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The information below is relevant for the school year 2016-2017. As soon as data for 2017-2018 is available, you will find it on this page.
Your study programme can give you a negative Binding Study Recommendation (negative BSR) if you have not met certain specific norms.
A study programme recommendation is given at the end of the first year. We expect from you that you will have accumulated 60 credits in your first year, without being behind at the start of the second year. The very minimum of credits that you must have at the end of the first year is 48 of 60 credits. If you have less, then you will receive a negative BSR at the end of your first year, unless we can establish certain personal circumstances. A negative BSR means that you have to end your studies at the Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences.


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Patriotic Trifle
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Recipe by SJL330
This is a beautiful dish and gets lots of ohhs and ahhs at gatherings.
Top Review by senorita2136
SO I made this for the first time for a Memorial Day get together. EVERYONE LOVED IT. One guest called it "Pleasure in a Bowl". We loved it. I used pound cake instead of angel food (because it was on sale). It was really really good and can't wait to try it again. Thanks!!
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Ingredients Nutrition
- 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 8 ounces sour cream
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 8 ounces Cool Whip
- 1 angel food cake, cut into 1-inch pieces
- 1 quart strawberry
- 1 quart blueberries, can use blackberries
- 3⁄4 cup sugar, for berries
- 1⁄2 cup orange juice
- 1 (3 1/2 ounce) package instant vanilla pudding
- 2 cups milk
Directions See How It's Made
- Cream together cream cheese and powdered sugar.
- Add sour cream, vanilla and Cool Whip.
- Mix pudding as directed and add to cheese mixture.
- In separate bowls add sugar to each type of fruit and let sit. You can also add a bit of orange juice to fruit mixture if fruit isn't very juicy.
- In a trifle dish, or clear glass bowl, put a tightly packed layer of angel food cake pieces.
- Drizzle a little orange juice over cake layer.
- Now alternate layers of berries, pudding/cheese mixture and cake til dish is full.
- Last layer should be pudding/cheese mixture.
- Garnish with fresh berries.
- Refrigerate at least 4 hours. This is really good made the day before too.
- This is a beautiful dessert and looks very difficult so get ready to enjoy all the compliments you'll receive when you bring this dish to your next event.

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PAY TRIMMED: Cisco Systems Inc. trimmed CEO John Chambers' pay package for the past fiscal year by 9 percent to $11.7 million as concerns about growth at the maker of computer networking equipment weighed on the company's stock.
FUTURE LINK: Most of Chambers' pay was tied to the future performance of Cisco's stock. That's been the case for most of Chambers' 17-year reign as CEO. Adjusting for stock splits, Cisco's shares have increased 10-fold under his leadership.
STOCK OFF: The last fiscal year ending July 28, however, wasn't good to Cisco's stock. It fell 2 percent.


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Bohlman BNKQOOB Edition
Moving Time
Track your rides and runs via your iPhone, Android or GPS device, analyze your performance, and compare with friends.
When Stephen, Greg, Mr. Mud and I started the ride, we knew that this would be our first time up BNKQOOB on Strava and it would be a guaranteed PR, so there was not much self-inflicted pressure, but apparently, I was not backpadaling hard enough and strangely, I started and maintained a lead from the beginning. Yay, I was the the No. 1 of the day! http://tinyurl.com/ldgkck2 . I made a comment to the guys, "I swear you guys were not pushing hard!" and suddenly they all felt a head itch all at the same time and had to scratch. http://tinyurl.com/l9tmu9g . Weird.
And we were talking about stats: according to Low Key: BOOB: 4.11 miles, 2100 ft, 9.7% (http://lowkey.djconnel.com/2007/week3/ ); BNKQOOB: 4.44 miles, 2110 feet, 9.0% (http://lowkey.djconnel.com/2009/week6/)
Nice job! Very impressive. You were right, I misremembered the stats. I think the flat (and downhill) bit at the bottom skew them. I wonder how the difficulty of the actual climbing segments compares. I looked to see if Dan had some analysis, and only found a comment in a post where he said he says "Difficulty-wise, it seems roughly comparable to Bohlman-On Orbit-Bohlman." I thought he had some more in-depth analysis somewhere, but a quick search did not find it. Anyway, I enjoyed my first time up that way. At the time it seemed pretty tough, but fading memory is already coloring it as not-so-bad :) I'll try to push harder next time.
Nice story
I love that way up.. wish I could have made it last night!
@Stephen, I didn't know you took Mt. Eden over and bagged lots of PR's! Guess you did push yourself! Next time, maybe you can do your commute Monday/Tuesday combo so you can have the pie with us post ride!
@Brian, thanks!
@Patrick, I wish the same thing! That way up is esp. nice now because the lower Bohlman is still a bit loose even though it was much improved from a week ago. And it's very quiet!
we'll do a test run up this one on Sep 7th if your crew wants to join us. We will hit another LKHC climb same day - the one that we will organize. 9am-ish in downtown saratoga the crew will meet.
Hi Rich, thanks for the shout out!


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Researchers: A Good Night's Sleep Is Like Winning The LotteryBritish researchers studied the sleep patterns of more than 30,000 people over a four year period.
Jackpot Winning Ticket Sold In Indiana, $2M Winning Ticket Sold In NJThe winning numbers for the Powerball jackpot are in and an Indiana ticketholder won the $435.3 million prize.
Mistakenly Sold Lottery Ticket Earns Couple $1 MillionA mistakenly sold lottery ticket has earned a New Jersey couple $1 million.
Pennsylvania To Impose New State Tax On Lottery WinningsGet ready to pay more to Pennsylvania if you ever get lucky enough to win the lottery in the state.
Winning Ticket In $487 Million Powerball Sold In New HampshirePowerball officials say one ticket sold in New Hampshire matches all six numbers in the Powerball drawing worth $487 million.
People Feeling Lucky Ahead Of Friday's Mega Millions DrawingThe jackpot has now reached more than $500 million before Friday night's drawing.
Lottery Ticket Worth $8.3 Million Sold In Gloucester CountyThe ticket was sold at Buck Road Mini Mart on the 600 block of Buck Road in Monroeville.
Mega Millions Jackpot Edges Up To $454M; Drawing TuesdayThe estimated Mega Millions jackpot has risen to $454 million.
Players Have Shot At $415 Million Mega Millions PrizeFriday night's Mega Millions drawing will give lottery players a shot at the 10th largest jackpot in U.S. history.
Powerball Winner Yet To Come Forward To Claim PrizeThe winner of the $429.6 million Powerball jackpot has yet to come forward to claim the prize,
Government Is the Big Lottery WinnerChris Stigall points out the government wins on the lottery whether a winner is drawn or not.
News, Politics and Entertainment with The Chris Stigall Show | January 14Chris reviewed last night's Powerball drawing, news that the Eagles are poised to hire Doug Pederson as their next Head Coach and news that presidential candidate Ted Cruz did not disclose details of a loan from Goldman Sachs. He also talked with foreign policy analyst Ed Turzanski at 7:20 about the Navy sailors captured and released by Iran earlier in the week.


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Dakota Fanning: Off to School in NYC!
Posted Tuesday September 6, 2011 1:57 PM GMT
It's that time of year again, and even celebrities like Dakota Fanning are gearing up to begin classes again.
The "I Am Sam" actress was spotted picking up some take-out food in New York City today (September 6) on her way to school.
Miss Fanning carried a snazzy umbrella and donned rain boots to deal with the nasty Manhattan weather.
In career news, Dakota has signed on to star in a new biopic called "Effie" about a young bride named Euphemia Gray who marries critic John Ruskin. But when Ruskin is unable to consummate the marriage after five years, Effie falls in love with a painter.
Enjoy the pictures of Dakota Fanning out in the rain in NYC (September 6).
Photo Credit: SplashNewsOnline.com


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Know Your Rhythm
As you can probably tell from my lack of posts, I've been insanely busy the past week. Between my full time job, volunteering at Haberdash (we're running an fun, fashionable contest this week), planning TEDxSanLuisObispo and helping Amber and John revamp their wardrobes (I've started a pinboard for them if you want to check it out), I've been going from one meeting to the next without too much time for anything in between.
Lest you think I'm some sort of superwoman, however, let me tell you that if I can keep up with a crazy schedule, anyone can. Here are a few of my top tips for simplifying your life and managing your stress during a busy season…
Simple Suggestions
1.) Find your rhythm– Admittedly, I stole this tip from Google's VP of location and local services, Marissa Mayer–one of the busiest women in the world. She encourages her employees to figure out what they need to do in order to avoid feeling resentful about their job and the amount of work they do each week. For some people, that means making sure they don't miss a weekly get-together with friends or maybe it means being there to pick your kids up from school or attend their soccer games on Saturday morning. For me, it's being home to cook dinner and veg out in front of the TV with Hubs on Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights. (If you have not watched 30 Rock, Parks and Rec or How I Met Your Mother, I recommend you start Netflixing them now!) Whatever it is you need to do to feel like you still have a personal life, do it! And then work your butt off in between…
2.) Make to-do lists– Whether you use a mobile app like Evernote or keep a planner or a pad of paper in your pocket or purse, figure out what list-making method works for you, make a list and then cross things off as you get them done. No, making a list doesn't mean you'll accomplish everything you want to in one night (in fact, I'd say I only cross of half of my to-do list on any given day) but it does provide you with a visual reminder of what you want to get done that week.
3.) Plan the night before– Pack your lunch. Lay out your outfit. Set out food to thaw for dinner. Do whatever you need to do the night before to make the following day a little easier. You won't have to get up as early the next morning–which means you'll get a few more minutes of shut eye and ultimately be less grumpy (and feel less like you're participating in a fire drill to get out the door in the morning) the next day.
Tech Tips
4.) Utilize available resources– If you manage multiple social media accounts like I do, use Hootsuite or another social media management tool to make tracking your accounts easier. If you send emails on a regular basis, try MailChimp or another email management tool. These tools come loaded with pre-designed email templates and they manage your unsubscribe list and track open and click through rates for you. Both Hootsuite and MailChimp have free versions, but they're well worth the $5.99 and $10 per month you pay for a few added management features.
Style Secrets
5.) Paint your nails a neutral color– Yes, I know. It sounds dumb. But painting your nails is time consuming and if you're like me, you feel the need for a polish change as soon as you spot the first chip. If you paint your nails a neutral color, the imperfections in your polish will be less noticeable, which means you'll spend less time taking off and putting back on a new nail color. I can usually get away with changing my polish once a week, which, if you're hard on your nails, you know that's quite a feat. My current favorite polish? SpaRitual's Sun Salutation Shimmer.
Most importantly, know when you need to disconnect. Earlier this week, I was feeling rather stressed by a few things at work and so I took off for the afternoon and worked remotely…from the beach (see picture of my ocean view above). No, I can't do that every day (and yes, I did get actual work done) but I knew that I needed to get out from behind my desk in order to feel refreshed.
What about you? How do you manage your time and your stress level on a busy week? Share your tips in the comments below!


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GSimmons01 wrote:I want this shirt, I'm gonna share it on facebook to see what that does for ya
thanks! :D i'm thinking of printing this on my own if it doesn't make the cut... happy new year!
Re: Jack in the Green (on brown)
A wild man of the Winter woods, twisty and gnarled, although not without a hint of crazy Classical contrapposto. Complementary red and green on brown.
zwartepaard wrote:Re: Big Head, Little Arms version 2
I'm trying to decide if I should take one of these down to keep from splitting votes. Any comments on which is better? This or this?
Re: Big Head, Little Arms version 2
I'm trying to decide if I should take one of these down to keep from splitting votes. Any comments on which is better? This or this?
Re: Jack in the Green (on creme)
It's that twisted and gnarled old wild man of the woods again, but this time feeling a trifle more wintry on creme. Complementary red and green on creme.
Re: T-Rex Sword Fight
This needs to win. Never before have I so badly wanted a shirt.
Re: Little Red Riding Bug
great great!
yankeebird wrote:Yeah, it's a nice looking shirt, but I don't think that's a shade of violet. Nor does woot have the ability to print from seam to seam like that.
Also, I think the ink colors are the ones that are supposed to be complementary. I guess that may depend on how picky the rejectionator is!
dooomcat wrote:Couldn't get a tiger out of my head when they said orange (though he seems to be in the company of lots of really nice tigers!)
I really like your design, but I'm afraid you'll get rejected... I think you need to use blue and orange as the ink colors, since the rules say the shirt color doesn't count.
Re: Barney-volution
Nice one! This made me laugh.
Re: The Fourth Horseman
That's the cutest death I've ever seen. Great idea!
Personally I think this would make a stronger design with just the upper t-rex. And a chainsaw instead of a sword... okay that might be a bit much, but it would be really cool.
Re: Winter Eclipse
Kinda hard to tell, but it seems like the design is kinda low on the shirt. Very subtle and neat use of negative space.
fishbiscuit5 wrote:That's the cutest death I've ever seen. Great idea!
Agreed, this is adorable, Walmazan! I love the small intricate details too. +1!
Happy New Year everyone! Hope everyone had a great night.
Thanks for pointing out the placement it totally slipped my mind while I was finishing this up last night/year. I'll fix that and resub it when I'm feeling a little bit better composed. Also the ink colors are orange and blue, no violet in there.
uniique, I bought two of your shirts over at teefury today then checked out your website. You have some serious talent. Good luck with this design. I really hope it gets printed!
love the simplicity of the sun and the negative space!
Re: Narwhals Playing
god thats cute
ryleek wrote:Love it! Clever. Cool design. Great placement. Very nice...
Great work once again!
Re: invasion
Ufos and Robots on Brown
BUNNY!!!! Love it. Will buy it
Re: Space Voyage
But Why??!!! chuckle...
Seriously I hope the rejectionator doesn't get you for not showing your dot screen. Been there done that.
Good Luck, a wonderful non-sequitur to brighten my day.
This is so beautiful. The colors, the artist's passion in this design speak to me. I would proudly wear this shirt.
Re: retro snowflake
Possibly a substance-enhanced snowflake ------- nothing that nature has ever produced, but fun to look at!
It's not everyday a shirt this awesome comes around, I'll be upset if it doesn't print!
Re: Head in the Clouds V2
So I made a number of "logistical" errors in my original submission, but it's a new year now so here's a cleaned up and proper version. Hope you enjoy!
Re: A Little Perspective V2
Add a little perspective to your new year with this shirt, using just two colors; orange and royal blue on kelly green.
Re: A Little Perspective
Resubmitted here: http://shirt.woot.com/Derby/Entry.aspx?id=48642
This time, on heather green rather than orange.
celia1 wrote:You MUST use two ink colors??
Yeah. It's really annoying. Almosts defeats the purpose of the derby. Oh well, what could have been a great derby got screwed up because of that jolly rule.
ocg wrote:I really like your design, but I'm afraid you'll get rejected... I think you need to use blue and orange as the ink colors, since the rules say the shirt color doesn't count.
? But the rules say: "Yes, your shirt can be a third color."
ryleek wrote:Very cool. I love the design And it makes me laugh.
I'd like to see another picture of its placement on the shirt, though.
Absolutely, thanks for asking. This is how it appears on the template.
Thanks so much for your support, guys. :D Bass, I'm thrilled you like it. <3
Pretty darn cute!
Re: Caution: Rumble Zone
@dfurman & uniique, thanks to both of you.
I appreciate you checking it out.
Re: Ancient Chinese Fistbump
Great lighting effect!
One of the best in this derby!
uniique wrote:I'm back on board. Looks great!
Thanks, your T-Rex's freak'n rock!
Re: Custom Devil
He looks like Sinestro. ^_^ I'll get this and wear it to the Green Lantern movie.
Re: The Sun Sets on a Concrete Forest
This is pretty swank, odysseyroc. I'd like to see you get a print.
Re: Instant Noodle Guardian
Love this one, lucky! Your lines are so unique, and they work great with a limited palette too.
Re: Atomic Density (Resub)
Although why are you showing 5 color swatches in your comp image? Are those three blues the same, and those two oranges the same?
Re: Vinyl
This is a really cool design.
From a distance, though, those birds looked like tulips to me.
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|Patriots Look Poised For Another Super Bowl Run
|Bruins Trade For Drew Stafford
|Black and Gold Bruins Turn Yellow On Parade Day
|Inconsistency Will Continue For Bruins Unless A Change Is Made
The Tampa Bay Lightning handed the Bruins just their second road loss of the season Monday night, winning handily over Boston, 3-1 at St. Pete Times Forum. Honestly, this game wasn't even as close as the score may indicate, as the 'Ning took it to the B's, especially in the second period. Tampa was far and away the better team on the ice this evening.
After a scoreless opening period, Tampa got their offense going in the second with a trio of goals. First up was a redirect tip-in goal from Dana Tyrell. Next, it was Steven Stamkos, who added to his league leading point total, scoring his 20th goal of the year on a nifty feed from linemate Martin St. Louis.
To round out Tampa's scoring, Teddy Purcell jammed home the puck, giving the Lightning three quick strikes against Boston goalie Tuukka Rask (33 saves). It was the second straight game that the B's found themselves in a three-goal hole early. This time though, they didn't have nearly enough firepower to dig themselves out.
Michael Ryder lit the lamp midway through the final frame to give Boston some life and at least end Mike Smith's shutout bid, but that was all the Bruins could muster on the night. Smith finished the night making 26 saves en route to the victory.
Boston will wrap up this brief two-game romp through the Sunshine State on Wednesday night, when they take on the Florida Panthers. The B's beat Florida this past Thursday back home at TD Garden by a convincing 4-0 score.
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Businesses Still Waiting for Relief in the Rockaways
Despite all the fund raising and promises of recovery, when it comes to getting small businesses in Queens up and running after Sandy, the federal government has approved 37 loans for the entire borough, while the city has given out only 28. In the Rockaways, where much of the area was without heat and power for weeks after the storm, it's given 9 loans.
At 116th Street in Rockaway Park, Queens, Paul Ohanas runs a commercial sign and awning company, ADL USA Inc. Ohana's store front was flooded in the storm and his $35,000 sign printer and a router for carving wood signs was destroyed in the storm. He wants to stay in this neighborhood, but said he applied for city and federal loans and was rejected by both.
"I applied everything, I give all what they need to process everything, and I didn't get nothing from all of them, so that's why I really lost hope," he said.
The city's Small Business Services (SBS) has $15 million available for emergency loans. It's received 800 applications so far, and processed 600 for its 6-month, interest free loans of up to $25,000. It's processed about 600 of them. But has only given out about $5.5 million to 238 businesses citywide. The approval rate is about 40 percentVideo produced by Jennifer Hsu
The federally run Small Business Administration (SBA) has approved $32.3 million in loans for Sandy-affected businesses in all of New York State. In Queens, it's approved 37 loans to small businesses for a total of $3.6 million.
Ohana said he was rejected by the SBA and SBS because his businesses didn't make enough money to qualify. "They let the businesses die here," he said. "Nobody really cares about the businesses from all these organizations."
He employs four workers and a few contractors and is seeing work trickle in, so he took out a private loan to cover the $18,000 he needed to replace the circuits in one of his printers. But he's worried it won't be enough.
Robert Walsh, the city's commissioner of SBS, said it's true that only about $600,000 of the city's $15 million in emergency funds available has gone to Queens, to a total of 28 businesses.
"There's 28 loans so far, not enough. The recovery has been slower in Queens," Walsh said. "And that number needs to be greater, and it's lower than others partly because the recovery has been slower."
Walsh admitted there are a lot of stipulations to get a loan and a myriad of reasons why people are rejected.
"Some of them its going to be a problem in terms of cash flow, other times its low credit score, and other times it's a new business and banks are hesitant to loan," he said.
Rockaway hair-salon owners Michael and Laura Badalove spend their days waiting for customers to come back to the area. (Jennifer Hsu/WNYC)
One month ago, Michael Badalove was cautiously optimistic about the Rockaways. He's the owner of a small hair salon, M & L Hair & Nail Salon, which was one of the first businesses to reopen on 116th Street after Sandy. He'd taken in four hairdressers whose salons had closed; hoping their rolodex of clients would boost business. In the spirit of charity, his landlord stopped charging rent, and the company he leases his equipment from replaced it all for free. Last week at the salon, Badalove and his wife Laura were watching the movie Home Alone dubbed in Russian on TV. The shop was empty.
"Very bad my friend, very bad. No money. Everybody left, the workers left everybody left," Badalove, 33, said.
Badalove is still reluctant to get a loan even if the interest rates are low. But his landlord is asking for rent now. And the company that gave him new salon furniture is asking for monthly payments. And he has five children to provide for, and worries the recovery in the Rockaways is just too slow.
"Maybe I'm going to leave soon," he said. "Leave. Close the store, go to different location."
Between federal and state assistance, a total of 65 businesses affected by Sandy in all of Queens have received loans. Federal officials are hoping more local businesses will apply for SBA loans before the July 31 deadline. The city loans have no deadline.
Adjacent to 116th street is Rockaway Beach Boulevard, where the charred shells of 17 businesses that burned down, make the area seem like a war zone. A check cashing shop, a furniture store, a physical therapy office and two bodegas have opened. But transportation is still crippled in the area, and the A train terminus remains closed.
But local residents that never left, like Alex Ocasio, 37, want his neighborhood to get back to normal. He lives a block from the ocean with his wife and four children.
"If you look, we really have nowhere to go other than here, to leave and shop we have to pay. To come home, we have to pay. We did a lot of our shopping, our everyday things in the community," he said. "And now we don't have it."


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Google has released the Chrome 49 beta today for Android, Chrome OS, Linux, OS X, and Windows.
Google is planning to enable support for Brotli compression within the next release of the Chrome web-browser. Brotli offers much better compression rates over other alternatives.
Google announced today the stable release of their Chrome 48 web-browser for Linux, OS X, and Windows.
Up to now the LLVMpipe Gallium3D-based software rasterizer has been one of the GPU drivers to be black-listed by Google's Chrome/Chromium web-browser, but that may soon change.
It turns out that with Google's Pixel C Android tablet, they decided to use the open-source Nouveau DRM kernel driver by default for this ARM device powered by NVIDIA's Tegra X1 SoC.
Following this week's release of Chrome 47, Google has announced the beta release of Chrome 48.
Various kernel changes were mainlined in the Linux 4.4 development code for Google Chrome hardware.
Libvpx 1.5.0 was released yesterday as the newest version of Google's VP9 encoder/decoder.
Google posted a blog post a few minutes ago entitled "Chrome OS is here to stay" where they counter the rumors that ChromeOS would be folded into Android.
While there's been signals that Google is interested in merging Chrome OS into Android, there are reports coming out that Google has been making progress on that and the consolidated operating system to suit both Chrome OS and Android devices along with normal PCs will be available in 2017.
Google rolled out the Chrome 47 Beta web browser today for Android, Chrome OS, Linux, OS X, and Windows.
Google announced a number of new devices today plus improvements to their services like Google Photos along with confirming Android 6.0 Marshmallow is coming next week.
Google engineers managed to recently uncover a high profile TCP bug in the Linux kernel that has huge implications on network performance and efficiency.
If you've been curious how WebGL works in Chromium or other modern web browsers prior to hitting the graphics driver, here's a lengthy explanation.
Google has announced today Brotli, "a new compression algorithm for the Internet" that easily defeats other compression algorithms.
Landing within Google's open-source Chromium browser and Chrome is initial GTK3 support for theme integration.
Google released the Chrome 45 web-browser today and as expected it pauses "less important" Flash content by default, including ads.
For those that didn't hear yet, Google announced another hardware product today -- a WiFi router called the OnHub.
Google has begun committing open-source code to the libvpx repository for supporting their next-generation VP10 video format.
Google revealed today the full name of Android M... Marshmallow.
Google today announced Alphabet, a holding company with a collection of different assets -- with Google now being part of that umbrella. Google shares will automatically convert over to being Alphabet shares with that becoming the publicly traded company. Alphabet's CEO is Larry Page with Sergey Brin taking over as President. Meanwhile, Sundar Pichai will become Google's CEO.
Google today rolled out the first beta of Chrome 45, their next major web browser version.
While Android 5.0 Lollipop has been available since November of last year, Android-x86 stable is still currently based on 4.4 KitKat. Nevertheless, this independent effort for bettering Android support on Intel/AMD x86 systems is continuing to improve.
Over on the Chromium Blog is a new posting about the work Google is doing on a new JavaScript compiler for V8 in Chrome, codenamed TurboFan.
The latest version of Google's Chrome/Chromium web-browser is now in beta for its upcoming v44 release.
Google officially unveiled Android M today from their I/O 2015 conference today.
Google pushed Chrome 43 into the stable channel today.
Besides the six new X.Org projects this summer, there's also a lot of other interesting projects being pursued over the next few months via Google's annual Summer of Code initiative.
The accepted projects for this year's Google Summer of Code have been revealed. The accepted X.Org projects are once again particularly interesting.
Google's Chromebook Pixel features a "Lightbar" that's a series of LEDs supporting multiple colors. Chrome OS apps are able to take advantage of the Lightbar for various purposes and coming for Linux 4.1 is support for the Chrome OS lightbar within the mainline kernel.
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Hello All.... Newbie here...
Just picked up a M3 Competition. Looking for info. on the car. First Bimmer, just finding out what I've been missing :D
Cool car. Welcome! :)
Thanks. Not I just gotta get the "door ding" outta the rear quarter that some ***hole put in it last night :mad: I've been having a fit about it all day. Nothing "paintless dent removal" can't fix but still, new car, 100 miles, and at the bar.... :bawling:
Yeah, but hopefullly that's all I have to deal with in the near future. It's going to the racetrack next week :D I race motorcycles, so I gotta try this car out at Grattan, and Autobahn Country Club. I can run some pretty good lap times on a bike, so I gotta get to 1200 miles by Friday, and get it into the dealer, cause next week it's on :D :D
Pics of what? Car? Here's some bike "break in" pics of my Ducati 749. I was breaking it in prior to race prepping it. Well, I kinda destroyed it two weekends after these pics were taken. Haven't taken any of the car.... yet :D
PICS at Grattan Raceway, Belding MI
I"m the Red Ducati 749S :bigpimp:
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NWN2 - Latest on 1 Up 'Review' Being Pulled
by Corwin, 2006-11-07 02:20:40
Our readers might be interested to read the full story on why 1 Up pulled its controversial review of NWN2. Here's an introductory comment:
The comments I've read have been pretty much everything I expected, given that people either don't have all the information (because we haven't shared every minute detail), they have preconceptions of how the press works, they are predisposed to either hate us or praise us no matter what we do, etc. Everyone has a take on what happened here: We sold out to Atari. We sold out Matt Peckham. We did the right thing. We did the wrong thing. We compromised our integrity. We increased our integrity.
Reading all these opinions, and contemplating this throughout the day myself, I don't know if I'll ever be able to stop second-guessing what we did. I do think I will tell you a little more of what went down, so that maybe you can come to your own conclusions a little better.You'll find the entire interesting article plus reader comments Here.
Thanks Abaaon for the headsup.
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ALEX AFONSO. After playing at 10 Brazilian clubs over nine years, the 27-year-old Afonso figured American soccer offered more stability. Well, he's welcome to stick around Miami FC as long as he wants after leading the USL-1 in scoring with 15 goals in 2008. Afonso's scoring title comes two years after another Brazilian, World Cup '94 star Romario, shared the scoring lead.
OSVALDO ALONSO. Following in the footpaths of fellow Cuba defectors Maykel Galindo and
Eduardo Sebrango, who have starred in the USL-1, Alonso received the 2008 Rookie of the Year award for his play with the Charleston Battery. Three days after teammate Lester More defected in New
Jersey, Alonso left the Cuban national team competing at the 2007 Gold Cup. He was with teammates at a Wal-Mart in Houston when he simply walked out the front door and walked several blocks until he
was offered a cell phone to call a friend in Miami. Alonso followed Galindo to Chivas USA but was only offered a developmental contract. At 22, he should get another shot at MLS.
CRISTIAN ARRIETA. The Florida-born Arrieta won USL-1 Defender of the Year honors in his first season, helped lead the regular-season champion Puerto
Rico Islanders to the best defensive ranking in the league with only 23 goals allowed. He also led the Islanders with seven goals in the regular season and added an eighth with the semifinals against
Rochester. The 29-year-old Arrieta had previously spent his entire career in the lower divisions of Italian soccer — Mestre, Alessandria, Ivrea Lecco and Lecce — but he earned celebrity
status after winning the soccer reality show "Campioni: Il Sogno" (Champions: The Dream) and earning a tryout at Inter Milan.
DONATELLI. Rarely does a trade help both teams, but the deal that sent Donatelli from Vancouver to Montreal for Charles Gbeke was a win-win trade. Gbeke helped the Whitecaps the 2008
USL-1 title, while Donatelli has been outstanding for the Impact in the Concacaf Champions League with three goals in its first four games. The 24-year-old striker arrived in Vancouver from Temple
University in 2006 and helped the Whitecaps win their first USL-1 championship, scoring three goals in four playoff games.
At 17, Gage enjoyed a mercurial rise. He moved from Calgary, where he played for the Elbow Valley Villains, to Vancouver, where he entered the Whitecaps' residency program. He made his debut for
the Whitecaps' first team on Aug. 3 but for the first six weeks played without a name on his jersey. Gage is nameless no more. He became the youngest player to win the USL-1 championship when he
started for the Whitecaps in their 2-1 win over Puerto Rico in the final.
CHARLES GBEKE. The USL-1 championship MVP with both
Vancouver goals in its win over Puerto Rico, Gbeke is well-traveled. He moved from Ivory Coast to Montreal when he was 11 and has hopped around six USL-1 teams — with two stints apiece at three
clubs — ending up a second time at Vancouver in late June. He has also spent time at clubs in France, Brazil, Croatia and Denmark. Gbeke's favorite place is the Brazilian state of Parana,
where he spends the offseason doing community work with a church.
DUSTY HUDOCK. Hudock was a big reason Charleston reached the U.S.
Open Cup final, stopping the penalty kick that gave the Battery the shootout victory over the Seattle Sounders in the semifinals. Hudock's career dates back to the days of the Sounders in the old
APSL. He started out as the backup goalie behind Marcus Hahnemann in 1994. After playing for Colorado in MLS's inaugural season, he returned to Seattle, where was named the 1997 APSL Goalie of the
Year. The 36-year-old Hudock had three more short stints in MLS at Colorado, Chicago (backup to Zach Thornton at MLS Cup '98) and Miami (three appearances). With the exception of one year at
Rochester, he has spent the last nine years in the USL-1 with the Battery.
MATT JORDAN. The 33-year-old American has been sensational
in goal for the Montreal Impact in its improbable run in the Concacaf Champions League, recording shutouts in its first four games. Jordan played 114 games for MLS's Dallas Burn after winning the
starting job from veteran Mark Dodd in 1999. But the arrival of highly touted D.C. Countess led to Jordan's move to Danish club OB in 2003. Jordan lasted just one season at OB and returned to MLS,
where he served as a backup at Columbus and Colorado. Jordan moved to Montreal in 2007 and was named the USL-1's second-team all-league goalie, behind Puerto Rico's Bill Gaudette, in 2008.
MACOUMBA KANDJI. In a little more than a year, Kandji went from an unknown on the Atlanta Silverbacks' under-23 team to one of the
USL-1's prized prospects. The Silverbacks loaned the former JC star (Georgia Military) to the New York Red Bulls until the end of the 2008 MLS season with an option to buy his contract. Only a
month after making his pro debut, the 23-year-old Kandji helped the Silverbacks reach the 2007 USL-1 championship game. In 2008, he earned first-team all-league honors. Jandji was born in Senegal,
raised in Gambia and finished high school in North Carolina.
SEBASTIAN LE TOUX. The 24-year-old Le Toux didn't make it as a
defender in France, but he's excelled up front for the Seattle Sounders. He was named the USL-1 MVP in 2007 when he led the Sounders to the USL-1 title and he was the first player signed by the
MLS Sounders FC in May. Le Toux started in France at Rennes, where he won the Coupe Gambardella (U-19), but he was not offered a pro contract and moved to Second Division Lorient, where he played 15
league games in two seasons. The Sounders' Adrian Hanauer discovered Le Toux at a tryout for French players during MLS Cup 2006 in Frisco Texas. Le Toux has fallen in love with the Seattle area,
recently opening the French Soccer Academy for young players.
JONATHAN STEELE. Steele was 18 when he signed with the now-defunct
Syracuse Salty Dogs and jumped around between USL-1 teams (Syracuse, Rochester and Carolina) and MISL teams (Kansas City, Baltimore and Philadelphia) before making it big with the Puerto Rico
Islanders in 2008. The 22-year-old midfielder was a finalist for USL-1 MVP honors.
(This article originally
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Tennessee couple with one of three winning Powerball jackpot tickets to keep jobs
By Harrison McClary
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Reuters) - A Tennessee couple holding one of three winning tickets for this week's record $1.6 billion U.S. Powerball lottery jackpot said on Friday they will keep their jobs because "you just can't sit down and do nothing."
Lisa and John Robinson of Munford, Tennessee, appeared at a press conference at the Tennessee Lottery's offices with their adult daughter Tiffany and black and white dog Abby and said they would take their $528.8 million share in an immediate cash payment instead of annual payments over 29 years.
"We're going to take the lump sum because we're not guaranteed tomorrow," John Robinson said.
They will pay off their two children's student loans as well as their own mortgage and, after investing the rest of their new-found fortune, keep living in the same home, with the same jobs, in the Memphis suburb of Munford.
"Big fancy houses, elaborate houses, they're nice. But you have to clean them," John Robinson said.
Next week, he will return to his job at a distribution center and Lisa to her position at a dermatologist's office, they said.
"That's what we've done all our life. Work. You can't just sit down and do nothing," he said.
Robinson recalled buying the lucky ticket on Wednesday just hours before the Powerball drawing. His wife asked him to buy tickets on his way home from work, so, even though he didn't feel well, he bought them at Naifeh's Food Mart in Munford. Continued...


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Android is an operating system for mobile phones and tablets. It's inside millions of cell phones and other devices, including the hugely popular Amazon Kindle Fire, making Android the foremost platform for mobile application developers. That could be your own program running on all those devices.
Within minutes, Hello, Android will get you started creating your first working application: Android's version of "Hello, World." From there, you'll build up a more substantial example: an Android Sudoku game. By gradually adding features to the game, you'll learn the basics of Android programming. You'll also see how to build in audio and video support, add graphics using 2D and 3D OpenGL, network with web pages and web services, and store data with SQLite. You'll also learn how to publish your applications to the Android Market.
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PSFK talks to Dietmar Offenhuber to get his insight on the future of design and technology.
PSFK has been talking with artists and innovators that we have covered over the last year to get their insight on the future of design and technology.
Using electronic tags to trace the things we throw away as they move through the entire disposal system, the Trash Track project begs the question "why do we know so much about the supply chain, but so little about the 'removal chain'?"
By monitoring the time and costs associated with transporting our garbage to dumps and landfills, the MIT team hopes to provide deeper insight into our consumer habits, as well as highlight any inefficiencies in the recycling and sanitation systems. Below, project leader Dietmar Offenhuber, M.S shares his thoughts with us.
What other projects or ideas are currently inspiring your thinking as you continue to develop TrashTalk?
With Trash Track, we stumbled upon a number of really interesting problems, that we are planning to investigate further. we are planning to investigate the travel of e-waste, and started to study the behavioral impact of the results of trash track on the participating volunteers. Also the idea of citizen science, allowing everyone to monitor their waste has been discussed.
What has been the most interesting response or reaction to your project?
The most interesting thing was the emotional and enthusiastic response of most people to the project. We were surprised to see how important it is for citizens to understand the processes of their city.
What is something you look forward to being able to do in the future with emerging technologies?
In the context of Trash Track, we are very interested in energy harvesting location sensors – tags that dont require a battery, instead draw their electrical power from the cell phone network or kinetic energy.
What do you see as the best and worst technology-driven trends emerging in the design of social projects?
Best and worst is of course a matter of timing, scope and context, but i think that all the current collaborative sensing approaches, where people collect and share sensor data in order to learn something about their environment are very interesting – a bottom up approach that makes us more independent from central institutions holding data repositories.
What is your take on how people are using technology to better connect with either each other or their environments?
I think this is always an opportunistic thing. people like to appropriate technologies that were designed for a different purpose, or just ignore them no matter how interesting the concept is. i think it is interesting to observe what technology actually does, not just speculate about its promises.
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...(Or, how I stopped worrying and learned to love cleaning the highway.)
"Based on the findings of the report, my conclusion was that this idea was not a practical deterrent for reasons which at this moment must be all too obvious." -Dr. Strangelove
Allow me to start with a little background. Summit Brewing Company joined the Minnesota Department of Transportation's Adopt-A-Highway program in 2009. We are responsible for Interstate 35E between West Seventh Street and Grand Avenue in Saint Paul. This is basically Summits 'backyard'. When we learned this section of highway was available, it was obvious we needed to help keep it clean. Literally, Saint Paul, its land, its neighborhoods and mostly its people made Summit what it is today. And, dammit we aren't going anywhere. So, why not help make this the best community we possibly can.
You can learn a lot while cleaning the highway. You find people's check stubs, grocery lists, beer cans and bottles. You find people's drivers licenses, green cards, and military ID's. You find things you don't want to: paint cans, laundry, underwear (who loses their underwear on 35E?), diapers, roofing shingles, a mattress and box-spring, cardboard breathalyzer tubes. We should really save these tubes and send them back to the police and highway patrol. And, cash, so far we've found a ten, a twenty and a Canadian twenty, which is worth close to a twenty here in the U.S. One volunteer claimed to have pulled up some pot plants...didn't mention exactly where...And, we have found Summit bottles. Don't throw Summit bottles out, recycle the darn things! Actually, don't throw anything out. Saint Paul has garbage cans all over the place. When you see one, take thirty seconds, pull over to the curb and use them. Give a hoot, or a pox on you.
Here is an FYI to dazzle your friends with at the weekend BBQ. Or, approach that potential mate at an Art-A-Whirl party with the pithy witticism that Adopt-A-Highway and Art-A-Whirl have the same number of hyphens, and then charm them with a segue into the fascinating world of litter. Oh, and if they start arguing that those are 'dashes' and not 'hyphens', don't waste your time talking to that person. Move along to the next person. Adopt-A-Highway volunteers in Minnesota pick up about 26,000 tons of litter every year. Summit volunteers pick up over a ton every time we clean up our section of 35E. Twelve thousand miles of Minnesota roads are part of the Adopt-A-Highway program of which Summit has 2.6 miles. Oh yeah, and research shows 55% of littering is done intentionally and 80% of littering is done by males. An aluminum can will decompose in 200-500 years. A glass bottle will decompose in 1 million. Adopt-A-Highway volunteers save the MN/DOT $5 million every year.


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The Vols will depart for Atlanta this afternoon as final preparations for the Chick-Fil-A Kickoff Game are in the works. Check out VOL REPORT: Friday Night Lights and Orange, Red, Blue & Orange Thanks to 1080i as all four teams in the weekend event will wear their home colored jerseys.
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- Chattanooga Times Free Press: N.C. State's David Amerson a welcome challenge for UT
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- Inside Tennessee: Schooled by the master
- Inside Tennessee: Rivera leads banged up group
- Knoxville News Sentinel: Daniel McCullers wasn't interested in hometown N.C. State
- Knoxville News Sentinel: Derek Dooley: Season opener on Friday likely a 'one-time deal'
- Knoxville News Sentinel: SEC players ready for bigger roles
- Knoxville News Sentinel: 'Biggest Loser' star Antone Davis wants to turn Vols into winners
- Knoxville News Sentinel: Derek Dooley hopes to avoid Friday games in future
- Rocky Top Talk: In Neal ... Can We Trust?
- Sports Network: Tennessee (0-0) vs. NC State (0-0) (ET)
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Gwen Stefani has legally reverted back to her maiden name following her divorce from rocker Gavin Rossdale.
The No Doubt frontwoman split from the British singer last summer (15) after 13 years of marriage, amid allegations of Gavin's infidelity.
Following the divorce of Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale, many fans were left wondering what could have possibly ended the 13-year marriage that yielded three beautiful children.
And in the new issue of Us Weekly, an inside source claims that the Bush frontman just couldn't keep his pants on with regard to the family nanny Mindy Mann.
It's so sad to see their marriage come to an end, and Gwen Stefani has reportedly worked out a custody arrangement and asset division with Gavin Rossdale.
They've been married for 13 years and have three adorable kids, so it's quite sad that Gavin Rossdale and Gwen Stefani have decided to call it quits.
According to multiple sources, the "Hella Good" songstress filed for divorce from her "Little Things" rocker hubby, citing "irreconcilable differences."
Fitting in some all-important couple time, Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale hit up the anniversary celebration for Hakkasan Las Vegas Restaurant and Nightclub on Saturday night (April 26).
The parents of three cozied up on the arrivals carpet outside the MGM Grand before heading in for the festivities.
It's been a long wait, but Gwen Stefani finally brought her third son into the world on Friday (February 28).
Announced via Twitter by the proud papa, Gavin Rossdale tweeted "Welcome Apollo Bowie Flynn Rossdale 2/28/14," Rossdale announced via Twitter Saturday. "Bowie and Flynn = [our] mothers' maiden names."
Enjoying another day with her boys, Gwen Stefani and her sons headed off for some more skiing lessons in Mammoth, California on Tuesday (December 31).
The No Doubt frontwoman covered her baby bump in a brown jacket as she, Gavin and Kingston made their way back to slopes.
Enjoying some family time, Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale stepped out with their sons in Los Angeles on Sunday (December 22).


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Established in 1630, San Miguel Church is notable for its European Baroque architecture with the beautiful symmetry of its bell towers. The church holds the National Shrine of St. Michael and the Archangels. First established as an act of gratitude, San Miguel Church was dedicated to Saint Michael, who is the patron saint of grocers, mariners, paratroopers, police and sickness, because it administered to samurais or warriors who were escaping persecution under the Tokugawa Shogunate. The church is also known as Malacañang Church because of its close proxinity to the Palace. Christine Joy Caloracan (Photo by RP Ocampo)
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One of China's biggest private car manufacturers today snapped up the British maker of London's iconic black cabs for £11 million.
Mayor Boris Johnson said he was "delighted" that China's Geely had bought taxi business Manganese Bronze out of administration, "ensuring the continuing manufacture of a world famous, fully accessible and instantly recognisable vehicle synonymous with London."
Johnson added: "London's cabbies can now look to the future safe in the knowledge that the TX model taxi will continue to serve Londoners for many years to come."
Geely already owned a 20% stake in Manganese Bronze, after a joint venture set up in 2006 that saw the UK business buy China-made components and body parts.
But today's deal sees the Chinese firm ramp up its expansion into Europe's auto industry; it bought Volvo Cars in Sweden from Ford for $1.8 billion (£1.1 billion) in 2010.
Geely's financial director, Daniel Li, is to become its new UK chairman. He promised to keep Manganese's Coventry manufacturing plant open, even though since the company fell into administration in October, 156 staff have lost their jobs.
Speaking at the factory in Coventry today, Li said: "The deal will secure the long-term future of the company and maintain the production, skilled jobs and plant in Coventry. Today we have 107 people working here, and we are confident we will create some new jobs with the recovery of the business."
One of his first hires was to appoint Peter Johansen, former finance director of Manganese Bronze, as executive vice president of Geely UK's black cab operations. But Li said it was "too early to say" if any of the 156 staff who lost their jobs would return, adding: "it depends on their skills and the needs of the company. In time we will examine the potential to create new, lower-carbon vehicles which could be exported around the world. But that's a discussion for a later day." The Chinese group added it will be looking at new models to follow the current TX4 as well as "examining the potential for entering the private-hire market".
However, Li warned it would "take some weeks to restart production".
Manganese Bronze called in administrators PriceWaterhouseCoopers after supply problems with steering boxes made in China, by a firm introduced to Manganese by Geely, led to a recall of 400 of its flagship £35,000 TX4 taxis.
That was on top of reporting four years of financial losses and struggling under increasing warranty costs. Even the worldwide PR opportunity of having the Spice Girls dancing on top of five black cabs at the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games this summer couldn't turn around Manganese's fortunes, especially when the company revealed a £3.9 million black hole in its accounts days after the Games that forced it to delay its half-year results.
Manganese hadn't posted a profit since 2007, struggling in the face of competition from listed Eco City Vehicles, which distributes Mercedes taxis. Manganese had a monopoly on supply to the taxi market until 2008 but now Mercedes-Benz has 40% of the sales.
About 1400 new black cabs are registered each year, with London having almost 23,000 licensed taxis on the road.
Li said all taxis affected by the steering box problems had been fixed and were back on the road. He added: "This is beginning of a new chapter for the London taxi."
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Discussion in 'TiVo Roamio DVRs' started by jbaum, Aug 20, 2013.
I think the only difference is the storage 150 hours vs. 450 hours. Is it worth $200?
It's worth $200 if triple the storage for $200 is worth it to you.
From a pure price perspective, they are making a huge profit on the Pro over the Plus. A 3TB drive does not cost $200 after you factor in the 1TB base. It is maybe $50 of retail cost (MAYBE) and they are charging $150 on top of it in pure profit.
A good retail price for a 3TB bare drive is ~100, and TiVo isn't paying retail.
I'm debating this myself. I don't know if I could live with 1TB or not. And I'm not sure if $200 is really worth the hassle if I decide I can't 3 months from now.
It seems to me it would make more sense to add another drive later if needed. $200 seems way too high
Upgrading an in-service unit is indeed much more of a hassle. Probably what TiVo is counting on given its pricing scheme.
Exactly. Adding a eSATA is relatively easy, but it adds another point of failure and another power brick to the UPS. Upgrading the internal drive is like buying a whole new TiVo and starting over.
In the end, it's a $100 difference between what you'd pay now versus what you might possibly be able to pay as a third-party drive replacement. Is your time opening up the unit, as well as dealing with another vendor, worth saving $100. What about when something needs servicing and you have to either put the original drive back in or take the replacement out to have it replaced separately from everything else? What if there is some issue down the road and you can't quite tell whose problem it is to know where to contact for repair? Too much hassle to save $100... especially when, simply from past experience we're talking about a cost I can easily amortize over at least 2 years, so we're now looking at justify trying to save $4/month, and frankly, that's just not worth the potential hassle, or even the delay in being able to get it.
Everyone will have their own threshold, of course. Just explaining why I'm not overly bothered by what appears to be a bigger than expected price disparity for what's likely the only difference in those models.
The only external drive that's tivo-approved is an overpriced one. I assume that the software will reject any other kind of drive you care to attach. That's why external drives aren't such a hot deal. I hope that CableLabs is responsible for this bit of stupidity, because there's no purpose to the restriction otherwise.
I pretty much agree, and if I buy one I'll likely get the Pro. Now my debate is do I need one right now, or should I hold out and see if prices drop.
With the S3 units they allowed any external drive. They restricted it with the Premiere units. I'd think if it was a CableLabs issue they would have restricted it on the S3 too. I think this was an attempt at quality control. They could qualify the drives and ensure they wold work properly without causing issues. However the partner they chose turned out to over priced and under sized. Hopefully they'll at least consider qualifying more drives by other manufacturers going forward.
I've always wondered myself if it wasnt some sort of deal that Tivo made with Western Digital. Supply them with drives at a good discount, and they would only allow their DVR expander to be used. I know at one point some people were getting 500GB Seagate drives in the Premiere 4's, but when I got one it had a Western Digital in it which I was happy about. The has to be some sort of connection to it all. I dont know much about the Tivo software though, so maybe it has something to do with that.
I bought a Plus because I usually keep my Elite at 40% capacity and really don't watch the same shows over and over (although my 2 year old daughter does and her disney movies take up half my used space). So, once I get my Roamio, I'll have 1TB on it and 1TB on my Elite and I believe you can stream between them if we want to watch a disney movie in the other room.
Thinking on it more, having only one approved external drive, which as you say is overpriced/undercapacity, protects Pro revenue. I'm not sure they have much incentive to do as you say.
I *do not* understand how folks can live in small tivos.....it really baffles me
Plus externals go bad
Here's another angle - having a 2TB drive in my premiere for over a year now, I can tell you that list can get mighty long. You can filter by name so you can always find stuff, but it can still get a bit messy. How will this look with 50% more shows, or even double if people figure out how to get a 4TB drive in there? Since I'm already using kmttg to offload stuff to my media server, I'm thinking I'll just go with the plus, save the $200 and I won't miss the space anyway.
What would be really nice, would be if they added an interface to organize shows into folders manually, or tag them so that they could be grouped more intelligently than just by date or by name. If they had that, then I would definitely be interested in getting an even larger drive in there. As it stands, not so sure. And even if they had this advanced grouping, then I would lean more toward putting a 4TB drive in myself, so the pro is still not that enticing.
One of the reviews mentioned something about a 3 column My Shows List with better sorting. Not exactly sure what they're talking about, but it sounds like there may be some improvements coming to My Shows to deal with longer lists.
No. Cable Labs is not responsible as it is the content owners who put up all these restrictions. We are lucky they even allow us to record anything, even once.
You have to take this out on Disney Corp, Fox News Corp, Sony Corp, Time Warner, Comcast, and CBS Corp to name the big players.
Disney, Fox News, and Sony are the worst for restrictions on what the consumer can do with content. Especially Sony as they are one of the founding partners for HDMI. Also these corporations are the big reason your cable/sat bill is so high.
Here is a list of all the channels and who really owns them:
Furthermore, if they actually have Netflix and Amazon apps working well, then it should be easy to find/play your movies from those instead of the hard drive (which often have commercials on them from the station I recorded them from).
I know I seem to always be harping on this as my keynote issue, but to have additional memory internally is 10X more valuable than having an external drive connected by eSata. Trust me, you don't want to rely on the external drive keeping up with the life cycle of the box. When the external drive fails you'll be sitting there empty-handed wondering where your money went.
A few months from now, if the Comer tool gets updated, maybe the Plus. But for now the convenience of the extra capacity is worth the difference. The Pro should be about $100 less, but think of it as the early adopter tax.
And don't even consider adding an external drive.


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Throw out your test lab: Virtualized workloads can be trialed in the cloud
Posted by Chris Silva on June 25, 2008
Every enterprise struggles with performance testing. You never have enough hardware, you can't mimic production, the build up and tear down process is far too time consuming and let's not even get into the hassles of scheduling. Virtualization can help in that environments can be stored as templates easing setup and with tools like VMware Lab Manager, scheduling and environment management are made easier, but the hassles of shared time, resource constraints and stress testing remain.
Virtualization can free you from the hardware-based confines you currently face and may illustrate that you don't need a test lab at all – at least not for your x86-based virtual workloads. With x86 virtualization, hardware differences are abstracted away from the virtual machine, which means these application environments can really be tested on any commodity hardware. Cloud computing platforms thus become candidate test platforms. Need to know your application can support 200,000 simultaneous connects? Can it run in a 10-node cluster? Can it process a TB of data? Load up a series of VMs on Amazon EC2 or Layered's GridLayer and find out. Whether the test requires 10 or 10,000 servers there's a cloud that can accommodate you – and without a long term commitment to these resources.
Need to test 15 applications simultaneously? No problem. Even the set up of virtual machines is made easier in the cloud. CohesiveFT's Elastic Server on Demand and SkyTap simplify the assembly and archiving of virtual machines. And these services now have deployment relationships with Amazon Web Services, XCalibre's Flexiscale cloud and Google App Engine.While you will still need to ensure all new applications run effectively in your specific infrastructure configuration and with your management, monitoring and security schemes, the application and code performance testing phases can be now be offloaded.
The one major hiccup today will probably be a difference in hypervisor, however. Most cloud infrastructures are Xen-based while most enterprise virtual infrastructures are VMware. Elastra, an 11-month-old startup is building a cloud infrastructure layer based on VMware which might address this issue and I wouldn't be surprised to see Microsoft enter the cloud business in the next 12 months with HyperV (ServePath's GoGrid cloud already supports Windows Server.)
As the cloud computing market matures it will slowly start to meet the requirements of enterprises for a variety of uses, test simply being one. Are you using cloud computing today? If so, let us know how. I'll be keynoting LTPact in Las Vegas on June 26 discussing the cloud computing phenomenon. Come engage in the dialog.
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re: Throw out your test lab: Virtualized workloads can be trial
Comment from Ian Knox (not verified) on Thu, 06/26/2008 - 10:00
Skytap already supports both VMware and Xen. Microsoft Hyper-V is also on the roadmap.The big difference with Skytap is the ability to run *existing* applications in the cloud - most other solutions don't run Windows and have a command line interface or proprietary implementation which makes it impossible to simulate production-like environments.
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