For a while it looked as if we’d lost this technological iconic figure in the form of Steven Job, Founder and Creator of the Apple computer. A rare form of pancreatic cancer almost gobbled him up but thanks to modern technology he received the liver of a young person and now Job is bouncing around again. He looks a little gaunt and naturally after all he has gone through has lost some weight but he is looking forward to eating – something most of us can think about – he says he will eat some of the good stuff ice-cream to help him gain some of the weight back.   At one of his first outing into the world of work, Job was upfront about his illness

“I’m very happy to be here, and thank you all,” he said. “As some of you know, five months ago I had a liver transplant. I now have the liver of a mid-20s person who died in a car crash and was generous enough to donate their organs. I wouldn’t be here without such generosity, so I hope all of us can be as generous and elect to be organ donors.”

His illness did not daunt his competitive spirit and before long he was taunting his competitors – something his investors and shareholders love to hear because their bets are on Steven. 

Good luck and best of health to you old boy.  You have proven you can even side swipe death as well for the time being.

Si l’architecture et la structure configuration des Mac est beaucoup plus accessible aux utilisateurs de Mac que Windows, c’est sans doute dû au génie d’un certain Steve Jobs, 57ème homme le plus influent de la planète (selon le magazine Forbes) et qui n’est plus à présenter, et qui est également, selon le magazine Fortune, LE dirigeant de la décennie!

La mise en place du système Darwin dans la couche de base de Mac OS X a fait de celui-ci un système multitâches d’une stabilité impressionnante, rendant l’accessibilité des dossiers des plus faciles. Le «glisser-déposer» de tout document dans la barre latérale en est une illustration convaincante.

Mais les Mac Aficionados que nous sommes ont parfois de la difficulté à parcourir l’intégralité d’un dossier et de ses sous-dossiers pour avoir recours, par exemple, aux applications extras disponibles sur nos ordinateurs (Terminal, moniteur d’activités, Assistant Boot Camp etc.). C’est là qu’intervient un utilitaire original et fort pratique: Default Folder X.

Cet utilitaire a pour objectif de faciliter l’enregistrement de tout élément par la commande

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Well I said I would do one and here we are, a little late as it were since my usual ‘weekly’ format stretched out a bit, with an all GOP all the time piece. There is much to discuss on the GOP front with a new poll that came out, as well as spending reports and further sharpening of policies to garner favor in the largely undecided republican voting masses. When I say ‘largely’ I mean it, as I will show, but now it is starting to shape up as we pass the seven month mark in the race to the primaries. As of yet Meg Whitman has taken the lead in advertising with a radio ad campaign, but in a deeper look in to these ads and fact checking they have shown truly vile in their massaged facts as well as outright lies on the topic of debate requests and refusals. Yes the mudslinging and underhanded tactics seems to be in full swing and the  deciding factor thus far seems to come in the form of green, disgusted historical American figures ashamed of their seedy role in all of this.

The most shocking tale of the tape thus far in the GOP camp is the bottom line; the cold hard facts of the cold hard cash. To date Meg Whitman has spent more than 19 million of her own net fortune of 1.2 billion. Some have speculated at a record setting 150 million dollar end budget by elections next year in November.  This is a crushing amount of money in comparison to the moderate spending of Poizner’s camp at 1.07 million and Tom Campbell at a meager $455,000. Meg Whitman is spending boatloads of cash on dozens of advisors on monthly retainers in the six-figure ranges. she has spent over $100,000 on chartered planes, she even spent 11,000 on catering for a fundraiser that saw only 33 attendees. She spent more on planes than Campbell did on his entire campaign from January to June! Whitman has raised over 7 million in campaign funds which crushes the competition by leaps and bounds, including the sole democratic ‘candidate’ Jerry Brown.

What has this insane spending amounted to? Well, according to a recent Probolsky Research Poll she has gained a large lead over her opponents in public opinion. She is the leading candidate, if the primaries were held today, with 34.3% of the  theoretical vote. What is shocking is Campbell, with little to no campaign funds following at 12.5%, and Poizner dragging up the rear with a shameful 5.5%. Now I don’t read too much in to a ‘poll’ that only sampled 750 people. 750 of about 28,000,000 voting eligible residents is a little sparse. Still, Meg Whitman showed marked improvement from their last poll of a similar sample size. What Whitman won’t tell you is that more than 35% of those likely republican voters polled were undecided, and the more shocking results of this poll is that Jerry Brown polled at more than 42% of likely democratic voters while spending only just over $100,000 on his ‘campaign’.

The numbers are staggering in the fundraising sector, and to date Meg has been willing to spend more of her own money, and raised more campaign funds than everyone else combined, and it has gained her 6% of voters polled. These are all well and good, the numbers and leaders in the party; the bigger question at hand is what each candidate is going to bring to the table. What are the platforms that they are standing on and their initial promises that will undoubtedly be thrown by the wayside when they get in that comfy seat in Sacramento?

Meg Whitman is focusing on three thing: Jobs, Education, and Spending. As the CEO of a company, and a woman who wants to reform spending and should be good with numbers, as the following statement disproves, “Let’s do three things at 100% as opposed to trying to do 15 things at 50%.” I want you to think about that a moment…did you get to where I am with that? If we are capable of three things at 100% then how can we do 15 things at 50%. Basic math would tell us that we should only be able to do 15 things at 20%. We should only be able to do 15 things at 20% given that 15 is five times larger than 3 and 20% is 1/5 of 100%. Hey, let’s not get bogged down in the ‘numbers’ or the ‘statistics’, let’s leave that to the sixth grade math students. Despite this glaring inability to do mental math when proving your worth as a possible Governor, she is hell bent on the aforementioned three items. On Jobs Whitman wants to create over two-million private sector jobs, cut taxes (of course), and increase manufacturing and new industries around green jobs. On the very same page of her website under ‘spending she wants to cut 15 billion out of spending, fire 40,000 people, create a commission to regulate relevancy of government departments and regulations, and exercise the veto to reduce government size and regulation. Finally, for education, same website page, she wants to grade every school on a website parents can check, then increase charter schools to give parents and kids a choice, give school control back to schools, but still demand accountability when a school doesn’t meet the government standard.

Is anyone else seeing the trend of Whitman contradicting herself here? I’m guessing the 40,000 workers you want to fire is going to happen faster than the 2-million jobs you will create. Let’s also be real, she won’t create them, she is simply going to facilitate a situation where jobs can be created, which won’t all be her, we can safely say that with or without her specific plan I’m betting at least 750,000 new private sector jobs will be created, but how many will be lost in the fray can’t be seen. Plus, create a commission to regulate departments and regulations…regulating regulations does not sound smaller. In practice it’s like the ‘Bobs’ coming in and you interview for your job…totally redundant. Then she wants smaller government and putting the schools back in to the educators hands, while holding them to her standard. This seems counterintuitive as well as a recipe for failure. Throw in her willingness to rate each school from A to F and then let parents see it, in which they can exercise their new right to charter schools so they can move their kids from poorly graded schools to well graded schools, only to increase class size at the ‘good school’ and cutting the poorly performing school off at the knees. It all seems like when you use a credit card to pay another credit card, you move the debt around, but it never goes anywhere, really.

Steve of course has similar outlooks on some of these things. We all know about his very catchy 10-10-10 plan, which seems too catchy to have been truly researched as to it’s viability as an actual, achievable/reasonable goal. For those that don’t know the 10-10-10 refers to a 10% cut in taxes, 10% cut in government cost, and a 10 billion dollar ‘rainy day fund’, though rainy days are hard to come by in this state and might not be the best turn of phrase for those suffering in the central valley. His position on education is the same as Whitman, turn the schools over to those in them that want to seem then succeed more than anyone else, then hold their feet to the fire when they don’t perform to the government standards. Maybe the most interesting, and one idea I will admit I can get behind, is the idea of ‘part-time legislature’. I love this concept and would like to see it adopted by democratic candidates in the future for local and state elections is the idea that we keep the career ‘fat cats’ out of the fight and let people who know what it is like to earn a decent living be integral in the decisions that effect the people. I can get behind this, I can’t believe I said that, but yes, I support a part-time legislature by republican candidate Steve Poizner.

Mr. Campbell, what have you got? What can you wow us with? Well, he is taking the anti-Whitman approach and taking on 15 things at 50%. When you think about it, by the way, a system of 15 at 50 gets 750% while 3 at 100…you get the picture, 15 at 50 is actually more efficient, and isn’t running a state all about multitasking? I digress. Campbell thinks that funding isn’t necessarily the issue, he wants class sizes of no more than 20 students, period. His outlook is that individual attention will increase test scores, given that we rate last in California, and we spend about middle of the road on schools, despite being the most populous state. This idea is tough to swallow without spending a ton on new faculty and schools. On the budget he feels that it needs to be ‘a stable source of revenue, and a stable limit on expenditure.’ He feels that we need to bring back spending limits in California and not tax businesses to pay for overspending in the government. They guy does know his stuff having served five terms in the congress, working as California state finance director, California senate on the budget committee, etc., so he’s not blowing smoke. Whitman might be able to figure out payroll overhead at ebay, but Campbell knows the books of California, my kind of republican…experienced. On jobs he wants the government to play a temporary role until the private sector can recover in creating facilities and jobs for energy, water, industry, and have the government offer these contracts and have those wanting these facilities to pay for them, not go deep in to debt through bonds to try and pay for it.

All three of these candidates have other ideas, plans, topics, platforms, but these three each has outlined are the most pressing issues in California, and indeed the country. Of all three I have to say the Tom Campbell is the most qualified, though that isn’t a stretch. Sadly as this starts coming down to face time and money, Tom as well as Poizner are going to be chasing little miss sunshine state Meg Whitman with her symbolic poppy and her piles of coke laden 100’s. She is spending her way right in to Sacramento, buying the job as it would seem, with dozens of people guiding her and suckling at her ATM tit. Whitman has proved herself to be the best of puppets with a well compensated team of marionettes.

This has been a tough road for me to trod, given my penchant for wild liberal lunatic candidates like the Mayor of San Fran Gavin Newsom, no longer running, but I have given these guys a bit of a shake out in this piece and examined the dynamic. In the end I think it will come down to Meg’s big endorsements, her big pocket book, and the impotence of either of her opponents that will win her the primary fairly handily. I have a feeling Poizner is going to drop out by March or so. What I have found in the polls is that his contribution to the democratic fundraising for a recount with the whole Gore/hanging chad debacle hurt him extensively in the Republican voters’ view to the tune of 50% being less likely to vote for him based solely on this revelation. He really hurt himself with that one innocent act years ago, which will come up in any debate, public appearance, or town hall any time after Jan. 31, when things start to heat up. Campbell will limp along, but I would be surprised to see him withdraw, a Whitman/Campbell ticket for the primaries seems likely, and I hope it comes to the two of them down to the wire in debates nearing June 8th. Campbell has the record, clout, and plan to make a run at her if he gets some funding and gets some face time. If Campbell gets to shine in the public eye he can undo the possible 150 million dollar budget she has spent to create her legitimacy, watching the vail fall leaving her exposed as nothing more than a CEO shyster and performer trying to use California as a stepping stone to bigger and better things. In the 2010 Kentucky Derby of California election races my horse is Campbell to break late in the last furlong and take Whitman by a nose at the primaries…Poizner is glue by then.

Año 2005, Apple se reune en San Francisco para celebrar la conferencia de desarrolladores mundiales (WWDC), Steve Jobs sale al esenario y habla de tres productos revolucionarios: un iPod con controles tactiles, una plataforma de internet movil, y un telefono. Para sorpresa de todos los que estabamos presentes se referia a tres productos en un solo aparato llamado iPhone. Fue impresionate ver como el publico se maravillaba ante esta nueva maravilla en el momento en que Apple “reinvento el telefono”

Meses depues el producto fue lanzado al mercado despues de aver recivido el visto bueno de la FCC, fueron varios meses de espera pero estos sirvieron para causar revuelo, ancia y darle mas publicidad al este nuevo telefono. En el momento en que fue puesto ala venta ya habia jente acampando en la ciudad de New York, Chicago,y San Francisco. Esto no se habia visto por ningun otro producto; cabe mencionar que es un telefono.

Blackberry, Nokia, y Palm dominavan el mercado de telefonos inteligentes y empresariales. Aunque el iPhone era un telefono solido en su interfas carecia de muchas funciones tales como Copiar y pegar, soporte de servidor exchange, y aplicaciones moviles; Lo cual empresarios, y jente que dependen de su telefono no solo para hacer llamadas lo veian como un jugete muy entretenido. Pero habia cosas del iPhone que sobresalian, tales como su nevagador safari movil, su uso como ipod que en el entonces era unico, su nueva tecnologia multi-touch, y su diseño muy atractivo digno de ser un producto de Apple.

La ventaja mas grande del iPhone ante estos competidores es, fue, y sera que es un telefono 99.9% de pantalla tactil lo cual le permite reinventarse en cada actualisacion de firmware. Esto fue aprovechado al máximo ya que al salir estas actualizaciones vino el soporte por cortar, copiar y pegar, soporte para servidor exchange, una tienda de aplicaciones y pequeñas perfecciones ala interfaz. Pero no tan solo se actualiza el firmware si no que también salen revisiones puntuales cada año tal fue el iPhone 3G, y el iPhone 3GS; añadiendo tecnología 3G, vídeo cámara, mejor procesador, y nuevo diseño.

Hoy en dia muchos tratn de emular al iPhone, los llamados “iPhone Killers” no han podido desfalcar del 1er puesto en ventas en USA. Telefonos como el nuevo N97 de nokia, Blackberry 9900, y Motorola Droid tratan de recuperar parte del mercado, pero que piensan ustedes lectores? despues de que en 3 años el iPhone se aya colocado en la posición en la que esta pueda perder ese lugar privilegiado que ahora tiene?

Well at school we’ve had a blues project to do in music. So, I went round to my friends house who has a drum kit but never had lessons, and my pianist friend. (I’m a guitarist) And we made some pretty cool tunes for our homework. Seeing as the drummer has never had lessons, he’s good. Video coming up later.

Today's sunrise

RIP – my sister Keely’s husband Steve passed away yesterday.

“We do not and cannot possess the ones we love, for we hold them on loan.  This hard truth makes the courage to love also the courage to lose.  It speaks most eloquently when everything we cherish is in jeopardy, when our expectations for the way life ought to be are interrupted and challenged by death.” – Forrest Church

Then play with your mates! Owning a bunch of consoles and hundreds of games is all well and good; but if you’ve only got yourself to play with, then they’re not really worth a thing. There’s nothing like getting cosy on a sofa with your good buddies, and getting on with some great player on player action – or better still, some cooperative madness!

When we’re not making videos or buying more awesome retro stuff, this is what we do. Whether it’s old or new, FPS, beat-em-up or whatever – blasting through a coop game with your friends is the most fun you can have in front of your TV. Try it some time – you won’t be disappointed.

Here’s just some of the games we’d recommend that you should give  a go – just look at these pictures, can’t you just see the pleasure in our faces??

Halo – xbox

Ride around on Hogs, then beat on testacle-shaped monsters, jizz-beasts, and the Flood – or is it just Toby Flood?

Streets of Rage – megadrive

Stroll around the city (and lifts) in search of Ninja Gingers or Ginger Ninjas – you won’t find any! Instead, just grab eachother inappropriately.

Wimbledon – master system

The best place for an all out tennis battle – *insert some ball-grabbing / balls in face jokes here*

WarioWare – wii

Dance, Ross – dance!!

Pop n Twinbee – snes

Whip out your splooge cannon, and liberally spray everywhere – all whilst shouting “titty-wanking”.

Have you experienced the joys of having someone to play with? If you’ve got any ecstatic multiplayer memories, then let us know what you’ve tried!

Next coop for us will probably be…Hidden & Dangerous on Dreamcast!

Excited today Friday the 13th….My sister and Bro. in law are having their first child. keep us on your computer and we will be streaming live video updates all day long!

Mix a cup of mechanical engineering with a dash of drum set and you end up with Steve, the robotic drummer. We know that it uses an MSA-T Midi Decoder but that’s about the extent of what has been shared. Just from observing the video, we think Steve’s got a few things going for him when compared to PEART, the robot drummer we saw back in 2005. Steve features two sticks for each drum and symbol and seems to be quite responsive.

Steve’s great, but we still think Rick Allen’s got this thing beat. Although this is a quality build, there’s no replacement for a human that can bang the drum in millions of subtly different way. That isn’t to say we don’t see potential in the hack. Perhaps it’s time to update a classic idea, the robotic orchestra.  Don’t know what we mean? Check out  3:58 into the video embedded after the break.

Take a look at the robotic orchestra 3:58 into the video.

[via Highly Liquid]

This skit had so much potential, too.

The next meeting of the Phoenix Historic Neighborhoods Coalition will take place Thursday, November 19, 2009, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm, at the Phoenix Elementary School District Building, 1817 North 7th Street, Phoenix, AZ.  The agenda is as follows:

• Sign-In and Call to Order
• Introductions: Ruth Ann Marston, President
• Election of NEW president (Dr. Marston is retiring. Steve Procaccini has agreed to run. We are also seeking a new secretary)
• Sikh Ashram parking on Oak: Donna Reiner
• Winship House renovation charette, December 3, 1-4 P.M., hosted by Roosevelt Action Association at the Irish Cultural Center
• Phoenix Elementary election results and the district is going green: Ruth Ann Marston
• Feeding the homeless on church campuses: G.G. George
• Update of Phoenix General Plan: Steve Procaccini
• December meeting?
• Open Agenda

Current Officers

• President: Ruth Ann Marston (602) 253-0503
• Vice President: G.G. George (602) 252-3151
• Treasurer: Marge McCue (602) 253-5579

After a quiet couple of weeks I just registered a domain name through www.123-reg.co.uk. Sourced through mywebclub but only cost £5.98 so even with 4% cashback I’ve still got some catching up to do. Never mind Christmas is coming and my wife’s birthday is on Boxing day so there’s still hope!

Steve Martin is the comic acting genius behind classics like Dirty Rotten Scoundrels or Trains, Planes and Automobiles but he has another talent – playing the banjo for 45 years…. From BBC News. Full story

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The O’Reilly Sucks Blog generally does an interesting job of analyzing some of the garbage that Bill O’Reilly serves up on his Fox News right-wing show, The O’Reilly Factor. Lately, O’Reilly has been on a mission to have the tragic massacre that went down at Fort Hood a terrorist attack. This is being done for two primary reasons: 1. There is increasing hatred toward Muslims in this nation. 2. If he can call it a terrorist attack then he can later use it to attack President Obama. Frankly, I could really care less what it is called. Whether it’s a massacre or it’s called a terrorist attack means little to the victims and their families right now. Those who want to force a label on it, and particularly those who are trying to have it called a terrorist attack, are trying to exploit this horrific crime to score political points against President Obama.

Consider this lengthy passage from The O’Reilly Sucks Blog:

The TPM was called Military Controversy. The Army denies they were given information about Hasan talking to Al Qaeda. Billy said they must do an investigation. Then he declared once again that the Fort Hood shooting was terrorism, who decided it, he did. Hey Billy, what happened to we report you decide. What’s really sad is O’Reilly played a clip of a couple Fox News analysts saying Obama gave a good speech at the memorial, and that it proves they are not biased against Obama. What a fricking joke, that does not cancel out the other 99% of the time Fox attacks Obama.

Then Dick Morris was on to discuss it. The crazy Dick Morris claims that the Fort Hood shooting was a terrorist attack, and that it happened under Obama so he is done. What a massive idiot he is, it was one man, in the military. It was not a terrorist attack, and anyone who says it is needs to be locked up in a padded room. A terrorist attack is on civilians, this was a man in the military attacking other people in the military. It’s insane to call it a terrorist attack, the man was in the U.S. military for Gods sake.

These right-wing fools like Dick Morris are actually blaming Obama, Morris said Obama allowed it to happen because he is soft on terror. When this guy Hasan joined the military when Bush was the President, and the military is supposed to police their own people, the President has nothing to do with who the military sign up. Obama has nothing to do with it, yet here you have Dick Morris saying it’s Obama’s fault. This is insanity, and O’Reilly let that fool sit there and blame it on Obama. They should call him Dick (Beck) Morris, it was just ridiculous. The people to blame are in the military and the FBI, they let this guy Hasan go on about his business when they knew he could be trouble, so they are to blame not Obama.

Then O’Reilly had Sally Quinn on to discuss the Fort Hood shooting even more. O’Reilly spent the entire segment trying to force her to call it a terrorist act. She would not do it, and said it was complicated. Then at the very end of the segment Billy finally got her to say it was a terrorist act. But she said it in a sarcastic way, just to make O’Reilly happy, she was not being serious, and she was laughing as she said it. Then in the next segment with Ralph Nader O’Reilly said he got Sally quinn to admit it was a terrorist act, and he was serious, when she only admittted it in a sarcastic way, and she was not being serious. She said we should wait until the military and the FBI decide he is a terrorist, Billy said we already know he is, and 90% of the people watching him do too.

Billy had Ralph Nader on to discuss politics and terrorism. Billy asked Nader about the Fort Hood shooting, he wanted to know if Nader would call it terrorism. Nader said he will not call it a terrorist act, he called it a massacre, and said he will let the military decide what it is. O’Reilly is calling it a terrorist attack. Then Nader told O’Reilly he was not invited on to talk about terrorism, he was invited on to talk about his new book. So Billy tried to do a bait and switch on Nader and he would not fall for it. Then O’Reilly asked him again about the Fort Hood shooting, and Nader said he will only call it a massacre.

O’Reilly would not let it go, and kept talking about the Fort Hood shooting, even though Nader said he was not invited on to talk about it. Billy said Nader was dodging the issue, then repeated that statement 2 or 3 times trying to force Nader to answer him, and Nader got a little mad. Then he brought up how O’Reilly was wrong about Iraq, and that led to thousands of innocent people getting killed, so Billy admitted he was wrong and changed the subject real fast, then he told Nader to go ahead and talk about his book. Stupid O’Reilly tried to pull a bait and switch on Nader and he would not bite, haha, good for you Ralph. More guests should do what he did when O’Jackass pulls his bait and switch tricks.

This is an attempt by O’Reilly and his fellow conservatives to begin to build their case for attack President Obama by exploiting this tragedy at Fort Hood. It is deplorable for these conservatives to use this horrible crime for their own partisan purposes.

We were working the desk at a hotel.  Steve said some of the guests smelled like meat thermometers.