Microsoft wants Silverlight to be optimized for every platform that it runs on, said Brian Goldfarb, director of developer and user experience platforms at Microsoft, during an interview at the company’s Professional Developers Conference (PDC) on Wednesday (Nov. 18).

Silverlight runs on Mac OS X and Windows; it is available on Linux through Mono Moonlight, an open source project that Microsoft supports. I also expect that Moonlight will be running on Android in near future. Goldfarb explained that it was not enough for Silverlight to “run everywhere,” but that it should “light up” specific platforms.

Microsoft needs to consider screen size and other aspects of a device, which is particularly relevant in the mobile space, he explained. There are also mobile platform features such as SMS, phone dialing, and address books that Silverlight could exploit, he added. That would allow Silverlight applications to be customized for smartphones.

Silverlight 4, which Microsoft announced at PDC, will allow applications to access Windows features, hardware, and the local file system. That allows devices such as Webcams to accessed by Silverlight. However, the same level of optimization is not currently being offering for other platforms.

Microsoft will give Silverlight “trusted” access local resources on Macs, but it will lack the same deep integration with the OS that Silverlight provides for Windows. More work is needed to extend Silverlight for non-Windows platforms, Goldfarb admitted, saying that the company was “thinking around” the concept of extensions.

To that end, the company has started an open source project called Managed Extensibility Framework for .NET and Silverlight. The Mono team is working on an equivalent project, Goldfarb said. Heb expects that Mono will “accelerate dramatically” in the near future, delivering more features to Linux users.

I expect that anything but Windows will be a second-class Silverlight citizen for some time. But Microsoft is making strides toward delivering an optimized experience on other platforms, and in doing so, will gain a foothold on the Web beyond Windows.

Hey guys, I’m sorry I haven’t been posting a lot lately, been playing Modern Warfare 2 and Assassin’s Creed 2.

Now onto the reviews .

WARNING: MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS

FIRST OFF, ASSASSIN’S CREED 2.

Now Assassin’s Creed 1 was a good game, I liked it a lot. Now Assassin’s Creed 2 is an AMAZING game. It has new weapons, you can steal money and weapons, kill guards and more easier than ever, and you get a super loud hand gun that goes on your wrist! In Assassin’s Creed 2, you start as Ezio, Altair’s (I think) Great Great Great Grandson (lol). Of course he is an Assassin as well, but I’m trying to not spoil anything that much.

The graphics and game engine in AC2 is also VERY much improved. It helps because of the new weapons so more battle sequences, and more ways to kill people >:D.

Graphics: 4.5/5

Game Engine: 4/5

Story Line: 5/5

New Game Systems: 5/5

Overall: 4.6/5. GREAT GAME!

MODERN WARFARE 2

I’m not even giving a description on this game it’s that awesome. Check it out for yourselves but I will review it.

Engine: 4/5

Story Line: 4.5/5 (A bit short, but fun)

Multiplayer: 5/5!

Spec-Ops: ?/5 (haven’t reviewed yet, will come back to later)

Graphics and New Templates: 4.5/5 (Takes some time to get used to)

Overall: 4.7 (As above, Coincidence huh?) GREAT GAME!

Two great games in one month, awesome haha.

Check back later for the official MW2 review and updates on the AC2 one.

-skulltooth

Shaniya Davis’s funeral is open to the public. The funeral for 5 year old Shaniya Davis will take place on November 22 at 3:00 PM in at the Manna Church in Fayetteville, NC. Shaniya was kidnapped, raped, murdered

Click above to read more…Thanks

CGM met en vente 3 modèles de la RC212V 2008, un modèle attendu car le design de la 2008 n’a jamais fait l’unanimité dans le milieu motard et chez les maquettistes:

La HRC Repsol #26 Pedrosa

La HRC Repsol #69 Hayden (avec son disque AR oversize, c’est celle là qui me plait )

La Scot #72 2009 Takahashi

Looks I was kinda right about the experia X10. Rumor is that it as the bands for AT&T but that doesn’t totally prove anything they might change it but if I was right then it should come sometime in the middle of next year.

Belgeseller için aday adayları listesinin açıklanmasından birkaç gün sonra Akademi kısa animasyon için de son 10′u açıkladı.Bu dal hakkında pek fikir yürütemediğimden şimdilik listeyi vermekle yetineceğim.Buyursunlar:

• “The Cat Piano,” Eddie White ve Ari Gibson, (The People’s Republic of Animation)
• “French Roast,” Fabrice O. Joubert, (Pumpkin Factory/Bibo Films)
• “Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty,” Nicky Phelan ve Darragh O’Connell, (Brown Bag Films)
• “The Kinematograph,” Tomek Baginski, (Platige Image)
• “The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte),” Javier Recio Gracia, (Kandor Graphics and Green Moon)
• “Logorama,” Nicolas Schmerkin, (Autour de Minuit)
• “A Matter of Loaf and Death,” Nick Park, (Aardman Animations Ltd.)
• “Partly Cloudy,” Peter Sohn, (Pixar Animation Studios)
• “Runaway,” Cordell Barker, (National Film Board of Canada)
• “Variete,” Roelof van den Bergh, (il Luster Productions)

JWF: Germany ready to gum up the works of Eric Holder’s KSM plans.

(Via Dan Collins)

Which reminds me: who’s the most destructive Obama cabinet member?  Vote now!

Some of my photos from the Butler and Wilson 40th Anniversary Party should be appearing in Vogue (Brazil) in the December 2009 edition.

This blog is alive! I have been super busy with things irl but I’m working on a schedule and there will be time for the blog. Maybe not every single day but at least a few times a week. I’m really sorry for the long time not updating but at least now I’m back and the blog will get attention it deserves. And I would like to say a big thank you to all of you who have continued to visit the blog . But now over to something different.

Is the end of the World coming 2012?

The short answer is NO! By now some of you might have seen the movie 2012. The Maya calendar is said to show that the World/Earth would be destroyed in either 21 or 23 of December 2012. Is this true?

No it isn’t. As an archaeologist and scientist I want to see real information and facts from people who have researched the subject. And no, I don’t look at some superstitious peoples research, it should be made in a scientific way. So let’s look at it from a scientific point of view. First let us look at the dates. Both the 21st and 23d of December is occurring. Ok, but if the Maya indians would have predicted the end of the world shouldn’t they have come up with only one date not two? If they would have said two dates how sure could they really be that it will happen in the first place?

So let us look at the Maya calendar itself. I will skip all the technical and mathematic stuff of which consists of to make it readable today. You can check my links to read more.

To my help I look at research from the FAMSI which is Foundation for the advancement of Mesoamerican studies. It shows there is nothing in Maya, Aztec or in any Mesoamerican ancient prophecy that talk about the world coming to an end in 2012. The notion of a “Great Cycle” which some people refer to today is a completely modern invention.

The only thing that will happen in 2012 is that the known Maya calendar stops, it ends nothing more. Just for a calendar ends the world doesn’t end. I mean most of you probably have a calendar. Think if it would be mass hysteria every year just because your calendar stops and you have to get a new one, quite ridiculous  They didn’t think the world will end in any way. The Maya actually takes about our distant FUTURE instead. In the famous town Palenque there are inscriptions that say in 4772 AD people will be celebrating the coronation of the great king Pakal!

Of course the Earth will end sometime when the Sun will grow to a red giant and then collapse and burn out but that won’t happen for several billion years. But what would happen if we found some Maya inscription that would say that the world would end in 2012 would it happen.

Would it happen then? No not likely. Humans have during all time periods predicted the end of the world. Closest example for us was the year 2000 AD. A new millienium, people thought Jesus would come back, the was the end of the world, all the computers would crash and the internet would go down.

But not much happened and the world went on. It would be the same even if we would find an inscription.

Ok so the Maya calendar doesn’t say the end will world. What about things from outer space, meteorites and other things that could destroy the world.

For an answer I took some help from NASA. People often talk about a planet named Nibiru which would collide with the earth or that a solar flare will toast the planet and other things some seen in 2012. But it won’t happen, there are no planets or anything on collision course with the Earth that could destroy it in 2012.

“I don’t have anything against the movie. It’s the way it’s been marketed and the way it exploits people’s fears,” NASA scientist David Morrison at the Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., told Discovery News.Scientific misinformation about 2012 has been ramping up for a few years, with more than 200 books and 1,000 Web sites purporting to explain various doomsday scenarios. Sony Pictures is behind a particularly viral campaign to build publicity for its apocalyptic movie “2012,” The company has set up an interlinked family of Web sites and Facebook pages to infuse a sense of reality to its fictional work. The lead character in the film, played by actor John Cusack, for example, is the faux author of a faux book about a murder, conspiracy and disaster aboard the space shuttle Atlantis, which, coincidentally, is poised for launch on a space station construction mission the weekend the movie debuted. The fictional fiction, named “Farewell, Atlantis,” has a Web site, a Facebook page to follow “author appearances,” fans and friends, a faux publisher with a faux Web site, a faux press release and endorsements from the very real son of the late Carl Sagan. There’s also a fake institute that presumably dispenses “real” science supporting the movie’s claims, as well as a fake news website that distributes fake press releases about a fake aerospace company winning government contracts.

Warren Betts, owner of a California-based publicity firm that peddles real science stories tied to movies, says the type of marketing campaign Sony is executing for “2012″ is nothing new.

“It’s been done before,” said Betts, citing the 1999 horror movie “The Blair Witch Project,” a story about a group of amateur documentary film-makers who have a really bad couple of days in the woods.

“Some people went to that movie and they thought it was reality, that it was an actual documentary,” Betts said.

Morrison says Sony has crossed a line with promoting “2012.”

“I think people are really, really worried about the world coming to an end Kids are contemplating suicide. Adults tell me they can’t sleep and can’t stop crying. There are people who are really, really scared,” he said.

“People are very gullible,” he added. “It a sad testimonial that you need NASA to tell you the world’s not going to end.”

So to summarise, no the world will not end in 2012 because of a Maya calendar says so (which it doesn’t) or anything of significant size form space would hit the earth which it won’t according to NASA.

Have you seen the movie 2012 if so what did you think? Did you belivie that a Maya calender was dooming the earth or did you know the real information behind it? Let me know, post in the comments section .

To read more look here about the Maya Calender and here for what NASA says.

On Monday it will be more updates on the blog and some news!

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Max l’annonce sur son main page et les premières photos sont visibles sur le site de MFH ou bien ici pour aller plus vite. Le seul transkit moto 1/12 avec des pneus pluie en caoutchouc, c’est suffisamment rare et bien fait pour passer une petite commande dès que c’est dispo. Par contre le prix n’est pas de l’ordre d’un kit Tamyia, il s’agit là de transkit tout métal sous license Suzuki, comptez environ 220€ le morceau…

Hata a fini son RSW500 qui a d’abord été vendu au Hobby Forum de Yokohama et est désormais dispo sur son webshop, quand celui-ci est ouvert bien évidemment. Guettez sur son site pour commander.

I am not sure what is going on, but I hit another ace playing disc golf the other day. I have been playing for many years, and have never hit one, and now I have two to my credit in  roughly two weeks time. My friends think I have some kind of disc golf mojo thing going on. I dont know about that, but I sure hope they keep on commin!! It was with the same disc as the other time, a 168g Champion Wraith. So maybe it is just a lucky disc. This time it was at Paschall park on hole #15, a 204ft par 3. Instead of an s drive I got a good hyzer that knifed right into the basket. It was sweet!! I guess I need to start bringing my camera with me to try to catch one on video to put on my website!!

Surveillance footage shows Officer Adam Stoddard removing handwritten notes from a defense attorney’s papers during court. A Maricopa County detention officer was found in contempt of court for taking documents out of defense attorney Joanne Cuccia’s files as she was addressing the court at a sentencing hearing for her client, Antonio Lozano.(no audio)

PHOENIX — A Maricopa County Sheriff’s detention officer has been found in contempt of court for walking up to an attorney’s desk in a Phoenix courtroom and removing a document from files sitting on the desk.

Courtroom video recorded the October 19 incident during the sentencing of an inmate.

In the video, you can see Detention Officer Adam Stoddard walk up behind the public defender and touch her paperwork.

About 30 seconds later, Stoddard calls another officer over and takes a piece of paper.

You can hear the public defender, Joanne Cuccia, say in confusion, “would you excuse me for a moment?”

That’s when Cuccia starts defending herself saying all of the paperwork she got from her client was through jail mail.

“I want to know what they took and what’s going on,” Cuccia says.

Several times, you can hear the judge asking what happened.

“But you don’t get to do that,” Cuccia says.

Stoddard now has until November 30 to comply with a judge’s orders.

He is required to report to jail on December 1 unless the conditions set by the judge are met.

Those conditions are:

1) On or before November 30th, 2009, at a time convenient for Ms. Cuccia, a news conference to take place in the plaza on the north side of the central court building where he is to give Ms. Cuccia a sincere verbal and written apology for invading her defense file and for the damage that his conduct may have caused to her professional reputation.

2) If at the news conference, Ms. Cuccia does not state that the apology is sufficient, Stoddard will report to the jail on December 1, 2009 and be detained until further order upon a finding that he has complied with the purge clause.

“She’s going to decide if Officer Stoddard is going to go to jail on December 1st? You know what? That’s nuts. That’s absolutely nuts,” said deputy county attorney Tom Liddy.

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio responded to the ruling early Wednesday, saying Superior Court judges do not order his staff to hold press conferences.

“I decide who holds press conferences and when they are held regarding this Sheriffs Office, Arpaio said. “My officer was doing his job and I will not stand by and allow him to be thrown to the wolves by the courts because they feel pressure from the media on this situation.”

Liddy explained that Stoddard will not do a press conference.

“If you’re waiting for a press conference don’t hold your breath,” said Liddy. “If judge Donahoe wants to have a press conference, your honor knock yourself out, but you can’t order someone else to do it.”

Earlier this month, Stoddard explained to a judge why he took the document.

The deputy said four key words on the paperwork made him decide to take it and make copies.

He said the words were ‘going to,’ ’steal’ and ‘money.’

The deputy also said he decided to take the paperwork because he hadn’t had a chance to search it before the trial.

In a written statement, MCSO officials earlier said their officers have the right to search for contraband.

But the video reveals that the only thing taken was paperwork.

ReTweet NEWS

SATURDAY 21st

Mary’s life was a perfect imitation of Jesus. She was humble, hidden & sorrowful, but she also knew joys that never entered the heart of man @catholicseeking

Inside Nigeria’s jails the Church is offering hope to people abandoned even by their families, says Sister Janet Fearns http://bit.ly/2czPJw @catholicherald

Clarity of purpose drives progress, maintains focus and raises confidence. If unsure of purpose, start with “to help others!” @MktplcCoach

No man has good enough memory to be a successful liar. ~ Abraham Lincoln @TheNiceLife

He who dilberates fully before taking a step will spend his entire life on one leg. ~ Chinese Proverb @TheNiceLife

You have to check this out! 22,000 young people http://ping.fm/ZvXXo @iPadre

Can the Church win over the art world? We ask 11 Catholic artists for their thoughts http://bit.ly/1hzIXo @catholicherald

Pope Benedict XVI will meet more than 250 artists in the Sistine Chapel today, November 21…http://bit.ly/1hzIXo @catholichearld

For without faith one remains blind to God, and therefore one’s art can only reflect oneself…http://bit.ly/1hzIXo @catholichearld

There are 2 approaches 2 the regeneration of culture. One is 2 look at popular culture & Christianise it; the other… http://bit.ly/1hzIXo @catholichearld

Grey Franciscans take up ministry in Derry http://bit.ly/7BPLRd @AnIrishCatholic:

(Irish) Politicians learn value of chirpy, chirpy Tweet greet http://bit.ly/5Xi7RB  @AnIrishCatholic:　

FRIDAY 20th

Clarity of purpose drives progress, maintains focus and raises confidence. If unsure of purpose, start with “to help others!” @MktplcCoach

California bishops call on laity to be ‘voice of life and dignity’ in the political sphere http://bit.ly/2UDGqu

An Opportunity to Emphasize the Unity of the Human Family – Papal Address to Congress on Migration http://bit.ly/2g06BN @AnIrishCatholic:

Conference Urges Faithful to Evangelize http://bit.ly/DXU6u @AnIrishCatholic:

EU’s secretive horse-trading over President and Foreign Minister leaves the electorate guessing http://bit.ly/3Dh0oW @AnIrishCatholic:

THURSDAY 19th

If children ruled the world, the first law they would make would be a ban on divorce… http://bit.ly/1rB75S

Excellent document from the Irish Bishops http://bit.ly/1gWvdG  @FatherTF

Reflections for the Year for Priests – CELIBACY AND THE ROLE OF A BISHOP by Fr. James Farfaglia http://bit.ly/10t9F2

WEDNESDAY 18th

Not surprised about Franco-German ’stitch-up’ on EU presidency http://bit.ly/1cfb3U 

EU’s secretive horse-trading over President and Foreign Minister leaves the electorate guessing http://bit.ly/3Dh0oW @AnIrishCatholic:

USCCB media relations thoroughly liveblogging this morning’s session of U.S. bishops’ meeting – http://twitter.com/usccbmedia @FriarGreg

Hydrogen and oxygen make water. Two complete elements join to make something new. Marriage not 50-50. It’s 100-100. @usccbmedia

Over 3 minutes to half time in extra time. Crowd turning up the volume!! France have free kick. oh no is it a hand ball? @AnIrishCatholic:

Simple, shameful and and an injustice – RTE commentator What are we talking about here? Football. The French goal by a handball!!! @AnIrishCatholic:

A travesty in Paris – RTE commentator @AnIrishCatholic:

When education is all it takes 4 conversion. Planned Parenthood Dir. quits after witnessing abortion: http://bit.ly/C7JKm @FightAtheism　

SATURDAY 14th

Irish-born priest is the new chaplain to the British Houses of Parliament. http://bit.ly/1ke7ud @AnIrishCatholic:

Life is more than just breathing. Real living is made up of moments that take your breath away. @Cliff_Meyer

L’intervista del Today Show a Taylor Lautner potrete trovarla nel nostro canale youtube (clikkando il  banner youtube nella colonna a destra), ecco delle foto, come sempre fate clikk su una delle foto in anteprima per vederle tutte :

Suite et fin du portfolio de Milan

MOTO GUZZI V12 ROAD

TM FACTORY WSM

DUCATI 1198RS SBK

CR&S DUU

The case against news editor, Chansa Kabwela, from Zambia’s newspaper The Post has  been thrown out after the court failed to prove their case against the journalist.  Kabwela faced pornography charges and jail time after sending graphic photos of woman giving birth on a pavement to the country’s president.

The photos were taken during the country’s doctor strike in June, which left many in the country without proper medical help.  The infant, unfortunately suffocated and later died.

Ms Kabwela told reporters, including those from The Telegraph,

“This victory to me is a victory for those that suffered during the strike. I was confident that I would be acquitted.”

The Post is Zambia’s only private newspaper and there is speculation that the charges may have been a politically move to halt the reporting of corruption in the government.

In article in The Post, Professor Muna Ndulowritten, an Ivy League law professor, writes,

“The average person in Zambia, while no doubt being shocked and disgusted by the picture, would not regard the publication of pictures of a woman giving birth in order to expose the plight of ordinary people during a national strike by medical personnel as being prurient and having the effect or as intended to deprave and corrupt morals.

Instead, the pictures should lead to outrage and anger at those who were not making maximum efforts to end the strike.”

Click here to hear more about the strike earlier this summer in an interview from the BBC.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KTQwAtbMjU

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