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PAWNOGRAFFITI wrote:bigstrads wrote:speakonitgod wrote:I work at Ambassador Toys in San Francisco (I'm posting from there right now )
Hey Speak, Captain_Jack just asked me if you could get her this with your staff discount??? =
Ballerina lunch Box $10.99
Size : 10"x7"x3"
When sandwiches, apples and cookies find themselves tucked inside this whimsical box, somehow they taste extra delicious. It isn't just for lunch, it's great for storing school supplies and secret treasures too!
I'd like to pack my meat into her buns and put that delicious treat into her lunchbox.
Captain Jack is a FOX!!! MEOW!
Pawno, I bet the ladies love you.


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twitter or Instagram, you've probably seen a lot of these already. See, avocado sandwiches are my latest obsession. (food wise...)
Any bread really, a generous slathering of cream cheese, a perfect avocado in thin slices and finally a sprinkle of flaky sea salt. Perfection. I could eat this for lunch every day, and I pretty much have, for a while now...
Monday, April 08, 2013
Yet again.
3 comments:
- aimee said...
Yum! I LOVE avocado!
- April 09, 2013 4:18 AM
- Patricia Corbyn said...
I sometimes mix it up a bit vaguely mexican by mashing the advocado with a little lime juice :~)
- April 09, 2013 4:52 PM
- JulesTheNorweegie said...
Just added an avocado to a really healthy sweet potato brownie that I made last week. Heaven!
This sounds delicious too, especially if the bread is home made :)
God helg! x
- April 12, 2013 10:47 AM
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Mac vs. Intel vs. AdobeMarch 06, 2006
So here's where we're at on announced MacIntel computers right now: we've got the MacBook Pro, the Mac mini, and the iMacIntel.
Does anyone spot a trend? Neither do I. The releases are happening in seemingly completely random order, without much concern to the traditional consumer and pro lines. So Apple's charging away at the transition, regardless of the lineup. Great.
Except for those of us who want to buy new technology right now. See, Adobe has seemingly committed to not porting existing software (meaning both CS2 and Studio 8 here, remember) to MacIntel. Instead we're going to have to wait for the next versions, which, given the current product cycle, means we've got a year or two to wait it out.
Yes, you can run the existing software in emulation mode, but it ain't quick. It's hard to justify shelling out now for a speed decrease, when the actual benefits won't kick in for another year or more.
Here's the big dilemma for Mac-based creative professionals looking for new gear at the moment: buy a G5-based system now and get the speed boost for the short term, thus facing obsolesence in a few year's time. Or, buy an Intel-based system now, take a short-term speed hit, and be assured that your system will live on well after the transition is finished.
Of course, with the PowerMacs you don't even have the choice, the Intel versions haven't been announced yet. And there's another variable: you'd need to stick it out until they arrive, and buy then. Anyone needing new gear right away is going to get stuck with a very tough choice.
I'd been thinking about a PowerMac lately myself, but this issue made the decision a lot harder. I was all set to pick up a quad-core G5 at some point in the very near future, until I started seeing the Intel benchmarks. I had assumed the G5's would still out-pace the Intel chips for the first generation or two, but it sounds like the new chips are way faster already when running Universal binaries. So that doesn't help the matter.
Right now, I can't see any way to personally justify buying a G5 PowerMac. It's a lot of money for something guaranteed to be obsolete within a few years. At the same time, I can't really justify laying out the same amount of cash for a system guaranteed to chug away for the next year or more. So PowerMacs just don't make sense until Adobe's on board.
I realized that, just as Apple is in the middle of a transition, I guess I'll have to be as well. So I ended buying a 20" iMac G5. It's cheap, it's got a nice big screen, and even with the stock 512MB of RAM (which will get maxed out in short order) it's already running circles around my Powerbook.
When it makes more sense to jump into the world of MacIntel, I'll do it. But a week in, I'm not regretting this move one bit. I can always sell it when it's time to move on, but I already suspect it'll be hard to get rid of.
Word of advice though: if you're thinking along the same lines, go and get one yesterday. It seems Apple is putting them to bed rather quickly, to the point where mine may have come from the very last shipment of iMac G5's to the local Mac outlet.
Thanks for the article Dave, I've been pondering myself lately on getting a Mac … though my only concern is about being able to check cross-platform compatibility on my web applications. Mac Safari and others are gaining (slowly) market share and I think its important. To this point I've relied on gecko-friendly code to be sufficient for Mac browsers, but I don't think thats enough anymore.
My plan is to buy a new mac-mini with a dualcore intel, and hook that and my PC up with a KVM switch. That I think is cost-effective and should serve me well enough for now. What do you think?
Garrett, from Vancouver.
Hi Dave,
The G5 iMac sounds like a good choice to me in your situation. If you need knew kit, particularly from Apple, you've just got to bite the bullet and go for it. This Intel transition is just highlighting that fact a little more.
I'm really happy with my 8 month old Powerbook right now - should see me out for another year and then I'll move over to a MacBook thingy. Of course, I'm not a heavy user of any of that Adobe software, so it does make my decision slightly easier!
Incidentally, nice meeting you in London a while back. Can't wait to hook up again at @Media!
Proof that there's no good time to buy computers, only bad times.
You're right, it's a lot of money for something that'll be obsolete in two years, but isn't that always the case. Any new Mac is awesome for a year, average for a year, and then obsolete. For me it's more about software, there's no reason to buy until adobe's stuff runs native. Of course apple realizes this, and that why the towers will be the last to transition.
I always find it amusing when people worry about a new computer going obselete in a couple years when they are looking to buy. It seems to me that you should simply be looking at what kind of speed you need and not what kind of speed you can get at some point in the future. If the current PowerMac G5 is fast enough for your needs, then get it. If it isn't then wait for something that is fast enough that also suits your software compatibility needs.
If you were considering buying a new PowerMac G5 before you realized how much faster the Intels were, why should thhe speed of the Intels affect your decision. Shouldn't your decision simply be whether or not the G5 is fast enough, and not how much faster another computer is if that other computer doesn't fit your needs?
If you always wait to buy because something faster is on the horizon then you would never get a new computer. At the rate that technology is progressing, there will never be a good time to buy a new computer without the risk of it going obselete before you get it out of the box.
I just picked up an Intel iMac Core Duo 20" and I couldn't be happier. This is upgrading from a G5 iMac (rev.b).
Yes, Photoshop is not a speed demon on this machine, but for web work it's completely, totally usable. I just did a full round of site mockups on this machine over the weekend and it was a tad slower than my Powerbook (a G4 1.5ghz 15"). If you're pushing print or gigantic print files then it might be an issue (I didn't test this) but for most other tasks it's great.
That said, I have 2G of ram in this machine, but I don't see the point in buying a brand new, top of the line machine and not maxing out the ram.
I guess it comes down this: all of the other applications I use constantly (both development-related and otherwise) are universal and *very* fast, and the ones that aren't universal yet either run really well (FontExplorerX, Word) or run well enough (Photoshop, Illustrator) that it's fine for me. Obviously mileage will vary - I think my workflow is fairly indicative of a working web designer / amateur photographer, but perhaps I'm an anomaly.
I recently got a 20" iMac Core Duo at work. (replaced a Dual 2.0 PowerMac G5 .. so I can evaluate the Intel machines for possible deployment)
It's a really nice machine. One big improvement over the iMac G5 is in the video card. It has the Radeon x1600 instead of the Radeon x600 .. and I ordered mine with 256 MB of VRAM, and of course the new iMac can drive a second display, instead of just mirroring the built-in display. (My only complaint is that they're using their stupid mini-DVI port. That makes sense on a laptop, but on a desktop machine? Grr. stupid unnecessary adaptor.)
Admittedly I rarely run photoshop, but the machine performs extremely well for me. Native programs feel nearly as fast as they were on the Dual G5. Some things are much faster. There are a few minor annoyances (the inability to run screen savers or preference panes in Rosetta, for example, and the lack of Universal Binary web browser plugins) but I imagine those will be fixed over time.
I still don't see why people are worried about the G5 becoming obsolete. Hell, the G3 can still run Tiger today, and my 7-year old G4 tower, too. The panic is exaggerated — G5's will still be supported for at least another 5 years or so, certainly another two system revisions anyway,
you know, i got an imac g5 xmastime, just before the new ones were released. i couldn't be happier with my sexy new computer. i knew there would be bugs, so i'm in no big rush to switch over, and by the time i AM ready to make the big switch, so will be Mac. it's actually easily my favorite computer ever. glad you like yours too.
Okay, a few of you are confusing obsolesence with speed increases. When I say obsolete in this case, I mean the new Intel PowerMacs have a completely different processor architecture. At some point in the next few years we'll start seeing 'Made for Intel Macs' on software, and that's it. End of the road for the G5.
If it were a simple matter of speed increases, I would be more at ease buying a G5 tower right now. But we're talking about actual end of life for the usefuleness these systems.
Garrett: just for web testing,I'd go for the cheapest Mac you can get. A second-hand mini would probably be your best bet. An iMac G3 should do, spec-wise, for your purposes, but you've got the potential of the screen going wrong (unlike the mini), and at some point soon the G3 might not be supported by OS X (although that's just my personal unsupported speculation).
Dave -
I purchased a Mac mini for my wife literally three days before the Intel minis were announced. I had a clue it was coming, but I didn't care.
Truth is, she needed a machine that she could do email and browse the web on. That's it. Nothing more. So it doesn't matter if the new machines are 4 times as fast.
Now, for those of us who need to run Adobe apps, there is quite a quandry. Unfortunately, Adobe's apps aren't written in Xcode. This makes creating a universal binary a little more troublesome and time consuming.
However, I think that the land of limbo could hurt Apple's hardware sales. But I don't see Apple in a panic sending a bunch of engineers to Adobe to port CS over.
I think the order of release was like this because they needed a boost to the PowerBook line, and from there, the consumer line made more sense because of just this reason. Pros might hold back and wait for Adobe.
- the "other Dave S."
Thanks, 'other Dave S.', for being one of the few so far who have realized this post has Adobe in the title as well.
oh, and as for reasons to release them in this order… the PowerMac and Xserve are going to be last. Because they need something better than a Core Duo. (I imagine Apple is waiting on one of Intels 64-bit chips) .. also, they're probably hoping that something can be done to improve Photoshop performance. (And G5 emulation for Rosetta would be good for the few 64-bit apps out there .. I imagine that's coming someday)
Why the MacBook Pro before the iBook (or possibly named MacBook)? Because it would look really bad for the consumer model to be significantly faster than the Pro model. And the new iBook will almost certainly be faster (for Universal Binaries, at least) than the PowerBook G4. Also, getting the higher margin laptop out first means they may pick up some extra "Pro" sales from people who don't want to wait on the consumer model.
The order makes a lot of sense to me.
Tim – good thinking. Hadn't pieced that together, but it makes sense.
I think you should try and track down a Intel based Mac and try using one. I've been using Photoshop for the past week or so on a 2.0Ghz Dual Core iMac, and I don't find it painful to use in the least. (Mind you, I am upgrading from a G3 800Mzh iBook, so that might bias me in the new computer's favour.) You may find the real world usage is good enough. Plus, the other applications you use will be much faster.
I'm having the same problem you are, except I'm a PC user. I never really switched to PC. It's an odd thing to describe. I always wanted a Mac for myself (my dad had bought quite a few for his business throughout the years starting with the Mac II), but I never could afford it. I just built myself my own PC and have sort of suffered because of it. When I went to college I was able to get a Powerbook through scholarship money. I love that thing to death.
I think this move hurts people who are on limited budgets, but want to purchase a very nice Mac computer every few years. I have plans to buy myself a PowerMac, but I don't want to buy one until Adobe releases their software for the new Intel Macs. I would also like to have Corel release a new version of Painter for Mactel, but I'm not sure if they have any plans for it. I assume they do. Adobe typically takes 18-24 months between versions. I don't remember when CS2 was released.. April last year? It would be October this year (if my estimate is correct) at the least for a new version to be released. I'd love to ditch my PC as my primary computer before then, but I'm having to wait because of Adobe. If I buy an iMac I won't have the money to purchase a PowerMac when the time comes, so I'm having to sit and wait unfortunately.
Everybody seems to be having the same dilemma. Personally, I've decided to stick it out another year or so with my PowerBook. Once Adobe comes through, I'm hoping to also buy a 2nd iteration of the MacBook Pro, hopefully without all of the bugs that come with 1st iterations.
I got the Intel iMac and it runs all the Adobe apps more than fast enough for me (under Rosetta). It's faster than my Powerbook G4 for sure (but not quite as fast as the Dual Powermac G5 I have at work). It's unfortunate that Adobe won't be releasing their native versions anytime soon, but in the meantime, Rosetta runs the Adobe suite quite nicely.
I own a 20" G5 iMac at home and I use a 20" Intel Core Duo iMac at work. They're both fantastic machines, and for anything non-adobe, the intel mac works fantastic, but I admit, if I can, I save my photoshop work for home when it's easier and simpler and faster to run it on the g5 there.
Dave, I think you made the right move. That g5 imac is a cheap way to get a fast, wonderful and powerful machine. If you have lots of print design work to do, or just need photoshop all the time, then the g5 is the way to go. Even with the intel macs out now, it's a terrific value.
You can take the money you saved and give it to adobe in a year when they charge us for the intel versions of their apps.
Jeff makes a great point. If you're upgrading from a Powerbook G4 , then you haven't been spoiled by a g5, and as speed tests show, the Photoshop on Rosetta on Intel ends up being about the same speed or a little faster than on the Powerbook.
I'm going to do an apples-to-apples (ahem) comparison in a few weeks, when the 17" iMac G5 iSight at work goes to a coworker and I get its immediate replacement, the 17" iMac Core Duo. At least that's the plan.
I think Dave made a smart move here, because the iMac G5 runs his daily bread Photoshop very, very well (at least in my experience), and will be a great machine even down the line as a second computer or for someone else (wife, friend, or third-party buyer) – once the pro-level Intel desktop Macs come out and, importantly, have been revved at least once, and Adobe gets their ducks in a row.
Plus the iMac is probably the sexiest personal computer out there right now, period, which is something in itself. I love how I can treat it like a luggable laptop – just unplug, grab the keyboard and mouse in one hand and the screen in the other, and go to another room. I've even used it for presentations by putting it in a rolling suitcase. If you don't need a battery, it makes a very nice transportable PC:
The whole G5 vs Intel transition is a case of damned if you do, damned if you don't. In terms of pro apps, such as Adobe CS3, waiting would really depend upon the eventual feature set of these apps, and whether there's any features in the new suite you can't see yourself living without. It also depends on the frequency with which you replace your hardware.
After my experiences with the first model G3 blue and white model and the horror stories of the first model Ti Powerbooks (I bought the second model). I would wait for the second model of the MacIntel. I am waiting until at least the first MacIntel ibooks before looking at replacing my now very battered Powerbook.
I don't want to replace it with a G4 powerbook or G4 ibook, because my current Powerbook lasted 5 years and I would like the same life span for my next laptop. And will Apple, Adobe and others still be supporting the G4 chip as well as they support the Intel chip, during the last years of that laptop's life.
I'm with Jon Henshaw on this one. My current g4 powerbook, whilst not being a speed demon, still does everything i've ever needed it to do. I'm happy to wait until Adobe come out with UB and purchase a 2nd (or maybe even 3rd) revision MacBook Pro at that point in time.
With the current top of the line MBPs actually topping out marginally faster than the iMac in terms of CPU power (2.13ghz) I am expecting good things when I finally get a new Mac.
I guess it depends how long in the tooth your current machine is getting and if it's doing what you need or not. I think it was Khoi Vinh who noted that his Mac seemed fine until Apple announced that the new was faster and then it literally seemed slower to him!!
I bought my 20" iMac G5 last June and I'm very happy with it.
As far as Adobe/Macrobe goes, I'm quite disappointed by Photoshop CS for Mac OS X. Doesn't it bug anyone here that when Photoshop CS crashes, the file you were working on reverts to the previous saved state ? Adobe doesn't use any of the *nix goodness available on Os X.
When Apple Works crashes, I can recover my file in the state just before crash. I mean *Apple Works*…
Maybe it's different on CS 2. Is it ? I remember Dave posting on his lack of enthusiasm for this upgrade, the ability to recover files would be a reason to upgrade.
Meanwhile I have no great hopes for Photoshop for MacIntels. Porting to XCode might give Adobe the opportunity to *get it right* this time, but they might be too busy porting quick and dirty to take time for that.
This 'few years' is just about the normal lifecycle of a computer system these days. So why not buy one?
I feel great about my dual 2.7Ghz G5 I got half a year ago. I know it will serve me well for at least 2 years to come. If a G4 is still 'fast enough' for many people I'm sure as hell a dual G5 will do it for me for quite a while.
The only thing I see that does NOT make sense right now is purchasing Adobe CS2 for Mac licenses. You know you'll have a piece of software that will run totally shitty on the shiny new Intel Mac you'll buy in three years' time.
"It's a lot of money for something guaranteed to be obsolete within a few years."
The same could be said about any computer. Amiga 2000 / 3000 / 4000 / AmigaONE. PowerMac 603 / G3 / G4 / G5. Windows on 286 / 386 / 486 / Pentium etc. They are/were all guaranteed to be obsolete within about ten minutes. The same is true of cars, mountain bikes, washing machines…
I don't want to start a Mac vs. Windows argument here, but as a Windows user, I find it unbelievable that Apple are yet again, releasing systems and an OS that are natively incompatible with current software.
They already did this when they went from OS 9 to OS X, where if you wanted to run any 9 software in X you had to run it through an emulated version of 9 (classic) which is a pain for anyone, not to mention slower.
At least with Windows, when new versions come out, 90% of your software will still work. I just can't understand why Apple decided to make all old software completely incompatible with OS X, and now their doing it again! It seems like the best way possible to discourage users from upgrading, absolutely ridiculous.
P.S. Please correct me if I'm wrong, I'm no Mac expert.
Once the new inventory of G5 iMac systems are gone, refurbished systems from the Apple Store will still be an easy option for at least a year or so. Its worth it to think about a refurbished especially if you are buying a temporary computer.
That being said, remember that Steve has said that the enter line will be Intel by the end of the year (2006). So we may have the Pro desktop line fairly soon.
Here is the current price breakdown for G5 iMacs (may show older versions):
iMac G5 17-inch 1.9GHz SuperDrive - $1099
iMac G5 1.8GHz/ 256MB/ 160GB/ SuperDrive/ 56K/ 20-inch - $1149
iMac G5 20-inch 2GHz SuperDrive - $1249
iMac G5 20-inch 2.1GHz SuperDrive - $1299
The Apple Store refurbished inventory can be found in most countries by going into the base (web) Apple Store, a looking for a red Special Deals graphical link on the lower right hand corer of the page. (Additionally, I track this inventory at my site.)
"Here's the big dilemma for Mac-based creative professionals looking for new gear at the moment: buy a G5-based system now and get the speed boost for the short term, thus facing obsolesence in a few year's time. Or, buy an Intel-based system now, take a short-term speed hit, and be assured that your system will live on well after the transition is finished."
There is one more choice - for the same price is very limited singlecore G5 you can buy dualcore Intel/AMD PC with Windows XP, and enjoy Adobe CS2 with much better performance than ever before..
Ok, this is a bit late to the thread, but I will pitch in my 2¢.
I picked up a Dual 2Ghz G5 just after the announcement of the Intel switch. Justification: I like how the current apps run on one (I have the same machine at work) and worse case scenario - if the switch does not go smoothly, I have a machine I am happy with, til I find something else to do. (looks like my rational was not too far off.)
I also wanted a laptop really bad for a couple of years. I was one of those holding out for a G5 version. Well, out comes the MacBook Pro and the announcement by Adobe that there would be no apps in the near future. Solution: I bought a Pentium M (1.73Ghz) Acer for $699 after rebate. Justification: CHEAP CHEAP CHEAP - and I only needed it for 2 things. 1) surf the web from different locations in the house - it does that. 2) need to do Actionscript work in the same room as wife - wintels run Flash really well.
I know that is not a popular decision, and I have never owned a Wintel machine before. I have to say, it works good, and it will get me through a year or more till all this ends up figured out.
Hi Dave, this is a bit off-topic, but where are you planning on buying your RAM for your iMac? I too have a 20" G5 and am stuck w/ the 512MB looking to upgrade, but not sure where to go.
Got my G5 a year and half ago and haven't looked back - it's the best computer I have ever owned.
Although very eager to switch from pc to mac for some time now (ever since I got a second hand iMac bondi blue, dating back to '98, for testing purposes) I'm gonna restrain myself some more: I'm relying on Abode/adobe-macromedia products for most of my work, so it's crucial to my switch to mac. If by then we'll have a clearer view on what direction the adobe bundles will be going in the future, it'll be an added bonus.
I've been thinking of buying the new iMac as well - it'll be my first Apple. I'm not too concerned about running Photoshop or Illustrator because I use them primarily for layouts and basic photo editing - and with 2GB or RAM I'm sure that Rosetta will perform ok. My only concern is that I won't be able to test new projects in a standalone version of IE (I'm plannig on ditching the PC completely). Will the Firefox IE tab extension suffice for this? Or can anyone tell me of a fast, free service that'll alow me to look at projects a la Internet Explorer?
Josh, I went to Crucial for my iMac G5 2Gb memory upgrade. 1 bought 2*1Go and found someone interested in the original 512Mo.
Crucial memory all the way. Boosted my G4 (867 bought two weeks before the speedhole upgrade) my iBook G3 (just before G4 iBooks) and my G5 with Crucial memory - flawless, recommended heartily.
As for what mac to get - well get what you can afford and what does what you now want it to - guess what? My week 50 2003 Dual 2ghz G5 is still way fast enough for me. Would I like faster? Sure, do I _need_ faster… well that's open to hand-wringing and navel gazing.
If I needed a new mac I think my use of InDesign and Photoshop would probably say "go PowerPC" but Apple had to get in and force the change and hope software co's felt the heat and got busy. Quark on OS X anyone?
After all maybe the suite will be released prior than expected: http://thinksecret.com/news/0603adobecreativesuite3.html
All this hilights the value of open source software. We can avoid this whole mess if we had a set of platform-independent tools that we didn't have to pay $3,000 per license for. Sure, the GiMP isn't quite photoshop, but it works on every machine out there and you can bet that it will be optimized for both the old Motorola/IBM and the Intel chips.
There are other solid open source apps out there….. but instead of ranting I'll just direct you to http://www.openedpc.com for a short list.
good luck and good night,
I've had the same problem with the Apple/Adobe issue. I am still using a PowerMac G4, and have been looking forward to upgrading to a PowerMac G5, but then htey announced they were switching to Intel, so I held off, and now I'm going to have to wait for Adobe to port all their software, so I'm just going to wait until the next version of Creative Suite and then I'll get the new Mac+Adobe software…
My other concerns (maybe a little off-topic) is whether my upgrade path will still exist to upgrade to CS3 from CS2… especially if they plan on merging CS with some Macromedia products like Dreamweaver/Fireworks.
Anyway, the Mac-mini looks like it may be a good option since it's so cheap and is still a huge performance boost over my 1.2Ghz G4… I've got 2 19" LCDs though so hopefully they will hook up to the mini…
This is all very interesting. I just dealt with this yesterday and happened on this entry today, after the fact but it reinforces my decision to get a non-intel chip mac. I use Adobe software pretty exclusively and seeing the performace losses on Rosetta helped me decide to purchase a PPC instead. The benchmarks on Mac World using photoshop really cemented things for me.
I junked my Mac along time ago and switched to a whole new type of hell called Dell but still use the Penitum chips because they rock! Was so glad to hear Adobe bought Macromedia and can not wait for a new release of software from Abode featuring Macromedia intergrated technology.
I couldn't agree with you more. I just shelled out for a MBP 3 days ago, and read your article (among others) and had to call and cancel the order. I ended up purchasing a PBG4-17" instead. The CSR at Apple seemed to rush the process through without question not to mention a very standard MacBook Pro cancellation reply and I couldn't help but think, "man, they must be getting an awful lot of those." My order was immediately cancelled and I was sent to the product page for a fully loaded PBG4-17".
I didn't want to give up my 17" widescreen anyway. I'll probably have enough to get the MBP-17" when it comes available and by then we'll probably have more Universal apps.
Motorola Mac vs Intel Mac
There is no reason to upgrade to a slower machine. If the Intel machine offers post-emulation better performance than your current system, then I would say go Intel. If not, buy Motorola. A reasonable half-life of any modern computer is approximately 18 months. After that there will be new high-end applications that it will not be able to run. I do not foresee Intel-only must-have applications in the immediate future.
If you absolutely need cutting edge you will be buying a new machine around the same time as the Intel Mac becomes practical. If your system does everything you need it to now, do not upgrade. I have a 3 year old PC and I have yet to find a program that it cannot run efficiently. I use an "old" G4 Mac, and it can also handle any application that I need. As soon as that fact changes I will upgrade, but until then it would be a waste of money. When I do upgrade, the equipment available then will out perform the equipment available today; thus I will get more out of my investment.
As a financially strapped college student I this is my best option; but then my Mac is not my livelihood.
Tim Buchheim is right: Apple is waiting for Intel to release Conroe for use as a G5 replacement. The Core Duo would simply be inadequate in this situation, particularly for using Adobe's apps under Rosetta. (FWIW, Adobe have recently announced their intention to deliver universal binaries, as CS3, before year's end.)
So, Core Solo/Duo as G4/low-end-G5 replacement, Conroe as high-end-G5 replacement.
Test releases of Conroe have recently taken back the PC processor crown from AMD, and the commercial release should happen around August 2006. Hmm, what else is happening around that time … hmmm … ah, that's right, Apple's developer conference, strangely pushed back a month or two from its normal timeslot.
See a pattern forming now?
is that Quad G5 really guaranteed to be obsolete in a few years? Don't forget that most (if not all) software from here on out will be released as a Universal Binary, so it will run on both PowerPC and Intel hardware for many years to come. Don't forget how long it took people to ditch Classic. Mac developers are writing code for a pretty small market as it is, so i'm sure they will not hesitate to go to the extra trouble of making every one of their apps available for the bleeding-edge IntelMac owners and the PowerPC holdouts who will keep their machines for several more years.
With this information in mind, I think buying a Quad G5 is a great idea. If the software won't be native on Intel for a while, why not go for it? Some benchmarks might make the Intel stuff look way faster, but most of the non-Apple benchmarks have been showing gains that are nowhere near what Apple's PR people would have you believe.
The bottom line: if you really needed the power right now, you'd have ordered the Quad G5 last week! The Intel transition is going to take several years to fully play out. If you really need the hardware right now, just get the fastest thing you can buy, which will also run all of your existing software – the Quad G5. If that seems like a bad idea, maybe you don't really need the power that badly anyway.
Remember, to be a Mac fan is to play a waiting game with Apple. Just get what you need right now and don't regret it.
I feel confident that Mac OS 10.5 will be Universal and I wouldn't be surprised if 10.6 still supports PowerMacs that can run 10.4, but certainly within five years we will see software that will be for MacIntel only (I suspect the early abandoners will begin dropping PowerPC support within two years of the transition.) Upgrade form G4 to CoreDuo, no question (that's why the MacBook Pro was so early in the transition). G5 vs CoreDuo = dilemma.
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Well, with the exception of the iBook, there is a trend though ;)
It's all mobile-based. Because of heat/powercomsumtion, ánd because a lot of consumers tend to buy a PowerBook/Mac BookPro anyways, the current line of Intel-based Macs is pretty good I think.
I'm not entirely sure why Apple didn't have an Intel-iBook (Mac Book?) yet, but perhaps that's because of an overall redesign for a 13" version. I can't tell… but eitherway, it's mostly a consumerbased setup instead of a business-based trend. And what better way to test your new product then in real life? If Apple would use the business-section as guinnipigs, they would probably get a lót of complaints.
I've recently gone for the MBP and am still waiting on it arriving. I'm a heavy user of Photoshop and Illustrator so this is a big concern. The benchmarks look awful so the machine might well be going back!
It is a little annoying that Apple didn't explicitly tell users this. I don't think it is fair for Apple to point fingers at Adobe and vice versa. It leaves the consumer stuck in the middle.
Thank god for the return policy though.
just learning macromedia (loving it)… discovered zen and this article.
i have had rare exposure to macs, my boss (rabid mac afficionado) has been very helpful with mac research and am looking to purchase. given the information displayed here, i am sometimes confused, followed by a moment of clarity. i am sensing that an imac g5 would be a good machine for me so that i can get away from the pc based craziness and move over to mac… any other suggestions?
Even if you bought an Intel based Mac right now, by the time all the software gets ported there will be much more powerful Intel processors available. So either way you are looking at a new purchase in a few years.
Maybe buy a PC and use that for a few years before going back to Mac? I KID! I KID!
Hi, I dont know if you guys know this. But as far as the rumours go, apple is helping adobe with porting their apps to intel. So the rumours says we can expect to have a new adobe release in 2006. :)
Source: http://www.thinksecret.com/news/0603adobecreativesuite3.html
Here's a solution - buy a PC, but… wait until later this year when they release Vista which will look as pretty as a Mac, along with all the more functional improvements.
Last year I bought a Mac mini, which was pretty cheap and allows me to test pages on Safari and Camino, I don't use it for anything else though, even though my background is in Art and Graphic design I've never liked Mac's because compared to PC's they're much less for your money, also, I find the Macintosh brand irritatingly pretentious.
I mean if you can get more power, storage, speed, flexibility, compatibility and maintainability for much less money, it's a no-brainer. I find this situation with the Intel chips just further signs of Macintosh arrogance.
Recently I resigned from a job that provided me with PB 1.5Ghz PPC and I had this very debate of MBP vs PPC when I went to purchase my replacement laptop. I went back and forth… reading lots of comments here (thanks everybody) as well as consulting friends and my wife.
In the end, I decided on a PB 1.67Ghz PPC because my main priority was to get a laptop that will allow me to keep working with my other clients. The deciding factors: (1) Software (Adobe mainly) for MBP is not there yet; and (2) "If it ain't broke don't fix it".
So that's what I did. But I am sure I will get MBP once the software comes around…
I'm looking at moving from a couple year old Powerbook to the new MacBook. Even though the Intel processors running Photoshop are a bit slow, from my playing with a friend's new iMac, I won't be going backwards in speed. Photoshop in Rosetta on an iMac is a bit faster than is Photoshop on a 1.2GHZ G4 Powerbook. Same with Dreamweaver.
I had the same reservations about switching from OS 9 to OS X. It took the better part of a year before all the programs I had were X native. I lived through running Classic and I expect that I'll live through Rosetta.
If I were looking at Video or Audio I would probably go with a G5 but for my web work, that's overkill.
Hmmm, well this has me kinda worried now. You see I just got my self a new G5 and upgraded all my Adobe software. I really had no choice though because my last computer fried. I guess Ill just have to take the hit, though I'm not really looking forward to having to buy a new apple in a year or two when I thought this would last me at least three to five. Are we certain that Adobe won't be putting out some sort of transitional faze of their software to be a little easier on their customers?
I got a MBP for myself, while keeping the G5 dual to use my RIP and drive my printer until the RIP is available in UB this summer (it doesn't work at all on the MBP). It is blazing fast both with Mac OS X and UB apps (BBEdit, Transmit, GraphicConverter, Omnigraffle etc.) but chokes on Photoshop and Indesign. I find it really slow with both apps (it is way better with AI, Golive and Acrobat) that sport some bugs also (ie numbers are stranglely rounded up, ending with huge decimals written in the transformation panel boxes).
And Rosetta is very very RAM hungry.
But I think Rosetta will be far more useable on a Desktop than on an iMac/MBP for this reason. I am pretty sure that Intel Mac desktops should alleviate Rosetta limitations in a big way (more and faster memory available, more Intel cores to manage translation on the fly, faster disks… and graphics on par with PCs should do wonder when CS3 will leverage CoreImage). Also, it is pretty sure that with 1 to 3 OS X updates to come, Rosetta will then have matured enough to suppress the bugs affecting Adobe apps. I really think that when next Apple pro desktop is available (this summer ?) you will be able to better judge of Rosetta impact and have a better idea of Adobe roadmap so as to choose more easily.
For nomads, that is another story : for me, it is too early to go both mobile AND Intel…exclusively.
RE Jack's comment:
"At least with Windows, when new versions come out, 90% of your software will still work. I just can't understand why Apple decided to make all old software completely incompatible with OS X, and now their doing it again!"
I'm no expert but it seems to me that Apple's drive to move forward whilst providing ability to run older software in emulation is the smart way to go. It could be said that Microsoft's insistence on backwards compatibility is precisely what's holding them back and delaying the release of Vista.
I have been buying mac products scince 2000 when I switch for FCP and a 400MHz G4 and it still works today. I decided then, I would never go back to PC.
I am now curious as to why apple would put a processor that is so easily hacked. Now the internet is full of stories of how XP runs naitively on macintel. And also the stories of OSX being hacked to run on generic PC's with intel chips. So I am left to wonder why not buy a well put together PC and put OSX on it. The PC market is larger and it is cheaper to replace hardware. You'd get the best of both worlds. Now this is not a hostile comment, I love my macs but I feel like if I buy a new one I'd just be buying an overpriced PC.
Anyone that can set me straight I'd love to hear from you
I have been a PC user for years doing a bit of Photoshop and Dreamweaver in my spare time. It was time to upgrade and I thought it was time for a change so bought a Mac Mini Dual Core and upgraded the memory to 2GB. I realised that there would most likely be a performance hit when using the current versions of both Photoshop and Dreamweaver though thought 2GB should do the trick. Unfortunately not when using both applications there is a noticable lack of responsiveness - just enough to be annoying. It is as if the program is half a step behind you.
It's too late to take it back to the Apple Store and to try and source a Power PC version. :( I really hope Adobe release a new versions later this year as rumoured.
In the meantime I'm going back to my trusty old PC as these apps run without the noticable response delay that occurs on my new Mac Mini.
Apple today released Boot Camp Public Beta
I just installed this on a Intel iMac. It was incredibly easy and fast. You tell it how much hard drive space to give to Windows, install Windows off of an WinXP SP2 disk and just go. It's great. I am going to try to load it up with all of our Windows software and start testing for bugs.
Available as a download beginning today, Boot Camp allows users with a Microsoft Windows XP installation disc to install Windows XP on an Intel-based Mac, and once installation is complete, users can restart their computer to run either Mac OS X or Windows XP. Boot Camp will be a feature in "Leopard," Apple's next major release of Mac OS X, that will be previewed at Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference in August.
"Apple has no desire or plan to sell or support Windows, but many customers have expressed their interest to run Windows on Apple's superior hardware now that we use Intel processors," said Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. "We think Boot Camp makes the Mac even more appealing to Windows users considering making the switch."
Boot Camp simplifies Windows installation on an Intel-based Mac by providing a simple graphical step-by-step assistant application to dynamically create a second partition on the hard drive for Windows, to burn a CD with all the necessary Windows drivers, and to install Windows from a Windows XP installation CD. After installation is complete, users can choose to run either Mac OS X or Windows when they restart their computer.
The public beta of Boot Camp is available immediately as a download at www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp, and is preview software licensed for use on a trial basis for a limited time. The final version of Boot Camp will be available as a feature in the upcoming Mac OS X version 10.5 "Leopard." Apple does not provide support for installing or running Boot Camp and does not sell or support Microsoft Windows software. Apple welcomes user feedback on Boot Camp at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Bootcamp requires a firmware update for the Intel Mac running Windows:
iMac (Intel) Firmware Update 1.0
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Simon - looks like you got lucky! Bootcamp will allow you to install winXP and you can call Adobe to get your license switched to the PC version. Away you go.


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Listening to Huey Lewis Outside the Fence at the Sonoma County Fair Isn't All That Bad
Did you know that if you have no ticket to see Huey Lewis & the News when they play at the Sonoma County Fair, there are perfectly dependable other options for enjoying yourself? For example: Standing outside the Chris Beck Arena with all the other ticketless Huey Lewis fans! And let me tell you, readers, it's just as good as watching the show from inside. I mean, Huey Lewis isn't exactly the hunk he used to be, and there's only a few other guys in the band still around from the classic Sports era—you wouldn't recognize anyone else anyway! (And don't even think about getting the Tower of Power horn section or the guys from the 49ers, either!)
What you will get is near-perfect sound, depending on the wind. Every word of "The Heart of Rock 'n' Roll" will be audible! You'll also totally be able to see the stage anyway, because the front doors to the arena will be wide open. Best of all, you'll get the fun-loving company of the average Huey Lewis fan in the year 2011. (They wear "vintage" repro shirts that say "I Heard the News"; they fist-pump while mouthing the words to "Jacob's Ladder"; they dance poorly, and smoke!)
But you will also recall the glory days of the band, and lament that those days are over. Forty-five painful minutes will go by while Huey Lewis & the News play mostly cover material from their new 'soul' record. You will start counting the times a John Deere tractor drives by outside the gates to amuse yourself, or wander down near the livestock pavilion. "Why in the world," you will think, "don't they scatter a hit in here? Why is he 'getting back to his roots' when the cool thing about Huey Lewis & the News was that they implemented elements of their roots—soul and new wave and doo-wop and Thin Lizzy—and created something greater than the sum of its parts?"
All this will go through your head while Huey tries to pull off a Joe Tex song, and you'll be glad you didn't buy a $40 ticket from the bored-looking teenager sitting inside the fairgrounds ticket booth… but then… what's this? The opening strains of "Heart and Soul"?! Yes! Finally! Who cares that Huey can't really hit the high notes anymore—it's friggin' "Heart and Soul!"
You will hope at this point that it's gonna be hit after hit, and even though the flow is interrupted by more new songs and a guest singer from Vallejo, they'll start rolling in: "I Want a New Drug," "Do You Believe in Love?" Huey's patter will be uninspired—he'll make comments like "Have I plugged our new album yet?" when he's already plugged it five times—but it'll really get miserable when he starts with the older hits. "We wrote this song 25 years ago in Marin County," he'll say at one point, sounding weary, "and we never would have guessed that we'd have to play it every… single… night." (Cue intro to "The Power of Love," cue Huey mentally committing hari-kari.)
You will then realize that all Huey Lewis wants in life is to be in a bar band again, and then you'll feel bad for Huey Lewis because he can never, ever go back to that. This sympathy will conflict with your resentment over his refusal to perform hit songs, and you'll start counting the ones up he hasn't played yet: "If This is It," "Hope You Love Me Like You Say You Do," "Doin' It All for My Baby," "Hip to be Square," although maybe they stopped playing that last one since that horrible scene in American Psycho. You'll sort of feel bad if that was the case. But you'll also want "Walking on a Thin Line."
Then you'll remember that if someone searches your own name on YouTube, what pops up is "Walking on a Thin Line," which leads down the inevitable path of nostalgia and how much Huey once meant to you. How seeing him in Petaluma in 1985 was your first concert ever. How your family listened to him constantly in the car. How you once entered a talent show lip-syncing "Bad is Bad." How you once wrote that column summing up all your thoughts on Huey Lewis, and how it could have gone on five times longer. How the baby boomers like your parents needed Huey Lewis in the '80s—he made them feel awesome for growing up and being 35 and getting married and having kids and buying houses and being domesticated. Where is the goddamned Huey Lewis for your generation, now that you're in your 30s? Where, you'll wonder?
But then! You'll be snapped back into reality by the encore. "We're going to bring out a very special guest," Huey will declare from the distant stage, as the roller coaster rattles in the background. "Ladies and gentlemen, the bad boy is back! Mr. Mario Cippolina!"
You will then flip out, because Mario Cippolina was always your favorite, and you'd felt so bad when he ran into some trouble with drugs, and stealing remote-control cars, and you will run up to the fence that separates yourself from Mario Cippolina and you'll jump up and down a little. They'll play "I Know What I Like," but then that'll turn into the song you most wanted to hear, the song that makes the whole cold, silly, stupid evening spent outside the fence at the Sonoma County Fair completely worth it. "Workin' for a Livin'" will sound awesome, and the smoking 52-year-olds in their "I Heard the News" T-shirts will pump their fists and sing along, and you will sing along too.
And that'll be your night.
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I've bought 10 new North kites over the years. 4 have been wonky at purchase (pull quite a lot one way).
North replaced 3 of them (2 Rhinos (2005) and 1 vegas (2008)) but the last one a vegas 2011 they didn't as I'd used it a fair bit before taking it back to them (should have tested it before I took it away for a season so had to use it nearly everyday including ripping it
Good that they replaced them (except the last one but I can understand why not but they still sold it me so still miffed).
Just wondered how common this is? 4 out of 10 seems bad odds maybe I'm pretty unlucky.
And yes I've fiddled the sht out of all the line lengths and inner tubes, and others have flown and agreed the kites are wonky, and north did too as they replaced 3 of them.
Maybe many kites are like this but people don't really notice as they don't kite much and just plain up and down with 2 hands on the bar all the time. Maybe I'm overly fussy about it, but unhooking and doing a trick and having the kite climb up to 12 or dive into the water is a btch.
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New England Law OUTLaws promotes spirit and unity among law students who are members and allies of the LGBTQ community. We provide opportunities for LGBTQ law students and LGBTQ allied law students to meet in an academic setting and explore opportunities in the Boston professional legal setting. We discuss and TAKE ACTION on questions of law that impact the LGBTQ community and we demonstrate the presence of the community in our law school. OUTLaws also promotes reforms for the purpose of eliminating discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity and expression, and we aim to assure fair and just treatment of members of the LGBTQ community under the law.
Each academic year, OUTLaws sponsors many events that support causes and raise awareness of issues directly related to the LGBTQ community and its allies. Additionally, the student association works directly with the Massachusetts LGBTQ Bar Association in promoting educational, networking, and volunteering opportunities to law students throughout the Boston metropolitan area. The following list includes just a sample of the events that we offer to the law school community and beyond:
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Apple: Right now you can save up to $200 on a new Mac computer (Macbook Pro, Macbook Air, or iMac); with your purchase you'll net a $100 app store gift card. You won't get any discounts on an iPad or iPhone but buy one and you'll receive a $50 app store gift card. Apple's education pricing is available to college students, students just accepted into college, parents buying for a college student, and faculty members from any grade level. Just go to the Apple for Education online store and enter the name of the school. Be prepared to fax proof of enrollment before your product ships. If you choose to shop in-store, bring along a college student ID, proof of enrollment, or a faculty ID.
HP: Once students set up an HP Academy account, they're entitled to discounts of up to 20% on HP products. . Benefits are extended to K-12 students, college students, parents of students, education faculty, and college alumni. HP maintains the right to request proof of eligibility.
Dell: High school and college students (and parents shopping for them) can get up to 30% off on Dell computers. Along with select models over $699, you'll receive a $200 e-gift card for use towards a new Xbox. You'll be prompted to enter the name of your school before shopping.
Sony: If you're a college student or faculty member, you're eligible to shop Sony's education online store and save up to 10%. You enter in the name and type of your school to create an account in order to qualify.
Microsoft: Students can get a 10% off promo code by entering their .edu email address in Microsoft's online student store. The discount is eligible on Surface products, software, and accessories as well as on PCs, Microsoft Office, and Windows 8 Pro.
Adobe: At the Adobe education store, students and faculty can save up to a whopping 80% on Adobe products including the Adobe Creative Suite. Just be prepared to email a valid academic identification in order to qualify.
Norton: These days antivirus protection for computers is as critical as tissues and rain boots. Students can save 50% on Norton's suite of antivirus products for PC, Mac, and mobile by providing a valid .edu email.
Best Buy: Savings here include $100 on a Macbook or iMac at Best Buy as well as on other electronics like headphones, TVs, printers, and more. Purchase select Windows 8 touch-screen computers and you'll be offered a free, 4-year subscription to Office 365 University and a 16 GB flash drive. In order to receive the discounts, students enter their .edu email address and Best Buy emails them coupons.
Amazon: Amazon is offering a free 6-month subscription to Amazon Prime for students. With Prime, they'll get free 2-day shipping and exclusive student discounts. If after 6 months they become a paying Amazon Prime member (at 50% off the full price) they'll receive unlimited instant video streaming. Sign up using a valid .edu email.
These offerings will take some of the sting out of the hefty cost of back-to-school tech. If you're looking for other tools to help you shop smart, try some of our favorite free shopping and deal apps and other tech tools for shopping. And remember, your student won't be in school forever, so enjoy the savings while you can!


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|Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
|Publication information
Hogwarts Textbook
- "Newt's masterpiece has been an approved textbook at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry ever since its publication and must take a substantial amount of credit for our students' consistently high results in Care of Magical Creatures examinations – yet it is not a book to be confined to the classroom. No wizarding household is complete without a copy of Fantastic Beasts, well thumbed by the generations who have riffled its pages in search of the best way to rid the lawn of Horklumps, interpret the mournful cries of the Augurey, or cure their pet Puffskein of drinking out of the toilet."
- —Albus Dumbledore, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them foreword.[src]
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is a book written by Newt Scamander detailing magizoology and describing magical creatures. It was a standard textbook at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry since it was written in 1927.[1]
A copy of this book cost two Galleons at Flourish and Blotts.[2]
- Introduction
- An A-Z of Fantastic Beasts
Beasts included in the bookEdit
- Acromantula
- Ashwinder
- Augurey
- Basilisk
- Billywig
- Bowtruckle
- Bundimun
- Centaur
- Chimaera
- Chizpurfle
- Clabbert
- Crup
- Demiguise
- Diricawl
- Doxy
- Dragon
- Dugbog
- Erkling
- Erumpent
- Fairy
- Fire crab
- Flobberworm
- Fwooper
- Ghoul
- Glumbumble
- Gnome
- Graphorn
- Griffin
- Grindylow
- Hippocampus
- Hippogriff
- Horklump
- Imp
- Jarvey
- Jobberknoll
- Kappa
- Kelpie
- Knarl
- Kneazle
- Leprechaun
- Lethifold
- Lobalug
- Mackled Malaclaw
- Manticore
- Merpeople
- Moke
- Mooncalf
- Murtlap
- Niffler
- Nogtail
- Nundu
- Occamy
- Phoenix
- Pixie
- Plimpy
- Pogrebin
- Porlock
- Puffskein
- Quintaped
- Ramora
- Red Cap
- Re'em
- Runespoor
- Salamander
- Sea Serpent
- Shrake
- Snidget
- Sphinx
- Streeler
- Tebo
- Troll
- Unicorn
- Werewolf
- Winged horse
- Yeti
Behind the scenesEdit
- A real version of the book was written by J. K. Rowling to raise money for the Comic Relief charity in 2001.
- It is unknown why this book was required for Harry Potter to get this book in the 1991–1992 school year when he did not start Care of Magical Creatures until the 1993–1994 school year. As in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (real), Dumbledore states it is required for Care of Magical Creatures. Though, it is possible it was required for Defense Against the Dark Arts. Harry's copy is protected by the Thief's Curse.
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (First mentioned)
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (video game) (Mentioned only on a Famous Wizard Card)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game) (Mentioned only on a Famous Wizard Card)
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film)
- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
- Pottermore
References and NotesEdit
|Professors: Silvanus Kettleburn · Rubeus Hagrid · Wilhelmina Grubbly-Plank (substitute teacher)
|Textbooks: The Monster Book of Monsters · Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
|Care of Magical Creatures at Hogwarts: Hagrid's Hut · Forbidden Forest · Care of Magical Creatures classroom
|Creatures studied: Hippogriffs · Flobberworms · Salamanders · Blast-Ended Skrewts · Nifflers · Unicorns · Thestrals · Bowtruckles · Crups · Fire crabs · Knarls · Kneazles · Porlocks
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Tasmanian Institute of Sport
The Tasmanian Institute of Sport (TIS) was established in 1985 by the Tasmanian Government to assist home-grown athletes achieve excellence in sport.
The TIS provides leadership and quality athlete and coaching services to Tasmania's talented athletes to assist them to compete successfully on the international stage.
TIS had 14 athletes represent Australia at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. Olympians continuing to receive TIS support include Eddie Ockenden (hockey), Scott Brennan, Sam Beltz, Anthony Edwards, Tom Gibson, Kerry Hore and Brendan Long (rowing) and Stephanie Grant (judo).
TIS currently provides scholarships to young talented Tasmanian athletes in a range of Olympic and non- Olympic sport programs.
The main programs offered are National Training Centre (NTC) programs in the sports of athletics, basketball, cycling, football (soccer), hockey and rowing. A full-time coach is employed for each sport. Elite Development Programs (EDP) operate in a similar way to NTC programs.
TIS staff include administrative and athlete welfare personnel, sports performance staff and full-time accredited coaches. In addition consultants in the areas of nutrition, sports psychology and sports medicine are affiliated with the TIS and are employed on a fee for service basis.
The TIS is primarily funded by the Tasmanian Government and provides scholarships to approximately 130 athletes each year.
TIS is an Olympic Training Centre recognised by the Australian Olympic Committee.
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- Invest in promising young people as much as productive projects, says Roberta Ness
- Ness urges more risk taking and long-term investments which will generate technical and scientific revolutions
- Number of scientists aged 36 and under receiving U.S. federal grants in 1980 was 18%; today the figure is 3%
- Many OECD countries turn down majority of applications requesting financial support for new ideas
The world has an insatiable appetite for innovation. To feed this desire for technologic and scientific breakthroughs, nations invest in our celebrated universities. Tax and tuition dollars go to educate students -- the next generation of open-minded thinkers -- but also toward fostering research. After all, academia is the quintessential innovation incubator. Isn't it?
Early in 2012, the eminent magazine "Science" invited young scientists worldwide to answer the question: "How will the practice of science change in your lifetime?" One particularly pained (and not unrepresentative) reply was:
"The biggest challenge facing a generation of young scientists is breaking free of the shackles placed on them by their predecessors ... We are expected to fix broken peer-review systems riddled with small insular cliques ... We are expected not only to flourish but to be thankful for a funding structure equipped with scarce resources that are primarily used on contract science for the blessed few rather than discovery based on the merits of ideas ... We are expected to rise to this challenge and we're sure as hell going to give it our all," said Jeremy Block from Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina.
Consider the following statistics from the U.S., still representing over 40% of OECD (the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, which represents many of the world's developed countries) R&D. Today, only 3% of principal investigators on federal grants are aged less than 36; in 1980 that was 18%. Only 14% of U.S. PhD graduates in biology land an academic position within five years of graduation. Although we know that some of the most novel ideas come from young people, we are not giving our best and brightest their intellectual independence until they are middle aged.
The problem, I believe, is that science has become unbalanced. What should be the ascendant end of the scale, the joy of producing surprising improvements in health and prosperity, has become outweighed by societal caution. That caution embodies the fear that science might not produce the immediate pay-offs that we expect from our investments.
Ironically, our desire for instant success is at odds with the reality of achieving transformational breakthroughs. Short-term expenditures that produce creative evolution are a far cry from the long-term investments that generate technical and scientific revolution. As John Gertner noted in his recent book about the innovation powerhouse Bell Laboratories, "One type of innovation (e.g. smartphone apps) creates a handful of jobs and modest revenues; the other (e.g. the transistor) ...creates millions of jobs and a long-lasting platform for societal wealth and well-being."
Caution has led governmental funding to become risk-averse. OECD countries have seen substantial declines in government sponsorship of R&D in the past generation -- down from 44% in 1981 to 30% in 2000. Long shots such as the NASA manned space flight program have been canceled and agencies have limited backing for anything that may slow economic growth, such as environmental and climate research.
At a time when governmental support for science in many OECD countries has not kept up with inflation, caution overrides our craving for originality. In today's funding climate, when 90% of applications requesting financial support for new ideas from most OECD governmental sources are turned down, peer review committees shift their support to work that is safe and incremental. Caution in the garb of regulation and litigiousness has driven almost all of the recent growth in industry R&D to Southeast Asia.
There are many approaches to re-tipping the balance toward creation and away from caution. First and foremost, we must be more willing to take risks. Originality must become as highly valued as linear progression. Our scientific portfolio must contain a higher proportion of reasonable long-shots, even while we acknowledge that these may never pay off.
Second, we must invest in promising young people as much or more than we invest in productive projects.
Third, funding should be directed to prototyping, meaning high-risk projects that when they fail, fail fast and fail smart (we learn from their failure).
Finally, we must teach young people to be innovative. Most scientists believe that creativity is innate, yet 30 years of research has demonstrated that novel thinking can be taught. In my recent book, "Innovation Generation," I describe a systematic approach to learning to think "outside the box." A central feature is discovering how to frame shift.
Normal thinking is constrained by habitual patterns which linguists call "frames." Frames are a structure of expectations that we use to interpret new information. For instance, if while sitting in a lecture hall, the person next to you sneezes then grabs your sleeve and wipes their nose on it, would you be shocked? Of course you would. The sneezer just disrupted agreed-upon social assumptions -- they broke your frame.
Frame shifting, what Albert Einstein referred to when he said, "No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it," allows for not just steps but leaps in thinking. Shifts in frames or paradigms led scientists in the 1860s to realize that the bacteria that they had been seeing through microscopes for almost 200 years were pathogens that caused specific diseases. Today, another paradigm shift has led us to realize that the millions of bacteria that inhabit our body cavities are not enemies but allies.
A shift in our frame about death from "terrifying and unspeakable" to "nothing is sure but death and taxes" (Benjamin Franklin), for example, might lead us to create bureaucratic systems for ensuring that every American has a living will, an act that would likely reduce the quarter of all Medicare expenditures spent in the last year of life.
Academic science remains a driver of societal transformation; with some frame shifting we could unleash even more global innovation.


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David Thorne doesn't believe in sacred cows. But as a marketing designer, there are lines to be toed and defined boundaries of creativity. So he created the virtual playground 27b/6, where nothing and nobody is safe; co-workers, landlords, police officers and his son and his school's "fat-headed" chancellor are sufficient comedic fodder. He blends merciless wit with shock humour and has won a bet that he can make a viral blog at a drop of a hat. He also has the word 'SHEEP' tattooed on his bicep.
Darren Pauli: I am currently in a state of sleep deprivation that cannot be broken by caffeine. This has been caused by my insomniac wife who laughs at your book at 3am. Will you release a lengthy non-fiction novel to remedy her condition, which surely is suffered by others?
David Thorne: I have been working on a novel for the last six months. I have kept it pretty hush hush but as the novel is nearing completion now, it can't hurt to announce its imminent release. It is about a black car that fights crime and can talk. I am very excited about the possible television and movie offers that will no doubt be pouring in. In fact, I have been working on a non-fiction novel for the last six months which does not contain any crime-fighting-talking-cars but due to interruptions including beer, the internet (it has a lot of stuff I like on there) and things I have to do to pay the rent, it should be available in stores early 2026. Look for the book with a robot cat entering a time machine on the cover.
Last year you created a fake McDonald's letter signed by so-called managing director 'Robert Trugabe'. It was widely reported. Are journalists stupid?
In defence of journalists, that particular article was first distributed by social networking sites and reported on by blog writers before the media picked it up and questioned its validity fairly quickly. Subjects that most people can relate to — in this case, finding items missing from your takeaway drive-thru order — will generally result in the article being picked up quickly. Unfortunately, a few days after admitting to the fabricated memo, I was arrested, questioned and had my laptop taken for evidence under e-crime legislation. Luckily, when they asked for my laptop, I pointed to an old one that hadn't been used in 10 years and they took that. When they search through it, they will find only photos of me at the beach, bad 90s mp3s and fan emails to Winona Ryder.
Who are you going to impersonate next? (Or just tell us so we don't cover it)
I never know what I am going to write prior to the time I sit down at the keyboard. The premise will usually be based on a situation that has happened recently and the content from previous related situations. The emails I post are not impersonations and apart from spelling corrections, which is my prerogative, name changes if I feel it is appropriate and the occasional grammar fix, the correspondences are verbatim. After posting a recent article regarding a camping trip with a friend named Simon, not to be mistaken with cheaparse clients of the same name, I have been threatened with "a serious bashing, possibly broken bones" so the next 10 will probably feature him.
Did Roz Knorr ever fly her hit men in her "private plain" to Adelaide to whack you?
No, but I have not slept well since her threatening emails and often when I can sleep, I awake drenched in sweat from horrific nightmares where Roz is standing over me. Usually wearing a see-through nightie with Barry White playing in the background. It has gotten to the point where I fear leaving the house at all and people have started asking if I suffer from agoraphobia, an illness generally self-diagnosed by the unemployed as an excuse to stay at home and play Modern Warfare 2. I did receive an email from a lawyer representing Roz after I had posted our correspondence, demanding its removal, but as it came from a hotmail address and contained several of the same spelling mistakes that Roz herself made, I sent back an autographed photo of myself riding a bicycle and this seems to have been an acceptable compromise.
I think the funniest parts of your books are the emails. How do you find these people?
As a general rule I never initiate correspondence, just respond stupidly. It would be easy to simply send out hundreds of emails with the hope of initiating a humorous chain but this would hardly be unique and there are many who do this and do it far better than I could. Emails or letters from individuals or businesses that are obliged to respond, up to a point, in a respectable manner are usually the most entertaining. Most importantly, there is no way to know if the correspondence will continue, and even if it does that it will be well-received by later readers, so you have to enjoy writing and do so to entertain yourself foremost, if others enjoy the result afterwards, it is a bonus.
The 'Open Book' store scam showed you have an aptitude for this sort of thing. What are some others?
While it would be nice to liken my 'young criminal mastermind' activities to that of Harry Harrison's Stainless Steel Rat, I actually cried the first time I was caught and never stole again. When I was at school, the obligatory item of clothing for every child wanting to be part of a group was either a Holden or Ford jacket. I would wag school during morning classes to catch the bus into the city, shoplift several of each, then catch the bus to school in time to sell them for ten dollars each (RRP $19.99) during lunch time. This business operation lasted only until winter though, as the fashion requirement changed to black Duffle-Coats which were simply too bulky to hide under your Duffle-Coat and walk out of shops with.
My friend recently bought a Macbook Pro. Is there a cure?
Unfortunately not. Having a MacBook Pro is not curable. The best thing that you can do is be a good friend by nodding understandably and agreeing with every loving statement he makes regarding his MacBook Pro. These statements will include, but not be limited to, the sophistication of the operation system, the contemporary design and how "it just works". In the words of the legendary Maddox, there is only one thing that Mac users can't do that Windows users can, and that is "shut the **** up".
I love a cheap headline. What do you think of the Internet content filter?
Without an enforced system of guidance, people would have to exercise their own discretion. Not being a responsible adult, I desperately require others to make responsible choices for me and applaud the introduction of the Internet Content Filter. I am hoping that this is just the start of a dedicated governmental agency that will have the power to enter our homes to burn books that they do not approve of and, eventually, be able to monitor our thoughts. Possibly with some kind of ray. I actually constructed my own thought-ray when I was 12 by connecting the innards of a dismantled microwave oven to a tape recorder — which repeated the words "Let David paint his bedroom walls black" — and plugging it into the mains. Unfortunately, the only results were being thrown across the room, receiving third degree burns to my hands and arms and forgetting how to do long division.
I'm a journalist and you're in marketing. Are we enemies?
In many respects, marketing gives you something to bitch about and it is therefore a symbiotic relationship. Like those little fish that swim around with sharks or the birds that clean crocodile's teeth. As my day job entails making poor products look appealing so that people will be tricked into buying them and yours often consists of taking a story nobody cares about and tricking people into reading it, we are more like prostitutes working different corners than enemies.
The IT industry isn't known for its humour. How can IT people be funnier?
A good start would be to stop writing dreadful lists of alternative computer acronym explanations. The only people who find these even remotely clever or funny are other programmers and they don't count. Programmers should stick to sitting in basements, surrounded by pizza boxes, empty Red Bull cans and overflowing ashtrays, tapping away at their Fortran while downloading Photoshopped pictures of Gillian Anderson.


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Flashback is a variant of the Tsunami Trojan for Mac OS X, and has so far infected over 600, 000 of them. Now you can check whether your Mac is infected with the Flashback-Trojan without resorting to manual removal in Terminal. For more information what Flashback does, including manual removal instructions, see the F-Secure website.
Incidentally, all my apps are free, so any donation would be very much appreciated.
What's New in Anti Flashback Trojan
- Adds a google chrome scan (improved virus search)
- Adds a download link to the apple flashback remove tool
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Some inventions just can't be duplicated.
The "Magic Fingers Vibrating Bed," a coin-operated fixture in American motel rooms in the 1960s and 70s, is one of them, if not for the name alone. Its inventor, John Joseph Houghtaling, died Wednesday in his Fort pierce home at the age of 92.
Tinkering in the basement of his New Jersey home, Houghtaling invented the "Magic Fingers" machine in 1958. It caused beds to vibrate when a quarter was dropped in the device. He moved the company to Miami in 1968 and remained its president until he retired in the 1980s.
The kitschy devices made their way into pop culture - celebrated in song by Jimmy Buffett and Frank Zappa and the cause of a beer explosion in the movie "Planes, Trains and Automobiles."
The device was mounted onto beds, and a quarter bought 15 minutes of "tingling relaxation and ease," according to its label. Other vibrators have since jumped on the idea, making the same claim. But there can be only one Magic Fingers.
"Put in a quarter, turn out the light, Magic Fingers makes ya feel all right," Buffett sang in "This Hotel Room."


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4. There is enough of a sample size to say that the Ravens' struggles to move the sticks on third down are officially a troubling trend, but they converted when it mattered Sunday.
When the Ravens got the ball back with 4:31 left in the game, it seemed unlikely they would be able to grind out two first downs, wind down the clock and escape Arrowhead Stadium without having to make a final stand on defense. At that point, the Ravens had moved the chains just once on their nine plays on third down -- and that came on a five-yard defensive holding penalty on Chiefs cornerback Stanford Routt -- a troubling trend that has plagued them throughout this young season. But when they most needed to deliver on third down, the Ravens got it done and got out of there with a 9-6 victory. The first conversion came with a higher degree of difficulty, but the second was also an encouraging sign that they may be straightening out their short-yardage issues. On the first series of downs, the Ravens faced a 3rd and 15 after quarterback Joe Flacco was sacked by Tamba Hali. Flacco lined up in the shotgun, but when his receivers were unable to shake man coverage, Flacco cued up the music from "Chariots of Fire" and started to scramble toward the sticks. He slid down 16 yards later after making his most important play of the game with his legs instead of his rocket right arm. After running back Ray Rice ran for nine yards on two carries, the Ravens needed to pick up just 1 yard on third down to secure the win, but that final yard has been tough to grind out this season. The Ravens kept the ball in the hands of their best player, and Rice ran off right tackle through a small crease between fullback Vonta Leach and tight end Ed Dickson. He dove horizontally toward the marker through a crowd of meaty legs, hovering above the turf like a high-priced sports car hydroplaning through a busy intersection. It was a first down and the first time in 2012 that the Ravens ended the game with a successful four-minute drill. Still, despite those two huge conversions down the stretch, the Ravens have converted on just 19 of 57 third-down plays, and their 33.3 conversion percentage puts them in the bottom third of the league. In four of their five games, they have converted a third of their third-down attempts or less. They have failed both running the ball and throwing it, and they have failed in short-yardage situations and from way downtown. The point is that each drive stalled for a different reason, and there is no one thing that they can do to correct this problem besides calling the right plays and executing them, which is easier said than done. Credit the Ravens for executing when it mattered most, but if they had moved the chains more often earlier in the game, they never would have been in that situation in the first place.
Christopher T. Assaf, Baltimore Sun
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International Studies Education
Study Abroad
Intensive Spanish Summer Program - Toledo, Spain
Neumann University has partnered with Aula Toledo to offer students intensive Spanish language courses and an enriching cultural immersion experience, at a reasonable cost to students.
The Program
This intensive Spanish language program is located in the heart of Toledo's old city at a private language school named Aula Toledo. Class sizes remain small, usually consisting of no more than eight students, and offer students the quality and personalized attention needed to encourage rapid and intensive Spanish language acquisition. In addition to the normal course time, students may also choose to receive individual tutoring. Aula Toledo also provides a variety of cultural activities throughout the program that are designed to provide each student with a deeper appreciation of Spanish language, life and culture. More information on Aula Toledo.
Courses Offered
Week three of the program consists mainly of conversation workshops, designed to reinforce the material learned during the first two weeks. Students who successfully complete this three week Spanish course will earn 3 semester credit hours from Neumann University.
Meals and Personal Expenses
Air Travel
Terms available: Summer. (Aula Toledo offers short-term courses throughout the year, but no semester-long study abroad program is offered here)
Program Fees for Summer 2018
For more information contact:
Jen Mintzer