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To kick off the celebration, EPA's Clean Air Research Program cosponsored an international conference on the latest science associating sources and their emissions with health risk and how we might minimize these risks. This transdisciplinary research endeavor is critical to the development of improved and cost-effective air quality management strategies. The conference, entitled "Air Pollution & Health: Bridging the Gap from Sources to Health Outcomes," was held March 22 to 26 in San Diego.
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CBS banned SodaStream's Super Bowl spot because, apparently, it was too much of a direct hit to two of its biggest sponsors, Coke and Pepsi.
Please pause and read that sentence again.
I am shocked that CBS would ban a spot for being too competitive. But I'm even more shocked that the advertising world isn't up in arms about it.
The media's job isn't to judge.
SodaStream has a product that could be wildly disruptive to the soda industry, if successful. As in, the "automobile" to the soda industry's "buggy whip." If SodaStream takes off, Coke and Pepsi would have a lot to worry about, for sure. But isn't that what progress is all about?
CBS is protecting its relationship with Coke and Pepsi. Those two brands spend big bucks on the Super Bowl and on the network, in general. I get it. But all CBS would have to do, if Coke and Pepsi put the pressure on, is say, "Hey, we're just the unbiased middle man here. It's not up to us what competitors of yours say about you." There's no need for the medium to have a say in the message.
Competitive battles should be fought in the marketplace.
If the SodaStream product is a better "soda idea" than Coke and Pepsi, then shouldn't it be given a fair shot within any medium it decides to risk its dollars? If it's not a better idea, the market will decide its fate, not CBS. But even beyond that obvious argument, it's in CBS's, and all media's, interest to encourage unbridled competition. The more threatened a Coke and Pepsi feel, in this case, the more likely they are to launch new campaigns specifically targeting the threat. And that's more money pouring into the media, not less. But Coke and Pepsi won't do that now (or are less likely to), because CBS intervened, took the pressure off, and effectively sided with Coke and Pepsi.
I contacted Alex Bogusky, Person Of Interest with Fearless Creative, and creator of the SodaStream ad, and, no surprise, he agrees. "We get that Coke and Pepsi spend billions verses SodaStream's millions but that's a hard decision to rationalize. Especially when there is such a huge environmental advantage to the SodaStream model."
No more 'Davids' allowed.
I also called veteran creative director, David Baldwin, of Baldwin&, to get his take with CBS's move. He nailed it. "That's a disturbing turn of events. No more Davids allowed I guess at CBS."
And it's so unnecessary. If CBS had simply played the "unbiased middleman" card in this case, there's very little Coke and Pepsi could have done. They certainly would not have pulled their Super Bowl ads. Instead, Coke and Pepsi would have been forced to retrench and figure out a marketing way to solve this SodaStream problem and not a mafia way (I mean that metaphorically, of course).
Now, CBS has essentially opened the door for its biggest advertisers to forever complain about those "annoying little competitors" that are trying to steal share. "Take them off the air. Make them stop!" is what they will scream. "You did it for Coke and Pepsi."
And it won't only be CBS. All media will have to bear the burden of this biased, un-capitalistic, anti-progress, move. But, guess what? This isn't the first time in recent months CBS has overplayed its hand.
Add the fact CBS banned the Dish Network "Hopper" and now we've got ourselves a trend.
You heard about this, I'm sure. CBS forced the staff at CNET to change the winner of "Best In Show" at CES this year because, presumably, the technology which had already won the honor, if successful, would mean less money for CBS. It was Dish Network's "Hopper" technology which allows viewers to skip entire advertising pods with one click. Forbes Contributor, Erik Kain, wrote a great expose on this scandal recently, "CBS Forced CNET To Drop Its 'Best Of CES 2013′ Winner, The Dish Hopper."
So, we can now see what drives "CBS Standards & Practices." It's not freedom to express. It's not truth in advertising. It's not liberal causes (as Bogusky intimated, SodaStream is far better for the environment because it reduces trash). No, what drives CBS is money.
Another advertising expert I called was John Elder, President of Heat Advertising. He put CBS's intentions this way, "If they are willing to make a public move like this involving a third party, what else is happening inside CBS that we never hear about?"
Again, where is the outrage?
Here's mine. As one last act of personal defiance, below is the banned ad. I hope it gets a billion hits.

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text: Okay guys, I guess this is kind of an comparison/critic's view of both versions of this movie. I have seen both and was shocked when I found out that Stanley Kubrick's version was released in theaters and IMMENSLY praised, even though it follows the book EXTREMELY loosely; (And who couldn't help but laugh when Danny was talking to his finger and even giving it a voice? ) Now, I am not saying that this wasn't a good horror movie. It definitley was well done. Seeing Jack's character slowly start turning into something completley different than that of which his family knows him for, The subliminal messages of the two little girls slaughtered and an ocean of blood flooding the halls, and even a good, twisted ending. It was a good movie, but like Halloween 3: season of the witch, This movie should not have been called "The Shining." Later on in the years I had stumbled across what seems to be an unappreciated, and candy coated gem of a film with an even sweeter filling known as Mr. King's made for t.v. movie bearing the same title as Stanley Kubrick's. What's the difference? This version was not only faithful to the novel, but also and sometimes a little too terrifying of a movie. WHO COULD FORGET THE WOMAN IN THE TUB?! Oh! How magnificently and more thought ought this movie was. The ghosts, The insanity of Jack, Heck, even the animal shaped shrubberies were out for blood! And they weren't illustrated as silly either. They were an real and honest to god threat to the young family. While they can usually be found around the same price and they are both great movies, I must say that Stephen wins this round in cinema. Even though Stanley Kubrick directs some of the greatest science fiction movies, (most notably 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Clockwork Orange) King is the king of This hotel's hidden hauntings and horrors.


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I'm just wondering why Mr King has to use the "N" word in just about all of his novels?
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I'm just wondering why Mr King has to use the "N" word in just about all of his novels?
The characters who use the word are the types of people who would so he is creating realistic dialogue and it creates a visceral reaction in most people to further connect to their distaste of a character because of it.
I don't think a day goes by where I don't here this word spoken on the streets, never from a white person, but I don't doubt that there are white racists out there who use the word on regular basis. If SK's characters didn't sometimes use the word, it would make for a less realistic read.
I'd be interested to see which books in particular you're talking about, and the time frame in the books. The word is used a lot in IT, in a 1958 setting, then by one of the same characters in the early 80s. I'm not saying it was right to use the word in previous decades, but it was used nonetheless. I grew up in the south and heard it a lot in the 60s and 70s, not as much after that, and certainly not by as many people. Not that the use of the word was confined to the south.
And like Ms. Mod said, if King wants to portray a character in a negative light, one of the best ways to do that is through the words they speak.
Valid question though, and if I hadn't read so much of King and noticed the time periods and types of character that use it, I'd have the same concerns.
Its now moved onto something different, something sorta trendy- an americanism that has travelled.
is it an affectionate name calling now- i dont know, but if "jock bastad" is a term of endearement- maybe it is now.( being from scotland you see) and i still hear it on the terraces-
If a character uses the F*** word is he to be detested- because nowadays every other word is F*** When i try and write dialogue its everywhere because that is what we hear nowadays.
So N word, F word - I do not why we need to censor our writing to prevent offending. Something I find irratating on this board, considering the reason to what brought us all here- SKs sweary offending characters!
I know, I know, its for the kids- but they read his stuff too. Ns Fs Bs and the ever so shocking C word- one never to be uttered anywhere! ANYWHERE!
shame on you SK!
thanks ms Mod!:smile2:
Also agreeing completely with Mod's original post up there, I'm adding that. . .
Sai King's non-fiction book On Writing offers a fairly suitable depiction as to why he can't spend his every waking moments worrying about who he's going to offend.
This should be in the FAQ's, it gets asked so often.
What interests me about this question is that, just for one example, in Flannery O'Connor's short story, A Good Man Is Hard To Find, the ONLY character that uses the N word is the grandmother, who is epically awful. AWFUL.
Anyway, that character's use of the word (and various others) serves to illustrate one way in which she is awful. There are many other ways in which she is awful. I hate that character so much. Oi, I almost hate her more than Randall Flagg. No. I do hate her more than Randall Flagg. Ugh.
Anyway, it is literature. And powerful literature. And in my literature class, no one got upset and said "HOW COME SHE USES THE N WORD?"
The N word, for me anyway, is a powerful word. It grates on my brain like pumice. I actually hate it, and any other racial slur I've heard. They bug me. I wasn't raised that way. I hate it in Rap, i hate it Books, I would not, could not, say it in a bar, I will not, do not, say it in my car, etc. etc.
Sure gets my attention, though.
I'm with dsurett on this one.A great number of his books are based in the 50's where the word was more frequently used
Reminds of when Eddie Dean and Susannah first meet and are both shocked by what is considered normal slang in each others when time
ie Eddie using the word "blacks" which wasn't used in the 50's and 60's as an unoffensive term
my favorite Steve King N word scene of all time has got to be the one in IT where Mike Hanlon's father confronts Henry Bower's father (who then has a hard time in the moment of thinking of any sort of non-N-word form of address)


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I do want to thank every one of you for your contributions and help; I understand the system much better than I did. I will save this thread for reference.
Concerning 2nd choices, I thought that paying the Special price, and having 1PP, we would draw 2nd choice before others with no PP or not Special price would even get their 1st choices.....but from the explanation above, that is not true. Understanding this will help us apply next year also.
We hunted 63 in 2011, paying Special with 1PP. All 3 got bucks, not large, but we had a great time on a first-time DIY antelope hunt. Hopefully we will return next year, applying with all this new info I learned. We will have 2PP. We are somewhat restricted on when we can hunt, I am a full time grain farmer, and must hunt units with early seasons....these mid Sept. opening dates are about all that will work, and we must hunt the first few days so I can get home for harvest.
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The used game market is one of the most controversial topics in gaming today. Do players "own" or "license" their games? In today's column, Genese Davis takes a look at the topic and offers some history and opinion about used games. Check it out and leave your opinions in the comments.
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I like your conclusion...give a little get a little.
The biggest problem I find with the argument that "However, when you purchase or rent a used game, only the seller sees that money." is that ultimately when you purchase a game you purchased an item that is now your property meaning the developers no longer have any right to that so should not receive any income from reselling. This is similar to building a house. When you first build you pay for the construction; however everytime that house is resold the construction team does not get a portion of the payment...nor should they because you paid them for their services and now you are selling your property. Construction teams don't complain that reselling your house keeps them from building "new" houses.
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The difference between Steam and Microsoft's attempt and DRM for physical games is that Steam didn't try to change the rules for an existing system. Valve created a new set of rules for a system that didn't really have a set of rules. If Microsoft had tried to make new rules for a new system, or tried to use the rules that Steam setup for a fully digital system, they would have had no issues.
I can not remember winning or losing a single debate on the internet.
I see this as just more arm twisting to shape the culture of consumers. I see f2p games as a conniving method to take advantage of those that cant control thier spending, much like casino's take advantage of compulsive gamblers. It's all very unattractive. It gets in the way of just being able to relax. The used games restrictions are not relevant to my past habits, but the arm twisting in an effort to shape culture is where I draw the line. It's not just happening in the video game world but this isnt the place to talk work or politics.
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I don't really care about used game sales. I don't buy used games and I don't sell my games. I mostly buy all my games and music DRM free. I support those options because I think they treats both the seller and the buyer fairly.
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I have not owned a console since the Dreamcast. However, back then I relied on the sale of my old games to fund the purchase of new ones. Had I not been able to do so, I simply would have bought fewer games. I would have lost out on playing some great titles, and the developers of those titles would have made one less sale.
Back then, new console games were simply too expensive to take gambles on. The ability to buy and sell games made me much more willing to take a chance on less-widely acclaimed or hyped games. Without that ability, I would have been as conservative and risk averse with my money as an investor asked to support an innovative MMO.
On the subject of Steam, I am not a fan. However, unlike Microsoft, Valve has credit in the bank when it comes to respect and trust from gamers. That is the prime reason why Steam is installed on my pc and why Origin is not. As the Windows 8 debacle shows, Microsoft does not go out of its way to win the respect of its customers, and that disrespect is repaid in kind.
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The critical flaw in the presented argument against used games is that it would make video games (correct me if I'm wrong) the ONLY physical purchase on the market which you would be unable to resell or to buy used. I mean, I understand the piracy concerns, but the same argument could be made for the hammer I bought at a yardsale or the Ford I bought used from a Honda dealership. It just doesn't work as an economic model. Besides, if I break my game disk, I can run down to the used game store and get another one.
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Microsoft and others should implement two ways to sell product: CD copies that can be traded/sold but also offer online-only versions. The online version would be sold at a nicely discounted price and allow the sharing features but the license will be locked to only one account at time of purchase.
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Originally posted by dwturducken
You can't resell used food either, or condoms...
Also, it is arguable that a game is a physical purchase since they can be digitally downloaded and likely would be in an online system. Most online games can't be sold either since they key is locked to the original purchaser's account.
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The big differences between Steam and Microsoft is price and market. Steam games are cheap, so no one is concerned about the lack of a used game market; if they tried to charge full price like what Microsoft and the console game devs would almost certainly have tried to charge, they would not have survived very long. Second, Steam is operating in a PC market, which is very different from the console market; PC users a) typically don't move their PCs around very much or take them to places that might lack reliable internet, and b) are much, much more used to the mixing of physical media and online content. The average console player could still care less about an internet connection, despite the rise in popularity in the last generation of consoles, and consoles are still primarily seen as a good traveling system, something that requiring constant internet access would absolutely kill. Also, Microsoft would have done much better simply getting rid of the physical media entirely if they truly wanted an online only system. In the end, Microsoft, and apparently some game devs, fail to understand that the console market is not the same beast as the PC market, no matter how similar the machines themselves are, and cannot be treated as such. I can understand their goals, but until the console market itself changes, trying to treat consoles like a limited PC, which is basically what Microsoft was trying to do, will continue to fail.
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Originally posted by Ozivois
You can't compare one use items with reusable ones that's just silly.
I don't buy my games second hand all,I buy them when they are discounted in digital sales these days so the used game market doesn't affect me.But I don't see why Video Games are a special unique snowflake,why they should get special treatment that other media have not?
Artists don't get a cut of reselling of their paintings,albums or dvds so why should the video game industry?
Instead they should find ways to make purchasing a direct copy from them more attractive.Offer incentives and services or prices to make buying second hand copies not seem worth it.
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"It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver". - Niccolo Machiavelli
i buy used games when the digital version of the same game has a ridiculous price. I buy new games whenever the used alternative is almost the same and still needs online code to be purchased (which makes it more expensive). I also buy new games (physical and digital) when i really love the franchise, to show my support to the developer, as long as its priced well.
Also, IMO digital sales should be cheaper than physical for obvious reasons.
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Why are games different from books and movies? First sale doctrine is fairly clear on the right to resell hard copies of books, music and movies. Steven King's ability to write his next novel is not affected by selling my copy of The Stand at a used book store. The legal precedent on digital media is murky, and the gaming industry is trying to exploit that in disregarding first sale doctrine. Of course every company wants to earn more money, I get that. But trying to brow beat your consumers into giving up rights they are entitled to is wrong. The rise in MMOs is in part due to companies switching from selling you a digital widget to providing you a service. And many companies are trying to shoehorn the service part into the digital widget. Sometimes it is value added, other times it is pure exploitation. Short filing a class action lawsuit, for which the economics are not strong enough to justify, the only action consumers can take is to vote with their wallets, which they seemed to be prepared to do with the next gen Xbox's DRM.
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I find the legal rights of software to be total crap! Why can I buy a $500 TV, use it for a year and then sell or trade it but if I buy a game for $50 i am only buying the right to play it myself. This whole software licensing thing is getting more and more out of control each year. The entire reason we are in this mess is due to Microsoft paying off (lobbying) the US government to impose these totally unrealistic ownership rights on software back in the 80's.
Once I buy something, it should be mine. I'm tired of fat-cat developers and corporate CEO's whining about the need for DRM and how bad software piracy hurts them while they live in fricken mansions and take private jets to work. I'm sure software piracy hurt Lord British so bad he could not afford a second trip into space or the other castle he wanted on the french riviera.
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Everyone wants a discount Genese. The consequences be damned. Look at the prevalence of the F2P market, though it has dumbed down our games, people play because they feel they are getting something for FREE. Even though Free is a fiction.
I do disagree with you about Steam. I submit that it is not loved, but unfortunately has become a necessary evil. I enjoyed the video. Keep up the good work.
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Originally posted by lizardbones
+1 to everything here.
I'd also like to add a quite important point of difference between MS Xbox ecosystem and Steam.
Steam offers sales like you said, but it's also competitive within a larger market. There are other digital services and you can still purchase physical media from big box stores, amazon, ebay, list goes on.
The xbox system is close. And that's why it's a scary proposition to allow them to control DRM on the hardware side. The consumer would have had no alternative outside of simply not purchasing an xbox. Players choose steam and that's a distinction that MS failed to understand.
There is no incentive to offer 75% off on xbox games if you control the entire market of xbox games. Steam offers lots of sales to remain the lead service in digital PC game distribution. Console games only get cheap years after they've been out (or when they're used). I got Skyrim for $40 two weeks after the game launched from one of the other digital services (may have been gamefly digital, can't remember now). It was a two day sale and I was more than happy to grab it at that price, not that it wasn't worth the full $60, but I was in the middle of some other games and held off while I finished them.
I'm all for digital distribution, but the market has to be open and competitive, otherwise we'll just get bent over.
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However much the gaming industry likes to talk about licenses, the fact of the matter is that for games on physical media everyone involved has been treating them as if they were no different from other copyrighted items such as books. If developers want to say that used sales are a problem then they're saying that gamers themselves are the problem, because the used games industry exists only to facilitate our rights to sell our legitimately purchased copyrighted products.
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This pretty much just effects the console market. Not much of a market for used PC games. Go into any Gamestop, you can count the PC games on one hand. Most MMO's games register the client and ti is not transferable.
Until MMO's become more common on consoles, I do not see this as a issue.
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1.The Video game industry is a Multi billion dollar industry, and thats with pre-owned.
2. Preowned games are purchased by people that might not have otherwise bought the game.
3. Some games are not worth 60 dollars. And used games make games be worth what the market says they are.
4. My best anecdote: Right before Gears of war 3 came out I re-bought Gears 1 so a friend and I could run through all 3 games in a row. I picked it up used for 5 bucks. Gears of war is still 20 dollars on xbox.com digital marketplace. Gears 1 is not worth $20 dollars anymore.
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I don't understand: what's wrong with iCould at present? You imply it could be better and faster--in what way is its speed a problem right now? Also, you imply it's unreliable--in what way? I'm not trying to be a smart aleck or anything: I'm new to Apple products and i haven't noticed any problems with iCloud (that i can remember, anyway), so I'd like to be brought up to speed (and I'd like to be more reliable, too.....). Thanks!
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Following up on the information iMore received yesterday on potential ZFS hooks in iOS 5.1, a reliable source let us know that Apple has been investing heavily in ZFS appliances from Oracle. (Whether or not this will be made public is unknown; it doesn't seem to be right now.)
Also, several of our readers familiar with ZFS wrote in to speculate as to why Apple may be exploring ZFS for use on iPhone and iPad. Broadly, it may have something to do with ZFS' snapshot technology. ZFS snapshots can be easily compressed and encrypted, de-duplicated, and can transfer delta (bit differential) updates between cloud and device. The snapshots can also work like Time Machine, easily and efficiently providing incremental backup and restore capability from an hour ago, a day ago, a week ago, or more, asynchronously and block by block. Here's what Wikipedia says about ZFS snapshots:
An advantage of copy-on-write is that when ZFS writes new data, the blocks containing the old data can be retained, allowing a snapshot version of the file system to be maintained. ZFS snapshots are created very quickly, since all the data composing the snapshot is already stored; they are also space efficient, since any unchanged data is shared among the file system and its snapshots.
Writeable snapshots ("clones") can also be created, resulting in two independent file systems that share a set of blocks. As changes are made to any of the clone file systems, new data blocks are created to reflect those changes, but any unchanged blocks continue to be shared, no matter how many clones exist. This is an implementation of the Copy-on-write principle.
Snapshots is only one of the features of ZFS (Zettabyte Files System), the advanced file system created by Sun, now owned by Oracle. Apple included a partial port of ZFS in earlier versions of Mac OS X but pulled it before the official release. It's a file system particularly well suited for cloud environments and storage pools, which might be why Apple is looking at it again in the post iCloud.
Apple is an incredibly private company that works hard behind the scenes in order to present a beautifully packaged, highly polished product to consumers. No doubt there is a lot of really cool, really geeky technology at the core of iCloud, for example, but all most of us see are elegant interface elements in Settings.app that, when tapped, all but transparently backup and restore our iPhones or iPads.
If indeed Apple is planning on using ZFS to make iCloud backups and restores better, it will probably be invisible to end users. One day, iCloud will simply work better, faster, and even more reliably.
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Hi Martin,
Thanks for commenting! We're not implying anything about iCloud not being fast, good, or reliable, but the truth about computing technology is that everything can get better. iPhone 4 was fast, so saying iPhone 4S is faster doesn't suddenly make iPhone 4 slow.
When it comes to online especially, there's so much innovation going on that things will always be getting better. Just like Apple will make an iOS 6 and an iPhone 5 eventually, they'll likely keep adding features to iCloud. And that's what we all want, I think.
I think you will find that this snapshot technology was actually invented by a company called StorageTek (Louisville, Colo.) and used in their Iceberg Disk Array System.
Sun Microsystems bought (and pretty much destroyed) StorageTek many years ago ... at least some of STK's legacy lives on.
Yes, it's inevitable Apple will release a new iPhone eventually. But it's not inevitable it will be called "iPhone 5". The reasons why iMore and the rest of the blogosphere are calling it that, I don't understand at all. What am I missing?
... besides the link that was meant to indicate I was replying to Rene.
For God sake man! Does it really matter what the next iPhone, iPad or whatever iDevice comes out will be called? Seriously who cares! All that matters is the quality of the design, hardware and user experience of the device.
I'm not sure why using the term "iPhone 5" upsets some people. It's just a name. Internally at Apple, the next iPhone is "iPhone 5,1" (iPhone 3G wasn't the second generation, it was iPhone 1,2 or a variant of the original iPhone).
Apple could call the next iPhone anything they want. iPhone X. iPhone RED. iPhone Banana. Right now, Apple has had two iPhone models with 3 in it -- iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS, and two models with 4 in it -- iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S. There's every chance the next two will be iPhone 5 and iPhone 5S.
Either way, it's nothing to get upset about.
The rumours previously said Apple were busy developing in-house their own new FS for Mac OS X after the collapse of their licensing negotiations for ZFS with Sun/Oracle. If they're going back to ZFS for iOS then does that mean Mac OS X will also use ZFS and the internal new FS project is dead?
I can't see Apple using ZFS in the iCloud backend and iOS clients while building a completely different FS for Mac OS X. Macs use iCloud too and if iOS is going to use ZFS then surely Mac OS X must be going to also.
The main design goal of ZFS was, and still is, to maintain data integrity. Its file system code can recover from many types of data degradation, such as "bit-rot," alpha particle hits, ghost-writes, etc.
So, why would data integrity be more of an issue now than it was before? Because more and more devices use flash memory, which is subject to higher rates of data integrity deterioration than other types of storage. ZFS should be able to recover from memory cell degradation and failures.
Combined with Apple's purchase of Anobit, the Israeli flash memory company, Apple should be well prepared for even more extensive use of flash memory. Anobit's technology is apparently very good at spreading out read/erase wear across flash memory blocks. This reduces the average number of cycles per cell, which statistically should increase the usable life of flash memory. Combining that with ZFS' superior error recovery would give Apple a very robust flash memory-based file system for future devices.
ZFS rocks but we're not likely to see it on mobile devices. ZFS is an excellent volume manager and file system with great features, indeed it can detect data corruption due to checksumming every block of data. To recover from data corruption you will need another copy or some way to reconstruct it, I.e mirror or raid with parity. If ZFS detects corruption it may just stop dead, potentially saving further corruption till someone gets eyes on it, mdb, zdb etc.
I don't think we will have iPhones with 32g+32g storage soon. I suppose they could slice the storage in half and create a zpool mirror on the two halves ;-)
ZFS can actually store 2 (or even three) copies of a file on a single volume using the copies parameter. This can be done on a selective volume by volume basis. ZFS will recover transparently should one copy be bad, and fail should both copies be bad.
This will save you from bad blocks, but not from a bad flash drive/device.
Hello from the http://MacZFS.org/ community (the free ZFS on Mac OS, which has always existed for years). I'd sure like to get some substantiation to this. Even this screenshot is a rumor. It's just text. And the presence of zpool binaries doesn't mean that they function. Do we know where it came from? Was it an internal-only build, or was it ever released to the public? Has it appeared in any other releases? Is it able to create and maintain zpools?
I maintain the MacZFS FAQ, so I made an entry for it just to address the rumor. Cool stuff!
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20:14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
20:15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
Yeah, it's just easier to stay humble. You're more believable that way, if by chance you ever did have a change in perspective. 'Cause then you'll want to run out and tell everyone of your altered views and your absolute rejoicing in the Lord for the bigger picture, only to find faces looking at you as though "but you were just as sure about what you were saying before, how do you know you're even remotely right now??" A lack of humility always needlessly hardens the hearts of others who hear someone lacking in that humility. And then when you've really got a rushing mighty wind and tongues of fire upon your head, then it takes so much longer and harder to get through -- as St. Paul learned the painfully, tearful hard way with trying to deal with Israel after his altered views of the Cross and Resurrection. But if people know you doubt your own infallibility but are simply walking in the light you have at the time, then they'll ALWAYS listen, and your current hearers will often follow you through the transition, even if it winds up being "eventually." 'Cause they'll know, if you were grounded in humility that could only come from Christ and baring His yoke, that you weren't looking for something so far out when He did open your eyes.
WH,Your intransigence is showing in your behavior and speech
A very poor representative of your preterism
One who lacks confidence in what they present and believe always has to belittle and convey disrespect toward those who think differently .... and then one becomes defensive .... and then offensive
The believer who is confident and unshaken in their faith in the Lord never has to do this
Seek the Lord and His truth and He will save you .... it is you that must choose to ask for His forgiveness, repent of your sin
and then to accept His offer of your salvation by His grace through faith in His ability and willingness to save you
There is no other way


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Okay, Im wondering, why would someone who spends so much time in prayer be drawn to the conclusion that only a few would be saved.
Someone of a traditionalist Catholic Church drew this conclusion by reasoning of this sermon by St. Leonard of Port Maurice. The reason he supposedly gained this info was through spending time in prayer.


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Feb. 29, 2008
Fullerton, Calif. - In their four year careers at Cal State Northridge, Jonathan Heard and Calvin Chitwood had never beaten Cal State Fullerton.
That all came to an abrupt end on Thursday night in the hostile environment of Titan Gym as Heard and Chitwood combined for 29 points and 13 rebounds to help propel the first place Matadors to a highly emotional, tough, hard-fought 82-74 victory over the second place Titans.
From the opening tipoff, both teams went at each other like championship boxers. Cal State Northridge finally delivered the knockout punch in the final 53 seconds when Josh Jenkins hit five free throws and Chitwood added a solo free throw to give the Matadors their 19th victory this season (19-7) and a Big West mark of 11-2.
"We stepped up when we needed too," said Heard, who collected a game-high 19 points along with ten rebounds, three assists and two steals. "We were tough from start to finish ... from the point-guard position to the center position. Give credit to Cal State Fullerton. They're a great team, but we also played with a lot of heart."
Before each game, the Matador coaching staff sets several key goals including keeping the opposition to under 40 percent shooting and out rebounding the opponent. Cal State Northridge set all their goals against Cal State Fullerton. The Titans were held to only .371 shooting (23-for-62), .136 (3-for-22) from three-point range, and out rebounded the home team, 48-36.
"In our last game with them (A 80-72 CSF win), they beat us up on the boards," said Matador head coach Bobby Braswell. "I told the team that the game would come down rebounding. Our team showed a lot of heart and a lot of tenacity."
Cal State Northridge held a 36-30 halftime lead, but the Titans cut it to one point, 38-37, with less than two minutes into the final half. The Matadors took CSF's punch, but the Matadors landed a few of their own, and jumped the lead back to six points, 47-41, with 16:25 to play.
The Titans took their biggest lead of the game, 52-50, with 12:53 to play, but again the Matadors would not fold. At the 8:46 mark, Rob Haynes hit a three-pointer to give the Matadors a 60-58 lead. Cal State Northridge would not lose the lead again.
Cal State Fullerton mounted several rallies to either tie the game or pull ahead, but time and time again, the Matadors responded with a key basket. With 5:39 to play, CSF pulled to within two points, only to have Heard hit a three-pointer. A minute later, the Titans again cut the lead to two points, but Chitwood nailed a jumper. With 2:30 to play, two free throws by CSF's Frank Robinson cut the Matador lead to three points, but Deon Tresvant answered with a three-pointer.
"This was obviously a big win for us," said Braswell. "We've had some tough losses recently (73-72 to Rider, 78-73 in overtime to Pacific), but tonight we put together a great effort."
Once again, the Matador bench proved to be a highly valuable asset. Haynes, Tresvant and Chitwood combined for 34 bench points compared to only 13 for the Titans.
Braswell also praised the highly vocal following of fans and students who rooted for Cal State Northridge.
"This was a great crowd that rooted for us," said Braswell. "It was great to see our fans and students show up and show their great support. It was great for the team. They gave our team a good boost."
Cal State Northridge now travels to UC Irvine on Saturday (3/1/08, 8:30 p.m.) in a game to be televised on Fox Sports Prime Ticket. Then it's back home on March 6 to finish the league regular season against Cal Poly (7:00 p.m.) and pre-season league favorite UC Santa Barbara on Saturday, March 8. Tipoff is slated for 5:00 p.m. on Fox Sports Prime Ticket.
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I only know one thing for sure, if Zuffa decides to keep him he better be matched up against a black fighter for his UFC debut. Can't let a marketing opportunity like this slip through your fingers.
Leben 'em dead and maimed
Hahahaha yeaaaaah sure!!I am not a neo-Nazi, never have been, never will be. At no time in my life have I ever made any xenophobic, anti-Semitic or racist statements, either in public or in private
I bet that he is an angel and has never ever said any bad word even in private.
LOL obviously he is going to deny it all because otherwise he will be cut in few hours, but if there are reports about him being a fucking neo nazi then there is a reason for that.
That means nothing.My grappling coach and good friend Marcin Bandel hails from Poland and I have friends from all over the world. Next week, I will join a training camp with fighters from Bosnia, Brazil, Greece, Iraq, Italy, Morocco, Poland, Russia and Tunesia do you think I had any interest in training with all these non- German athletes if I was a neo-Nazi
Not only brazilians can do this stuff
UFC releases fighter with alleged Neo-Nazi ties
Who cares. This sport is about fighting.
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The majority of women with lobular carcinoma in situ will not need immediate treatment with surgery or medicines. Instead, your doctor will probably recommend keeping a close eye on your condition. That will mean regular breast self-exams, office visits, and routine mammograms.
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March 9, 2010
Junior Reindell Cole and senior Robert Robinson will represent Cal State Northridge track & field at the NCAA Indoor Championships this weekend at the Randal Tyson Track Center in Fayetteville, Ark.
Cole, a junior from Las Vegas, Nev., is the Northridge indoor record holder in the long jump with a distance of 26-7.75 (8.12). Cole set his personal-best mark when he claimed the 2008 NCAA Indoor Long Jump championship at the University of Arkansas, the same venue as this weekend's meet. Cole comes in to the meet ranked ninth among 15 competitors with a season-best jump of 25-9.50 (7.86) set at the MPSF Indoor Championships on Feb. 27 in Seattle, Wash. He finished second to Arizona's Luis Rivera-Morales at the MPSF Championships.
Robinson is making his NCAA Indoor Championship debut in the heptathlon after claiming the 16th and final spot in the competition. Robinson scored an indoor career-best 5,540 points at the MPSF Indoor Championships where he finished second to California's Michael Morrison (5,655).
The heptathlon gets underway Friday, Mar. 12 at 10 a.m. local time with the 60 meters, the first of four events on Friday. The men will also compete in the long jump, shot put and high jump and Friday followed by the 60 meter hurdles, pole vault and 1,000 meter run on Saturday.
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Sylvester Stallone returns to the big screen in "The Expendables", and joining him is an all-star cast of bad asses. This one is going to be good folks.
An all-star cast of action-movie icons headline Sylvester Stallone's explosive action thriller about a group of hard-nosed mercenaries who are double-crossed during a treacherous mission. Approached by the shadowy Church to overthrow tyrannical South American dictator General Gaza (David Zayas) and restore order to the troubled island country of Vilena, stoic soldier of fortune Barney Ross (Stallone) rounds up an unstoppable team that includes former SAS soldier and blade specialist Lee Christmas (Jason Statham); martial arts expert Yin (Jet Li); trigger-happy Hale Caesar (Terry Crews); cerebral demolitions expert Toll Road (Randy Couture); and haunted sniper Gunnar Jensen (Dolph Lundgren), a combat veteran who never misses his mark. Traveling to Vilena on a reconnaissance mission with his old pal Christmas, Barney meets their local contact, a cagey guerrilla fighter named Sandra (Giselle Itie). It isn't long before Barney and Christmas have discovered that their actual target is not General Gaza but James Monroe (Eric Roberts), a former CIA operative who has recently gone rogue. Monroe won't be easy to get to either, because his hulking bodyguard Paine (Steve Austin) is a force to be reckoned with. When their mission is compromised, Barney and Christmas are forced to flee, leaving Sandra behind to face almost certain death. But Barney isn't the kind of soldier to abandon a mission, or a hostage, and now in order to get the job done he'll need the help of his old crew.