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Cosmo Ophidian, Swashbucklerby Chad Underkoffler
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by Chad UnderkofflerCount Cosmo Ophidian
Duelist, spy, and patriot, Cosmo is descended from the noble merchant House of Ophidi. One of the lynchpins of the Empire, House Ophidi has provided numerous skilled spies and assassins for use against the enemies of the Throne; they have grown quite powerful in doing so. That means Cosmo is heir to all the perks and drawbacks of influence: arrogance, prestige, debauchery, and ruthlessness.
His Uncle Ignacio is the House Patriarch. When Ignacio dies (probably in the near future, given his health), the responsibility of administrating House Ophidi's business, political, and internal concerns pass on to Cosmo's cousin "Little" Ignacio (also known as Ignatz). This means that since Cosmo is not in the Patriarchal line and tied to House management, he gets to do whatever he wants, and can fully enjoy his power, wealth, and freedom.
He received the best education money can buy in the Empire, attending University to learn the physical, mental, social, and spiritual unities. He also wasted a small fortune on gambling, women, and swords. Indeed, during his first student duel, an amazing talent with the blade revealed itself. Cosmo immediately built upon this strong foundation by hiring the best fencing masters, attending the finest salles, and fighting in back alleys every chance he got. Today, he is possibly the best swordsman the Empire has ever known.
Which is all to the good: Cosmo grew up on the tales of derring-do and dastardly deeds performed by his ancestors, and wishes to emulate them. For good reason: in a dream, the Family Genius -- that is, the guardian spirit of his House that stands in the Heaven Court of the Lord of Emperors -- appeared to him, and told him that the Empire's fate would one day rest in his hands. He does not carry this destiny lightly; after all, he is a patriot, an Imperial citizen, and -- above all -- and Ophidi. To do less would shame his House.
Upon graduation from University, he presented himself to his father Umberto -- the lieutenant of the Emperor's spymaster, Drago Lepidus -- and asked how he, too, could serve the Empire. Umberto's advice: Prove you can discover secrets, hold them close, escape with knowledge, and return to inform us, without being detected.
Thus, Cosmo has purchased a small, fast trading vessel (The Viper) for some "adventure trading" -- buying goods in the hopes of selling them in another port, with no assurances, only risk. It's an adequate cover for a spy. Not perfect, but adequate.
In terms of personality, Cosmo Ophidian has more than a few quirks that grew out of his upbringing.
First, he's arrogant as hell: when you're rich, powerful, and deadly, you have every right to be. He comes on strong and confident, but is intensely self-interested. He has an unreasonable intolerance of "foreigners" in general, seeing them as uncouth barbarians lacking honor. He can be a bit of a bully.
Second, he is a gentleman: well bred, socially nimble, possessing exquisite manners. He understands several languages and is literate; however, he strongly prefers to use the language of the Empire. He is adept in the "Riddling Dialect" -- a roundabout patter used in Court that rarely says anything clearly or directly, opting to veil discussion in analogy, drape it in metaphor, and drown it in allusions. Proper names are never mentioned in the Riddling Dialect; one must only reference the subject of an anecdote -- even oneself -- as "a certain person," through allusive epithet, or by indeterminate pronoun ("one" or "they"). If Cosmo wished to say something like, "Gosh, I think that girl, Rose, over there is pretty" in this cant, one way to represent it would be "By the Throne! A blade has never seen the sun break through yonder window like that delicate flower!"
Third, he is a compulsive gambler; risk energizes him, and that is why he seeks out dangerous pursuits -- dueling, spying, adventure trading. If a day passes without some formal (with cards, dice, or other games of chance) or informal (proposition bets, participating in risky physical contests, taking risky actions) hazard, Cosmo gets depressed and cranky.
Fourth, he has a strong sense of duty. In Cosmo's mind, the order of priority of his duties is, from most important to least: House Ophidi, the Empire, his honor, his comrades, his business concerns. He wishes to not merely meet his duties, but exceed them.
Lastly, he is ruthless. To Cosmo, the ends justify the means. He will do anything in pursuit of his goals, so long as it doesn't utterly betray another aspect of his personality. Resolute, ceaseless, and morally flexible, he cares about getting not just results, but stellar results.
Inspirations for Cosmo:
As noted above, this character started life as an NPC in my GURPS Great Sky space-fantasy campaign. (I used to have webpages up about it, but took them down after Yahoo acquired Geocities, and never put them back up. Indeed, I probably won't ever put them back up.)
One of my players wanted his character to have an Enemy/Rival, someone to contend against. I came up with Cosmo (or Connor, as he was known once). Statting him up was pretty simple, if I recall correctly: I just took the PC's stats, copied them, and then adjusted due to differences in home culture and a few different Mental Disadvantages. What this gave me was an NPC of equivalent power level to the PC. (Of course, after the campaign started, they followed different developmental paths.)
The PCs first met Connor randomly, got suckered into a wager, which they won. Connor immediately challenged Piter to a duel, claiming his honor was besmirched for losing so badly to a barbarian. They agreed to fence to "second blood." Piter pinked Connor first, the Connor slashed Piter back. First blood, on both sides. Then they both lunged, and touched each other simultaneously: a draw. This pissed them both off -- Piter had been built to be a badass swordsman, Connor was an arrogant SOB. They stalked away from each other, growling insults.
Flash-forward a few sessions: the PCs find some artifacts of the Empire on an adventure, and at the nearest neutral port, return the goods to the Empire's ambassador. The Empire checks the artifacts, realizes they're legit, and finds itself in the unenviable position of having to reward foreigners for rescuing Imperial treasures. They send Connor with the reward (and the strong hint that if the PCs can be made to look bad or ungracious, all the better).
Connor shows up with a booby-trapped purse of gold, which he lobs to Piter. Piter grabs it, but the purse is enchanted to be impossible to hold, so he drops it. The pouch bursts open, flinging gold everywhere. As the passersby scramble to collect these pennies from heaven, Connor spins the situation such that Piter purposefully threw the Empire's gold away. They fight again, and this time, Piter wins, but gets pretty messed up. Connor gets dragged away for healing, cursing his rival.
In the middle of the next set of sessions, Connor pulls at least one, possibly two, fast ones on the PCs from offstage; collecting a resource their Prince had sent them to get.
Ahead another few sessions: in trying to negotiate a secret treaty with the Pirate King for a big lump of orichalcum, Connor shows up, also seeking the magical metal. The Pirate King decides the two duelists should race their skyships, and he'll treat with the winner. Piter wins. After they disembark their ships, he and Connor begin tearing into one another verbally, when they both shout simultaneously (and in actuality, the player and I did say this at the same time): "But you have no honor!" Both characters stop, pause, think -- then they laugh. They both have honor, but a different type, appropriate for their home culture. The relationship shifts from the Enemy end of the spectrum to the Rival end. Having gained respect for one another, their subsequent interactions lean more to banter than invective.
At the climax of the campaign, Connor, Piter, and a few other NPCs/PCs banded together to fight a common threat to their worlds. By the last session, they were friends.
The entire ride rocked, and taught me an important thing about GMing NPCs -- they're great fun when they're just as competent as the PCs. If you go less capable, they're not really a challenge; if you go more capable, they become a significant obstacle. Exactly as capable gives the PCs something balanced to strive against.
Connor lost a few, won a few, and came back for more. He started off as a character the PCs hated, then they loved to hate him, then they liked him -- he was the familiar foe. A good chunk of that was that his nature was enough like the PCs' to have commonality, but different enough to provide conflict.
It's a narrow path to walk between "Player Favorite NPC" and "GM's Pet NPC." The key for me was listening to the players talk, in and out of game, about Connor. When they were very angry with him, I resolved the next time that he showed up, he'd display a courtlier and honorably side to them. When they liked him, I let him get devious and nasty. Lather, rinse, repeat. This kept interest in him high, and the equivalent stats neither let Connor ride roughshod over the PCs nor be ridden over himself.
Make NPCs memorable.
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1 feotakahari, Wed, 2nd Nov '11 7:51:03 PM from Looking out at the city
Fuzzy Orange Doomsayer
Hello [redacted] Thank you for sending us your story. We have read and considered it very carefully, but unfortunately we won't be making you an offer of acceptance. Sorry to disappoint, but please remember that submissions are always welcome, and that next time the news might be better. Don't forget that it's always a good idea to read the magazine. This will give you a huge advantage over those writers who don't study their markets. Details of our magazines, a secure shop, and a lively discussion forum can all be found on our website: http://www.ttapress.com — The Editors Interzone, Black Static, CrimewaveNot sure where to try next. Anybody know a magazine that might take a low fantasy romance from an unpublished author? Writer's Market? Never heard of it, but it's at the local library. I'll check it out.
edited 2nd Nov '11 8:05:55 PM by feotakahari
That's Feo . . . He's a disgusting, mysoginistic, paedophilic asshat who moonlights as a shitty writer—Something Awful
Hey now, at least they bothered to respond to you with a few sentences and some advice. Most of the time they don't even write you back, let alone personalize the rejection. And seriously, don't beat yourself up too much. They didn't say that your work wasn't good, they gave you the "know your audience" spiel. That means that they think somebody else might pick it up, but that they aren't certain your idea works for their particular specialty. If they thought it was out and out bad, they wouldn't have bothered to give you encouragement. Trust me on this - editors don't have time to write personalized messages to the thousands of submissions they get every year. If they take the time to write you some advice, they see something in you - its just not the something they are looking for. Have you tried using the Writer's Market books? They publish a new one every year, and it lists a lot of magazine editors - as well as what the editors are looking for. Most library carry a recent enough edition (or you can just "browse" at a bookstore and copy down a few addresses for promising editors). Or you could >GASP< pay the thirty dollars for it... Also called "The Freelancer's Bible": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writer%27s_Market
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3 USAF713, Wed, 2nd Nov '11 8:09:03 PM from the United States
I changed accounts.E-publishing?
I am now known as Flyboy.
4 Freezair For A Limited Time, Wed, 2nd Nov '11 9:17:32 PM from Planet Claire
Responsible adultI don't have advice, but I can commiserate. Commiserate, commiserate! *sighs*
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5 Sidewinder, Fri, 4th Nov '11 4:43:17 PM Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
Sneaky BastardWell, Card says that magazines are always looking for new talent (because all the old talent starts writing books and leaves them), so being unpublished shouldn't be a problem.
6 jewelleddragon, Fri, 4th Nov '11 9:55:24 PM from Pasadena, CA
Also known as KatzProps for trying. It's an important step.
edited 4th Nov '11 9:57:10 PM by jewelleddragon
7 feotakahari, Sat, 5th Nov '11 5:14:59 PM from Looking out at the city
Fuzzy Orange Doomsayer^^ Speaking of Card, I just submitted to The Intergalactic Medicine Show. The site says it takes three months for a response, so this thread may get bumped in February. (In the meantime, I'm also working on a piece for Untied Shoelaces of the Mind, a flash fiction site.)
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8 feotakahari, Tue, 6th Dec '11 6:00:02 PM from Looking out at the city
Fuzzy Orange Doomsayer
Thank you for offering your story to Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show. We're sorry to tell you that we will not be using it; you are free to submit it elsewhere.What really bugs me is that I got the rejection letter two months ahead of when I expected to get it. My story must have been culled pretty quickly. Next up: Clarkesworld.
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- A set of instructions to manipulate the contents of other cells. These operations can be simple arithmetic operations, or more complex ones. An example would be: +(B1/B4) to divide the value found in cell B1 by the value found in cell B4. A more complex formula might be to calculate the interest on a certain amount of principal, the values of which are held in other cells: +B1*(B4/100) The cell B1 holds the principal balance and B4 holds the interest rate. The formula takes the interest rate and divides it by 100 to get it in decimal form. Then the principal is multiplied by the interest rate. The cell that contains this formula displays the amount of interest. More complex formulas use functions.
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- A function is a pre-written formula that makes complex formulas easier to write. They are distinguished from regular formulas by the name of the function. For example the formula=SUM(B1:B4) would add each value in the column B from row 1 to row 4. You could get the same answer by using this formula: (B1+B2+B3+B4), but say that you decide to insert a row inside that range. If you used the formula in the second example, you would have to rewrite the formula to add the new row; the=SUM function will take into account the new line, and will still add the five lines together. Modern spreadsheet programs have hundreds of functions ranging from counting to statistics or advanced structures like "if statements" that change the content of a cell based on the contents of some other cell. Click here for a short list of useful functions.
- Label
- A label is anything that is not interpreted as a value or formula.
- Macro
- A macro is series of keystrokes that can be played back with one key. Macros are useful for creating menus inside spreadsheet files. Some of the templates we will use have macros built into them for moving around the spreadsheet and for printing. Macros can be assigned to keys or may have a mouse "button" for the user to click on.
- Open Office
- A program that competes against Microsoft Office that has a spreadsheet component. Open Office is free to download and use. It is written by a community of skilled programmers who believe software should be free. Some ABM students have used this software instead of Microsoft Office. Go to www.openoffice.org for more.
- Pointer
- On Windows-based spreadsheets the "pointer" is moved by the mouse. The shape of the pointer changes as you move to different parts of the spreadsheet; if you put the pointer on the line separating two columns in the column heading, the pointer changes shape to indicate that you can change the width of the column. If you move the pointer to a different cell and "click" the left mouse button once, the cursor is moved there as well.
- Relative Reference / Relative Cell Address
- When writing a formula, a reference to a cell is normally a relative reference. When the formula is copied to another location, the formula within that cell is the same, relative to its position on the spreadsheet. Normally this is exactly what you want, and is why you can figure out a formula once and then copy it and have it repeat correctly in ever cell it is copied to. Occasionally you will want to have a cell always refer to a specific cell, no matter where the formula is copied. That kind of reference is called an absolute reference.
- Row
- A row is a horizontal portion of the spreadsheet. It extends from left to right across the spreadsheet. Rows are labeled with numbers. The first row of a spreadsheet is 1, and some spreadsheets go down to 8,000 rows or more. You might want to think a row as a single line on a ledger sheet.
- Selection
- A block of cells defined by the upper-left and lower-right cell addresses. A range could just be one row or one column from beginning to end. More often a range is a block of columns and rows. An example of a valid range is A1..G10. This would include all the cells in columns A through G with row numbers from 1 to 10. The ".." is spreadsheet shorthand for the word "to." Excel and Microsoft Works use a colon (:) instead of the .. to indicate a range. A range is always a rectangular shape. Depending on the spreadsheet program you are using, you may see the term range, block or selection.
- Sort
- To arrange the rows of a spreadsheet by sorting on the contents of one or more columns. For example, a spreadsheet tracking the date of sale, the number of contacts the sales rep made, and the totals sales for the day might look something like the spreadsheet to the left. (Click on the image to the left to view it full-sized). The first block of data is the original list. The rest are how the data looks when sorted by different columns.
- Tab or Worksheet
- Some spreadsheets combine several "sheets" together into a "workbook." These generally have a "tab" at the bottom (Lotus 123) or the top (Microsoft Excel) of the active sheet. The tab for the "active" (visible) sheet is usually white with black letters, while the inactive tabs are in the background gray color. You can switch to a different sheet by clicking on an inactive tab.
- Template
- Another term for a spreadsheet file or a worksheet. A template is a spreadsheet file that has the general structure already created, with blanks for further information to be added. You can retrieve the file and plug in the numbers. The college has developed several templates for farm and ranch management.
- Value
- A normal number entered into a cell.
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HRC staff took a few moments yesterday to celebrate the historic victories our community saw on Tuesday night. For the past two years, we've been laying the groundwork for our largest mobilization effort ever to ensure 2012 was a year of milestone victories. We're proud to have worked with the great campaigns in the four marriage ballot states. HRC, along with our energized supporters, raised or contributed more than $20 million to re-elect President Obama and to advance marriage equality and other electoral priorities.
Our members and supporters truly drove these victories – it is what allowed us to harness the power and reach of our political action committees, staff, board members, steering committees, and volunteers across the country to make this unprecedented mobilization a reality.
Whenever a state has a victory for marriage equality, we have a tradition at HRC of raising that state flag, along with the American and equality flags, over our building here in D.C. Because of the unprecedented victories we experienced this week, we had to make a slight change to accommodate all of the flags this time around! Check out the Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, and Washington State flags on display in our Equality Forum:
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Video: Bruce Klein Is On Fire
Stoked to see Juniors like Bruce getting exposure like this.…. It really is the best way to bring kids up…If the industry would put more value on Juniors and supporting them by providing more exposure more kids would be motivated. Bruce is super talented and is still learning at such a fast rate…. Him and Charlie are both rippers…Hopefully these two will continue to push each other into being top level elites. Best thing about both Bruce and Charlie is they are both super good kids with great heads on their shoulders…Always fun to hang out with them at the local races.
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PCA Enduro - Riverside, California
Thanks for all the great comments guys. We love putting these events on….Especially when we see and hear comments like the ones above. We don't have as much hype as some of the other more known Enduro series….But we are proud that we offer a quality experience on fun trails and our timing is dialed… As we grow we may be able to add more shine and get the suspended boys back out to film….But our focus will always be fun trails and quality timing. Our next events will not be til the Fall and Winter…. Both Robert and I have Jobs that will keep us very busy through the rest of spring and summer. We will do a better job of promoting future events to the public and hope to find more new venues to add to Black Mtn and Box Springs. Thanks Again to all that came out and spent Sunday with us.
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100% we dropped the ball on getting this info out sooner…. That said…This venue is really fun….The views over Southern California are amazing and with the recent wether the hills are all green…. Park rangers have come in and done a lot of trail work and Stage 3 is in the mid 7 to 8 minute range for the pros with a very minimal amount of climbing on it. If you have free time this Sunday come on out and ride with us…. We will be at the venue tomorrow setting up and marking the course. Here is a link to last years post race video from Box Springs. http://www.pinkbike.com/news/PCA-Enduro-2-Presented-by-Kenda-video-2013.html
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We had so much fun on this trip…. So many stories in such a short period of time…. I had never spent any time with Tippie… The energy from that guy could light Vegas!… Thanks to Rays and Suntour for such a great time.
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Video: Suspended Productions Shows Us What Their 2013 Was Like
All 3 of the VanHeel Bro's are on it and really starting to get noticed...….Super dedicated kids that work hard and handle their biz in a manner well beyond their age. Its never a dull moment when you are out in the field with these guys and i am always stoked when i get the chance to work with them. NIce Job on 2013 boys.


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MADISON, Wis. — A mother and father who prayed instead of seeking medical help as their daughter died were properly convicted of homicide, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Wednesday in a decision that dramatically limits legal immunity for parents who turn to God rather than science to heal their children.
The decision marks the first time a Wisconsin court has addressed criminal culpability in a prayer treatment case where a child died. The court ruled 6-1 that the state's immunity provisions for prayer treatment parents protect them from child abuse charges but nothing else, opening the door to a host of other counts.
"No one reading the treatment-through-prayer provision should expect protection from criminal liability under any other statute," Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson wrote for the majority.
Most states, including Wisconsin, created exemptions from child abuse charges for prayer-healing parents in the 1970s to meet federal requirements.
At least 303 children have died since 1975 after medical care was withheld on religious grounds, according to Rita Swan, director of the Iowa-based advocacy group Children's Healthcare is a Legal Duty. Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nebraska and North Carolina have taken their exemptions off the books, Swan said.
The Wisconsin case revolves around an 11-year-old girl named Madeline Kara Neumann, known as Kara to family and friends. She died of undiagnosed diabetes on Easter Sunday in March 2008 at her home in Weston, a central Wisconsin village about 140 miles north of Madison.
Kara, who had been growing weak for several weeks leading up to her death, eventually became too sick to speak, eat, drink or walk. Her parents, Dale and Leilani Neumann, don't belong to any organized religion or church but identify themselves as Pentecostal Christians and believe visiting a doctor is akin to worshipping an idol, the Supreme Court opinion said.
As Kara's condition worsened, her parents resisted suggestions from her grandmother to take her to a doctor. Kara's grandfather suggested giving her Pedialyte, a supplement used to combat dehydration in children, but Leilani Neumann said that would take the glory away from God.
Dale Neumann testified that the possibility of death never entered their minds. After the girl died, Leilani Neumann told police God would raise Kara from the dead.
Doctors testified that Kara would have had a good chance of survival if she had received medical care before she stopped breathing.
Separate juries convicted the couple of second-degree reckless homicide in 2009. They faced up to 25 years in prison, but a judge instead ordered them to serve a month in jail every year for six years, with one parent serving every March and the other every September.
The couple's attorneys argued the immunity clause in Wisconsin's child abuse statutes protects parents from criminal liability through the point of creating a substantial risk of death. The reckless homicide statute says whoever creates a substantial risk of death is guilty of the charge. The attorneys contended the similar language makes it difficult to know when a situation has become so serious that parents who stay with prayer healing become criminally liable.
State attorneys said parents have a legal duty to seek care once they realize a child could die.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court found no ambiguity exists in state statutes.
"If the legislature intended a treatment-through-prayer provision to apply across the board to all criminal statutes, the legislature could have used different language or placed a treatment-through-prayer provision ... with other defenses to criminal liability," Abrahamson wrote.
Justice David Prosser, the lone dissenter, maintained it wasn't clear Kara was in danger of dying and insisted state law is murky on prayer treatment immunity.
"Failing to acknowledge these deficiencies will not advance the long-term administration of justice," Prosser said.
A spokeswoman for the state Justice Department, which defended the convictions, declined to comment.


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Publicis Groupe SA and Omnicom Group are a pair of major marketing companies that are on the brink of merging, a move that will form the largest advertising company on the planet. Naturally, this effects the automotive world, as the two companies count a number of ad houses that service the industry under their respective umbrellas, including BBDO Worldwide, Goodby Silverstein and Partners and Saatchi & Saatchi.
According to a report on Automotive News, the pending merger will bring a number of brands' advertising efforts under one very large roof, and could lead to a shakeup in how auto marketing functions. With Chevrolet, Cadillac, Toyota, Lexus, Nissan and Mercedes-Benz all run by the same group of agencies, the potential for conflicts of interest is obvious.
What this means in the short term isn't entirely clear. As AN states, one agency managing multiple auto clients isn't unheard of. It's merely the scale of the Publicis/Omnicom merger that has people concerned. In the long term, the joining could lead to some realignment, although Ian Beavis, executive vice president of the Nielsen Company's global automotive group, told AN, "I wouldn't expect any wholesale changes," as any movement is, "going to take a while."
Still, the deal hasn't received approval from regulators. According to Automotive News, if the deal is given the go-ahead, the agency would have a combined revenue of $22.7 billion in 2012.


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While we never made that video, one night we did get drunk and record a silly cover of Billy Idol's "Dancing With Myself"
Dan sang. I played sloppy bass and did back-up vocals and we both played the "drums" live from my old Roland JX-305.
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We have 5 pairs of tickets to Zedd and Nicky Romero in LA this New Year's Eve. Enter here:
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To celebrate the last VS of the year (and the end of the world as we know it?), we're teaming up with our friends at The Well to bring you a SECRET GUEST (Boys Noize Records) all the way from France. Supporting the night will be a special b2b set from our own Troy Kurtz & Bones, along with a birthday performance from Ben Oprstu and sets from SF's Realboy and Option4. Can you say, techno?
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Our very own Troy Kurtz brings you a truly unique mix of solid house grooves in his signature sexy suave, to commemorate his momentous relocation from Miami to LA. May this be a sign of more great things to come. Welcome to your new home, bud.
The day has finally come! Flying Lotus' second full-length album, Until the Quiet Comes has finally dropped and it has already exceeded my extremely high expectations set by Cosmogramma. The Los Angeles native, known for his genre-bending compositions, has outdone even himself this time; fusing a mixture of hip-hop, jazz, funk, blues, dubstep and psychedelia together to produce an unique cosmic sound. Until the Quiet Comes is a journey. A journey through a psychedelic soundscape that slowly builds on itself with the addition of every new sound and then jerks you back into reality, only to slowly bring you back, note by note. The album offers no dull moments as it continuously stimulates its listener with Flying Lotus' unparalleled compositions, stunning even the most scrutinizing of ears. Until the Quiet Comes is a real gem; from the dirty low end of Sultan's Request, the breath-taking change up of The Nightcaller, or the pure and jazzy melodic vibrations of Until the Quite Comes, this album is gorgeous. Until the Quiet Comes may just be my album of the year; I cannot recommend it enough.
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Pretty Lights is coming to town this Saturday along with quite the crew. If you're looking to go to this epic night to be, we're giving you the chance to win one of three pairs of tickets that we have to give out! See how to enter after the jump.
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I made my way through Downtown LA' s Chinatown and into what appeared to be my own personal, dusty, hipster hell– only to be delighted by a gentle and bemustachioed crowd, Goldenvoice's usual top notch accommodations, and surprisingly chest-ratting bass. I ate well, drank well, caught M83, James Blake and Simian Mobile Disco and made it home happy.
Dark & Stormy is back with a sneak peek of his upcoming EP that will bring you a brand new original as well as two stellar remixes from GMGN and Pete Rios. Tell Me is a deep masterpiece that combines catchy vocals, intricate percussion, a groovy bass line and a well-synthesized lead. Keep your eyes peeled folks!
LA brethren, this weekend Dark & Stormy is taking over Los Angeles for three days. Make sure to mark these dates down on your calendars!
Thursday 8/30/12: Versus ft. Droid Behavior
Friday 8/31/12: Control ft. Riva Starr & Fred Falke
Saturday 9/01/12: The Standard Rooftop Pool Party
Check out the EP and the mix after the jump!
The dust (and the wind) may be settling in Las Vegas, but a storm is brewing this week in Los Angeles headed for the Avalon. This Friday, the legendary techno maestro Zombie Nation will be making his debut at CONTROL, alongside heavy hitters Will Bailey and Revolvr. Supporting this ruckus will be Joaquin and our very own resident Bones. Whether you were in the desert or not last weekend, this is gonna be one for the books and not to be missed. This event will reach capacity early, so please RSVP below and arrive before 11pm to guarantee entry!
Please email names to email@example.com to be on our discount guestlist for the evening. All names must be submitted by 5PM on Friday.
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Charles I has been creating a massive amount of buzz in the Los Angeles Electro scene recently and with tracks like Rule The Dancefloor it's easy to see why. Charles I is a breath of fresh air in the Los Angeles music scene and continues turn out impressive singles and remixes, which is why I was very excited when Charles I was kind enough to send over his newest single, Rule the Dancefloor, his latest remix of Grimes' huge track, Vanessa, as well as a link to his brand new mix for all you loyal GDD™ readers!
Check out the two exclusive tracks as well as Charles I's newest mix after the jump!
Two stellar mixes for you on this brisk November evening, representing a pair of the best weekly events in southern California: OC-based La Cave + Scott's resident Kedd Cook and LA-based Honey Lounge resident AHH-G square up with their most recent mixtapes, and neither disappoint. Make sure to have a fair listen to both jams and don't miss these cats at their respected headquarters. Groove with it.
Alain Ho – Into A Deep (Hott Toddy Remix)
Cocolores – Tip Top Bob
Boy 8-Bit – Yard Birds (The Finger Prince Remix)
Phil Kieran, Green Velvet – Michael Jackson (Mic Jack In Version)
Groove Armada – The Pleasure Victim
Christophe – The Force (Julio Bashmore Piano Mix)
Don't Go – Original Mix – Max Chapman
Maceo Plex – Stop Your Hate
Inxec, Leks – Deee Groove
Nil By Mouth – Capitulum (Burnski Remix)
Domsko – Hard Yards Feat. Astral T
Bubba – Dance With Me
Bubba – We Need A Break ft. Drank Synatra
Shdwplay – Time Drip
MANIK – Ruckus 8OH8
XXXY – Kerpow
Agoria, Carl Craig – Speechless (Carl Craig Remix)
MANIK – Keep That Fresh
Street Tooms – Orchard
Teki Latex – Zodiac
Groove Theory – Tell Me (George FitzGerald Remix)
Waifs and Strays – Yeah Yeah
Timbre – Kotb
Old Soul – Your Body
Star Traxx & Riva Starr – More (KINK Remix)
Blawan – Getting Me Down
Astronomar – AYIIFT
Pearson Sound – Let Me See What U Workin With (Refix)
Jim-E Stack – Lemme
Cedaa – Palomino
Dubbel Dutch- B Leave
LOL Boys – Cloudy (Marcus Price Remix)
Brenmar – So High
Warrior One – Bullring Riddim (Chaos In The CBD Remix)
*Don't forget to catch Kedd Cook w/ our very own BONES tomorrow night @ SCOTT's in Costa Mesa, CA.


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After 7 months of waiting, saving and getting gear ready, I jumped on a plane last week for the trip of a lifetime. Being semi-employed for months and generally bored with life and restless in Australia, hearing about Death Valley Magazine's DVM Expeditions maiden trip to Cambodia was the sort of thing that would probably keep my mind off my various first world problems and dilemmas.
Landing in Phnom Penh International Airport on Tuesday 4 March and heading on my way out of the visa application area, I was held up and vigorously questioned about my passport and visa. ("Where you live? Where you go? Why come to Cambodia? Where you live?") I figured maybe I'd have to have an even more vigorous chat in a closed room when a second immigration officer came over and smiled at me.
Suddenly my passport and plane ticket stub were given back and I beat feet to baggage reclaim and past the howling tuk tuk drivers and forex kiosks until, with some relief, I spotted Thomas D Moore, survivalist, ex- military contractor, U.S Army Pathfinder and star of the hit survival reality show "Dude, You're Screwed!" and another guy on the DVM Expeditions tour, Mike, waiting for me.
We traveled by tuk tuk, a motorbike or scooter hitched to a four seat passenger trailer, to where James Price, ex- military contractor and editor in chief of Death Valley Magazine, was holed up with our fixer, Vanessa and New Yorker Maurice, the third man joining us on the Expedition.


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1. Re: Unable to use Wi-Fi Calling while in Airplane Modeg2usersd Jul 22, 2011 11:58 AM (in response to mhschloss)
Quick and dirty answer: You still require slight cell connectivity to permit the switch over to wi-fi calling. I will allow others to go into the finer points, but I imagine it is to do with proper registration of the G2 to connect via wi-fi. The only resolution I can think of in your case is, if possible, perform the switch while you have signals to both wi-fi and cell (for example, in a room where you do have both).
2. Re: Unable to use Wi-Fi Calling while in Airplane Modemhschloss Jul 25, 2011 11:24 AM (in response to g2usersd)
Perhaps I am missing something here but assuming that I have a location that has both Wi-Fi and
cellular service, what would be the exact sequence of steps to configure this? With W-Fi and
cellular enabled, enabling Airplane Mode causes both Wi-Fi and Cellular to be disabled. I then
need to manually reenable Wi-Fi. Once I have reestablished connectivity, any attempt to enable
Wi-Fi calling is blocked with the message "Wi-Fi calling disabled in Airplane mode".
And as for proper registration of the G2, why is it that a Blackberry can do this but an Android cannot?
3. Re: Unable to use Wi-Fi Calling while in Airplane Modeg2usersd Jul 26, 2011 2:12 PM (in response to mhschloss)
I understand the desire to use airplane mode when cell reception is spotty, to assit with battery life. But, if wi-fi calling is enabled my assumption would be that an ongoing cell tower connection is unncessary, and therefore would not be a battery drain. In other words, perhaps give this a go without airplane mode being activated at all. See how the battery lasts.
Again another assumption, but perhaps a Blackberry does make a cell connection even though you have selected airplane mode. It just doesn't explicitly show you it is making a connection to a tower. The one real test would be to switch to wi-fi calling when you are 100% sure you have no cell signal before you enter airplane mode.
4. Re: Unable to use Wi-Fi Calling while in Airplane Modegandecab Jul 26, 2011 2:33 PM (in response to g2usersd)
the BB uses UMA technology which is different than wifi calling (although similar concept). I see your point about putting it in airplane mode to save battery - good idea. my only guess on why this does not work is to prevent people from using wifi calling on an airplane.
There may be an app in the market which would disable your cell radio without putting the phone in 'airplane mode'. this may trick the wifi calling app into allowing the connection.
5. Re: Unable to use Wi-Fi Calling while in Airplane Modemhschloss Jul 26, 2011 3:06 PM (in response to g2usersd)
Thanks for the suggestion. But what you are asking me to try is exactly what I am doing right now.
I am unable to use Airplane Mode and my battery life is not good. The battery use diagram shows
34% going to Cell standby while only 26% going to Wi-Fi.
And I had used my blackberry without problem here in the same building and on an airplane in flight.
Lastly, I am only able to enable Wi-Fi Calling when not in Airplane mode. When I switch to Airplane
mode it explicitly disables Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi Calling. I am then able to reenable Wi-Fi but not Wi-Fi
Calling. That appears to be disabled in software. Perhaps there is another app that can be used in
place of Wi-Fi calling that allows making Wi-Fi calls while in Airplane mode.
6. Re: Unable to use Wi-Fi Calling while in Airplane Modemhschloss Jul 26, 2011 3:21 PM (in response to gandecab)
Why would T-Mobile want to block Wi-Fi calling from a plane? They allow it for Blackberry. And they
aren't blocking you from using it on a plane. They are just blocking you from using it safely on a plane.
One can always turn off airplane mode and use Wi-Fi calling while in-flight. Seems that one could view
this as encouraging you to violate FAA rules by using your cell phone while in flight and not in Airplane
I guess that I can search for an app that can be used in place of Wi-Fi Calling. But Wi-Fi calling uses
minutes ($ to T-Mobile). If T-Mobile forces me to use a 3rd party app then it is more likely that I would
go with an app that does not use T-Mobile for phone service (i.e uses SIP instead) resulting in less
revenue for T-Mobile.
My assumption is that the Wi-Fi Calling app is provided by T-Mobile and the restriction is intentional.
I just wonder why that might be.
7. Re: Unable to use Wi-Fi Calling while in Airplane Modegandecab Jul 26, 2011 4:00 PM (in response to mhschloss)Uma is not available for android. It has nothing to do with tmo or charging for minutes. It may just be the way the app is programmed that it does not work in airplane mode.
8. Re: Unable to use Wi-Fi Calling while in Airplane Modeflamingblue8z Jul 29, 2011 11:25 AM (in response to gandecab)
I'm gonna toss in the technical details of this.
I had a Blackberry Bold 9700, my first UMA device. UMA is implemented thru hardware in Blackberries, since RIM has control of the hardware and software in a customer's hands. So RIM can implement UMA in a way that is ideal for usage, battery consumption (which we know is amazing on Blackberries), etc. Android DOES NOT have the necessary support for UMA in the software, nor does any hardware vendor for Android have the support in the chipsets for UMA. My understanding is that UMA is handled by a combined Wifi/GSM module on Blackberries for efficiency, reliability, and ease of use (not to mention ease of programming in RIM's case). 3G and UMA did not play nice on my Bold 9700, you couldnt do seamless transitions to/from 3G/wifi calling, the call would just drop if leaving a wifi network, or wouldnt hand off to wifi if on 3G. So, knowing this, Kineto, the makers of the wifi calling app on Android, came up with a solution that "just works" for Android, albeit you cannot transition into/out of a wifi network and expect the call to transition, it just will not happen. Here's how Kineto works: when wifi is on and Wifi Calling is enabled, Kineto FAKES to the cellular software stack in Android as if "hey, i have signal, and you can make a phone call". Therefore you CANNOT enable airplane mode, because then the "fake" cell signal can't be passed to the cellular software stack. The "need" for a cell signal in order for Kineto to register you onto a wifi network is 150% false. My partner lives in an area where neither AT&T nor T-Mobile have coverage (Though his iPhone 3GS fails to get a signal more often than my G2 DOES get a signal). I can confirm that with NO signal, from a cold boot, i immediately can register on T-Mobile using the Wifi Calling app, with no need for an initial cell signal before the handoff. So guess who gets to send texts, MMS, and make/receive phone calls all the time when over in that "no-man's land" for signal? Makes him so mad, all the time, since his iPhone can't even get an EDGE or GPRS signal.
So hopefully that answers the question?
Message was edited by: flamingblue8z for spelling errors, stupid Moto Xoom
9. Re: Unable to use Wi-Fi Calling while in Airplane Modeg2usersd Jul 29, 2011 11:48 AM (in response to flamingblue8z)
Thanks, Flaming. Good to know.
It would therefore stand to reason that if there's an app to disable cell connectivity, without having to enable airplane mode, wifi calling should in theory be an available option.
A few days ago I had a quick look through the Market apps and found a number of power controls which suggested possible cell disablement, although they may have just meant data over a cell connection (2/3/4G), as opposed to the whole cell connection.
On the other hand, if Android equates the cell connection being 'off' to airplane mode, then switching to wifi calling may never be a possibility.
10. Re: Unable to use Wi-Fi Calling while in Airplane Modemhschloss Jul 29, 2011 12:30 PM (in response to flamingblue8z)
Thank you, this makes sense, although I hope that someone is working on an alternative null cell
stack that terminates above the hardware, for use when actual cell service is unavailable. This
would be useful for those of us in areas with poor to no cellular service - or for use in foreign
countries when use of cell serivice is prohibitively expensive. No signal really drains the
battery and it seems silly that after a day at the office, using the phone for text and data
exclusively via Wi-Fi, that Cell Standby reports as having used more power than Wi-Fi.
One more question for you about UMA. I seem to recall that UMA was also available in at least one
non-blackberry phone - a fairly basic & inexpensive model if memory serves. I can't find the
webpage that describes which phones offer UMA (calls not using minutes) and which phones offered
non-UMA Wi-Fi calling. I assume that all Android phones are non-UMA and therefore calls are
charged against monthly minutes. Why did T-Mobile not charge for UMA minutes? And if the hardware
is built into RIM/Blackberry then why is it that neither Verizon nor AT&T have ever offered a
similar feature for their Blackberry phones?
11. Re: Unable to use Wi-Fi Calling while in Airplane Modeflamingblue8z Jul 29, 2011 12:48 PM (in response to g2usersd)
Exactly right, g2. It's in Android's code that you can't just "disable cellular network" individually like you can on a Blackberry. It's a shame, but it's just how the system is set up. Anyone who had a T-Mobile G1 when it first came out, like myself, would remember a time in Android 1.0, 1.1, 1.5 and I believe up to even 1.6, where you COULD NOT enter Airplane mode and then explicitly re-enable Wifi. It just didn't work that way, airplane mode turns off all "wireless" interfaces. It wasn't until 2.0 or later in the 2.x series (I believe) that Wifi could be enabled when in Airplane mode. But keep in mind, we are still at a time when Android is hard-coded to ALWAYS disable all connections when Airplane mode is enabled. Same is true of Windows Phone (I have an HD7). Blackberry is just nice enough to have 3 separate controls for cellular, wifi, and bluetooth, then an all-encompassing "Airplane Mode". And I'll tell you, it was SO cool to be on a phone call (in EDGE, nonetheless, not 3G, unless I was begging for the call to drop), turn on my wifi, wait for the call to hand over to UMA, then subsequently disable the cellular connection, all while the call continued over my bluetooth headset. That is the benefit of having UMA implemented through hardware. There may be a future where it is more pervasive in Android, but I don't see that happening unless more carriers adopt UMA/Wifi Calling (and I won't get into this AT&T merger, because I think they'd shut off UMA service altogether, honestly, since they have Fem-to-cells which make them money, whereas UMA is cost-free to us, and actually costs extra to them since they have to operate a separate network switch in their network backbone to handle the UMA connections separately from cellular connections, and in turn route the calls INTO the cellular backbone).
12. Re: Unable to use Wi-Fi Calling while in Airplane Modeflamingblue8z Jul 29, 2011 1:36 PM (in response to mhschloss)
Wait a sec, mhschloss, you seem to have misread what I said (or maybe I misread what you said?)...
In areas of NO coverage, you can IMMEDIATELY have Wifi-calling enabled and there's no problem, no necessity to have any sort of cell signal at all before connecting to Wifi. Let me provide another example: My in-laws live in Mingo County, West Virginia. It's the heart of WV Coal Country, the nearest cell tower from ANY provider, even Verizon, is a good 30 minute drive away. They don't even have cable available down there, just satellite TV/internet. I was able to use Wifi Calling down there to send/receive text messages while I was gone for a week. Back before I had a UMA-enabled device, I was off the grid for the entire time I was down there. T-Mobile could have had a nation-wide outage and I would never have known about it. Another example was the Snowmageddon of Feb/March 2010 here in Pittsburgh. 26 inches of snow fell so fast, I was trapped at my college campus in under an hour, and the power went out within the first 30 minutes of the heavy snowfall. 19 of T-Mobile's towers went out, but luckily the campus wifi network was powered by the backup generators, so I had service using UMA, when otherwise I wouldn't have had service at all, due to towers being out.
Of course I could be misreading your response, in which case, my defense about this still stands: A "/dev/null" point for the cell network would be impossible, and possibly break many things in the process. Right now, I'm not too sure what those hypothetically could be, but I just smell problems arising from mocking an enabled cellular modem interface with a null point, when the real interface is actually disabled.
To input about your "no signal" issue... I have fantastic "4G" HSPA+ 42Mbs signal in my house, yet I've enabled Wifi-Calling for the one "dead" spot that I fall back onto 2G, just in case of crossing that spot, so that I don't lose the call like I have a few times before (with many different phones). Even with my great signal strength, I still get a hit on the battery. There's little that can be done to completely shut off the cellular modem altogether, due to the radio firmware, the software telephony stack in Android, the actual Wifi and radio chipsets, and the Kineto app itself. As of right now, Kineto can be deployed to any of T-Mobile's Android handsets, as-is, with minimal per-device modifications. Most of those involve tailoring the app for each version of Android, as well as the difference in chipsets for Wifi and cellular radio, and how their driver implementation may be done in Android. There's a lot of variables, which is why Kineto's Wifi-calling took so long and is now put through quite a lot of testing before being placed onto the devices.
As an aside to you bringing up about "no cell signal" at your office, it's important to note that enabling Wifi Calling makes your cell signal bars display "0 bars" of service, and in the Android system, it appears as if you have the very worse case coverage scenario, even if you acually do have service. Again, this is more of Kineto "fudging" things around a bit, just to make UMA possible on Android.
Now, about the phones issue.... Nokia had a UMA-enabled phone, released around the same time as the Blackberry Pearl 8120, which was, I believe, the first Wifi-enabled/UMA-enabled Blackberry on T-Mobile. I could be wrong about the 8120, but regardless, Nokia had at least one UMA-enabled phone, Samsung had the Katalyst, and there was at least one Sony Ericsson. At the time, however, UMA was implemented through hardware-only. There was no attempt to create a software UMA implementation. Wifi-Calling (which is just the software form of UMA), was not introduced until last fall. So every handset prior to last fall was Hardware UMA only, because at the time they wanted reliable hand-offs back and forth from cellular to UMA. So indeed, to an extent, all Android phones are "non-UMA", though to be more appropriate and make it easier for all to understand, it's software implemented UMA.
The billing aspect is another issue altogether, because UMA, hardware OR software, all runs through the same server. It is all billed the same. Back when Hardware UMA was the only implementation, they offered, as a bit of a promotion, to have it not hit your allotted minutes when using UMA, for $10/mo. That eventually went away a few months prior to the Wifi-Calling app being introduced in the G2's OTA and on launch of the MT4G. It was just in these past few months that a new feature was re-introduced, for free, where all calls carried on Wifi-Calling, would not deduct from your plan minutes. There's a major reason for this difference, and it deals with billing. Since Wifi-calling on Android is a software implementation of UMA, and is limited to calls only being able to originate and terminate on wifi, therefore can't be handed over to cellular, there is little reason for there to be any billing discrepancy. However, the hardware implementation of UMA can hand off to cell towers, and back to wifi. So, how would T-Mobile bill a call that originated on UMA, transitioned to cell after 10 minutes, then 2 hours later, transitioned back onto UMA, where the call terminated a further 15 minutes later? That's why there was a $10/mo fee back then to enable to feature, so that they could recoup any billing errors that were in the customer's favor. I know that the new feature MAY still be available, it was for Even More/Even More Plus plans AFAIK, you could request to have it added on, and it is free, but only on select plans. I have had Unlimited Loyalty for a few years, so I stopped counting minutes a long time ago.
Oh, and finally as for VZW, AT&T, and Sprint... They haven't implemented UMA for a variety of reasons, mostly involving money, undoubtedly. T-Mobile has always had Deutsche Telekom to back them up, financially, in their endeavors over the years. "HotSpot Calling", aka UMA. "HotSpot @Home", later just "@Home", and now discontinued. I'm still kinda mad cuz I have a T-Mobile router and used @Home a lot. The @Home service was actually UMA inside a router. The router took a SIM card, and everything was handled over the internet, and you hooked up your home phone to the router. Simple as that. I miss my @Home some days. From my understanding of what the UMA "interest group" or whoever sets out the UMA guidelines (I think 3GPP), I believe it's exclusively a GSM technology (that kicks Sprint and Verizon out real fast...). In AT&T's case, I can't explain or begin to wonder why they weren't concerned with UMA. If you look at the time-line, Cingular was still around when UMA was introduced by T-Mobile, then the iPhone came out, AT&T switched Cingular over to them, and really there was just too much going on for R&D and Network engineers to worry about "how could we make this work?" At the end of the day, AT&T came up with the idea to use Fem-to-cells, $150 mini cell towers you plug into your router. And then they charge you a monthly fee for using them (or used to? I haven't kept up on that saga over the years). Keep in mind, UMA requires T-Mobile to continue operating a large network node just for UMA to operate. Servers, network switches, backbone to receive the incoming UMA calls from the internet. It's all pricey, but it saves money on operating costs of the towers, not to mention frees up the airwaves and tower bandwidth for users who ARE using the cell network.
Finally, AFAIK, the only Blackberries that had a UMA-enabled chipset were the models that explicitly were designed for UMA-enabled carriers. Example: I had a Bold 9700, and I knew someone with an AT&T Bold 9700. His had the AT&T 3G bands, mine clearly had T-Mobile's. There were different chipsets in his 9700, which did not include UMA functionality, but the overall software in a Blackberry is actually designed to target each chipset that was put into that model for each carrier, and the Blackberry OS determines what features to enable (which includes whether or not to show specific carrier-dependent apps) based on what carrier your phone is designed to run on.
Long-winded, but hopefully that answers EVERY possible question about this issue!
13. Re: Unable to use Wi-Fi Calling while in Airplane Modeflamingblue8z Jul 29, 2011 2:22 PM (in response to mhschloss)
Figured I should add this, after some Google searching, I found this article from August 1st, 2006 on Engadget Mobile:
And here's the Nokia 6301 and Samsung t339 announcement
14. Re: Unable to use Wi-Fi Calling while in Airplane Modeatariguy Aug 8, 2011 11:58 AM (in response to mhschloss)
I found this while searching for information about using wifi only while on a trip to Canada.
Apparently the wifi calling app you're referring to is T-Mobile's own, right? Does Google Voice have the same problem, or would it work? (I currently use it for SMS, as well, which would be nice to be able to use with wifi only.)


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"used by advertisers" suggests you don't understand the actual issue. The size reported by your computer AND by the hard drive manufacturers WAS EXACTLY THE SAME. Too many people, including technical types, have been confused by the fact that the two DIFFERENT units use the same name. It would be like saying advertisers were being misleading because they sold gold in 16 ounces per pound while a goldsmith sold it in 12 ounces per pound. All your complaint would demonstrate is that you don't know the difference between ounces Troy and ounces Avoirdupois. It's the same thing here with drive size pre Snow Leopard.
The two different units do not have the same name, nor do they have the same abbreviation. According to IEEE 1541 standard (as well as similar standards), 1 kilobyte = 1 kB = 1000 bytes, 1 megabyte = 1 MB = 1000 kilobytes, 1 gigabyte = 1 GB = 1000 megabytes, etc., and 1 kibibyte = 1 KiB = 1024 bytes, 1 mebibyte = 1 MiB = 1024 kibibytes, 1 gibibyte = 1 GiB = 1024 mebibytes, etc. There is nothing wrong with using either base 10 or base 2 units in Finder, provided the correct unit abbreviation is given so users can easily recognize which base units are being used for measurements.
That's interesting... I have never seen the different names, and I doubt many other people have either. I have seen the different abbreviations (ie. GiB vs. GB) but it never really dawned on me what each one meant. I'd be curious to know the percentage of computer software that actually uses the correct abbreviations/terms - I think I've only seen *iB in some bit torrent programs .. and maybe also in some Linux environments. I know Windows doesn't use it, as the 95,737,000,000 bytes free on my Windows machine are reported as 89.1 GB, and I'm pretty sure previous Mac OSes didn't (I only have Lion machines, but I verified this in the screenshot on the Disk Utility Wikipedia page.)
The kibi,mebi etc stuff are quite recent units specifically created to tell the difference between the two.
The binary unit prefixes aren't terribly recent. They've been around for awhile (~15 years, IIRC) albeit not the centuries that the base ten unit prefixes have existed.
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Daniel Levin - cello
Tim Daisy - percussion
1. Graystone
2. Paseo Boricua
3. The Flower And The Bear
4. Steel Flags
5. Fairfield
Released in 2011 on Relay Records
Recorded on July 20th and 21st, 2010 at Chateau Recording by Brian J. Sulpizio. Mixed by Brian J. Sulpizio.
Art and printing by Sonnenzimmer, 2011
All compositions by Daniel Levin/Black Bear Industries Publishing Inc. (ASCAP) and Tim Daisy (ASCAP)
Limited edition of 200
Daniel Levin Quartet:
2011, Clean Feed Records
Daniel Levin Quartet:
2010, Clean Feed Records
Ivo Perelman - tenor saxophone
Daniel Levin - cello
Torbjorn Zetterberg - bass
2010, Clean Feed Records


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Commando Droid Captain and Sniper Droid
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2 clones take on 3 droids
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