersection of Route 4 and Meadowlake Drive, and turn the roughly 1.7 acres into a recreational facility. The facility would include a mini-golf course, snack bar, batting cages, arcade and playground.
The land is owned by James Grace of Chimayo LLC and is home to several properties, including an empty house that he said would most likely be torn down should the plans follow through.
We are envisioning a family-friendly place, said Tim McBain during the meeting. We want the community, tourists and local economy to benefit from the business.
The McBains want the golf course to have a Vermont feel to it by incorporating local attractions into the theme. A Quechee Gorge obstacle will be one hole in the course, along with a covered bridge and maple leaf.
We want this to fit in with the authenticity of the town, he said.
However, some Mendon residents see more issues than benefits.
Mark Latski lives several lots down from the property and expressed concern about the noise and traffic levels should the business happen.
I worry about teenagers being loud after dark, Latski said. The business would be open from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. during peak months, and alcohol and drugs would be prohibited.
Just because theyre prohibited, doesnt mean they wont be there, Latski said.
Traffic was another major concern, with the potential business on a tight corner of Route 4 coming down from the mountain.
The location of a business would be disruptive of the town, said one Mendon resident. People already drive too fast right there. Its dangerous and no one will want to drop their kids off for an afternoon of fun.
Mendon residents talked about what the business will look like in the fall and winter when its closed for the season.
It will be an ugly, dead space, one community member said.
Tim McBain disagreed, saying the empty buildings on the land look worse than a functioning business.
We want to bring more life to the town. All the kids and teens weve talked to are excited. They say there is nothing to do, said Carolyn McBain, causing negative murmurs from residents. The golf course would cost about $6 per person; the playground would be free.
One issue that was brought up would be the lack of fencing for protection between the golfing area and the playground. Tim McBain said that mini golf is not intended to be an aggressive game and he is hoping no one will treat it that way.
Planning Commission member Phil Douglas disagreed.
Hoping and reality are two different things, he said.
The planning and approval of the business are still in the infant stages of discussion and still need to be refined to meet zoning and planning criteria.
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