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Microsoft failed to make tablets work with Windows for PEN Computing twenty years ago, so why are some people saying that it is set to dethrone the iPad later this year? Can Windows 8 really prove to be a commercial threat to iOS?
I still have my Compaq Concerto from 1992, which is generally accepted as the first ever mainstream Tablet PC. It ran Windows for PEN Computing Version 1, which was actually just Windows 3.1 with some rather rudimentary pen input add-ons included. Although I have sentimental reasons for hanging on to the world's first real commercial tablet, I will readily admit that it sucked elephants through a straw and the reason why was that damn-awful PEN Windows OS abomination.
So when a press release hit my desk this morning which loudly and proudly promised to explain why Windows 8 is going to be, and I quote "fierce competition" for the iPad, I was all eyes. Especially since I am more used to getting press releases which proclaim how the latest Android-powered device or Android OS iteration knocks the socks off of the Apple tablet.
Ever since the bad start with PEN Windows, Microsoft has never quite managed to cut the mustard as far as the tablet computing market is concerned. So why should Windows 8 be any different? Karl Volkman of SRV Network, Inc. (a Microsoft Gold Certified partner, it should come as no surprise) reckons that Windows 8 may "beat the iPad in some ways" and goes on to highlight three key features of the new OS by way of example.
1. Windows 8 is more customizable
Volkman suggests that because Windows 8 lets you personalise tools and tiles on the Start screen by moving and naming them, along with the ability to save your favourite websites and tools to the screen, it allows your Windows 8 powered tablet to be more personal than the iPad.
I have to say that my iPad 2 is pretty personal to me, what with my custom wallpaper and my custom folders holding all my apps in named (by me) categories. Many of these being, of course, online services and sites which I have saved to my tablet desktop using the not at all complicated process of selecting 'Add to Home Screen' from within Safari whilst browsing the web. I really don't think that Windows 8 will worry the average iPad user in this regard. If it's a customisable competitor you want then surely Android is your man. If it's an even more customisable iPad you are after, then there's always the jailbreaking route to ultimate personalisation.
2. Internet Explorer 10 is the fastest Internet browser
Volkman insists that Internet Explorer 10 is super speedy and that means websites will load in seconds, and clicking out of unused sites will also be faster.
Well whoopee-blinking-doo, to be honest. Internet Explorer 10 may well prove to be fractionally faster than Safari or any other tablet browser client, but I hope Mr Volkman is sitting down as what I am about to say may come as something of a shock: websites already 'load in seconds' on my iPad 2 using iOS 5.1 and a 11Mbps broadband connection, or even the much slower 3G connection when I am on the move. Websites that I have finished with can be clicked out of in, well I have never actually bothered to measure the amount of time it takes as 'blink of an eye' is quick enough for anyone surely? Safari on iOS may not be perfect, but speed has never been an issue with me in all the time I've used an iPad. Security is, and Safari rates pretty highly in this regard. Internet Explorer on the other hand...
3. Windows 8 can hold more devices
And finally, Volkman puts forward the argument that using the Devices function enables Windows 8 to easily access multiple files and add-ons in a single domain as his final compelling reason as to why Windows 8 will prove 'fierce competition' to the iPad.
Try selling Windows 8 on the back of this functionality to your average consumer and watch them drop into a coma right there in the store. Try convincing existing iPad owners that this is the missing functionality they have been waiting for and watch them not flock to switch to Windows 8 in their droves. Are you serious? This pretty much smells like straw clutching to me now.
With the iPad 3 hitting the shelves before Windows 8 even wakes up, replete with that gorgeous new screen resolution and much faster graphics processor, I have to admit that I cannot see Apple quaking in its boots at the prospect of any Windows 8 powered tablet nor, to be honest, can I see many prospective purchasers being tempted to turn towards Windows 8 instead of iOS. Indeed, surely Android remains the biggest threat to the iPad, and Windows 8 is unlikely to change that in any meaningful way.
Yes, it does seem to be a stretch of the imagination but when you state that the ipad 3 has a much faster processor, I'm afraid that your credibility takes a nose dive. The CPU is the same, only the GPU is more powerful in that it is now quad core to cope with the quad-increase in resolution.
I have made it clear in the copy now that it is the graphics processor which is upgraded, in case anyone else was confused by it. The quad-core processor still puts it ahead of most (all?) of the competing tablets though. The graphics processing being, after all, one of the more important aspects of such a graphically intensive UI as iOS on an iPad.
Windows 8 is not about being an iPad killer. When you look at all of Apple's products, only the iPad (in my view) stands out. There are other phones better than the iPhone (including the new Nokia WP7 phones) and there are OEM laptops and desktops which are better than Apple's offerings. The only place where Apple truly excels is the iPad.
The iPad bridges the gap between the phone and the laptop. For a huge number of people it will NEVER replace the laptop for serious work. The iPad is geared more towards content consumption than content creation, and for that it is perfect.
However, the iPad is restricted in what it can do. For example, it can't display two apps side by side. It's only available in 4:3 size and not in widescreen format. Some people will want a tablet that overcomes these limitations and for that segment, Windows 8 will allow tablet manufacturers to provide a better experience than what the iPad offers for those that need it.
Therefore I don't think Win 8 is anything to do with killing the iPad - and why should it be? The iPad is afterall a nice device, which works great and is liked by millions. Windows 8 provides the means for the OEMs to offer more options in the tablet market, and offer better options for the corporate market. I'm sure that the likes of Nokia could develop a beautiful highly desirable tablet that could well be an iPad killer. But it's not Windows 8 itself that is the iPad killer - it's the manufacturers like Nokia who could make an iPad killer.
Okay, is this article just trying shout down Karl Volkman's piece about why Windows 8 is an iPad killer? In which case, surely "Karl Volkman on Windows 8: Massive Fail" would be a better title for you?
So, massive fail - your only argument, other than to diss this guy's 3 points, is to say "Microsoft's done it before AND FAILED."
But that was 20 years ago! In tech, that's several life times. I once used a Newton (though several years after they were discontinued), and I thought it was pretty crap - didn't stop Apple making the iPad amazing, did it.
I agree that this guy's 3 points aren't compelling reasons as to why Windows 8 is an iPad killer, but that doesn't say anything - it's been proved that features don't/aren't the only thing that make tablets (or any hardware) good. But these three points are not the only reasons why Windows 8 may give the iPad some competition - for one, it'll run *any* Windows App - that's pretty amazing. A designer friend of mine has been critical of PhotoShop for iPad. Well for windows 8, you get PhotoShop - the real one! Nice. That's a pretty big plus.
So, Massive Fail? Maybe - but we'll have to wait and see. This article does absolutely nothing to prove this one way or the other.
And before you start dissing this Windows fanboy here, I have - and love - an iPad, and have the new one on the way.
Have you ever used Windows 8? On a PC? On a tablet?
It seems like you are talking about things that YOU HAVE NEVER USED. It clearly shows in the "Windows 8 is more customizable" rant that you delivered. Are you paid per word? This article contains absolutely no insight at all and is poorly researched. This makes it a waste of time for the readers and a waste of money for DaniWeb. I sure would like 5 minutes back.
Yes the article was a response to the Volkman release.
Yes I have used Windows 8 on a PC.
No I am not paid by the word.
I suppose I'm the only one here that enjoyed this article. :(
W8/Tablet - OK, but I'd say so what. As mentioned, iPad fills a niche at the mo, some competition out there at last, but can't see a W8-enabled tablet killing it off.
Anyway, some like their reporting to be vanilla without the vanilla. As long as the facts are not too massaged, I don't mind an actual opinion, even if I don't agree with it.
it'll run *any* Windows App
It actually won't run *any PC windows app at all* as long as the processor being used in the tablet is ARM. And that trend isn't likely to change.
You see PCs (MAC computers included) have CPUs with X86/64 architecture these days and programs that are written to work on x86/64 wont work on an ARM architecture period
It actually won't run *any PC windows app at all* as long as the processor being used in the tablet is ARM. And that trend isn't likely to change.
You see PCs (MAC computers included) have CPUs with X86/64 architecture these days and programs that are written to work on x86/64 wont work on an ARM architecture period
Not hate - just mild annoyance. I just fail to see how the article itself and the title of the article relate, that's all. Perhaps if the author had gone into details, such as this detail you have educated me on, saying that it will fail because most Windows 8 tablets wont run native windows apps, and stuff, then I'd have not thought so ill of the original article.
To be honest, this divide between Intel/Arm could be a big problem for Windows 8, could it not? Again - I'm not necessarily disputing the title of the original article - just that the content of the article does nothing to back it up.
Regardless, thank you! I had not thought of this. A quick search reveals that at least HP and Lenovo are both working on Intel based Windows 8 tablets, but I do take your point - at least at the lower end of the market, I would fully expect pretty much all Windows 8 tablets to be arm based.
It actually won't run *any PC windows app at all* as long as the processor being used in the tablet is ARM.
That's not strictly true either. Any ARM tablet will run some PC Windows apps, but only those which have been written by Microsoft and recompiled for ARM. So it looks like 3rd parties can only write Metro apps for ARM tablets.
That is why all the ARM tablets will also have a desktop mode and will include Microsoft Office, free of charge from what I have read.
Rikg, thats probably an error from my side that you thought I was labelling your post as a hate post. I actually was pointing to the original article/thread.
I am curious to read all about window 8 . but not got mcuh info still thanks for the info hope to read more about the topic.
With 3 Destops, 1 Laptop, 1 Notebook running 4 different OSs. I can see how a good windows tablet with USB, HDMI and various different cards supported could blunt the iPad juggernaut. A lot of people of which I'm one just don't like how Apple controls the usage of an $800+ machine. For those who only use their tablet as an appliance for social media the iPad is probably the way to go. The ability to run full size applications such as Quicken or other non main stream software will push the others in my opinion to one of the new tablets running Windows 8. Again, it depends on MS not pulling a Vista.
Microsoft's new Saurface tablet is a killer of Apple's iPad. It has pre-installed Windows 8 and all new features which are never seen.
The pricing on the Surface (ARM versions starting at $199) could certainly dent any iPad 7-inch interest. Combine it with the positive comments on the Nexus7 and latest Samsung Galaxy, it is likely more people will at least look beyond the iPad. Having said that, I'm not convinced that the desktop is going to help adoption. It must be acknowledged that iPad apps are not identical on MacBook or iMac either (nor do they have a consistent UI).
I just want to sit on the fence about Windows 8, just for now, as my position is I love it so far but I am involved in a large organisation that may want to upgrade to WIN8. This organisation has more than 10,000 plus PC's and dosen't have the most youthful demographic of users.
To start my dilemma of Windows 8, I was in a local computer store yesterday and this old Grand-Pop was arguing with one of the shop assistants(SA) that somehow this (SA) had ripped him off and he wanted a refund or a different computer etc, etc.. Eventually I heard enough to understand he was complaining about having Windows 8 on his new computer. He could not get into anything or shut it down and had spent hours trying to get it going so he could surf. (Sounded like he never got to surf)
My eight year old son also has trouble using it and now has moved over to our iMac 27" and asks if a game is available on the mac. We use to fight to get on the windows machine. He now has unconsciously move away from Windows eight. (Thank you Microsoft) :)
I think training is required for the lay persons for sure before leaving the store. I have spent time with my son trying to teach him WIN8 but he lost interest and believes in his head it is too hard, which really it isn't. Which reminds me of the old man.
Can you imagine if this organisation upgraded to win8.. 'yer! It aint gonna be pretty' :) Really need to pilot first and then decide instad of imposing WIN8 on all these users.
One good thing is my wife is happy about the less time our son spends on the computers now, as sits on her iPad while we eat diner. People are funny.
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Experiences from the Departments of Transportation (DOTS) of multiple states in selecting telecommunications options.
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In the deregulated telecommunications environment, agencies have a much wider and more varied choice for telecommunications services. There are many firms, each offering different services, prices and business arrangements. As a result, agencies will need to carefully consider the basis for its decision to contract with a Competitive Access Provider (CAP). This decision process requires that agencies fully understand their system requirements, as these will inform the selection of the most appropriate choice. In addition, there are a number of other implications of choosing a CAP that need to be considered. These include:
- Plan for access fees charged by the local phone company. The local phone company will charge access fees to CAPs, so agencies will need to consider the effect of these fees on the overall cost of the telecommunications network.
- Consider how the CAP will interconnect with the local phone company's network. It is highly likely that the CAP will need to interconnect with the local phone company's network; however, cross provider interconnects represent situations where cost is incurred and where responsibility becomes disputed if there are service problems. Thus, the form of the interconnect and how responsibility is delegated for problems along the interconnect will need to be addressed.
- Assess the specific capabilities of the CAPs and their quality of service. There may be significant differences in the capabilities of CAPs, so agencies should pay careful attention to the services that the CAPs offer. For example, some CAPs may be able to offer dark fiber or unloaded twisted pairs, while others may be limited to specific types of services. As part of this assessment, agencies should consider the quality of service provided by different CAPs (this may include measures of bit error rate, reliability, or other relevant factors).
- Assess the business stability of the CAPs under consideration. In the current deregulated environment, firms with relatively smaller assets are still able to enter the market. The long-term stability of these firms, however, may be questionable, and the agency may find itself in a long-term contract with a firm that is no longer in business in the region.
- Investigate the local manpower resources of the CAP. Agencies will want to determine that the CAP has the necessary local manpower to diagnose and respond to problems or outages.
- Consider the ability to modify the contract. Agencies will want to insure that they are able to modify their contract with a CAP to allow for growth. In order for networks to evolve and grow, agencies must be able to explore their options for interconnection and integration with other systems.
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Printable Version Pronunciation: de-ko • Hear it!
Part of Speech: Verb
Meaning: (British slang) To look, take a look, take a gander.
Notes: Like many borrowed slang words, this one has not formed a family. The only problem it presents is in its spelling. It began to appear in the 1850s without the final O as dekh or deck. By the early 1900s we find it as dekho, decko and, finally, in today's preferred spelling dekko. Although we list it at a verb, like so many verbs (look included), it may be freely used as a noun: "Take a dekko at that!"
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Word History: Today's Good British Word was brought home from India by British soldiers in the 19th century. Its source is Hindi Dekho! "See!", the imperative of dekhna "to see". The Proto-Indo-European root that produced this word in Hindi's parent language, Sanskrit, turned up in the Greek word drakon "dragon", which filtered down through Latin and French to English. (Don't ask where the R came from.) The Germanic languages used it, too, for it entered Old English as torht "bright", a word which never made it out of Old English. More remarkable is how the Latin diminutive of dracon, dracunculus, was worn down by French to draoncle "festering sore". English then borrowed it and honed it a bit more into rankle. (We are getting a dekko at today's Good Word because Luciano Eduardo de Oliveira, the Alpha Agora's Brazilian Dude, was kind enough to suggest it.)
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The former analysts say it has been going on for years.Numerous officials say that at the center of the record-changing effort is an official in the data center, Steve Tankovich.
He is the executive director of the Office of Accountability Systems. Working closely with Tankovich were four or five data workers known at Kingswood as "the state reporting group," who had authority to change the district's student records.
They had that power even though their job was solely to report data directly to the Ohio Department of Education, former data officials said."We would think, 'Why do they have access (to make changes) at all?' " one person said."I've never worked at a school district that does that," said another."You could clearly see where (the state reporting group) had gone in and changed the data" because the district's system records the times of all changes and who logged in to make them, a third former analyst said.
All three spoke on the condition that they not be named, as they work in similar jobs for new employers.Superintendent Gene Harris said she knew nothing of the allegations that principals were changing numbers until recently.
She said she's waiting for results of an investigation. When asked whether she had ever heard from her principals that they had been instructed to change data, Harris said she wants to be careful not to disrupt the investigation.
But she added that, during meetings over the past two weeks, "The principals talked about the process." About 20 principals either referred calls from The Dispatch to the district's communications office or didn't return calls left at their schools or homes.
As for the data analysts' allegations, Harris questioned why they never told her. "People know how much I care about Columbus City Schools.
They know that. They have to know that. Why wouldn't they tell me they thought there was an action that was so horrible that was going on that needed to be stopped?" Harris said on Friday.
In an effort to avoid counting the absences of high-school students who were often out of school, some schools would assign them to a "zero homeroom" where attendance simply wasn't taken, the former data analysts said.
"I'd be outraged by that," Harris said.
The large-scale records changes might have caused confusion at the Franklin County Juvenile Court and even among school secretaries who were surprised to find students suddenly listed as withdrawn after data-center workers altered the official student records.
"You're going to find students who (the district had) no reason to dis-enroll and re-enroll," said Tim Phillips, a retired data manager from the Kingswood center.
"It was totally undocumented."Another group of part-time data changers, which some district officials called "the A-team" because of its work with student attendance, also changed attendance records. Most changes were legitimate — for example, calling parents to check on the reasons for absences — but other changes lacked documentation.
Many changes occurred in October, when the district recorded attendance to earn per-student state financial aid. The district would count suspended students as attending school, justifying the change by saying that the student had been assigned homework. The state says students can be counted if they are receiving "instructional services" at home.
"As (state) report cards got more and more important, there was a more-liberal interpretation" of when records could be changed and for what reasons, one former data analyst at the Kingswood Center said. "They would always go ahead and say, 'Attendance is one of those things that we can hit the goal on.' "
Attendance is one of the few benchmarks that Columbus City Schools, one of the state's most academically troubled districts, routinely met. Tankovich declined repeated attempts to be interviewed for this story. The district's public-relations office said he doesn't wish to be interviewed because there's an ongoing investigation.
In a 2008 memo to high-school principals from Tankovich's office, the data center provided a series of reasons that absent students could be withdrawn and re-enrolled, erasing their absences from the state report card. A student who was ill, for example, could be retroactively withdrawn — as if the student had left the district — instead of counting the absences. Then with another keystroke, the student could be readmitted.
An earlier draft of the memo, which was created but not sent, alerted principals about what Tankovich's office was doing. "You will notice that some students were withdrawn after a long absence," it says.It suggests that principals withdraw students who travel over the winter break but "do not return promptly" when break is over. And it reminds them of the rule that any student who withdraws between October and March doesn't count toward that building's attendance and test-score data.
"We hope this information will be helpful to you and your staff in minimizing your absences," the draft said."Please call Stephen Tankovich ... if you have questions about the information in this memo," both versions stated. The district's internal auditor and the state Department of Education are investigating the retroactive changes to records, many of which occurred each June, right before information was delivered to the state. Harris has twice asked the state auditor's office to investigate, but thus far it is not doing so.
The Education Department hasn't said how it plans to examine the district's attendance records. The department has systems in place to catch significant swings in the school data reported by districts, and cursory looks at Columbus' attendance-rate data have seen nothing out of the ordinary, Jeanine Molock, the department's director of accountability, has said.
The department has not said whether it flags other attendance anomalies. For example, it's very rare for schools to have great attendance but very poor academic performance.High attendance is likely to accompany strong academic performance. That link varies, but in Columbus and Cincinnati, the correlation between attendance and test scores is particularly weak, state data show. Of more than 3,600 schools statewide, only 16 have attendance rates above 94 percent but a test-score index that would equate to an F. Four of those buildings are in Columbus. One is in Cincinnati. One is in Cleveland. The rest are charter schools.


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Longtime incumbent Carl Kruger will face Vyacheslav Patrin next week. Kruger joined the State Senate in 1994, and became the first democratic and minority member to chair a committee - the Senate Committee on Social Services, Children and Families.
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Robert Ross wrote: > > What do you mean "Linux is assigning both IPs to the first NIC"? > Something like: > > # ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.1 > # ifconfig eth1 192.168.1.2 > > doesn't work? > > On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Karl Bellve wrote: > > > The question is, is it possible to use two NICs with their own unique IP > > on the same subnet? I would then allow half of our computers to connect > > to one IP and the other half to the other IP. I know this isn't load > > balancing but I think this should be doable. > > > > Right now, Linux is assigning both IPs to the first NICs since they have > > the same netmask and gateway. This should work -- except that there will be a few problems because both cards are on the same subnet (although IP addresses differ). You may want to adjust your routing so that only one card handles broadcasts. Load balancing with two cards on the same subnet also requires route adjustments. Something like this may be needed: /sbin/route add -host 192.168.1.3 dev eth1 /sbin/route add -host 192.168.1.4 dev eth0 /sbin/route add -host 192.168.1.5 dev eth1 /sbin/route add -host 192.168.1.6 dev eth0 # # continue for all subnet hosts... # # Pick broadcast interface (eth0 chosen, eth1 won't broadcast) # /sbin/route add -host 192.168.1.255 dev eth0 /sbin/route del -net 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 dev eth1 # # Required by DHCP protocol (eth0 chosen, eth1 won't broadcast) # /sbin/route add -host 255.255.255.255 dev eth0 # # Required by NTP broadcast (also see route man page) # /sbin/route add -net 126.96.36.199 netmask 240.0.0.0 dev eth0 Even with all of the above, there may be problems if routing sends outgoing traffic along eth0 but the remote host responds to eth1. Careful matching of hostnames etc. is required, and in the end the whole construction may still run into problems (e.g. PBS does not like it when 'host' resolves to different IP addresses at different nodes). Overall, you can get a minor benefit, but there will be a price to pay. Your setup will be more complicated and thus more likely to generate problems. Sincerely, Josip -- Dr. Josip Loncaric, Senior Staff Scientist mailto:josip at icase.edu ICASE, Mail Stop 132C PGP key at http://www.icase.edu./~josip/ NASA Langley Research Center mailto:j.loncaric at larc.nasa.gov Hampton, VA 23681-2199, USA Tel. +1 757 864-2192 Fax +1 757 864-6134
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A show based on a loose adaptation of Arabian Nights and Aladdin. This Aladdin travels the world to seek treasure and encountering magicians and genies. Airs: Sunday, October 7 (CR Stream begins Wednesday, October 10) Studio: A-1 Pictures ANN Entry Official Site Crunchyroll (Coming Soon) Aladdin, the primary protagonist, is traveling a desert land, with a magic flute that summons a djinn named Ugo. The djinn has a huge and muscular body, but cannot remove his head from the flute, giving him a headless appearance and frequently causing even people he is trying to rescue to mistake him for a monster. The two meet Alibaba, a seemingly greedy and aloof young man who is trying to get rich, and realizes that Ugo would be a powerful ally to explore a nearby treasure-filled dungeon. As they adventure together, they become true friends, along with Morgianna, a slave girl from a distant land that they free from her master. The three encounter other djinn and find hints that they may be destined to decide who will rule the world. Note As usual, please try to follow these three easy forum courtesy habits when replying: 1) If you're the first person to post about an episode in any given week, please respond to the root post (this post) and indicate in the subject line which episode you're posting about. 2) If someone has already posted about an episode before you, please respond to that post (or a relevant reply to that post). Keep in the right subthread. 3) Don't use the blue "Post Reply" button because it causes your reply not to correctly inherit the subject line of the post you're replying to. Just click "Quote" to the post you want to reply to.
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As per today's announcement, this show is airing on Crunchyroll on Wednesdays, not Sundays like in Japan. I'm definitely looking forward to watching this. I first heard about this show after seeing some rather unusual cosplayers at a recent con. Then I looked it up, and it seemed like something really special considering how much I absolutely love Disney's animated movie Aladdin.
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Episode 1
*looks at voice cast* 0_0 Holy shit.
Anyway, that was a decent first episode. I find it very, very hard to pretend that Aladdin is a boy. I mean, I know he's supposed to be, but, um, that's a girl. Apparently Aladdin was originally supposed to be a girl but was then changed to a boy at the last minute. It really, really shows. To whoever made that *brilliant* decision: FUCK YOU.
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Episode 1:
- o_O Oh god, Aladdin is Ishihara Kaori. Ahahaha, great, I'm going to expect a "MARU!" in every scene. - Uhhhhhhh. Aladdin likes manboobs. - I hope his level of naivete is just being exaggerated for the purposes of allowing Ali Baba to give us exposition. He's a little too clueless. - Slave girl! I love her already. Nice that we meet her so soon - hope she joins the gang by next episode. - UGO SMASH. - More big boobs for Aladdin. I wonder how many thousands of shouta doujins exist for this show. - And a really nice sequence to end the episode. Okay, Aladdin may act naive sometimes, but seems like he's actually a very good character judge and is capable of being quite serious when needed. Pretty awesome. Can't wait for more of the slave girl too.
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Aladdin likes the bewbs. And it doesn't matter who has them.
I know he was supposed to a girl at first, but why did they keep the chest bandages? He's a pretty awesome character though. Please, stoic ass kicking girl, come back soon. I see you in the OP, so you have to come back.
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It wasn't a last minute change, it was just the original concept, and of course it got changed, it's a shounen manga, name how many of them have female leads... apart from Medaka Box, none I can think of. I'll take the Aladdin, Alibaba, Mor (you don't get Mor period if the original concept survived) trio over the Lolidadin + Roidbaba original concept anyday of the week. The Sunday editor was spot on for telling her to gtfo with that concept. Now female Sinbad otoh.... http://i.imgur.com/uAYWe.gif Manga got a fuckload of revisions.....
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The beginning was pretty LOL
That Aladdin sure is one clueless kid. Alibaba got himself and interesting leech. Those two together are like a trouble magnet. It was nice how Alibaba finally found some courage. Nice first episode. Interesting concept. Has lots of potential.
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So it begins where Aladdin is a freeloader who had just met a genie, and Alibaba who gets into trouble when Aladdin is eating a bunch of watermelon. Then things get even more troubling when Aladdin frees the slave Moriganna. Then they transport wine and are attacked by a monster that is weak against wine. Aladdin has a great power with his flute to summon the genie, and his turban as a magic carpet.
I had high expectations for this show, and the first episode delivers. Aladdin comes in as being an oddball who is frequently in chibi form, and one who values friendship more than anything. Then there is Alibaba who is looking for adventure and has been wanting to explore that dungeon, and now he has a companion that can help him tackle that dungeon. Great setup overall, and the next episode should really be something.
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Wow, other than the content itself, this is exactly like Blue Exorcist. Aniplex makes a big deal out of it in both Japan and America, having their own studio, A-1 Pictures, adapt the ongoing shounen action manga, giving it top-notch production values, a big band for the OP, an all-star seiyuu cast, and the grand feel that most standard shounen anime doesn't get, then giving it its own website in America and promoting the hell out of it on all venues and acting like it's really the next FMA or something, giving it a "simulcast" that's actually a few days late, on both Crunchyroll and Hulu, free for all viewers at the same time, and I believe it was even the exact same time (I know it was on Wednesdays, at least). And beyond just being an unusually high-profile adaptation of a long-running shounen action manga, the content is actually kind of similar in that neither are the kinds of stories I expect to see in this kinds of manga and anime. Blue Exorcist was The Power of Christ vs. Satan, and this is Aladdin. So far the quality is about the same, so that gives me hope that this will probably be better than I probably would've expected from first glance at the source material.
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I've never been fond of the pervert kid (oh, he/she gets to molest people but it's cute cause its a kid). It's also not really realistic (kids are usually asexual unless they've been abused). That combined with slavery being prominent--even if treated as a bad thing--it's not for me and so I'm out.
Backgrounds were pretty though. And yes, Aladdin should have been a girl.
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This smooth, sweet fudge from Paula Truksa of Jewett, Texas is loaded with nuts and chewy fruit and would be just right for holiday gift-giving.
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- 1/4 cup chopped dried apricots
- 1/4 cup dried cherries
- 1/4 cup dried cranberries
- Line a 9-in. square pan with foil and grease the foil with 1 teaspoon butter; set aside.
- In a large heavy saucepan, combine the confectioners' sugar, milk and remaining butter. Cook and stir over medium heat until combined. Bring to a boil; boil for 5 minutes without stirring. Reduce heat to low; stir in white chocolate. Cook and stir until chocolate is melted.
- Remove from the heat; stir in extract. Fold in the almonds, apricots, cherries and cranberries. Immediately spread into prepared pan. Refrigerate for 2 hours or until set.
- Using foil, lift fudge out of pan. Discard foil; cut fudge into 1-in. squares. Store in the refrigerator. Yield: about 2 pounds.
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Great Recipe! My family loves this fudge. It is very rich, so cut it into very small squares. My all-time favorite fudge!
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From Jewett? WOW!! I thought I was the only person from there. I've been gone alot of years but my family still lives there.
Reviewed Nov. 29, 2010
I have been making this fudge for a few years now and everyone loves it. Very easy and pretty too
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I made this around Christmas and still getting complements on it. Its very pretty and easy and tastes great. A beautiul holiday fudge.
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Hoodies and The Hunger Games: A look at 'Post-Racial' Pop Culture society
"If a cop looks at three kids on the corner, and they've got those hoodies up -- and this is where I got in trouble with the Trayvon Martin case -- if they've got those hoodies up, and they're hanging out on the corner, the cops look at them and say, 'Hmm, hoodies. Who else wears hoodies? Everybody that ever stuck up a convenience store, D.B. Cooper, the guy that hijacked a plane, Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber..." - Geraldo Rivera (O'Reilly Factor March 23, 2012)
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Every urban film has a bad guy in a hoodie (see: Tupac in "Juice"). A dark alley way, that street with only one working street light to cover the entire block; a little old lady, middle aged woman or college co-ed is on her way home, it's late and here comes the dreaded villain in his evil doer costume. It is the quintessential cinematic thug attire, without dialogue a young man in a hoodie speaks volumes.
I guess that's what television commentator Geraldo Rivera meant when he suggested that merely wearing a hoodie was cause for bizarre criminal profiling on the part of police and block watch captains armed with semi-automatic handguns.
In a 2009 internet piece entitled "Hoodies strike fear in British cinema," British newspaper The Guardian takes a look at the hoodie as film noir. The piece references films like vigilante thriller "Harry Brown" starring Michael Cain and cites research conducted on British newspaper reporting showing that the word "hoodie" is often interchanged with words like "thug."
It seems in the UK, the hooded villain is more terrifying to moviegoers than just about any other character, including zombies. Which makes sense, I guess, you're not afraid of zombies robbing you when you leave the theater. A young man in a hoodie on the other hand strikes fear in the hearts of a large part of our society.
The Problem is how do you differentiate between the good hoodies and the bad hoodies? Is it the person under the hood that makes all the difference?
Throw a hoodie on a cute white kid for some hip-hop video or an episode of MTV's popular television show America's Next Dance Crew, and instantly they are transformed into a cute loveable urban dancing machine; fun for the whole family to enjoy. The hoodie is like street cred in a bottle as long as you don't "fit the description."
Unbeknownst to Trayvon Martin, when he decided to leave the house on that rainy day in February, the hooded sweatshirt he chose to wear had years of theatrical and cultural residue stuck to it. He wasn't t some adorable dancing teenager on the X Factor. No, he was that character from "Boyz n the Hood."
Had he known that he would transform into the boogie man, he might have chosen a rain coat. Wait…those have hoods too.
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Those of you unfamiliar with the best-selling book The Hunger Games, now a blockbuster major motion picture, may not know that there are several Black characters in the book. This obvious fact seems to have been overlooked by some "fans" of the novel who took to twitter over the weekend to spew unintelligent banter about the skin color of some of the film's lead characters.
Detailed by Jezebel.com writer Dodai Stewart, young moviegoers—who in their own mind envisioned lead characters Thresh played by actor Dayo Okeniyi (pictured below right), Cinna (a non-Black character played by Lenny Kravitz) and Rue played by Amandla Stenberg (pictured lesft), as white—were dismayed by the choice of producers to cast Black actors to play significant roles.
A few of the most offensive tweets have been collected on the tumblr page Hunger Games Tweets. Often degrading and at times unbelievably hateful, Rue, an especially popular and sentimental character, garnered the most vitriolic rhetoric from the outrageous tweets.
"Why is Rue a little Black girl" asked Haylee Franklin under the ironic hash tag "sticktothebookDUDE"
"Call me racist but when I found out Rue was black her death wasn't as sad" said tweeter Jashper Paras
What's especially interesting is that Stenberg is only 13 years old. However that didn't stop fans from insulting the budding young star in a very vicious and personal nature.
"Since when has Rue been a nigger," tweeted Cliff Kigar
Tweeter EJ Santiago said "How in the world are they going to make Rue a freaking Black bitch in the movie ?!?!??! lolol not to be racist buuuuut….. I'm angry now ;0"
As Stewart so effectively points out, many of these "fans"simply never envisioned a black face even though the text clearly described Thresh and Rue as Black:
"Here's what scares me…All these… people… read the Hunger Games. Clearly, they all fell in love with and cared about Rue. Though what they really fell in love with was an image of Rue that they'd created in their minds."
"These people are mad that the girl that they cried over while reading the book was "some black girl" all along. So now they're angry. Wasted tears, wasted emotions. It's sad to think that had they known that she was black all along, there would have been no sorrow or sadness over her death."
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While perusing Facebook the other day, comments by friend and fellow writer Kenya Evans caught my attention. She posted: "So much for folks claiming we are in a post-racist America just because we have a president that's half black," on her Facebook page in response to The Hunger Games controversy. While I share Evans' sentiments about this nonsense, I shared those same sentiments four years ago when Fox News commentator Sean Hannity was trying to convince viewers that matters of race could no longer be discussed because Obama was supposed to be a "Post-Racial President."
The term "post-racial" should be retired; it should be buried, dug up and buried again and then cremated. It is not real and never was. We live in a time when race matters to readers of books, viewers of cinema and listeners of music. And while everyone would love to pretend that the "next generation" has moved beyond race, we are fooling ourselves. These so-called enlightened teenagers care as much about race as their parents ever did.
The Trayvon Martin case and this latest racial scurge known as the Hunge Games tweets demonstrates that popular culture hasen't progressed nearly as far as we would like to believe. If we'd stop patting ourselves on the back for electing a Black president long enough we might've noticed our old fears and insecurities about race haven't gone away. These feelings are storming beneath our skin, even after decades of good sounding rhetoric and the advent of social media which is often lauded for bringing the whole world closer together. Thanks Twiiter, great job!
Interesting how a 17 year old boy and 13 year girl could remind us of this ugly reality.
"Those people were confused because Rue and Thresh didn't wear a hoodie in the book"
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I like your article a lot. I'm not black but I'm not white either. I can't stand rasicm at all. To that stupid girl who wanted Gary Ross to cast a white girl as Rue, and stay close to the book, the tribute from district 11 were described as mostly with darker skin. It's not the director or actors fault that she can't read details in a book and that her imagination is racist. And to the girl the said Rues death wasn't as sad, I saw plenty of white people crying in the theatre for a little black girl because frankly death is death and is always sad. I thunk the actors cast did a brilliant job and for those who judge them because of their skin, do the world a favor and grow up.


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Joseph Stiglitz, among other things a Nobel Prize economist, has an absolutely superb column explaining why Janet Yellen really is the clear choice over Larry Summers as the next head of the Federal Reserve Board. It will be interesting to observe Congress's behavior in light of the President's stunningly inept presentation of his Syria policy (and, for that matter, his toleration of a perjurious Director of National Intelligence and general lack of openness, even to members of Congress, on vital matters of intelligence. See, e.g., Alan Grayson's excellent column in the Times.) As a formal matter, there is obviously no direct connection between these decisions. But, as Mark Twain once quipped, the 13th chime of a clock puts into doubt the previous twelve. The President is rapidly losing whatever charisma remained after his re-election (which one might argue was the result of an almost futuristic get-out-the-vote campaign than anything he particularly said). And policies inevitably get intertwined because of political realities, even if the punditry can properly separate them. So I would expect that a greatly weakened President Obama, having been repudiated by significant numbers of his own party (and base) would have a harder time explaining why Wall Street's favorite is his pick to head the Fed. One might even see a filibuster made up of other than obstructionist Republicans (e.g., Bernie Sanders).
"which one might argue was the result of an almost futuristic get-out-the-vote campaign than anything he particularly said"
I would argue it was more about what Willard Romney said, especially the bit where he hired all of Cheney's favorite neocons to be on his war cabinet. In fact, while I oppose action in Syria, I still thank the American voters every day for not returning the neocon cabal to the White House. What Obama is doing (like handing the matter of to congress, where it belongs) is so much better than what those bastards would be doing it's hard to even calculate.
What Scott Supak said, plus Romney's 47 percent comment.
As for Obama's resigning, I tend to agree that a parliamentary system would be better than what we have--it could hardly be worse. But we don't have one, and if everyone whom Obama nominates and everything he proposes gets voted down 435-0 in the House and 100-0 in the Senate, he won't resign, anymore than he'll start prosecuting war criminals and torturers instead of whistleblowers.
Why would any sane Senate confirm the appointment of either Yellen or Summers?
Both would continue the same Fed policies of printing massive amounts of fiat money which have grossly inflated the prices of world equity and commodity markets, setting both up for crashes. Yellen has championed this madness during her tenure with the SF Fed. They both would continue the current unsustainable government borrowing and spending, which Summers helped design in the Obama administration. They only differ in degree in advancing policies more familiar to Argentina than the United States.
Our SALADISTA, libertarian that he (on occasion) is, apparently yearns for an Ayn Rad-y head of the Fed in the nature of an Alan Greenspan who lost his economics embouchure long before his term expired, or who never really had the chops for the job.
There is a reason why Greenspan served five terms as a bipartisan Fed Chair across nearly all of the Reagan Prosperity (1983-2007) - the Fed stayed within its proper role and competence of maintaining a sound currency.
Methinks our SALADISTA is a tad "irrationally exuberant" about the accomplishments of Alan Greenspan as Fed Chair and his not observing the "bubbles" he was blowing out of his economic sax with joyous refrains of markets in admiration of Ayn Rand, finally shrugging when an obvious bubble burst. OOPS!
Hope everything will turn for the better and the country is and will be in good hands.
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