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GRAHAM � Table manners are important: Elbows off the table, sit up straight, don�t talk with your mouth full.
Tavarus Montaye Swann got that last one right during a traffic stop Nov. 6, but forgot one other important rule: Take small bites.
The Burlington man�s difficulties began when an officer smelled marijuana inside Swann�s vehicle during the traffic stop.
Police searched the vehicle and a passenger, who had marijuana �coming out of his underwear,� Craig Thompson, Alamance County assistant district attorney, said Monday.
When police began to question Swann � of 610 Texas Ave., Burlington � they quickly realized he was hiding something in his mouth when he refused to answer officers� questions. Swann eventually had to fess up.
�He tried to swallow 4 grams of marijuana,� Thompson said.
The recounting prompted concern from Superior Court Judge Paul Gessner.
�That wasn�t the same marijuana that fell out of the other man�s shorts, was it?� Gessner asked during Monday�s hearing.
Thompson assured the judge it wasn�t.
�Good; I feel better about this now,� the judge said.
Swann pleaded guilty to destroying evidence, and remaining charges were dismissed.
Gessner suspended a four- to 14-month sentence and placed Swann on 18 months� probation. Gessner ordered him to pay a $250 fine, court costs and attorney fees.


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To support its innovative Campus Card solution, which provides university students with a simple, secure way to pay for goods and services on campus, Synjones chose SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. The SUSE solution provides high availability for this critical payment service, enabling continuous 24/7 operations.
The Challenge
Synjones has developed a highly successful solution for the education sector called Campus Card, which is now used by more than 70 schools and universities. Using the solution, students and staff can pay for goods and services on campus using a special card, which securely transfers the right amount of money from the student to the institution and eliminates the need for cash transactions.
"The Campus Card solution is at the heart of our business," said Mr. Wenzhi Lu, Director of Technical Service Centre for Central China at Synjones. "It was the first product we ever developed, and we have been continuously improving it ever since." The original version of the solution ran on SCO UNIX, while version 2.0 used a combination of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Rose HA, a high availability solution from Rose Datasystems. However, this solution was difficult to deploy and maintain, and did not always deliver the continuous availability required by Synjones' clients.
SUSE Solution
"We started looking for a different platform that would provide better high availability functionality," said Mr. Wenzhi Lu. "SUSE suggested that we should test our solution on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, which includes a high availability stack that is fully integrated with the operating system. We saw this as an advantage because it avoided the need to buy two separate pieces of software. Moreover, it proved to be much easier to deploy than the Red Hat and Rose HA platform."
Following a period of comprehensive testing, Synjones became confident that SUSE Linux Enterprise Server could deliver the performance and stability required to support the Campus Card solution and provide continuous availability for its clients' students and staff. The combination of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and IBM System x3650 M2 hardware also delivers excellent performance.
"The technical support that we have received from SUSE has been excellent," said Mr. Wenzhi Lu. "Our Campus Card installations can have anywhere from 10,000 to 100,000 users, so scalability is a critical factor. SUSE helped us to demonstrate that SUSE Linux Enterprise Server can handle even the largest of these environments without any problems."
Synjones has already migrated three schools onto SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, and intends to move the majority of its clients onto the new platform over the next three years. In total, this will mean that almost 80 institutions will be using the SUSE solution.
"We deliver the whole solution, including the cards themselves, the server and point-of-sale hardware, all the software, and the implementation and support services," said Mr. Wenzhi Lu. "Our clients don't want to know about the technical side of things— they just want a cost-effective solution that works reliably. So by improving availability and reducing maintenance costs, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server helps us deliver a higher level of service, as well as better value for our customers."
The Results
Because functionality to create highly available Linux services is fully integrated into the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server operating system, it is much easier for Synjones to configure new environments and ensure rapid, problem-free deployment.
"With our previous platform, setting up the high availability clustering technology was a highly complex task, and implementations could often take more than a day," said Mr. Wenzhi Lu. "With SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, configuration can be completed 50 percent faster—which helps our implementation teams get clients up and running with the Campus Card solution very quickly."
The SUSE solution also eliminates the need to buy high availability software separately, which reduces licensing and support costs by around 25 percent.
"Since the software is less expensive, we can provide the same solution to our clients at a lower cost," said Mr. Wenzhi Lu. "The ability to deliver better value to the education sector is the key to maintaining our competitive advantage."
But most important of all, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server delivers continuous availability— ensuring that students and staff can access the card payment system whenever they need to.
"With our old solution we used to have a breakdown approximately every six months," said Mr. Wenzhi Lu. "But with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, we haven't experienced a single moment of unplanned downtime since we first went live. The SUSE software helps our Campus Card solution deliver the high level of service that our clients require, helping us retain a high level of customer satisfaction."

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Washoe County, Nevada(Partner: National Association of County and City Health Officials)
Community Mission
Our mission is to empower Washoe County residents to be tobacco free, live active lifestyles, and eat nutritiously using population-based strategies that emphasize communities with greatest need.
Community Information
Where is Washoe County? Washoe County is in the northwestern corner of Nevada along the borders of California and Idaho and is home to the twin urban cities of Reno and Sparks. Washoe County's other communities include the winter ski resort town of Incline Village at Lake Tahoe and the rural desert community of Gerlach, home to the infamous Burning Man festival. Though Washoe County is only the second largest county in the state, it is growing rapidly and becomingly increasingly diverse. Recent estimates place the county's current population at 418,061, compared to 341,935 in 2000, a 22.3 percent increase in less than 10 years. Is Washoe County a Healthy Community? Like communities across the country, chronic diseases are the leading causes of death in Washoe County and are among the top 10 sources of years of productive life lost. The prevalence of chronic disease risk factors is also a concern. For example, 16.1 percent of Washoe County school-children are overweight, and 18.1 percent are obese. Both rates are greater than the nation at 15.6 percent and 16.3 percent, respectively (JAMA, 2008). In addition, tobacco use in Washoe County had been on the decline for over a decade. Unfortunately, smoking rates have begun to rise and are again above the national rate. Is Washoe County Ready for Change? Migration from neighboring Western states where community norms are healthier, a growing tourist and gaming industry, and the natural changes that occur over time in all communities have impacted Washoe County's readiness for policy change. For example: Nevada's first clean indoor air law went into effect in 2006. Although widely viewed as a victory, Nevada's law is one of the weakest in the nation as it exempts casinos, one of the state's largest employers. Unlike other communities that see decreases in smoking after clean air laws are passed, Nevada's smoking rate has increased. At the same time, tobacco prevention and control programs were cut 100 percent. Washoe County's school district adopted a district-wide wellness policy in 2006 governing nutritional specifications for campus foods and beverages and mandating Wellness Coordinators for each school. Though the policy provides excellent guidelines for school nutrition, it includes no physical education requirements, no funding, and no support for the Wellness Coordinators. Washoe County is generally considered one of the most beautiful outdoor destinations in the world, due to Lake Tahoe and the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range. Despite this, few local residents take advantage of our numerous recreational areas; and, though local governments have developed plans to advance walking and biking, few have been funded or implemented.
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Monday 4:15 - 5:15 p.m.
Choose One Selection Per Track
Strategic Session 3
Using Smarter Business Resilience For Dynamic Risk Management
|Richard Cocchiara, IBM BCRS
In today's ever changing world of demands, opportunities and threats , your company needs a dynamic risk management strategy just to survive. Companies who rely on a reactive approach to risk are doomed to failure and will find themselves on the dust heap of history. In this session, we will explain how IBM is building the next generation Smarter Business Resilience engine that will provide the predictive analysis necessary to allow companies to use their dynamic infrastructure to leapfrog competition and sidestep problems before they become disasters.
Richard Cocchiara, an IBM Distinquished Engineer,is currently the chief technology officer for IBM's Business Continuity & Resiliency Services responsible for research and development of all new services.
Managerial Session 3
Elevate your DR Program from the Backroom to the Board Room
|David Halford, Forsythe Solutions
Take an advanced look at three interrelated topics that can transition your IT DR program to a new level generating executive visibility and increase the value it brings to your enterprise. Learn how to operationalize your testing and validation initiatives. Take an advanced view of emerging DR strategies that allow you to improve recovery performance and budget optimization. Prepare yourself to negotiateor 'renegotiate' a DR vendor services solution that provides the highest possible ROI and utilization value to your production environment.
As a managing consultant for Forsythe, David Halford helps customers plan and implement enterpriserisk management initiatives focused in the businesscontinuity arena.
Technical Session 3
Seeing is Believing: Supporting BC/DR with Visual Blueprints
|Daniel Evenson, Pathway Systems
Don't expect textual plans alone to be sufficient for today's complex companies. Augment your plans with blue prints that make your BC/DR efforts highly visible to C-level executives, managers and technicians. With blue prints in hand, you'll see such problem areas as lacks of redundancy and over allocation of resources. This visual reference will help improve the current state, rebuild after a disaster and slam dunk compliance audits. Utilizing examples and case studies, we'll discuss what to include in your blue prints and how to build, publish, distribute anduse them. We'll also discuss how to keep themcurrent.
Daniel Evenson is the CTO of Pathway Systems. He has worked in the IT industry for more than 15 years.
Emergency Response Session 3
NNEMP: Non-Nuclear Electromagnetic Pulse
|Gale Nordling, Emprimus
Jim Danburg, Emprimus
There are perpetrators who are using devices to emit high frequency pulses which disable data center equipment and cause data disruption and corruption, from a distance, potentially violating regulatory requirements (dataretention). Additionally, there are other electromagnetic threat sources. We'll focus on the history of the threat, and how this threat impacts datacenters, and more importantly, all support systems as well as, how an organization can utilize best practices and various methodologies to protect themselves. We'll also discuss the impact upon regulatory compliance.
Gale K. Nordling, president and CEO has 35 years experience as an engineer, practicing attorney, general counsel, risk manager, consultant and expert witness.
Jim Danburg, director of security and continuity, has more than 30 years experience in the IT field.
Advanced Session 3
BETH3 - An Approach to Practical Resiliency and Recovery Strategies
|David Sarabacha, Deloitte & Touche LLP
For many organizations, creating actionable and maintainable plans has continued to be a challenge. Whether the focus is one of worst case or alternatively one of specific events, plans tend to either be too high level or too detailed for actual use and reference during an event. BETH3 is a methodology where by practical strategies and plans can be developed by focusing on the assets used to conduct the various critical processes of an organization. This combined lecture/case study will not only present in formation, but will also provide participants a chance to apply the concepts to solidifying their understanding.
David Sarabacha, global leader of Deloitte's Business Continuity Management services, has more than 16 years of experience in the development, implementation and review of BC/DR and continuity of operations plans.
Information Session 3
The DRII Certification Process
You've taken a few DRII courses, even sat for the certification exam – now what? You've heard the stories of how intense the application process is – where do you start? This session will be chaired by members of the DRII Certification Commission and the DRII Certification Manager, and will focus on the application process to successfully become certified. The session is targeted to those individuals who have either begun or wish to begin this process, and will feature a "how-to" approach to this topic. Participants are encouraged to bring specific questions concerning their applications.
Disaster Recovery Institute Intl. is a recognized leader in providing education, standards, and professional certification.


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Can we cancel the UN, too?
Well, it beats actual presidents saying dumb things to flatter the crowd of thieves, bureaucrats and global riff-raff. Brian Fraley found this report on "President" Geena Davis going to the United Nations.
Because it's not like the United Nations might have anything better to do.


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Gallery Overview
Gallery Overview
Where the University Meets the Community
Rowan University Art Gallery serves as a premier cultural destination for South Jersey, the Rowan community, and surrounding region. Our mission is to provide a platform for discourse on best practices in contemporary art by professional artists, curators, and scholars through the presentation of interdisciplinary art exhibitions, panel discussions, guest curatorial projects, and other public programming.
Subscribe to our mailing list and follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram to get updates about upcoming events including opening receptions, pop-up exhibitions, gallery talks, and public art programming.
Opening November 18: CCCA Art Faculty Exhibition
This exhibition features over 20 faculty members within the College of Communication and Creative Arts and showcases the diversity and strength of creative practices across disciplines within the college. Participating artists include: Patrick Ahearn, Amanda Almon, Herb Appelson, Susan Bowman, Caitlin Clements, Caitlin Cocco, Jan Conradi, Jenny Drumgoole, Jill Gower, James Greenwell, Adam Gustavson, Kate Pollard Homann, Scot Kaylor, Aubrey Levinthal, Kyle Margiotta, Claudia Mastrobuono, John Mitchell, Nancy Ohanian, Ske Thomas, Nancy Sophy, Ekaterina Vanovskaya, Steven Weber, Mallory Weston, and Robert Whyte. Exhibitions and gallery programming are free and open to the public. Support for programming at Rowan University Art Galleries has been made possible in part by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.
Rowan University's 2018 Artist in Residence
Rowan University Art Gallery welcomes Sidney Mullis who will be joining the Department of Art and RUAG this spring for the annual Artist in Residence program within the Department of Art. Mullis will be mounting an exhibition at RUAG beginning in January 2018 - Stay tuned for more information. Sidney Mullis lives and works in State College, PA. Her current work includes constructed performance-based video, interactive objects and sculpture. She has exhibited in a number of locations including Berlin, Germany and Tokyo, Japan. She has had solo shows at the Leslie Lohman Museum (NYC), Future Tenant Gallery (Pittsburgh), Lock Haven University, University of Mary Washington, and more. Recent group exhibitions include Galleri Heike Arndt (Berlin), Trestle Gallery (NYC), Galleri Urbane (Dallas), pehrspace (LA), and Area 405 (Baltimore). Sidney Mullis is the recipient of the MASS MoCA residency, Ox-Bow MFA Residency, and a Creative Achievement Award from Penn State University. Sidney Mullis is represented by Galleri Urbane (Dallas, TX). Sidney Mullis: www.sidneymullis.com
Brandon Ballengée: Love Motel for Insects
Concurrent with the exhibition Sea of Vulnerability, RUAG will present Brandon Ballengée's light emitting sculpture Love Motel for Insects, in partnership with the Freedom Prep Charter School and Virtua Camden. Standing at 12 feet high by 15 feet long Love Motel for Insects is an ongoing series of public art installations intended to construct situations between humans and arthropods. Inspired by the wings of a green darner dragonfly (Anax junius), this sculpture utilizes ultraviolet light to attract nocturnal insects on large sculpted canvases creating an opportunity for public interactions with nocturnal arthropods, which are not often seen.
Variations on a Theme at Gallery West / Westby Hall
Drawn from Rowan University Art Gallery's growing permanent collection, Variations on a Theme features a selection of works that were inspired by the art of the past. Some pay homage to celebrated artists, while others reconfigure and challenge the traditional canon of art history. These recent variations on established themes and well-known works of art are accompanied by illustrations of the objects they honor and critique. In the nearby installation of The Sister Chapel, the monumental portraits of Artemisia Gentileschi and Frida Kahlo were similarly inspired by earlier images. Exhibited in Variations on a Theme are works by Dotty Attie, Elizabeth Bisbing, Marjorie Kramer, Marion Pinto, Stephanie Rauschenbusch, Susan Sills, Sylvia Sleigh, and Audrey Ushenko. Image: Dotty Attie, The Scoutmaster's Return (1975), color lithographs (cropped).


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Is there any other rom that is not HC 3.2 and has everything working properly? (wifi, teetering, 3G, camera, etc) Thanks
Nope, pretty much Honeycomb was the only thing we had "perfectly" running. Sorry.
My suggestion? Toss it in the garbage.
I bought my kids a $60 tablet this last Christmas that has 2x the amount of performance of this thing.
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Advanced Mediation Training with Lee Jay Berman
The Alternative Dispute Resolution Section of the Dallas Bar Association
Thursday, December 13, 2012 from 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM (CST)
Event Details
This high-energy, practical advanced training will cover such skills as:
- Neuro-Linguistic Programming and advanced people-reading skills
- Self-Awareness and people's first impressions of you
- The soft, human underbelly--how to get people's motivations
- Advanced mediation skills--how to avoid impasse
- Advanced closing skills for mediators
Expect to go home with a bundle of new, practical skills that you will start implementing on Monday morning!
Lee Jay Berman is a mediator based out of Los Angeles with PMA Dispute Resolution. Lee Jay is also a national panelist with the AAA, a Distinguished Fellow with the International Academy of Mediators, a Diplomat with the National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals, internationally certified by the International Mediation Institute, and a Dispute Resolution Expert with the United Nations Development Programme. A respected trainer in the field, he founded the American Institute of Mediation, leaving his position as Director of Pepperdine Law School's Mediating the Litigated Case program after seven years. He has also trained at the University of Texas at Austin, Southern Methodist University, and Lipscomb University.
Continental breakfast and lunch are provided. Parking is available, at your cost, in the underground parking at the Belo Mansion.
NOTE: 6.5 hours of CLE (Texas) requested.
Have questions about Advanced Mediation Training with Lee Jay Berman? Contact The Alternative Dispute Resolution Section of the Dallas Bar Association
When & Where
The Belo Mansion
2101 Ross Ave
Thursday, December 13, 2012 from 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM (CST)
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BARRIE -- Francois Thuot started in net for the Colts on Thursday, but he won't be doing the same tonight in Game 2. The 19-year-old OHL rookie allowed two bad goals during Ottawa's 5-4 win in the series opener.
Colts coach Marty Williamson is going with third-year veteran goalie Dan LaCosta tonight.
"The bottom line is you've got to get performances (in the playoffs), and we didn't get it," said Williamson. "We're going to make a change and see if Dan can do the job."
Thuot can't be blamed for all of Ottawa's goals in Game 1, but he gave up two softies; one to Brad Bonello in the first period, the other to Bryan Bickell in the third ended up being the game-winner.
Bonello scored on a long shot from just inside the blueline. The puck got through the goalie's pads and trickled across the goal line into the net. On Bickell's goal, the puck got through on the short side, even though the shooter aimed from a sharp angle.
"I wasn't assuming it was going to go in, but I gave it a chance to get a goal," said Bickell who played left wing on a line with Jakub Petruzalek and Lukas Kaspar. "Thank God it went in," he said. "It was a pretty bad angle, but it happens."
After Bickell's goal, Williamson replaced Thuot with LaCosta, who will be looking for his first win against Ottawa this season.
LaCosta started against the 67's three times during the regular year and he lost each one, once with Owen Sound in November before being traded to Barrie. The other two came as a member of the Colts.
During those games, Ottawa scored 14 times against him.
On March 4 at the Civic Centre, LaCosta allowed four goals on 16 shots before being yanked in favour of Thuot during a 6-3 Ottawa win.
"We've got good confidence in Dan," said Williamson. "He's an experienced goalie in the league.
"But (our goaltending) is a weakness and they exposed it and we've got to shore it up."
A SURPRISE VISIT: Ottawa coach Brian Kilrea got a thrill seeing Armand "Bep" Guidolin, who dropped by yesterday's practice. Guidolin played in the NHL from 1942-52 with Boston, Detroit and Chicago and later played semi-pro for the Ottawa Senators in the Quebec senior league. He coached Kilrea with the junior Ottawa Montagnards in the 1950s and later joined the Boston Bruins in 1972 as coach of a team that included Bobby Orr and Phil Esposito. Guidolin, who turns 80 in December, was born in Thorold but now lives in Barrie.


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The upgrade path from the original PSP to a PSPgo is not a happy one for any gamer with a large library of UMD games. At least if you live in Europe you can look forward to three free game downloads with your new handheld. But even that isn't smooth sailing if you don't download the games directly to your PSPgo.
Some gamers have been taking the rather natural step of downloading the free games to their PlayStation 3 console first and then attempting a transfer. However, due to a quirk in the DRM this does not work and leaves gamers with three unplayable games on their PS3 hard drive. Currently there is no fix meaning the games are stuck in limbo until Sony figures out what to do about it.
The error you receive on attempting to do the transfer is "Copyright protection information is invalid (8010850e)" and a post on the European PlayStation Forums confirms Sony know about it:
We're still investigating this error, so for the moment if you have not yet redeemed your voucher, please redeem and download your games via your PSPgo only. We're still coming up with a solution for those who have redeemed the voucher and are now receiving the error message, and we'll update you as soon as we have a solution for you.
Read more at Joystiq
Matthew's Opinion
If the high price and lack of UMD conversion program wasn't enough the rewards scheme Sony did decide to offer just to Europeans comes unstuck within days due to a DRM issue. Is that a sign of things to come? This is new ground Sony is treading as it is a digital download only device so there are bound to be other quirks that catch them and gamers out.
As long as Sony fix this and gamers get their free games eventually calm will ensue, but it needs to continue doing that for every problem that occurs if it wants the PSPgo to survive. We have to assume that PSPgo is the test device and that PSP 2 will also be a digital-only device. That is unless gamers stop buying the PSPgo in a couple of months after the initial curiosity has worn off and if problems like this keep happening.


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We keep reading in the news about people being up in arms about the dwindling privacy in our society. Cameras in dressing rooms, satellites that can track you within ten feet by your cell phone signal, the Patriot Act...all of these things pale when compared to the Orwellian nightmare that is Capton's Wireless Liquor Monitoring System.
If this thing is adopted, gone are the days when you could sweet-talk your bartender into stiffer drinks, or they could give you a longer pour for stiffer tips. And Jeebus only knows what would happen if they tried to take the spout off the bottle...it probably features an exploding ink packet like they use to track bank robbers.
Capton's Beverage Tracker system is an innovative liquor monitoring system that helps bar owners increase their liquor profits by providing real-time wireless liquor consumption data to help prevent against shrinkage. Our system help you identify over-pours and drink giveaways. Think of it as an electronic journal of everything that happens within your bar operations. Remember, you can't manage what you can't measure!
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Sure, we agree. And we'd rather have the bars stay in business than get greedy for the extra gulp.
But charming a bartender into an extra pour is a huge part of the giant game that is drinking. Maybe we should just consider it extra points if we can get the heavy pour from a bartender who's being monitored. A coup de grace, if you will.
Plus, if this thing catches on, we're guessing it's only a matter of time before someone figures out how to disarm it... Can't wait to see that game of counter-measures and counter-counter-measures.
Yeah, but if you own a bar, why wouldn't you want this system? Liquor theft can cost a bar, on average, 25% of their profits, so if I had a bar, I would want to know what my bartenders are doing to make sure they're not ripping me off!
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The question in this title may seem to be a hard one to answer. I think it is an easy one to answer. Linux is as hard to use as you want it to be. It is as simple as that. Note I am not talking about installing or configuring. I am talking about daily usage where you turn your computer on in the morning. Work on it during the day and then turn it off at night.
If you are a gung ho command line commander (guilty as charged :) then the Linux you choose to use will reflect that. Same goes for the mouse click musketeers. There is a Linux, actually several, which is geared towards that style of computing. For just about every imaginable purpose there is a Linux distribution specifically designed with that purpose in mind. The added bonus is that no matter what Linux is chosen it can also be reconfigured to anything else. Sort of like the transformers of operating systems, there is more than meets the eye :)
If you wish to have a firewall then you can choose to go the bare bones way and directly edit the iptables all the way up to fancy eyecandy user interfaces. If you want to create a document then you can echo it to a file or use a fully featured word processor. What ever floats your boat and is easiest for you to use.
What makes Linux hard or easy to use is not the operating system itself. It is how that operating system is prepared which determines it's ultimate ease of use. As it has been repeatedly pointed out to me it is the ease of use, not technical superiority, which the average Joe Bloke find important.
As an example, to my knowledge the Android operating system is the most popular one for smart phones right now. Why? Presumably because of it's ease of use. Android is at it's heart a Linux distribution. It has simply been configured to provide an easy to use interface between you, the user, and the hardware.
Lets also take the much touted iOS. It is at it's heart a BSD operating system. It has also been configured to be easy to use for the general public. Linux can also and has been configured to operate in the exact same manner. Not just iOS either, Linux has been configured to work like several proprietary operating systems.
So if you are giving Linux a try and it doesn't seem to be meeting your needs I would say that you are using the wrong Linux distribution. In that case as Mr. Obama liked to state. It's time for a change.
"I get paid to support Windows, I use Linux to get work done."
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As an example, to my knowledge the Android operating system is the most popular one for smart phones right now. Why? Presumably because of it's ease of use.
As much as it grates me to say this, based on how I perceive things, Linux is winning in the smart phone space not on actual merits as seen by the user, but on early market saturation because of the low cost to phone manufacturers.
Seriously though, any one of those 'ordinary' computer users could install PCLinuxOS and be up and running in minutes, and they could do that with their eyes closed and still not get any problems.
...what is most interesting to me about this situation, is the remarkable silence from all the FOSS/OSS followers who used to take the very high ground and complain that it was morally corrupt on Microsoft's part to have PC manufacturers install Windows on every PC, yet they say nothing about Google being immoral?
about the DE "war"
You are surprised that the FOSS/OSS people are not upset by someone providing Free Open Source Software?
The social consequences of the concentration of economic power in the hands of those persons controlling "Big Business" has been a constant concern both of economists and of politicians since the end of the 19th century. Various attempts have been made to investigate the effects of "bigness" upon labor, consumers and investors, as well as upon prices and competition. "Big Business" has been accused of a wide variety of misdeeds that range from the exploitation of the working class to the corruption of politicians and the fomenting of war.
What I also said was that Google are now achieving exactly the same result by giving their OS away but these same people see no moral dilemma in Google excluding Apple and Microsoft from being able to compete.
The angrier they became at their inability to achieve what they wanted, the nastier became their comments about MS who. in their eyes, are the only large company ever to use dirty tricks to achieve dominance in their respective markets which, of course, is just not true.
If microsoft can't handle the heat then they should get out of the kitchen.
They are playing their own game and microsoft does not know how to handle it. Consequently they are losing. It sucks to be microsoft :)
Well what Google is doing is a normal part of doing business yet you are claiming the sky is falling
Personally, I think it's fine that Google are now playing a similar game, the only thing that annoys me is that I want a Windows 7 tablet, not an Android one:)
FOSS supporters cried foul at Microsoft because Microsoft commited crimes as part of their business model.
This blog shows a much better attitude than the last three or four. You have to accept that, like it or not, there are people who just don't want to know, and will never know, any more about computers than how to use a keyboard to write their letters and emails and a mouse to do everything else.
This is so not true about the situation being the reverse for Microsoft and Google now that it was for Microsoft and other operating systems (not really Linux as much as other commercial operating systems).
"It's the same case, it's Microsoft redux," he said. "Everything we worried about Microsoft being able to do, Google is now doing. Exerting control over access to the Web, control over how people use the Web and the ability to take a cut off online transactions. That's the power that Google has amassed."
Back in the day, Microsoft made deals with OEMs to exclude other operating systems etc. etc.
It is nice to be able to put the shoe on the other foot :)
lets say I sell lemonade. My business model consists of putting up a big sign that says WORLDS ONLY LEMONADE, go about stealing lemonade recipes and sometimes entire stands and buying the ones that are hurting or just intimidating them out of the market. I make a deal with stand manufacturers to make stands that only sell my lemonade. Along the way, I made allot of enemies and broke a few laws. People complained of course.
While I busy working away someone starts giving away lemonade but you have to provide your own water, lemons, and sugar. Lots of people like this new lemonade.
A few manufacturers or portable stands start including the free lemonade as part of the purchase. No one complained.
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TCU at BYU Preview
Provo, UT - After ending BYU's BCS hopes last season, TCU knows it has little room for error if it wants to secure a major bowl bid.
The 10th-ranked Horned Frogs go for their ninth straight victory Saturday night, when they try to snap the 16th-ranked Cougars' conference-record 13-game home winning streak.
Oddsmakers from online sports book SBGGLOBAL.com have made TCU –2.5 point spread favorites (View College Football odds) for Saturday's game (Game Matchup). Current public betting information shows that 66% of bets for this game have been placed on TCU –2.5 (View College Football bet percentages).
TCU (6-0, 2-0 Mountain West), which owns the nation's fourth-longest overall winning streak, goes for its second straight victory over BYU (6-1, 3-0) after defeating the then-No. 9 Cougars 32-7 on Oct. 16, 2008.
BYU had the nation's longest winning streak - 16 - heading into that visit to TCU.
"Nobody has been able to do that to BYU for a couple of years,'' Horned Frogs coach Gary Patterson said after the program's most lopsided win ever over a top-10 team. "No way I could have seen it coming.''
TCU, though, lost its chance at winning the Mountain West by falling 13-10 at then-No. 10 Utah on Nov. 6.
The Horned Frogs are hoping they'll still be in the BCS conversation when they host the Utes this Nov. 14, but a win over the Cougars remains their immediate priority.
"BYU, that's what I'm focused on,'' junior Jeremy Kerley said.
Kerley, fifth in punt returns in the Football Bowl Subdivision with a 17.1-yard average, has returned two for scores in the last three games. His 69-yarder in last week's 44-6 win over Colorado State gave the Frogs a 17-6 lead heading into halftime.
"That play happened at a perfect time,'' senior quarterback Andy Dalton said after completing 15 of 23 passes for 211 yards and two touchdowns.
Although TCU ranks 16th in the FBS in scoring with 33.8 points per game, the Horned Frogs are averaging 3.5 in the first quarter.
"We always seem to start slow,'' said Patterson, whose team is ranked eighth in the initial BCS standings released Sunday. "I wish we'd start faster, I'd feel better."
A win in Provo would also make Patterson feel better about his team's chances of securing a MWC title.
BYU has won a record 13 straight Mountain West home games since a 41-34 overtime loss to Utah on Nov. 19, 2005. The Cougars, who have won four straight overall, are also 23-2 at home since a 51-50 defeat - also in overtime - to TCU on Sept. 24, 2005.
Senior quarterback Max Hall looks to continue BYU's dominance at LaVell Edwards Stadium after going 27 for 39 for a season-high 346 yards with three TDs in last week's 38-28 win at San Diego State.
Hall also rushed for a career-best 47 yards, including a 1-yard score with no time left in the first half.
"They had four guys in the A gap, so I just took off to the outside with it,'' he said. "It was one of those last-minute decisions where I thought, 'This is either going to be really good or really bad.' It turned out pretty good.''
Hall was not as fortunate in last season's meeting with TCU. He was intercepted twice and sacked seven times, four by All-American defensive end Jerry Hughes.
Hughes, who also forced two fumbles in that game, is tied for fourth in the FBS with eight sacks this season.
TCU ranks fourth in the nation in total defense, allowing 238.0 yards per game. It will face a stiff challenge from a BYU team averaging 38.6 points, sixth in the FBS.
Cougars junior Harvey Unga, who leads the MWC with 95.8 rushing yards per game, has ran for at least one touchdown in each of his last five games.
TCU ranks eighth in the nation in rushing defense, allowing 81.2 yards per game, and has yielded three rushing touchdowns.
Unga rushed for two scores in a 27-22 victory over the visiting Horned Frogs on Nov. 8, 2007.
BYU leads the all-time series 5-3.
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Gucci grip on fashion is slipping
Even the most enduring fashion brands run out of steam — just look at the once unassailable Gucci.
Those must-have double-G handbags are not selling like they used to. Kering, the French luxury group that owns the Italian company, has reported that Gucci sales fell by 2.4 per cent in the second quarter of the year. Still, its sister brand Saint Laurent made up for the shortfall with a 29 per cent sales jump in the latest three-month period.
Kering posted a 1.5 per cent rise in total sales to €4.75 billion (£3.8 billion).


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There are advantages too. Brands whose names have been adopted by the public for common use have a huge advantage in spreading their names by word-of-mouth.
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PIC MCU packs IEEE 802.3-compliant Ethernet comms peripheral
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Chandler, Ariz. Microchip Technology has beefed-up its 8-bit PIC family of microcontrollers for embedded applications with the launching of a new device that offers IEEE 802.3-compliant Ethernet communications peripherals: an on-chip Medium Access Controller (MAC) and Physical Layer Device (PHY).
The new PIC18F97J60 device packs Microchip's 10 MIPS PIC18 high-end MCU with a complete Ethernet controller. Designers can now have network connectivity in 64- to 100-pin packages that is more cost effective and easy to use than multi-chip Ethernet alternatives. And, Microchip offers a free TCP/IP software stack to reduce development time.
Among the features of the unit is its dedicated 8-Kbyte Ethernet buffer that enables efficient packet storage, retrieval and modification, and reduces memory requirements for the integrated microcontroller. The device also has 128 Kbytes of flash and 4 Kbytes SRAM. The large memory accommodates TCP/IP stack with Web server, leaving ample space for user application code.
For details of the chip, see block diagram below.
The Microchip announcement comes on the heels of a similar device from Taiwan-based ASIX Electronics Corp.. Anounced in June, that company's AX110xx family of 8-bit microcontrollers embed 10/100Mbps fast Ethernet MAC/PHY, a TCP/IP accelerator, and flash memory on a single chip. The AX11001/AX11005 and AX11015 MCUs tout a single-cycle pipelined 8051/80390 core (up to 100MIPS), 128 to 512 KBytes flash memory, and 32KBytes RAM. The embedded Ethernet PHY supports Auto-MDIX, which allows either the straight-through or crossover cables to be directly connected to the device easily.
The AX110xx family supports serial communication interfaces such as I2C, SPI bus, three UART (with one supporting 921.6Kbps), and 1-wire. The parallel interfaces supported include external memory interface, local bus, and Ethernet MII. The MCUs have been designed to provide a very small form-factor solution to enable embedded system designers to design compact, low power, high performance yet low cost embedded and industrial Ethernet systems and subsystems for the growing embedded networking markets.
"The need to access embedded applications remotely using Ethernet can be fully realized through the selection of the PIC18F97J60 family," said Mitch Obolsky, vice president of Microchip's Advanced Microcontroller Architecture Division.
Ethernet is the leading networking technology for local area networks (LANs), and it can be used to connect embedded devices through a LAN to the Internet. By adding Ethernet connectivity to an embedded system, microcontrollers can distribute data over a network and can be controlled remotely. Ethernet's infrastructure, performance, interoperability, scalability and ease of development have made it a standard choice for embedded communications.
In the RoHS-compliant packages listed below, nine members of the PIC18F97J60 microcontroller family are available now for general sampling at starting at $4.24 each in 10,000-unit quantities. The PIC18F97J60/96J65/96J60 comes in a 100-pin TQFP; the PIC18F87J60/86J65/86J60 in an 80-pin TQFP while the PIC18F67J60/66J65/66J60 units are each offered in a 64-pin TQFP.
The PIC18F97J60 PICDEM.net 2 Demonstration Board (part # DM163024), available now, was created specifically to speed development with these new integrated microcontrollers. And, the latest version of Microchip's free PIC18 TCP/IP Ethernet Stack can be downloaded at www.microchip.com/tcpip
For additional information visit Microchip's Web site at www.microchip.com/Ethernet.
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About the only thing I have to offer is my opinion, as I don't have a M77I (yet!).
I've admired those long stocked rifles for the longest time. Probably since the first time I ever hefted a MS with a spoon handle back in 1978. The rifle had this worn look that spoke not of abuse, but use. As I recall, it had a wonderful balance, and it just flew to my young shoulder. Chambered in something I wasn't familar with at the time (6.5 MS). It's price tag was too hefty for a young teenager, so she ended up being sold to a flatlander...
Anyway, I like the idea of the Mannlicher style stock. I realize that having that much wood along the whole length of the barrel introduces all sorts of accuracy robbing potential to the package, but I am willing to ignore that for esthetic reasons. Also, because of the distinctive 'European' look of that type of rifle, I believe that they should chambered for a suitably distinctive round. My first vote goes for a 7x57 Mauser. The 250 Savage is an excellent round (deer just love it!) and the 6.5 Swede would be another. If I were to get a bit crazy, then maybe one of the 9.3 caliber rounds after that.
Anyway, I have the feeling that today's emphasis on tack driving accuracy with any firearm that's produced doesn't hold with the mentality that produced rifles such as the MS. I think those rifles were accurate 'enough' for their purposes, and the stocks purpose (after all) was to protect the barrel.
So, my vote goes for a M77I in 7x57. I'd glass bed the action, check the barrel channel for any places where the barrel contacted the stock and correct them (if needed) and then I'd be happy as a clam.
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When I say real life I mean like at the gym, party, club etc
Of course I'm not saying all but, I think most are different.
But with girls I think it's somewhat the same. Strangely.
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Joystiq spoke with Ready at Dawn's president, Didier Malenfant, to see why they left Sony's handheld. According to Malenfant, piracy was not a reason. "We sold over 2.3 millions copies of Daxter and are on track to beat that with Chains of Olympus so we're pretty happy with our sales," he responded. "Could we sell more games if piracy was non-existent? Maybe. But we don't target the market that could be, we target the market that is."
He adds, "Good games sell. Who would have thought?"
It seems the team is simply looking to do more on another platform, and try something new. They've seemingly pushed the PSP to its limit, and they can work their magic on other platforms. "We feel like we've done everything we wanted to do with the PSP," admitted the exec. "We have new projects on other platforms and we like to focus on one thing at a time."


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MOSCOW: Iran and world powers blamed each other yesterday for the lack of progress in talks on Tehran's nuclear programme, which has dimmed hopes of a breakthrough to avert the threat of a new Middle East war.
On the second and final day of talks in Moscow, frustration mounted over the failure to move any closer to ending a decade of negotiations over Iranian work which the United States and its allies fear is designed for building nuclear weapons.
If talks collapse, nerves could grow on financial markets over the danger of higher oil prices and conflict in the Middle East because Israel has threatened to bomb Iranian nuclear sites if diplomacy fails to stop Tehran getting the bomb.
"We did not come to Moscow only for discussions. We came to Moscow for a resolution. But we believe the opposite side is not ready to reach a resolution," an Iranian diplomat said.
Iran says its nuclear programme has only non-military purposes but the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany want Tehran to stop enriching uranium to levels that bring it close to acquiring weapons-grade material.
Iran's negotiators want relief from economic sanctions and are pushing the six powers to acknowledge its right to enrich uranium, something they refuse to do until Tehran allows United Nations inspections of its work.
A spokesman for European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, who is leading the world powers' delegation, said Monday's talks had been intense and tough.
A Western diplomat made clear late on Monday Iran needed to do more to address proposals made by the six powers at the last round of talks.
"Our key requirements are: Stop, shut and ship," said the Western diplomat, who was present at the talks.
He was referring to demands for Iran to stop producing higher-grade uranium, ship any stockpile out of the country and close down an underground enrichment facility, Fordow.
But an Iranian official said Tehran's delegation had made detailed proposals on the first day of talks and the six powers had responded with one-line answers that lacked any depth.
"Our feeling is that the agenda this group is following is not suitable for the arguments that Iran was making," he said. "We believe we are at a crossroads. And today the other side has to choose a path."
Russia has hopes
Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, who leads Russia's delegation at the talks, said diplomacy could still be salvaged.
"I don't think anything will break down. We will have a reasonable outcome," said Ryabkov.
The Moscow talks follow two rounds of negotiations since diplomacy resumed in April after a 15-month hiatus during which the West cranked up sanctions pressure and Israel repeated its threat to bomb Iranian nuclear sites if diplomacy failed.
"We haven't reached an agreement but it is more complex than that. We haven't got to the end of the conversation," said one Western diplomat present at the talks in the Russian capital.
A series of United Nations Security Council resolutions since 2006 have demanded Iran suspend all its enrichment-related activities. Tehran denies planning to build nuclear weapons and says its program is purely for civilian purposes.
Rather than halt enrichment – a process which refines uranium for use as fuel or, if done to a much higher level, nuclear bomb material – Iran has increased its activities.
Experts said a breakthrough was unlikely, with the six powers – known as P5+1 because the group consists of the five members of the UN Security Council plus Germany – wary of making concessions that would let Tehran draw out the talks and gain the time needed to develop nuclear weapons capability.
An EU embargo on Iranian oil takes full effect on July 1 and new US financial sanctions some days before that. Iran's crude oil exports have fallen by some 40 percent this year, according to the International Energy Agency.
Increasing the pressure, Israel – widely believed to be the only nuclear-armed country in the Middle East – has said time is running out before Iran's nuclear facilities, some of which are deep underground, become invulnerable to air strikes.
'One positive sign'
Western diplomats said one positive sign to emerge from Monday's talks was that Tehran was willing to discuss their most pressing concern: Higher-grade uranium.
In early 2010, Iran announced it had started enriching uranium to 20% purity, a level much higher than what is needed for power generation and seen by some experts as a dangerous step towards being able to make bomb material.
The six powers want a substantive response to their offer of fuel supplies for Tehran's research reactor and relief in sanctions on the sale of commercial aircraft parts to Iran.
Diplomats said the powers had also suggested, at a meeting in Baghdad in May, that they suspend introducing new sanctions at the United Nations level while diplomacy is taking place, but only if their demands on high-grade uranium are met.
Displaying unity after meeting on the sidelines of a G20 summit in Mexico on Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Barack Obama again called for Tehran to prove its nuclear program is not aimed at developing weapons.
Obama said the two leaders agreed on the need for a diplomatic solution to the standoff and that there was still time to resolve the matter through diplomatic means.
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A new single frame grille here, a more sculptured bonnet there; more powerful engines across the board and increased efficiency: welcome to the brand new Audi A8.
Except of course, it's not really brand new, more of a tweak to keep the range topping super-Audi with an aluminium fetish up to date. That's right, we said aluminium fetish: don't forget, the body is made almost entirely of the stuff.
This Audi 'Space Frame' design body weighs in at just 231kg, equivalent to, erm, something else weighing 231kg (fill in your own comedy analogy below); as such, it should help make the engine tweaks that much more acute. The line-up now consists of a more powerful 3.0-litre petrol V6 (305.8bhp, up from 286.1bhp), a twin-turbo 4.0-litre V8 petrol with 429.1bhp, a boosted 3.0-litre TDI V6 with 254.5bhp (up from 246.6bhp), and a 4.2-litre V8 diesel weighing in at 379.8bhp (increased from 345.2bhp). See? More poweeerrr.
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That 4.0-litre V8 will accelerate from 0-62mph in just 4.5 seconds (with quattro, naturally), but it's not the V8 you want; no, meine Damen und Herren, you'll be wanting the 4.0-litre V8 that sits in the S8. With 512.9bhp, that car is the Big Daddy of the range (it's faster and more powerful than the 493.2bhp 6.3-litre W12 A8 L), with a 0-62mph sprint time of just 4.2 seconds.
There's a hybrid too, a 2.0-litre petrol with an electric motor, producing 241.7bho and a whopping 354lb ft of torque, and CO2 emissions of 147g/km. All engines are paired with an eight-speed tiptronic gearbox, and permanent quattro, while you can spec a sport diff for the rear axle (it's standard in the S8, mind) should you wish to bludgeon your clients into aluminium-flavoured submission.
The eagle-eyed amongst you will notice the new bonnet, grille and front bumper, along with the lower edge of the headlamp unit (yes, it's that sort of 'new' A8), while you can option new dimmable headlights called 'MatrixBeam', made of 25 LEDs per headlamp.
Inside, there's lot of luggzury, including electrically adjustable relaxation seats and power footrests, a herd's worth of leather, a wide-range of wallet-busting options and the MMI located on the centre console. Many assistants are also available, including some from Google.
Prices will be announced closer to its UK on-sale date in January 2014, but we'd expect them to start from just over £56k. Which would you rather have, this, the new S-Class, or a 7-Series BMW?
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text: So I was in line for about 20hours and well it was hard as hell! At midnight I was losing my breath from the excitment! When I got home I set up the Wii and my fisrt impressions were this is kind of CHEAP! The numchuck and the Wii controller were alot smaller than I thought! As I went on playing it felt great and I really got use to it! I have Zelda and the begging is somewhat exciting but I expect better later on in the game


text: DVD authoring overlord Sonic Solutions has released version 3.1 of its AuthorScript developer toolset. AuthorScript is used by Sonic's licensees to build DVD authoring functionality into their video applications, and forms the basis of tools such as Adobe's forthcoming DVD authoring tool. Version 3.1 of AuthorScript adds support for OpenDVD, Edit-on-DVD, multiple menus, transcoding and more. OpenDVD is a technology developed by Sonic that allows the contents of a DVD to be revised without having to re-author the whole disc from the original source files, and can even be written back to the same disc if a rewritable format is used. Edit-on-DVD allows only a small portion of an OpenDVD disc to be transferred to the user's hard disc for editing, which should speed up editing times. Support for multiple menus allows AuthorScript-developed applications to create more complicated menu structures. Transcoding allows the applications to work with non DVD-compliant formats, include QuickTime, and convert them to the relevant format for DVD, VCD and SVCD. Other new features include direct disc burning and support for DVD+R/RW discs.


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AI settings to stop smite evil
I've taken out the game for another spin, and keep running into issues with the retarded AI and camera settings (both expected).
There is one thing that bugs me though: My paladin character keeps using smite evil against enemies while under AI control. I dont seem to be able to stop this behaviour. These are my AI settings:
Puppet: Off
Follow dist: Near
Disarm traps: Off
Recover traps: Off
Defend Master: Off
Guard distance: Default
Open locks: Off
Automatically open locks: Off
Automatically pick up items: Off
Stealth Mode: Not stealthy
Automatic Hiding: Off
Spellcasting: Off
Dispel Spells: Off
Item usage: Off
Use healing and curing items: Off
Ability usage: Off
Combat mode usage: Off
Summoning: Off
Polymorph: Off
Ranged Weapons: Off
Back away: On
Disable melee attacks: Off
Auto summon familiars: Off
Auto summon companions: Off
Ally damage: Low
Peaceful follow: On
Self buff or heal: Off
Knockdown: Off
Auto set of companion behaviour: Off
Enemies auto cast buffs: Off
Warlock one round hideous blow: Off
Monster ally damage: Off
Now I suspect that among all those redundant settings there are quite a few that simply dont work. I'm not sure about the terminology, but I suspect that smite evil should be an ability.
Are there any good mods that will fix the problem?
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i installed [Team Canjica] OmniROM 4.3 rom, but i want try other.
I have many problem to do this because TWRP version 188.8.131.52 can't mount sdcard and i can't see a new file zip (i have error when try to factory reset) also i have problem with root permission.
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Name: The Elven Language (Imaginative, I know)
Native Name: Llorkëla /ˌɬoɾ.'k'é.la/
Native Short Name: N/A
A Priori or Posteriori?: A Priori
Isolate or in a Family?: Llorësan family (dragon languages)
Inherited Language Features: Palatal laterals, ejectives, some vowel devoicing
How Many Numbers?: 4
Which Numbers?: Singular, dual, trial, plural
Native Script: Yes, though it is the only written Llorësan language.
Romanised?: Yes. The only diacritic is the diaresis, which indicates high tone. Why did I use the diaresis instead of the macron like Pinyin? Because a macron doesn't look Elvish.
Predominant Affix Type: Some prefixes, some suffixes, but no infixes here.
Variable or Absolute Suffixes?: Some amount of variance is planned.
Morphosyntactic Alignment: Tripartite (because I can)
Primary Word Order: SOV
Alternate Word Order: VSO (when using passive/antipassive)
Head Position: Don't know yet. I'm thinking it'll be more head-initial.
Language Type: This is the agglutinating black sheep; the other dragon languages are polysynthetic.
Different Registers?: Yes.
Amount of Registers: 3
Types of Registers: Formal/informal/dragon
How Are They Formed: Different syntax and lexical items.
Declined?: Yes.
Conjugated? Yes.
Amount of Phonemes: 29
How Many in Each Class?: 23 Consonants, 4 vowels, 2 semivowels
Basic Syllable Structure: (C)V
Significant Sound Changes?: Yes
Which (if any)?: /i/ -> /j/ for ia, ie, io
Tonality?: Yes
Amount of Tones: 2 tones: high/low
Phonemic Stress?: Yes (may change as I work the tonal system)
Amounts of Stress: Primary/secondary
Stress Position: usually initial, often final, occasionally penultimate
Affixes or (P)articles?: Mostly affixes, some particles.
Cases?: Yes.
Amount of Cases: Final number TBD, but currently
What Are They? Decided: Subject, agent, patient; locative, ablative, allative; genitive, possessive, dative, benefactive. Undecided: vocative, malafactive
Verb Categories: TAM Trifecta, but more aspect-obsessed.
Amount for Each Category: 4 tenses (distant past, recent past, present, future), TBD aspects (not a good sign for an aspect-obsessed language), TBD moods (definitely going to have optative and desiderative, but I'm thinking about jussive as well)
How Are They Formed?: Affixes.
Pronouns?: Yes.
How many Persons?: currently 3
Genders?: Masculine, feminine, dragon (m/f subgenders), other living things (animate), non-living things (inanimate)
Clusitivity?: Gender-inclusive or -nonspecific pronouns take feminine marking and agreement.
Adjectives Agree with Nouns?: Yes.
Where, if at all?: TBD
Honorifics?: Yes.
Dependant on: Species-based caste system for dragons, and elves are treated separately with their own class-based system.
Included How?: Mostly affixes.
Compounds and Derivations Frequency: TBD
Methods of Compounding:TBD
Methods of Derivation:TBD
Purpose of Conlang: Primarily an artlang; secondarily an engelang (I guess). I wanted to create an elvish language that was not influenced as much by Celtic languages, and I wanted to develop it from a dragon language, which I guess would also qualify as an engelang since I wanted to try and look at the physiological limitations on speech that they would have had. This is why Llorkxëla has no labiodentals.
Interesting Features?: Some evidentials are related to fire. In the original Proto-Llorësan, a jet of fire was a direct evidential, and a puff of smoke was a hearsay evidential. In Llorkxëla, those have become /xo̥/ and /ɸo̥/ respectively.
Problems?: It's currently just a sketch. But my biggest problem is going to be creating something other than Hra'anh. I've spent so much time on that language that it's the only thing running through my head. I'll also have problems working on tone. Well, time to study some native North American languages.
Conlang Outline: Llorkxeela by mbrsartWatch
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This one's going to be a pain. But it's going to be fun once I get it going.
Conlang Outline Info-Template2 Name: Name of the conlang
Native Name:
Native Short Name:
A Priori or Posteriori?:
Isolate or in a Family?:
Inherited Language Features:
How Many Numbers?: sing/pl=2, if you add more, the number increases. It's usually two or three, though I think it doesn't go above 5.
Which Numbers?:
Native Script:
Script "Depth":
Predominant Affix Type: prefix, circumfix, general affixiation?
Variable or Absolute Suffixes?: Huge changes in affix through sound changes or just minor?
Morphosyntactic Alignment: The Morphosyntactic Alignment
Primary Word Order: Default Word Order
Alternate Word Order: Alternate Order
Head Position:
This one's going to be a pain. But it's going to be fun once I get it going.
Holy Cow.
I started something like this several decades ago... I should pick it up again, for my own writing.
I started something like this several decades ago... I should pick it up again, for my own writing.
How does a gender-inclusive pronoun work here? "Those guys (and also girls)"?
Yes. Think of the prefix ge- in Esperanto. "Mia geamikoj," translates to "My friends of both genders." The same thing goes for "Mia gepatroj," or "My parents." Granted, ge- is a gender agreement marker for nouns, and not a pronoun itself, but the gender-inclusive pronoun works the same way in Llorkxëla.
Man, I bungled the agreement in that; it should be "Miaj geamikoj" and "miaj gepatroj", but whatever. I'm learning.


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Am I missing something? There appears to be no way to do what I assume is the only thing anyone would want to do with music stored on the hard drive. That would be to play all songs in random order just like every car stereo ever made. If this can not be done there is something seriously wrong with the PS3 programmers. If it can be done it should be default and or a lot easier because I have been trying to do this for a long time but not only can I not figure out how, but there appears to be no one else complaining about it anywhere on the numerous web searches I have tried. Please be specific if you respond because I have tried what ever answers I could find elsewhere with no success. Get system has reached limit errors etc. Also appears to be no easy way to add multiple songs (except for all) quickly to playlists if that is necessary.
11:40 am
OK boss, here's how to do it. To shuffle music:
1. Go into the song you want to start off with
2. When the song starts playing, press triangle and select the "SHUF" option to turn shuffling on.
To add multiple songs to a playlist without having to choose "add to playlist" for each one:
1. Go to create a new playlist
2. after naming your playlist and everything, go to the list of playlists and select the playlist you just created. Press triangle and choose "edit"
3. Once in the edit screen, you're able to add multiple songs and everything in one sitting as opposed to completely manually adding them
11:02 am
Not so much off-topic, but I'm piggy-backing onto this thread.
I know of ways…but in the interest of someone knowing a better way.
I've got 80gb of media (some 50gb of it being vids) on a Portable 500gb HDD. Is there any easy way to quickly transfer all of the media (media that will play on the PS3)? I'm trying ot use my PS3 as another media back-up.
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And now for one of our favorite pieces of writing advice in recent memory:
"You don't become a good writer by only working on the pieces that smell good from the beginning."
That gem comes from the wondrous Junot Díaz himself. You asked him about his writing process, how he creates complex characters, and for his thoughts on throwing around the occasional curse word. Check out his answers to those probing questions and more, sure to inspire you whether you're working on a sweet-smelling tulip of a story or a particularly funky, malodorous tale.
Yunior is so likable despite being a sucio. How did you do that?! (@Sophie Maison)
How do you develop complex characters? (@Izsy Daniels)
These questions are connected so I'll answer them together. Yunior IS a difficult person. He is pretty even balanced between positive and negative characteristics, though that depends on whether you're being victimized by the latter, does it not? He's smart (way smarter than me), he's got a gift with words, he's not much of a come-mierda and he hates bullies and injustice and impunity and he has an enormous amount of compassion. On the other hand, Yunior, who can imagine real intimacy and the possibility of cross-gender affinity, is also tragically a player to the 1000th power. It's this very contradictory suite of traits that makes Yunior compelling (if he's compelling at all). Given the world that raised him, a brutal urban Dominican world, Yunior has many strong qualities, but he also has the very perfect weakness which keeps him from realizing his greatest dream—to love, Lola specifically. They always say that to build realistic characters they must be comprised of both flaws and virtues but the reality is that the character's flaws and virtues must be the perfect ones that bring that character most to life. In the novel you can imagine and condemn the patriarchy that destroys Oscar's family—he just can't stop himself from practicing. How awful and ultimately human is that?
Figuring out how to mold your characters from their positive and negative clays, from that which is mundane about them and that which is extreme, deciding what is their greatest blind spot and how does this interact with the story you're writing—all of these things go into making complex characters. It's also essential to begin to look honestly upon yourself and upon other people around you. You need to have a strong sense of how the average person carries their contradictions—for that is what all of us humans have and what often defines our characters—their contradictions. You need to study the contradictions of people around you and think about how certain kind of contradictions could lead certain kinds of characters into certain kinds of trouble. All of this will help in creating nuanced characters. Just always remember the Golden Rule is not that you want characters that you can like or dislike—but characters who we get to understand, a process that allows us to understand parts of ourselves.
What do you think your job would be if you weren't an author? (@Diarmuid Carroll)
This is a tough one. I guess I'd probably be a history teacher. I love history and if there's anything harder than getting people to like reading it's getting them to like history and I guess I would be up in the trenches, in some school in NJ or NYC doing that very work. Teaching is incredibly hard work. Drains the life out of many people but I'm pretty dedicated to young people and so I'm hoping I'd be able to hold on for quite a while.
What does cursing add to a story? Has anyone ever told you to watch your language? (@Jenna Markham)
What does any language add to any story? In my view I don't think you can tell a story set in the parts of the world my characters inhabit without some cursing. Of course people are always trying to get me to cut my language down. Some people don't like the cursing, some people don't like the Spanish, some people don't like me sounding too smart, some people don't like me telling the truth. In the end people are ALWAYS trying to control other people's language. Usually because our culture of respectability demands it but let me tell you—the culture of respectability, of being polite is a way to silence people. There are some things that can't be said politely, that can't be said without being crude, without being honest and without cursing. I'd rather speak of those things than be bothered by people trying to silence my language.
What is your writing space like? What should every writer consider when setting up their writing spaces? (@Kamren Curiel)
I've hurt my back recently so I can't even sit at a desk. Really all I need is my laptop and my bed to write. I also like to have a lot of pads around in case I need to scribble. But I don't do my best work unless I'm surrounded by my books. I always have to draw on my books for inspiration and for models. Without them I feel like I'm not using half my brain. Wait—one last thing, I always have my dictionary on hand. I like to flip through the pages but some people just look it up online. Whatever works for you but use one.
Do you classify your novel as Ethnic Literature? I'm currently enrolled in an Ethnic Literature class, and we're going to read your novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao near the end of the quarter. (@Miguel Camargo)
Yes I do but that doesn't mean that it isn't a thousand other things. My work belongs to ethnic literature, American literature, Caribbean literature, US Latino literature, Hemispheric literature, African Diasporic literature, NJ literature, post-colonial literature, literature of the fantastic, immigrant literature, the dictatorship novel—and many more. I don't mind being described by a category if we understand that this not the defining category, that this category does not preclude my work's ability to belong to countless other categories. If the category is exclusive then no, I do not wish to classify myself as ethnic literature. If the category allows me to be an endless serious of other things—well, then, I'm in.
What's your weakness? (Mine is sweets!) (@Sheska)
I'm way too hard on myself. It stops me from writing as much as I could. I'm always jumping out of a piece of work because I'll decide (often too early) that this story doesn't have any potential. I'm really too quick to throw things away. It's a stupid habit. You don't become a good writer by only working on the pieces that smell good from the beginning. You get good at writing by sticking with even the stories that don't look like they have a lot of potential. Sometimes we discover our best working by sticking around and to throw away things too early you're really going to make life a lot harder for yourself. This is what they call in the business "tolerating the lameness." An important skill as an artist. Now of course there are some works that should be dumped on sight but usually we veto stories way too early and we should watch out for that. If you're too quick to vote a story off the island you're probably too judgmental and that's never going to help you become an artist. Patience and tolerance will win the race always.
I teach 8th grade English in a small town on the Arkansas border with Oklahoma. My students are a mix of Hispanic (many are from Mexico or El Salvador), Hmong, Cherokee, and white. Nearly all are from families who are barely hanging on. My students LOVE books. They love to write stories, especially fantasy. Fridays students come to my room for lunch to read what they have written. At the beginning of the year, I talked to them about books and writers I really enjoy, so they know about Oscar Wao and your background. So with these things in mind I have one question for them that I think would be good for my kids to hear and one from them. Why should art matter to an 8th grade kid in Arkansas? What did it mean to you at their age, especially as someone not from a wealthy family? Why should kids keep writing, keep reading during difficult times? (@Kien DeMent)
Everything about our world is trying to rank you, to classify you, to make you compete and to exist in a hierarchy, which if you grew up poor like me, means you'll be at the absolute bottom of the ladder. This is a world that wants you to feel like crap because you're poor or different or an immigrant.
Art on the other hand isn't trying to make you feel crap about yourself—it isn't telling you to compete or to put some one else down or grab all the money you can. Art at its best is trying to remind us that we are beautiful and worthy and extraordinary–not because we look good or have money or are prosperous—but simply because we are. The world outside of money and competition and politics tries to take you apart but art when it does its job will give us back to ourselves in the best way possible. In art we find refuge from that world outside that wants to eat us, in art we find the strength we need to keep going as people, as students, to hold onto our true human virtues and to reject those that companies and our politicians are trying to push on you. When we engage profoundly in art, it puts us in contact with other human souls in struggle, frail and confused but hoping and striving; art reminds us that we are not alone and, most important of all, art, when it works best, give us hope that we can break all the chains which bind us, we can become the person we've always dreamed of becoming. Not easily, not without great trials and hardships, but it is possible and art can inspire such audacity, such courage. This is precisely why an 8th grader in Arkansas is going to need art. Precisely why I needed it. I grew up in a family of five siblings, my mom raising us alone on welfare, food stamps, and housing subsidies. I doubt I would have ever found the strength or the courage to get to college if it hadn't been for my reading and writing. I doubt I would have avoided all the million pitfalls that await a poor immigrant brownboy in a neighborhood like mine. In my case, my love of reading, of literature, my love of this precious art, was the very thing that saved me. Even if I'd never decided to become a writer, books would have given me the extra hope I needed to face what I have to face. For a poor immigrant kid this can be a terrible world but without the company of art it would have been, to me at least, impossible.
For more from Junot Díaz, check out his thoughts on crafting a killer narrative voice, and if you haven't already entered our narrative voice contest, to be judged by the master author himself—get going! You have until November 30 to submit.