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Greetings,
This is Strictly & Only for a Marriage Arrangement for papers only. So you can benefit of being
a American Citizen.
Are you a French Citizen in need of a Green Card or a Visa to stay in USA & then have an
American Passport in the future for Life.
This is a Great Opportunity for a French Man to be an American Citizen & profit to work freely
in USA & have an American career forever.
If you want the opprtunity to stay in USA & work without any problems in USA & carry an
American Passport for a lifetime.
This is an offer of an opportunity for a French Man to become an American Citizen & can work
& reside in the USA as long as you want.
I'm an American Citizen with an American Passport & so If you are looking for someone to Marry
only for papers to stay in United States.
Do you want to come to the land of Freedom & have an American job & being succesfull in
America. The land of plenty of opportunities.
I'm base between Paris & New York, so PLAESE! Contact me asap & We can discuss further
details & meet in person.
Please send me your Infos, Status, Bios & photos. Looking forward to meeting you. See you soon.
Warm Regars CHEERS!
Grande occasion pour l'homme français pour être un citoyen américain - w4m
Salutations,
Si vous voulez que le opprtunity à rester aux Etats-Unis et travailler sans aucun
problème aux Etats-Unis et munis d'un passeport américain pour la vie.
Il s'agit d'une offre d'une occasion pour l'homme français pour devenir un citoyen
américain et peut travailler et résider aux Etats-Unis aussi longtemps que vous le
souhaitez.
Je suis base entre Paris et New York, alors PLAESE! Contactez-moi maintenant et nous pouvons
discuter des détails supplémentaires et rencontrer en personne.
Cela est strictement et uniquement pour un arrangement en mariage pour les papiers seulement.
Ainsi, vous pouvez bénéficier d'être un citoyen américain.
Êtes-vous un citoyen français qui ont besoin d'une carte verte ou
d'un visa pour séjourner aux Etats-Unis et ensuite avoir un passeport américain
à l'avenir pour la vie.
Je suis un citoyen américain avec un passeport américain et donc si vous cherchez
quelqu'un pour se marier que pour les papiers à rester dans les États-Unis.
Voulez-vous venu à la terre de liberté et ont un emploi américain et
succesfull être en Amérique. Les pays de l'abondance de possibilités.
Il s'agit d'une excellente occasion pour un Français d'être un citoyen
américain sans but lucratif et de travailler librement en France et avoir une
carrière américaine pour toujours.
S'il vous plaît envoyez-moi vos infos, Statut, bios & photos. Au plaisir de vous
rencontrer. À bientôt.
If
you had to pick the one buzzword that’s dominating social media chatter today, it would
have to be location. Just over a year ago, Foursquare burst onto the scene at the SXSW
conference in Austin, TX. Since then, it’s only grown dramatically.
Our own Pete Cashmore sat down with Bloomberg’s Cris Valerio to discuss the location trend,
the battle brewing between Foursquare and Gowalla at this year’s SXSW, the gold mine that
is location-based advertising, the iPad, and even a little bit about the future of Mashable.
It’s quite a fascinating video — if you do watch it, let us know what you think of
the location trend (and Pete’s on-air performance) in the comments.
Niels Desein et Ruben Bemelmans se sont qualifiés samedi pour la finale de l’Open de
tennis de Lille, épreuve du circuit Futures sur surface dure en salle. Desein (ATP 18,
tête de...lire la suite
A leaked Verizon training memo reveals how Big Red will be dealing with those who have plans to
connect their BlackBerry to a new BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express (BESX); it is going to
cost you a little extra. The memo explains that those looking to leverage BESX will be required
to have an enterprise level data plan — which typically costs $45/month — as opposed
to the standard $30/month BlackBerry data plan. RIM states the requirements of BESX are:
A BlackBerry smartphone
Subscription to an internet-enabled BlackBerry service plan from your wireless service
provider
Not exactly 100% accurate, as the $30 standard data plan is an “internet-enabled BlackBerry
service plan,” but, we suppose, not entirely false either. We’ve got the
leaked memo after the break.
On March 1, 2010, RIM will launch BES Express (BESX), an entry-level version of BES.As with all
Corporate email solutions, customers will need a corporate email data plan or feature added to a
voice plan to allow access to BESX.
Note: Customers on the Email and Web for BlackBerry $29.99 data feature MAY NOT utilize BESX.
Overview:
BESX replaces BlackBerry Professional Software (BPS) in RIM’s product lineup and allows
businesses using MicrosoftÂ@ Exchange or Microsoft Small Business Server to support up to
75 BlackBerry subscribers without having to purchase Client Access Licenses (CAL) or a dedicated
server. Additional users can be supported if BESX is installed on a dedicated server.
With the launch of BESX, RIM will discontinue the sale of BPS. Verizon Wireless will sell through
our remaining BPS inventory and RIM will continue to support this solution for the foreseeable
future.
Customer Information/Eligibility:
BESX will be available directly from the RIM website. Customers should be directed there for
additional product information.
BESX will not be available directly from Verizon Wireless.
As with all Corporate email solutions, customers will need a corporate email data plan or
feature added to a voice plan to allow access to BESX
Back in November, during Chrysler's seemingly endless business plan presentation, Ram trucks
chief Fred Diaz told the captive media audience that the new 6.4-liter Hemi gasoline V8 would likely appear in Ram's heavy duty
trucks. Fast forward to today, however, and it would appear that the big Hemi is now off the table.
PickupTrucks.com reports that the 6.4 Hemi will instead be exclusive to Chrysler's potent
SRT vehicles. Chrysler VP of product development,
Joe Veltri, says that the 6.4 is designed for performance, not the grunt work truck buyers demand
of their vehicles.
PickupTrucks.com notes also that Veltri sees a need for Ram to get gas engine that delivers more power and torque
than the currently-available 5.7-liter Hemi, but that the likely course of action will involve
building off that engine, rather than looking to adapt the SRT lump for truck duty. Why the drive to add more gas
offerings in the diesel-dominated heavy-duty truck category? Emissions regulations, natch.
Increasingly strict rules mean that diesels are becoming commensurately more costly to produce and
sell, and Chrysler sees the ratio of
diesel to gas engines offered becoming much closer in future years than it is today. Head over to
PickupTrucks.com for the full skinny.
On March 15,
at the prestigious Paley Center in New York City, a conversation
will take place between Chinese digital activist and artist Ai Weiwei,
Twitter co-founder and chairman Jack Dorsey, and ReadWriteWeb's Richard
MacManus, ReadWriteWeb founder and editor in chief. The moderator will be
Orville Schell, the director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia
Society in New York.
The topic of the event is the emergence of digital activism for fostering positive social change.
The onsite event is invitation only, but it will be live streamed exclusively on
ReadWriteWeb on Monday, March 15, at 6:30 PM EST (-5 GMT), from the Paley Center for
Media, New York City.
The 2nd Annual Social Networking World Forum takes place at the
Olympia Conference Centre in London. The two-day event features four dedicated conference
streams:
Social Networking World Forum
Enterprise social media
Social TV World Forum
Mobile Social Networking Forum
The event features key speakers from global brands, organizations, social networking publishers
and developers, pioneering social media leaders, top agencies, content producers, and more.
Go beyond search at Search Engine
Strategies New York. Learn the newest trends, strategic action plans, and technology that
industry leaders are employing today. Our experts will trace the natural evolution of search
exploring topics such as: digital asset optimization, mobile application development, transition
from search to discovery and more.Book your pass today. Enter RWW15 to save 15% off the
registration. Sessions include:
After a long winter's hiatus, S.F. Beta is back, for its forth year straight! Join
hundreds of founders, investors, developers, and technologists for a lively evening of demos,
drinks, conversation, and new connections. Early bird
tickets are available, and they're going fast. Register now for discounted admission. As
always, we feature startup demos all night. This time around, the theme is Search &
Discovery. If you're building the next Google (or the next Google acquisition), we want you here!
Email cperry@sfbeta.com for more info.
The first Freemium Summit is a one day
event focused on exploring what it takes to succeed under the freemium business model. Across all
segments of the media landscape, entrepreneurs and executives are pioneering models that combine
a free offering with a premium, paid offering. This hybrid business model is one of the most
exciting areas of business model innovation impacting the world of media and the Freemium Summit
will explore the most important topics on the minds of leading practitioners.
Confirmed Speakers: Toni Schneider, Automattic (WordPress); Matt Brezina, Xobni; Aaron Levie,
Box.net; Phil Libin, Evernote; Tom Conrad, Pandora; Drew Houston, Dropbox; Ranjith Kumaran,
YouSendIt; Ben Chestnut, Mailchimp; Lance Walley, Chargify; Isaac Hall, Recurly; and Lincoln
Murphy, Sixteen Ventures.
The social media conference for marketers, Social Fresh is not about concept, but focused purely on
case studies from the front lines. Learn what social media can really do for business bottom
lines. Over the course of the day, you'll hear from 35 speakers from companies like Intel, Ford,
Comcast, Nike and many more, as well as keynote Peter Shankman. Register now and use coupon code RWW15 for 15% off.
4 April 2010: Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania
TEDx CMU is an independently
organized TEDx event that will be held on April 4th, 2010 at Carnegie Mellon University and will
feature a full day of talks by prominent speakers as well as recorded videos from past TEDTalks.
Confirmed speakers include Jonathan Fields (author, blogger and entrepreneur), Stacey Monk
(founder of Epic Change, a startup nonprofit), Chase Jarvis (photographer, director and social
artist) and Nathan Martin (CEO of Deeplocal, an innovation studio in Pittsburgh).
The theme of the event is "Fearless", and we are inviting speakers from cross-disciplinary
backgrounds to talk about their experiences, and tell us a little about what inspires them to be
fearless in the pursuit of goals. We hope to spark discussions and foster connections between
participants, encouraging aspiring individuals to follow their dreams and make a difference. The
event is free to attend, and the application deadline is March 21, 2010.
For more information about the event, visit tedxcmu.com or email
info@tedxcmu.com. You can also find TEDx CMU on Facebook
or follow us on Twitter.
ConnectNow brings together international
specialists and thought leaders in social media, emerging technologies and their intersection
with business. Learn how the realtime web, location based services, augmented reality, ubiquitous
computing and personalised services are changing marketing and communications. Understand the
importance of trust in relationship marketing and what is "social currency". For more info email
info@connectnow.net.au.
PubCon, the premier search
and social media conference, features the industry's biggest names and key players shaping the
future of the Web. PubCon South will include
cutting-edge panel sessions exploring tracks dedicated to search, social media and affiliate
marketing, an intensive professional search and social media training program, and some of the
world's top keynote speakers. PubCon South at Dallas will also hold a one-day, two-track slate of
intensive educational training programs led by some of the industry's most respected search
professionals. The event takes place at the Richardson Conference and Civic Center. Register
here.
Under the Radar: Cloud is must-attend
event for dealmakers and heads of IT from large enterprises, SMBs, service providers, carriers
and media companies who are responsible for helping their companies leverage new technology and
innovation in the fast-evolving IT ecosystem. Join us for the 15th Under the Radar conference,
featuring a hand-picked selection of the world's most innovative cloud startups among 350 top
tech, media, telcom and finance executives. For ticket and more information, visit http://undertheradarblog.com.
FutureMidwest is the region's largest technology and knowledge
conference. Founded by Adrian Pittman, Jordan Wolfe and Zach Lipson, FutureMidwest is the fusion
of two successful conferences held in Michigan in 2009 - the Module Midwest Digital Conference
and TechNow.
Both conferences highlighted how technology and digital tools have dramatically changed the way
we do business and the effect this transition has had on companies. FutureMidwest kicks things up
a notch with presentations, group breakout sessions, relationship-building opportunities and
influencers who are taking action to redefine business in the digital age. Register here.
The social media conference for marketers, Social Fresh is not about concept, but focused purely on
case studies from the front lines. Learn what social media can really do for business bottom
lines. Over the course of the day you'll hear from 35 speakers from companies like Ford, Best Buy,
Scottrade, Hardees, CMT and many more. Register now
and use coupon code RWW15 for 15% off.
DrupalCon is
the premier conference focused on Drupal, the award-winning open source content management
framework that is galvanizing social publishing and web development today. For a registration fee
of $195, attendees get three full days of sessions led by the best and brightest Drupal
experts.
Drupal has been downloaded over 2 million times since its inception, and project growth has
doubled annually for several years. Drupal is used to deliver a wide variety of application types
including blogs, wikis, community networks, digital media portals, and web content publishing and
management.
The Future of Money & Technology
Summit will bring together the best and brightest thinkers around money, including
visionaries, entrepreneurial business people, developers, press, investors, authors,
solution/service providers, and organizations who work where cash and commerce collide. We meet
to discuss the evolving ecosystem around money in a proactive, conducive to dealmaking
environment. Featured speakers include Jolie O'Dell from ReadWriteWeb, as well as representatives
from Wells Fargo Bank, Kiva, SharesPost, Jambool, Founders Fund, Outright.com, SoftTech VC, and
many more.
Use discount code "rww" to get 10% off registration.
The ReadWriteWeb Mobile Summit 2010
will be an exploration of the latest Mobile development trends - both the technology and the
emerging business applications. Get ready to explore, think and create the future of Mobile with
the brightest in the industry, your peers! As in our last Summit, The Real-Time Web, the
ReadWriteWeb Mobile Summit is an unconference.
An unconference is a participant driven conference where the agenda is created
on the day, in real-time and discussions are lead by conference participants. Read about the history of unconferences.
We will have two main tracks at this Summit - Development and Business - so the Summit will be of
interest to managers, marketers, developers, innovators, entrepreneurs and thought leaders alike.
Here's a sample of some of the topics we'll explore in both of these tracks.
FinovateSpring 2010 will again showcase the most cutting-edge
financial and banking technology innovations to Silicon Valley and the world. With Finovate's
signature mix of short, fast-paced onstage demos (no slides are allowed) from handpicked
companies and intimate networking time with their executives, this conference packs a ton of
unique value into a single day.
Come see the cutting edge of banking and financial technology and network with hundreds of the
leading financial executives, venture capitalists, press, industry analysts, bloggers and fintech
entrepreneurs. Early bird registration
rates are available.
The SF MusicTech Summit
will bring together 700-plus visionaries in the music/technology space - the best and brightest
entrepreneurs, developers, investors, service providers, journalists, musicians and organizations
who work with them at the convergence of culture and commerce. We meet to discuss the evolving
music, business and technology ecosystem in a proactive, conducive-to-dealmaking environment.
Enter the discount code "rww" to get 10% off.
Glue is the only conference devoted
solely to exploring the problem-sets facing architects, developers and IT professionals in a
"post-cloud" world. Glue focuses on the APIs and protocols (Twitter, Facebook, Websockets,
PubSubHubBub, XMPP), formats and standards (RDF/Linked Data, JSON, Microformats, HTML5),
platforms and providers (Amazon, Rackspace, Google App Engine, Salesforce.com, Eucalyptus),
Identity Protocols (OAuth/WRAP, SAML, OpenID, SPML) emerging NoSQL data models (Cassandra,
CouchDB, MongoDB, Riak, HBase), and other mechanisms that are building the post-cloud world.
ReadWriteCloud will be blogging live from Gluecon and CloudCamp, and ReadWriteWeb's Alex Williams
will be moderating the "Managing Complexity in the Cloud" session. Please join us May 25-27 in
Denver, Colorado. ReadWriteWeb readers can receive 10% off of
registration by using the code "RWW12".
The Corporate Social Media Summit is a
two day conference focused exclusively on how big businesses can take advantage of social media
to enhance their marketing/comms strategy. Featuring:
Practical and relevant insights from peers who have already used social media successfully
20-plus corporate speakers (including
PepsiCo, Whole Foods, Dell, McDonald's, General Motors, Citi, Johnson & Johnson),
Best practice, benchmarks and practical next steps you can use to take advantage of social
media in your business
A tightly-focused agenda with 14 in-depth,
practical workshops giving you knowledge on only the most critical business issues surrounding
corporate use of social media
Save $400 if you quote RWW400 when booking. Book here.
Greenok Icon
Theme 0.1 Preview
(GNOME Icon Theme)
Greenok is my icon theme project for my future Linux distribution: Avianux. After failed attempts
to even build my distros PractikOS, PractikFree, PractikLight, Archstar (formerly XpertOS), Linny,
Burix and OpenEeeOS, I decided to create a new distro based on Slax, as it is so modular that can
be add any application and distribute it easily, besides including serial compilers needed and not
included in Ubuntu, OpenSUSE or Puppy. But I wanted to put a touch of their own, so I'm developing
this green icon theme, which is of simple lines, with a slightly retro style. Any suggestions are
welcome. The icon theme is not yet available for download, only I am giving a picture of the
progress of it.
A couple weeks ago, we noted the city of Topeka, Kansas’
humorous attempt to get Google’s attention: by rebranding their city “Google,
Kansas.” Why would they do such a thing? Because they want in on Google’s fiber
action — the search giant’s proposed plan to sell 1
gigabit-per-second broadband to consumers. Now Baltimore, Maryland is getting in on the fun as
well.
The city has appointed
a “Google Czar” — yes, that’s the actual title
— to lobby the company to put Baltimore on the list of cities in the initial
trial. Tom Loveland, CEO of a local tech company, Mind Over Machines, has been appointed by
Baltimore’s mayor to take this exalted, but volunteer position.
The Baltimore movement has also launched a website, BmoreFiber,
which states in huge, bold letters, “Ask Google to Invest Billions in Baltimore’s
Future.“
These attempts by cities to catch Google’s attention, while humorous, show a massive desire
for better broadband in this country. It’s kind of sad that it takes an outsider, Google,
to spur faster broadband development. Meanwhile, companies that offer broadband as a core
business, like Comcast, drag their feet with service that is an order of magnitude slower at huge
prices.
This is what we
mean when we say that the future of alternative fuels isn't anywhere close to being decided. A team
from the BBC program Bang Goes the Theory has rigged an older Volkswagen Scirocco to run on coffee pellets. It's a
bit complex, with the coffee grounds needing to be heated to 1,292 degrees Fahrenheit, and the
resulting concoction cooled, separated and filtered before it's run to the engine. Because coffee
contains carbon, however, it works.
It's expensive, though. The trial run the Starbucks Scirocco will make from London to Manchester
and back will cost more than 25 times what the same trip on gasoline would because the car goes
just three miles on a kilo of coffee. The 209-mile trip is also take ten hours, due to the number
of stops required to refill the fuel canister and regularly clean out the system.
So, on second thought, this is not what we mean when we talk about the future of alternative fuels.
But it is really neat, and it's for the kids, and those sorts of things count for a lot in
our book. Hat tip to Joviocoe!
As the
intertubes overtake boob tubes and telephone tubes as our primary mode of communication, it becomes
increasingly important to ensure that access is available and affordable for all Americans. The
FCC's ambitious new plan looks to do just that.
More »
As the
intertubes overtake boob tubes and telephone tubes as our primary mode of communication, it becomes
increasingly important to ensure that access is available and affordable for all Americans. The
FCC's ambitious new plan looks to do just that.
More »
That's right, you can now reserve your place in line to be the first to record four HD cable shows
at once on your Windows
7 Media Center. The bad news is that ship date for the
InfiniTV 4 is now May 31st. Ceton wasn't willing
to share a specific reason for the 60 day delay, but we suspect CableLabs is to blame -- Ceton refuted this and
insisted CableLabs has been very helpful, but we don't buy it. The other big news -- for those that
were concerned with noise or fitment options -- is that the latest version of the PCI-E card
pictured above no longer includes a fan. The InfiniTV name was the result of over 1000 submissions
to Ceton's naming contest, of which Gary Petro came up with winner -- the name is not to be
confused with Comcast's
XFINITY. Future tuners in the line will share a variation of the name, so the dual external
tuner would be the InfiniTV ex2 -- for example. But Gary isn't the only one receiving a free tuner,
as two more submitters were deemed worthy. Rus Sanchez submitted 94 different product names, while
Charles Fraser earned his free card with the funniest submission; Wicked Super, Super Duper, and
Super Duper Alleyoopder. The last bit of news out of the
Kirkland startup is a littler clarification in regards to the network
capabilities of the card. Although you can share the tuners with a small form factor PC on the
network, the bad news is that it gets paired per CableCARD, so all four tuners have to go to the
same PC. Ohh we almost forgot, the best news of all is that we received our review sample, so stay
tunned for a full run down.
Lanxon writes "Robots of the future will be capable of learning more complex behaviors than ever
before if a new, pan-European research project succeeds in its goal of developing the world's first
architecture for advanced robotic motor skills, reports Wired. If successful, the four-year AMARSi
(Adaptive Modular Architecture for Rich Motor Skills) project could see a manufacturing world
filled with autonomous, intelligent humanoid worker bots that can learn new skills by interacting
with their co-workers."
Lanxon writes "Robots of the future will be capable of learning more complex behaviors than ever
before if a new, pan-European research project succeeds in its goal of developing the world's first
architecture for advanced robotic motor skills, reports Wired. If successful, the four-year AMARSi
(Adaptive Modular Architecture for Rich Motor Skills) project could see a manufacturing world
filled with autonomous, intelligent humanoid worker bots that can learn new skills by interacting
with their co-workers."
Lanxon writes "Robots of the future will be capable of learning more complex behaviors than ever
before if a new, pan-European research project succeeds in its goal of developing the world's first
architecture for advanced robotic motor skills, reports Wired. If successful, the four-year AMARSi
(Adaptive Modular Architecture for Rich Motor Skills) project could see a manufacturing world
filled with autonomous, intelligent humanoid worker bots that can learn new skills by interacting
with their co-workers."
It may be a bug in the dependency tree. My project uses maven and currently has two
modules, alpha and proto. Right now the scala files are in proto, which depends on
alpha. The proto module is for prototyping activities and brings in some non-production
libraries, scala being one.
However, aside from the module dependency, the actual scala files themselves are
bare-bones. They don't use any non-built-in classes at the moment. They would in the
future, but right now I'm just using them to learn the language.
I'm not sure fsc would help because the issue seems to be before the actual compilation takes
place. It seems to scan all the source files in both alpha and proto. It's hard to
tell since the names go by so fast and there is no logging.
I'm willing to turn on debugging to help figure this out - any scala-plugin developers read this
forum?
The head of a key banking panel is expected Monday to release a draft bill of sweeping regulatory
changes aimed at warding off future collapses in the financial system.
I could go on all weekend about Son House, one of the top and longest-lasting country bluesman, but
I'll be kind to you and get to the music quickly. His original recordings are messages from a
foreign land, his sessions and concerts after rediscovery rival Skip James' (hear an interview with
John Fahey and the future Dr. Demento from that period), and both his lyrical and guitar styles are
slashing and unforgettable. "Death Letter" is as deep as country blues gets. National resonator
guitar!...
Hugh Pickens writes "The Associated Press reports that the board of the Internet Corporation for
Assigned Names and Numbers has deferred a decision until June on whether to create a '.xxx'
Internet suffix as an online red-light district, beginning a 70-day process of consultations on a
domain that could help parents block access to adult sites. ICM Registry LLC first proposed the
'.xxx' domain in 2000, and ICANN has rejected it three times already since then, but an outside
panel last month questioned the board's latest rejection in 2007, prompting the board to reopen the
bid. Backers of '.xxx' have billed the proposal as a way for the adult-entertainment industry to
clean up its act, though some adult sites worry that governments would wind up mandating the use of
'.xxx' and that sites with the '.xxx' suffix could easily be blocked by government web filters in
the future. 'I am very concerned and fearful of censoring adult material that should be made
available for adults. It scares the hell out of me,' says Malcolm Day, head of AdultShop.com,
adding that if adult websites weren't allowed to have '.com' domains and could only register under
the '.xxx' address, then 'many governments (across the world) would try to block them.'"
Hugh Pickens writes "The Associated Press reports that the board of the Internet Corporation for
Assigned Names and Numbers has deferred a decision until June on whether to create a '.xxx'
Internet suffix as an online red-light district, beginning a 70-day process of consultations on a
domain that could help parents block access to adult sites. ICM Registry LLC first proposed the
'.xxx' domain in 2000, and ICANN has rejected it three times already since then, but an outside
panel last month questioned the board's latest rejection in 2007, prompting the board to reopen the
bid. Backers of '.xxx' have billed the proposal as a way for the adult-entertainment industry to
clean up its act, though some adult sites worry that governments would wind up mandating the use of
'.xxx' and that sites with the '.xxx' suffix could easily be blocked by government web filters in
the future. 'I am very concerned and fearful of censoring adult material that should be made
available for adults. It scares the hell out of me,' says Malcolm Day, head of AdultShop.com,
adding that if adult websites weren't allowed to have '.com' domains and could only register under
the '.xxx' address, then 'many governments (across the world) would try to block them.'"
The advertising watchdog has mildly rebuked the government over the phrasing of a claim in two
advertisements on the danger of climate change, while dismissing the rest of the complaints
against the controversial television and newspaper campaign.
The campaign, run by the Department of Environment and Climate Change last winter, brought in 939
complaints. Various groups said the adverts were political, too scary, and factually misleading.
The vast majority of these complaints have now been dismissed by the authority.
The Advertising Standards Authority's only criticism was that a claim that "flooding, heat waves
and storms will become more frequent and intense" should have be phrased more tentatively.
The environment secretary, Ed Miliband, said the authority had "comprehensively vindicated" the
accuracy of the department's TV advert and had rebuffed those who attempted to use the
advertising standards process to question the reality of man-made climate change.
"Science tells us it is more than 90% likely there will be more extreme weather events if we
don't act.
"In any future campaign, as requested by the ASA, we will make clear the nature of this
prediction."
Our top stories this week were about cutting the strings that tie us to
our desks. And also about stalking celebrities at SXSW. Read on for our coverage and analysis. We
also continued our exploration of the significant Internet trends of 2010, including Real-Time
Web, Mobile Web and Internet of Things.
Note: We've refreshed the format for our longest running feature, the Weekly
Wrapup. It now focuses more explicitly on the key trends that ReadWriteWeb is tracking in 2010,
as well as giving you the highlights from the leading story of the week. Let us know your
thoughts on the new format.
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Historic Conversation in NYC: Ai Weiwei, Jack Dorsey & Richard MacManus
On March 15,
at the prestigious Paley Center in New York City, a conversation
will take place between Chinese digital activist and artist Ai Weiwei,
Twitter co-founder and chairman Jack Dorsey, and yours truly, Richard
MacManus, ReadWriteWeb founder and editor in chief. The moderator will be
Orville Schell, the director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia
Society in New York.
The topic of the event is the emergence of digital activism for fostering positive social change.
The onsite event is invitation only, but it will be live streamed exclusively on
ReadWriteWeb on Monday, March 15, at 6:30 PM EST (-5 GMT), from the Paley Center for
Media, New York City.
We
recently launched the official ReadWriteWeb iPhone
app. As well as enabling you to read ReadWriteWeb while on the go or lying on the couch,
we've made it easy to share ReadWriteWeb posts directly from your iPhone, on Twitter and
Facebook. You can also follow the RWW team on Twitter, directly from the app. We invite you to
download it now from iTunes.
Tournages > A
peine remis de leur Oscar du Meilleur court-métrage animé pour "Logorama", les
frenchy François Alaux et Hervé de Crécy réaliseront le
court-métrage "Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Future Soldier" pour le compte d'Ubisoft, sur le
modèle de "Assassin's Creed Lineage".
[In a GameSetWatch-exclusive set of blog posts for the week of GDC 2010, Magical
Wasteland blogger and Game Developer magazine columnist Matthew Burns continues his journey
through the show. Previously: Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3.]
My energy is starting to flag; my feet are complaining and my voice is growing hoarse. I have
ingested so much about video games in the past few days that I feel overfull and ready to burst,
wishing incoherently that I want to read a book or play the piano or just do something, anything,
but think about video games.
It is not to be, though: today the expo floor opens, even more game developers fly in to San
Francisco, and the giant inexorable train of video games barrels along towards its fabulous
secret destiny.
I move towards the Unity booth and instantly collide with yet more former co-workers. We
reference hellish older times before catching up– one is a gameplay programmer
now– many steps up from the PS2 memory card save/load state issues with which
he was saddled last I worked with him– and another is the principal in an
iPhone game startup. He shows us an early build of his first game before excusing himself on
account of his hangover.
At the edge of the north hall floor I speak to a man from TechExcel about his production
management software products (DevSpec and DevPlan and DevTrack) with their technical requirements
and task trackers and bug lists.
I mention that a lot of game developers take umbrage at this kind of software–
not personally, but at the attitude this sort of product often comes with– and
that bringing it in can be a political battle because the databases and workflows and boxy user
interfaces smack of top-down institutional sclerosis. “I don’t think we’re
doing our job right if we’re trying to make it sexy,” he says. “Part of the
point is to not be sexy.”
Close by, the exposition floor’s career pavilion is mobbed by recent and soon to be
graduates, who are queueing up to talk to representatives of well-known companies like Insomniac
or Blizzard, while the booths of less well known studios, right next door, are awkwardly barren.
It is again impressed upon me what a buyer’s market it is and I start to worry that video
game degrees will be the next film school degrees, acquired in search of a dream, deferred
somehow into a retail job at Starbucks or Barnes and Noble.
Konami has a desk there too, and in the interest of continuing the theme of what I’d
written yesterday about the Japanese game industry I examine their open positions in Tokyo. A
notice is included that fluent Japanese is required. I ask the person behind the desk, How many
applicants do you get? “A lot. Many hundreds,” she says. And how many of those can
actually speak Japanese fluently? She laughs. “Pretty much none of them.”
So is it worth it to fly out to GDC in search of the one person in all of the industry who can do
the job, speak Japanese, and is willing to accept the pay and position that Konami is offering?
Yes, she says– it’s important to get the ideas of foreigners in order to
make games that appeal internationally, before confiding that many of the people most suitable
for these roles are Japanese who have gone to college in the US and who are looking to return
home.
In the early evening I meet up with Brenton Woodrow, Chris McCarthy and Kyle Murphy, the other
developers of Planck, the game I’m working
on, and we converse for almost four hours. We talk about our plans and the future, throwing ideas
at each other, our enthusiasm infectious and self-affirming.
My tiredness fades, my voice recovers, and I am yelling over the music–
yelling about how our game is going to be awesome, yelling about the nuances of FPS mission
design, yelling stories about dodgy code. Much like game playing, there is something about game
development that naturally begs for discussion; there is a tremendous hunger for knowledge,
feedback, and argument.
The night continues in another stuffy hotel bar, where I meet some television producers and watch
a girl smearing her lipstick on a hapless game school student’s face. The late, late
evening takes place in a hotel suite and is difficult to remember. I collapse on a couch and wake
up on the floor.
Cynthia was reluctant when it came time to leave the Machine Monastery. Nobody had predicted that
machines would be Buddhists. Crazed killers, perhaps. Indifferent to humanity, perhaps. Cold
calculators, almost certainly.
She had learned the tactile pleasures of sanding the walnut sides of an imperfect jewelry box she
had made herself with hand tools. The visual pleasure of brushing a finish with a wet edge.
The empty contentedness of sweeping a floor. The ragged exhaustion of breaking out old concrete
sidewalks with a sledgehammer and hauling them to a skip. The gleam of a toilet scrubbed clean.
The machines had done all these things, mostly better than humans could, and had found the same
peace from their lessons. Cynthia would go back to her life in the city, where her finance skills
would pay the bills, and where machine and human craftsmen continue to do their jobs with the
labor-saving tools that made mass production cheap. But perhaps in the summer she would take
another vacation to the mountains east of town, away from the noise, and rejuvenate with the joys
of manual labor.
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