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Anyone notice a trend here:
Ass. Creed : 10 hour game streched to 40 hours by repetition
Farcry 2: 10 hour game stretched to 40 hours by repetition
End War: 10 hour game stretched to 40 hours by repetition
New Prince of Persia: 10 hour game stretched to x2 due to repeat levels
Now I have not played POP yet, so this is based on reviews I read.
When Ubi releases a game, it comes with massive hype, and normally the first couple of hours are
LOLZOMG-AWESOME....but then it tends to drop into a repetitive routine...just fluff to fill the
rest of the game.
Meh, next Ubisoft game that comes out, I am thinking twice about buying. Anyone else have this
feeling?:hmm:
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I just recently started to experience some very unusual behavior on an older PowerBook G4, and I
was wondering if anyone has experienced this before, as I can't seem to find any documented info on
this.
Basically, out of the blue, the user began to experience issues waking from sleep, while using the
laptop closed with external monitor, USB keyboard and mouse. Although a powercord was always
connected, the machine seemed to be powering off.
For a while, hitting the power button would boot things up again, properly, but not anymore. I have
since disconnected all peripherials. Now, when pressing the power button, the machine will
beep 3 times and then repeat itself every so often. The sleep led will blink three times, go solid,
then repeat. Sometime the harddrive tries to spin, sometimetimes not. The screen remains
off. I have tried both resetting the Pmu as well as booting from cd (or any other source
for that matter, both with no success.
Any ideas what's going on?
I figure it must be failed hardware, but can not run the hardware test from cd. Perhaps the mother
board just died?
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teaching languages for years, and 10 words a day is the perfect number as it won't overwhelm you.
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experts, "A vocabulary of 3,000-4,000 words is enough for reading newspapers and magazines
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personalized Word Bank is going to fill fast! MyWords, and its accompanying lifetime subscription,
turns your iPhone/iTouch into a powerful language learning tool that will teach you how to:
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pronunciation of each word -Master difficult words as you store and easily access them from your
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the 3 essential keys to learning fast. How does it work? In just 5 simple steps memorize and
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side-by-side with its definition 2. Learn to pronounce each word as you listen again and again to a
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to the native speaker's 4. Save words and their small audio file to your personal word bank for
later offline study 5. Quiz yourself with a fun and easy to use matching game Repeat the process
over and over everyday What! Just 10 words a day! What's the deal? Great question! We've been
teaching languages for years, and 10 words a day is the perfect number as it won't overwhelm you.
Remember, 10 new words a day adds up fast! But please, don't take our word for it. According to the
experts, "A vocabulary of 3,000-4,000 words is enough for reading newspapers and magazines
fluently." With MyWords you get 3650 words in the first year! That is A LOT of words! Your
personalized Word Bank is going to fill fast! MyWords, and its accompanying lifetime subscription,
turns your iPhone/iTouch into a powerful language learning tool that will teach you how to:
-Memorize 10 words a day / 3,650 a year! -Master the pronunciation of any word -Significantly
improve reading fluency as you see each word -Improve listening comprehension by listening to the
pronunciation of each word -Master difficult words as you store and easily access them from your
own personalized Word Bank -Challenge yourself with a Matching Quiz to boost retention With
MyWords, you get all of these benefits, plus it's easy to use. Each day 10 new words are
automatically downloaded when you connect to the internet. Fast, effective, and easy to use.
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Accoona, the highly suspect New Jersey based search/electronics retailer, has
suffered what might be its final disgrace - the closure of it’s last business, Twing.
The company, which offered a search product, has a rich history. Founder Marc Armand Rousso has a
shady
past involving stock fraud, and former President Bill Clinton was a spokesperson for the
company.
Most of Accoona’s $137 million/year in revenue came from distributing electronics after
buying
a number of retailers in Brooklyn. In 2007 they canceled a planned IPO, and the Accoona search
business was sold to Masterseek, a
Danish company, last month.
The company said in
April they were deprioritizing all of their businesses except Twing, a forum search engine. But
the Twing website is now offline, and a tipster says the technology is being sold.
Twing, which appears to be a separate corporate entity from Accoona, was said to be pitching for
a small round of financing in the last few months at a valuation of $8 million.
The service had a surge in traffic this last spring, drawing, according to
Compete, a peak of about 1.5 million unique monthly visitors. But much (or all) of that
traffic was driven by advertising spends, says a source, and they struggled to get repeat
visitors.
We’ve contacted Accoona and Twing and await a response.
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A few weeks ago we wrote about our Bus Pirate
universal serial interface tool. We used the recent holiday to add some new features, like a
JTAG programmer, macros, frequency measurement, and more. A major code reorganization makes
everything easier to read and update.
Check out the a demonstration of the new features below. We’re compiling a roadmap and wish
list, so share your ideas in the comments. You can also see how we used the Bus Pirate to
read a
smart card and test-drive
an I2C crystal oscillator.
New protocols
I2C>m <–setup mode
1. HiZ <– high impedance pins (safe mode)
2. 1-WIRE <– not ready for this release
3. UART
4. I2C
5. SPI
6. JTAG <– interface and programmer
7. RAW2WIRE
8. RAW3WIRE
MODE>1
900 MODE SET
HiZ>
This firmware release lists three new protocols.
Hi-Z makes all pins high
impedance/input, a safe state that won’t damage an attached circuit. To be safe, the
Bus Pirate now starts in this mode.
1-Wire is listed, but we couldn’t include it in this release because we still don’t
have any parts to test with our library. This is just a placeholder for now, but it will be added
as soon as we get a 1-Wire part to test.
We wrote a simplified JTAG interface that includes a XSVF player for programming JTAG device
chains.
PIN1-WireI2C*SPI**
RS232JTAGB9 SDA SDA MOSI - TDI
B8 - SCL CLK - TCK B7 - - MISO RX TDO B6 - - CS
TX TMS B5 AUX AUX AUX AUX AUX Ground GND GND GND GND GND
*also raw 2 wire. **also raw 3 wire.
The new modes connect to the Bus Pirate as outlined in the table.
New features and settings
Frequency measurement
HiZ>F <– do a frequency count
9xx FREQ COUNT ON AUX: 22199552Hz (22MHz)
HiZ>
As seen in the DS1077
demonstration, we added a frequency counter to the Bus Pirate’s AUX pin.Â
‘F’ measures frequency, maximum of about 50MHz.
Assign axillary control
HiZ>c <– menu c
AUX PIN
1. AUX (DEFAULT)
2. CS/TMS
MODE>1 <– set AUX control mode
9xx AUX: DEFAULT SETTING (AUX PIN)
HiZ>
Sometimes we need to control the chip select (CS) /JTAG state machine (TMS) pins manually.
‘c’ toggles the pin control between the axillary pin and the chip select pin.
Set terminal speed
HiZ>b <– menu b
Set serial port speed: (bps)
1. 300
…
9. 115200
SPEED>9 <– set speed
Adjust your terminal and press space to continue
HiZ>
‘b’ adjusts the PC-side serial port speed.
Macros
A new syntax addition, ‘(#)’, triggers protocol dependent macros.
JTAG>(0) <–macro 0
0.Macro menu
1.Reset chain
2.Probe chain
3.XSVF player
JTAG>
In any mode, use the macro (0) to display a menu of available macros.
I2C address search
I2C>(1) <–scan I2C addresses macro
xxx Searching 7bit I2C address space.
Found devices at:
0xB0 0xB1 <–DS1077 responds to write and read address
I2C>
The I2C library includes a macro to automatically search the I2C address range for devices.
Helpful when you work with an unknown chip.
Raw2wire smart card ISO 7813-3 ATR
RAW2WIRE>(1)<–ATR and decode macro
ISO 7813-3 ATR
950 AUX LOW
951 AUX HIGH
4xx RAW2WIRE 0×01 CLOCK TICKS
950 AUX LOW
ISO 7813-3 reply: 0xA2 0×13 0×10 0×91<–ATR bytes
Protocol: 2 wire <–decoded ATR data
Read type: to end<–
Data units: 256 <–
Data unit length: 8 bits <–
RAW2WIRE>
JTAG is a debugging and programming interface for
all kinds of electronics. The raw hardware interface can be accessed with the Bus Pirate’s
raw 3 wire library, but we added a few features to make it much easier.
JTAG has different modes where data entry does different things. Modes are navigated with the
JTAG TMS signal; there are a bunch of JTAG
modes, called states.The Bus Pirate’s JTAG library is just the raw 3 wire library,
enhanced to help with JTAG state changes.
We only implemented the JTAG states we need to get data in and out of a JTAG device chain: reset,
idle, data register, and instruction register. Macro (1) issues a JTAG chain reset, and
initializes the chain to the idle state. { puts the JTAG chain in data register mode. [ puts the
chain in instruction register mode. ] or } return the chain to the idle state. The Bus Pirate has
an internal state machine tracker that is smart enough to manage the chain without explicitly
returning the chain to idle; in other words, you don’t have to close your tags. The state
machine tracker reports every state change to help debug problems.
JTAG>[0xfe {rrrr} <-- same as [0xfe]{rrrr}
xxx JTAGSM: ALREADY IDLE
xxx JTAGSM: IDLE->Instruction Register (DELAYED ONE BIT FOR TMS)
610 JTAG READY TO WRITE IR <– JTAG chain instruction register
620 JTAG WRITE: 0xFE <– request ID
xxx JTAGSM: (WROTE DELAYED BIT) IR->IDLE <–back to IDLE
xxx JTAGSM: IDLE->Data Register <–IDLE to data register
611 JTAG READY TO READ/WRITE DR
630 JTAG READ: 0×93 <–device ID
630 JTAG READ: 0×40
630 JTAG READ: 0×60
630 JTAG READ: 0×59
xxx JTAGSM: DR->IDLE <–back to idle
640 JTAG IDLE
JTAG>
Here is a short interaction with a Xilinx XC9572 CPLD. We go to the
instruction register ( [ ), and send the device ID request command (0xfe). Then, we go the the
data register( { ), read four bytes (rrrr, or r:4 shorthand), and return to idle ( } ).
What are delayed bit writes?
JTAG requires that the last data bit written to the instruction register be entered at the same
time as the state change. Since the Bus Pirate has no way of predicting when we'll actually
change states, it delays the last bit of each byte write until one of three things happens:
Exit the instruction register with a }, ], or { command
Write another byte value
A read command
Pending bits are not cleared by bitwise operations (like ! or ^). Do these before writing your
last byte, or change the code. We haven’t implemented pending writes to the data register,
but it’s probably needed. You might need to implement this if you’re writing the data
register, rather just reading, like we did.
Macro (2) resets the chain, counts the devices, and reports all the device IDs.
JTAG>(3) <–macro 3
6xx JTAG XSVF PLAYER
xxx XON/XOFF FLOW CONTROL REQUIRED <–required!
xxx PRESS z TO CONTINUE <– press z
xxx BEGIN XSVF UPLOAD <– upload the file
6×0 XSVF OK <– result or error
YOUR PC DRIBBLED MAX 0×05 BYTES AFTER XOFF (THAT’S OK)
6xx PRESS z 5 TIMES TO CONTINUE <– continue
JTAG>
Macro 3 is an XSVF player/programmer using code from Xilinx. XSVF is byte format SVF, as described by
Xilinx (pdf). XSVF files can be compiled for any chain with the correct generic JTAG
definition files, even non-Xilinx devices. We successfully used the binary transfer
features in Hercules and
Tera Term to send XSVF files to the programmer.
JTAG sometimes pauses longer than it takes the PC to transfer a byte of data, so we implemented
XON/XOFF software flow control for the XSVF
player. Your terminal must be in XON/XOFF flow control mode before you upload the XSVF file, or
the programmer will fail. Even with software flow control, a modern PC has already send several
bytes through the layers of operating system before it receives the flow control signals. We deal
with this by catching these bytes before moving on, this is reported as the maximum number of
bytes “dribbled”.
If there’s an error in the upload, the PC will probably continue to spit bytes at the Bus
Pirate. To keep error messages visible, and prevent garbage in the terminal, the XSVF player
waits for five lower case z’s before it returns to the prompt. We chose this sequence
because it will never occur in an XSVF file.
*Note that the XSVF player does not respect the JTAG Hi-Z pin setting. Went it does, it fails. Be
careful mixing voltages without a buffer.
Better code structure
The biggest difference between the version 0b and 0c firmware is a massive improvement in code
structure. The Bus Pirate existed in many incarnations before we packaged it for the initial
article. v.0c harmonizes the code libraries and makes it easier to add new protocols.
How to add a custom protocol
The Bus Pirate code handles the user interface, and passes two variables to the active protocol
library. The first variable is a command, such as CMD_READ, CMD_READBULK, or CMD_WRITE. The
entire command set is defined in base.h. The second variable is an optional value. A simple
CMD_READ command passes no value, a bulk read command passes the number of bytes to read, a write
command passes the value to write to the bus, etc. At minimum, a custom protocol needs a function
to receive these variables and translate them to bus actions.
We used three different techniques to link commands to bus actions. Simple code can go directly
in a giant switch statement, like SPI.c. External libraries use an single linking function, like
I2C.c, and m_i2c_1.c. More complicated protocols use the switch statement to call functions
included in the library (raw2wire.c, raw3wire.c, jtag.c UART.c). Helpful functions for terminal
IO are included in base.h/c.
Due to massive code improvements, it’s now only mildly confusing to register a new protocol
with the Bus Pirate:
base.h - Create a definition for the protocol. The last entry is currently
“#define RAW3WIRE 7″, so the next entry could be “#define MYCUSTOMWIRE
8″.
busPirate.c - Include a header file with that gives access to the processing
function. Add a menu entry in the char* mode[] = variable
list. The menu entry must be in the same position on the list as the number assigned in
the base.h define. If MYCUSTOMWIRE is number 8, it must be the eight entry in the mode variable.
Finally, add an additional switch to the bpProcess() function that calls the custom library
processing routine when the mode is set to “MYCUSTOMWIRE”.
Taking it further: a Hack a Day wish list
We compiled the feedback we’ve gotten into three wish lists: protocols, features, and
macros.
Protocols
1-Wire, with enumeration (*ready as soon as
we have parts to test it)
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width="1" height="1" //divpA witty meditation on the nature of film in popular culture taking in
Felix the Cat, Homer Simpson, Titanic the movie and Philip Guston, tonight helped Mark Leckey win
what is still acknowledged as the country's most important contemporary art
prize./ppBirkenhead-born Leckey, professor of film studies at Frankfurt's Städelschule, was
presented with the Turner prize and its attendant £25,000 cheque by Nick Cave at a ceremony
at Tate Britain, in London, broadcast live on Channel 4./ppFor a prize that has thrived on outraged
headlines about unmade beds and lights being turned on and off, the most controversial thing about
this year's Turner prize was its lack of controversy. The most that critics could muster was
half-hearted tut-tutting over an exhibit that featured a naked mannequin on the toilet. Many
critics complained the exhibition was too dry, too academic and, worst of all, too dull./ppIt did
not stop people coming to see it - 60,000 over the last two months - but none of the shortlisted
artists were widely known to the general public. Leckey was the only man on a list which also
included Goshka Macuga, Cathy Wilkes and Runa Islam. On top of the honour, money and party, getting
the prize will significantly raise Leckey's profile as he joins a list of previous winners that
includes names such as Chris Ofili, Damien Hirst, Rachel Whiteread and Antony Gormley./ppIf the
comment cards left by the public were anything to go by, Leckey was the people's winner. The
44-year-old, London-based artist is a magpie who rifles at will through popular culture to create
his own works. The stand-out piece for the Turner prize exhibition was Cinema-in-the-Round, which
shows the artist lecturing in a deadpan voice on the nature of the filmed image in popular culture,
referencing everything from Georg Baselitz, James Cameron and Felix the Cat to the episode of The
Simpsons when Homer goes out into the human world./ppAnother of Leckey's works in the exhibition is
Made in 'Eaven in which Leckey appears to have recreated Jeff Koons's well-known stainless steel
work Rabbit. It also appears to be in Leckey's flat./ppOf the losing artists, who will each receive
£5,000, there had been strong support for video artist Runa Islam. Among her works on display
is First Day of Spring, featuring rickshaw wallahs paid by the artist to sit and stare, something
they do with impressive ease. Another film features a woman smashing crockery in very slow motion.
And another has a motion sensor camera programmed to write out the word "cinematography" in a
workshop./ppThe outsiders were Macuga and Wilkes. Macuga had raided the Tate archives to create
works that explored the relationship between artist lovers Paul Nash and Eileen Agar. Wilkes
created a work called I Give You All My Money, made up of naked mannequins, a supermarket till, and
all manner of arranged detritus including dirty cups, horseshoes and roof tiling./ppIt was the kind
of work that would have irritated former culture minister Kim Howells, who six years ago labelled
the Turner prize "conceptual bullshit". Prince Charles agreed and wrote a congratulatory letter
praising his "refreshing common sense" adding: "[The Turner prize] has contaminated the art
establishment for so long." /ppBut there was little to get critics as worked up as they have in
previous years. The Observer's Laura Cumming complained: "This year feels bloodless, academic and
quiet." /ppCertainly there was no repeat of 2001 when Martin Creed won for a light that went on and
off, leaving critics aghast. Other memorable Turner prize exhibits include Whiteread's House - now
in Washington DC's National Gallery of Art - Tracey Emin's dishevelled, stained bed, the a
href="http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/turnerprize/2003/chapman.htm"Chapman Brothers' blow up dolls
and dildo sculpture Death/a, and a
href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2006/dec/04/turnerprize2006.turnerprize1"Tomma Abts/a
who won in 2006 for, shock, painted canvases./ppLeckey had been nominated on the basis of solo
shows in Dijon and Cologne. A statement from the Tate said judges were impressed by "the
intelligent, energetic and seductive nature of the work. With wit and originality, Leckey has found
a variety of forms to communicate his fascination with visual culture." /ppThe panel was chaired by
Tate Britain director Stephen Deuchar and included architect David Adjaye, Suzanne Cotter, curator
of Modern Art Oxford, Jennifer Higgie, editor of Frieze and Daniel Birnbaum, director of the same
academy where Leckey teaches./ppThe Tate has stressed that the winning choice was a group decision.
In a statement it said: "Both the Turner prize 2008 jury and Tate were made aware at the shortlist
meeting that Daniel Birnbaum is director of the Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Kunste in
Frankfurt and that Mark Leckey is a part-time professor of film studies at the art school,
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What is fascination with Britney Spears? Maybe it’s a train-wreck kind of thing. Once again
she tops Yahoo’s list of overall searches
for 2008, just like she did
last year. In fact, the entire list hardly changed at all. The term “WWE” was
once again No. 2. All in all, six out of the top ten search terms remained the same. The only new
entrants were “Barack Obama,” “Miley Cyrus,” “Angelina
Jolie,” and “American Idol.” This list doesn’t really tell you much other
than that people are obsessed with celebrities. I’ve bolded the repeats below:
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If you're young, know nothing, and are trying to understand the world, here's some good advice:
Only Collect; that is to say, collect everything, indiscriminately. You're five years old. Don't
presume too much to know what's important and what isn't. Photocopy journal articles, photograph
archives; create bibliographies, buy books; make notes on every article or book you read, even if
it's just one line saying "Never read this again"; collect newspaper clippings and email them to
yourself; collect quotes; save your ideas for future papers, future projects, future conferences,
even if they seem wildly implausible now. Hoarding must become instinctual, it must be an
uncontrollable, primal urge. And the higher, civilizing impulse that kicks in after the fact is
organization, or librarianship. You must keep tabs on everything you collect, somehow; a system
must be had, and the system must be idiot-proof (that is to say, you should be able to look back
on it six months for now and not be completely stymied as to why you've organized things that way
-- the present versions of ourselves are invariably the biggest idiots, and six months will make
that clear).
An alternate and equally useful approach is just to start doing things without regard to their
quality. Make 1000 mistakes but try not to repeat them. (via snarkmarket)
Li-xiang is a patient, but also more than a patient. He filmed in 2004 a documentary called
“our life” about how AIDS patients live, and founded an AID-care NGO named Red-wood,
which reaches out to comfort AIDS patients and train health-care volunteers. Outside his
sickroom, he is more a social worker than a patient in need of care. As he said
To me, my daily work to help AIDS patients, and lift public’s misunderstanding and
discrimination against AIDS. I spent most of my time working on HIV issue, as any social worker
does.
Now about 30, he contracted AIDS in a blood donation when he was only a high school student.
He started blogging in 2005, writing about his life,
ideas, and occasionally HIV treatment. He faces the disease with an open mind and never grudges
talking about it, and his optimism cheers up many of his fellow patients.
He writes about AIDS treatment and discusses with netizens, many of them fellow patients, the
prospect of overcoming the fatal disease; for example, he has entries called “Li-xiang: my
point on AIDS medicine”, and “Li-xiang: relationship between anti-virus
cure and CD4.” Also, he scolds the quake that swindles fake
medicine to anxious patients. Moreover, he deliberated on a trade-off between
people’s privacy and a preventive measure against AIDS that have to make any lurking
disease open.
Should we shift from a strategy that centers on treatment to another strategy centers on
preventive measures? Or should we do them equally hard? Is the measure we are taking now, namely,
treatment going first, only takes as little effect as a water drop has to the entire sea? Are the
60 million AIDS workers around the world able to save effectively the 40 million patients? Should
we, facing AIDS, sacrifice human rights to impose a forced examination on people to better control
the AIDS infection? Is that worth it?
He has been a celebrity. His deeds were widely reported. Southern Weekend, an influential
periodical, dedicated one page to
him after his documentary was finished. He was said to be so busy that even on bed he has to
pick up phone calls to tell his ideas about where the NGO Red-woods should be going for next
step. And pictures show that he
was planting trees with the Belgium Princess Mathilde in an AIDS-related activity.
(From Li-xiang's blog)
But in all these reports and pictures, one thing remains, that Li-xiang has never shown his face
to the camera. The reason he does that, is because he also wants a life of dignity, and tries not
to let his parents and friends worry too much about him.
Self
Li-xiang, though with the aura as an extraordinary man, is in nature a common person, who just
happened to run into a misfortune. He likes to talk about himself in most daily-life details.
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Accoona, the highly suspect New Jersey based search/electronics retailer, has
suffered what might be its final disgrace - the closure of it’s last business, Twing.
