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NL East Recap 8-24
Filed Under (Daily Recap, NL East Chatter) by Chris Comando on 25-08-2010
Tagged Under : Adam Kennedy, Alex Gonzalez, Alfonso Soriano, Angel Pagan, Atlanta Braves, Bud Norris, Carlos Beltran, Carlos Gonzalez, Carlos Lee, Carlos Marmol, Carlos Zambrano, Chicago Cubs, Clay Hensley, Cole Hamels, Colorado Rockies, david herndon, Derek Lowe, Dexter Fowler, Florida Marlins, Gaby Sanchez, Hisanori Takahashi, Houston Astros, Huston Street, Ike davis, Jeff Francoeur, Jeff Fulchino, Jimmy Rollins, John Lannan, Jorge De La Rosa, Josh Johnson, Luis Castillo, New York Mets, Philadelphia Phillies, R.A. Dickey, Raul Ibanez, Roy Oswalt, Ryan Howard, Ryan Zimmerman, Seth Smith, Tyler Colvin, Washington Nationals, Will Ohman, Wilton Lopez
Phillies vs. Astros
The Phillies and Astros played a wild game Tuesday night in Philadelphia. The game featured a pitcher's duel, ninth inning home run, and a key ejection that forced the Phillies to use a pitcher in the field. In the end, the Astos defeated the Phillies by a score of 4-2 in a 16 inning marathon.
The Astros got on the board first in the fourth inning when Carlos Lee hit a two-run homer off of Phillies' starter Cole Hamels. The Phils got a run back off of Houston starter Bud Norris in the sixth on a Raul Ibanez RBI double, but the Astros held on to a 2-1 lead entering the ninth inning.   With two outs in the ninth, Jimmy Rollins blasted a solo home run off of Houston reliever Wilton Lopez to tie the game and send it to extra innings. Then things got really interesting.
 Neither team could find a way to score in extra frames. In the bottom of the 14th, Ryan Howard came up with two runners on and two outs. Howard had two check swings ruled strikes by third base umpire Scott Barry, the last being strike three. When Howard tossed his bat and helmet after the strike out, Barry ejected Howard, causing the Phillies first baseman to charge towards the umpire before being restrained. The ejection left the Phillies short a position player, and forced manager Charlie Manuel to insert pitcher Roy Oswalt in left field.Â
The Astros finally broke the tie in the top of the 16th off of reliever David Herndon (1-3), scratching out two runs on an infield single and fielder's choice. In the bottom of the inning, Howard's ejection loomed large again.  Astros' reliever Jeff Fulchino (1-0) retired the first two batters, but after walking Placido Polanco, Houston intentionally walked Chase Utley to bring up "clean up hitter" Roy Oswalt.  Fulchino got Oswalt to ground out to end the game and give Houston the victory.
Marlins vs. Mets
 The Mets' slumbering offense knocked out Marlins' ace Josh Johnson after five innings and used single runs in the final two innings to defeat Florida by a score of 6-5 at Citi Field.
The Mets broke a 2-2 tie with two runs in the fifth off of Johnson, thanks to an RBI single by Carlos Beltran and Jeff Francoeur's second sacrifice fly of the game. Mets' starter R.A. Dickey kept the Mets in the lead until the seventh. With two outs and two on in the seventh, Dickey allowed a three-run homer to Gaby Sanchez to give Florida a 5-4 lead. However, the Mets came back against the Marlins' bullpen.
With two outs in the eighth, Angel Pagan doubled and Beltran drove in his second run of the game with a run-scoring single off of Clay Hensley to tie the game at 5. Â After Hisanori Takahashi (8-6) retired the Marlins in the top of the ninth, Luis Castillo hit a two-out single off of Will Ohman (0-2) to score Ike Davis and give the Mets the walk-off victory.
Nationals vs. Cubs
The Cubs' Carlos Zambrano pitched effectively into the eighth inning, and closer Carlos Marmol survived a shaky ninth as Chicago held on to defeat the Nationals 5-4 in Washington.
Nationals' starter John Lannan (5-6) allowed a three-run homer to Alfonso Soriano and a two-run shot to Tyler Colvin as the Cubs built a 5-1 lead. Meanwhile, Zambrano (5-6) allowed just one run and five hits over 7 1/3 innings, striking out eight.  Marmol entered the game in the bottom of the eighth with the bases loaded, but struck out Ian Desmond to keep the score at 5-1.
In the ninth, Marmol created his own bases loaded mess, and with two outs, Adam Kennedy cleared the bases with a three-run double to cut Chicago's lead to 5-4. Luckily for the Cubbies, Marmol rebounded to retire Ryan Zimmerman on a fly ball to preserve the victory. Despite allowing three runs, Marmol was credited with his 23rd save of the season since he entered the game with the tying run at the plate.
Braves vs. Rockies
The first place Atlanta Braves received a solid starting pitching performance from Derek Lowe, but the Rockies' Jorge De La Rosa was better on Tuesday night, and the Braves fell by a score of 5-2 in Colorado.
The Rockies opened the scoring when Carlos Gonzalez hit a two-run homer off of Lowe (11-12) in the bottom of the first. The Braves got a run back in the second off of De La Rosa (5-4) on an Alex Gonzalez solo shot, but Rockies got that run back with a Seth Smith home run in the sixth. Alex Gonzalez cut the Rockies lead to 3-2 with a seventh inning RBI single, but that was as close as the Braves would get.
The Rockies added some insurance in the eighth inning courtesy of a Dexter Fowler two-run single. Huston Street pitched a perfect ninth inning to notch his 12th save of the season.


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Ok, I am totally stumped... I just cannot connect to my PS2. I'm using ExecFTP v0.69 and the latest FlashFXP. I never had a problem before but now it just WILL NOT CONNECT. I've tried 3 different PS2's, 3 different ethernet/xover cables...booting Exec from mem card and cd.....and nothing...
Mind you its worked in the past just doesn't want to now. I have a D-Link router, my gateway is 192.168.0.1 and I have the PS2 ip (config.dat) set to 192.168.0.105. Is there some kind of settings on the PC side I need to check? This just makes no sense...
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WinSock 2.0 -- OpenSSL 0.9.8b 04 May 2006
[L] Connecting to PS2_FTP -> IP=192.168.0.105 PORT=21
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Stephen King's Silver Bullet stars Gary Busey, Corey Haim, Megan Fellows, Everette McGill, and the Stepfather himself Terry O' Quinn. It is a tense little picture written by Stephen King and based on his novella Cycle of the Werewolf.
The film opens with a title sequence over a full moon and an opening narration. Soon we see the town drunk being watched in the darkness by something unseen. Arnie (played by Major League's own James Gammon) has had a few too many and is singing as he rides a rail car. It is night and he is working on the railroad. He stops singing though when he sees a massive clawed footprint in the dirt beside him and looks up only to get decapitated by a clawed swipe. He is the first of many victims to come.
The following morning we meet more of our main characters including young Marty Koslow (Corey Haim) who unfortunately needs a wheelchair to get around and his young sister Megan Fellows. In what seems like a throwaway scene the townsfolk they live with are gathered to hear words of comfort from the local priest Rev. Lester Lowe but if you really pay attention to the scene there is a lot of information given to the viewer about some of the townsfolk. For instance: we learn that Marty's best friend, Grady, is a prankster who likes to get into trouble and borderlines on being a brat. We learn that a local woman has been having an affair and is pregnant because of it. We also learn that Marty and his sister have a love hate relationship and we can tell that she does not like him because she feels he gets everything he wants just because he is in a wheelchair. Stephen King writes the brother and sister as real siblings having real problems. That night we meet the fifth member of the family. Uncle Red played gleefully by Gary Busey. Gary steals every single scene he is in and has some of the most quottable dialogue in the picture. Red loves Marty and Marty idolizes Red. This does not sit well with Marty's mom who views Red as a drunk.
Meanwhile the full moon has risen and the beast stalks another victim. This time it is the lady having an affair and is pregnant. This is by far the goriest kill in the film as the werewolf literally tears her apart. What is interesting here is that Stephen King has written the werewolf and Daniel Attias has filmed the beast not as a brainless killing machine but more as a seriel killer who has an agenda and stalks it's prey more than just hack and slash. This beast does not mug for the camera and snarl (yet) it goes after it's prey quickly and quietly.
The killings have Marty's friend Emma afraid to ride her bicycle home by herself so Marty in his motorized wheelchair agrees to accompany her home. She points out her father's greenhouse to Marty and tells him that she has been hearing strange noises coming from there at night but before she can say more her angry and verbally abusive father yells at her.
Night falls yet again and we are treated to another full moon. No points for guessing where this scene takes place. The Greenhouse. What is neat about this scene? Clearly the werewolf could have stalked Emma's father into the house and killed him there but it doesn't. The Werewolf actually baits the father into coming out to the greenhouse and into his own demise.
Having decided that 3 deaths are 4 too many Sheriff Joe Hallaran (Stepfather's Terry O'Quinn) decides to set up a curfew. Never mind the woman that was killed was killed in her house. Marty and Grady meanwhile have decided to go about their business and fly kites. Marty's sister picks him up and Marty warns Grady to be in before nightfall. Grady brushes him off and Marty begins to leave. He stops and looks back at his friend and we see a look on Marty's face that tells the future. He looks back at Grady like someone who knows that he will never see his best friend alive again.
That night Grady's father arrives at the local bar looking for his son. Joe says he has bad news and the father goes to the gazebo in the park where he sees what is left of his boy. He[i][/i]sees what is left of Grady but we don't. All the viewer gets is a reaction shot. And in that shot we see a father lose everything. Now there has been some discussion that there is an alternate take on this scene where the viewer does see what is left of young Grady but having not seen this for myself I can neither agree or disagree that this footage does indeed exist.
Marty tells his Uncle Red that he believes that the killing is being done by a werewolf. A theory that his Uncle is quick to kill. He assures Marty that it is just some random psychopath. That night Grady's father gets a lynch mob together and the townsfolk decide to storm the woods. Rev. Lowe desperately tries to talk them out of it but it is of no use.
A thick fog rises in the forest and the mob is armed with bats, guns, and I'm sure pitchforks. They can hardly see anything which provides the werewolf with the perfect camoflauge. The Werewolf stalks it's prey under the fog and begins to pick them off one by one. One of the ill fated villagers does come to the conclusion that the beast was with them the whole time.
Up next is an acid trip of a dream that Rev. Lowe has which shows him presiding over the funeral of two of the townsfolk and everyone in town turning into werewolves. Joe has now been left with no choice but to shut down the July 4 fireworks. Marty is bummed and his sister decides to take another jab at him. Uncle Red meanwhile has built Marty a brandnew wheelchair. This wheelchair is built into a motorcycle and has the words Silver Bullet painted on the side of it. After giving Marty a bag of fireworks, Uncle Red leaves the boy to celebrate the 4th. That night Marty ventures out on his own to the lake and begins to set off the sparkling treasures. Not seeing the werewolf watching him in the forest. Slowly the werewolf stalks young Marty who is distracted by the fireworks. Marty sees the monster before it can attack him and sends a rocket straight into the werewolf's eye. This is the first time we see the monster and if you really look carefully at the face on the creature you will immediatly recognise who the killer is.
After failing to convince his uncle that there is a killer werewolf on the loose Marty turns to the only one he has left, his sister. He tells her the whole story and warns her to be on the look out for a man or woman who only has one eye. His sister goes out collecting cans for the church and observes everyone and their cousin but no one only has one eye. Dejected and pissed at her brother she returns to the church to hand in her cans only to be confronted by Rev. Lowe, who only has one eye!
Marty decides to take a simple approach to solving his problem. He begins sending Lowe unsigned letters telling him to kill himself. After that doesn't work he and his sister decide to bring in Uncle Red again. Red does not believe what he is hearing. He does agree to go to Joe and ask him to investigate Lowe. Joe comes right out and tells Red he doesn't believe the whole claws and fangs story but does agree to check out the local reverand. At night of course.
Joe checks out the garage of Rev. Lowe that night feeling pretty safe because there is no full moon. he finds a splintered bat that belonged to the deceased bar owner but before he can escape Rev. Lowe shows up and turns into the werewolf right in front of him and kills him. Rev. Lowe decides to take matters into his own hands and attempts to run Marty down with his car. After trapping Marty on a bridge Lowe explains the whole thing to him. He looks at the killings as an act of God and gives reasons that seem logical to him about why he killed all of those people: a worthless drunk, a woman who was carrying a child looking to commit suicide, etc. Marty is saved by a passerby and Uncle Red is finally convinced that Lowe is a killer.
That night the full moon rises. Marty, his sister, and Uncle Red hunker down in Marty's home with a pistol and one silver bullet. The werewolf immerges from the woods and runs a claw across the outside wall of the house. It should be noted that the reason the werewolf's claw looks so goofy is because the claws that were used were really the rubber hands used on the monkey suit in King Kong starring Charles Grodin and Jeff Bridges. So yes, our werewolf has monkey hands. Uncle Red decides that it is time for the kids to go to bed and the werewolf rips the electric cable out of the wall killing the power. Red still doesn't believe that there is a monster out there even when Marty's sister sees it looking at them through the window. Now comes a scene so rediculous it has to be seen to be believed. This werewolf who so carefully has stalked and eliminated it's prey using cunning, speed, and stealth, actually knocks down the entire wall of the house and poses and snarls for the camera! Marty scrambles to retrieve the silver bullet as Uncle Red and the Werewolf get into a fist fight! This is a monster that decapitated a man with one claw swipe and tore a woman to shreds and now it decides to show off for the camera! Marty retrieves the silver bullet and having no practice with a gun at all puts the bullet right into the good eye of the beast. Not a bad shot. The werewolf reverts back to being a human and the story ends.
This movie seriously suffered from what I call dumbing down the villain so that the hero can win. Up to the point of the conclusion of the film this werewolf showed no intentions of 1. posturing 2. needing to knock down a wall to gain access to a locked house 3. rushing to his prey. The monster up to this point was a stalker and eliminator. So why the sudden change? Several reasonable theories: 1. So the hero could win 2. Maybe Rev. Lowe was tired of the whole killing thing and wanted it to end 3. Marty somehow drove Lowe to make uncharacteristic mistakes.
A lot has been made of the townsfolk not being that bright and never catching on that the killer is a werewolf. Maybe denial was the way they coped. Though why none of them made a mass exodus I do not know. According to the imdb there were plenty of problems that plagued this film. The director wanted a werewolf that moved with a light grace so he hired a, and I'm not kidding here, balet dancer to dress as the creature. When the film was turned in and the movie company viewed it they wanted to know why the werewolf was gay. A person could nitpick this film to death. Other than the affor mentioned things there were other things that really irked a viewer. Why would Joe wait until nightfall to check out Rev. Lowe's garage, why didn't he bring back up, how did Rev. Lowe become a werewolf, from the small amount of silver Red was given how did he get such a large bullet made, etc.
But for all that went wrong plenty went right. Having a "graceful" monster that was never seen the viewer only had music and a pov shot to give an indication of the monster's presence. Sound familiar. The pacing was spot on, the acting was really good. Gary Busey aside, Corey Haim really delivered a touching performance as a kid who is scared out of his mind. He knows something bad is happening and no one believes him about it. The only one who does believe him is his sister who has been bullying him through the whole picture.
I first saw this film when I was 6 years old. It was the first time I had seen a werewolf picture and it would be 7 years later that I recovered from it. This movie terrified me. By today's standards I think it holds up well but really the big problem with the film is it's ending and the fact that King had to dumb down his monster. I know that no one wants to see a kid in a wheel chair become werewolf kibble but the ending could have been much stronger. All in all it is worth a view if you've never seen it or have 90 min. to kill.
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The first Nepalese film to be nominated for an Academy Award, this epic adventure of survival is also a narrative about Nepalese traditions and daily life. Before the screening, Sacramento State Professor of Asian Religions & Cultures, Joël Dubois, will discuss the cultural significance of Buddhism, Hinduism, and other religions in Nepal. Dubois received a doctorate in Comparative Religion from Harvard University, with a focus on South Asian Hindu and Buddhist traditions. His research has focused on the way authoritative texts influence the day to day religious practice and culture of ordinary religious people. Space is limited.
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for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf is a choreopoem, a poem (really a series of 20 separate poems) choreographed to music. Although a printed text cannot convey the full impact of a performance of for colored girls..., Shange's stage directions provide a sense of the interrelationships among the performers and of their gestures and dance movements.
The play begins and ends with the lady in brown. The other six performers represent the colors of the rainbow: the ladies in red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple. The various repercussions of "bein alive & bein a woman & bein colored is a metaphysical dilemma" are explored through the words, gestures, dance, and music of the seven ladies, who improvise as they shift in and out of different roles. In the 1970s, when Ntozake Shange herself performed in for colored girls..., she continually revised and refined the poems and the movements in her search to express a female black identity. Improvisation is central to her celebration of the uniqueness of the black female body and language, and it participates in the play's theme of movement as a means to combat the stasis of the subjugation. In studying this play in its textual, static format one should, therefore, keep in mind the improvisational character of actual performance and realize that stasis is the opposite of what Shange wanted for this play. In fact, in her preface she announces to readers that while they listen, she herself is already "on the other side of the rainbow" with "other work to do." She has moved on, as she expects her readers to do as well.
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PhpStorm provides a common procedure and user interface for creating File Watchers of all types. The only difference is in the predefined templates you choose in each case.
- To start creating a File Watcher, open the Project Settings and click File Watchers. The File Watchers page that opens, shows the list of File Watchers that are already configured in the project.
- Click the Add button or press Alt+InsertAlt+InsertAlt+InsertAlt+InsertAlt+InsertAlt+InsertAlt+Insert or Ctrl+NAlt+InsertCommand N or Control EnterControl N or Control EnterCommand N or Control Enter and choose the Dart2JS predefined template from the pop-up list.
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With the approach of the New York State Fair, you can forgive many Central New Yorkers for beginning to think the end is near. The end of summer that is. YNN's Bill Carey has the sad story.
There is no magic moment that the season beats it end. Summer tends to fade away a shallow jaded friend. By now we see the signs, as the season slips away, few swimmers at the local lake "the past 2 weeks I'd say." There are some folks, who won't give up, come this way to play, relish every moment of each sunny summer day. They remember times when cold and snow has kept them all in side. "When this weathers gone it's back to that," we're on a downhill slide. A boat is here, a boat is there. No crowded water ways. A sign of changing seasons counted not in months, but days. It's a pattern we'd seen often, as we look around the town. We cling to summer moments but "things just start to shut down". Perhaps it's lasted long enough, this time of sun and bliss. Farewell, "the stress free summer that we're all gonna miss." The beaches now are empty as we return to status quo. The parks, no people present, are now for the, oh, you know. We checked our tees and sunglasses focused on changes coming no doubt. But it was time some people say "picnicked and a summered out". Will Shakespeare said that summers lease hath all too short a date. And fall and then the winter, about to seal our fate. But there are still a few days we can sing a summer tune. And snow and cold and winter "doesn't have to come too soon." We will cling to the summer season, till the very end. It's going fast but not gone yet. Bill Carey, YNN.


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Scott Brown in as York City boss plans Ben Swallow move
11:50am Saturday 7th January 2012 in News By Dave Flett , Sports reporter
BRISTOL Rovers winger Ben Swallow could be the next player on his way to York City following the arrival of Fleetwood Town midfielder Scott Brown.
Brown is in contention to make his City debut at Lincoln this afternoon having signed until the end of the season at Bootham Crescent with his contract at the Cod Army having expired.
But Andre Boucaud could be moving in the opposite direction with the Minstermen mulling over a bid from Fleetwood for their Trinidad & Tobago international's services.
Liam Henderson, meanwhile, has rejoined Forest Green Rovers on loan for the rest of the campaign, paving the way for the possible addition of Swallow next week.
City boss Gary Mills had been hoping to recruit Swallow in time for today's Sincil Bank encounter but the process has not been helped by the Pirates being without a manager since the sacking of Paul Buckle.
Welshman Swallow has scored two goals in 42 outings for Rovers and also spent two months on loan at City's Blue Square Bet Premier rivals Bath earlier this season.
On the possibility of a deal for the 22-year-old attacker, Mills said: "Ben Swallow is somebody I am interested in trying to get in. We haven't been able to do that in time for this weekend because the down side to getting him here is that they haven't got a manager at the moment.
"That doesn't make things easy but, hopefully, something can be sorted out next week now."
Brown became Mills' first transfer window signing yesterday, ending a five-month spell with Fleetwood where he made nine league appearances, eight from the start.
The Runcorn-born, 26-year-old played in the same youth team as Wayne Rooney at Everton and is a former England schoolboy international but failed to make a senior appearance for the Goodison Park club.
He went on to sign for Bristol City after being handed a brief trial by former City boss Martin Foyle at Port Vale, whom he later joined after leaving Ashton Gate.
Following a spell with Cheltenham, Brown then moved to Morecambe, where he scored three goals in 33 appearances last season before teaming up with Fleetwood in August.
In total, he has 137 Football League games and nine goals to his name with Mills pleased to add a player boasting his quality and level of experience to his ranks.
The Minstermen chief added: "He's my type of player because, one, he's very good on the ball and, two, he has Football League experience.
"He's somebody who I feel will come in and do well.
"He became available because he was out of contract at Fleetwood and is somebody I've been talking about and looking at for a while. He has a good chance of making his debut at Lincoln."
Mills did not want to elaborate too much on the implications of Fleetwood's bid for Boucaud, simply saying: "We have had an offer from Fleetwood for Andre and that's as far as it's gone at the moment."
On Henderson's departure, meanwhile, he said: "Liam's played the last two games and all I would say is he's done okay. Forest Green, like myself, are looking around in the transfer window and showed an interest in taking him until the end of the season.
"I wanted a little bit more from him so was willing to let him go as it might give me the opportunity to bring in somebody else who would be right for the club."


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GDC 12: The bigger big picture, Steam Box to be announced?
Subject: Editorial, General Tech, Systems, Shows and Expos | March 3, 2012 - 05:16 PM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: valve, Steam Box, steam, GDC 12
It is rumored that Valve will announce a Steam hardware platform as early as GDC next week although that could be pushed back as late as E3 in June.
Steam has grown atop the PC platform and consists of over 40 million active user accounts. For perspective, the Xbox 360 has sold 65.8 million units to date and that includes units sold to users whose older Xbox 360s died and they did not go the cardboard coffin route. Of course the study does not account for the level of hardware performance each user can utilize although Valve does keep regular surveys of that.
A console with admined dedicated servers to kick the teabagging and griefing Steam punks.
Within the last couple of years, Valve has been popping in to news seemingly out of the blue. Allow me to draw your attention to three main events.
At the last GDC, Valve announced "The Big Picture" mode for their Steam software. The Big Picture is an interface for Steam which is friendly to users seated on a couch several feet away from a large screen TV. While "The Big Picture" has yet to be released it does set the stage for a great Home Theatre PC user interface for PC games as well as potentially other media.
I must admit, that controller does not look the most ergonomic... but it is just a patent filing.
Last year, Valve also filed a patent with the US Patent Office for a video game controller with user swappable control components. Their patent filings show a controller which looks quite similar to an Xbox 360 controller where the thumbsticks can be replaced with touch pads as well as a trackball and potentially other devices. Return of Missile Command anyone?
Also a little over two years ago, Valve announced a partnership with Razer for their Sixense high-precision motion controllers. It is possible that Valve was supporting this technology for this future all along. While motion controllers have not proven to be successful for gaming, they are accepted as a method to control a device. Perhaps The Big Picture will be optimized to support Sixense and compatible devices?
The Verge goes beyond their claims that Valve will announce The Steam Box and has included specifications for a closed-doors prototype of the system. The system was rumored to be used to present to partners at CES contained an Intel Core i7 CPU, 8GB of RAM, and an NVIDIA GPU.
You know if Microsoft had focused on Media Center for gaming rather than the Xbox...
It is very unclear whether Valve will attempt to take a loss on the platform in hopes to make it back up in Steam commissions. It is possible that Valve will just push the platform to OEM partners, but it is possible that they will release and market their own canon device.
I am interested to see how Valve will push the Home Theatre PC market. The main disadvantage that the PC platform has at the moment is simply marketing and development money. It is also possible that they wish to expand out and support other media through their Steam service as well.
At the very least, we should have a viable Home Theatre PC user interface as well as sharp lines between hardware profiles. A developer on the PC would love to know the exact number of potential users they should expect if they were to support a certain hardware configuration. Valve was always keen on supplying hardware profile statistics, and this is certainly a harsh evolution of that.
Steam Sees Huge Growth in Sales and Users
Subject: General Tech | January 9, 2012 - 01:39 AM | Tim Verry
Tagged: valve, steam, growth, gaming, game
Valve, the company behind the Steam digital (game) distribution service recently announced their 2011 growth data for Steam. Tech Power Up reports that Steam did exceptionally well last year and managed to grow its sales numbers and user base quite a bit.
Among the data, the service saw a more than 100% growth in year over year sales "for the seventh straight year." Further, the service boasted 5 million simultaneous players during the Steam Holiday Sale! Even more mind blowing is the amount of data the company served to users at 780 Petabytes of data (that's a lot of game downloads; about 89.35 million copies of Dirt 3 for example!).
Steam, taking my money since HL2.
Also, Valve managed to bring more games into the Steamworks fold including Skyrim and Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Since the program's inception, over 400 games have shipped with the Steam DRM and achievements. Quite a success! CEO Gabe Newell seems happy about the service's success and confident about the future. He was quoted by the site in stating "Looking forward, we are preparing for the launch of the Big Picture UI mode," and that Steam continues to evolve to meet customer and game developer demands for content. More information can be found here.
I'm glad that Steam is continuing to grow. On the other hand, my wallet is going to hate me come the Steam Summer Sale!
Quickly -- before the credit card bills get in: Steam Encore
Subject: General Tech | January 1, 2012 - 08:24 PM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: steam, Space Quest
The holidays are quickly coming to a close; like Times Square, I hope you had a ball. If you were unable to take advantage of the Steam deals as they occurred over the last two weeks, you are in luck: it is deja vu day. If you did not receive Batman, Skyrim, L.A. Noire, Saint's Row, and various other PC titles in your stocking then this might just be the perfect time to snatch one or two up. Get saddled up for the long winter months until The Darkness 2 and Jeremy's favorite: Syndicate, the first person shooter, are both released in February.
But wait, there's more! Oh, you need to wait for Steam servers... right.
What is this you tell me? You do your banking online and you need to pass?
How about a free smile instead? If you were once a fan of classic adventure titles such as those from Sierra -- you will likely enjoy spending a little time cleaning up space one overflown toilet at a time. Just a couple of days ago Space Quest II has been remade by Infamous Adventures as a free download on either the Mac or PC platforms. A few of the most hilarious deaths imaginable for free? Roger, wilco!
Quakecon Steam Deals: Catch up with iD and Bethesda for $70
Subject: General Tech, Shows and Expos | August 5, 2011 - 03:44 AM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: steam, quakecon
A lot of news is blowing up about the exciting conference happening right now called Quakercon. For those of us not lucky enough to bask in the PepsiCo subsidiary that popularized Amish oatmeal delight there is another, smaller conference going on right now called "Quakecon". Frankly, I think they're ripping off our wonderful breakfast food company. Still, if you cannot check out Quakercon treating us to tonnes of steamed meals – why not check out Quakecon treating us to tonnes of Steam deals!
Yes I realize there is no such thing as Quakercon… … yet.
In the event that you are following Quakecon and for some reason do not own many iD or Bethesda games, there is a bundle that will roll you pretty much entirely up to date for just shy of $70. The Quakecon Pack 2011 contains the following:
- Quake III Arena
- Quake IV
- Wolfenstein 3D
- The Ultimate Doom
- Final DOOM
- QUAKE II Mission Pack: The Reckoning
- QUAKE II Mission Pack: Ground Zero
- QUAKE III: Team Arena
- HeXen: Beyond Heretic
- HeXen: Deathkings of the Dark Citadel
- Heretic: Shadow of the Serpent Riders
- Spear of Destiny
- Return to Castle Wolfenstein
- QUAKE Mission Pack 2: Dissolution of Eternity
- QUAKE Mission Pack 1: Scourge of Armagon
- HeXen II
- DOOM 3 Resurrection of Evil
- Master Levels for Doom II
- Commander Keen
- Rogue Warrior
- The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind® Game of the Year Edition
- Call of Cthulhu®: Dark Corners of the Earth
- Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition
- Fallout: New Vegas
- Hunted: The Demon's Forge™
- Fallout New Vegas: Dead Money
- Fallout New Vegas: Honest Hearts
- Fallout New Vegas: Old World Blues
- The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion® Game of the Year Edition Deluxe
Bad Steam! Stop downloading DirectX you naughty program you
Subject: General Tech | August 3, 2011 - 02:38 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: steam, gaming
Could it be? Is there an actual explanation as to why every single Steam game you ever bought just has to install DirectX, even though you just installed it for that last game you bought and the one before that and the one before ...
Rock, Paper, SHOTGUN has the explanation as to what is going on, though it is up to you to decide if it is reasonable or not. Gone are the days of one DX fits all games, instead each of the currently used versions of DX, as in DX9, DX10 and DX11 depending on your software and hardware have many sub-versions. In DX9's case, there are over 40 versions of a D3D helper library called D3DX and that number grows in DX10 and DX11 and that is before you toss in 32bit versus 64bit OS versions.
Doesn't it make you happier to know the reason why you are stuck watching that stupid progress bar slowly grow instead of being able to play the game you just bought?
"Oh God, not again – can't I just play the damned thing? WHY? [Stomp, stomp, stomp."] This is a sound surely as familiar to the residents of the Brunswick area of Brighton as are the constant squawks of seagulls fighting over the contents of their recycling boxes. This is a sound I make, or at least variations upon it, every single time I first run a game I have downloaded via Steam. This time, I always think. This time it won't ask me to install DirectX again first. Surely the 1023rd time's the charm. That dream will likely never come to pass. However, at least we now know why – Valve have explained this particularly modern annoyance."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- Hard Reset: PC exclusive, single-player only, new engine, OMG @ Ars Technica
- Preview of id Software's Rage @ Slashdot
- Diablo 3 will let you buy and sell items for real-world cash @ Ars Technica
- Preorder Battlefield 3 with Origin, get early beta access @ Ars Technica
- Limbo @ HEXUS
- Borderlands 2 Is Really Real, Due 2012 @ Rock, Paper, SHOTGUN
- Titanic Quest: Crate Speak About Grim Dawn @ Rock, Paper, SHOTGUN
- Dead Island - PC, Xbox 360, PS3 @ HEXUS
- Call of Juarez: The Cartel PlayStation 3 @ Tweaktown
Steam readies update to download system, just in (Valve) time
Subject: General Tech | July 16, 2011 - 12:30 PM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: valve, steam, downloader
Steam is not known to be the most reliable when it comes to updating; this is particularly true during the launch of a high-profile game when network traffic is at a peak. One such of those times happened for the last week-or-so during Valve's fairly epic summer sale. Valve has, as usual, promptly addressed the issue and will be rolling out this new system starting today with a new client update forthcoming to support this new infrastructure.
If other people are any indication: complain profusely while browsing more discounted bundles.
One method that the update will utilize to improve your downloading experience is to switch to the standard HTTP protocol for data transfers. There are two main benefits of HTTP: In the event that you are in a particularly nasty firewall environment, HTTP is more readily permitted than other ports for users with sane network administrators. The second benefit of HTTP is that data that protocol is potentially cached, thus if you and another user share some stretch of the internet between you and Valve, it is possible that you will not need to fetch the data all the way from Valve as the other request brought a copy of the data closer already. Besides HTTP, the other method of improving performance is the ability to perform differential synchronization. If a 2GB file is edited by 4KB, you will soon only need to receive the 4KB difference.
Valve, not being able to resist a troll, closed by teasing that DOTA 2 will be delivered using Steam's new delivery system. They also claim that if you want to try out the new system, download a 1280x720 trailer from the Steam store because they already rolled out the new update to that part of the system. Let us know what you think in the comments.
Steam Now Offering Free To Play Games On Its Digital Download Service
Subject: General Tech | June 15, 2011 - 04:17 PM | Tim Verry
Tagged: steam, PC, gaming, F2P
If you happened to open up the store page in the Steam client or glance at their website, you may have noticed that Steam has made a moderately big announcement. Valve's digital download service now supports Free-to-Play games, which are games that are free to download and play at the basic level; however aesthetic and other upgrades can be purchased via so-called "microtransactions". F2P games on still will be free to download and will not require a credit card to do so.
Steam seems excited about the new F2P games.
At launch, the service is featuring five new Free-to-Play games including Champions Online: Free For All, Spiral Knights, Global Agenda: Free Agent, Forsaken World, and Alliance of Valiant Arms. According to the F2P Steam FAQ, games in which you wish to purchase content will be done through the use of your Steam Wallet. Further, for any Steam account that does not have at least one purchased (non Free-to-Play) game or a funded Steam Wallet will be considered a "Limited User" and will be restricted in the community features that it is able to access. Specifically, limited users can create community groups, be added as friends, and chat with other users; however, they are not able to send out friend invitations or start chat sessions (a non-limited user must initiate chat).
In adding the new genre to its repertoire, Steam will greatly increase its digital games library and add more options for PC gamers. One game that I have not played in some time that I would love to see make its way onto the new Free-to-Play Steam selection is a FPS game called Crossfire. That game was a good example of Free-To-Play done right as even accounts that did not spend a dime where able to stay competitive. Is there a Free-to-Play game that you would like to see Steam feature, and do you think F2P will add value to the service? Let us know in the comments.
Steam Launches Daily Deals Game Sales
Subject: General Tech | May 18, 2011 - 12:30 AM | Tim Verry
Tagged: steam, PC, gaming
Valve announced today that is is launching the biggest sale in the popular gaming system's history: one that never ends!
Steam's "Daily Deals" will feature a game a day, every 24 hours. You can find the games featured on the Steam homepage or by following their Twitter or Facebook feeds.
PC gamers everywhere are known to empty their wallets for Steam's holiday sales; therefore, these "daily deals" may just require a second job for the really dedicated Steam gamers. To see just how much you've already spent on steam games, you might want to check out the Steam Calculator.
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Galaxy Zoo
Classify galaxies—photographed by the Hubble spacecraft—according to their shapes.
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Find planets orbiting stars by judging the amount of light a star gives off. Look at data from the Kepler spacecraft, and mark a star when it dips in brightness.
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Help chart the moon's surface by spotting craters, boulders and interesting features, such as channels and cracks. You might even see spacecraft debris or man-made footprints.
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A moderate jaunt from the base to the top of the dramatic buttress at the mouth of Rock Canyon. The character of the route changes drastically from the first pitch to the subsequent pitches as the rock becomes significantly more solid. The first pitch starts on steep, gritty, rounded quartzite of the same texture as that found nearby at Super Bowl and the Bad Bananas "cave". This changes midway to a section of hard, shattered, glass-like shards (which actually make tinkling sounds like glass shards do), finally giving way to broken, hollow, rounded rock at the top of the first pitch. The subsequent pitches consist of solid, sometimes rough, mostly smooth rock with a multitude of positive edges for both hands and feet. If care is taken to manage rope drag, pitches 2 and 3 can be linked, as can pitches 3 and 4. P1 (5.9, 110') From the top of the approach ramp, step up and out onto a small ledge. The first bolt isn�t visible from the ramp, but is apparent from the ledge. Follow the bolts through a slightly overhanging bulge and then over a small, rounded roof. The hardest move on the route is getting over the first bulge. After surmounting the small roof and climbing through two more bolts, trend right, climbing to a sloping ledge, using good edges over some glass-like quartzite that forms sharp-edged vertical shards. Clip the bolt above the ledge with a double-length sling, then make an airy step to the left over a small roof onto some rather dubious-looking footholds. Continue up, clipping two more bolts, and then, because of hollow, loose rock ahead, step left onto a ledge rather than continuing straight up. Clip the penultimate bolt with a double-length sling, climb up a bit on easy ground, clip the last bolt, and then head for the belay on top of the pedestal. P2 (5.6, 60') From the belay, step right and up from the pedestal into a steep gully with two bolts. Sling these two bolts long and climb up onto the platform at the top left of the gully (to the right of the bush). Clip the next bolt, and then follow five more fairly closely-spaced bolts through a series of short, near-vertical to slightly-overhanging faces between narrow ledges (the fourth bolt from the bush is a bit hard to find since it lies around a right edge from the face). Arrive at the belay on a wide ledge with a low, pronounced overhang. P3 (5.6, 50') From the �Crowbar Ledge� make a fun, easy move above the overhang and clip the first bolt. Continue up past three more bolts to a ledge with several large, detached rocks. Continue up the face above the ledge past two more bolts to the belay on a narrow ledge. P4 (5.easy, 50') From the belay walk carefully left on the narrow ledge to the rock face, clip the first bolt with a sling and head up the easy terrain past three more bolts to the belay on the wide ledge just below the top.
From the final belay position follow the ledge south and then east and arrive at the top of the buttress. Walk down a trail northeast until the gully, and then talus-surf to the canyon floor.
Approach as for the Bad Bananas "cave". Walk up the sloping ramp to the left of the cave. Belay at the top of the ramp (two bolts for the belayer).
Bring enough draws and slings for fourteen bolts (fifteen if linking pitches 2 and 3). At least two double-length slings and at least two single-length slings are needed for managing rope drag on the first pitch. P1 14 bolts, double-ring anchors. As well as draws, bring the aforementioned slings to help manage rope drag because the pitch zigzags a bit. P2 8 bolts, double-ring anchors. Slinging the first two bolts long will help with rope drag; if linking pitches 2 and 3 some additional slings will help. P3 6 bolts, double-ring anchors. P4 4 bolts, double-ring anchors.
If you want to make a half-day of it, continue from the top of Brain Full of Spiders to Trilogy Buttress. The top of Bad Bananas is at roughly the same level as the start of the Trilogy routes.
This route makes a great addition to Rock Canyon since there are few long multipitch climbs. Additionally, the top out onto the summit of the buttress makes for a great end. Enjoy the views as you climb and spread out on the spacious belay ledges. Even though the exposure is intimidating on the first pitch the bolts are well placed for all the crux moves.
What a cool line to do! What a lot of work to equip! The long belay on Allegro Energico must have planted the seed for this climb.
We just did this with my 14 year old budding climber son in a 3 man assault. The first pitch still needs some cleaning up as i took a fall taking off a nice sized hold. The first pitch has a balancy bulge to circumnavigate. The 2nd and 3rd pitch is pure joy - great rock and huge holds make for exposed well protected climbing. If you link these 2 routes you'll have more rope drag. If you have the time i'd not link them. When you summit you really have a sense of accomplishment. My son loved it and it was his first real multipitch. Thanks for all your work on this Perin!
Kip, if they come off, they're not holds...they're scenery.
I have to say how impressed I am with Perin's routes in RC and the hardware he's using. He would never toot his own horn, but powder coated anchors, hangers, and stainless steel Powers bolts are just so cool (and so expensive). They'll last almost forever, but still replaceable if ever needed. Perin put an amazing amount of effort into trying to make this into a good moderate multi-pitch route which it has turned out to be. I was glad to help out with this route a little bit and see it develop. Once again it makes me realize the many climbs out there put up thanklessly for all to enjoy. Whether clipping a cool line, or putting gear in a clean crack, someone first had to do a bunch of route finding, hauling, cleaning, and sometimes bolting. I can't wait to climb your next route Perin! (okay, maybe I already have...stay tuned)
It should be possible to rap it all the way down, but I've not done it yet while pulling the rope. When cleaning and equipping it I always used a single strand from the top all the way down (using two ropes), and either jugged back up or climbed it on solo toprope - I did this because I'm not sure my 200' static is quite long enough for a doubled-rope rap off the first pitch - and I always forgot to check. For rapping the first pitch, I'd recommend a 70m rope, and rather than following the route down to the left of the belay pedestal, go straight out over the overhang (should be a free-hanging rap down to the approach ramp). However, I'm not sure why you'd want to rap it. From the top it takes literally 5 minutes to bomb down the gully to the level at which you cut west back to the base of Bad Bananas, and 5 more minutes from there. Even if you leave stuff at the base it'd be faster to go down the gully and back to the base than it would be to do 4 raps.
Congrats Perin! I echo John's comments about the thankless efforts of all those who put these great routes up. Although I skeptical about every hand and foothold, I enjoyed the first 2 pitches before we moved over to Deputantes. I got shut down going for the 6th bolt (I think) pulling over the double bulge. Once I figured it out, I felt a little silly. I still think it is a .10a move (very balancy). Then I did not know where the chains to the first pitch were until I heard a voice...Perin yelling "Go up and right". Thanks again Perin. I was getting nervous that I missed the chains or there was more climbing to do that required my 2 remaining draws. As more people become aware of this route and climb it, then I think it should clean up. Where a helmet as a belayer/follower just to be safe though.
I agree that with a better first pitch it would be three stars. The first pitch was nasty but hey it's worth it for the upper pitches. And I actually thought it was 5.10a. Definitely thought-provoking climbing. But we saw Perin and John later in the day and John said he thought the first pitch was 5.8! Maybe if you know where the holds are? I dunno. Pretty freakin stout for 5.8, IMO. We linked pitches two and three and that worked pretty well. It's amazing how fast the rock turns from garbage to great! The upper pitches are fun, easy climbing. Overall, this is a solid, fun route. Thanks for bolting and cleaning it guys! Can't wait to get on Dancing With Feral Debutantes. That upper wall looks awesome! (As far as conditions go, it was pretty warm in the sun and the descent was mostly snow-free. Get on it!)
The number of multi-pitch continues to climb. We have lost that complaint in this canyon: I was searching around my local small town library when I found a tiny weathered manuscript. This caught my attention when I noticed the title: "The true story of Bad Bananas." The story begins with some old timers (all of whom were rumored to have the last name of Knight) needing something epic to do after helping to subdue the south in the Civil War. Enlisting the help of thousands of immigrant Chinese and Irish (who had recently finished work on the Transcontinental Railroad) they first dug an enormous pit (now filled with water and called Utah Lake). The sand pile that resulted was of truly Goliath proportions. This pile was located in a nearby canyon (that was named "Rock" by the Irish after the most obvious feature as all the other canyons actually had trees). Now that they had finished their huge pit of wonders. They sat around and waited for the tourists to flock to their new attraction. The sat upon their huge dirt pile and waited for years. Yet sadly, no tourists were willing to pay the then ridiculous sum of 28 cents to see the great pit of Utah (apparently at about this same time, a "Grander" pit was made known to the public by those jerks from down south in AZ. and everyone wanted to go there instead). The large crowd of workers were heartbroken at this unfortunate turn of events and soon all left for bigger and greater things in Antarctica. About a hundred years later, local climbing bums began to get bored with putting up obvious classic climbs on cliffs with fantastic rock and began to yearn for something worse. They would meet nightly on the great Rock Canyon sand pile to diss the fantastic rock found on the south side of the canyon and openly wished for something scarier. It was at about this time that a stranger from the deep hidden rain forests of Upper Yugoslavia appeared on the scene. He brought with him the skills earned on the scare-fests from behind the Iron Curtain where using actual proven climbing methods was illegal and a proponent of such would swiftly find himself stuffed into a tiny box by the KGB. He began to dig away at the Rock Canyon sand pile, surviving only on a diet of Bananas and his own sweat. After about 300 feet of said digging, he discovered that the weight of all the former pit diggers sitting upon the pile had slightly (note: "slightly") metamorphosed the sand into rock. After digging out the resulting "rock" (the debris from this digging can still be seen littering the hillside below) a cliff had appeared. The locals soon found that the rock had just what they were hoping for! A pile of scary crap to bolt to their heart content. After long bolting sessions, these climbers would then trick others into trying these so called "blue collar" climbs with the rumor of a great treasure left by the original pit workers in a cave somewhere in the area. If only it could be found. As the unsuspecting climbers would scratch and claw their way upwards (some carried large burlap bags to hold all the bullion they hope to bring back with them) the locals would gather at a special place at the base of the cliff to point and laugh at the fear being displayed. They would drink beer and enjoy a "special" batch of brownies that were both mixed into a huge bowl. Looking back on these days all participants fondly remembered this "super bowl" of goodies. The moral of the story: I dunno... I thought of this story while climbing this route. The first pitch was crap but the rest was really fun. Thanks for all the hard work Perin and keep it up bud!
Dude... that... is one of the weirdest things I've ever read. (He tried to tell me the story as he was climbing the second pitch but I made him stop. I had hoped he forgot about it...).
I must have a deviant affection for choss; I kind of like the first pitch.
I thought the bulge part on P1 was fairly difficult. Bad feet under the overhang, slopey shallow pumpy handholds. Maybe I missed the good hold?
Ryan Anderson08 and I did this climb yesterday. It was the first multi pitch either of us have done and we were so elated when we got to the top! We didn't have a current map with us when we started, so I think we started on El Crapitan. Then we snuck acrosse the ledge to the overhang that I guess is part of the first pitch to Plantains. We probably combined two and or three different climbs, or skipped bolts and chains we should've seen, but we did it in 4 pitches and had a fantastic climb. There needs to be an app on the iphone were you can look at maps and routes. Of course that would only be helpful if you BRING THE CAMERA AND PHONE UP WITH YOU....RYAN!! We obviously forgot to, and are kicking ourselves for not getting any pics while we were up there. We'll just have to do it again. I think that bulgy overhang start is harder than a 5.9, but the rest fits.
Great route. Thanks for putting it up and posting it on MP. Pitch 1 is a bit spicy for 5.9. I'd put it 10a as well. Super fun choss. Linked 2nd and 3rd pitches without much rope drag--just be sure to bring 6-8 slings. Can't wait to get on the others on Bad Bananas.
The first pitch is actually my favorite! Great exposure and the toughest pitch IMO
3 stars when linked with Trilogy.
I like to link the first two pitches of Brain Full of Spiders and then the third pitch of Feral Debutantes or Good Plantains (both of which have a stellar third pitch) and then head over to Trilogy.


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NFC (Near Field Communications) is fast becoming one of the hottest topics in the mobile industry. It is primarily meant for contactless payment services better known as mobile wallet. But it can also be used in a variety of other communications areas such as access control, consumer electronics, transport and healthcare.
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