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Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810) has earned a reputation as the early republic's most ambitious and accomplished literary figure. He wrote prolifically in many genres, founded and edited three major magazines, published widely-read political pamphlets, and intervened in many debates about the culture and politics of the new nation.
Brockden Brown is still mostly known for his novels, and for Alcuin (1798), his dialogue on women's rights, as these are the only texts currently available in scholarly editions. Not available are his letters, short fiction, poetry, as well as a rich collection of periodical publications that include important book, theater and music reviews, provocative philosophical essays, and numerous meditations on law, religion, nationhood, geography, history, literature, political economy, medicine, science, and sexuality.
The digital archive will make all Brockden Brown's works accessible to the reading public. Bucknell University Press, in conjunction with our partner The Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group, will publish a substantial print edition of selected writings in seven volumes. These volumes will be experly edited and annotated by established scholars, and will be vetted and approved by the MLA committee on scholarly editions.
Volume 1, Letters and Early Epistolary Writings, edited by Philip Barnard, Elizabeth Hewitt, and Mark L. Kamrath, is currently in production and is scheduled for publication in Spring 2013. This edition offers Brockden Brown's complete correspondence. Dispersed across many different archives and mostly unpublished, the 179 letters and three instances of epistolary fiction will provide readers the first opportunity to read the epistolary work of this author. This volume reveals an intellectual whose epistolary prose is expansive, imaginative, and philosophical. Because the epistolary form is so central to Brown's own practices as a novelist, this volume is also crucial to making sense of his literary career.
A highly readable edited text that also scrupulously preserves the integrity of the original manuscripts and texts, the volume is organized chronologically. It also contains notes that clarify Brown's forgotten references, and a textual apparatus that establishes textual provenance and records emendations and end-line hyphenation. In addition, the volume's historical essay, textual essay, and related materials offer extensive description of material history as well as of Brown's correspondents.
The edition will be useful to literary historians and historians of the early republican period, since it offers details about Brown's own life and composition as well as details about social practice in Philaelphia and New York at the turn of the nineteenth century.
The following is a list of all of the proposed volumes for the Bucknell edition, together with volume editors, and estimated dates of publication.
Volume 1: Letters and Early Epistolary Writings (2013)
Editors: Philip Barnard, Elizabeth Hewitt, Mark L. Kamrath
Volume 2: The Monthly Magazine and Other Writings, 1789-1802 (2016)
Editors: Michelle Burnham, Michael Drexler, Bryan Waterman
Volume 3: The Literary Magazine and Other Writings, 1803-1807 (2014)
Editors: Robert Battistini, Michael Cody, Karen Weyler
Volume 4: Political Pamphlets (2015)
Editors: Stephen Shapiro, Wil Verhoeven
Volume 5: Historical Sketches and Fragments (2015)
Editors: Philip Barnard, Julie Kim, Ed White
Volume 6: The American Register and Other Writings, 1807-1810 (2013)
Editors: Jared Gardner, Elizabeth Hewitt, Oliver Scheiding
Volume 7: Poems (2015)
Editors: Michael Cohen and Alexandra Socarides


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GPSOLO December 2008
Safeguarding Your Data on the Road
For some time I, along with other commentators, have encouraged you to make backup copies of your critical files and carry them with you when you travel, so that if anything happens to your computer while you travel, you can still do your work, either using a replacement computer or, if your hard drive fails but your computer remains otherwise operable, using your own computer with an external drive. Although encryption of your data remains a good idea, it no longer provides the level of protection that you need for your data.
Times have changed. Now when you travel, in addition to the risks of damage to your computer, failure of your computer, and theft, your data has a new risk: required disclosure. In April 2008 a three-judge panel of the United States Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, in United States v. Arnold, 523 F. 3d 941 (9th Cir. 2008), ruled that computers and other means of electronic storage fall into the same category as luggage, making them fully searchable at borders. The Fourth Amendment notwithstanding, border agents do not even need a reasonable suspicion for an electronic content search. Although the case did not specifically deal with electronic storage other than a computer, the use of the term "or other personal electronic storage devices" makes it exceedingly clear that the court intended its decision to apply to all electronic storage. That means that the decision not only places the contents of your computer memory at risk, it also places the contents of the memory of your USB drives, external hard drives, PDAs, and smart phones at risk. It even applies to the content of your cameras and iPods. The decision did limit itself to "border" searches, relying on a long-standing exception to the search and seizure protections of the Fourth Amendment; at least for now, this would apply only to international travel. In the aftermath of the Patriot Act and its handling of the Fourth Amendment, however, I am not at all sure that I trust this limitation to the border to hold against further attempts to whittle away at Fourth Amendment rights by allowing electronic content searches at all airports.
That said, the question becomes, how do we safely transport our information so that we can use it while traveling without exposing it to the risk of confidentiality breaches by a search? First, strip your computer of all confidential data prior to traveling. Second, if you carry an external hard drive or other electronic memory storage device with you, strip all confidential information off of it before you leave as well. If you have no confidential information on your devices, then you do not risk disclosing it.
Unfortunately, if you don't take your confidential information with you, you don't have it to work on during your trip, unless, of course, you make other arrangements. Technology offers two solutions to us for this dilemma. Both solutions require that you have Internet access during your travels. Because Internet access is available fairly readily in most parts of the world, that requirement should not pose a serious problem.
Solution one. Set your desktop computer up for remote access, connect to it online from wherever you travel, and you will have access to your information. Without regard to whether you work on the Windows or the Mac platform, software solutions provide the ability to remotely access your computer. If you can get online, you can access it remotely and, thereby, gain access to your data, use it, and then leave it where it started, on the hard drive of a computer sitting safely in your home or office. Be sure to password-protect your access and to use a strong password (one that contains at least eight characters and both letters and numbers). Encrypting the data on your computer always helps protect it from invasion.
Solution two. Obtain an online storage location and, before you leave, upload the data to that site. Be sure to encrypt it first to protect it. When you get to a location where you want to use it, download it and work on it; then re-encrypt it and upload it to the online storage location. Be careful to re-encrypt the data prior to uploading it to your online storage location to ensure that it remains protected, and don't forget to erase it from your computer before traveling again.
You can readily find online storage facilities. Some are set up for business use, others for personal use. If you properly encrypt your data, it should not make much difference which you use. For example, I often use the Apple MobileMe server, which has the advantage of allowing you to designate a portion of your space for public access on either a password-protected or not-password-protected basis. This feature allows you to leave online a file that you want someone else to download with your permission, thereby eliminating the hassle of trying to e-mail it to that person only to discover that her e-mail provider won't let her receive attached files of that size.
Using the Internet this way, however convenient, creates its own risks. Internet access puts you in danger of data capture and hacking. Wireless connections put your data in even greater risk of interception by bad-intentioned techies. Recent reports have revealed that some criminals go to the extreme of setting up a hotspot disguised as a public access point in order to induce people to use it and expose their data. As a result, I cannot over-emphasize the importance of proper encryption prior to transmittal. You can, however, further reduce your risk by avoiding public WiFi hotspots. By public, I include Internet cafés, hotels, airports, and coffee shops. Although cellular signals can be intercepted with appropriate equipment, I believe that you further reduce the risk of exposure to your data by using a private (your personal account) cellular WiFi card with your computer to access the Internet. Recently, a number of manufacturers have made a cellular connection card available as a built-in option on their laptop computers. Because they require a separate account for each computer, I am not a fan of these devices, despite their convenience. As a matter of both convenience and economics, consider using a USB-connecting device; you can move it easily from one computer to another, it works with computers that lack PCMCIA and/or Express 34 slots (almost all current computers have a USB port), and if you find the service from the current provider less than satisfactory, you can always arrange to get another card and another provider.
These recommendations will not completely remove risk from traveling with your data (or even using it), but they will lower the exposure level while maximizing availability in a reasonably secure manner.
Jeffrey Allen is the principal in the Graves & Allen law firm in Oakland, California. A frequent speaker on technology topics, he is the special issue editor of GPSolo's Technology & Practice Guide and editor-in-chief of the Technology eReport. In addition to being licensed as an attorney in California, he has been admitted as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales. He holds faculty positions at California State University of the East Bay and the University of Phoenix. He may be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. You may also get updated technology information from his blog: jallenlawtekblog.com.

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Sequestering America's Pacific Century
U.S. Senate Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) (C) discusses sequestration as (L-R) Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY), Sen. Jerry Moran (R-KS), and Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO) listen on February 26, 2013 in Washington, DC. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
In Asia, each day matters. Today, Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) economies will do almost $50 billion in trade, 44 percent of the world's total. Today, as oil moves around the world, one third of it will pass through the South China Sea or the adjacent Gulf of Thailand. The region's economic transformation won't rest — today, 40,000 people will move from the country to a city in China, and 1,335 new vehicles will take to the road in Delhi. Governments and businesses across Asia are each day are making decisions that directly affect U.S. interests.
America's future prosperity and security are in play in Asia, yet Washington has decided to go on break. On March 1, with no action by Congress, forced budget cuts — otherwise known as sequestration — will cut government spending across the board, a concept so obviously harmful that it was enacted only to force a more thoughtful compromise.
This story originally appeared on CNN's GPS blog, an Asia Blog partner site.
These cuts will undermine one of America's most consequential commitments for the 21st century, namely to deepen its engagement in Asia. This focus on the world's most economically vibrant region, where great and emerging powers navigate a complex mix of competition and cooperation, and where America's leadership role is both desired and contested, is an essential element of any meaningful strategy to foster U.S. economic growth and global leadership.
This commitment is so critical that it's one of the few issues on which Democrats and Republicans agree. The Obama administration elevated Asia's place in U.S. foreign policy rhetorically, secured a major diplomatic success in Myanmar, and rapidly reoriented defense planning to "rebalance" toward Asia. These gains built on the success of the Bush administration in deepening partnership with India, strengthening Asian regional organizations and fostering the U.S. alliance with South Korea. The debate in Washington is no longer whether to focus on Asia, but how.
The forced budget cuts, though, will significantly constrain the "how." The precise impact of sequestration is hard to know — plans are still being developed and the full impact will occur over years. But officials and analysts have already described cuts that would significantly undermine U.S. engagement in Asia.
U.S. business opportunities in Asia will suffer. Secretary of State John Kerry has lauded the economic engagement work of U.S. embassies in Asia. With their help, Kerry noted, Orbital Sciences Corporation secured a $160 million deal to build a Thai broadcast satellite, Boeing received an $21.7 billion order (its largest ever for commercial jets) from Indonesia's Lion Air, and General Electric has sold $40 million in locomotives to Indonesia's state railroad, in a country where it has invested $1.2 billion.
Deputy Secretary of Commerce Rebecca Blank has reported that the International Trade Administration will reduce support for U.S. exporters in foreign markets by almost $15 million a year, forego plans to place new staffers in new markets and decrease trade enforcement activities by $7 million. These global cuts will certainly affect the region of America's greatest economic opportunity.
The Defense Department has warned of a "crisis of readiness," with notable impacts on the Asia-Pacific. The Navy plans to cut the activity of its fleet in the Asia-Pacific by a third. The Army warned that, "Combined with previous cuts that have already been approved, [sequestration] will result in a total reduction of at least 189,000 personnel from the force, but it'll probably be higher than that."
Diplomatic and aid efforts also face cuts. The United States has benefited greatly in Asia from the help it has lent in times of crisis, including during the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and the 2010 floods in Pakistan. Yet, $200 million could be cut from humanitarian assistance.
U.S. development programs like Feed the Future and the Global Health Initiative could be constrained. America's development experts are active in Bangladesh, a focus country for these two initiatives and the President's Global Climate Change effort. These experts are making hard-won progress on economic growth and health, so today less than a third of Bangladeshis live on $1.25 a day or less, according to USAID, compared with 57 percent in 1991.
Practical services that support America's engagement in Asia are at risk. Cuts to visa processing, for example, would limit U.S.-Asia trade, educational and cultural exchange, and people-to-people engagement.
Finally, U.S. leadership in Asia derives in great measure from its economic might. This too will be diminished. According to the Bipartisan Policy Center, "the sequester could push the nation into sub-2 percent GDP growth for 2013 and perhaps 2014."
These cuts are why many in Asia may hope for a robust U.S. role, but worry Washington won't deliver. Certainly, there is room in the federal budget for sensible cuts. But making blind cuts undermines confidence in the United States as a practitioner of "smart power," and renders hollow America's stated commitment to help build a prosperous and peaceful Asia-Pacific with its partners.
2013 should be a year of American renewal. The economy is finding its footing and more Americans are going back to work. U.S. forces are withdrawing from Afghanistan, and al-Qaeda is, according to President Obama, "a shadow of its former self." There are great possibilities for the United States in Asia, but the federal government must now focus on minimizing damage rather than leveraging new opportunities.
Opportunities rarely wait long. The United States has looked forward and placed a rapidly growing Asia at the top of its agenda. Sequestration sets the gains from this foresight aside. Whether it's for a day, a month, a year, or ten years, Asia won't wait for the United States to reinvest and reengage.


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Skip to comments.'Just shut up and be cute': Giants star Brandon Jacobs taunts Gisele..
Posted on 02/08/2012 6:46:12 AM PST by C19fan
One of New York's Super Bowl winners has got some advice for Gisele Bundchen about how to be magnanimous in the face of defeat - as animosity in Boston following the Patriots' Super Bowl loss grew. New York Giants running back Brandon Jacobs thinks the supermodel's retaliation to chants about her husband Tom Brady following the Boston Patriots defeat on Sunday was ill-advised. 'She just needs to continue to be cute and shut up,' Jacobs said as he celebrated his win at the MetLife Stadium rally for the Super Bowl champion Giants in New York today. Meanwhile many people in Boston are angry with the supermodel after she yelled that her husband can't 'f***ing throw the ball and catch the ball at the same time.'
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Probably so...but good for you Brandon!
Useless without pics of said cuteness...
He should have offered two words of to Mr. Tom Bundchen: Yoko Ono.
Stay classy, New York.
I'm not sure if even the nags will take on this piece of work. The woman may be easy on the eyes, but she has absolutely no tact or class. Whereas the latter may not be a stumbling block for the nags, the whole career of looking hot to make money just may do it. Nags aren't exactly known for valuing pleasant physical traits.
The woman certainly is...unique. Her assinine comments about pregnancy & breast feeding and now this. It says a lot about Brady that he married her.
LOL! Good for him!
(Enough plastic surgery and Photoshop can make anyone "cute", for a while ...)
AMEN to that!
What has happened to being "good sports" ?
One day Tom is going to tell Gisele, "Into the mud, scum queen."
Still, I'm glad she was put in her place.
On the other hand if Brady had played just a little bit better Boston, also, would have won.
I don't know much about football, but I agree with you on this.
Using your logic, if some of the Giants had played just a little bit better, the Giants would have won by a larger margin.
Did you know she was also able to toilet train their son by 6 months?
Unfortunately, the NY wives are already ahead of the New England wives on that count.
At his expense!
"If 'ifs' and 'buts' were candy and nuts, we'd all have a Merry Christmas." - Dandy Don
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Now Summer is coming to an end I am hoping to enjoy the last days of beautiful weather and hopefully make it last as long as I can. We really have had the most beautiful Summer this year. So as I don't want it to end I am loving colouring up Magnolia's super cute Summer Tilda.
I have a card I made using Magnolia's 'Summer Tilda with Flags' from the Pink Lemonade Collection.
Paper - Maja
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SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — President Barack Obama on Friday addressed a Central American region that continues to be plagued by violence, drug trafficking, corruption and poverty, despite the success of a seven-year trade agreement with the United States.
Central America's problems have directly impacted the U.S., as thousands from the region migrate north each year along increasingly deadly smuggling routes.
In a press conference late Friday with Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla, Obama said only a comprehensive approach will work to solve the region's problems, including stronger economies, better institutions, education and youth centers that give young people a sense of opportunity.
"Problems like narco-trafficking arise when a country is vulnerable because of poverty and institutions not working for people," he said. "The stronger the economy and institutions for individuals seeking legitimate careers, the less powerful these narco-trafficking operations are going to be."
Obama went on to a closed meeting with the eight-nation Central American Integration System, known by its Spanish initials SICA, which was formed to discuss regional issues.
He said he looked forward to the regional cooperation. But national rivalries that have often blocked cooperation.
Guatemala and Belize maintain a border dispute. Honduras and El Salvador are fighting over the use of the waters and shores of the Gulf of Fonseca, and a conflict between Nicaragua and Costa Rica has been escalating over the San Juan River border. On top of that, Panama, Costa Rica and Nicaragua often feel excluded because Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras get the bulk of U.S. security aid, said Eric Olson, associate director of the Latin American program at the Wilson Center think tank in Washington.
"SICA has tried to build itself as the place where all these countries can come together and that can be the distribution point for that aid," Olson said. "But I think the rivalry between these governments gets in the way."
Still, the Central American presidents have come manned to talk about security, an issue they see as directly related to drug consumption in the United States. Some Central American countries have the highest murder rates in the world, with Honduras often called the world's most dangerous country. Leaders here say they want the U.S. to take more responsibility in the fight against drug cartels.
"We need the decided support of the U.S. to attack our common enemy, drug trafficking," Honduran President Porfirio Lobo said Thursday. "Unfortunately, Honduras and the countries of the region bear the dead of a war that we didn't start and that we repudiate. It's time to renew our mutual political cooperation."
The White House doesn't plan to launch any new initiatives with this trip, said Ricardo Zuniga, the lead official for Latin America policy on the U.S. National Security Council. Rather, it wants to talk about better coordination and use of the aid that is already going to the region.
"Besides the United States expressing its deep worry over the deterioration of the region, there isn't much more to expect," said Cynthia Arnson, director of the Latin American program at the Wilson Center.
Since 2008, the United States has allocated $496 million in security cooperation to Central America, Zuniga said, and that number isn't expected to increase substantially.
The White House asked for $162 million for the fight against drug trafficking in its 2014 budget through the Central America Regional Security Initiative. That's $26 million more than what was allocated in 2012.
By comparison, Washington has allocated $1.9 billion to Mexico since 2008 for the fight against drug trafficking through the Merida Initiative.
Even on security issues, the countries have difficulty uniting.
"There is no effective cooperation because there is no trust," said Ignacio de Lucas, coordinator of the Network of Prosecutors against Organized Crime, an initiative of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime that brings together 10 prosecutors from Mexico to Colombia. "Sometimes big projects arise, for example creating a database to cooperate with Interpol, but what information will go there? Without trust there will not be useful information."
The more relevant forum to discuss drug trafficking in the region will be the June general assembly of the Organization of American States, said Guatemalan Foreign Minister Luis Carrera Castro.
Aside from security concerns, Central American presidents also have agreed to prioritize economic issues in their meeting with Obama.
The SICA member governments, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Belize, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and the Dominican Republic, want to enhance the trade agreement they've had since 2006 with the United States, said Muni Figueres, Costa Rican Ambassador to the U.S.
Under the CAFTA-DR agreement, U.S. exports to the region have risen to $30 billion in 2012, up 25 percent from 2010 and 80 percent from 2005, according to her embassy's figures.
One of the specific goals for the Obama meeting is a commitment from the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative to actively participate in a commission tracking the performance of the trade agreement, Figueres said.
"The challenge now is how to facilitate trade to flow better and how to translate the agreement into more jobs and investment," she added.


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Browns quarterback Brandon Weeden is heading home to Oklahoma to help anyway he can in the aftermath of the deadly tornado.
Weeden said his wife, Melanie, has family in Moore, Okla., where the tornado killed 24 people and destroyed thousands of homes. Weeden said none of her family members were injured and he's eager to "just to do my part" with the cleanup.
Weeden has been in contact with Oklahoma Lt. Gov. Todd Lamb and he plans to be there this weekend to "do anything, whether it's getting in the rubble and doing whatever, it doesn't matter, I'll be there to help."
Weeden, who starred at Oklahoma State, is from Edmond. The second-year QB said there were some frantic moments for he and his wife when they couldn't contact family as the twister tore through Moore.


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Educational Background
M.A., Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania, 1969
J.D., Columbia University School of Law, 1972
American Intellectual Property Law Association, Past President (first copyright lawyer to hold that position)
Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, Director
Copyright Society of the U.S.A., Former Trustee
Member, Executive Committee, ALAI-USA (International Literary and Artistic Association - US Group)
Columbia University, Adjunct Professor of Law ("Seminar in Law & the Music Industry," Columbia Law School; "Law & the Arts," Graduate Program in Arts Administration)
Co-author, "The First Proceeding Before the Copyright Royalty Tribunal: ASCAP and the Public Broadcasters," Communication and the Law, 1979
Co-author, "Performing Rights in Music and Performing Rights Societies" 33 J. of the Copyright Soc. of the USA 332, 1986
Remarks in Symposium: Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property, 22 Vanderbilt J. of Transnational Law 373, 1989
"Copyrights," Kirk-Othmer Concise Encyclopedia of Chemical Terminology, 4th Ed., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1999
"Copyrights," Understanding Basic Copyright Law 2002, Practising Law Institute, New York, 2002
"Music, the Internet and the Music Industry," Seventh Annual Institute for Intellectual Property Law, Practising Law Institute, New York, 2001
Co-author, "Licensing Intellectual Property," in M. Moskin (Ed.), Commercial Contracts, Aspen Law & Business, New York, 2002
Co-author, "Eldred v Ashcroft: A U.S. Copyright Case of 'Supreme' Significance," Asian IP, November 2002
Mr. Koenigsberg is Counsel to the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) and advises the Society and its Board of Directors on all matters as its chief legal officer.
Mr. Koenigsberg also represents the Walt Disney Company, BMG Music, Inc., Demart Pro Arte B.V. (owner of all intellectual property rights of Salvador Dalí) and the Alvin Ailey Dance Company among many other clients, advising as to copyright matters.
Mr. Koenigsberg was named as one of New York's Leading Intellectual Property Lawyers in the 2003-2004 edition of Chambers USA: America's Leading Business Lawyers.


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Organisers: Nigel Smart (Bristol) and Shafi Goldwasser (MIT)
Workshop Theme
Proofs arise in many forms in cryptography and security;
- As mathematical proofs of security in a complexity theoretic model of a protocol or scheme; such proofs are typical of the area known as "reductionist proofs of security".
- As mathematical proofs of security in a logical, or symbolic, model of a protocol or scheme; such proofs are typified by work in the "formal methods"/"symbolic" tradition, a.k.a. the Dolev-Yao model.
- As objects in their own right which are used in a protocol; for example as in zero-knowledge interactive proofs or probabilistically checkable proofs.
The workshop is timely given recent work in establishing that some Dolev-Yao style proofs can have the same computational guarantees as provided by reductionist proofs of security. Such meta-proofs, show that Dolev-Yao proofs are computationally sound. In addition recent years have shown the development of automated theorem provers, traditionally the reserve of formal methods style proofs, into the arena of provable security. In addition, we have seen the actual deployment of protocols based on zero-knowledge proofs via protocols such as U-Prove (from Microsoft) and Idemix (from IBM). Finally, the last ten years have seen the application of ideas from complexity theory, such as the PCP theorem, to cryptographic protocols, and it is to be hoped that such protocols may soon become practical.
The aim of the workshop on "Formal and Computational Cryptographic Proofs" is to bring together people working on all such topics, with a view for cross disciplinary work, to obtain new insights on old problems, and to capitalise on the recent advances alluded to above.


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EDT:Third Party Service Introduction
Web service is an important web development technical. EGL also supports it. And with the help of EDT, you can easily build up your web service applications.
And also, there are lots of public 3rd party services provided by Google, Yahoo and many other companies. EGL can easily adopt there 3rd party services as well. Here we made an introduction of 3rd party services in EDT.
Create Record for 3rd Party Service
There are two protocols for response data. The XML data or JSON data. If the response data is XML structured, then you need to create the "Record from XML". The JSON structured data use the "Record from JSON". For the wizards of these two types are basically the same, we use the "Record from JSON" wizard as demo.
1. Open "New EGL Record" wizard by Right Click on Project/Package --> New --> Record.
2. Fill the EGL Record page of this wizard
The "Source folder" field filled with the EGLSource folder of the project you selected. If you want to change this field, just open the browser by clicking the "Browse…" button at the right of this field
The "Package" field should filled with the package you right click on. If you open this wizard by right clicking on project node, then the "Package" field would be empty. You can also browse the target package by clicking the "Browse…" button at the right of this field. Otherwise the record will be created to the default package.
In this demo, we use the "Record from JSON" wizard as demo. So select the "Record from JSON" template. Then click "Next".
3. Fill the Records from JSON page
You will see three radio selections in this page. They are "Create from a URL", "Create from a file" and "Create from a string". For the third party services are published to the internet, we can get them from a URL. So we use the "Create from a URL" selection when creating record for third party services.
Select Create record from a URL. Input the third party REST service URL to the text field. Then click next, the record will be created automatically.
4. Check the Record Creation result
When you fill the right third party URL in last page, you should have this result page as the picture shows. The record in Preview TextArea is the third party record created automatically by wizard. The TextArea below shows all errors & warnings. You may check the details by these two information TextAreas. Then click "Finish" to end this wizard. You will find the record created in the target package of the target Source folder. Just open it by source editor to take a review.
Create Interface for 3rd Party Service
Here is a sample interface.
Interface IGeoName function search(query string in) returns(GeoNames) {@GetRest {uriTemplate="http://ws.geonames.org/search?q={query}", responseFormat=XML} }; function searchJSON(query string in) returns(GeoNames) {@GetRest {uriTemplate="http://ws.geonames.org/searchJSON?q={query}", responseFormat=JSON}}; End
There are @GetRest and @PostRest. It determined by the third party service you called. And the responseFormat is the XML/JSON issue we mentioned before.
The uriTemplate is the third party service URL. EGL use {} in this URL to link with the input params in interface input. In this sample, parameter "query" in interface declaration will link to the {query} in ruiTemplate.
The returns declaration defines the return type of this interface, the GeoNames in sample is the record we created in last section.
Bind resource for 3rd Party Service
For details of Resource Binding, see Resource Binding Introduction.
Notes: If you have set the uriTemplate field in interface declarations, then the "Base URI" field in Deployment Descriptor file can be empty. EDT will concat uriTemplate behind the Base URI as the final URL.
Call the 3rd Party Service
Call Service Function
function invokeService( e Event in) srvc_GeoName IGeoName?{@Resource{}}; if (serviceTypeCombo.getSelection() == 1) call srvc_GeoName.search("London") returning to handleReturn onexception Exceptionhandler; else call srvc_GeoName.searchJSON("London") returning to handleReturn onexception Exceptionhandler; end end
Handle Return Function
function handleReturn(resultRecord Geonames in) i int = 0; while (i<resultRecord.geoname.getSize()) i += 1; resultList.appendElement(resultRecord.geoname[i]); end end
Handle Exception Function
private function Exceptionhandler( exception AnyException in) handleException(); end


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Only 0.01% of the original Oak Savanna is left in Minnesota
A thirty-five acre oak savanna is the third component of the project. Savannas, which are another type of prairie, were once common as the transition between the Big Woods of the east and the prairies of the west. Here, cattle grazing for over one-hundred years had wiped out the native plants, and later, in the absence of fire, an abundance of invading brush and trees have hidden the beautiful and long-lived bur oaks. These majestic, spreading oaks are the dominant plants of this habitat on the rolling upland hills. Since firebreaks were established in 1987, prescribed burns have been set about every other year. These fires not only eliminate unwanted trees and brush, but also strengthen the oaks and encourage prairie plants. In 1996 the task of replanting the savanna with native flowers and grasses began. Because of the care necessary to avoid damaging the oaks, work progresses slowly and will continue into the next century.


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* Former Oakey trainer Bart Cockburn will be a scratching from this week's Toowoomba meeting after driving a winning double on last Sunday's card.
Cockburn is in Sydney with his talented trotter Supper Waltz Wilson who lines up in race five at Menangle tomorrow night.
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DALLAS (AP) — Two Dallas police officers have been indicted in the last two weeks for shooting and wounding residents in incidents where the initial police accounts were later contradicted by video.
Cardan Spencer and Amy Wilburn were both charged with aggravated assault by a public servant.
Spencer was indicted last week after shooting a 52-year-old man standing several feet away from him. A police report filed in the case initially claimed the man, Bobby Bennett, lunged at Spencer with a knife.
A neighbor's surveillance video camera captured a recording that showed Bennett was several feet from the officers and didn't appear to move toward them before gunfire caused him to crumple to the ground. Bennett was hospitalized for several weeks following the October incident.
Bennett's mother, Joyce Jackson, said last year that her son had been diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, and that he was off his medication at the time of the shooting.
Spencer's indictment last week followed the indictment of former officer Amy Wilburn, who was charged after shooting a 19-year-old suspected carjacker.
Dallas police fired both officers shortly after the separate incidents. Police Chief David Brown has suggested an expansion of the use of body cameras to avoid relying solely on officers' statements in disputed situations, and the department reiterated that its use of force policy gave police officers "a responsibility to use only the degree of force necessary to protect and preserve life."
But police union leader Ron Pinkston said the indictments are a bad signal to send to officers dealing with potentially life-threatening situations.
"The result will be more names on the police memorial wall," he said.
In both cases, the existence of recordings brought the officers' actions into question. But Pinkston said the video alone could be misleading — and that police work is not always clear.
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Brown said in an emailed statement Monday said that he was committed to "the safety and security of each Dallas police officer" as well as city residents, and that the department would maintain training standards to help officers.
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Wednesday, August 21, 2013 - 16:21 Updated 5 years ago From a News Release by WV Attorney General Patrick Morrisey
"This is great news for West Virginia handgun owners because it means residents with concealed carry permits can legally travel to any state south of here and be confident their license will be recognized," Morrisey said. "Considering how many of our residents travel to the beaches of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, this is a great step forward for our state. In addition, people traveling west have one more state in which their licenses will be recognized."
The state of West Virginia recently reached agreements for full reciprocity with the states of Georgia and Colorado. That means those states recognize West Virginia concealed carry permits, and West Virginia recognizes similar permits issued in those states. In addition, earlier this month, a new law went into effect in Alabama that recognizes all out-of-state concealed handgun permits. West Virginia is in the process of securing full reciprocity with that state so Alabama residents can be sure that their handgun permits are recognized in the Mountain State.
"These agreements are the culmination of many weeks of discussion and negotiation with other states, and we look forward to securing even more agreements with other states in the weeks and months to come," Morrisey said.
Georgia and Colorado mark the 26th and 27th states, respectively, to have full reciprocity agreements with the State of West Virginia. Last month, the West Virginia Attorney General's Office announced it had obtained full reciprocity with the State of Idaho.
Under the new agreement and pursuant to W. Va. Code § 61-7-6a, a valid Georgia or Colorado permit or license to possess or carry a handgun is valid in West Virginia for the carrying of a concealed handgun so long as the following conditions are met:
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With Finish, time is an elastic concept. Your tasks slide up through timeframes as time elapses. For instance, you might set your Short Term category to 0-2 days, and your Mid Term category to 3-5 days. If you then added a task due date for 5 days, it would be categorized as Mid Term. More importantly, after 3 days, that task would slide up into the Short Term timeframe… where it'd wiggle to the top of the Short Term timeframe exactly 5 days after you entered it. You can optionally receive notifications when tasks slide to new timeframes or become due. It's totally simple, totally painless, and totally free of the whole "crap, I totally forgot it was due" thing.
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I Look Stupid
How to take a Web head shot.
Lately, the Internet has been trying—politely—to find out what I look like. Gmail suggested that I upload a photo "that everyone will see when you email them." My new Apple computer asked whether it could take a webcam shot for iChat. And Facebook was so annoyed with my question mark icon (where a photo would normally be) that it found a photo of me that someone else had tagged, surrounded my head with a red square, and asked whether it might make a good profile picture. The text-y era of the nobody-knows-you're-a-dog Internet is ending. You either have a head shot or you're invisible.
How to solve this modern problem? At times like this, it's best to turn to the wisdom of British journalists. This article in the Guardian classifies head shots into nine groups, such as the hand job, the gormless grin, I'm a star too, prop or gimmick, and making friends. I found the hand job—"A hand framing or supporting face is easily the most popular pose," says the Guardian—of particular interest, because, after grimacing in front of my web cam for a half-hour (and feeling like a high-school sophomore), that's the solution I came up with. Here's the Guardian's take: "Pro: Versatile, conveys quizzical image. Con: Can look camp or arch."
Remember for a moment how much attention people used to lavish on the perfect quote for their e-mail signature. Now that self-conscious energy is applied to a photo. There's nothing inherently bad about the rise of Web head shots. They just turn what was once a space for burgeoning Cyrano de Begeracs into a space for burgeoning Brad Pitts. Read the stark conclusion of a 2000 meta-analysis of beauty studies that tried, in a careful way, to discover whether beauty really was in the eye of the beholder:
The effects of facial attractiveness are robust and pandemic, extending beyond initial impressions of strangers to actual interactions with those whom people know and observe. Contrary to the conventional wisdom, there is strong agreement both within and across cultures about who is and who is not attractive. Furthermore, attractiveness is a significant advantage for both children and adults in almost every domain of judgement, treatment, and behavior we examined.
In other words, this analysis confirms the elegant Montaigne observation that it quotes: "[Beauty] holds the first place in human relations; it presents itself before the rest, seduces and prepossesses our judgement with great authority and wondrous impression."
Montaigne didn't live to see Photoshop, however, or digital photography. These new tools are much in evidence on MySpace and Facebook, where everyone grapples with the head shot issue. I've found that the non-sex-worker photos on MySpace often have a pleasing "what the hell" quality, as if the person just uploaded the first thing they could find. Sprinkled among these are the aspiring seducers, whose ingenious, flaw-obscuring photos have given rise to the term "MySpace angles." These include the tummy-hiding overhead shot and the "check out my eye" extreme close-up. Facebook, reflecting its clenched Ivy League origins, has a lot more staged and professional shots. Everyone either looks ready for the job or ready for the canoe ride.
On both sites, though, there are plenty of people who just don't care and upload tons of photos of themselves—even if this means losing the occasional job or two. (See "Bank Intern Busted by Facebook" on Valleywag.) Alongside the blithe, there are those who are superconscious about managing their online images and who change their profile photos constantly in search of the perfect representation. (A seemingly casual yet flattering pic is the strived-for ideal; parents often take the easy way out and post a photo of their kid.) Finally, there are the resisters, who don't want any image of themselves online. If forced into a corner, they put up something jokey or ironic.
The more you think about Web head shots, the more loaded a social artifact they become. Scholars have begun to examine "impression management" online. One study posits that people with attractive friends on their Facebook "wall" benefit from a halo effect and are themselves perceived to be more attractive. Researchers have also done interesting things with yearbook photos (the original Web head shot). This study found that whether a woman smiles in her photo (PDF) can predict "favorable outcomes in marriage and personal well-being up to 30 years later." Sort of cool to know, but how does it apply to me? (And could it possibly be true?)
Naturally, the Internet has taken photo research into its own narcissistic hands with a creepy/fascinating site called Facestat. It's an inspired update of the venerable Hot or Not, and approaches its mission—to get people to rate photos—from a quasi-scientific angle:
Upload a photo, and choose some questions such as "How old do you think I am?" or "Do I seem trustworthy?" Within a couple hours, you will have detailed statistics about how people feel about the picture you provide. It's like market research for the individual. And it's free!
It's market research for the individual! Not some shallow exercise for the insecure!
The site's most addictive feature is its request that face-judgers use a single word to describe each photo. This leads to all sorts of creativity and randomness. My own photo was tagged with the following adjectives: "ewwwww," "sailor," "bored," "BritishCute" (I assume that's a good thing), "insane," "boring," "lol," "forehead," "Gentleman," "contrasting," and "LeeHarveyOswald!!!!!!" The crowd did display some wisdom by guessing my age and political orientation correctly.
To date, Facestat has collected 16,818,344 judgments on 126,090 faces. The people behind the site, a group of programmers called Dolores Labs, have played with the data in fun ways. They noted which pairs of tags tend to appear together—athletic and driven, gay and cowboy, old and sour, young and uninterested. They've also built a graphical explorer, with which you can follow the webs of adjectives for an entire afternoon. The promise of accurate "market research" hasn't been totally fulfilled. Looking around the site, I've found the crowd-sourced judgments to be fickle. For every person who thinks you're "not bad," there's another that thinks you're phony—or worse.
So it seems that you, Internet person, are left with two options: Just pick a photo and go for it, or go the arty/ironic route. It's not as if you can stay hidden forever. Eventually someone will upload you to Flickr or tag you in a wedding pic wearing an unflattering, unchosen color. My own half-solution: I took a photo and ran it through something called the Face Transformer that created a manga version of myself. It's me, but it's not really me. That's kind of how it feels to be online.


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Tea & Books - What are you reading?
Just starting Christ The Eternal Tao by Heiromonk Damascene which looks at the writings of Lao Tzu. (This is an Eastern Orthodox appreciation of Asian Spiritual History) . I look forward to my reading and tea sessions.
I'm now reading the Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer it's a great series for any age group. Yes, if you can read Harry Potter and like it.. than this will probably blow your mind :D By the way Harry Potter is now available on ereaders if you go to J.K. Rowling's website :D
I finished Bedwetter and moved onto "One for the Money"… Never read this series before!
Finally finished Arguably and am working on The Dogs of Babel now. Then the last "50 Shades" and finally start Game of Thrones!
I am attempting to read Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff. I just don't seem to be in much of a reading mood lately which is making it hard to get into, all the school work isn't helping either.
I was thinking of reading this Cleopatra biography. Do you recommend it?
It's not very well written. A lot of the sentences begin with "She probably" or "She may have" there's a lot of filler information of the time period as well. I would highly recommend checking it out at your local library first.
Helena, I loved Artemis Fowl—kept up with them when my son was in middle school; I think he cranked out two or three more I haven't gotten to yet.
The newest and sadly it's said to be the last book will come out July 10th 2012 so just a few more days. There is eight books in all. Great reading and all available to ereaders :D
A librarian friend turned me on to a couple other surprisingly good middle school reads: "Al Capone Does My Shirts" and "Al Capone Shines My Shoes" by Jennifer Choldenko.
Been slowly working my way thru Artemis Fowl thanks to my local library's fairly good ebook library. I like it so far.
Reading "Death of a Gentle Lady," one of a long series of light mysteries by M.C. Beaton featuring Hamish Macbeth, a nebbishy Scottish constable with perpetual woman trouble. And sprinkled with enough tea references to make it fun … "Tea with everything, and it must be nearly black in colour."
Finally reading the Time Traveller's Wife! Tea is a perfect companion for that book, although I always have a Stephen King on the go. Haven't found a companion tea for those ones yet ;)
I read Time Traveller's Wife ages ago and it was a good book but I won't read it again. I gave it away to charity.
haha fair enough! I'm not too far into it yet, and I didn't seek it out – I found it in the work library. So we'll see how it goes ;)
Okay I finished a while ago, but I wanted to come respond!
I didn't hate Claire, although I didn't like her. In fact, I didn't like any of the characters. I have a confession – I HATE reading about rich people and privilege. It is not entertaining to me. :) So yes, I will donate the book away as well. haha
Now reading Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident book two in the series :D
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami. So far I love it. Tea + books= perfect combo
I've only read one book by him, Kafka on the Shore, and I LOVED it.
I'm still reading the 3 book (I bought the 3 book set) and at some point I think it went down the hill :( But I will reserve my final judgement after I've read it all.


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"The Competitive Implications of Safety Net-Related Subsidies"
by Gary Whalen OCC Working Paper 97-9, May 1997
Some people favor maintaining constraints on bank powers and organizational form because they believe banks receive a significant net subsidy from access to the federal safety net. They argue that this net subsidy will be successfully transferred to subsidiaries or affiliates engaged in non-traditional activities, giving these units a significant competitive advantage vis-a-vis rivals not affiliated with insured depository institutions. A variant of this view is the belief that a holding company structure is more likely to impede the transmission of the subsidy than is a bank subsidiary structure.
While it is difficult to draw firm general conclusions about the size of the subsidy from available studies, the weight of the evidence suggests that most banks have not enjoyed a large gross subsidy in the past. Typically, researchers find small gross subsidy values for the vast majority of the banks in their samples. In fact, the estimated fair insurance values of most sample banks are below their respective explicit insurance premiums. Most studies do not estimate net subsidies because reliable measures of the regulatory costs borne by banks are not available. The rough cost estimates that do exist, however, are substantial. This implies that the size of any net deposit insurance-related subsidy enjoyed by most banks must be smaller than the low gross subsidy estimates reported in previous empirical work. Further, a number of supervisory actions taken in the late 80s and early 90s are likely to have reduced the size of any subsidy. These actions include higher minimum capital requirements, risk-based capital requirements, prompt corrective action, and a system of risk-based deposit insurance premiums.
Recent (June 1996) estimates suggest that the gross subsidies enjoyed by the largest banking companies in the United States are presently small and net subsidies are likely to be negative. Even if these numbers are underestimates, there is evidence that mechanisms like Section 23A and 23B restrictions on inter-company transactions and corporate separateness requirements can effectively impede the transmission of any safety net-related subsidy to noninsured subsidiaries or affiliates. Since the same two sets of insulating devices are used in both sorts of structures, there is no a priori reason or hard evidence to believe that transmission of the subsidy is more likely in one case or the other. There is some market evidence that subsidies are not substantial. When banks have an option, they do not uniformly locate activities within the bank or direct bank subsidiary where it is allegedly easier to take advantage any safety net-related subsidy. Banking organizations also do not systematically dominate activities (e.g., bank-eligible securities) where they can conduct the operations within the bank.
As with all OCC Working Papers, the opinions expressed in this paper are those of the author alone, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency or the Department of the Treasury.
Any whole or partial reproduction of material in this paper should include the following citation: Whalen, "The Competitive Implications of Safety Net-Related Subsidies," Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, E&PA Working Paper 97-9, May 1997.
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If you wondered why Titanfall is (at least for now) exclusive to Xbox One and PC, Infinity Ward's Vince Zampella has the answer.
Gosh, i cant wait to seed more gameplay videos.this game is on the top of my list as musot Xbox one titles.
The MS/Respawn relationship will be very similar to the EpicGame Studio.
"The MS/Respawn relationship will be very similar to the EpicGame Studio"
Or it may turn out to be similar to Mass Effect. Also published by EA.
Well devs are either bought out entirely or they make deals....seems Respawn loves working on X1 platform, looks like they have a hit on their hands judging by all the interest from both xbox and ps fans, naturally though since E3 is about games, and shooters are big on both platforms, exclusive shooters can do alot for a console as Gears has demonstrated, looks as if Titanfall really grabbed the spotlight. I think KZ shadow whatever is a launch exclusive for ps4, although I'm not buying a ps4 anytime soon, I just hope it gets the attention it deserves too.
I just read in NeoGaf that this will be Windows 8 only on PC and only from the MS store
hype just went down to zero.
Killzone SF looks way better IMO I don't get the hype for titanfall
This doesn't sound like a vanilla business relationship, but more of a technology fit.
MS is heavy on cloud infrastructure with a time tested platform out there. It wouldn't surprise me if MS is doing with the cloud what they did with Xbox 360, building a best in class tools.
Personally, I cannot wait for Titanfalls and Quantum Break.
The second they said "power of the cloud" anyone with half a brain could see that it's B.S.
Cloud computing on the X1 is the same as 4D, 1080, 120FPS that was promised for the PS3. It's all smoke and mirrors. Latency, lack of necessary bandwidth, and the bottlenecks are all very real problems.
This is quite obviously money exchanging hands. But where EA is concerned, there's no such thing as a true exclusive. EA are money whores, they'll go where they can make money. Count on Titanfall being ported. I personally couldn't care less if Mech of Duty came to the PS4 or not, but for those who do, expect it. It'll happen.
Just shut up dragon microsoft already said it has 300 thousand servers for the new xbox live sony doesnt have anything like that set up right now.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wik... really?
Lol I like how they use the MS cloud as an example... yet Sony owns Gaikai, one of the most technologically advanced cloud systems in the market. What a bunch of BS.
So Microsoft shelled out dozens of millions of dollars for it?
Was that so hard to say? Why does Microsoft always insist that the reason for exclusivity on its systems be kept quiet by the publishers? Gamers want exclusives, and you're giving them (temp) exclusives. There's no reason to BS anyone.
(BTW, EA said to Eurogamer that they couldn't discuss details about this game coming to Ps4; obvious translation being that they contractually can't say "maybe" or reveal that it could in a year)
All you did was show that Gaikai is shared between almost 30 companies. Sony just owns it now.
EPIC is a second party studio.
Respawn exclusive is third party and like 99 percent third party exclusives, it ports.
That has nothing to do with Mass Effect, Bioware was owned by MS for years since the original made Jade Empire KOTR and other games EA bought them off MS right after Mass Effect came out then EA made it multiplat not similar at all since Respawn is already with EA
"good" relationship with Microsoft = $$$
relationship with SONY = "We <3 Devs"
Whats your point they dont have as many servers as microsoft if you think so your fooling yourselves if they did they wouldnt be owned by sony. They are a small crap company they didnt and never will have the resources to pull this off for all games especially with like millions of players online simultaneously .
Warframe looks way more interesting to me then both this and Killzone.
Warframe being a PS4 launch is the actual game that made me want to own PS4 on day one because even if the other launch IPs turn out to be bad, at least I know Warframe is going to be a fun game I can enjoy with out even having to spend anymore money.
Guaranteed fail safe that might actually be even more fun then all other new IPs
I was going to buy this on PC until finding this out. Oh well, looks like I won't be playing it unless it releases on either Origin, Steam or PS4.
Expect this to be xbox next game box advertisement. "Better because cloud" lolol and some of the sheeple will eat it up
@newmonday Windows 8 exclusive?! Jeez, they really want us to upgrade to that piece of crap, don't they? I'm thankful my laptop was the last one of its model to come out with Windows 7. Pretty much everyone I talk to that had Windows 8 downgraded to Windows 7 or went with a Linux OS instead of putting up with that horrendous piece of software.
Dualshockers, wtf? Where did you get that headline from? Can't see it in your article.
And if the headline was there, I would say to Respawn "ORLY?" - the power of the cloud enabled you to make this game? LOL.
It looks like an awesome game, but nothing that relates to graphics or physics or other heavy stuff suggests that it could not be done without the cloud.
Bioware was not owned by MS. And the truth is that Jade Empire was published on the PC by 2K Games. Bioware owned their IPs at the time, not MS.
Mass Effect was a PC/360 title because of the ease of development for devs that did not have the time to learn the PS3. There may or may not have been some funded development assistance from MS as well. It obviously did not affect IP ownership.
Learn the difference between a hardware server and a virtual server. Several developers have called MS on this one already because it is a load of horse dump and everyone knows it. When 52 people time shares a cond for a week each, stelling everyone they own a beach house is untruthful.
Cloud computing? Not even going to address that:
Good luck with that pipe dream/marketing story. And be aware that any game relying on any type of web assistance is dead the minute ther servers shut down. Do you understand that cost of 300,000 real individual hardware servers? Ever seen the public a game server was being shut down a year after a game launched. Certainly.
Gamewise everyone is piling on the Sony bandwagon and when that 1 year Titanfall exclusivity deal is done they will come crawling to the Sony fanbase and speak about the PS4 with glowing terms telling us it is powerful enough to do even more than they need but in standalone. It won't matter because like XRAVE above so many of us just were not impressed.
Titanfall is being made out to be more than it is because it is seen as the one bright spot in an otherwise dismal E3 for the Xbone. You do not really hear the horn being blown for anything else. And this should be telling because it isn't a launch title for the Xbone either. What does that say about the Xbone stable of games this fall?
It's going to get worse for MS. With Gamescom and TGS the number of announced titles for the PS4 will grow exponentially. TGS will be particularly ugly.
The shooter with my attention that will actually arrive for launch and not next year is Killzone Shadowfall. The MP reveal at Gamescom is going to be one not to miss. The 21 minute demo shows the advancements in mere months:
After the demo they do a walkthrough.
The alternate demo here, just wow. As usual their lighting engine is insane.
I am trying to imagine that streaming across the Vita on remote play.
Yes it can only be played on the advanced hardware of the xbone ..... and the xbox 360 .... right
The 360 version is being developed by another studio and won't have the same scale and features as the One and PC versions. I'd post a link but I'm on my phone :/
Why not just come out and say they paid for exclusivity?
I'd be ok with that. It's the flat out lying that pisses me off.
Of course they paid for exclusivity. Both Sony and MS pay for exclusivity 90% of the time. Respawn(despite being well know vets, they said so themselves) is a new company and needed the support for a new IP. MS has the money to support them. Sony would have done the same thing if they had gotten there first or had the money. I'm sure Sony paid for that Final Fantasy exclusive.
You also have to wonder if IP ownership came up if Sony did try. I know that would have been a non starter for Respawn.
First of all, these are the guys that created Call of Duty. Investors will throw money at them just like how EA and Activision tried to court Bungie.
Secondly, if MS invest into to Respawn, they are of course going to expect something back. Isn't it obvious!
Same kind of scenario with Sony. It's business as usual. Nobody gives money for free without expecting something back.
Sony is capableof cloud computing but its no where near as advanced as MS cloud.
"Can the PS4 do cloud?" A simple yes answer from Sony and suddenly its just like the X1's cloud feature riigght.
Sony can do cloud computing and suddenly it's that much better then X1? One bit of info and fanboys take it and run with it and use it as misinformation and stretching the truth. Get outta here the cloud is used for storage, instant play, and streams. That's its main functions. It could be outsourced for different things I'm sure, but is it on the level the way MS is making it sound? I don't think so.
Wow you fanboys seriously think one Console is the best in world at everything. All you need is one bit of info doesn't matter its relevancy and stretch far and wide until it sounds better than the other console.
Sony doesn't necessarily have to pay for Final Fantasy exclusives. They have stock ownership in Square-Enix (currently #3 @ just over 8%; Yasuhiro Fukushima is #1 @ 20%), it's not enough to tell Square what to do, but enough to have their ear.
Well, it IS a Source-powered game, so yeah...it's pretty scalable.
It is a decent title, but I have seen nothing in the game that can't be done on PS4 or WiiU if Nintendo ever invested or partnered up with a Cloud company. AI being utilized in the cloud is a nice idea in theory, but still its not perfect.
EA is publishing. So this game won't be exclusive for long. We all see how fast Activision got rid of their exclusive to Xbox One deal with Destiny once it moved along in development. EA will fear losing PS4 consumers to Destiny and ship Titanfall to PS4. That's what I believe. E3 2014 lets see.
AI being utilized in the cloud is an awful idea...it's also a stealthy way of requiring an always online connection, rather like Sim City and it's fabled "server side calculations" that turned out to be a load of garbage.
Besides, we know the PS4 - well, any device with an internet connection really - is capable of cloud function if said connection is strong enough.
This "unlimited power of the cloud" nonsense is marketing gobbledegook to disguise the fact the One has weaker hardware than it's competitor...yet costs more thanks to Kinect, which the majority of gamers couldn't care less about.
I agree, but really I have not seen anything in the games shown so far that has benefited from Cloud tech. I don't expect to see anything like that until everyone is running 50 Mbps internet. Its one of those ideas that exists way earlier than it is supposed to exist. Just like electronic cars, 3DTV, and so on. Which have had variations over the years since its conception that have failed until recently when they tech actually catches up to the idea.
Internet is everywhere and spreading every year. There will be a time when no space has zero internet in the future. Most countries are pushing to have at least 50% or more % in every major country running at 50-100 Mbps by 2025ish. Nearly 2 gaming generations away from this one. Then and beyond is the only time I see its cloud features running 100% like they are claiming now to be possible, but they could setup software to learn along the way how a player plays on the Cloud, but any real auto-adjustment to the AI wouldn't take place for another decade at the earliest.
What? Most of europe is running at 50-100mbps + (YES PLUS, we already have easy access to 300 mbps, 10mbps is lowest possible deal and it costs almost nothing). I live in a small town (2000 peeps) and you know how much I pay for my 100 mbps connection? 16 USD a MONTH (and I get plenty of HD channels). USA is behind with the internet infrastructure for some weird reason but most of Europe is definitely ready. Bah, there is even FREE mobile internet available from ANY place in my country (HSPA+ 900MHz / LTE 2500TDD. We're ready and I'm sure if xbox one will succeed, USA will get better internet deals in no time!
@dennett316, was going to post the same thing until I saw your comment, agree 100%. "Server side cloud computations" is just marketing bullshit to disguise drm. Xbone and PS4 hardware are more than capable of handling any computations of AI or whatever else, unless we're going to be playing against IBM's Deep Blue.
hear is a clip ..
good luck with that!
"Power of the cloud." translates into "reason to force always-on requirements".
There is NOTHING about "the cloud" that is exclusive to Xbone. Sony doesn't promote it because they know it's just smoke and mirrors. MS clings to it for dear life because they know they've been outclassed with their hardware, and need some reason to implement mandatory online connections.
Titanfall is exclusive because of a big fat payment from MS. That's it. That's why they've already discussed bringing the game to other platforms. Also, PC doesn't use "teh cloud" either, so their argument of it being due to the "power of the cloud" falls flat on it's face right there. They contradict themselves in the same sentence.
"Also, PC doesn't use "teh cloud" either, so their argument of it being due to the "power of the cloud" falls flat on it's face right there. They contradict themselves in the same sentence"
That's cos pc had enough power under the hood and needs not have things rendered for it by a more powerful cloud server. Xbone needs cloud support cos its weak
The 24hr DRM check is anti-piracy as XB1 requires games installed to HDD. You will be able to access 10 of your friends library of games from cloud and download to your HDD and play whenever they are not.
You cant do that on PS4 - well you can by physically going around to mates borrow their games.
Whats better?
On Xbox One, only you and one of those 10 people can be playing at once.
PSN already lets you install any of your games on a friend's PS3 as it is, and you can play at the same time as that friend.
In other words, both are the same other than Xbox letting 9 other friends wait in line for the 10th guy to finish playing the game so one of them can play too. At any point though, 9 people have to wait on the 10th to finish before they can play.
It's the same policy PS3 already enjoys with a waiting list tacked on.
Actually Frosty, only of those 10 people can play at once. You OR someone else. Not 2 at same time.
Although I may be wrong, I got this from Major Nelson, but they've been contradicting each other way too much.
^In that case it's even more restrictive than PSN's policy. I can play against a friend I lend a game to on PSN.
Yeah guys, disagree with this man because he wants an Xbox One /s
I'm buying One and I don't mind the restrictions cause they don't really apply to me.
That's like saying "Let the Nazi's kill the jews, I don't care because i'm not a jew"
Obviously this is taken yo an extreme but it still applies. Microsoft is doing bad things but because some of those bad things don't effect you your just going to let them slide and give your money to them anyways... some people..
In all seriousness, its not anything like the situation you mentioned. If you don't like the system and MS policies, don't buy the system. I don't share games with others, I always have internet access, and this whole kinect watching u shit can be easily avoided by covering the camera or unplugging the console. Seriously, most smartphones/laptops have cameras. Some people are just absurd.
Well like I said... just because it doesn't effect you doesn't make it any less wrong. You no longer even own your games, you own a license to play them, it's a step backwards in the industry. Especially when all of these new 'features' don't benefit you in any way nor do they make the system better. What gives Microsoft the right to tell you what you can and can't do with what your buying? I don't understand how any consumer can stand behind Microsoft when everything about the Xbox One is so anti consumer oriented and this wasn't just added, the Xbox One was built around this.
As a Steam/PC user, there almost very little difference. Maybe that's why I don't see it as such a big deal.
The difference is Steam has competitors... Microsoft will have a monopoly on the preowned game market for xbox one. With no competition there is no reason to price things competitively. Think about it
"As a Steam/PC user, there almost very little difference"
If you are a pc user than you might be familiar with GFWL, which is not very popular because steam makes it look like crap. I don't get why people try to compare the xbox1 to steam when it should be compared to microsoft's own pc drm. Like oceangrownkush said steam has competitors, microsoft was one of them, but are disliked by a majority of pc gamers. (at least the ones I know)
Im buyin this for PC but im bit unhappy with the headline makes me concerned.
Good relationship with Microsoft...? Dont choose that Path i hope they dont
If I hear "power of the cloud" anymore I am going to lose my shit.
*cough*reputation management?*cough*
Titanfall looks all right, but since it's on PC there's no reason to get the console version.
If you have a PC already you could spend $500 that you would have spent on an XB1 and upgrade your PC to out-match Microsoft's console.
Only the Xbox One can handle so much power...and apparently the 360 as well...lol. But no thanks, ill still get the PS4.
^ I know right?... It's on the x1, because its such an awesome system and it has access to the infinite power of the cloud.... Oh yeah, it's on pc and 360 too... BUT! The x1!!! Lol... Microsoft are like a bad joke now... And I WAS a rabid Xbox fanboy for the last ten years.... For you current and still Xbox fanboys that will say I never played on the Xbox? My gamer tag is tonymontana530.... I have almost 50,000 achievement points... So yeah, I was a big Xbox gamer.... But the price, drm, constant check in with bigbrother(Microsoft), and ms seemingly arrogant attitude, I'm an Xbox fanboy no more.... Fanboys should only be skin deep... When a company pulls the stuff ms is doing, it's time to move to greener pastures... I preordered a ps4 last weekend... Can't wait to get my hands on it... Sony wants every gamer possible on ps4, ms wants only people with good and fast Internet who are willing to forego their rights... Me? I'll be a playstation gamer for the first time since my launch ps2 broke after 8 months... Things change, but it should never be about gaming on a company, but gaming for the games.
This news will make some people green as HULK, lol!
Yeh lets see ps4 is one of the top ore ordered systems and EA was so close to sny for last 3 gens what changed all of the sudden? Don't give me the crap about cloud or good relationship with MS. Whether its ms or Sony it's all about money and who is willing to pay.
Patcher said MS had to cover for what the game would have sold on PS4 for it to be on Xbox one and to be console exclusive. MS said they had a billion dollar budget for games so how much did just one game cost? GTA dlc was 50 million so this has to be a least 3 times as much
Also this will be on ps4 within 6-12 months since its a 3rd party game
It's kind of weird that bungie is with Sony lol money reasons and EA with MS
And yet it will release months later on PS4 with better graphics. Go figure.
TitanFall is temporarily on Xbox One because Microsoft has no 1st party developers and they paid for it.
With the PS4's vastly superior specs, only an idiot would believe Respawn. It's pathetic that they'd even agree to repeat what Microsoft asked them to say.
Titanfall reminds me a little bit of first person Starhawk.
Me too. Titanfall looks freakin bananas man. Fast, frantic, huge bad ass mechs, wall running exc. One of the best looking next gen games along with quantum break and the new ubisoft mmo. All 3 look really amazing. Killer instinct also looks great, one of my fav fighters ever finally returns.
The xbone def has the edge on announced games but I can't support the online checks. I don't like blocking used games but I buy new anyways so my only real worry is ten years later when I can't play a game because the online is down. If ms didnt do these things they would be in the best spot next gen but alas, ps4 it is. My friends who never liked Xbox all wanted a xbone but none of us will support this shit. Ms is literally losing half their potential customers. Hope they get the message.
My personal pick for Game of The Show, this coming from someone who is very sick of FPS games. It just looks beyond fun if you ask me and will most likely get me back online playing multilayer which i grew tired of after the last COD game before BlackOps2.
why is frigiddarkness getting loads of disagrees? he's only expressing his opinion and its not like he's trolling or anything.
Then why is it also on 360? Power of the moneyhat.
No game should be at the top of your list of Xbone games. That thing is a piece of crap. Don't waste your money on it. Are you brainwashed by Microsoft or something? There's help for that you know.
I love when they enforce ideas that apparently are good for future and its the only way it can work. Anybody remember OnLive ? Future of cloud gaming and computing that fell down so fast