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What do you guys think is the caliber of the Sutherland's standard machine-pistol?
Judging by the relative small size of the KMF, their seeming ability to resist most weapons mounted on light armored vehicles, and the machine-pistol's ability to tear up another Sutherland, I'd say it was 25, maybe 30mm.
The closest real world equivalent may be the compact 30 x 113mm round used on Apaches, to save weight and size and all that.
|2008-02-04, 13:37
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Is there any further information about sakuradite?
It seems to be a very interesting sort of matter, maybe in a chemical bond like mercury in cinnabar, so they need to extract it (like mentioned in S1). Being so explosive could be if Sakuradite isn't stable at normal atmospheric conditions, so it has to be preserved under pressure.
I hope they won't treat it as some alchemy-thing... just using something with mystic power, without understanding.
|2008-02-05, 05:26
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Part of the effect of Sakuradite was the phasing out of tradition firearms for electromagnetic weapons, either of the Gauss Rifle or Railgun variety. Sakuradite made it possible to miniaturize these weapons down to pistol-size, a marvel in itself.
See this link supplied by Renegade334 in the world-history thread:
As you can see, the discovery of Sakuradite revolutionized engineering. It would not be surprising if Sakuradite wiring is used in all the Knightmares, and that the electric-motors that power them used Sakuradite superconductor magnets.
Above all else, the reason Area 11 is financially self-sufficient and indeed earning immense profit for the Empire, was because of the Sakuradite mountain that was Mt Fuji.
(The real reason for invasion was for the Geass ruins, but a country that couldn't feed itself is not a country you want to invade and keep.)
|2008-02-05, 20:39
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|2008-02-05, 21:21
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|2008-02-05, 21:32
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Thanks for that. I'm rather curious as to what sort of prototype models we'll see in season 2. Given that most of the technology here is at least somewhat realistic for anime, I don't expect to see anything like beam weapons or other things of the sort.
|2008-02-05, 21:44
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but yeah, don't expect any kind of MP energy equipment to show up, seeing as how Vincent seems to have dropped Lancelot's magnetic shield thingies. (though then again Guren mk1s might see mass production before all is said and done)
|2008-02-05, 22:30
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I'm rather curious as to how the Vincents will actually compare to the Lancelot. I know they won't be on the same level for various reasons, such as the fact that they need people not like Suzaku to pilot them and the dropping of certain equipment as you mentioned before. I don't expect these to become the new main unit of the Britannian army, but I could see them forming some sort of squad that could be led by Suzaku given his new status.
I'd expect more experimental weapons to be shown in season 2, but we have already tackled all the conventional weapons so I'm not sure what kinds of new things will be shown though I expect something.
|2008-02-05, 23:03
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meh, hack and slash is always more fun than beam-spamming anyway.
anywho, made a slightly cleaned up version of the Gekka test type from Lost Colors.
I wonder if we're ever going to see one of these in the show. you know, kinda like the lancelotman cameo.
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|2008-02-05, 23:08
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Agreed. Beam spamming can look cool, but in the end everything just seems too simple. Of course, pretty much everything was simple for Suzaku and Lancelot except for some mild threats in the form of Kallen and that energy field in 24-25.
So that is supposed to be what will probably become a common suit within the OotBK? I hope it has more weapons than just that arm. The Order seemed to lack many long range attacks which I think would be rather effective, with the exception of Suzaku going all berserk in 24-25.
|2008-02-06, 01:46
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The Gekka test type is just what you/the main character gets if you join the black knights in the ps2/psp game; basically a poor man's Guren Mk2. But I'd still love to see one of those running around with a sword in one hand while melting something with the other. >_>
|2008-02-06, 16:24
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The arm for the mass production ones, as well the one the Guren has due to the original being destroyed, is not as powerful as the original, correct? As for sword combat, I would expect that to stay with Toudou and his group with most of the others using the standard equipment as well as the arm.
I suppose that leaves the other three new Knighmares in that R2 pic. Two of them have weird horns and the other sort of looks like it has a hat or something. I'm expecting those suits to mainly be close combat types like most Knightmares, since the only really powerful unit with long range attacks was the Gawain. Of course, I suppose the original could be recovered and a new improved version could be made.
We never did get to see what that Druid system could do, did we?
|2008-02-06, 16:53
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|2008-02-06, 17:08
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If one of those were to be Lelouch's custom unit I would guess it either to be the one that's between the Vincent, and Guren. I think the other two in the back could be two of Knightmare Frames of the Knights of the Round. They just give me a Britannian type of "Vibe," and I don't think that Knightmare Frames that "uniquie" would belong to normal pilots.
|2008-02-06, 17:20
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Would the OotBK have saved data on both the Hadron cannons as well as the Float system? I'd think they would want to implement at least the Float system to thier uses, though proper funding would be required which I think could be gained from China and Europe if they become allies.
Is there much known on China and Europe's technology?
|2008-02-06, 17:25
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|2008-02-06, 19:12
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besides, we haven't even seen the customs/prototypes of China or any of the frames from Europe. no need to jump to conclusions on whose frames are the best.
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Facebook to Buy Messaging App WhatsApp for $19 Billion
Facebook Inc. (FB), the world's largest social network, agreed to purchase mobile-messaging startup WhatsApp Inc. for as much as $19 billion in cash and stock, the biggest Internet acquisition in more than a decade.
The accord includes $12 billion in stock, $4 billion in cash and $3 billion in restricted shares, Facebook said yesterday in a statement. It's the largest Internet deal since Time Warner's $124 billion merger with AOL in 2001, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. WhatsApp has more than 450 million members, with 1 million users being added daily.
Facebook Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg, who bought photo-sharing service Instagram for about $700 million in 2012, has been adding applications such as messaging and news to court smartphone and tablet users. WhatsApp, which would be the company's biggest acquisition, competes with apps from Twitter (TWTR) Inc., Kik Interactive Inc. and Snapchat Inc., the photo-message startup that rebuffed a $3 billion Facebook bid last year.
"They seem to have made a pretty strong statement with this acquisition," said Debra Aho Williamson, an analyst at EMarketer Inc. "Facebook has come to the realization that it needs a portfolio of apps to reach people with different use cases, different demographics, or different ways of communicating."
Market Value
The deal prices WhatsApp at more than half the $31.5 billion market value of microblogging service Twitter, which has 241 million active users. The shares of Menlo Park, California-based Facebook fell 2 percent to the equivalent of $66.69 in German trading at 9:16 a.m. Frankfurt time. They lost as much as 5.7 percent to $64.18 in extended U.S. trading after the purchase was announced, after closing at $68.06 in New York.
"Facebook is clearly taking out one of its main competitors," Paul Sweeney, a Bloomberg Industries analyst, said in an e-mail. "They are buying 450 million loyal users and an extraordinary growth story, but at a staggering cost."
Mountain View, California-based WhatsApp, which is popular in Europe, lets users send messages through its service on mobile devices based on different operating systems including Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s iOS, Google Inc.'s Android, Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)'s Windows Phone and BlackBerry Ltd.'s software.
Unlike traditional text messages, which consumers pay for through their mobile-phone plans, WhatsApp is free for the first year, and costs 99 cents a year after that. It also competes with Tencent Holdings Ltd. (700)'s WeChat in China, KakaoTalk in Korea and Line in Japan, as well as Facebook's own application, Facebook Messenger.
BlackBerry, Viber
The purchase of WhatsApp, which carries a $2 billion breakup fee, will probably avoid a U.S. antitrust challenge, Harry First, a professor at New York University School of Law, said in an interview. "This is not the only message-sharing app for free. How hard is it to start up another one?"
BlackBerry, which owns a WhatsApp rival called BlackBerry Messenger, rose after Facebook's announcement. The smartphone maker climbed as much as 9 percent to $9.82 in late trading.
Tencent fell 3.1 percent in Hong Kong trading.
Rakuten Inc. (4755), the Japanese online retailer controlled by billionaire Hiroshi Mikitani, last week agreed to buy the Viber instant-messaging and calling service for $900 million. At that price, Rakuten is paying $3 for each of Viber's 300 million users, while Facebook is paying as much as $42 for each of WhatsApp's.
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"They just took out their primary threat and they recognize that overnight it makes them the leader in the mobile messaging space," said Jim Patterson, CEO of San Francisco-based Cotap Inc., a messaging service for businesses. "It was clearly the first mobile app other than Facebook that was going to get to 1 billion users."
Jan Koum, WhatsApp's 38-year-old CEO, co-founded the company with Brian Acton, 42, in 2009 after almost a decade as an engineer at Yahoo! Inc. Venture capital firm Sequoia Capital invested $8 million in WhatsApp in 2011, for a more than 15 percent stake that is now worth about $3.5 billion, according to people with knowledge of the deal.
While Facebook has touted its progress adding more advertising revenue on mobile devices, Koum has been strict about keeping ads out of WhatsApp's messaging service.
Koum said in a statement yesterday on the company's website that WhatsApp will remain autonomous and operate independently.
"There would have been no partnership between our two companies if we had to compromise on the core principles that will always define our company, our vision and our product," he said.
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Zuckerberg first reached out to Koum in the spring of 2012, when the two met for coffee at a German bakery in Los Altos, California, and ended up talking for more than two hours, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. They have since met frequently, going to dinner and on hikes, said the person, who asked not to be named because the process isn't being discussed publicly.
Koum went to Zuckerberg's house in Palo Alto for dinner on Feb. 9, and the conversation became more serious. The two talked about how they could work together more closely on Zuckerberg's Internet.org initiative for connecting the world on mobile devices, and the conversation evolved into acquisition talks in the next 10 days, with Zuckerberg suggesting Koum join Facebook's board. On Valentine's Day, Koum came by Zuckerberg's house with chocolate-covered strawberries that the two shared as they hammered out pricing points, the person said.
"WhatsApp had every option in the world," Zuckerberg said yesterday on a conference call.
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Facebook, which held an initial public offering at $38 per share on May 17, 2012, is now worth $173 billion. The social network said it had $11.4 billion in cash and investments at the end of 2013. If the deal isn't completed, Facebook will pay WhatsApp $1 billion in cash and $1 billion in stock, according to the statement.
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Chipchura scores twice to lead Phoenix Coyotes over Vancouver Canucks 4-2NHL.com @NHLdotcom
VANCOUVER - Kyle Chipchura scored twice and Mike Smith made 29 saves Tuesday as the Phoenix Coyotes defeated the Vancouver Canucks 4-2.
Antoine Vermette and Mikkel Boedker each added a goal and an assist for Phoenix (9-7-3), which was coming off back-to-back losses to Edmonton and Calgary over the weekend.
Jason Garrison and Henrik Sedin replied for Vancouver (10-5-4), which got 18 saves from Cory Schneider.
Boedker scored in the second and then assisted on Vermette's third-period winner as the Coyotes won on the road in regulation for the first time this season.
Chipchura opened the scoring in the first and then put the game away into an empty net with 23 seconds left in the third as Phoenix moved into a tie for seventh in the Western Conference.
The Canucks were coming off a 2-1-1 road trip but have now dropped three straight at home. They have also now lost two in a row after earning at least a point in 10 of the previous 11 games.
The Coyotes had a pair of quality chances while on the game's first power play in the opening period. David Rundblad threw it to Vermette down low, but his quick redirection went off the post. Boedker then one-timed a cross-ice pass but was robbed by Schneider's glove as he slid across to make the save.
Smith's best stop of the first came when he kicked out his right pad to stop David Booth's backhand in close with about seven minutes remaining.
Chipchura finally opened the scoring at 14:22 with his second goal in his past three games. While battling behind the net, Paul Bissonnette squirted the puck free to Chipchura, who knifed through a passive Canucks defence before cutting in front and roofing a backhand past Schneider.
The Coyotes doubled their lead at 9:54 of the second when Runblad's point shot ricocheted off Maxim Lapierre right to Boedker, who avoided the Vancouver forward's check before beating Schneider under the glove for his fourth of the year.
That goal seemed to wake up the Canucks, who got on the board just 91 seconds later. Ryan Kesler dug the puck out of the boards and threw it to Garrison at the point, who faked a slapshot before ripping a wrist shot past Smith for his third of the year.
Schneider then did his part to keep Vancouver close, robbing Raffi Torres on the doorstep twice just a minute into the third.
But the Coyotes made it 3-1 at 12:32 when Boedker stripped Alex Edler of the puck to create the odd-man rush and then centred for Vermette, who squeaked his fifth of the season through Schneider's pads.
Vancouver again responded quickly, drawing back to within one a minute later when Henrik Sedin deflected a shot from his brother Daniel Sedin past Smith.
That would be as close as the Canucks would get as Chipchura iced the game with his second of the night and fourth of the season with 23 seconds left.
NOTES: Chipchura now has 51 points in 235 games NHL games. ... Bissonnette has assists in three consecutive games after going pointless through eight contests. It is the first point streak of his five-year career. ... Phoenix was missing Martin Hanzal and Radim Vrbata, out with injuries for their third and fourth straight games, respectively. Vrbata is the team's leading scorer and Hanzal has a team-high seven goals. The Coyotes were also without the services of defencemen Derek Morris and David Schlemko. ... Vancouver was without defenceman Kevin Bieksa, missing his second straight game with a sore groin. ... Henrik Sedin played in his 600th consecutive game. Only Calgary defenceman Jay Bouwmeester has a longer ironman streak currently going (606 games).


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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 8th Jan 2013 23:45 UTC
The Verge got to interview Valve's CEO, Gabe Newell, and the priceless quotes are just flying left and right. "We'll come out with our own and we'll sell it to consumers by ourselves. That'll be a Linux box, [and] if you want to install Windows you can. We're not going to make it hard. This is not some locked box by any stretch of the imagination." Others will be making Steambox devices too. Also: "Windows 8 was like this giant sadness. It just hurts everybody in the PC business. [...] When I started using it I was like 'oh my god...' I find [Windows 8] unusable." This last point is something I agree with vehemently. Can't comment on Windows 8 on tablets, but on regular PCs it's a schizophrenic, unusable clusterduck. It got me to switch back to Mac and use KDE (on my laptop). Let that sink in for a while.
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Windows 8 + Start8 is a pretty sweet setup. I never have to see the Metro part and the Desktop part works a little better than the already excellent Windows 7.
So you're saying you paid for two things just to get it a little better than one thing that is older than either of those two things?
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I use Windows 8 without Start8 and don't have an issue.
Having Windows 8 on a tablet that lasts 10hours and can run legacy apps is pretty much everything I want in a device.
I'm sure others are happy too, I think there's a fair deal of myopia on OSNews about the target audience for Windows 8.


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aptly titled Agatha Christie Megaset Collection is, indeed, a
gigantic collection. Nine discs strong, this boxed set packs in nine
feature-length Miss Marple features and four feature-length Poirot
features. This combination set shines the spotlight on the Queen of
Crime's two most famous, and enduring, characters. First we meet the
elderly Miss Jane Marple, whose sweet little-old-lady appearance and
interjections of "oh dear!" are accompanied by a mind
that's as sharp as tacks, and a passion for seeing justice done, no
matter what. Sharing the set with Miss Marple is the Belgian private
detective Hercule Poirot, a fussy and eccentric man but one with an
equally sharp eye for spotting crime and a brain that's second to
none in finding the solution to even the most puzzling mysteries.
Megaset is an odd collection, in a way, because despite its
size it's not a complete set of either the Miss Marple or the Poirot
films. Three other Miss Marple films (The Body in the Library,
A Murder Is Announced, and A Pocket Full of Rye) appear
in a separate set, the Miss Marple Gift Set; the Megaset
contains the remaining nine. For Poirot, there are quite a few more,
all produced by Acorn Media: apart from the 50-minute episodes
appearing in the Collector's Sets, the other feature-length
Poirot films have been released on DVD both separately and as part of
the Movie Collection 1 and Movie
Collection 2.
The four films that appear in this A&E collection do finish out
the series of feature-length Poirot stories; these were the last ones
to be filmed.
Let's start with a look at the contents of the set:
Miss Marple:
The two series do
have distinct flavors, though: they're definitely not
interchangeable. The Miss Marple stories tend to be slower-paced,
with more time spent on introducing the situation and the characters
before the key mystery element is introduced and the puzzle begins to
be solved.
the nine episodes featuring Miss Marple, I found The Moving Finger
and Nemesis to be the stand-outs. In The Moving Finger,
Miss Marple is called in by a friend to trace the source of vicious
"poison pen" letters that are being sent to many of the
people of the normally quiet town of Lymston. As it turns out, the
unpleasant notes are just the tip of the iceberg... as events
proceed, the ante is upped to murder. It's a very entertaining story,
and it's well told; there are quite a few characters, but they're
fairly well defined and it's clear who is whom throughout the story.
Nemesis is even better in terms of story structure: as the
story opens, Miss Marple is sent on an investigation without even
knowing what crime she's supposed to solve... only that a letter from
a recently deceased friend asks her to act as his "Nemesis"
and right an injustice. The pieces of the puzzle come together one by
one, and since we're eager to find out "what was the crime?"
as well as "who did it?" there's always something
interesting developing in the story.
all the Miss Marple stories work particularly well, unfortunately. At
Bertram's Hotel strings viewers along through an interminable
amount of set-up concerning characters in whom we have, as yet, no
particular interest, only to finish up with a fairly weak ending in
which half of the plot threads are unrelated to each other. Murder
in the Vicarage is another weak episode; a gaggle of characters
(none particularly distinctive) is introduced all at once, and the
viewer is evidently expected to immediately match name to face and
keep track of everyone, even before anything of interest happens in
the plot. For the most part, though, the Miss Marple stories are
reasonable, if not outstanding. 4:50 from Paddington, for
instance, offers an entertaining story about a murder that's
witnessed first-hand... except that the body disappears and no one
reports a missing person. The main drawback of this story is that
Miss Marple herself doesn't play as big a role as she could have,
instead delegating most of the detecting to a secondary character,
but it's watchable.
The Poirot episodes
are, in my mind, the better part of the set. Set in the 1930s with a
meticulous eye for period detail, including the "Art Deco"
theme of the credits, these stories seem to have a bit more spark to
them from the beginning. Of course, the brilliant portrayal of
Hercule Poirot by David Suchet is an essential element of the
episodes' appeal; for followers of the Poirot series, it's also a
pleasure to see the characters of Captain Hastings, Inspector Japp,
and Miss Lemon play important roles as well. While these characters
didn't actually appear in as many of Agatha Christie's novels as in
the filmed versions, it's much more fun to have these continuing
characters rather than yet another generic policeman or bystander in
the same part.
four stories here give Poirot a nice selection of puzzles to solve.
In Evil Under the Sun, he's sent to a spa for his own health,
only to discover that murder is afoot among the other guests. Though
the "impossible" nature of the crime isn't explained as
well as it might have been, it's quite an entertaining puzzle. Lord
Edgware Dies presents Poirot with a plethora of equally likely
suspects in the title character's murder, while Murder in
Mesopotamia presents Poirot and Hastings with suspects but a
shortage of clues when there's a murder on the site of an
archaeological expedition. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd has a
retired Poirot teaming up with Inspector Japp to untangle a nasty web
of deceit at the Ackroyd estate.
Agatha Christie Megaset Collection consists of nine DVDs in
separate keepcases, all stored inside a large, sturdy cardboard
slipcase. Five of the DVDs are devoted to the Miss Marple episodes
(with two episodes per disc except for They Do It with Mirrors,
which has its own disc), and the remaining four contain one Poirot
episode apiece. All of the episodes are "feature-length,"
meaning that they run between 90 and 115 minutes each.
difficult to put a rating for video quality on this set, because the
Miss Marple and Poirot episodes differ sharply in quality. The Miss
Marple episodes are in very poor condition overall, certainly worse
than I'd expect for their late-1980s air dates. Contrast is typically
poor, and the image is usually quite soft and blurry. Print flaws
appear frequently, and at times we even get strange distortions: in
The Moving Finger the image tends to ripple slightly, causing
a peculiar sense of movement in areas of the image that ought to be
static, and in At Bertram's Hotel there are several instances
of distortion in the form of colored lines across the screen.
Overall, I'd give the Miss Marple episodes only a star and a half for
image quality.
Poirot episodes are much better; in fact, they're the best-looking of
any of the Poirot features that I've seen on DVD. The image is clean
and clear, colors look bright, vibrant, and natural, and contrast is
handled quite well, with the image offering satisfactory detail in
both brightly lit and dimly lit scenes. The outdoor footage looks
just as good as the indoor footage here, which is a great benefit for
episodes like Evil Under the Sun, which takes place largely
outdoors. Overall, I'd award three and a half stars to the Poirot
episodes for their respectable image quality.
Both the Miss Marple and the Poirot episodes are presented in their
original 1.33:1 aspect ratio.
As with the video portion of the transfer, there's a difference
between the quality of the soundtracks for the Miss Marple and Poirot
episodes, though not so extreme as with the image quality. Both
feature a Dolby 2.0 soundtrack.
For the Miss Marple episodes, the 2.0 track is passable, but it
sounds more like a mono than a stereo soundtrack. The track is
clean-sounding and the dialogue is adequately presented, though
rather flat-sounding. I'd give it two and a half stars, an average
mark. The Poirot episodes offer a clean, satisfactory sound, with all
the dialogue coming across crisp and clear. I'd give it three and a
half stars for audio.
There's not much here by way of special features. The Poirot DVDs
offer a listing of all the Agatha Christie Poirot stories, and
biographies of David Suchet and Agatha Christie. The Miss Marple DVDs
are equivalent, with a listing of all the Miss Marple stories, and
biographies of Miss Marple, Joan Hickson, and Agatha Christie.
you're a big fan of Agatha Christie's mysteries on film, then the
Agatha Christie Megaset Collection offers a gargantuan dose of
puzzles and crimes, featuring her two most famous sleuths. The set is
more heavily weighted toward Miss Marple fans, with nine episodes
from that series, and four from the Poirot series. All of the DVDs
are also available for purchase separately (or, in the case of The
Murder of Roger Ackroyd and Lord Edgware Dies, in a
two-pack), so if you are only a fan of one of the two series, you can
pick up only those episodes that you like. However, if you're fond of
Agatha Christie's stories in general, this Megaset is a
convenient way to get a lot of mystery entertainment in one fell
swoop. Just make sure your expectations for image quality are not too
high: although the Poirot episodes look great, the Miss Marple
episodes are disappointingly sub-par. All in all, I'll give this a
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I've just been contacted to sub for this weekends Total Gym GRAVITY Foundation course in San Diego, CA. It's a two day comprehensive workshop designed to teach fitnss pros how to teach private, semi-private and small group personal training using the versatile Total Gym GTS. The workhop is loaded with 1.6 CEC's and will qualify you to teach GRAVITY in health clubs, anywhere!
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Job searching for teens isn't easy, and it won't get any easier as the summer progresses. Now instead of just having to worry about openings and competition from other applicants, many businesses are no longer looking for summer help.
As the season progresses, teens that are still looking for summer jobs need to be more persistent than ever. The teen unemployment rate has been above 20 percent nationally for four and a half years, currently at 24.5 percent, according to the Employment Policies Institute. While Massachusetts isn't in the top 15, it's still high, at 20.9 percent.
In addition to those figures, many businesses are no longer hiring for summer positions.
"Quite an amount of people applied this summer," Carol O'Connell, owner of Cream & Sugar in Quincy, said, "but at this point we tell people not to bother writing out an application. We don't need help."
O'Connell said she hired a few teens at the beginning of summer, but many of her employees work throughout high school and return for college summer break.
Other businesses didn't hire teens for summer at all, like Coffee Break Café in Quincy.
"We don't hire people just for June, July and August," owner Jen Ormand said. "We hire people in the summer for the fall."
Ormand said that she's overloaded with help in the summer because of college students who return home for break. While she's always accepting applications, she needs teens who will be committed for more than the summer.
"We get tons of applications, especially in May," Ormand said, "but my first question is what their availability is come September. If they work for the summer they need to be here in the fall."
Michael Saltsman, research director at the Employment Policies Institute, agreed that teens who don't have a summer job at this point are going to have a hard time finding one.
"Our advice tends to be to secure something early because teens face so much competition," Saltsman said. "I would suggest that young adults be open to alternative options, like an internship, and get experience wherever they can find it."
Some teens, like Isaiah Davis, 17, have been job searching since the spring but still haven't even been interviewed. Davis lives in Jamaica Plain and has been applying to businesses in Quincy and Braintree, but hasn't had any luck.
"I've been applying to places like Home Depot and Marshalls since spring," Davis said. "I have prior experience but it's like jobs just aren't looking for summer help."
Saltsman said "the problem in a nutshell" is more competition, like college grads who are having trouble finding full-time employment, and retirees. "The fact that we've been at such a high level of unemployment is worrisome," Saltsman said. "Many teens have gone through high school knowing nothing other than a tough labor market."
Meanwhile, 17-year-old Casey Hague of Hull thinks the key to finding a summer job is just to be persistent. After searching for over a month, he was recently hired at Hull Bait and Tackle, where he paints lobster buoys. "I had called Bait and Tackle at the beginning of summer and they said they weren't hiring," Hague said. "I called back a month later and they asked when I could start."
Hague admitted that summer job searching isn't easy, but he had to be persistent to pay for his tuition at Boston College, where he will start his freshman year in the fall.
Nancy Snyder, CEO of the Commonwealth Corp., agreed that landing a summer job is a commitment. Although it will be more difficult for teens to find summer employment as the season progresses, it isn't impossible. "It may take a while and they'll need to look at a lot of places," Snyder said, "but if they work hard and present themselves well when they apply, I think they still have a shot."
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Since I'm busy elsewhere during MoFo month, I asked some special friends to help out over here. Next up, a gorgeous fluffball that goes by "Pudds", aka one of the best kitty names I've ever heard. I want to hug this visionary creature!
Guest Post: Pudds
Friend: Lauren, Whoa Wren
Greetings, non-feline and feline readers alike. My name is Lord Puddleglum Christensen III. You, however, may call me Pudds, as my formal name is quite a mouthful. I understand that I am to talk about my favorite vegan foods. My caretaker will only allow me to eat the food that is prescribed to me, a hard kibble poured out of a resealable bag, but when she isn't looking, this is what I would get into if I had opposable thumbs.
Chipotle Burritos/Burrito Bowls: Ah, my owner's attempts at keeping me away from these spicy beacons of goodness will someday be thwarted! There was one lovely afternoon where I was able to gobble down a bean, lost from his brothers after he fell from the silver, pronged device my owner uses to move the food to her mouth. What an afternoon that was! Full of flavor and spice and dreams.
Nutritional Yeast: The blonde one who feeds me and cleans my mobile bathroom is always putting this yellow substance on her food (something about bee twelve?) and I sometimes am able to steal a taste off her fingers. I live for those moments, but often settle for a long, relaxing belly rub instead.
Roasted vegetables: I have no specific reason for this, I just think they look nice and smell good. The blonde one eats them all the time and I would like to know the reasons for it. Her favorites appear to be the small, green trees, the tan orbs and the orange sticks, so I assume my tastes would run in a similar vein.
Rescue Remedy Pet: Sometimes I need a cocktail at the end of the day. Don't we all?
The day that my opposable thumb training pays off, and I am able to sample these delights in their full glory, I shall victoriously report back to you with my full opinions. Until then, I bid you adieu and wish you all the delightful experiences you dream of.


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After two months of testing the release candidate, the Syllable project presents Syllable Desktop 0.6.7. The release notes detail many changes and additions, such as the first 3D functionality in Syllable (screenshot - the screenshot shows tearing because the demos are animating at full speed. This is an artifact of the screenshot process, not of the actual display). Other highlights include that REBOL 3 and Boron are now included and that the system is now prepared for the upcoming high-level Red programming language.
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Operating systems like Syllable and Haiku excite me. I feel as if they're so close to reaching the tipping point of having "no users because there's no applications / no applications because there's no users" problem, but just need a little something to push them over the edge.
Maybe sometime in my life I'll be using one of them as my primary operatng system. Linux has only been around about 20 years, maybe something like that will happen again.


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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 3rd Nov 2007 23:38 UTC, submitted by netpython
"The live version of openSUSE 10.3 is now available as a GNOME or KDE CD. Both contain the same software as the 1 CD installation versions would provide you with, but as a live version. The live system can be used as a productive system or rescue system. You can also use it to just check out how openSUSE 10.3 runs on your computer without touching your hard drive. The Live CDs are available as 32bit versions in US English only and also contain, for the first time, an install option on the desktop."


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Poor Harrison Ford! After decades of suffering through them, he now has to put up with even more Han Solo questions than ever before. And we're to blame too. You, me, the whole Internet -- we're the problem!
Anyway, Ford was in Chicago this week when a local TV reporter hit him with the big Star Wars question. The reporter asks if the "old gang" is getting back together for the new movie, to which Ford very carefully replies, "I think it's almost true. I think… I'm looking forward to it. It's not in the bag yet, but I think it's happening." (You can watch the interview with Ford here.)
Of course, we all know Han, Luke and Leia are coming back for more Star Wars films, but still… to hear Ford basically confirm it is kind of crazy. Still, the biggest question has yet to be posed to him: Is Han still flying the Millennium Falcon? And where's Chewie?!
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The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Would Like To Know What You Think Of Them (Sorta)
from the but-mainly-if-you-think-ip-is-awesome dept
Either way, it appears that WIPO has hired a company to reach out to get "Stakeholder Perceptions of WIPO." It's pretty rare that WIPO actually hears from the public that its efforts and agreements really impact, so here's a chance to make sure WIPO knows what you think of its efforts to expand IP law over the years... Have at it, and let them know your thoughts.
Unfortunately, many of the questions are kind of ridiculous in the "and when did you stop beating your wife" variety. For example, at one point they ask you to "rank" how important specific WIPO priorities are -- and looking down the list, I though pretty much all of them should not be priorities, because all of them focused on expanding IP, rather than looking at more effective IP, or even exploring where IP might hurt the public. There are a few other questions like that as well, where I wanted to challenge the nature of the question itself, but was forced to choose the "least bad" or "least incorrect" answer instead. Still, there were a few opportunities to make it clear to WIPO that you'd prefer the organization not just be a representative to expand IP at all costs, but one that should pay attention to what actually helps society the most -- even if that means cutting back on some IP rules -- something that seems to be completely foreign to WIPO's world view so far.
It's really unfortunate that WIPO would stack the questions so badly such that the only thing you can really say for most of them is just how awesome IP is and how much better it would be if IP expanded. But hopefully some of you will figure out ways to make it clear to WIPO that perhaps it should be focusing on making sure the public benefits, not just how to expand IP.


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Hello and welcome.
When you've searched the internet and found this thread, it's possible that you are an owner of a Lenovo Ideapad S10 or S10e which has a little problem with the behaviour and/or the noise of the fan. In this post you will get all the informations you need to handle this problem for yourself. It should also be the same on every S9/S9e.
Just a few comments before we begin:
This is not an official support or solution by Lenovo.
We are just normal users as you are, but we get rid of the fan and wanted to find a way to handle it. So if you want to try anything of the methods described here you have to know that you'll do all this only at your own risk. We are not responsible for any damages of your device. You should only use these methods if you know what you are doing.
Please note that this thread is only for discussing, improving, trouble shooting and perhaps extending the fan control utilities. Any general complaints about the fan problem itself should be placed in the original thread right here: http://forums.lenovo.com/lnv/board/message?board.id=IdeaPad_Netbook&thread.id=795. It already has 80+ pages (the link goes to the first page) and it is better to exclude all the fan control stuff because there it's very difficult to keep an overview.
Here you may post all of your questions, ideas/brainstorming, concerns, thanks and so on and you are really invited to participate and be an active member.
In this first part of this post I'm going to summarize all information about using a fan control utility. For any newbie it will be enough to read this post to get all necessary information. The second part does the same for developement of fan control utilities as we still have no known or working fan control utility for Linux, Mac OS X and other OSs I've forgotten - for now.
For getting started you need a S10 or S10e with an up-to-date BIOS. For the S10 it's the
90 67, for the S10e the 66.
The battery issue
Under very specific circumstances - that we haven't figured out yet - it might happen that your Lenovo S9/10(e) no longer detects the battery while using S10FanControl or S10Fan. It might occur after 2 minutes, it might occur after 2 months, it might never occur. It does not occur using Notebook Hardware Control.
It can be solved by removing the battery, waiting 10 seconds and put it back in. Then the battery is re-initialized and the detection works again.
S10FanControl - Windows
The first utility is S10FanControl created by user dresslerc. The current version is 184.108.40.206, available here: http://www.mediafire.com/file/yd5xmnrnijf/S10FanCtrl184.108.40.206.zip. After you've downloaded it you just have to extract it and start the .EXE in the "Release" folder. Here are the notes and the description dresslerc posted right here:
I've uploaded a version which everyone can use to test with. Remember this is still a TEST version although I think it works for the most part. It should work both on the S10/S10e.
Please install the .NET Framework 2.0 or later first.
Then click here to download the exe: http://www.mediafire.com/?jlg2enkjdxn
Once downloaded, extract the files and hit hte S10FanCtrl.Exe. Once this program launches you should be able to control the fan. Keep in mind that if you lower the fan speed then it'll take upto 30 seconds before the S10 registers the change, so be patient.
I've only tested this on the latest BIOS 59. I am sure it will work on the 57 as well but the individual speeds might not work properly on that version. Please try it out and report back.
The only issue that I heard so far is that occasionally the fan will kick in regardless if in Manual/Smart Mode. Also the temp it shows may not be accurate. If you find any other issues please let me know what they are so I can attempt to fix them.
Once we have all the kinks worked out then I will release the source.
Heres a quick Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PKl70ZgmFg
Application Use:
BIOS Controlled - Fan is controlled by the BIOS
Smart Mode - Fan is controlled based on the conifguration in the options. You can set the threshold here at what temp you want the fan to kick in...
Manual - Fan is controlled manually by the slider.
If you want to have the program startup automatically, then place a shortcut of the app in the PROGRAM FILES -> STARTUP folder. Then you may want to go to the options and make the application minimize at startup.
It seems there are some issues with the app and the S10e or previous BIOS versions. Will post a fix asap.
The source code for S10FanControl is available here: http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=7a3fb99d33817c08c2b435915e8821d7e04e75f6e8ebb871, written in Visual Basic .NET 2008.
S10Fan - Windows
The second utility is a tool written by user slash:
Hi guys,
Well it looks like Lenovo dropped this matter after all. Anyway, I have here another fan controller to add to the bunch. I have been using it for some time now without any problems. It is for both S10 and S10e.
What the program does is basically the same as others. The S10's fan speed is controlled according to the ACPI thermal zone temperature. By over writing the values which resides at offset 50h of the EC register at an appropriate timing, the ACPI thermal zone temperature is over ridden. The program is written in C and uses WinIo created by Sysinternals. The GUI version is available now.
It should be noted that the fan speed temperature thresholds differs with BIOS version. For 14CN67WW and 14CW90WW the fan changes speed at temperatures 60c, 65c, 70c, and 80c. Furthermore, the BIOS will automatically shutdown the S10 if the temperature reaches 90c.
The program has a fail safe mechanism that automatically disables itself if the actual ACPI thermal zone temperature goes above 85c. This allows the BIOS to regain control and the fan will work as intended by Lenovo. If the temperature drops below 85c the program will take over control again.
To run the program, you will need administrative privileges.
Known working BIOS versions: 14cn58ww, 14cn60ww, 14cn67ww, 14cn90ww
The program will work with any BIOS version as long as the BIOS uses the 50h EC register readouts to control the fan.
build 2009.05.24
Higher priorities for EC commands.
Usage: The program will run in the system tray. Double click or right click and use the menu to open the program. To determine the BIOS temperature thresholds, use the 'Setup' button. To run at boot time, place a short cut in the startup folder.
build 2009.05.23
Usage: S10Fan.exe
Added GUI.
build 2009.05.17
Usage: S10Fan.exe 60 65 70 80 70 75 80 85
S10Fan.exe test
The first 4 values are the BIOS temperature thresholds, the latter 4 are new thresholds that we want to over ride with. To determine the BIOS temperature thresholds, use the 'test' option.
build 2009.03.16
Usage: S10Fan.exe 70 75 80 85
For updates and newer releases please check slash's post: http://forums.lenovo.com/lnv/board/message?board.id=IdeaPad_Netbook&view=by_date_ascending&message.i...
Notebook Hardware Control - Windows
The third utility is a profile for Notebook Hardware Control. I've adapted it from a profile for the Lenovo N500 which I've found here: http://nhc.yourcopy.de/overview/. With the manual for creating the profiles that can be found here: http://www.notebook-treff.de/board/database/hilfsprogramme-f%C3%BCr-nhc/92-how-to-create-an-acpi-fil... I was able to change the ACPI commands to work on the S10(e).
Installation and setup is divided in two steps. The program Notebook Hardware Control (NHC) is available at http://www.pbus-167.com/. Install the program, but do not start it for now. Then you need my NHCConfig utility, available here: http://forum.eeepcnews.de/download/file.php?id=1476. It detects your model number and BIOS-version via WMI and writes a proper S10(e) profile to the NHC acpi directory. The GUI is German if you have a German Windows and English if not. Additional languages can be added.
After you've extracted the ZIP-file you have to start the nhcc.exe (requires .NET Framework 2.0). At first a message appears that you use the program at your own risk. Then you can choose if you want to apply your own settings (experts) or if you just want the program to run with my defaults (newbies). In the settings window you can see your system details on the left, you can set up your thresholds in the middle and you can set the fan speed you want on the right. Then click on execute.
Now start NHC. Go to the "Settings" tab and click on "Show all NHC options and settings". Then a few more tabs appear. Go to the "ACPI" tab and check if the "ACPI Control System" is running (if everything works, the message "ACPI Control System running" will appear, otherwise it says "ACPI control system is not yet configured for this system"). Now click on "Show ACPI Control System details".
Here you can change the temperature values the fan control depends on (the settings from NHCC are the default values). On the bottom of the window you can see the "Current CPU temperature". That is the value you have to deal with. In general it has a value of around 60°C. In the middle you can see four user editable temperature values. You can leave the values as they are if everything works. The on/off values are responsible for the temperatures at which the fan starts running and stops again after cooling the device. The level values are responsible for the fan speed, for example you can set the off_level higher to let the fan run all the time at the lowest level, if the values do not fit for your device or whatever.
You can switch between NHC and BIOS control by disabling or enabling the "ACPI Control System" or by closing NHC.
With every utility it is possible that it takes some time until you see an effect after you've started the program. Any failure of the programs should be no big problem because the only thing that should happen is that the BIOS controls the fan. Another issue that might occur due to the way the fan is controlled is that the fan may start running for a very short time and it looks like the fan control has lost control. The fan should stop immediately or at least after a few seconds.
Keep in mind that running the S10(e) with a fan control means that the S10(e) has to deal with higher temperatures. That could mean that the device will not last for 10 years but only 9 years (who uses a netbook so long...?). In every case you need a tool for monitoring your cpu temperature. We know that especially Core Temp 0.99.5 and Real Temp 3.00 do a very good job. That is important because the temperature values you need to set up the fan control are different from the values reported by the cpu sensor, they are between 15°C and 20°C higher. A normal temperature reported by the monitoring should be around 40°C, with the NHC default values the fan starts running at 52°C and stops at 38°C.
END using fan control
BEGINNING developing fan control
Controlling the S10(e)'s fan is a litte bit difficult because it looks like there is no way to control it directly. But it is possible to manipulate the temperature the BIOS fan control depends on. As long as the built-in fan control thinks that the cpu is cool enough the fan stays off. And that is exactly the point where we can attack.
The fan control depends on a field called RTMP in the memory of the embedded controller. It can be accessed via "_SB.PCI0.LPCB.EC0.ERAM", the offset of RTMP is 0x50 (hex) or 80 (dec). It is a direct I/O read/write. The complete NHC command for reading the value is: ACPI.FIELD.ReadByOffset("_SB.PCI0.LPCB.EC0.ERAM", ref value, 0x50, 8) with "value" as the variable which gets the value.
What program logic do you need? You need a timer or something else that conducts an always-refresh cycle. It sounds very easy: You read the value, manipulate it and write it back. And it is that easy, you just have to keep some things in mind.
This refresh has to be done very often. The procedure must be very thin and quick. Also the bus that is used to communicate with the EC is a problem, but since the S10e BIOS 66 it became a minor problem for me because it looks like the built-in fan control now depends on some kind of average value over the last few seconds and it doesn't really matter if one write-cycle is failing.
The read-event must be placed before the write-event. Otherwise you just read your manipulated value. The field is filled by the system regularly, so you just have to test if the read_value is different from the written_value, then you know that the field was filled with a "fresh" value. Like "if read_temperatue <> written_temperature then real_cpu_temperature = read_temperature else do nothing".
About the values you have to write back... you will have to test and play a bit. My experience is that you can select three fan levels, starting at 59°, 62° and 70° - at least with the NHC profile and my S10e it's like that. It's some trial 'n' error. My fan stays off at < 59°, but you should select a very low value for fan_off like 30°. In my opinion it switches off much faster the lower the written value is. But it's just a feeling, I haven't measured it.
Perhaps some users from countries with other languages than German and English can add tags for "fan", "control" and "noise".
Note from Moderator: Minor edits in title and disclaimer.
04-25-2009 05:01 AM - edited 04-25-2009 05:07 AM
Great opening post Carsten!
The latest bios:
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=lenovo&lndocid=MIGR-71252 (BIOS 66)
The FSB can be reduced from 133MHz to 100MHz using SetFSB, this also reduces the heat:
clockgen = SLG8SP513V
If you add a shortcut to the startup folder the program will start at startup. Under properties you can change the target to:
"C:\Program Files\SetFSB\setfsb.exe" -s100 -b1 -cg[SLG8SP513V] -w20
So it starts with a FSB of 100Mhz, in the background, with the right clock generator, after 20 seconds.
@quazar wrote:
The FSB can be reduced from 133MHz to 100MHz using SetFSB, this also reduces the heat:
i think lowering the fsb only without lowering the voltage will not make a noticable difference in heat.. did u notice a change?
Well Carsten, great job as always.
Folks, i really appreciate all your efforts on this issue.
Thx Carsten for the profile, working great for me.
Hey Carsten, may i get some help with the nhc?
my model number is 4231AFU, and i did what you said and replace
your model number with mine. but it looks like it didnt work,
I have a lenovo s10, in united states, bought it like 2 or 3 weeks ago, white.
Do I need to change the "class" to become s10 rather then s10e?
What else do i need to do?
I really hope that the nhc would control my fan, thank you soooo much in advance,
your work and help is really appreciated.
sorry for the double post, but another question is, how do i find my model number,
in the previous post i said my model number is 4231afu, but i am not 100% sure,
I got that from the invoice email they sent me, I am wondering how you found out
what model number yours were. and the class suppose to be s10 correct since i got
a s10?
UPDATE, I checked the box that came with the laptop, and it say that it is 4231AFU as the model number,
I replaced the model number witht it, in the lenovo.xml. Seems like nothing happened, the acpi is still not
configured in nhc... I am wondering if I did anything wrong?
Do i need to restart computer? Or change something in the .cs file or compile the file? any ideas?


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Earlier today, we summarized GOP lawyer Ben Ginsberg's thoughts on yesterday's Supreme Court decision on campaign finance.
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In fact I would encourage companies to take a position right now that they aren't going to do these kind of ads this cycle to avoid the pressure that is sure to come from both parties and individual candidates. Just say no.
3) This Could Become A Big Problem for Republicans. The Republicans have picked themselves off the floor in recent months by running as champions of the middle class. Having big corporate America come in on behalf of a candidate will almost certainly guarantee that a candidate becomes tarred as taking the side of big corporations against the average guy, something this cycle that could be deadly. The GOP better think twice about their newly populist brand before celebrating this decision too much.
4) The Democrats Should Try to Pass A Bill Tilting the System Back Towards People. There are a lot of ways to do this but the Democrats should stand on principle here and demonstrate they want the system to be biased towards broad, people-based participation not towards aggregated privilege, power and wealth. Will fit nicely into their emerging people-based economic message.


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If you're like most moms of girls, your thrill at her going back to school is tempered by the ordeal of clothes shopping. You'll be dragging her from store to store, trying to find just the right things to suit her personality, fit your budget, and—horrors—that aren't going to be seen all over town. Apparently lots of moms shopped at the same local chain store that was having the big sale that we did…as evidenced by not one but two girls in my daughter's class showing up in "her" outfit on the first day of school last year. It was a long night.
That's why I was excited to find FashionPlaytes.com, a new website that lets girls play fashion designer, picking out a style, then a color, then choosing from an extensive menu of options like appliqués, sequins, gems, rosettes, personalized tags…to create something unique. My 8-year-old daughter had a blast the other night….bonus: it kept her busy for a full hour, experimenting with each and every possible combination and exploring the site. They offer bottoms, tops, dresses, skirts, loungewear, and accessories, all of which my girl approved as "awesome." And although I thought it would be really pricey…I was pleasantly surprised. My total bill was $55.50, for a dress and a pair of shorts, both with three add-ons, including tax and shipping. I didn't think that was bad at all for the fun she had and the one-of-a-kind items she's going to be showing off.
Where do you normally do your back-to-school shopping?