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Functional or rules-based equivalent for procedural program
I have a question regarding the type of programming style by which I may
accomplish a task in Mathematica. Mathematica supports three types of
programming: procedural, functional, and rules-based. Like the majority of
people, I was formally taught procedural programming, but am trying to
undo this evil. >:-)
Here is my situation...
I am working with a set of all-sky imager (instrument) data. Some years
ago, I created a FORTRAN program which subtracts background intensities
from the data of interest. Here is a brief example of how it works:
o The first two entries in the background file are at 2:08, and 2:17.
o In the data file, the first four entries are time stamped 2:06, 2:10,
2:15, and 2:19.
o My algorithm averages the background values taken at these two times,
and then subtracts this from data which falls between these times, namely
2:10, 2:15.
o The 2:19 data time value falls outside this background range, and would
be handled by the average of the 2:17 and succeeding background times.
Since the routine is written in FORTRAN, it is obviously procedural. As I
stated above, I am expert in procedural programming, but would like to
become proficient in Mathematica programming. Is there an efficient method
by which I may perform this task in Mathematica using either functional,
or rules-based methods?
Thank you (in advance) for your consideration!
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Yep. Just as Drew said; An article/tutorial for NETTUTS would need to be about twice as long and much more advanced. Assuming it takes two hours, $30 an hour is pretty good! Keep in mind that I also invite my ThemeForest writers to contribute to NETTUTS as well.
Some of you have failed to realize the reach of tutorials published on the theme forest blog. Its also highly likely that there will be some mention of it on the monthly Nettuts roundups which have a huge audience. While $30 / hr isn't really much in direct monetary compensation doing a few tutorials can definitely generate some big leads as far as freelancing or your company is concerned.
Hey everyone. I received tons of emails about this. If selected, I'll contact you via email next week.
When is the close date? Can i send my tutorial by tomorrow?
@dicky – Sure. I'm still sorting through the submissions.
Hello Jeffrey, I think you remember me, that guy who sent you ExpressionEngine tutorial. But you said, you can post it on ThemeForest if i will correct grammar issues. I corrected and sent you about week ago… Still waiting forward…
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I downloaded and installed Ubuntu over the weekend and must say that I'm impressed with it so far. I thought it was a good time to test it out because I just bought a 250GB hard disk on Friday with the purpose of physically separating my Linux installation(s) from sharing the same hard disk as Windows XP. Some things I especially love about Ubuntu are:
- Synaptic: Ubuntu's package management software. Locating and installing virtually any software is a breeze! If the software you're looking for is out there, chances are you'll find it in Synaptic.
- The GUI: Gnome's all right so far. I was expecting that slow performance will follow the multitude of features that Gnome brings to the desktop; so far, I've been proven wrong… and I hope I'll be wrong forever.
- Ease of Use: Very similar with the point and click method of Windows. If it's a registered file type, then the proper application will be used to open it. If additional libraries are required (eg. for video files), then Synaptic would jump in and tell you what you need.
- Ease of Installation: Really, really simple. Although some things are pre-assumed, and pre-assumed wrongly at that. Changes can be made very easily once the installation is complete.
I think that Ubuntu could be the Linux distribution that even my SO and four year old kid can use and love. Basically you can get everything from productivity suites to educational games very easily.
I'm already in the process of migrating the data on my Slackware partition to Ubuntu. It seems that it's almost certain that the Slackware partitions will be deleted and reallocated to my Windows XP partitions.
I'd definitely recommend Ubuntu to those who wants a nice desktop Linux experience, especially those migrating from Windows. However, I still think that Slackware is a worthy distro if you want to understand Linux.


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The author who dug up that photo in Cooperstown appreciates the epistemological puzzle.
For years, the Republican Party has benefited from a base sealed in an epistemological bubble.
This fact is construed by the pragmatist as a significant indication of the way out of the epistemological impasse.
The epistemological made into a subject of fiction-how do we know what we know?
The epistemological argument defines God in terms of that absolute truth which is referred to in every judgment.
This is the undoubted fact at the bottom of epistemological realism.
My account of truth is realistic, and follows the epistemological dualism of common sense.
They have in consequence developed wonderfully elaborate schemes of sundry kinds to maintain "epistemological monism" intact.
epistemological logic concerns itself with the relation of thought at large to reality at large.
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We are all pirates.
It's just time to admit it. To 'fess up. Clear the air, come clean and acknowledge that we are all software pirates.
Out of simple respect for the low-paid, philanthropic organizations that selflessly offer us perfectly usable, bugless, secure software to use as we see fit and not be limited to using in only ways the software provider believes will make it the most money – we all have to admit that the simple act of using a personal computer for our own purposes makes us pirates or potential pirates that can be viewed only with the greatest suspicion by the charitable organizations providing our software.
It's the only way to interpret the continuing series of studies from the completely objective Business Software Alliance, which is not biased in either its policy or its studies toward the interests of the software vendors that make up its membership, pay its bills, write the questions and define the correct answers to its studies of software piracy worldwide.
A report released by the BSA yesterday shows that, globally, 47 percent of PC users see nothing wrong in using software they've obtained improperly, costing software vendors a (creatively) estimated $59 billion during 2010 alone.
Much of that piracy came from third-world countries where ancient PCs that sell for less than $100 in the U.S. are considered a luxury and even the drastically reduced prices vendors charge for software is usurious compared to local incomes and available capital.
Nevertheless, we in the developed world have to admit our culpability in the gross violence being committed against the profits of the software industry (which often dip below 20 percent, sometimes for more than one quarter at a time).
We have to admit doing almost nothing to stay within the law, despite a long history of doing things like buying an album five or six times on vinyl, tape, CD, special mix CD and boxed set before finally downloading a lower-quality version than we already own because the CD's Digital Rights Protection won't let us move bits we bought legally to a different medium.
We have to admit that not satisfying the BSA's varying and often mysterious definition of "legal" software is not the fault of companies that sell the software and provide the proof of purchase; it's the fault of those of us who continue to use the software despite not having satisfied software vendors that our hearts are pure and that we have not violated a single one of the requirements in those idiotically, incomprehensibly, unenforceably complex software licenses software vendors throw in front of us every time they have a chance.
We have to throw off the rationalizations of our own miscreant behavior and ignore the bleating of naifs such as James Gaskin, whose paltry list of publications and questionable standing among the computer-industry commentariat hardly justify his radical positions, not to mention calls to rebellion and lack of submission to software vendors in screeds like the following:
"I'm concerned about how the BSA bullies small companies that lose paperwork, or are victimized by angry employees who destroy the single piece of evidence the BSA considers acceptable. What evidence is that? Want to guess? If you guess wrong, you pay a fine.
Is the original software packaging enough? Pay a fine. The Certificate of Authenticity on the computer? Pay a fine. The original disks holding the software? Pay a fine.
When I spoke to the BSA director several years ago, I asked her what she considers proof of legal software. She told me to ask the software vendors. So I asked the Microsoft person in charge of compliance. She told me to ask the BSA. Can you spell Catch-22?" – James Gaskin, Network World, 2009
It is absolutely true that some individuals and some whole companies choose to use software illegally, either installing it on far more machines than the number of licenses for which they've paid.
It's also true that third-world countries – especially China, which has a tacit policy of supporting software piracy as a way of reducing costs for growing businesses in its own economy.
Unrealistic estimates
The BSA study claims as many as 86 percent of all PC users in China acquire software illegally.
That doesn't stop its members from working as hard as they can to sell more software to Chinese companies, of course.
Overstating the case weakens the case
That alone gives the lie to the absolutist picture BSA paints of criminality over the image of every company that ever ran even one seat above the number of licenses it bought, or failed to shut down a critical application the second a license term ran out without the vendor's reps having responded to requests for renewal.
Sure, some companies persistently run way more seats than the licenses they bought, run pilot-test installs as production software long after the test should have been completed or other obvious dodges.
A lot more of them do things like run the correct number of licenses for the right people and licensed purposes, but in virtual machines that violate the vendor's outmoded license that limits the user to running a specific app on a specific machine.
That makes the implementation "illegal" but doesn't remotely qualify as either theft or piracy. In most cases, the software only runs in that configuration because the vendor built support for virtual infrastructures into it, and used VM compatibility as a selling point for the latest version, even if the license doesn't allow it.
Most end-user companies try to make it right, anyway, even at higher costs than they expected. Rather than violate license agreements wholesale, most that I've ever interviewed prefer to just switch vendors.
The percentage that steal software knowingly and without any effort at compensating the vendor is nowhere near 47 percent, though. No industry in the history of the world has ever survived a base of customers half of whom would unrepentantly steal rather than buy the products for sale.
The BSA just wastes what credibility it has with biased analyses and absurd claims of its own losses and the extent of its customers' culpability.
Instead of demonizing customers that don't live up to its unrealistic expectations, it should do something useful, like push members to standardize the means they use to verify a legitimate purpose, build virtualization and cloud support into their licenses, not just their feature sets.
And they should quit with the obviously biased sob stories based on unrealistic definitions of "legal," estimates of potential losses from theft that are pure fantasy, and the role of vendors themselves in helping customers waste or lose money on their products.
No matter what the license cost, no company improves its productivity buying software that's buggy, insecure or so poorly designed and integrated that thousands of end users allow IT to install it on their machines and then refuse to touch it.
U.S. companies waste $12.3 billion per year in maintenance costs alone for shelfware, out of the total $3.67 trillion business spend on software globally every year.
But, you know, I don't think I've ever heard the BSA calculate the amount of money it gets customers to waste on needless upgrades or unusable software as part of its overall calculation of how much customers are stealing from it, rather than the other way around.
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New better trailer, shows alot more. I'm def down to see this now.
Doesn't look too bad.
"Do you know the terror of he who falls asleep?
To the very toes he is terrified, because the ground gives way under him, and the dream begins."
~Friedrich Nietzsche
Looks to be a badass, worthy re-imagining of the story!
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1988 BMW 325i topless
The chick with three boobs makes an appearance!
Okay, I'm warming up to this. That trailer made it look pretty good.
Colin Farrell was great in Minority Report and he was great in Fright Night. I'd bet he's going to be great in this one too. I liked the first Total Recall a lot. It was a very enjoyable film but this one, well, I am really jacked to see it. It might be the film of the summer IMO. Beckinsdale is actually a pretty good actress. She was a real surprise in Contraband, perhaps the only surprise in that film. I am looking forward to seeing how she does in this and can totally see her in the Stone role.
Booyah, this is a great movie summer!
Haha, typical woman.
*Hot guy staring at my cleavage, better bend over and show off more*
*Ugly guy staring at my cleavage, what a creep!*
"Do you know the terror of he who falls asleep?
To the very toes he is terrified, because the ground gives way under him, and the dream begins."
~Friedrich Nietzsche
Just got back from seeing this. Pretty good! Good summer action flick. Special effects were pretty good.
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He was also really good in American Outlaws and In Bruges.
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To the very toes he is terrified, because the ground gives way under him, and the dream begins."
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Haven't seen it yet but I think that Jason Statham would have been a better Douglas Quaid / Hauser
No offense against Farrell but Statham is badass
Thought it was a nice summer blockbuster. The score might have been to monotonous, almost the same fast paced music throughout. Story was a little too simple, I wanted to be confused, but there wasn't anything to be confused about. Colin still doesn't hold the screen that well as a lead, but did the job. Found myself deciding between Biel and Beckinsale during the movie. English accent won.
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i couldn't help but thinking what a fantastic three-way len wiseman had with his wife, kate beckinsale and jessical biel!.........
how do you think people get movies roles in hollywood?..........
yeah babay!
as far at the movie went, it was a pretty good update with all the new effects and cgi.
I thought colin farrell was a bit one deminsional and the chemistry between him and the females was non exhistant..........
Not even trying anymore
The first one was so much better. The storyline was so much more complex. This one just came across like I, Robot: 2. Dull story, great CGI though.
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Well, call me disappointed. Just got back from seeing it and should have waited until Red Box. No, it isn't terrible. Without any frame of reference to the first film, you might even say it was pretty good. I could not shake set comparisons to Blade Runner, Fifth Element, and Minority Report however. Can't Hollywood come up with an original looking dystopia anymore, never mind a fresh story?
As much as I've grieved Schwarzenegger's acting over the years, I missed him as Quaid. Beckinsale does a good job combining Sharon Stone's role with Michael Ironside's however, she ain't no Micheal Ironside. There were reasonable actors in this film but they were disappointing. I lay that at the feet of the director. Wiseman is competent, he just isn't (yet) at the level that Verhoeven was when he did Robocop, 5 years before he directed Total Recall.
Meh. Got boring after the 2nd act. So many plot holes I could land a 747
Just rented this on demand Saturday night.
Meh, original was better. I kept waiting for them to get to Mars, didn't know it wasn't part of this movie as I did not read any spoilers. No aliens, no pyramids, no nothing.
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The Design of Temperature Control System for Aluminum Foil Annealing Furnace
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Against to the request of high accuracy and linear warming of aluminum foil annealing furnace,a temperature control system with S7-300 PLC control core and communicating methods with Profibus-DP and MPI was designed.The control system had simple structure and was easy to operate,it could realize time and temperature control and temperature proportional control to meet different requirements of annealing process.Wincc6.0 configuration software was used to monitor the status of annealing furnaces.The EUROTHERM was used to improve the reliability of the control sysytem,the product failure rate caused by PLC fault was reduced.Practical results show that the control system has high accuracy and linear,it can meet the requirements of aluminum foil annealing.
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On behalf of the Executive Council, I would like to welcome you to the Health Law Section of The Florida Bar. I am honored to have been elected Chair of the Section and look forward to working with the Executive Council and the Section membership this next year.
The Health Law Section is over 1800 members strong and focuses on the many varied and complex legal issues that impact health care in our state and nation. From Abortion to Zika virus, our section attorneys have helped to shape policy in both the public and private sector. As today's health care issues grow in number and complexity, the need for knowledgeable and experienced health care attorneys has never been greater.
Membership and participation in the Health Law Section is an ideal opportunity for both seasoned attorneys and those newly admitted to the Bar to gain a better understanding of health law, refine practice skills, and develop significant working relationships with other health care attorneys and professionals.
As a member of the Section, you will be given full access to the Section's wide-ranging continuing legal education ("CLE") programs and news materials. The Section hosts several in-person CLE seminars during the year, covering topics ranging from health law fundamentals to the most recent developments in fraud and abuse, compliance, risk management, and representation of licensed practitioners. The Section also hosts a series of monthly audio webcast CLE programs, allowing health care attorneys and other professionals to keep abreast of the law from the convenience of their own offices. Additionally, the Section offers members electronic quarterly newsletters and monthly health law updates containing practice related articles.
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Feasibility of brief psychological distress screening by a community-based telephone helpline for cancer patients and carers
Hawkes, Anna, Hughes, Karen, Hutchison, Sandy, & Chambers, Suzanne (2010) Feasibility of brief psychological distress screening by a community-based telephone helpline for cancer patients and carers. BMC Cancer, 10(14), pp. 1-10.
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Up to one-third of people affected by cancer experience ongoing psychological distress and would benefit from screening followed by an appropriate level of psychological intervention. This rarely occurs in routine clinical practice due to barriers such as lack of time and experience. This study investigated the feasibility of community-based telephone helpline operators screening callers affected by cancer for their level of distress using a brief screening tool (Distress Thermometer), and triaging to the appropriate level of care using a tiered model. Methods
Consecutive cancer patients and carers who contacted the helpline from September-December 2006 (n = 341) were invited to participate. Routine screening and triage was conducted by helpline operators at this time. Additional socio-demographic and psychosocial adjustment data were collected by telephone interview by research staff following the initial call. Results
The Distress Thermometer had good overall accuracy in detecting general psychosocial morbidity (Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale cut-off score ≥ 15) for cancer patients (AUC = 0.73) and carers (AUC = 0.70). We found 73% of participants met the Distress Thermometer cut-off for distress caseness according to the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (a score ≥ 4), and optimal sensitivity (83%, 77%) and specificity (51%, 48%) were obtained with cut-offs of ≥ 4 and ≥ 6 in the patient and carer groups respectively. Distress was significantly associated with the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale scores (total, as well as anxiety and depression subscales) and level of care in cancer patients, as well as with the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale anxiety subscale for carers. There was a trend for more highly distressed callers to be triaged to more intensive care, with patients with distress scores ≥ 4 more likely to receive extended or specialist care. Conclusions
Our data suggest that it was feasible for community-based cancer helpline operators to screen callers for distress using a brief screening tool, the Distress Thermometer, and to triage callers to an appropriate level of care using a tiered model. The Distress Thermometer is a rapid and non-invasive alternative to longer psychometric instruments, and may provide part of the solution in ensuring distressed patients and carers affected by cancer are identified and supported appropriately.
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Thanks for sharing but I am really not sure what I read. There is not much of content (data) in there… it looks like a marketing brief.
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I am a 39 year old smoker who has spent much of her life baking at the beach and since pregnancy has been plagued by acne. As such, I have hyper-pigmentation, large pores, acne scars, crows feet & smoker's lines around my mouth.
I had the procedure (full face) 4 days ago and today is the first day I have looked in the mirror. I have already noticed that my crows feet are greatly diminished. The fine lines under my eyes are less noticeable even when I smile and not only are the lines around my mouth virtually gone, but my lips seem more defined. As far as the overall texture and evenness of my skin I am still pretty red with browner areas where my hyper-pigmentation & sun damage was more severe. I will give an update as my healing progresses.
My doctor, whom I trust implicitly, is not a salesman so he was honest about what to expect...for example that my deeper lines, small chemical burn scar and chicken pox scars might take as much as 6 months to disappear and may not entirely. So if you are expecting overnight results and/or absolute perfection you must learn to be patient and realistic.
As far as the actual procedure, I started Valtrex (for cold sores and blistering) & an antibiotic the day before and will take them for 10 days following. I arrived an hour early for my appointment so that numbing cream could be applied to my face. After 45 minutes the doctor injected local anesthetic around my eyes, hairline and jawline as well as 4 injections in my mouth to deaden the area. This was the worst part of the procedure. After another 15 minutes he put numbing drops in my eyes (which were so cold I yelped!!) and placed the special contacts in my eyes. The laser itself was pretty much pain free, but I did feel a little bit of the *zap* near my ears and on the tip of my nose. My nose is very sensitive and even simple extractions hurt there so do not be alarmed that the same will happen to you. The entire procedure took 15-20 minutes.
Afterward, the nurse applied a cooling gel & Aquaphor to moisten my skin. A girlfriend who had the procedure last month warned me she was in pain when her anesthetic wore off. My anesthetic wore off after about 5 hours, but I didn't even have to take a single Tylenol. I simply went to bed with a fan on my face and was fine. I did however need a ride home because my eyes were fuzzy from the numbing drops.
Last night the itching started and it felt like little ants marching around my hairline and down my nose. It is nothing I cannot bear though.The aftercare takes about a 1/2 hour or so 3-4 times a day...special cleanser, witchhazel compresses for 20 minutes and reapplication of the Aquaphor. Keeping the area moist is essential during recovery. With each day my redness and swelling lessens, but I scared a small child in traffic yesterday so I am keeping to the house for the weekend...LOL.
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College football roundup: Ohio State starts the chase for No. 1 vs. Buffalo
There are 2625 comments on the Detroit Free Press story from Aug 30, 2013, titled College football roundup: Ohio State starts the chase for No. 1 vs. Buffalo. In it, Detroit Free Press reports that:Matchup: Eastern Michigan vs. Howard . Kickoff: 6 p.m., Rynearson Stadium, Ypsilanti.
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#107 Oct 8, 2013
That other group of people are giving me a headache...
Did you like the Denver- Dallas shoot out Romo 500 yards of passing, wiped out...
The shootouts that we have been seeing remind me of the old AFL, I can still picture Alworth and Hadl piling up points and yards. Not at a Baylor pace but impressive all the same
@ Western Michigan this week....
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#108 Oct 8, 2013
I thought Broncos-Cowboys and Seahawks-Colts games were both the games of the week....in fact i just watched the Colts win on NFL replay....Romo and Russell Wilson both got screwed on picks, where the recievers should have come toward the ball.....BTW, not to interfere or anything, but your one of the good guys and you are wasteing your talents on the US and Politics forums.....Cat, Jimbo and several others, are the signal to move on, not debate the special ed kids......just saying.....
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#109 Oct 8, 2013
Romo chose the covered man on his pick. there was a check down available he stuck with his primary. If he would have just thrown it away. Romo has a history of playing so good for most of a game and then melting down. He may be on his last go around with the Cowboys...
Hey you are definately one of the good guys too on those other pages. Other then TEAMAN I haven't seen any one from that side of the divide that appears to be thinking, who seems to understand why he is what he is.. Which I think is probabily a good representation of the whole lot of them nationwide. There are a few on our side nearly as vacant.
What I do takes a couple hours a day of reading, and maybe an hour of schmooze. I have to pay attention to the ups and downs of a half dozen companies...I got too much extra time inbetween...maybe i should have been a kindergarten teacher
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#110 Oct 8, 2013
I still say, Romo's young TE, shoulda come toward the ball.....2-3 year TE's know to do that, like blocking out in Hoops.....Your right about the politics, though i don't know of Teaman?....What bother's me most, is that they continually lie, about the events of our economic recovery, as they just can't accept, this administration pulling it off, despite this House's treachery.....McCain and the elders of the GOP, might be ready to amputate the teaparty....lol...See Ya, in the Funnypapers.....
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#111 Oct 8, 2013
The guy could have come back to the ball and maybe broke it up but Romo has two safe choices. I could see him missing the back out of the backfield but failing to throw it away is harder to accept. If it were a rookie you would say well he'll learn Romo is a vet and he has all the talent in the world.
So you tell our friends over there that water is wet. They tell you your wrong.
You lead the to water, they call you a communist.
You dunk their heads under the water... When you let them up you ask them ..."Well was it wet?.....
They say yes ...it's wet,...but it's not water...
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#112 Oct 10, 2013
11 1\2 point favorites v. Western Michigan on Saturday this team just might be the best we have had here. If they win it will be legitimate to say bowl and Buffalo in the same sentence.
We have had one bowl game a few years back in Toronto...A short ride. It was pleasant but Mobile Alabama would be a nicer trip.
Visited Cardio and pain management. Usually Cardio tells me stuff I don't want to hear. This time was better. If pain Management can assist I might be able to go to the bowl... but I am getting ahead of my self, just continue winning boys.
Eric G. put on an MVP performance on the other page. He did a great job.
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#113 Oct 11, 2013
Even though it was great the Bears won....hard to figure out, what is happening with Eli....very un-Manning like....Seem's the Giants have enough horses, in order to be playing better?......We are at Penn State....still feel the Nittany Lions got royally screwed by the NCAA....not sure they even had the right to do that, since the incident was criminal and handled as thus.........
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#114 Oct 11, 2013
Eli and the Giants is a tough one to figure, it is very un-Manning-like . I think some parts of the team have gone down hill with age and injury and the haven't been in a position to fill those holes through the draft, and the old stars draw enough salary to make it hard for the Giants to sign the top notch O & D linemen they seem to be missing.
They are like Pittsburg they are being punished by the salary cap system for being too good for too long.
On Saturday, Oregon v. Washington could be fun.
What happened at Penn State was an awful shame, but i disagree on the question of what the NCAA has the right to do...they have the right to punish a member school in almost any fashion that is more or less constant with the NCAA's past history. A think that they were covering themselves, PR wise.
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That's funny...when i saw this reply i was gonna mention Oregon v Washington...a fascinating, especially since it is at normal time for us...lol...We'll likely not see eye to eye on NCAA....i think they have been a reactionary mess for years, uneven and way too heavy handed....Penn State was way too penalized($60 MILLION)by them, especially for something that did'nt have a direct connection to any of the sports, the NCAA has jurisdiction over.......What finished me on them, was that they had a reprimand for Johnny Manziel....but had his signed helmet on the NCAA site for $500......
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#116 Oct 11, 2013
I think that they aught to pay the players. The joke is that the NCAA is willing to pretend that they aren't the NFL's minor league system... The images and likeness of the players can be sold to EA and the players get stiffed...also....When a program is penalized the coach who was in charge should carry those penalties to the next job and the Team should be off the hook the moment the guilt coach leaves, unless there is evidence the school covered up...permenet expulsion for coaches that are repeaters....they wont starve the nfl will hire them.
At Penn State there was a big lack of oversight on the Universities part JoPa was god and even though there was ample reason to know that Joe was turning a blind eye the administration didn't respond properly. You could make a point that the penaties were vindictive, but the University was lax
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#117 Oct 11, 2013
Joe Pa stayed way too long...kinda like Bobby Bowden did.....weird thing is, was'nt the badguy, Sandusky actually the defensive genius, everyone spoke of when they spoke of Linebacker U? Ugliest uniforms in College football?.....
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#118 Oct 11, 2013
Sandusky was the defensive genius and he was there for 32 years as a coach. Bowden may have stayed a year or two too many (Mack Brown?) but there is nothing other than a series of 7 win seasons to shame him. JoPa will have Sandusky's sin weigh down his legend.
We saw Penn State uniforms on the Bulls for about 5 years, they won maybe 15 games wearing them so you betcha we got sick of looking at them. It was weird because JoPa gave his ex- offensive line coach Craig Cirbus a game . Both Buffalo and Penn State wearing identical uniforms except for shirt color.
My pick for ugliest uniforms might still be Maryland.
My wife watches with me on saturday nite she picks her team by the uniform
My wifes rules...
Helmet logo has to be clear easy to understand....
extra stripes on the shirt beyond the end of the sleve are frowned upon
Tapered stripes on pants legs are frowned upon...
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#119 Oct 12, 2013
Michigans a still great, i think...best helmet.... and mayybbee Notre Dame are the best of the old school uniforms....i recall a game i watched once, possibly with Montana...where Notre Dame was down to USC, then they came out after half, in their green jerseys...the crowd went nuts and they actually won the game....I've never forgotten that game....
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#120 Oct 12, 2013
I like Michigan's threads. the wife is not fond of the helmet. She always ends up picking Alabama , Oklahoma and such.
Buffalo 33-0 it was 6-0 at the half and by the start of the 4th the bench was emptying. When they are not playing Baylor the 'D' can be dominating.
Lot of good ball right now Kansas State has a lead on Baylor at the start of the 4th.
Clemson 17- 14 Boston
Oregon is up on Washington 28-14.
Michigan is in trouble
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#121 Oct 12, 2013
You were right about Buffalo...is Northern Illinois in that conference?.....Michigan lost, but it was a fascinating game, they controlled their demise....I watched Oregon-Washington....believe me, Oregon's offense is a well oiled machine...on sportscenter they were saying, how they average 17 seconds, between plays....lol...Too bad about Manzeil, eh?....
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#122 Oct 12, 2013
Northern Ilinois is in the confrence. They are in the west dividion, we are in the east so thank goodness we don't play them every year, surprised to see they struggled a bit with Akron they aren't that good a team.
Michigan was and the incredible Penn State drive to tie and after Michigan almost winning it that is why we watch
How about a bowl game with Oregon v. Baylor that game could be fun to see
Buffalo has 4 wins 3 more and they should go to some bowl somewhere.
The Bills ...tomorrow they play with a qb. they picked up at a garage sale could be ruff.
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#123 Oct 13, 2013
Guess Manziel just got his knee tweeked...they cut into my game with showing him rolling on the field, grabbing his knee....then i was pissed after Michigan...they never came back on to say he was okay....lol....Patriots v Saints is pretty interesting, too.....I think your Bills found their Qb....he just got roughed up....were you expecting a Superbowl run, this year?...lol....
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#124 Oct 13, 2013
If i were delusional enough to expect a Super Bowl this year ...I would be as bad as a tea head. i had season tickets back before Jim Kelly arrived 2-14 year after year so, It isn't the fact that we will miss the playoffs again...It's just you get tired of that team crapping it's pants year after year. Spiller may be out as well.
Michigan - Penn St. was a great game I don't blame you for being upset...but that was fun to watch.
Hoping for Manziel to have a serious injury....come on.
His mom was watching...hope for him to throw 6 interceptions but not get seriously hurt. I hope he has a bad game or two in him.
Next week we host UMass who won their first of the year v. Miami of ohio
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That isn't what i was saying about Manziel....what they did was announce his knee injury, then never came back to say he was okay.....Your right about Michigan...i don't get near as hyper as when younger.....I think this weird NFL, Redzone has something to do with, just appreciating the game for what it is.....if that makes any sense?.....Plus in the pros, i have started to pull for the Broncos, cause Peyton is the Qb.....
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#126 Oct 13, 2013
"I don't get near as hyper as when I was younger"
When I was in school i was rabid and delusional I had my self believing the NHL was around the next corner. Then after I played against some guys who would get to be paid to play. I knew there was a talent gap undetered by reality i only worked on the game, became a bit of a nasty defensive specialist. was tossed from school and still put playing on a pedestal. Played till I was 41 in various local leagues. i was unpleasnant when it came to almost anything competitive.
Then i got hooked up with a friend and we founded a baseball league handicapped kids. Our son has C.P.
I learned more from those kids then from any teacher i had ever studied under.
Now i can accept loss and set back...
And enjoy the game for the joy of it.
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The Twilight Saga: EclipseDirector: David Slade
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The third film in the Twilight series explores a love triangle between Bella (Kristen Stewart), Edward (Robert Pattinson), and Jacob (Taylor Lautner) as the werewolf pack and the Cullen clan join together to fight a new breed of vampires. Melissa Rosenberg provides the screenplay for the Summit Entertainment adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's best-selling novel, with director David Slade calling the shots behind the camera. Bryce Dallas Howard joins the cast as Victoria, the role originally played by Rachelle Lefevre in the first film.
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All Movie GuideEclipse is the third installment in the Twilight Saga, but unlike the previous films this one feels like a deserving blockbuster, with a faster-paced story and more action. Of course, the things that make a Twilight film what it is -- teenage romance and bloody danger -- still remain, but this film feels less sappy and more urgent while at the same time avoiding the hormonal deluge of Twilight and the sleepiness of New Moon. Director David Slade nails the tone and intercuts bouts of breezy romance, sexual tension, and suspenseful action, while screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg skillfully translates Stephenie Meyer's prose into a digestible and coherent narrative. Some of the themes stay the same, but Eclipse gets right to the thing that makes this franchise so popular: the love triangle between Bella, Edward, and Jacob. It's the ultimate fantasy -- a young girl is forced to choose between two equally tall, dark, and broody men who yearn for her. This desire leads to conflict, and Bella finds herself stuck between the vampire she loves and the wolf she's falling for. In Eclipse, Edward is determined to marry Bella and Bella wants to lose her soul and virginity to her broody vampire beau. Edward wants to keep her pure and living as long as he can, and so does Jacob for that matter, who gets angry after Bella tells him that she'll become a bloodsucker after graduation. After the requisite reintroductions of minor characters, the film picks up quickly. Victoria's back, but this time she's created herself an army of newborn vampires -- undisciplined yet powerful and extremely dangerous. In order to protect Bella, an unlikely alliance forms between the wolf pack and the Cullens, which leads to Edward and Jacob teaming up -- and bumping heads -- all in a bid to keep her safe and win her heart. Rosenberg broadens the series' scope, this time incorporating backstories for supporting characters Jasper and Rosalie and adding meatier rolls for Bryce Dallas Howard and Dakota Fanning, but most importantly, Bella and Edward are allowed a wider range of emotions. The sexual tension between stars Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson is pretty hot, and despite the fact that all they really do is kiss, the chemistry is definitely there. Both actors seem more comfortable in their roles -- though Taylor Lautner stands out as the shape-shifting werewolf making Bella's decision that much more difficult. But like all the Twilight films, there's a balancing act between swooning cheesiness and gothic slaughter. With sweeping shots of the mountains of British Columbia as stand-ins for Forks and slightly better special effects than in previous Twilight films, Slade alternates between suspense and romance with careful precision. There are times when the film pokes fun at itself -- like when the Cullens joke about throwing a party because "how many times are you going to graduate from high school?" or when Edward comments to Bella about a shirtless Jacob, "Doesn't he own a shirt?" -- but true fans will love this installment, which is easily the best so far in the series, for the simple fact that Eclipse is the film in which Bella finally chooses between Edward and Jacob.
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6. You Wouldn't Have to Change For Me [6:46]
7. I Was A Little Theatrical Back Then [6:41]
8. This Is The Time To Make Mistakes [5:20]
9. Never Go For The Obvious Kill [4:36]
10. Battle Scars [2:12]
11. Edward Is Old School [3:48]
12. Do Me The Honor [6:52]
13. Carrying Bella To Safety [6:37]
14. Attempt To Control Your Thoughts [5:32]
15. That Should Have Been Our First Kiss [6:11]
16. She Knew You Would Be With Me [4:27]
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The Twilight Saga: Eclipse based on 0 ratings. 116 reviews.
Good acting by Jackson Rathbone, and Rob P. is still improving. What a croak again, thought 3rd time would be the charm. Uneventful again. When are someone going to give gifts of acting classes to Kristen and Taylor. KS & TL should donate their salary for these movies to charities. Stephenie wrote a decent book, why can't the screenwriter write a decent script, the more I see of these movies with these non acting people the more I cringe. I know they can't replace them, but Kristen said in the commentary that they rehearsed, are you kidding me!!! There are young actors (male & female) out their that make KS & TL look like idiots on the screen. Maybe the cast should watch The Vampire Diaries!!! (enough said) I am sorry to be so critical. I hope BILL C. does a better job with Breaking Dawn.
amazing movie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The third installment of the Saga was very much worth the wait. It is difficult to adapt such a detailed novel into a movie and, of course, some aspects of the book were combined in the essence of time but the general story stayed true to the book.
The Twilight Saga movies just keep getting better and better. This is a movie that your entire family will enjoy. It is a love story between a human girl and a one hundred year old vampire, who will always look age 17. Edward loves Bella and would give up his life for her. Bella feels the same. Enter a shapeshifter Wolf, who acts like a spoiled brat much of the time, but in this film, the competition between Jacob and Edward for Bella, is down right funny. There is danger to Bella from a group of new vampires who want to kill her. The fight to protect her provides a great deal of action. The film has beautiful outdoor locations. Lots of new faces are there, and the acting is excellent. This film is worth the money and time.
Eclipse has been the best of the series. I loved the book, but it was one of my least favorite. The movie made me appreciate the book even more. I like how the movie gave you more of the Seattle vampires. The cast was great, and the acting is getting better with every film. I can't wait to see it again, and again. This is a must see for all Twilight fans.
Great action, love story and acting. This is a great movie for men and women to enjoy.
This is the closest of the three movies to have been made yet. Has the most action and is the most accurate to the novels.Best one yet.
Horrible acting, horrible plot, and overall it sucked! I cannot believe all these loser kids like this junk! It is trash! DO NOT BOTHER TO WATCH ANY TWILIGHT FILMS! UNLESS YOU WANT TO BE BORED TO DEATH...
Absolutely loved it! More action in this movie -good plot - first rate acting. The Twilight Saga just keeps getting better! Wish it would go on forever. Keep them coming, Stephenie!
Which I suspect will be Breaking Dawn. I enjoyed this enough to see it 6 times and while yes, it's certainly better than New Moon, I am a TWI-HARD of the first degree and still like Twilight best. Why, because it did a good job of bringing the characters I had learned to like and love to life. I thought Billy Burke was incredible as Bella's dad. New Moon had some good "moments", and Eclipse well, it was exciting,a lot more tension between Edward and Jacob but I think the director let some opportunities pass by, In the book there was so much more to Jaspers story, and while we know Alice, & Emmet were also adopted by Carlisle we know very little about them in their pre vampire days. And Carlisle and Esme themselves need a little bit more of a story.( I know he is given a little background as a member of the Volturi. Eclipse would have been wonderful to have covered more ground. But, like the book, the movie was very good, very entertaining and yes left you wanting more and more and more. I wish Ms. Myers would realise her charters stories are far from done and write at least two more books to give us complete closure. Bree Tanner was a waste of her time and ours it added nothing to the Twilight Saga. it's the characters we have come to know that we want more of.
I love the film especially the fight of the newborns,cullens,and new shapeshifters
this movie is the best twilight book yet. Its where the new born baby is and it happened it the movie before this one but this one showed it getting older. In a later part of the story Jacob. Jacob is the daddy of Elizabeth dawn. She is so cute and tiny for nine mouths old. Elizabeth Dawn. This is the best movie!
this movie stinks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If you like a good drama movie than Eclipse is your kind of movie. It is a action love and drama movie. The actors are great for their roles, the words are great and they go with the story Eclipse is the best movie I have ever seen and it about vampire and a werewolf and they both love a girl named Bella. The bad vampires are after Bella and the werewolves and the vampires have to team up work together and fight the bad vampires and¿¿ you will have to watch to find out how it ends People should buy or rent Eclipse and every other movie in the Twilight series there are two other movies the 1st movie is called Twilight and 2nd and than Eclipse is the 3rd one The last one of the twilight series is called Breaking Dawn and it just came out in the movie theater so you can¿t buy or rent it yet. If it is anything like Eclipse you should watch it when it comes out too That¿s all I have to say about Eclipse hope you watch it and enjoy it as much as I do.
i think this movie is better cause everthing about bella's life has been change so much and she also want to be with edward


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Convert to hunting
I visit these islands two to three times a year and I'm shocked, to say the least, at some of the disgusting cases that I have read about in relation to hunting.
One morning, I was talking to a waiter I know and who comes from a hunting family and it led to a heated conversation. To cut a long story short, I wanted to see things for myself so I simply asked him if I could go hunting with him. By 5.30 the next morning I was in the middle of nowhere in a tiny hut drinking coffee. Later, I was sitting in a small hide with 36 male quails in cages.
Suddenly, the sheer excitement on the lad's face was something I can't explain. In the field next to us, a hunter fired two shots, then called out the waiter's name. A dove was close. I admit I was disappointed when he said it had flown past. We stayed in the hide until 10am and went for a walk for quail, to no avail.
My point is that there are people who are ruining the sport for others but also that one cannot believe everything one reads. I was shown marsh harriers, golden orioles, bee eaters, wagtails, swallows, swifts and kestrels. No shots were taken.
Hunting is a passion, a tradition, a way of life and no foreigner has the right to preach or lie about the Maltese way. I learnt a lot that morning. I opened my eyes and saw a different world out there. I agree it is cruel to take a life or to keep a quail cooped up in a small cage but being bred in captivity it is no different to my budgie. It is their way and their way it must stay.
I would like to thank the waiter and wish him a better season next year. I'd like to join him again if my health allows me to visit this lovely island again. You could say I'm hooked, at the tender age of 68.
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U.S.: Tight Labor Markets Could Put The Squeeze On Bottom Lines
If you're looking for reasons to worry about profits in 1998, look beyond the Asian crisis to the consequences of super-tight U.S. labor markets. Labor costs jumped sharply at the end of 1997, and further acceleration, which would put the squeeze on profit margins in 1998, is all but assured.
The troublesome news from labor costs couldn't come at a worse time for many corporations. First of all, companies are still finding it difficult to raise prices, a task made even harder by the disinflationary winds blowing out of Asia. Second, productivity growth in 1998 will not match the speedup in labor costs. Also, the problem is not just wages. The pace of benefits is now picking up. And finally, given that the economy will slow at some point this year, top-line revenue growth may suffer in the second half.
The bearer of these bad tidings was the Labor Dept.'s employment cost index (ECI), which measures wages, salaries, and benefits and is generally accepted as the best available reading of labor costs. The fourth-quarter ECI for civilian workers jumped 1% from the third quarter, the largest quarterly rise in five years. The index for the private sector, a truer reflection of labor-market pressures, surged an even steeper 1.2%, and the yearly pace picked up considerably, led by faster wage growth (chart).
Of course, the flip side of higher labor costs is more buying power for consumers, especially with inflation so low. That's the chief reason why consumers stayed upbeat in January and why strong domestic demand is helping manufacturers to weather the fallout from Asia. Because of the recent ups and downs in aircraft orders, new factory bookings for durable goods fell 6.1% in December, but they had leaped 5.1% in November. Excluding aircraft, December orders rose 0.9%.
THE BIG HIKE IN THE ECI surprised Wall Street, especially the bond market, which sold off out of fear that rising labor costs could reawaken inflation worries that had been all but put to rest by the Asian crisis. The data at least removed any expectation that the Federal Reserve might cut interest rates anytime soon.
The stock market, enamored of good fourth-quarter earnings reports, was unfazed by the ECI report, but perhaps investors should take another look at the trends. In the private sector, overall compensation increased 3.4% from a year ago, the fastest annual clip in four years. Faster wage growth is driving that acceleration. Wages and salaries are up 3.9% from a year ago, the largest yearly increase in seven years. And benefits, lifted in the fourth quarter by bonuses and costs related to faster pay growth, were up 2.3% on the year. They haven't risen that fast in 2 1/2 years.
The problem for profits is that the wage-driven acceleration in overall compensation will continue in 1998, as labor markets remain tight. The fourth-quarter pickup is evidence that joblessness, now ensconced well under 5%, is below the level that causes compensation to speed up. And wages will continue to grow at a progressively faster pace until the jobless rate rises to a level that halts that acceleration.
Stellar productivity growth in 1997 of nearly 2% prevented unit labor costs from speeding up last year, allowing good profit gains amid weak pricing power. But in 1998, even 2% productivity growth may not be sufficient to prevent a speedup in unit labor costs. And if productivity slows, as many economists expect, the unit cost pressures will be even greater.
THE SERVICE SECTOR, where 75% of all private-sector workers are employed, is where the real trouble with labor costs is brewing. The ECI report showed a steep acceleration in service-industry labor costs, while costs among goods producers remained tame (chart).
Compensation in services last quarter shot up 1.5% from the third quarter, the largest quarterly rise in nine years. Sales commissions added to the increase, but the upward trend is clear. The pace from a year ago was 4%, led by a 4.4% rise in wages, the fastest pay growth in this seven-year expansion. With a further speedup likely in 1998, it is highly unlikely that service-sector productivity gains will be sufficient to prevent unit labor costs from accelerating.
So will service companies take a hit on their bottom lines, or will they cushion the blow by increasing prices? Clearly, service-sector profits will suffer, but some acceleration in service inflation looks likely. That's because services are far less exposed to the impact of the strong dollar and foreign competition than goods producers are. So services are the most likely businesses to have success in lifting prices in 1998.
For all companies, benefits will be getting costlier this year. In particular, medical-care costs appear ready to start pushing up benefits. Cost pressures among several health-insurance providers became evident last year. And in December, the consumer price index for medical care rose 0.5%, the largest monthly increase in three years. The prices for most company health plans typically adjust in January, so first-quarter benefit costs may show a further speedup. Moreover, with 85% of workers now covered by a managed-care program, according to a Mercer/Foster Higgins study, the 1990s trend of saving money by switching to managed care is now all but played out.
THE GROWTH IN LABOR COSTS should make a dent in profit margins fairly quickly this year. But overall earnings growth should benefit a while longer from the strength of domestic demand, buoyed by low interest rates, healthy job markets, and upbeat consumers.
Households remained optimistic in January, mainly reflecting excellent job and income prospects. The Conference Board's index of consumer confidence slipped to 127.3 in January, from a revised 136.2 in December, but December's reading had been a 28-year high. The January index is still quite lofty by historical standards (chart), and happy consumers are spending. LJR Redbook Research said that retail sales in the first three weeks of January were up a steep 1.8% from December's average.
Spending will also get a boost from mortgage refinancings. The Mortgage Bankers Assn.'s index of refi applications skyrocketed, to greater than 3,000, in the middle two weeks of January. That record level is far higher than any point recorded during the refi binge of 1993 and 1994, when extra cash from refis added billions of dollars to consumer spending. This year's boost from refinancing means that last year's spending spree may have further to run, especially with household buying power already so strong.
Indeed, rising compensation has always been a double-edged sword for the economy. For consumers, fatter paychecks mean increased spending. But for businesses, the growing tab for labor means that squeezing a few cents of profit from each revenue buck is going to get a lot harder this year.


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XBMC runs great on it (albeit a bit sluggish in the interface transitions sometimes, but not painfully so).
If all you need is the ability to stream network stored content at 720p, look no further than the $99 ATV2.
The downsides are its lack or extensiblity (many add-ons do not work due to the iOS platform and lack of internal storage)
I stepped into the XBMC world with my ATV2, but now realize that I need to upgrade to a full-blown HTPC now that I've caught a glimpse of the possibilities.
Having all of those wonderful add-ons listed, and not being able to utilize them is pure torture. Namely, the Netflix add-on doesn't work due to lack of Silverlight support.
This is a major drawback because as many found out a few weeks ago, the native ATV2 Netflix App can be broken by Apple/Netflix during firmware updates, forcing everyone to update (re-jailbreak) the Apple TV2.
When this happens, you hope there is a new jailbreak available for the new IOS soon, or you're stuck with no Netflix.
Superorb Wrote:All it can be used for is streaming though, it can't be used to do anything else that's more CPU intensive. For example, you can't play games or any of the SAB/Couch, etc addons.
For many it would be perfect if they could get it to output 1080p, myself included. I have a server to do all those other addons and I don't play games.


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It's going to be a great weekendIt's going to be a great weekend, in fact it's already beautiful. We have an awesome forecast for the weekend…for both our students and the experienced pilots. Also, an LZ dinner and Sunday's free clinic. Come play with us! We even fixed the tell-tale south of launch in anticipation of your arrival!
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