a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/travel/12mynewyork.html?em=amp;pagewanted=all"My New York/a : artists, writers, professionals, and New Yorkers of all stripes talk about what they look forward to seeing in the city this fall. br /

pFiled under: a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/pc/" rel="tag"PC/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/xbox360/" rel="tag"Microsoft Xbox 360/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/firstpersonshooters/" rel="tag"First Person Shooters/a/pdiv align="center"a href="http://www.edge-online.com/news/latest-left-4-dead-demo-details"img hspace="0" border="1" vspace="4" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2008/10/gam_left4deadzombie_490.jpg" //abr //div Yes, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/09/11/valves-newell-confirms-left-4-dead-demo/"we already knew/a that there would be a demo for Valve's upcoming co-op zombie survival sim, ema href="http://www.joystiq.com/search/?q=Left%204%20Dead"Left 4 Dead/a/em. Therefore, we're not terribly surprised by a href="http://www.edge-online.com/news/latest-left-4-dead-demo-details"Gabe Newell's comment to Edge/a that the demo (which will allow one to four survivors to play through an early part of the game's campaign) would be dropping in "early November" -- after all, the game is due out on PC and Xbox 360 on November 18, so a preview period of a couple weeks would have been a logical estimation. br /br /Why, then, would we choose to post on this particular announcement? It's simple, really -- to keep the seemingly inevitable, emreal-life/em Zombocalypse at the forefront of your mind. Seriously, it's coming, people. a href="http://armorgames.com/play/1443/the-last-stand-2"Make your arrangements/a.p style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"nbsp;/ppa href=http://www.edge-online.com/news/latest-left-4-dead-demo-detailsRead/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/10/11/left-4-dead-demo-coming-early-november/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/forward/1339575/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.technorati.com/cosmos/search.html?rank=amp;fc=1amp;url=http://www.joystiq.com/2008/10/11/left-4-dead-demo-coming-early-november/" title="Linking Blogs"Linkingnbsp;Blogs/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/10/11/left-4-dead-demo-coming-early-november/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.joystiq.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=Hm5Rm"img src="http://feeds.joystiq.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=Hm5Rm" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.joystiq.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=ueKom"img src="http://feeds.joystiq.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=ueKom" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.joystiq.com/~r/weblogsinc/joystiq/~4/418155924" height="1" width="1"/

a href="http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/10102008/watch.html"Bill Moyers interviews George Soros on the financial crisis./a Soros discusses market fundamentalism and the causes of the current crisis, as well as what can be done, and how this meltdown will change the global economy. small(a href="http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2008/10/george-soros-on.html#more"via/a a href="http://bigpicture.typepad.com/"The Big Picture/a)/small br / It begins with Moyers violating the behavioral norms of modern journalism:blockquoteIn the interest of full disclosure, you should know that I served three years on the board of George Soros' foundation, the Open Society Institute, dealing with such issues as a free press, the rule of law, and human rights. But I've had no involvement in his political activities and nothing to do, with his business interests unfortunately./blockquote

pimg src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/rww_preso_mar08.jpg" /As the world financial crisis has gotten gradually worse over the past few weeks, I've been pondering what this means for the Web. ReadWriteWeb as a publication focuses on emstrongtechnology/strong/em - web products and trends - rather than business and VC happenings. So with the exception of one of our feature writers a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/about_bernardlunn.php"Bernard Lunn/a, who has written a number of great posts on how a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/web_20_gritty_entrepreneur.php"entrepreneurs/a can a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/entrepreneurs_credit_crisis.php"survive/a this period, we've generally kept out of the Credit Crisis discussion thus far. /p pBut we're clearly now at a point where the financial problems of the world will have stronga big impact on where Web Technology is headed/strong. Indeed, it looks like we've arrived at one of those giant inflexion points - where one Web era is usurped by another. /p p align="right"emSponsor/embr /a href='http://d.openx.org/ck.php?n=12136amp;cb=12136' target='_blank'img src='http://d.openx.org/avw.php?zoneid=861amp;cb=12136amp;n=12136' border='0' alt='' align="right" //a/p pOf course this last happened when Web 2.0 was coined by O'Reilly Media in about 2004. Luckily not long before that ReadWriteWeb was born (early 2003). So ReadWriteWeb has been documenting Web 2.0 ever since. Over the past couple of years, we've been focusing on other, perhaps more meaningful, trends - Semantic Web, recommendation technologies, web sites becoming web services, Mobile Web and more. We've documented these meta trends in a number of big posts, some of which are in our a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/bestof.php"Best of ReadWriteWeb/a page and copied here:/p ul lia href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/web_technology_trends_for_2008_1.php"Web Technology Trends for 2008 and Beyond/a/li lia href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/toolkit-08.php"What's Next on the Web: a ReadWriteWeb Toolkit for 2008/a/li lia href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/2008_web_predictions.php"2008 Web Predictions/a/li lia href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/10_future_web_trends.php"10 Future Web Trends/a/li lia href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/10_more_future_web_trends.php"10 More Future Web Trends/a/li /ul h2The Welcome Return of Innovation/h2 pAlthough we'll continue to see the success stories of web 2.0 grow and perhaps prosper - social networking, mashups, user generated content, etc - strongnow is the time for innovation/strong. I'm not stating anything revolutionary there, because it's an old cliche that tech innovation thrives in times of recession. a href="http://radar.oreilly.com/2008/10/effect-of-the-depression-on-te.html"Nat Torkington of O'Reilly Radar/a put this into the context of web 2.0 recently:/p blockquote pquot;During boom times, companies direct development and occupy great talent with at best evolutionary improvements over the state of the art. Companies are great chasers of new things, but aren't great at making new things. A recession means technologists cease to be paid vast amounts to duplicate the work of others. The Great Tech Bust of Ought Two gave us 37Signals, Flickr, and del.icio.us and there's a strong argument to be made that many companies spent the next six years chasing what they created.quot;/p /blockquote pSo we can expect to see a welcome return to web innovation in 2008/09, along the lines of what Flickr and 37Signals created back in the early days of web 2.0. However web entrepreneurs will need to make adjustments due to the economic climate. Many people have already noted that a re-focus on the bottom line of your business is key, which we discuss below. But perhaps just as importantly, as Nat pointed out, there is an opportunity to take more advantage of open source technologies and cheaper cloud computing infrastructure. /p h2Yes Tighten Your Belts, But Open Your Minds Too.../h2 pIn the past week some a href="http://venturebeat.com/2008/10/10/the-sequoia-rip-good-times-presentation-get-your-copy-here/"high profile/a a href="http://gigaom.com/2008/10/09/what-startups-can-learn-from-sequoias-doomsday-warning/"VCs/a have been preaching belt tightening as the primary response to the economy. More than a few people have expressed cynicism about this advice, given the hype and party-throwing days of web 2.0. New York VC Fred Wilson a href="http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2008/10/dont-shoot-the.html"wrote a post today/a, partly in response to a comment Bernard left on his blog, in which he defends the advice he and other VCs have been giving since the financial crisis got going. Basically that advice has been to batten down the hatches, reduce spending and, in Fred's words, quot;acting responsibly and making sure we all survive to fight another dayquot;./p pIt's all common sense advice, especially since web 2.0 has been predominantly about consumer apps. I'm certainly no economist, but it makes sense that in a tight credit market consumer spending will reduce - which will impact heavily on consumer web apps, and trickle through to other parts of the ecosystem./p pBut I'd love to see technologists, entrepreneurs and VCs take a longer term view of this crisis as well. a href="http://www.forbes.com/2008/10/09/mitra-economy-mess-tech-enter-cx_sm_1010economy.html?partner=yahootix"Sramana Mitra wrote a great post at Forbes/a outlining some of the opportunities for innovation. In an quot;Open Letter to the Leaders of Silicon Valleyquot;, Sramana first gave some background on the innovation that led to web 2.0 and followed up with a challenge to create technology for strongEducation, health care, social security/strong. As an example she wrote about these opportunities in healthcare and education:/p blockquote pquot;As the smart-phone movement marches on, led by Steve Jobs' iPhone, can we not create seamless bridges between doctors, patients and insurance providers that can reduce the $250 billion expenditure in health care administration?/p pAnd on the Internet, can we not create a body of standardized content and methodology for teachers all over the U.S.--or the world--that includes parents in the process and engages children via quot;edutainment,quot; the same way MySpace and quot;World of Warcraftquot; engage kids?quot;/p /blockquote pTim O'Reilly has been on a similar mission ever since a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/tim_oreilly_keynote_web_20_expo_08.php"his speech at the Web 2.0 Expo/a earlier this year, for startups to tackle 'big challenges'. His a href="http://radar.oreilly.com/2008/10/tim-in-the-la-times-on-getting.html"core message/a is to quot;work on stuff that matters.quot;/p h2What's Next... Let Us Know in the Comments!/h2 pWe at ReadWriteWeb have been covering a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/religion_and_web_technology_lifechurch.php"mainstream/a a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/beijing_olympics_online_video.php"web applications/a and things like a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/practice_fusion.php"health 2.0/a this year. But we've only just scratched the surface, just have most startups and Internet companies. As the troubles in the economy begin to affect the tech world, we'll be re-doubling our efforts to document what we hope is an exciting new era of web innovation. There are tough times ahead, but equally there are opportunities. /p pIn the best spirit of web 2.0, let's start by asking you to comment on what opportunities in web technology you forsee over the next year or so. Please leave a comment and let's get a healthy, optimistic - but realistic - discussion started. To provide a bit of inspiration, I've embedded below our stock presentation a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/web_technology_trends_for_2008_1.php"What's Next on the Web? Web Technology Trends for 2008 and Beyond/a (circa May 08). Indeed it's time we updated this presentation, so your suggestions welcome!/p pobject style="margin:0px" width="425" height="355"param name="movie" value="http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=rwwpresentationmay08-1212121566162903-9"/param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/embed src="http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=rwwpresentationmay08-1212121566162903-9" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="355"/embed/object/p pNote: a href="http://www.slideshare.net/ricmac/web-technology-trends-for-2008-and-beyond-may-2008-update" target="_blank"click here/a and then click 'full' (bottom right) to view full screen and enable the links inside the presentation./p stronga href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/whats_next_after_web_20.php#comments-open"Discuss/a/strong pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/FnmoZscSBAC1yEHHU2Pu9j0vl1s/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/FnmoZscSBAC1yEHHU2Pu9j0vl1s/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?a=fqO8frLb"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?i=fqO8frLb" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?a=A8jpVCm0"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?a=tBqUkwmY"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?i=tBqUkwmY" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?a=nkc9pEtP"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?i=nkc9pEtP" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?a=sUY8Nu4A"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?i=sUY8Nu4A" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/readwriteweb/~4/JUWSED60TxU" height="1" width="1"/

The myth persisted over the years until it became real even though the truth was known. Now thanks to wonder of the net, we find out that Mama Cass did not die from eating a a href="http://nickelinthemachine.blogspot.com/2008/10/mayfair-and-deaths-of-harry-nilsson.html"Ham/a a href="http://www.findadeath.com/Deceased/e/Cass%20Elliot/cass_elliot.htm"Sandwich./a NSFW br /

The book artist a href="http://www.colum.edu/Book_and_Paper/Faculty/Clifton_Meador.php"Clifton Meador/a has dabbled in a few other projects, including a href="http://www.cliftonmeador.com/ihvdrm.htm"I HV DRM/a, a version of Martin Luther King Jr.'s a href="http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm"historic speech/a delivered at the 1963 a href="http://www.core-online.org/History/washington_march.htm"March on Washington/a. Meador's edited out the words, leaving only the pauses and the audience response. quot;We can't remember the words anymore,quot; he says. br / He's also done something like the reverse, a href="http://www.cliftonmeador.com/WashingtonCrossing%20the%20Delaware.pdf"recreating/a emWashington Crossing the Delaware/em [PDF warning] in words, rather than images. br / br / br / (Meador also makes some of his artist's books available as a href="http://www.lulu.com/cliftonmeador"print-on-demand/a purchases through Lulu.com. And quot;Masks of Evilquot; is a free, downloadable artist's book, based on Brecht's poem and directed at the Bush administration, available on his site.)

two days ago i got my ubuntu hardy 64bit live cd. i installed it and got my video card working finnally. now im plugged into a wired connection, trying to get my wifi to work. my card shows up as Atheros AR242x 802.llabg. i cant get it to work with madwifi or ndiswrapper. im using wcid because i heard its better. alot of times in terminal when i try something it always ends with something about bad line and blacklist(something like that.)

all i can say is WTF!:eek: can somebody please help me, i really like ubuntu and dont want to swtch back to xp or vista.

thanks,
weewoot

I aint expecting much but...

Anyone been to a foam party before? I went to one last night and thought it was awesome.

It was great bubbly fun.

Has anyone been able to download the Office latest episode on the season pass? It's listed in iTunes but when I click check for available downloads, it tells me all episodes have been downloaded.

I purchased a xserve recently and I am trying to decide the best way to set up my home office network. I have the following components:

- Xserve (G5 Dual 2.3ghz)
- Mac Pro (Quad 3ghz)
- 2 iMac (24" Dual 2.8ghz)
- Airport Extreme (gigabit)

The main reason for purchasing the server is because my business partner lives in another state and I often collaborate with video editors, animators, and artists who are not on-site. I want to optimize the transfer speeds both locally and remotely. I have a cable internet connection (12down 2up) with a static IP.

1- How should I wire the local network. i.e. cable modem directly to the airport and then from the airport to all the components, or cable modem to xserve ethernet port 1 and then from port 2 to mac pro etc...

2- Is there anything I need to know to optimize connections with off site macs? I assume that establishing a VPN is the only option but I am definitely a rookie so any suggestion, no matter how basic, will be greatly appreciated. I would like to establish a "permanent" connection with my business partner and another graphic artist.

3- Any other suggestions/input is appreciated.

Since I reset my router/modem and changed my password, I couldn't connect to the internet on my ipod touch?

DETROIT/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Chrysler LLC has had talks with General Motors Corp about a deal to combine the No. 1 and No. 3 American automakers at a time when both are struggling to cut costs and shore up cash, according to three people familiar with the matter. pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/vxp3pLHp-TkZkFUqJ6ANUuWXZPs/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/vxp3pLHp-TkZkFUqJ6ANUuWXZPs/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=FKsQn4ra"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=iXETOQcN"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?i=iXETOQcN" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=Jwsh9eQs"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?i=Jwsh9eQs" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/reuters/topNews/~4/hmOHw4zDdpM" height="1" width="1"/

a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Gknp-8ltmE"Man sleeps with cat/a br /

pFiled under: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/supercars/" rel="tag"Supercars/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/uk/" rel="tag"UK/a/pp align="center"a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/arash-af10/1091959/"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/10/arash-front_web.jpg" alt="" //abr /strongemfont size="1"Click above for high-res gallery of the Arash AF10/font/em/strong/p pBritain's history is punctuated in no small part by the proliferation of its cottage industry. And while the industrial revolution may have taken care of that to a large degree, it's still alive and thriving in the realm of the supercar. Small independent exotic automakers abound, including names like Ascari, Ultima, Noble, Farboud, Farbio and Arash, to name just a few. Trying to keep track of them all is enough to make your head spin, especially when the same guy is behind the latter three. After selling off Farboud, the a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2007/06/07/farboud-changes-its-name-to-farbio/"new owners changed the name to Farbio/a and founder Arash Farboud started a new outfit under his first name. What you see here are the first proper images of his latest creation, the a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2006/06/29/farboud-af10-supercar-to-be-at-britain-motor-show/"Arash AF10/a. /p pThe carbon-fiber body, which (aside from the adjustable front wing) bears a startling resemblance to the Ferrari Enzo, is laid over a carbon fiber chassis for a sprightly low curb weight of 1,200kg (about 2,600 lbs). Power is provided by the 7-liter pushrod V8 out of the Corvette Z06, tuned from the stock 498 hp up to 530 thanks to new intake and exhaust systems, driving the rear wheels through a manual Graziano gearbox and kept in check by AP Racing brakes. The supercar is expected to sell for about 170k pounds sterling - a fair bit less than the pound;220k a Lamborghini Murcielago will cost a British customer - and begin delivery sometime next year. A sequential gearbox is expected to join the catalog, as well as the potential for dropping in the supercharged V8 from the Corvette ZR1 a year and a half down the line. In the meantime you can check it out in the gallery below./p pdiv class="postgallery"pstrongGallery: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/arash-af10/"Arash AF10/a/strong/pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/arash-af10/1091959/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/10/arash-front_final6_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/arash-af10/1091960/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/10/arash-rear_final6_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/arash-af10/1091961/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/10/arash-side_final1_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/arash-af10/1091962/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/10/arash-side_final4_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //a/divbr /[Source: a href="http://www.arashcars.com/index.htm"Arash/a]/ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://www.arashcars.com/index.htmRead/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/10/11/farbouds-latest-arash-reveals-final-form-of-af10-supercar/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/1339462/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/10/11/farbouds-latest-arash-reveals-final-form-of-af10-supercar/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feeds.autoblog.com/~a/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=AHWP4t"img src="http://feeds.autoblog.com/~a/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=AHWP4t" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.autoblog.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=qiSsm"img src="http://feeds.autoblog.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=qiSsm" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.autoblog.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=Rro3m"img src="http://feeds.autoblog.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=Rro3m" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.autoblog.com/~r/weblogsinc/autoblog/~4/418148573" height="1" width="1"/

First thread & post on MacRumors since I just finished signing in.
Besides that, I just want to jump to the point where I use my Playstation EYE for the PS3 to make videos. When I export my videos from the PS3 via Flashdrive onto the mac, it won't go in iMovie or play in Quicktime. At this moment, I haven't tried other video applications like Final Cut Pro. I switched the video format from mp4 to avi but neither. When I click to play the video, a message comes up saying, "An invalid sample description was found in the movie." Is there any possible way I can put it on iMovie 08?

pFiled under: a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/wii/" rel="tag"Nintendo Wii/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/action/" rel="tag"Action/a/pdiv style="text-align: center;"a href="http://www.nintendowiifanboy.com/2008/10/10/first-look-at-sonic-and-the-black-knight/"img hspace="0" border="1" vspace="4" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2008/10/gam_sonicandtheblackknight_490.jpg" alt="" //abr //div On July 19, 2008, seismologists across the globe experienced a strange phenomenon -- the needles on their trusty seismographs began to bounce emever so slightly/em. Some would blame it on tiny movements in our Earth's tectonic plates. Others would attribute it to faulty equipment. Those with an active internet connection and a penchant for gaming news, however, quickly discovered the cause of the activity -- simultaneous, powerful emgroans/em, uttered in response to a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/07/19/rumor-nintendo-power-to-reveal-wii-exclusive-sonic-and-the-blac/"an image of Sonic the Hedgehog, brandishing a broadsword/a.br /br /If you were among those who were hesitant towards yet another emSonic/em title in which the protagonist vanquishes foes, not with speed and well-timed jumps, but with emweaponry/em, you might want to a href="http://www.nintendowiifanboy.com/2008/10/10/first-look-at-sonic-and-the-black-knight/"check out the debut trailer/a for ema href="http://www.joystiq.com/search/?q=Sonic%20and%20the%20Black%20Knight"Sonic and the Black Knight/a /emwe've considerately posted after the jump. It looks quite similar to other post-Dreamcast games featuring the hyperactive hedgehog, only with, you know, a sword. We're a little puzzled by the trailer's a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0265087/"complete lack of Martin Lawrence/a, but we're sure he'll make an appearance in future media for the title.pa href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/10/11/sonic-and-the-black-knight-and-the-debut-trailer/" rel="bookmark"Continue reading emSonic and the Black Knight and the debut trailer/em/a/pp style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"nbsp;/ppa href=http://www.nintendowiifanboy.com/2008/10/10/first-look-at-sonic-and-the-black-knight/Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/10/11/sonic-and-the-black-knight-and-the-debut-trailer/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/forward/1339633/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.technorati.com/cosmos/search.html?rank=amp;fc=1amp;url=http://www.joystiq.com/2008/10/11/sonic-and-the-black-knight-and-the-debut-trailer/" title="Linking Blogs"Linkingnbsp;Blogs/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/10/11/sonic-and-the-black-knight-and-the-debut-trailer/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.joystiq.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=7WRCm"img src="http://feeds.joystiq.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=7WRCm" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.joystiq.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=u9U3m"img src="http://feeds.joystiq.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=u9U3m" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.joystiq.com/~r/weblogsinc/joystiq/~4/418134797" height="1" width="1"/

I found this on Flickr.
Not sure if it has someting to do with the 14th, but it looked interesting to discuss about.

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A lot of criticism has been aimed at venture capitalists the last few days. The VCs are telling their portfolio companies to get ahead of the curve and conserve cash right now, and companies are starting to take their advice.

The criticism is coming from people who don’t understand that the world has changed in the last week and that companies need to change with it. And so they’re asking why VCs waited until now to tell everyone to conserve cash. Others are saying the boom is the VCs fault, and for them to lecture companies on conserving cash is ironic.

Fred Wilson wrote about this issue today and says VCs have a responsibility to give their best advice to their portfolio companies: “It’s all about acting responsibly and making sure we all survive to fight another day.”

But he doesn’t address the issue head on. I will. What we’re talking about is the goal of profit maximization, which is what every for profit business needs to aim for or go out of business. In the good times, that means growing intelligently. In the bad, it means maximizing your chances of survival.

Irrational Argument No. 1: The VCs Made This Happen

First, the downturn has nothing to do with the venture capitalists (in fact, it has nothing to do with Silicon Valley, this time). They have one job: generate the best return they legally can from their investors’ money. In boom times deals get competitive and VCs make independent decisions on what deals to bid for. Companies also have to pay more for people, resources, office space and advertising in boom times, which means they spend more money and have to raise more money. If you think venture capitalists are being irresponsible (or worse, evil) by investing money in those companies that they think are good bets, you’re just not getting how the whole system works.

Let me put it this way - if VCs ignored the economy and always invested super conservatively so that no one could accuse them of being irresponsible, they’d go out of business after their first fund failed to return capital to investors.

Irrational Argument No. 2: VCs Should Have Told Companies To Conserve Cash All Along

This is another argument that ignores the fact that people try to adapt to a changing world. At all times companies need to profit maximize. That means maximizing revenue and minimizing costs. Those goals are not aligned, however. Sometimes a company spends money on research and development to create future revenue streams. How much they spend is based on their own rational decisions on their financial health, the state of the economy, and their projections for the demand of a new product.

In good times, when core businesses are relatively safe, it makes sense to expand by hiring new people and developing new products. Or spending money on advertising and PR.

When times are tough, companies have to change strategies. They’re still maximizing profits, but they need to plan for tighter capital markets (really important to unprofitable startups) and harder revenue as advertising and other spending decreases.

Just like a bear in the woods (I imagine) has to slow its activity in the Winter as food supplies dwindle, startups need to go into cash conservation mode to increase their chances of survival when the market slows. They need to be prepared for a hit in revenue, and they know they can’t necessarily go to the capital markets to get money to stay in business.

But to argue that a company should always cut costs to the bare minimum is the same thing as asking that bear to act like it’s Winter in the Spring, because someday Winter is going to happen. All you end up with is a dead bear.

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So I just got my iPod touch and I can't for the life of me figure out if there's a "sleep" mode, you know, where you can tell it to turn off after an hour of being on. I like to listen when I go to sleep, but if it's on all night, it actually keeps me from sleeping well. I feel totally dumb cause I can't seem to figure this out!

Any suggestions?

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