Discussion in 'Computer Software and Operating Systems' started by Digeman, Sep 3, 2006.
he said everything would work perfectly fine like updating etc. but that i would loose 90 gig of memory...then he insisted that i would come and buy a newer version of windows xp so that i could use all of my memory..and now to my question...is there any truth to what he is saying or can i just simply install the old version of xp then later update it so that i may use all of my memory?? Is he bullshittin' me or what??
While it is true that you would lose some memory, it should not be to that extent. For example, I have a 300gig hardrive yet I am only able to use 279gigs of it. There shouldn't be any other problem with you installing an old version of windows xp.
But even if i loose memory can't i simply just update my xp and then be able to use all my memory??
heres what ya do.....partition the drive old school style, take it out back lay it down against a hard surface and beat the hell out of it with a hammer till you feel better. then point and smile and take a leak on it, then return it and say ups( or fedex) dropped it off like that, if you got it at a local store say the dork at the register open it and dropped it......if they ask why it smells like pee, tell him that the people at microsoft had you do it to update to service pack 2, he will understand.
Yeah i did leave the cd inside! =O But that's during the innstalation...do i still need to remove it??
Put the CD in and install it. After a while (anywhere between 3 and 30 minutes) the computer will give you a message that it will restart itself in 10 seconds or so. When it gives that message, take the CD out... or just wait for it to restart and quickly take the CD out. Don't take it out during the installation, take it out while the computer is rebooting.
Also, there isn't anyway that buying a new version of Windows XP could solve your problem. It's possible that your harddrive has a defect, in which case you can return it. Almost all harddrives come with a 5 year manufacturer warrant, so it shouldn't be a problem.


Long ago when Jodie, my daughter, was about nine she owned a pony named Cera. They were daily partners, riding together after school, and all day on weekends and summer.
We thought it would be fun to breed her Cera. What would be cuter than a pony foal? Jodie tried so hard. She would ride Cera over to the pony stallion to get Cera bred, about a 20 minute ride there. She did this for 3 months in a row with no luck, one week each month when Cera was in heat. No luck! Cera wasn't going to get pregnant.
Then along comes a horse into our lives named Fancy. We bought Fancy from the same lady we bought Retro from. Jodie now rode Fancy and Cera daily.
A few years passed by and we decided to try to breed Fancy. This time was a bit easier. The owner of the barn had a very handsome stallion that would make the perfect husband for Fancy. We tried to breed Fancy two springs in a row, no luck.
Years later Curly Sue comes into our lives, so one more try. Jodie husband hunted for Curly Sue via Internet looking for a handsome, athletic stallion for the right breeding fee price. She found him in Kaufman. His name is Lena Shine.
We hauled Curly Sue there for her honeymoon, and as they say, third time is a charm. Curly Sue came home pregnant, and along came Cadbury.
That beautiful spring day arrived 11 months later and we had a colt born. Cadbury had some problems after birth. The colt was not nursing. Margi, my great friend and student, came over to try to help me. Margi was so close to getting Cadbury to nurse. All the while we were trying to get a hold of my vet.
Too many hours passed. Jodie had the idea to call a different vet that we had only been to once but really liked. We called and they told us to get the mare and foal there ASAP! This was about 8 hours after foaling. Cadbury was in serious danger.
As soon as we got there they started working on them. They nursed Curly Sue into a container, and then get it into Cadbury right away. In their stall was a big arm like at the car wash that held the IV bottle and it was hooked to Cadbury 24/7. That first night was critical if he would survive or not.
The Curly Sue and Cadbury had to stay at Weems and Stephens Animal Hospital for 4 days. They had a girl working for them that had the touch at getting foals to nurse. We were lucky and she did it. They said some foals are born with some kind of a problem where they can't lift their heads to nurse. He is one miracle baby colt! (Colt young male horse: filly young female horse: foal young horse).
Hopefully he will be a lesson horse next year. He needs lots of training to be trustworthy for students.


I glance away. I know what he's referring to and I appreciate his discretion. This is just his way of asking me if everything is all right. I let my eyes shift back to him and I nod quietly. I want him to know everything is fine.
I actually feel excited, something I haven't felt for a long time. It's been almost a year since he died. It almost feels like a bad dream at this point. I straighten with pride, I want him to know I'm fine; I want him to sense my eagerness.
"Thank you, sir." I salute, even if it isn't needed. I imagine he would do the same.
I turned on the spot and leave the barrack's office. The rickety old building might not be much to look at, but it held the hopes of the inhabitants of Eswin, the sleepy little village I have come to call home. Everyone in the village had lost a loved one in the war against Dendarg and no one doubted the captain kindness for watching over them. I am actually the only person of fighting age in the village but I never felt out of place.
I sidestep a small group of children running down the hall. They frequently mistook the barracks for a small racetrack. No one ever complained though, this village was blessed to have so many children. In that way it was a rare gem in Geldbane.
The last child in the pack started to fall forward but I catch her with a hand under her shoulder. Little Mea was her name. She grins up at me and hurries after her friends undaunted by her close spill.
As I step outside, the cool morning air hits me. I can't help but smile, the sleepy little village is so serene it almost seems like something out of a fairy tale. When compared to Torgmoore it was a paradise, but a small part of me missed the bustle of the city. I didn't miss the daily struggles though.
I saw the smiling faces of the other inhabitants of the village, most of them rose early to greet the day. Most of them were thankful for the ability to do so. It was so easy to fall into depression in times like this, but the rising Son was a reminder that life went on. Any problems that I have with my life are overshadowed by the losses they face. Most of the inhabitants of Eswin are the elderly and all of them lost children of the fighting age.
It took seeing these people holding their heads high day after day before I accepted my own loss, and allowed me to progress beyond what could have been. It's not like I'm not sad about what happened but I can accept it now. It seemed so strange looking back on a time when I couldn't bear to pick up my sword and train. Now, I can't imagine getting through the day without honoring him in that way.
I glanced back to the blade strapped to my lower back. It was my comfort. I wondered if it gave him the same security it gave him or if I am being overly sentimental. There was something real about having a means to protect myself; a means to protect others. He used to tell me, weapons were tools meant to protect, not kill.
I walk past the people of the village, waving casually. I don't want to give them a reason to worry, so I'm even hesitant about training in front of them. I don't want them to think there is anything to be afraid of.
It wasn't uncommon for me to leave the village; it was just uncommon for me to leave it with permission. No one but the Captain knew that though. He never let people on to the fact that I had any amount of wanderlust. I would find upon returning that the Captain made up some sort of 'mission' to cover my departure.
That made be believe that he had faith that I would always come back. It empowered me. As overprotective as he seemed to be, he knew I was worthwhile. He didn't need to ever say the words, he never would. I would make him proud.
It had been some time since I had made my way down the rough path that divided the Dragon forests. It makes me laugh to think I was ever afraid of it. It was true that the Dragons were ill tempered, an irate Green Dragon to the north and an equally hostile Blue to the south. There was no doubt they existed, they flew above their forests at time and their wing beats were heard even through the veil of mist that they seemingly produced. The sense of comfort came from the fact that they never hunted humans outside of those that foolishly trespassed on their grounds.
It is somewhat eerie that the Dragons didn't even seem to leave their forests to feed. There had not been a sighting of the Dragons leaving their forest for well over a century. They had no affiliation to the country of Geldbane, but they were honored as the guardians of the nation. They even decorated the national crest, right down to their colors.
The walk up the twisting path that leads to the mouth of the forests is refreshing. Even if it is an uphill climb, it was a pleasant test of how much I have grown. This time I made the trip without so much as being winded despite my brisk pace.
My thoughts drift to the dream I had last night. It had been some time since I had seen the vision like dreams. I would walk into the clearing ahead and meet a stranger of importance. But that wasn't the important part. I knew that if I didn't heed this dream he would die.
I bring a hand to my chest, an ache under my hand. I can't ignore this, not again. The dream was a foretelling of the future. This was something I can't ignore.
A part of me is calling the act foolish. The dreams before were different, it was someone I cared about, someone I loved. Despite that this was no different. The connection was so strong and presented the same way. I hadn't had a single dream like this since I caught word of his death.
Not again. I won't fail anyone again. I didn't care who it was. No one deserved to be ignored and no one deserved to die. It was someone lost and I am a guide. He told me many times, I have a natural knack for that.
I admit that I've daydreamed about a moment like this when I was a child. Back in Torgmoore when I had less than nothing I would dream that I'd meet someone that would take me away from my problems and protect me, but now I realize the only person I can count on is myself.
More so, I've found that above all else, I want someone to count on me. I don't want to let anyone down but that is unrealistic. It's one thing to be a soldier or a mercenary, anyone can do that, but I want to be a protector.
He was a protector. Not just for one person, but for a whole nation. He was Geldbane's Sword, turning to the defense of a nation he loved.
I don't need that much glory. I just want to serve that same role. That purpose it what pushes me forward, it's what keeps me going. This is the chance I've been waiting for. This is the way I can redeem myself for failing to protect the one person that protected everyone else.
I hadn't realized it but I had made my way deep down the path of the dragon forests. If not for the light mist hanging in the air I likely wouldn't have noticed. The mist billows from the north, meaning it is from the Green Dragon.
There was nothing soothing about that, it meant the Dragon was moving doing Goddess knows what. I have no desire to meet a Dragon; the mist saps the desire to push forward out of me.
There is no harm in taking a short break. I let the mist wash over me. It's harmless but I'm always hesitant to breathe it in. It makes me wonder if there is some effect that it has I don't know about. The mist is cool to the touch and makes me shiver as though I am without a scrap of clothes. It is a mist of pure fear.
My ears picked up a noise; they were footsteps on the path. They were armored, heavy and foreign. It wasn't uncommon for there to be the occasional patrol down the forest path, but they must have come across the city right after I left. Those made me feel a little bit uneasy.
I stand and squint down the path. The mist makes it hard to see but I can feel that there is one set of footsteps close than the others. I hold my ground, there's no reason to run. They were soldiers, only soldiers had armor.
An image breaks through the fog. I rest my hand on my blade regardless.
"Are you alone?" The image spoke. He was an armored man clad in pale blue armor, the sign of Geldbane Elite.
My heart skipped a beat. I hadn't seen that armor for some time, not since he left Eswin so long ago. I almost called out his name, but realized he was dead. This wasn't a ghost; this was a real man in the flesh.
"You are alone? Correct?" The man said approaching slowly.
It was a scout sent ahead because he could move faster than a group. I was no stranger to this tactic.
I said nothing, his armor put me on edge. I couldn't but think of my memories of him, the very armor he was so proud to don.
"I need you to come with me." The man stopped walking. He was far enough away that his features were obscured. I can still make out the details of his armor. Even in this mist the son caught every glint on its sheen.
"Why?" I spoke uneasily, tightening my grip on my sword.
The man made no move to approach. He didn't need to; he was successfully buying time for them by making me hold my ground. I considered running, he was lightly armored and could likely keep up with me. I had to take the risk. The motion was slight and gentle but he must have heard me start to draw my blade.
I was faster though. My blade lashed out of the sheath and landed clean on the side of his head. The backside of my sword collided into the side of his helmet as he started to draw. It was only a split second of time but being a leftie put me at the advantage. It also helped that I kept it on the same side of my good hand.
It took a second swing to flatten the man to the ground, but I was able to put more weight and power in that swing; he dropped like a stone. I wasted no time and started to run snapping my blade back into its home in one smooth motion.
It was not a moment too soon. The scout wasn't that far ahead as the men behind him broke into a sprint to match mine. I had the sinking feeling that if I was as armored the same as them and refreshed from my break they would close in on me in no time.
But where could I run to? As soon as I hit the clearing I would need to run twice as fast to make it across before they spotted me, and that was if I could last that long. The path was long and would likely exhaust me with this thick mist.
In that way the armored men had the advantage over me, they would only be breathing in a quarter of the stuff thanks to their helmets.
I clenched my stomach and pushed myself harder breaking into the mist at break neck speed. I wasn't sure what good it would do me but I felt putting distance between us was my only hope.
I had to squint to see it but there was a figure ahead. It eased my exhaustion as the memory of the dream overlapped with reality. Impulse washes over me as I reach out to him. Confusion is in his brown eyes as I grab hold of the scruff of his shirt.
I tense as doubt fills me, his skin is as brown as my hair, a pair of surprised brown eyes staring at me, his hair a dark raven is small curls nestled on his head. Rage fills me. A Dendargian, of all things, and I am supposed to protect him? Is this a joke wrought by the goddess?
I grit my teeth as I absolve; this changes nothing.
Only a moment has passed as I make my choice. I toss him to the roadside into the foliage. In the same motion I spring aside, sealing my fate and beginning the life I always dreamed of.
Or at least, I hope that's the case.


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Q: IE9 Compatability Mode for intranet sites has the wrong User-Agent String I'm working in a big project, and we must determinate if the user is using the compatibility view in IE.
I'm using this code to do that.
var agentStr = navigator.userAgent;
var mode = null;
if (agentStr.indexOf("Trident/5.0") > -1) {
    if (agentStr.indexOf("MSIE 7.0") > -1)
        mode = "IE9CV";
    else
        mode = "IE9";
} else if (agentStr.indexOf("Trident/4.0") > -1) {
    if (agentStr.indexOf("MSIE 7.0") > -1)
        mode = "IE8CV";
    else
        mode = "IE8";
} else
    mode = "IE7";

It is working great, the problem is that:
1 - In an INTRANET environment, the option "Display intranet sites in Compatibility View" is checked in the client's browser, and there is nothing I can do about that

2 - There would be no problem for the script to detect the compatibility view, BUT I don't know why, the user agent that I receive is this one below if the page loads on IE 9 compatibility view
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/5.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0)

The very same as it would be if the page loaded with IE9
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/5.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0)

While I sould be receiving
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/5.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0)

For IE9 Compatibility View.
I get this last result when I FORCE the IE9 Compatibility View (As expected) but when it loads by itself I get just the same user-agent as IE9 standard would send me. So I can't figure out a way to determinate if the user has the IE9 standard view or compatibility view.
I don't know if I made myself clear, but is looks like a big IE bug.
How should I proceed? Has anyone also experienced this problem?
This is the screen simulating the situations:

A: Compatibility mode is a pain in almost everywhere! :)
However, try not to detect the browser agent as it can easily be fooled and not reliable in general, instead try 'feature detection'.
There are some libaries you can use to do this

*

*Modernizr

*hasjs
EDIT: if your requirement is to prevent users accessing the site with compatibility view enabled you can use the <META> tag / HTTP header. to disable that mode. See here for more information.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2008/08/27/introducing-compatibility-view.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2008/06/10/introducing-ie-emulateie7.aspx

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Carlos Carrion and David Levinson (2012) Route choice dynamics after a link restoration. (Working Paper)
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	 *
	 *
This method returns a type-specific bidirectional iterator with given starting point. The starting point is any element comparable to the elements of this set (even if it does not actually
	 * belong to the set). The next element of the returned iterator is the least element of the set that is greater than the starting point (if there are no elements greater than the starting point,
	 * {@link it.unimi.dsi.fastutil.BidirectionalIterator#hasNext() hasNext()} will return false). The previous element of the returned iterator is the greatest element of the set that is
	 * smaller than or equal to the starting point (if there are no elements smaller than or equal to the starting point, {@link it.unimi.dsi.fastutil.BidirectionalIterator#hasPrevious()
	 * hasPrevious()} will return false).
	 *
	 *
Note that passing the last element of the set as starting point and calling {@link it.unimi.dsi.fastutil.BidirectionalIterator#previous() previous()} you can traverse the entire set in
	 * reverse order.
	 *
	 * @param fromElement an element to start from.
	 * @return a bidirectional iterator on the element in this set, starting at the given element.
	 * @throws UnsupportedOperationException if this set does not support iterators with a starting point. */
	IntBidirectionalIterator iterator(int fromElement);

	/** Returns a type-specific {@link it.unimi.dsi.fastutil.BidirectionalIterator} iterator on the collection.
	 *
	 *
The iterator returned by the {@link #iterator()} method and by this method are identical; however, using this method you can save a type casting.
	 *
	 * Note that this specification strengthens the one given in the corresponding type-specific {@link Collection}.
	 *
	 * @deprecated As of fastutil 5, replaced by {@link #iterator()}. */
	@Deprecated
	IntBidirectionalIterator intIterator();

	/** Returns a type-specific {@link it.unimi.dsi.fastutil.BidirectionalIterator} on the elements in this set.
	 *
	 *
This method returns a parameterised bidirectional iterator. The iterator can be moreover safely cast to a type-specific iterator.
	 *
	 * Note that this specification strengthens the one given in the corresponding type-specific {@link Collection}.
	 *
	 * @return a bidirectional iterator on the element in this set. */
	IntBidirectionalIterator iterator();

	/** Returns a view of the portion of this sorted set whose elements range from fromElement, inclusive, to toElement, exclusive.
	 *
	 *
Note that this specification strengthens the one given in {@link SortedSet#subSet(Object, Object)}.
	 *
	 * @see SortedSet#subSet(Object, Object) */
	IntSortedSet subSet(Integer fromElement, Integer toElement);

	/** Returns a view of the portion of this sorted set whose elements are strictly less than toElement.
	 *
	 *
Note that this specification strengthens the one given in {@link SortedSet#headSet(Object)}.
	 *
	 * @see SortedSet#headSet(Object) */
	IntSortedSet headSet(Integer toElement);

	/** Returns a view of the portion of this sorted set whose elements are greater than or equal to fromElement.
	 *
	 *
Note that this specification strengthens the one given in {@link SortedSet#tailSet(Object)}.
	 *
	 * @see SortedSet#tailSet(Object) */
	IntSortedSet tailSet(Integer fromElement);

	/** Returns the comparator associated with this sorted set, or null if it uses its elements' natural ordering.
	 *
	 *
Note that this specification strengthens the one given in {@link SortedSet#comparator()}.
	 *
	 * @see SortedSet#comparator() */
	IntComparator comparator();

	/** @see SortedSet#subSet(Object, Object) */
	IntSortedSet subSet(int fromElement, int toElement);

	/** @see SortedSet#headSet(Object) */
	IntSortedSet headSet(int toElement);

	/** @see SortedSet#tailSet(Object) */
	IntSortedSet tailSet(int fromElement);

	/** @see SortedSet#first() */
	int firstInt();

	/** @see SortedSet#last() */
	int lastInt();
}

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/*
 * Copyright (c) 2005, 2010, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
 * Copyright (c) 2012 by Delphix. All rights reserved.
 */

#ifndef	_SYS_DMU_TRAVERSE_H
#define	_SYS_DMU_TRAVERSE_H

#include <sys/zfs_context.h>
#include <sys/spa.h>
#include <sys/zio.h>

#ifdef	__cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif

struct dnode_phys;
struct dsl_dataset;
struct zilog;
struct arc_buf;

typedef int (blkptr_cb_t)(spa_t *spa, zilog_t *zilog, const blkptr_t *bp,
    struct arc_buf *pbuf, const zbookmark_t *zb, const struct dnode_phys *dnp,
    void *arg);

#define	TRAVERSE_PRE			(1<<0)
#define	TRAVERSE_POST			(1<<1)
#define	TRAVERSE_PREFETCH_METADATA	(1<<2)
#define	TRAVERSE_PREFETCH_DATA		(1<<3)
#define	TRAVERSE_PREFETCH (TRAVERSE_PREFETCH_METADATA | TRAVERSE_PREFETCH_DATA)
#define	TRAVERSE_HARD			(1<<4)

/* Special traverse error return value to indicate skipping of children */
#define	TRAVERSE_VISIT_NO_CHILDREN	-1

int traverse_dataset(struct dsl_dataset *ds,
    uint64_t txg_start, int flags, blkptr_cb_t func, void *arg);
int traverse_dataset_destroyed(spa_t *spa, blkptr_t *blkptr,
    uint64_t txg_start, zbookmark_t *resume, int flags,
    blkptr_cb_t func, void *arg);
int traverse_pool(spa_t *spa,
    uint64_t txg_start, int flags, blkptr_cb_t func, void *arg);

#ifdef	__cplusplus
}
#endif

#endif /* _SYS_DMU_TRAVERSE_H */


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Justin Timberlake 'Tequila Out When?
March 30, 2022 greenbich Advices
On July 31, 2013, Justin Timberlake, co-founder and CEO of 901 Tequila, launched the 901 Reposado ($45), which has a hint of vanilla, and the 901 Anejo ($50), which has notes of pepper, nuts, coffee, and toasted wood, to North America for the first time. In 2009, he and company president Kevin Ruder established the company.
Timberlake originally introduced the beverage in 2009, after collaborating with the Tequilera Newton distillery in Jalisco, Mexico, to develop the formula.
Does Justin Timberlake own Sauza?
-based In partnership with actor and pop music singer Justin Timberlake, Beam Inc.'s Sauza Tequila brand launched Sauza 901, a super-premium tequila that is available only in limited quantities. The Sauza brand is based on Timberlake's previously released 901 Silver Tequila and integrates the same spirit under the Sauza brand name. The Sauza brand is owned by Timberlake.
What is Jay Z Tequila?
In the music video for ″Show Me What You Got,″ Jay-Z first introduced the Armand de Brignac brand, which is based in the Champagne town of Chigny-les-Roses, to the world.
Does P Diddy own Cîroc?
In addition to vodka, the brand family also offers flavored items utilizing vodka as well as brandy. Since 2007, Sean 'Puff Daddy' Combs has been in charge of marketing and promotion for Cîroc in the United States, under the terms of a 'equal-share partnership,' with earnings from the brand being shared between Combs and Diageo, according to the company.
What rapper owns Hennessy?
Keep up with the stories that are generating news as they emerge. A 50 percent share in rapper and entrepreneur Jay-Champagne Z's company is being acquired by Moet Hennessy as part of an endeavor to increase the brand's cool factor while also expanding distribution.
What rapper owns Cîroc?
Sean ″Diddy″ Combs originally appeared on the music scene in the early 1990s, when he released his debut album. In the years afterwards, the rapper, producer, and record executive has broadened his empire to include a number of successful commercial endeavors, including the popular vodka brand Cîroc, which he co-founded with his brother.
Is Sauza real tequila?
Tequila from Mexico that is refreshingly authentic Casa Sauza® has been providing skillfully made tequilas that are best savored in the company of people for more than 145 years.
Is agave a Sauza?
Any event is an appropriate occasion. Sauza®, on the other hand, is made from the freshest, crispest agave taste available, which is found in every bottle of the product.
Is Justin Timberlake a Millionaire?
After making his impact in the music and film industries as a member of the popular boy band *NSync, Justin Timberlake has gone on to become a successful solo musician, songwriter, record producer, and actor. He is now working on his debut solo album. Based on the data from Celebrity Net Worth, his current net worth is projected to be around $250 million.
Is Justin Timberlake a billionaire?
As of 2022, Justin Timberlake's net worth is expected to be $250 million, making him one of the wealthiest musicians in the world, according to Forbes. Originally from Memphis, Tennessee, Justin Timberlake is an American singer, producer, songwriter, and actor who is known for his work in the music industry.
Source of Wealth: Professional Singer/Actor
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Apple is known for extremely logical and practical design with some of its products, and then the complete opposite for others in the sake of beauty. An example is the Apple Watch with the awkward play between the digital crown and the display since pressing the button leads home, or the old MacBook Pros with two USB ports you couldn't use together. Such is the case of the Apple Pencil which already made some negative headlines for the way you have to charge it, but that was only part of the story.
If you remember, Apple's demo of how you charge the Apple Pencil by drawing power from the iPad Pro was just ridiculous. The idea of having such a large pencil sticking out of the iPad created a ton of concerns over how easy it'll be for you to break it. The good thing is that 30 minutes of use can be attained with just a 15 second charge, so not all is bad. Those of you not wanting to do this will be sad to know that some Apple training documents reveal that the Apple Pencil will require a special adapter in order to charge from a lightning cable. We hope this accessory is bundled in the box, but even so, the risk of losing that adapter is just another nightmare.
Again Apple's products are not perfect, and sometimes the company compromises on logic just to follow a design trend. At least we know what the killer feature of the Apple Pencil 2 will be.


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Adding one more to the list would have brought another nineteen in with it, and that didn't help either. What I'm saying is that I enjoyed an awful lot of these stories. In fact, there were only a few – two or three – that I didn't think had something good going for them; and two of those read like well-written articles, but they weren't really short stories. For all you glass half full types out there, you could say, I found a lot of the stories to be lacking that little something that would make them winners!
It's only in competitions that you have to make these sort of judgements. Otherwise you take your shorts like an espresso, and enjoy them for what they are, in the moment, for you, as you are, at that moment. What's it about? Do you care? How's it written? Does the voice beguile you?
As I sifted through I began to realise that the stories I wanted to celebrate most were somewhat oblique in form or content; forceful in their tellings, with voices that made me stop and listen; with subjects that caught my interest. The whole range was there: life death; love; comic; tragic; absurd; serious, and the rest. A few took what are becoming contemporary standards, and anything that everyone is talking about is hard to write about without becoming part of the undistinguishable murmur, or cacophony. Two, in my 'Commended' list were, I guessed, by the same author, having the same characters. I'd like to see those as part of a longer fiction – a novel perhaps?
The Eternal Knot by John Robinson (Newbury) – Complex, convoluted, philosophical. A conversation between an Old Man and a snake, on the huge subject of sentience – of being alive and knowing it; of being mortal, and knowing that too.
Coffee-Coloured Eyes by Olga Vakruchev (Toronto, Canada) -Slipping into the surreal, but I never doubted this woman's voice, nor her belief in her own story.
Killers at Fat Joe's by Tom Serengeti (BERTSHAM , South Africa) – I think I liked the ambition of this most of all: daring to echo Hemingway's title, and story, and do a riff on it. But I liked the spare descriptions and the dialogue too, and the unfolding events, and the characters, and their names, and the ending. I guess I would have liked the pizza too!


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Rachael's Return
Published by: She Writes Press
In present-day Los Angeles, Caroline Martin has everything but the thing her soul craves most: a daughter. When she undergoes what is supposed to be a routine hysterectomy, she unwittingly aborts the little girl she's always longed for, leaving the unborn baby's soul in limbo.
Sharing a hospital room with Caroline is a pregnant woman who's just been shot by her boyfriend. Her unborn child is barely hanging on—and the soul of Caroline's hovering baby cannot resist the overwhelming urge to rebirth via this unclaimed fetus.
In the aftermath of these events, two engaging heavenly guides, working together through sensitive humans, struggle to find an alternate way to help Caroline and her would-be daughter forge the link that was always meant to be between them—before the child's brutal father makes good on his vow to steal the girl and disappear with her forever.
By turns comic and tragic, Rachael's Return explores the concept of soulmates, the afterlife, reincarnation, and relationships that never die, even as it offers readers a glimpse of the mysteries that exist within the ordinary and challenges assumptions about the true nature of reality.
She noticed the colors enter the room first, the ones every pregnant woman has in her aura—purple, blue, pink, and green—only they weren't as bright and clear as Caroline's had been. These were muted and outlined in dark gray, almost black. She noted immediately another, smaller aura merging with the larger one and knew a soul had already claimed the birth mother. And then she saw him. It's not that souls had a gender, but they usually gave off masculine or feminine energies based on what they identified with most. This aura had a heavy and dark feeling about him and sent forth negative and fearful vibrations possibly indicating a painful or violent death. She sensed he hadn't been there long; he had probably just left his other incarnation somewhere else in the hospital and claimed the first route to rebirth he could find.


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Obama advisor Eric Schmidt said to visit North Korea as early as this month
"Google Inc's executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, will travel this year to reclusive North Korea, where Internet use is subject to some of the world's tightest controls, the Associated Press reported on Wednesday. Schmidt, one of the highest-profile leaders of the U.S. technology industry, could visit as early as this month, the AP said. The announcement was made days after North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, the third member of his family to rule the country since its inception in the Cold War, signalled a willingness to improve relations with South Korea," Reuters reports. "The AP cited two people familiar with his plans as saying the ex-Google CEO will join a private group led by former United Nations Ambassador and New Mexico governor Bill Richardson, a frequent visitor to North Korea."
"It was unclear whom Schmidt will meet or what his agenda might be, the AP reported. Internet access is largely restricted to all but the most influential officials of the reclusive state. Media content is also rigidly controlled," Reuters reports. "Google did not directly respond to a question about whether Schmidt was going to North Korea, although a spokeswoman's response suggested a visit would not be for company business."
MacDailyNews Take: Who better to get info out of the DPRK black hole than Eric T. Mole?
Reuters reports, "Schmidt, Google's main political and government relations representative, has also been a prominent supporter of President Barack Obama."
MacDailyNews Note: Eric Schmidt serves as an advisor on the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). PCAST is an advisory group of scientists and engineers who directly advise the president and the executive office of the president. The current PCAST group was originally established through Executive Order 13226 and restablished by President Barack Obama.
Schmidt is writing, with former U.S. state department official Jared Cohen, a book due in April called 'The New Digital Age.' It will address how the Internet and technology can empower people and drive fundamental social, political and economic change. 'Perhaps the most intriguing part of this trip is simply the idea of it. The restricted control of information lies at the heart of the DPRK state and yet it is about to host one of the West's greatest facilitators of borderless information flows,' said Victor Cha, a senior adviser and Korea expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. The DPRK stands for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the North's official name."
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Send in the Mole! He got info out of Steve Jobs' Apple fortress; the DPRK information bubble doesn't stand a chance.
South Korea court grants Apple request to stay injunction against iPhone, iPad
"A Seoul court granted a request by Apple Inc. to delay a sales ban imposed on some iPhones and iPads after an August ruling that the U.S. company infringed on Samsung Electronics Co.'s patents," Jun Yang reports for Bloomberg.
"The Seoul Central District Court last month accepted Apple's request to stay the South Korea sales ban until after the company's appeals of the Aug. 24 ruling conclude, Kim Mun Sung, a spokesman for the court, said by phone today," Yang reports. "The court found in August that Apple and Samsung infringed on each other's patents, and ordered the companies to stop selling some smartphones and tablet computers in South Korea and pay damages. Apple was ordered to stop selling the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPad 1 and iPad 2."
MacDailyNews Take: Samsung's check must've bounced.
Apple v. Samsung foreman gets more things wrong; the more he talks, the worse it gets for the verdict
"This is in the believe it or not category, but the foreman in the Apple v Samsung trial is *still* talking about the verdict and why the jurors did what they did. And the more he talks, the worse it gets for that verdict," Groklaw reports.
"Gizmodo asked him to sit today for live questions. And believe it or not, he did it," Groklaw reports. "And when asked if the jury was ever asking whether or not a patent should have issued, he claims that they never did because that wasn't their role and the judge told them to assume the patents issued properly and not to second guess that determination."
Groklaw reports, "That is so wrong it's not even just wrong. The verdict form and the jury instructions specifically asked them to address that very question. The law is that the jurors are supposed to decide whether or not a patent is infringed, which *includes* whether or not the patent is valid, because if it is not valid, it can't be infringed… One thing is for sure, this is going to be one fascinating appeal."
MacDailyNews Take: Regardless, the verdict is correct because Samsung was clearly copying Apple and trading on their work as Apple's lawyers proved with a mountain of evidence.
As we wrote last month: Apple created the modern day smartphone and taught the world what an iPhone is. This was not trivial, nor was it free.
The reason there are copies – of anything – is to take for free (steal) that which was paid for by the original maker: The R&D, the salary and perks of the world's preeminent industrial designer [and his team], the education of the public through TV spots and a very expensive network of retail outlets, the hundreds of millions in online, print, television, etc. marketing, everything that goes into a product.
This why a maker of knockoff handbags makes Coach knockoffs, to trade on Coach's work in order to move their fake wares without investing in the design, marketing, etc. This is why a maker of auto knockoffs makes BMW knockoffs. This is why Samsung knocked off iPhone. Samsung stole Apple's work and they traded on Apple's considerable investment. This is why the jury found Samsung guilty.
There is no market for paintings of Campbell's soup cans without Warhol.
Making knockoffs isn't flattery, it's theft. It's also an expression of companies' disdain and low opinion of their own customers.
Apple's products came first, then Samsung's:
Here's what Google's Android looked like before and after Apple's iPhone: