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Chrome eyes. Computers called "decks." Big hair, big cyberlimbs and bigger guns. It's Shadowrun in the year it all started. Take a step back to Shadowrun's roots with Shadowrun 2050, a book that combines Fourth Edition rules — the smoothest, most accessible rule set Shadowrun has ever had - with the setting that first ... [click here for more]
BLOOD IN THE BOARDROOMSourcebook[FAS7327]
Print Price (1998): $12File Size: 39 MB
Killing the competition is no longer a figure of speech…
The boardrooms become war rooms as the movers and shakers shift their fights from the stock exchange to the streets. Using everything from military-scale assaults on ultra-secure company compounds to stealth missions and... [click here for more]
Bottle, Bottle, who's got the Bottle?
The shadowrunners meet a very disturbed man who hires them as bodyguards on a business deal.
Bottle, Bottle, who wants the Bottle?
Now the man is dead, and they don't know why.
Bottle, Bottle — what's in the Bottle?
The bottle is a mysterious artifact covered with ancient cryptic runes. Why ... [click here for more]
CORPORATE SECURITYSourcebook[FAS7118]
Print Price (1995): $18File Size: 38 MB
Think corps security means a donut-snarfing security guard and a high fence? Think again, chummer! You want inside the corp enclaves, first get past the security wage mages, drek-hot deckers, and really big guys with really big guns ... plus a few hellhounds and watcher spirits just to keep you on your... [click here for more]
Digging in the Dirt
Politics is only a dirty word when it's not working for you. For shadowrunners, politics aren't about debates and position papers—they're about taking some of the money people are throwing around.
During election season, when power is up for grabs, people are willing to do just about anything to get a piece of the pie. If you can help... [click here for more]
Danger Zones!Shadowrunning can take you all sorts of different places and give you the chance to have all sorts of different guns pointed at you. Whether you're exploring mysterious islands off the coast of Seattle, collecting bounties on the tightly guarded streets of Manhattan, or trying to survive the chaos and conflict in Bogotá, you're likely to find you... [click here for more]
The Ends of the Earth—And BeyondDark alleys, abandoned buildings, wet streets stabbed with neon light—shadowrunners know all these places. They also know that they aren't the only places work gets done. A good shadowrunner should be open to anything, to runs that might take them anywhere. From the cold of Antarctica to the heat of the Sahara, from the life-fil... [click here for more]
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A missing shadowrunner. An artifact with mysterious, blood-fed powers. And astral beings with horrible grudges. All of these elements—and more—are coming together to give shadowrunners a long day and a longer night, as they move from trying to find what has been lost to struggling for their survival. And with what they're up against... [click here for more]
Horrible. Strange. Beautiful.
The glorious creatures of the mythic past and horrors undreamt of dwell in the Europe of 2054. Gargoyles and goblins stalk the streets of London. Centaurs and satyrs roam the countryside. A mysterious and menacing menagerie of creatures, both fearsome and friendly, now populates the European landscape.
Paranormal Animals of Europe is a... [click here for more]
Planes, Drones and Automobiles
Living is rigging, omae. Like burning rubber down the highway at 150 klicks and hour with only your brain to guide you. What about making a drone an extension of yourself, or undermining the security of a whole building, manipulating every camera, motion detector or security door. But the biggest kick is blowing up a car full of goons with... [click here for more]
Visit Beautiful Seattle, An Interesting Place to Live
A modern frontier town, sandwiched between the Elven nation of Tir Tairngire and the Native American Nations, Seattle is a place where cultures mix—often with explosive results.
A City of Opportunity
Megacorps with private armies trade in technology and information. Crime bosses rule the underworld... [click here for more]
The beat's on the street, and that's where you have to be if you wanna be in on what's happenin'.
Shadowbeat makes it easy by dishing out the scoop on music, media, sports and entertainment in the 2050s. Discover the best way to stardom in the sims.
Learn how to get the dirt on the stars. Get down and dirty as an Urban Brawler. All this, and the toys that make it hap... [click here for more]
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The Best Just Got Better!
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Never, ever deal with a dragon. Shadowrunners have heard that dictum so often, they frequently say those words in their sleep. But what the aphorism forgets to tell you is this—what if you don't have a choice?
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Take a tour of North America with the slightly warped. Learn the ins and outs of major cities like Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas/Fort Worth, New York, San Francisco, and Washington D.C. Make your next vacation an exciting one, one they'll never forget.
The Neo-Anarchist's Guide to North America details the countries, states, and politics of Shado... [click here for more]
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They are legends. They are dangerous. They are feared. They are to be avoided—unless you have one of them on your side. They are street samurai. That title covers a variety of skill sets, from the accuracy to nail a target from a thousand meters away to the stealth needed to sneak into a tightly guarded environment and cut someon... [click here for more]


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I went back to my home town to visit my family. One of those days a couple of christian ladies showed up and were obviously selling Jesus. I was very welcoming and I listened as they approached me with their practiced speech.
They talked about pornography. I'm not a big fan of pornography but I have deliberately watched some out of curiosity. Anyway I gave them my opinion a the subject but from a different point of view. Mostly from the stuff that is shown on TV when kids are awake. With all that going on they can't really blame teenagers and their thirst for pornography. In this age it isn't even bad; if we look at the standards that have been imposed by society.
But anyway. At least they learned the opinion of an atheist without knowing I was an atheist o-o
I hope this story is useful in any way. Good night~~
Hello everyone, im from el paso and just found this page and looking forward to getting to know my fellow atheist.
Right after, I posted that comment, my husband was offered a job in Monterey, Ca. I'm now in the process of packing up my house and getting ready to move. Squee! I did, however, let my friend know about the meetup group and he's interested. I'm so happy that you guys have organized here in El Paso. I've been here only 1.5 years and it's not been easy for myself or my kids, so I can't imagine how difficult it must be for freethinkers who grew up here. Good luck, and may FSM wrap you in his noodley appendages.:)
Next meetup!!!!
Thanks for the link Sharon! I've joined the meetup group, but unfortunately I'll be out of town during that time. :(
It would be nice if more of us in El Paso could find a way to meet. I'd be interested in getting involved. :)
Hey guys, I just found this in a google search. :) I'm looking for an atheist group in El Paso. I have another friend who would also be interested in meeting up.
We are not very organized.
Considering the amount of atheist people here... no he shouldn't. I would love to see him though.
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A REPORTER AT LARGE about banking heir David de Rothschild's plan to sail across the Pacific Ocean on a "bottle boat" made entirely of recycled materials. A highlight of the trip will be a visit to a region of floating plastic trash and particles known as the Eastern Garbage Patch. De Rothschild and his team will collect water samples to study and, using a satellite phone, post photographs and video clips on the Web site of Adventure Ecology, an environmental organization that he founded. His goal is to call attention to the perils of ocean polluting and to suggest a solution: waste as a resource. The expedition is expected to cost several million dollars, much of which he has raised from corporate partners. Inspired, in part, by Thor Heyerdahl's Pacific crossing, in 1947, on a raft called the Kon-Tiki, de Rothschild dubbed the project Plastiki. Describes the building on San Francisco's Pier 31 where de Rothschild and his team are assembling their boat and the many difficulties they have faced in its design and construction. Tells about the Junk Raft, which another environmental group called Algalita Marine Research Foundation—whose founder, Charles Moore, claimed to have discovered the Eastern Garbage Patch—successfully sailed from California to Hawaii in 2008. "That's the competitiveness of these green groups and adventurers," de Rothschild said. Writer compares de Rothschild to the explorers Sir Richard Francis Burton and Sebastian Snow. He is the youngest of three children of the former Victoria Schott and Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, who, until his retirement, ran the English branch of the banking empire Rothschild's. Tells about de Rothschild's purchase of an organic farm in New Zealand in 2001 and his participation in an expedition to the South Pole. The latter experience led him to create Adventure Ecology, an organization that would mix adventure, environmentalism, and education. Describes an expedition by de Rothschild to the North Pole in 2006. Afterwards, de Rothschild considered a four-year sailing trip for his next expedition, but, while researching the route, he came across Charles Moore's article about the Eastern Garbage Patch. Discusses the threat posed by plastics to birds, turtles, and fish and the evolution of the idea that led to the construction of Plastiki. Mentions members of the team who worked on the boat, including Andy Dovell, Mike Rose, and Matt Grey, and the refinements made to a prototype which was created last June. Briefly discusses de Rothschild's role as host of the television show "Eco-Trip." De Rothschild had set a launch date of April 28, 2009—sixty-two years to the day since Thor Heyerdahl set out from Peru on the Kon Tiki—however, he has since pushed the date back to the summer of 2009.
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Alrighty, quick backstory. I bought this computer from dell about 3/4 years ago, but didnt get a graphics card. I got one myself much cheaper off ebay. So yeah, as of about 3/4 years ago this graphics card (8800gts - the 320mb one) was bought second hand anyway.
Since then its run absoloutely brilliantly. Did everything I needed it to easily (pretty much CSS being the only game Ive played, apart from a bit of fallout 3...)
Anyway, ive recently gotten myself arma 2 to play the DayZ mod (which is FUCKING AWESOME by the way...) and yeah, I noticed that when I got it running, it would run really smoothly on 1280x1024 at like med/low settings. However, after about 20 seconds it would totally freak out, my fps would drop to like 5-10, textures would start glitching out (floor textures flickering white, occasional triangular blocks of fuckery appearing on the screen) and id have to close arma 2 before the world imploded.
Anyway, I was pretty sure thats what happens when your gpu is overheating. Then limiting itself so it doesnt melt completely. I have since dropped the graphics down to very low, and 1024x768 resolution and it runs okay (since I cleaned it for the first time in 4 years anyway, taking out marble sized clumps of dust and cigarette tar...eugh). However, it doesnt exactly look great, and while I know arma 2 is renowned for being poorly optimised, I swear this computer can do better (it is a bit of a fossil though. E7300 2.7ghz dual core, 8800gts and 2gb of ram)
So yeah, I just downloaded a program called GPU Temp, and according to this, my GPUs resting temperature (ive not used anything other than firefox since turning it on this morning) is 85 centigrade!!! Like, thats a 'what the fuck' moment isnt it??? Seems ridiculously hot. Dont even want to know how hot this thing gets when im squeezing arma 2 out of it...
Basically, correct me here if im wrong...but thats not normal is it? Any reason why this might be happening? Anything I can do about it? (further cleaning? All i did wss take some tweezers to it and remove the massive chunks of dust that were completely blocking the air intake fan)
Read somewhere about reconnecting the gpu to its heatsink with thermal paste or something...dunno, might have dreamt it.
I dunno, just anyone who could let me know more than I currently do would be a champion. Only really use my computer for DayZ, so would be a bit of a waste to buy a new one just for that lol if there was anything I could do to help the current situation it would be grand though. Underclocking the gpu perhaps?
Is the fan on the card still turning? And if so, is it still doing so with gusto? If you use your on-board digital temperature probe (...you finger...) is the heatsink too hot to comfortably touch? If the heatsink is only pretty warm and not blazing hot then either the 85c is a lie, or the chip isn't in good contact with the sink. So sure, you can use canned air or just some aggressive blowing to further clean the fan out, but you can also do a little dis-assembly to really clean the sink off, clean the chip off, and re-mount it with new thermal paste. If you go this route, the paste isn't a 'more is better' deal, you just want a really thin coat applied between the extremely clean surfaces. All it is supposed to do is fill in tiny pits in both so that they 'touch more completely'; it really shouldn't be a big glob in the way. After three years the fan may be shot. You can likely replace it, but it is not a case where you can just order a specific replacement part. You would need to measure the thing and see how it is attached, then go look for something with similar attributes. A new component fan shouldn't be more than a few dollars...plus shipping. If you are really lucky the fan will have a power connector that you can either find an equal to in your new part, or feel Ok about clipping off and splicing onto the new one. All this assumes that you would rather spend a lot of time and very little money on the problem. Finding a new card as fast as that one would probably be pretty inexpensive, but it doesn't sound like that is your preference. |
It could just be plain wrong. Most temperature probes have a calibration consisting of an offset and a gradient (the c and m y = mx+c).
If the software has made some incorrect assumptions about what thermistor is on your card then it could be wildly incorrect. It's time to sanity check the reading with a physical measurement (and to check the fan is turning etc) time to open the case up and feel the heatsink. 80C on the core would suggest at least 60 on the heat sink, that should be painful to touch. |
To be honest im happy to spend a bit of money. This graphics card has done me proud for the money. Would like to get something with a bit more oomph aswell, the only reason im not sure if I could is that I dont want to get a nice graphics card, then find im bottle necked by my cpu! A 2.7ghz dual core isnt great from what I can tell. Would it do the job though? All I really want is to get Arma2 (and I guess other games that might take my fancy in the near future!) running nicely on even like medium settings at 1280x1024.
Any thoughts on what might be a bit of a step up from an 8800gts, but not going to break the 50-60 quid mark? |
I'd suggest scanning through a few years worth of the charts at TomsHardware starting with like the 2008 charts and working forward comparing models to your current card so that when it drops off, you have an idea what more recent models to carry forward with.
At a guess, you get similar performance, give or take, somewhere in the range of a 5770, or 6570 for instance. That gets me US prices as low as ~$45 for a floor, and up to ~$120 for cards that are nicer, but not outrageous. |
Coincidentally, I have a 8800GTS and installed RivaTuner yesterday to find out how hot the card is running with the summer coming. My case temp is 44 degrees celcius and the GTS is idle at 57 degrees. Fan is at 60%, 1530 RPM. Is your card overclocked? Using CPU-Z, my card's core is at 580MHz, shaders 1350MHz and memory 850MHz.
So 85 is quite hot, I think that might be my card's upper temperature region under heavy load. At 80 degrees though (under load), the fan doesn't spin any faster than 60%, so that temp is probably fine, otherwise it would speed up to try to cool it. |
The glitching is a symptom that a lot of the 8800s had. Apparently, nVidia was using a new type of soldering that turned out to have problems when the card got really hot. Once it got hot, the solder would melt, and if this happened enough, the glitches would be permanent. It might be possible to put the card in the oven to reseat the solder, but it might just be temporary.
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By Brian Dukes Staff writer
The Crown Theatre will get down, get down Saturday, Feb. 23 when Kool & the Gang performs as part of the 2012-13 Community Concerts season.
The legendary band with the funk-soul-jazz-R&B sound has been active since the late 1960s, putting out 23 studio albums and selling 70million records worldwide. That includes six Top 10 albums on the Billboard R&B chart, 25 Top 10 singles on the R&B chart and nine No. 1 hits.
Some of the band's greatest hits include "Celebration," "Jungle Boogie," "Ladies' Night," "Get Down on It," "Joanna," "Summer Madness," "Fresh," "Cherish" and "Hollywood Swinging."
For Robert "Kool" Bell, those songs have kept the world partying for the past few decades.
"Oh yeah, we're bringing all the hits, and we're coming to Fayetteville to party," said Bell, the group's founder and the "Kool" of the group's name.
While the band certainly has a large catalog of iconic hits, its members aren't slowing down. The band is working on a new set of songs and a possible musical.
Weekender caught up with Bell during some rare downtime between tour stops in Palm Beach, Fla. Bell talked about the band's music, touring the world, having family in the band and the band's popularity in Hollywood.
Weekender: What can people expect at the show?
Bell: It's a high-energy show; we like to party. We'll have 11 of us on stage. We're an old school group, so we've got to have the whole band up there. We'll start rockin' at the top of the show with a bunch of hits people know, then we'll do some of our old school stuff, and by the end it's just going to be one big party.
Weekender: When was the last time you were in the Tar Heel State?
Bell: It's been a while since we've been to Fayetteville. We've played Raleigh and Charlotte more recently, but I remember we used to play the colleges back in the '70s, and those were great shows. Lots of great college shows, and people would come out to those shows.
Weekender: What's it been like to be involved with so many iconic songs?
Bell: It's been great to be able to come up with the hits we have had over the years. It's great to see a song that starts as a concept or a simple idea, but you never know it's going to be a hit 30 years later.
Weekender: How did you feel when your music found a new legion of fans through its appearance in popular movies, such as "Pulp Fiction"?
Bell: It was great. I loved "Pulp Fiction" and how Quentin Tarantino used "Jungle Boogie." I also loved the first Rocky movie, which has "Summer Madness" in it. It's when Rocky is sitting down on his couch or something and thinking about his fight. And on comes "Summer Madness" right after. We also had "Open Sesame" played on "Saturday Night Fever," and Will Smith sure made a killing with "Summer Madness" when he sampled it for "Summertime."
Weekender: You guys haven't done too bad, either, right?
Bell: In the early days, you didn't get paid for sampling. But now we get a little check every now and then.
Weekender: What's it been like to have found and enjoyed all this success alongside your brother, Ronald?
Bell: It's a really unique thing. He's also one of the major writers in the band. We'll mess with each other. You know how brothers are.
Weekender: What's the most exotic locale you guys have played?
Bell: We played Kenya for an AIDS awareness show and drew half a million people in Nairobi. Another was in Algeria at the ancient Roman ruins at a coliseum. We've been to Bangkok. It's always been a blessing that our music has been able to translate around the world. We were playing in East Berlin before the wall came down.
Weekender: What's next for Kool & the Gang?
Bell: We're working on a new album - or CD or download or whatever you call it today. We'll have some new material this year, and we're working on putting together a musical like the "Jersey Boys" show, but it'd be our story.
When: Saturday, Feb. 23, 7:30 p.m.
Where: Crown Theatre
Tickets: $26 to $50
Information: Community-Concerts.com
Note: The next group of inductees in the Fayetteville Music Hall of Fame will be honored with a ceremony before the show begins.
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Back in the early 1990s, I ran out of gas in the dead of night on the George Washington Parkway near Washington, D.C.
I judged myself to be in the middle of the secluded route. Cellphones were not yet ubiquitous, and I didn't have one. I faced a miles-long walk in either direction.
I decided to just wait, and think, while my car's blinkers flashed in the dark. If I had been a smoker, I'd have smoked. That long walk was not going anywhere.
Then I saw two headlights slowing, then stopping.
A man emerged, probably in his 40s, and he heard my story. He offered me a ride. Looking back, the offer was not the safest thing for me or for him, but we each leapt out on faith.
We went to fill a gas can he traveled with. We returned to my car, and I was soon on my way.
I will carry this memory as long as I live and have my faculties. It affects positively how I view people, even though logic tells me this was the action of one man and not all of humanity.
But if you're ever debating whether to do a random act of kindness, remember that while you may forget the "little" gesture, the person you help will not.
The stressful holidays are a perfect time for such acts.
Case in point: Paul F. Wilson, a playwright and chairman of the theater department at Methodist University, emailed me about a nice gesture he saw on Thanksgiving.
He was stopped at a light on Ramsey Street, where it intersects Law Road, also Par Drive.
"I saw a woman on the Par Drive (west) side in a motorized wheelchair," he wrote "with two young people, 'tween-age, who had been waiting for the light to change so they could cross. In the past I've seen several people trying to navigate Ramsey in wheelchairs like that, always been nervous about their safety, and the new medians must make it impossible."
Wilson says a man in a van going the same way as the group pulled next to them. He rolled down his window and exchanged words.
"The next thing I knew he was crossing Ramsey at walking speed, with the woman, rolling, and the two kids walking along beside him. He was apparently giving them cover (with his van) while they crossed so no one would hit them if the light changed while they crossed.
"The procession looked like a couple of dinghies in the lee of a great clipper ship or a couple of tugs next to a battleship."
Wilson tried to backtrack and thank the driver, but lost track of him in traffic. He hopes the man will read the paper and "know the act did not go unnoticed."
But even if the man doesn't see my column, his act did not go unnoticed. I can think of at least four folks unlikely to forget.
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After an injury hit spell on the sidelines; Croft returned to form at the backend of last season and won selection ahead of international skipper Chris Robshaw for the Lions tour of Australia.
"We felt it was relatively innocuous but the ACL was ruptured," said Tigers director of rugby Richard Cockerill.
Croft, who also featured in three Tests for the Lions against South Africa in 2009, has been capped 38 times by England since making his debut against France in 2008.
Cockerill added: "Its horrendous bad luck for Tom because it is only last year that he came back from a very bad neck injury and did so well for England and the Lions as well.
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Lieutenant Mike Chiapperini, one of the heroes who died during the tragedy in Webster on Christmas Eve was laid to rest Sunday.
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Lieutenant Chiapperini rose through the ranks with the department, serving as a dispatcher, then as a patrol officer and was promoted to lieutenant two years ago.
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Albany, NY – NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION SERIES
It used to be that physics came late in high school, generally in the
junior or senior year. This allowed students to have higher math first,
like trigonometry and calculus. Then, by the mid-90s when it appeared
science students in the United States were lagging behind students in
other countries, there came a public out cry for physics first. So, ten
years ago, the Lincoln School in Providence, Rhode Island responded
and began to develop its own physics-first curriculum. Before 1994,
only 30% of this all-girls school took physics. Now, ALL the girls, 100%
of the school's graduates have at least three years of lab science by the
time they leave. That includes not only physics, but chemistry and biology
as well. How has the Lincoln School managed this change?
TBOOK spent time at the school recently to find out what makes The
Lincoln Experiment in science education tick.
Jackson Braider reports. (14:58)
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- A U.S. - Canadian team is collaborating on a new design for a thirty
meter telescope, known at TMT. With TMT, astronomers will be able
to analyze light from the first stars born after the Big Bang, directly
observe the formation and evolution of galaxies, see planets around
nearby stars, and make observations that test fundamental laws of physics.
- U.S. education officials have confirmed that they don't expect any
state to meet deadlines for putting highly qualified teachers in every
core-subject classroom. But nearly 30 states have made some progress complying with that provision of the 2001 No Child Left Behind Law.
Nine states, along with the nation's capitol, face losing federal money
because of delays.
- Meanwhile, the U.S. Secretary of Education and Russia's Education
and Science Minister, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding
on expanding cooperation and exchanges in the field of education.
The MOU is the first of its kind between the two education departments.
- The variable interest rate on American federal education loans is going
up nearly 2 percentage points next month. This gives students and
parents only a short time to consolidate loans, to lock in current lower
rates and potentially save thousands of dollars.
- And speaking of money, in our update segment, the price tag on the
Professor Ward Churchill investigation we've followed here has been announced. The University of Colorado puts it at about 150-thousand
dollars, with the majority of that cost going for attorney's fees. A final
decision in his case could be announced by this time next month.
Dr. Karen Hitchcock reports. (1:30)
In the East End London burro called Tower Hamlets, about 40% of the community is from Bangladesh. Many of the women have difficulty
learning English. And they often end up isolated. That's changing.
A local Bengali community center called Jagonari, is giving English
lessons and bicycling lessons to provide women more social mobility.
We stopped in to see a class at the center, and met the project coordinator.
Fiona Campbell reports from Radio Netherlands. (2:52)


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File-sharing – A Notion Still Hard to Tame
There's no sign that the legal status of internet downloads is about to be clarified any time soon. Perhaps because there are too many factors at stake.
In this respect, Ben Camm-Jones emphasized the imprecise nature the legal status of such services continues to show: "Although precedents have been set, we're still fairly unclear whether what they're doing is wrong or not." The comment followed the allegations against online music provider by nine record labels for copyright infringement.
Record companies including Interscope Records, Virgin Records America and Atlantic Recording are claiming compensation after suing Project Playlist.
According to statistics gathered by NPD in January 70 % of US 9 to 14-year-olds downloaded music online, 49 % of them via iTunes – the legal service from Apple – and 26 % resorting to p2p file-sharing clients like Limewire.
As Mr Camm-Jones put it, the need for a universal framework is more and more evident; without it the legality of music download provision can't be evaluated so that it corresponds to the limitless nature of the Internet.


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Call of Duty – Modern Warfare 3: Free to Play Weekend announced on Steam
Remember last year's FPS war between EA's shooter Battlefield 3 and Activision's Call of Duty – Modern Warfare 3? Remember all the drama? Remember all the chills and spills as Battlefield wound its way through beta testing and some fps purists unloaded their gripes on Modern Warfare 3? So do we.
Well, if you decided to get off the fps wall and decided to join the millions of people who decided in favor of the Frostbite 2 engine-powered Battlefield 3, now is your chance to get a full taste test of what you're missing (assuming you did not do what a sizable group of fps fans do-buy both games). If you got tired of the destructible environments, the immersive sound and graphics, and the hyper realism of Battlefield 3, check out what Call of Duty – Modern Warfare 3 has to offer. Thankfully, satisfying your curiosity will not cost you an arm and a leg-at least not this weekend. In fact, it won't cost you anything at all.
Starting 6PM UK time Thursday evening, interested fps fans can log on to digital game distributor Steam and get their mitts on Call of Duty – Modern Warfare 3 absolutely free. That's right. You get an unlimited chance to play the game within the weekend free to play period.


text: We booked this as a last minute get away. and we are so glad we did. Nigel and Wendy are the perfect hosts, and thier place is out of this world, an absolute credit to them. The place and surrounding area is beautiful and wouldnt hesitate in going back there again. Might even take the kids next time. Thankyou so... More


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text: I played drums this weekend! That by itself is a victory. A couple of weeks back my hand was hurting following a session, so I figured I better lay off and let it heal. I took my time getting back to the drums even after the pain went away, figuring I better not chance it. But this weekend I was back on the skins, and even added two new gold stars to the collection. It was nice to see I hadn't lost anything.


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Sencha Cmd and Stores
Sencha Cmd and Stores
I am trying to do two things - .
1. Use Sencha Cmd to generate stores
2. Use Sencha Cmd to build the app
Note: Currently using Sencha Cmd v220.127.116.11
I am unable to generate a store using 'sencha cmd' as there is no option available to generate a store with 'sencha generate'.
When I create a Store manually and do a 'sencha app build' , the build goes through fine, but when I try to load the script in a browser, I get errors. I tried to load the compressed version of the script after removing the stores, the script loads and executes just fine.
Any thoughts?
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Car camping? I usually go backpacking nowadays, so every ounce counts. Car camping should be super luxe, in my opinion. Car camping gear is cheaper than specialized boutique manufacturer backpacking gear too. You can get everything you need in one trip to Walmart.
HUGE tent I can stand up in, with a piece of carpet for the floor, folding chairs, and a card table
cooler full of expensive beer, with block ice so it lasts all weekend
portable awning, for sittin' under, drinking the beer
three inch thick sleeping pad or futon, or a cot, and extra wide flannel lined sleeping bag..and full size pillows from home
for all seasons besides high summer, a propane heater (watch out for carbon monoxide though, keep those windows and doors unzipped, and keep it far away from bedding and tent walls...on second thought, never mind, forget the heater)
portable DVD player!
I know that stuff sounds super heavy, but I make up for it by taking a Vic Classic as my only knife..


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End Run
A small band of rogue rocketeers takes on the NASA establishment.
- By Michael Klesius
- AirSpaceMag.com, September 29, 2008
Artwork by Philip Metschan | Copyright 2008 Directlauncher
The rocket is transformative, literally. On the web site, a space shuttle launches atop two pillars of flame gushing from solid rocket boosters, just as we've seen for the last quarter century. Then the video morphs into an animation that freezes and rotates the vehicle back toward you. Invisible hands take the shuttle stack apart, like a child mixing and matching a toy. And a new rocket, the Jupiter 232, takes shape, using the external fuel tank and the boosters, but without the familiar spaceplane.
In the upper left corner of the screen appear the words: "Direct v2.0: simpler, safer, sooner."
That description is a matter of some debate between the web site's creators and NASA. The animation is the work of Philip Metschan, a graphic designer and concept artist at Pixar Studios in California. He produced it about a year and a half ago using the same kind of software used for Hollywood movies like Jurassic Park, The Golden Compass, and The Incredible Hulk.
But he's just the artist. His brother Stephen, he says, is the brains behind the concept, known as Stephen Metschan insists that Direct is a more elegant way to send astronauts to the moon than the launcher NASA now plans to build. The agency has been spending billions on a pair of new rockets, the Ares I and V, which he says are unnecessarily complicated and expensive, and which fail to adhere to a Congressional mandate to use shuttle-derived rockets to the fullest extent possible.
Stephen Metschan, with a handful of colleagues, is among the most vocal critics of the Ares design. He says he's supported by 69 active NASA and contract engineers—mostly at the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama and Kennedy Space Center in Florida—who remain anonymous for fear of losing their jobs. At night and on weekends, the band of renegades keeps refining their Direct Launcher concept as an alternative to the Ares launchers. Should the political winds shift at NASA, Metschan thinks it's still early enough in the program to switch to Direct, as much of the money spent on the moon program so far would still apply to his concept.
A decade ago, Metschan started his company, TeamVision Corporation, with a NASA Small Business Innovation Research grant. TeamVision makes Framework CT, an analysis tool that helps solve highly complex problems by sorting through millions of possibilities. Metschan soon found a meaty problem for the software: What's the best way to convert the space shuttle's existing parts into a design that will take astronauts to orbit and to the moon, with a new space capsule (called Orion) atop the vehicle, and with as few changes to the rest of the parts as possible?
One key advantage of Direct, say its creators, is that it uses the tried-and-true, four-segment version of the shuttle's solid rocket boosters rather than a new, five-segment version required for Ares. Adding the extra segment has caused engineering headaches for NASA due to the increased shaking produced by what is, by far, the largest solid rocket the world has ever seen. If left undamped, this "thrust oscillation" would feel like a massive jackhammer for the astronauts riding on top of the Ares.
NASA discovered the problem early in the design phase, and says that it has a solution: installing about 200 large springs in the bottom end of the booster, and another 200 in the top end, between the booster and the second, liquid-fueled stage. Dampers beneath the astronauts' couches should reduce residual oscillations to a tolerable level, letting astronauts reach out and toggle a switch during ascent.
Metschan says the plan won't work, and that the agency is clinging stubbornly to its Ares design without giving other ideas a chance. "In any normal organization, this would have been put in the dust bin of history," he says.
He and two colleagues—Ross Tierney, who owns a model rocket business in Florida, and Chuck Longton, who used to work for NASA on liquid-fueled engines—are the public faces of Direct Launcher. All three claim that the real problem at NASA is close-mindedness, particularly on the part of Administrator Mike Griffin. To Metschan, it seemed that Griffin came to NASA in 2005 having already decided that Ares I and V were the only options. Direct Launcher, they say, never got a fair hearing.
"If your plan didn't include Ares I," says Metschan, "then your case was dead on arrival."
NASA shrugs at such accusations.
"NASA has assessed over 1,700 launch vehicle options since the conclusion of ESAS [the Exploration Systems Architecture Study] in the summer of 2005," says Steve Cook, NASA's Ares I program manager. "The primary issue with all of the 'Direct' options, including the most recent variation released in late June, 2008, is that they fall short of our performance requirements. If a system can't pass this primary gate, we do not perform more detailed analyses."
Cook says the Direct proponents offer no methodology or data to support their claims of cost savings on their design for the central fuel tank; and that developing Jupiter's core system, even with the fuel tank derived from the shuttle's tank, would be far more expensive than the Direct proponents promise.
Furthermore, he says, Ares I and V are well under way, with Ares I having just concluded its Preliminary Design Review. The thrust oscillation problems, Cook admits, still need to be addressed in a follow-on review next summer, "to mature the design solution." But he warns that restarting the program now would waste billions of dollars spent developing the integrated Ares I stack, including redoing 6,000 hours of wind tunnel tests.
In Government Accountability Office noted the technical risks facing the Ares program, but was not as pessimistic as Metschan about the chances of solving them: "We do not know yet whether the architecture and design solutions selected by NASA will work as intended," concluded the authors.
As for who's right, in NASA's view it's the space agency's 3,700 team members in over 200 organizations across the country against Direct Launcher's 69 anonymous engineers.
Metschan and his team intend to keep working on their plans anyway, in case Ares fails or Griffin leaves NASA. At least one recent development has worked in Direct's favor. Russia's military incursion into Georgia stirred concerns of U.S. dependency on Soyuz vehicles and led several influential lawmakers to press the White House to keep the shuttle flying past 2010. That in turn led NASA to halt plans to begin ripping out the tooling for the shuttle's external tank fabrication at the Michoud facility near New Orleans. Direct Launcher would use the same 8.4-meter fuel tanks as the current shuttle. Ares V, on the other hand, would use a 10-meter tank that requires all new tooling. Once NASA converts to manufacturing the larger size, Direct Launcher becomes a dead option.
Is it common to have such a determined group of engineers working on alternative plans at NASA?
"Oh sure," says Roger Launius, senior space history curator at the National Air and Space Museum and chief historian at NASA between 1990 and 2002. "You've always got hobby shops. People are always working on stuff on the side. I remember a great example: the lifting body people. Back in the '60s they couldn't get funding. The focus was all on Apollo. All they got was about $20,000 at first. They built the M2-F1 [lifting body] out of plywood. Went down to L.A. and bought an old Pontiac, suped it up so it would do 180, and used it as a tow vehicle."
Launius regards the parallel effort as a natural wellspring of activity from a creative bunch.
"You got a bunch of smart people who are used to solving problems," he says. "Nothing to be surprised at. It's really something to applaud. The question is, though, is this reality or is it pipe dreams? We'll see. It's easier to draw this stuff than it is to build and fly it."
Comments (10)
Could this be a replay of the Earth Orbit Rendezvous versus Lunar Orbit Rendezvous decision? The underdog (Lunar Orbit) seemed preposterous at one time, but ended up as the final decision. Direct launcher seems like a credible idea.
Posted by John Anderson on September 30,2008 | 02:52 PM
For those of you with an aversion to Quicktime.
The animation is available on
and you can check the performance figures for yourself at
If I were POTUS (which I'm not) I would be asking for an _independent_ review of the options:
DIRECT, EELV, Shuttle-C, ...
If I were an American taxpayer (which I'm not) I would be writing to Congress....
Posted by David Lermit on October 2,2008 | 06:49 AM
Well, even if they are right about the external tank being more expensive to modify than the Direct guys think... it still has to be a LOT cheaper than the $35 billion Ares program. With Direct you are only taking an existing launch vehicle and modifying it. With Ares you are making 2 new launch vehicles, basically from the ground up (they don't even share the solid rocket boosters with the current shuttle anymore). And with 2 different launch vehicles, comes 2 new different infrastructures, 2 different manufacturing chains, 2 different workforces, 2 different mobile launch platforms, basically twice as much money to operate them. With Direct you use the current infrastructure, the current workforce, the current manufacturing chain, the current mobile launch platforms, etc. The only expensive part of the shuttle stack is the shuttle, and that is taken out of the equation. NASA was instructed to utilize all they could from the shuttle program, including workforce, hardware, components, infrastructure, etc... the Ares program does none of this, but the Direct/Jupiter program would do all of this. http://www.directlauncher.com/
Posted by Eric Sparks on October 6,2008 | 06:43 PM
Anything that can save over 10 billion dollars in this economic climate has got to be worth having a look at. I encourage NASA to study the architecture and explain why it is not going to work.
Posted by Nathan Rogers on October 7,2008 | 05:58 AM
I have read the Direct 2.0 proposal. Direct makes so much more sense than the current Ares launch vehicle architecture, it mystifies me as to why this has not been adopted. If anything, the Direct team is under-promising what this architecture can do. I truly hope NASA can shake the managerial fog they've been in the past few years and realize how much money, time and effort they are currently wasting. If not, the future of manned space flight could be very bleak indeed for the US.
Posted by Scott Hamann on October 7,2008 | 01:31 PM
Once again, NASA is "throwing away" a mature technology (i.e. shuttle-derived SRB's, tankage, etc.) in the same way they threw away the Saturn V vehicles that took us to the moon.
Whether the Direct Launcher concept will work (and be a better alternative to Ares) is not a question for any of us laypeople...but based on NASA management's track record, I believe we as taxpayers would all be better served with an independent, third party review of both architectures.
Interestingly enough, it sounds as if Direct's supporters welcome such an independent review, while NASA pooh-pooh's the idea. It seems to me that if NASA truly felt their case was the optimal method to move America's space program ahead, they wouldn't fear an independent review of their ideas.
Posted by Dean Fox on October 7,2008 | 10:46 PM
NASA is just making work for themselves and their contractor friends, that's all. Since they're probably the only ticket to the moon (so far) they don't care if they are starting from scratch. The only way that they'll give this concept a proper look is if Mr. Putin and the Chinese decide to get their hands on the moon's minerals.
Posted by Phil Thomas on October 8,2008 | 02:39 AM
Sorry, the fact is computer stuff advances faster than energy stuff. BTW, the same reason the internal combustion engine is going to be the way those of us without a trust fund get around for a long, long time.
So sure, the images of the new launcher are great, so what. Somewhere along the long line of equations, people like this always make an un-assuming assumption that breaks the bank.
Sort of like the DARPA people not telling us they "dumbed down" the autonomous vehicle test in the desert from the year of the disaster to the following year of great triumph. Or the Chevy Volt, that still has no battery supplier that has built more than a week supply, TOTAL (cars are made one a minute, period). Or the Very Light Jet Air Taxi (bye bye DayJet), or ...
BTW, I have no dog in the hunt (more than being a taxpayer). In fact, I personally really recent the fact the NASA PR machine claims having invented everything (from the microprocessor (TI?) to everything else).
Just wonder how much of this great promise energy equation they're "forgetting" to tell us. Nice pictures though.
Posted by Lu Figarella on October 13,2008 | 10:23 AM
despite the """free""" press NEVER talks about that, THIS is the TRUE story of "Direct": http://www.ghostnasa.com/posts/033directstruestory.html
and THIS is the TRUE story of the """Google""" Lunar X Prize: http://www.ghostnasa.com/posts/008moonprize.html
Posted by gaetano marano - ghostNASA.com on October 14,2008 | 02:58 AM
What a shame that America's space program is once again being compromised by decisions made by a political process rather than an engineering process. The use of false comparisons by NASA to rule out the use of EELV's*, and configurations similar to Direct so that Mr. Griffin can build the Ares 1 rocket (a configuration he advocated before coming to NASA) and the nonsensically huge Ares 5 rocket is a slap in the face to the hundreds of engineers who cannot fake things or ignore reality just to get what they want.
Have they forgotten so soon what noble prize winning Physicist Richard Feynman said when he was on the committee to investigate the Challenger shuttle disaster? "Nature cannot be fooled" he said, referring to the Laws of Physics. Unfortunately, what the current NASA administrators believe is summarized by this mans comments, an engineer who recently quit, "At the highest levels, there seems to be a belief that you can mandate reality, followed by a refusal to accept any information that runs counter to that mandate."**
Apparently, the management at NASA has learned nothing.
*(Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicles {Delta IV and Atlas V})
**Jeff Finckenor - commenting about the NASA bureaucracy. He was an engineer there, but he quit in disgust.
Posted by Will Doohan on October 15,2008 | 01:27 AM


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