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The table below summarizes the responses to false burglar alarms, the mechanism by which they are intended to work, the conditions under which they ought to work best, and some factors you should consider before implementing a particular response. It is critical that you tailor responses to local circumstances, and that you can justify each response based on reliable analysis. In most cases, an effective strategy will involve implementing several different responses. Law enforcement responses alone are seldom effective in reducing or solving the problem.
|Effective Responses
|Response No.
|How It Works
|Works Best If
|Requiring alarm companies to verify alarm legitimacy before calling the police (commonly called verified response)
|The alarm company responds to the scene of an alarm and calls the police only if a crime has occurred or been attempted. If the alarm company is in visual contact with the alarm site, such as through CCTV, and can verify a crime or an attempt, police will respond
|holdup, panic, and duress alarms are exempted; alarm companies are prohibited from classifying an alarm call as duress when it isnt; and combined with responses 2 and 3 below
|Requires educating the public, police union, and media to enable police leaders to establish departmental policy, or to encourage local (and sometimes state) legislators to enact ordinances
|Charging a fee for service for all false holdup, duress, and panic alarms
|Used in combination with response 1, keeps these types of alarm calls from becoming unmanageable
|the alarm industry is prohibited from classifying ordinary burglar alarms as duress alarms, and combined with responses 1 and 3
|Requires permits for holdup, duress, and panic alarms, as well as false alarm-reduction management to monitor trends in such calls
|Responding to holdup, duress, and panic alarms only if they come from a building
|For an example, see the Salt Lake City ordinance at www.slcgov.com/police. Police may make exceptions for panic alarms given to high-risk domestic violence and stalking victims
|publicized so that mobile-alarm manufacturers know the police will not respond
|Requires outreach to mobile-alarm manufacturers
|Responses With Limited Effectiveness
|Response No.
|How It Works
|Works Best If
|Establishing an ordinance requiring owners to obtain alarm permits and to pay escalating fines for false alarms
|Requires permits for alarm owners and escalating fines for false alarms
|all alarmed premises obtain required permits, the community has an extremely low number of false alarms, and officers have sufficient free time so that responding to false alarm calls does not impede their ability to work on actual crime problems
|Involves significant administrative resources; collection rates may be low; may involve taking legal action against nonpayers
|Setting a cost recovery-based fee for all false- alarm calls
|The city calculates the true cost of false-alarm response, including the lost-opportunity costs for police
|the political climate is more supportive offees for service than verified response
|Involves billing and follow-up with customers who fail to pay; may involve taking legal action against nonpayers
|Charging permit fees and fines directly to alarm companies
|Reduces the number of contacts police must make to recover costs, and ensures all new alarm system owners obtain permits
|...alarm companies recognize the value of reduced administrative workload for police
|Requires cooperation from alarm companies
|Outsourcing the administration of permits, fines, and fees
|Private companies are contracted to manage the administrative burden of permitting, tracking down, and collecting fines and fees from nonpayers
|permitting, fine, and fee transactions are automated
|Manages, but does not solve, the false alarm problem
|Requiring alarm monitoring companies to make two calls to owners of activated systems before calling police
|Provides an additional opportunity to verify the validity of an alarm by contacting owners who are not on the alarmed premises when alarm activates
|alarm monitoring companies are diligent in applying policy, and alarm owners have multiple contact numbers
|Monitoring companies serving multiple jurisdictions may have difficulty applying multiple policies correctly; some alarm companies fear liability if police are not called immediately
|Accepting dispatch cancellations
|The alarm company verifies (usually by telephone) that the alarm was false, and then calls police, who cancel their response
|established by ordinance, and alarm companies follow through
|Increases the number of incoming calls dispatchers must handle
|Alerting alarm companies about false-alarm abusers
|Police sort records of false-alarm abusers by company, and notify the companies
|accompanied by sanctions for noncompliance; or alarm companies, along with individual alarm owners, are charged for costs
|Requires police staff time to sort records, and alarm company cooperation in dealing with alarm owners
|Setting criteria for temporarily suspending police response
|Police response is withheld for properties with chronic false alarms or for those premises without a valid alarm permit, and can be combined with a modified verified response policy
|police have quick access to database containing the number of prior false alarms and permit status, and alarm owners are notified of the intent to suspend police response
|Requires significant administrative effort to maintain current records of prior false alarms and permit status
|Publishing alarm companies false alarm rates on websites or elsewhere
|Police post alarm companies false alarm rates on department websites or elsewhere
|police alert alarm companies that they are going to do so, and give them time to reduce their false alarm rates before publication
|Requires accurate and regular updating, perhaps quarterly. In the United Kingdom, an inspectorate monitors companies false alarm rates. For those companies unwilling to reduce high rates, the police do not respond to alarms without evidence of a crime in progress37
|Conducting alarm users education classes
|Police hold classes for alarm abusers to reduce the number of errors made activating and deactivating the system
|classes are taught by the alarm installation and monitoring companies, and provide on-premises instruction so users receive hands-on training
|If police lead classes, they must develop expertise in typical alarm systems and their false-trigger patterns; must lead to a dramatic reduction in the number of false alarms to be cost-effective; unclear what responsibility police should have for educating users of a private consumer product
|Lowering the call priority of alarms
|Police code alarm calls as low priority for dispatch purposes
|police have sufficient resources to respond to alarm calls, and local legislators are unwilling to address the problem in any other way
|Does not address the underlying causes of false alarms; does not reduce the number of incoming calls to police dispatchers
|Response Not Recommended
|Response No.
|How It Works
|Works Best If
|Providing a high priority emergency police response to unverified burglar alarm calls
|Police treat alarm calls as actual emergencies, despite extensive research findings to the contrary
|the community has few crime problems, and police have sufficient resources to do so
|Assumes police desire full responsibility for false alarms, or the community and legislature are unwilling to accept extensive research concerning the percentage of false alarms
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We are a small web development company who are more programmers as opposed to designers.
Some of the designs I've seen on here have been excellent over the years and therefore we are interested in using 99designs more and more.
We are based in the UK but often work late so will give feedback at unsocialable hours as well.
The audience are for reasonably well off people, and businesses. i.e. hotels etc.
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Ben and Doris Kauffman of Loveland will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary Nov. 24, 2012.
Ben Kauffman and Doris Ireland (Marshall) were married Nov. 24, 1962, at First Baptist Church in Loveland.
Ben is a retired auto mechanic from Garrett Motors and the retired owner of Ben's Small Engine Repair. He enjoys doing yard work.
Doris is retired from Hewlett-Packard. She enjoys baking, sewing and gardening.
The couple's children are Carol Kauffman of Thornton; Sandy Kauffman, deceased; Tammie King and husband Jerry of Loveland; Terry Marshall and wife Debbie of Loveland; Tim Marshall and wife Paula of Johnstown; and Glenna Massey and husband Arlan of Loveland. They also have nine grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
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Logsdon dean to speak at WBU commencement
PLAINVIEW - Dr. Tommy Brisco, dean of the Logsdon School of Theology, will bring the commencement address at Wayland Baptist University at the ceremony slated for May 1 at 2 p.m. in Harral Memorial Auditorium.
A native of Arkansas, Brisco has served as Logsdon's dean since 2003, previously serving as Professor of Religion at Baylor University and at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He also served in the pastorate for several years during and after his undergraduate degree work and has served as interim pastor for several congregations.
Brisco holds the bachelor's degree in religion from Ouachita Baptist University in Arkansas, and the Master of Divinity and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from Southwestern Seminary. With an interest in Biblical backgrounds and archaeology, Brisco has worked with excavations in Tel Aphek and Tel Batash in Israel as well as in Texas and New Mexico and has lectured on numerous trips Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Greece, Turkey and Italy. Brisco also has served as an archaeological consultant for the Biblical Illustrator magazine during a photographic expedition throughout the Middle East and Italy.
He authored The Holman Bible Atlas, published in 1998, earning a Gold Medallion Book Award from the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association. He is currently under contract to author The Illustrated World of the Prophets for Broadman and Holman Press. He has also had many articles published in periodicals including the Biblical Illustrator and the Southwestern Journal of Theology and has presented at many conferences.
Approximately 75 students will receive degrees during the ceremony, both on the graduate and undergraduate level. Chris Currah, a senior from Lander, Wyo., will serve as senior class speaker.


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Mountain Escapes for Cigar Enthusiasts
As smoking restrictions become increasingly draconian across the United States and the world, it takes some creativity for innkeepers and restaurateurs to accommodate those who love a great cigar. Here we turn to two lodges with a focus on outdoor activities, each of which has a very intriguing way to allow cigar smokers to puff in peace.
A Sanctuary in the Adirondacks
By David Savona
The Whiteface Lodge in Lake Placid, New York, offers one of the most picturesque (and creative) smoking spots in the great outdoors-a pair of high-end cigar and Cognac lean-tos created specifically for cigar smoking.
Located in the Olympic town of Lake Placid, New York, and designed in the tradition of the great camps of the Adirondack Mountains, The Whiteface Lodge looms like a sanctuary in the woods above Lake Placid. Made of stone and local timber that was milled on-site, the all-suite resort is ideally situated for fishing, hiking, spa treatments (the spa boasts a 5,800 square foot spa) and all manner of winter sports. You can try your hand at skiing or snowboarding or even bobsledding, luge or skeleton.
The resort holds awards from Travel + Leisure, Conde Nast Traveler and AAA, and its wine cellar has won the award of excellence for four straight years from Wine Spectator, Cigar Aficionado's sister publication.
Whiteface is a classic lodge. The game room is devoid of Wii and Guitar Hero, opting instead for pool and shuffleboard, activities that invite conversation and family interaction rather than catatonic devotion to a TV screen. The lodge even has a two-lane bowling alley and a movie theatre and an all-season indoor/outdoor pool allowing you to swim from the interior of the lodge to the outside.
The cigar lean-tos, also known as the cigar and Cognac outdoor lounges, began as simple shelters for adults watching their children as they took to the ice.
"It was a gathering place for people to watch the kids ice skating," says Scott Waller, sommelier and beverage manager for the resort. "Then it got a little more comfortable. We added leather chairs, rustic wood furnishings. We had some management that was very into cigars."
The lean-tos are remarkable creations, with electricity, warm blankets to guard against the Lake Placid cold, and a menu of cigars and spirits to add warmth where blankets fail. Adding an extra element of luxury is a dedicated phone line that connects guests to the concierge, who will expedite delivery of cigars and a fine beverage. The Whiteface Lodge has more than 20 Scotches (from Abelour to Springbank), eight bourbons and ryes (including Michters), a trio of rums (Plantation and Ron Zacapa) and ten Ports by the glass. There's also Cognac, Armagnac, Grappa and Calvados.
"I've been building our cigar collection," says Waller. His list has 14 selections, ranging from mild cigars (Davidoff, Montecristo White) to medium bodied (A. Fuente Rothschild, Padrón Anniversary, Gurkha, Rocky Patel Vintage 1990, Avo Maduro) and to full bodied (Oliva Serie V, Fuente Fuente OpusX).
An open fireplace sits between the two lean-tos, adding warmth and ambience. The one thing you won't find at Whiteface is good cell-phone service, but management will offer no apologies. Waller calls it "centrally isolated."
The Whiteface Lodge
7 Whiteface Inn Lane
Lake Placid, New York 12946
Beauty in the Blue Ridge Mountains
By Irwin Greenstein
Some sportsmen call it a trip, but for others it's a pilgrimage up a winding, seven-mile timber road through Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains where you finally reach Primland-an avant-garde interpretation of a rustic lodge whose domed, stainless-steel silo houses an observatory.
But we weren't here for the stargazing, or for that matter the golf, hunting, fly fishing or ATV trail riding. Primland features the most beautiful sporting clays course in the country, and it was one of our destinations as we were driving home from an eight-day barnstorming trip through Kentucky and Tennessee for bourbon tasting and sporting clays.
For the uninitiated, sporting clays simulates upland bird hunting by positioning trap machines in natural and landscaped habitats. Call "pull" and the trapper launches any variation of small clay targets set to emulate game birds flushed by dogs, such as pheasants, chukars and quail, which you try to hit with a shotgun.
At Primland, you navigate the sporting clays course in off-road golf carts along rugged paths carved out of the property's 12,000 wooded acres. Our trapper, a native Virginian, told us that the surrounding environs still hold the secrets of abandoned stills and Confederate family graveyards that he stumbles upon guiding deer and turkey hunts at Primland.
In fact, even now the lodge itself remains somewhat of a secret. Although Primland's outdoor activities have been available since the 1990s, the building is only two years old.
A spectacular architectural feat of local recycled lumber, Italian tile and state-of-the-art green technologies, it features an 8,100 square-foot spa that honors the healing traditions of Native Americans. Best of all, the lodge is also home to a contemporary restaurant called Elements where we had dined the night before our sporting clays outing.
Although Elements provides sweeping vistas of the Blue Ridge Mountains, the menu and wine selections clearly reflect time well spent in Napa and Sonoma by Karl Kazaks, Primland's director of dining and beverage.
The centerpiece of Elements is a horizontal gas fireplace encased in glass. It casts a romantic ambience that infuses the dining experience. That evening, I started with the lobster bisque while my wife ordered an appetizer of diver scallop with butter pecan ice cream, fennel, white chocolate and coffee.
She moved on to the sous-vide lobster accompanied by mushroom capelletti, and I had the Strube Ranch Wagyu Beef calotte, and it was far away the best beef I had ever tasted. Our meal was accompanied by a 2007 Cakebread Merlot. By the time dessert arrived, night had settled on the Blue Ridge Mountains and it was clearly time for a cigar.
We took a leisurely stroll along the torch-lit trail to the Tobacco Barn, a special place reserved for cigar smokers. Tobacco was a cash crop for most local families in this area who raised it in small plots. The region is dotted with tobacco barns used to cure the leaf.
Primland had moved a sterling example onto the property. The rough-hewn logs are packed with mortar. Inside there was a country stone fireplace, big screen TV, comfortable furniture and a couple of high-top tables. The temperature was set to near-humidor conditions.
The Tobacco Barn cigar menu includes cigars from Punch, Montecristo, Romeo y Julieta and Padrón. Your smoke can be accompanied by a variety of single malts, Cognacs and Ports. The Tobacco Barn was quite cozy, but you may just want to wander outside with cigar and spirit to enjoy the starry night.
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Alexei Ratmansky and Christopher Wheeldon recently gave an ROH Insights audience a taste of their two new works for The Royal Ballet, titled 24 Preludes and Aeternum respectively. The ballets will be performed alongside George Balanchine's Apollo as part of a Mixed Programme.
As well as rehearsing their works, the two choreographers were also interviewed and, as well as introducing their pieces, spoke about the pressures of choreographing for what Christopher called an increasingly 'hungry' audience. Alexei also spoke of his first experience of working with the Company: 'They are wonderful professionals, they know how to act, how to dance'. He also commented on his choreographic method and adapting his style to the company he is working with.
Alexei's piece is his debut work with the Company and the session saw him rehearsing 24 Preludes with Royal Ballet Principal Edward Watson. The piece is set to Chopin's Preludes [Spotify] but the music will be performed by the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House - rather than by a pianist - when the ballet is fully staged. The choreographer told the audience at the Insight: 'Four couples will be dancing, each of them will have solos, duets, trios and quartets'.
Christopher's Aeternum was rehearsed with James Hay, Thiago Soares and Claire Calvert. The piece is set to Britten's Sinfonia da Requiem [Spotify] with the session focusing on a solo by James and a pas de deux for Thiago and Claire.
24 Preludes and Aeternum premiere as part of a Mixed Programme with George Balanchine's Apollo from 22 February - 14 March 2012. Find out more about ROH Insights.


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- Organization Name.
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- Description.
- Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed with most UNIX systems. Vim is distributed free as charityware.
- Home page.
- http://www.vim.org/
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- Vim license (http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/uganda.html#license)
- Why is your organization applying to participate in GSoC 2011? What do you hope to gain by participating?
- We hope to attract potential contributors to the Vim project, and in the process provide the students a 'real-world' software development experience.
- If accepted, would this be your first year participating in GSoC?
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- Did your organization participate in past GSoCs? If so, please summarize your involvement and the successes and challenges of your participation.
- Yes, Vim has participated in past GSoCs in 2007, and 2008. TODO: Success. Did any of the student become committers? Regular contributors? Features that got implemented.
- If your organization participated in past GSoCs, please let us know the ratio of students passing to students allocated, e.g. 2006: 3/6 for 3 out of 6 students passed in 2006.
- What is the URL for your ideas page?
- http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Vim_GSoC_2011_Ideas
- What is the main development mailing list for your organization? This question will be shown to students who would like to get more information about applying to your organization for GSoC 2011. If your organization uses more than one list, please make sure to include a description of the list so students know which to use.
- The development mailing list is, firstname.lastname@example.com. Students are encouraged to visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php for instructions, and archives.
- What is the main IRC channel for your organization?
- Freenode, #vim.
- Does your organization have an application template you would like to see students use? If so, please provide it now. Please note that it is a very good idea to ask students to provide you with their contact information as part of your template. Their contact details will not be shared with you automatically via the GSoC 2011 site.
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- What criteria did you use to select the individuals who will act as mentors for your organization? Please be as specific as possible?
- What is your plan for dealing with disappearing students?
- While not full-proof, we will try our best to filter such students during the selection process. The amount of research, initiative, and community involvement a student has put in his/her proposal is often a good metric.
- What is your plan for dealing with disappearing mentors?
- We intend to nominate co-mentors who will act as a mentor in the absence of one.
- What steps will you take to encourage students to interact with your project's community before, during and after the program?
- The Vim community has always respected all kinds of discussion; the members are helpful. This provides for a friendly learning curve for the students, and keeps them motivated. We would request the student to discuss his/her proposals, or starting patches on the list and get a feel of the community.
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Nokia has updated the Maemo-based - or should that be MeeGo-based - Nokia N900 smartphone/mobile computer* with fresh firmware.
It's the third N900 firmware update to be posted since the gadget's November 2009 release. It's version 3.2010.02-8 and it weighs in at a mere 16.2MB.
According to Nokia, handset owners can simply check for an update and the firmware patch will be delivered over the air. Or you can download it and apply it directly using the delightfully named Maemo Flasher tool.
The update doesn't appear to add any major new features, so it's clearly just a bug-fix release. That said, if you look on the various Maemo- and N900-related forums, there are still plenty of complaints about things not working yet. ®
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I can hear...
I can hear... the sounds of whirring CPU fans as the extreme inefficiency that is everything COM / ActiveX / OLE / DDE based starts getting bludgeoned into modern applications all in the name of "progress"
The next version of Microsoft's C# will see interoperability between languages for the enterprise and web, and with Microsoft's legacy COM architecture. C# 4.0, expected with the next version of Visual Studio, will support something called dynamic look up in order to call dynamic languages like JavaScript, Python and …
ActiveX controls written with .NET. Here we go again. Registry full of junk. COM components that don't want to talk to each other. And no doubt a gazillion other files to include in your install package.
Please, don't remind Microsoft of DCOM. I'll stick with web services and at a push remoting thank you ever so much.
And Paris is relevant if we are going to get any 'Active X' into the discussion....
So... the big idea is to let "managed" code (which ostensibly is "more" secure) have pure unfettered access to the existing code base of "COM" (read COMpletely unsecure) and that is somehow extremely cooooooool.
Let's add YAL ("Yet Another Layer") of which there is a public API given to developers, an internal API for Microsoft Application Developers to take advantage of, and an ever changing base which this YAL sits precariously on top of. Oh yeah... BTW... Dynamic languages inherently have aspects associated with their objects which do not transpose easily with the Windows internals... So your YAL is already hobbled. Waste more of our time Microsoft!
None of this technique is new. All of it is old.
My goodness, C++ classes were built on dynamic lookup (vtables) fifteen or twenty years ago.
Lord o' mine, we've had code generation tools to embed perl/php/python/ruby/... in other languages including those mentioned, and C, and C++ for 15 years or so.
For a case in point, a successful piece of mass market Windows software, look at the files that ship with Civilization 4: MS C++ library, Boost, python to wrap the pieces of the game together.
Recycled COM indeed! MS has been recycling COM since about 1998.
Any year now MS will market a dev system called Soylent Green!
your language is becoming VB!!! Ha! If you weren't all so bloody stuck up about it we could just do most of our code in VB and be done! But no, coding in VB doesn't make us feel clever, so we'll just shoehorn all it's features into c# instead.
I genuinely believe the only reason developers prefer C# is becuse it's indecipherable to most people. Well written VB, on the other hand, can often be understood by anyone who speaks english.
So what's the job of a programming language then? To make developers look clever or to interface between computer and human?
Every ten fucking years we ride this stupid cycle of strong vs weak typing. Every ten years a new crop of ignorant asshole newbie developers insists that dynamic typing is the way to go. 5 years later programming is in a complete world of shit, and going back to strong typing is the only way out. The newbies become the old beards, then the whole fucking cycle starts over again. Only the people who write the programming languages should know this, and avoid repeating the cycle. Reflection was always an open door to fuck up c#, but LINQ actually opened it a crack. This is a bit more. Fuck them. In 5 years everyone will be espousing strong types completely oblivious to the fact that they were all hot on weak types right now. Fuck...
Or you could be sensible and say "every language has a purpose, and using it for that purpose is the most sensible thing to do". C# and VB.NET are generally both quite good at what they do, which seems to be the same thing. The thing is that there's far more C# developers being churned out than VB developers and so the market reflects this by offering more jobs to C# devs because then there's more of their employees who will be able to understand the code. Bear in mind that the majority of old workers in desktop application companies will have started coding in C/C++ and not VB. The natural progression for these when they get trained up, is to move to C# as it's closest to what they know. Since most companies are not going to spend twice as much training people just so they know a language that they don't have to use, they'll stick with C#.
Overall, C# is the language that people with a C background will understand better, and so it will naturally be the more popular language (I'm not necessarily saying this is a good thing). If you show any class-based code to someone who speaks English they won't instantly know what it means, despite what you say. You're still going to have to explain to them the basics of loops, variables and classes. And once you've done that, you're halfway to teaching them C#. Also I'd argue (controversially) that it's marginally faster to code C# than VB.NET for someone who can type at 100wpm, simply because there's less you need to type (NB: marginally).
If ActiveX / OLE / DDE is bludgeoned into modern applications it's no-one's fault but that of the devs doing the work. If I really wanted to, I could call all sort of native code quite happily and cause all sorts of annoying problems for other coders and users alike, however I don't, because it's bad practice, and someone will flag you for it at some point. We work with a few bits of C/C++ legacy code (slowly getting converted), and some 3rd party libraries, with C interfaces, that are unsupported now. We HAVE to use them (I can't go into detail as to why), so anything that makes it easier to use them is good, especially since it'll probably also make the code clearer and more readable.
C# isn't better than VB (on a purely functional level), but it is obviously going to be more popular, the sooner you get over your hump about C# devs, and get out of your stubborn shell, and learn the language, not only will you have the opportunity to earn more money, you'll realise there's no reason to be so snobbish about it in the first place.
"I genuinely believe the only reason developers prefer C# is becuse it's indecipherable to most people."
As a C# programmer, I can code and understand VB perfectly well (the fact that I rarely want to is immaterial).
The fact that as a VB programmer you find C# indecipherable says more about VB programmers than it does about C# programmers, to me at least.
"I genuinely believe the only reason developers prefer C# is becuse it's indecipherable to most people. Well written VB, on the other hand, can often be understood by anyone who speaks english."
Erm no, I use C# because I'm in a multi-diciplined team of Matlab using Scientists and C programmers, I need to knock up resonably simple applications that demonstrates stuff to both groups of people - the non-programming matlab guy can read the code (mostly because I comment and follow decent programming standards) and the embedded C programmers don't blow their brains out when digging through my code either as they hate VB.
I've done this in the past with VB before, in both 6 and .NET, and it's actually harder to understand and program in when trying to attack complex problems, like image analysis.... basically, VB is suited to some situations, and sometimes it's not - claiming somebody chooses C# out of snobbery is like saying C programmers like to strangle themselves whilst masturbating... I'm sure you will find one or two examples of when that's a true statement, but it's not exactly true across the board, and it's also got no place in a conversation about the next step in a language's evolution (or in this case destruction imho).
Personally - I was happy enough with C++ for my projects - but they tried to force me to java so the embedded guys didn't need to install VS to edit/compile my code... since I hate java with a passion and it's completely unsuitable for the type of image processing we do (it mimics byte's using full integers.... wtf?!) I settled on C# and we can use SharpDevelop 2.* - an awesome open source IDE for c# with a form editor in there too... and ofcourse with C# I have the option of breaking into unsafe code should I need to play with pointers for something.... and when in the world would potentially non-programming English speaking people being able to follow written code be a factor in what language you choose - I'm sure any monkey could do my job for cheaper given enough training - doesn't mean my company is going to risk it's future in doing so! ;)
Paris - because I would so train her, monkey girl
that sticks with me is something i was told about VB and C#. The easier it is to write code in, the easier it is to write bad code in. And from experience, VB code tends to be worse. (although it's nowhere near as bad as the abominations you can get from web developers!)
VB may be easier for a non-programmer to read, but a non-programmer shouldn't be reading the code, they should be reading the comments to follow what a piece of code actually does.
I prefer c# because it *is* slightly harder to follow if you don't understand it. Which is one less reason for me to have to beat the younger developers bloody with the coding standards book to try and get them to add the occasional comment*!
Although my view is dump c# completely and go back to C++. At least you have to vaguely know what you're doing with it, as it's nowhere near as forgiving.
*I feel slightly evil about it, but I even added that comments must be written in correctly spelt, and grammatically correct, UK English to our companies standards. We now refuse any code that doesn't conform :)
The really interesting thing is that MS Excel's recalc engine is entirely written in Assembler: in-line assembler in C++ (has been since the early 90's) and that ain't changing.
Until C# can cope with in-line code in assembler, python, perl, C, whatever, it's a toy. I don't see MS re-writing Office in .Net. Why? They can't. They dare not.
Pragmatic programming is done well without .Net's crippleware. They make this shit up as they go along.
Marketing and programming paradigms do *not* sit well together.
From the article :
"C# 4.0, expected with the next version of Visual Studio."
Oh FFS. So yet again MS make some incremental improvement to the .NET framework and they think that in order to get it, I'm going to pony up for yet another new version of VS at 500 bastard quid, do they ? Gosh, I feel all warm and valued as a developer. Bastards.
"The statically typed C# was introduced with .NET in 2000 and has found huge success in the enterprise during the intervening eight years."
Because you get (nearly all of) the powerful semantics of C++, but you can't hurt yourself (as much) unless you specifically ask to. In the market that C# targets (enterprise RAD), that's a valuable asset.
"People say: 'Anders have you gone stark raving mad .. ?'"
Well, they certainly said that when you went to work for the Beast, yes :-)
And now :
@Daniel Chapiesky :
"So... the big idea is to let "managed" code (which ostensibly is "more" secure) have pure unfettered access to the existing code base of "COM" (read COMpletely unsecure) and that is somehow extremely cooooooool."
Given that much of windows' interoperability model is built from COM (including the parts of it that live inside the VS IDE, ironically enough), and that you want your applications to integrate with it with the least amount of effort and pain, it's more a necessity than "cooooooool". Since .NET (despite what the article appears to say) is nowhere near having replaced COM, any improvement is welcome. COM may suck, but it's core to the OS, and having better access from managed code beats the shit out of using P/Invoke to get around limitations, which just adds another thing to go horribly wrong and is pretty horrible to implement.
As for "ostensibly more secure", the idea of managed code is not so much to do with security as with removing the 'burden' of memory management, bounds checking and suchlike from the coder in order to improve application stability.
Personally, I do most of my Windows API and COM stuff in C++, wrapped in a DLL if it has to work with C#, but not everyone wants to, is allowed to, or can, do that. Which brings me neatly on to ...
@sabroni :
"But no, coding in VB doesn't make us feel clever"
And nor should it. You do know what the B in BASIC stands for, don't you ? There used to be a good reason to code in VB, because there weren't many competitors in the RAD market. That's not true any more, albeit that the most popular competitor is another MS product.
"I genuinely believe the only reason developers prefer C# is becuse it's indecipherable to most people."
Dealing with programmers first, there are very few professional commercial developers who haven't been taught in either C/C++ or a language whose syntax was derived from it (Java being en vogue on CS courses these days), even the lowly self taught webbies have javascript and PHP, so no competent programmer will have any difficulties with it at all. But you really seem to mean all people, incredibly, so ...
"Well written VB, on the other hand, can often be understood by anyone who speaks english."
Rubbish, pure and unadulterated. Unless you code like a complete moron. I worked with someone like that once. His argument was that his code was "easy to read", everyone else's was that it took him three hundred lines of code where ten would have done and been a damn sight easier to maintain. It shouldn't be (and isn't) a reasonable expectation that a piece of computer code should be readable to a layman, any more than you would expect a sociologist to be able to understand the notation of mathematical analysis without being tutored in it.
That's not snobbish, it's a fact about any discipline. Even if there were a language that was easy for the non tutored layman to understand (and there isn't, see the history of COBOL), there would be no good argument for using it exclusively on that basis alone.
"So what's the job of a programming language then? To make developers look clever or to interface between computer and human?"
Or computer and computer, or computer and network, or computer and hardware. I don't know why you've got such a bug up your ass about "looking clever".
"[I] don't find C# indecipherable"
Then what are you complaining about ?
"(though you can't deny it is often ambiguous)."
I don't know about the OP, but *I* can deny it is ambiguous in almost cases, since ambiguity is not permitted by the derivation rules of the language's grammar. If you write some code that is ambiguous, the parser will crap on itself and your code won't compile. There is a single notable exception to this, and it exists only because on noting the ambiguity, the C# 3.0 parser attempts to guess what you mean, which is a dumb thing for a parser to do, but even so it still throws a warning.
OTOH if you mean 'it can often _look_ ambiguous _to someone who doesn't understand the language_', well, go figure, that's because they don't understand the language.
If you feel this strongly about C#, for god's sake never look at any PERL or PHP.
"I feel slightly evil about it, but I even added that comments must be written in correctly spelt, and grammatically correct, UK English to our companies standards. We now refuse any code that doesn't conform :)"
Good thing El Reg hasn't adopted those for ITS comments -- else they would have rejected yours for violating your own standards! :)
"No, no. I have someone else strangle me, otherwise which hand would be holding the mouse ?"
Well, the same one that has wrapped the mouse cord repeatedly round your neck and is pulling it really tight, of course.
And if another party is involved, it isn't masturbation, its sex.
"claiming somebody chooses C# out of snobbery is like saying C programmers like to strangle themselves whilst masturbating..."
But, sweetheart, they DO. Its a fact of life."
It's going to be an awkward meeting today, checking for burns and bruises to see who's been working too hard...
@ The Other Steve
I'm so glad you said mouse in the other hand and not a gerbil...
@ everybody else
As you can see by this quite legal programming hierarchy diagram, C# programmers are at least 2 levels of smugness and superiority higher than VB programmers.... I trust this is the end of the debate now.
"Until C# can cope with in-line code in assembler"
That kind of defeats the "platform-independent" nature of IL code. If you want to use inline assembler, you can always create a C++ assembly with both managed and unmanaged code. After looking into the MSCORLIB assembly with .NET Reflector, it appears to be written as such an assembly.
"without .Net's crippleware"
Why do I post flame bait comments if I can't be bothered to read the essays that are posted in response? Dunno, it's a laugh isn't it....
however >>Or computer and computer, or computer and network, or computer and hardware << is not right. VB and C# go between computer and human, there are many more efficient ways for computers to communicate with each other. The point of both these languages is to allow humans to instruct computers.
As far as ambiguous goes, I thought C# was like C++, undecidable. See here:
When I looked at this it looked very similar to C#....
"As far as ambiguous goes, I thought C# was like C++, undecidable. See here:
When I looked at this it looked very similar to C#...."
Virtually non of this applies to C#, since like most modern languages it's grammar is context free, q.v. also the comments in the same section w/r/t modularity and compare/contrast with the way a .NET application is assembled.
The link you quote is very specifically about C++, it has no relevance whatsoever to C# because they are not the same language.
By which I mean Anders' "children".... Delphi, Visual J++, J# and C#
Of those, only Delphi is worth a toss because it took something easy to use and understand (Pascal) and built on the additions of many other greats before to create a truly powerful and flexible language that was great for building applications (and, indeed, still is and will be for a long time to come).
ALL the others are (or in some cases "were") attempts to corner a market (or kill/wrest one from a competitor) through the power of, um, marketing over technology.
C# is a natural successor to J++ as indeed .NET is the natural successor (read: attempt to destroy/undermine/penetrate the market of/for) Java (the VM, not the language - Microsoft, and Anders indeed, already tried and FAILED at that ambition).
.NET looks like a cool technology and an even cooler framework until you start poking into the corners of it. LINQ for example is a truly horrible kludge and a maintenance nightmare in the making, but it sure can churn out some deceptively pretty simple looking and apparently functional code in short order, so the demo's sell it very easily, but you would have to be a Copper Bottomed Idiot to contemplate using it in mission critical applications with an expected life of more than, say, 6 months (perhaps it merely reflects a trend toward ever more disposable code... which is handy given that most developers these days have a similar attitude to their own skills.... who knows).
And as for the giant leap backwards that is XAML... well.
imho Anders had his day then cashed-in and has been living out a very comfortable retirement at the Microsoft Home For Burned Out Language Designers ever since..
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Malls were created to make shopping more convenient, but there's no reason you can't use those long passage ways to help stay fit, too.
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"A lot of people and especially ladies approach me. Wherever I go, people even tell me I have changed their lives," the 49-year-old said here Thursday at a press conference held to announce the world television premiere of the film.
Sridevi further said that the film has even had an effect on children.
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Filibustering the Next Nominee
The trifecta of recent Justice Stevens interviews has pushed to the fore speculation about his successor. Such speculation has been going on for quite a while–F1@1F has been at it since its first day of existence. This weekend, two members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, responded to the interviews with their own thoughts.
From FOXNews.com yesterday:
Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., speaking on "Fox News Sunday," warned President Obama not to try nominating anyone "overly ideological" to replace Stevens, who is known as the leader of the liberal wing of the court.
He suggested the party did not want anyone so outspoken as Sonia Sotomayor, who was picked to replace former Justice David Souter last year, and said the decision on whether the GOP will filibuster will "all depend" on who the next nominee is.
"I think the president will nominate a qualified person. I hope, however, he does not nominate an overly ideological person. That will be the test," Kyl said. "And if he doesn't nominate someone who is overly ideological, I don't think — you may see Republicans voting against the nominee, but I don't think you'll see them engage in a filibuster."
He said Republicans would only filibuster under "extraordinary circumstances," the standard agreed to after a series of clashes in Congress over judicial nominees under former President George W. Bush.
At least one Democrat is taking Kyl's threats seriously.
Stevens told The Washington Post he "will surely" retire while Obama is still president. But Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa., told "Fox News Sunday" he hopes Stevens will wait until next year to do it, when the politics in Congress would potentially be a bit less toxic.
"I think the gridlock in the Senate might well produce a filibuster, which would tie up the Senate on a Supreme Court nominee," Specter said. "I think if a year passes there's a much better chance we can come to a consensus."
Back in January, immediately after Scott Brown's Senate win, I wrote that President Obama may be able to use Republican apoplectic overconfidence to his advantage:
Brown's election could very well result for the GOP in a case of "be careful what you wish for" should Stevens step down this summer.
To be sure, without 60 guaranteed votes, Obama may move away from choosing a nominee with the liberal record of Judge Diane Wood of the Seventh Circuit. But then again, if he chooses her–a natural heir to Justice Stevens–and the GOP as a result holds up a Supreme Court nomination through November, the Democrats will more potently than ever be able to paint the 41-person GOP minority as an obstructionist, nihilist, and extremist Party of No.
In other words, Obama may be wise to continue with his next nominee as planned–if indeed he planned to pick a proven liberal–just to show that when given a high enough platform and just enough rope, today's GOP will hang itself.
With Republicans resolving to run on repealing and replacing the PPACA, expect some commentators to reflect Senator Specter's squeamishness in the face of Senator Kyl's threats. They will clutch Massachusetts ballots and wave the Court's Citizens United opinion so to reveal doomsday visions of insurance companies emptying their freshly unchained coffers into the 2010 campaign on a multimedia effort to smear all incumbents who voted for health care reform as fascists, socialists, and communists.
In response to the GOP's resolution, Obama told them to "go for it." He might as well have been speaking about Republicans' including any of his possible judicial nominees in their Party of No platform for the midterm election.
Specifically, Obama must understand that if the GOP filibusters or stalls his next Supreme Court nominee into the fall, then the Republicans will be the ones that suffer come the first Monday in October. If Justice Stevens conditions his resignation upon the confirmation of his successor, then Obama will be able to paint the GOP as a group of blackhearts gleefully depriving a 90-year-old man of his hard-earned retirement. And if Stevens unconditionally steps down, then a Congressional minority will be held responsible for keeping the Court from operating at full capacity at the start of next term.
In either situation, the Court could become a big issue for the final month before Election Day. Don't be surprised if the Chief Justice, facing a massive stack of cert. petitions awaiting the justices for their late September conference, extends his public colloquy with Obama to join him in admonishing the Senate minority to cease playing politics with the Court.
UPDATE: Just as I posted this, Dahlia Lithwick's latest, "Short Shrift: The Supreme Court Shortlist as Political Anthropology," popped up in my reader:
As an anthropological document, the Bloomberg News list [of Wood, Kagan, and Garland] reveals a good deal about the general fatigue of the court-watchers. We've become so reliant upon the old scripts about "activists" and "umpires" and abortion and religion that we prefer them to experimenting with new ones.
I believe that this latest round will be the last to follow the old scripts, and even then, it may depart from them.
- Garland will be the only nominee of the three that needn't depart by choice or force from the old script. He's a moderate, and the Republicans will not push hard against him if he's nominated.
- Kagan's nomination will be novel only because she is not, nor has she ever been, a federal judge. Historically, however, Solicitors General have been commonly put forward for the Court: the last SG to have been nominated was Bork, the last to have been confirmed was Thurgood Marshall. Still, if you thought that Sotomayor reached a certain kind of performance art perfection in her confirmation hearing stonewall, Kagan's may be even more fantastically opaque.
- While Wood is a federal appeals judge, she will be the first full-fledged liberal nominee to the Court since Thurgood Marshall, even if her liberal jurisprudence would have been deemed only slightly left of center in his time. Further, with her extensive paper trail and Congress's Democratic majority, Wood may even break the post-Bork spell on fearful, know-nothing confirmation hearings. If she can finally kill off that bit of the old script, then Obama and future presidents of either party may begin diversifying their Supreme Court shortlists to include other capable nominees, judges or not, who can be confirmed for what they say, not for what they don't say.
UPDATE II: Newsy.com has compiled a video roundup of the recent Stevens hubbub:
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great post, mike, thanks. looking forward to hearing more on potential nominees as this progresses.
Don't you think that these geezers waiting to retire during a specific party's control is also playing politics with the court?
[…] statement seems to say that Stevens is not sticking around until his successor is seated. As I wrote earlier this week, the GOP should be very mindful of the political consequences of stalling the confirmation process […]
Actually, Kagan's nomination would not really be novel for not having been a judge. Historically there are more Supreme Court justices (more than 60) who were not prior judges than were. It is more recently (since Rehnquist) that prior judges have become more common nominations. In fact only two of the seventeen Chief Justices were prior judges – Vinson and Roberts. Most of them came from state government (members of Congress or governors). Can you imagine today if Obama nominated a governor for the Court?
Kagan would be in pretty good company if you ask me – Earn Warren, Berger, Thurgood Marshall, Sandra Day and many more.
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Posted: Sat 08 Sep 2012, 15:50
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Linkx (links2 with Tabs)
Well i just looove links and links2.
I hate flash and that i have to use tools like Noscript and Flashblock etc.
99% of my browsingtime i use links with the -g flag to enable graphics mode.
Even Gmail works great in links. Google will ask you if you will try the more faster "html style" version,
The one thing i realy missed in links was the tabs. Didn't like to open links i new windows and with no X, running framebuffer-mode it's just impossible.
Well here it is. Links with tabs "Linkx".
I had some trouble compiling in puppy at first, but it worked out when i hacked the configurefile to choose libjpeg=yes no matter i my version
was wrong or not
This package works in Slacko and if anyone could try it in other versions
that would be great. And some feedback please, Would be great to know
if its works on other computers
Have fun!
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Posted: Sat 08 Sep 2012, 16:18
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Hello hexabit,
Your pet is a little larger than it needs to be. There are two copies of links in it - /usr/bin/ and /usr/local/bin/
Can't get it to run on Wary 5.3 :
Missing libpng14.so.14 and libvga.so.1
Wary has libpng12.
Does this run in graphics mode in the framebuffer? I've compiled links (and linkx) to death with no success trying to achieve that, but it always complains about gpm, even though it is installed and running. Managed it with directFB, but not plain framebuffer.
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Posted: Sat 08 Sep 2012, 16:38
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Hi keef!
Two copies of links. Thats was happening when you are almost asleep and trying to make a package. hehehe
I will correct it right now and upload it again.
I haven't tried framebuffer mode in Puppt yet but it should work do i used
the same settings from when i compiled in Ubuntu, and that worked fine.
I'm gonna install a virtual Wary 5.3 tomorrow and compile it again.
Would be great if i could get it to run on all puppy versions
I will upload the Wary version for you tomorrow.
Thank you for your feedback!
Btw. If i remember it correctly you could choose to not enable gpm,
(--enable-gpm=no, disable-gpm or something like that)
and get it to run. You will not be able to use a mouse but at least it will run
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I've compiled and installed libpng14 and svgalib and now it works!!
Complains about the libjpeg version but runs anyway. It has a working mouse (this is without X) and gpm wasn't running. It did freeze when I tried to quit though. I have rebooted and started gpm, and am posting from it now, so don't know yet if it will lock up again.
By the way... Wary does not have framebuffer enabled by default, I recompiled the kernel for that. Still, I am quite pleased to get the graphics running in the framebuffer. I wasted far too much time trying to achieve this previously.
EDIT - no, still freezes when trying to quit. This is in framebuffer mode, it exits cleanly under X.
Also tried it with Akita Beta11:
Again, needed libpng14 and svgalib. This time it completely objected to not having libjpeg8, but there is a pet in Akita's repo, so easily solved.
gpm not running but still got mouse in the framebuffer - also got a system freeze when trying to exit - ok under X though.
[EDIT No.2] I could never get Links to compile with the FB as a driver unless gpm was present - I had tried svgalib, but it could never find it. Just discovered it was because I was missing the header files (from svgalib-dev), durrr...
svgalib provides a mouse too.
Anyway got it to compile under Akita and is running on the framebuffer with graphics. Now, can I exit without rebooting??.....
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Hello again Keef!
I'm glad that it worked out well for you. Now all we need is a framebuffer pdf-reader, Rdesktop-client. Then we could skip X and run our boxes in lightspeed mode.
I have a framebuffer vnc-client in my old ubuntu box. Maybe i could compile
it in Puppy. I will try it later today or tomorrow.
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Posted: Fri 14 Sep 2012, 15:06
Post subject: Re: Linkx (links2 with Tabs)
hexabit wrote:
... if anyone could try it in other versions
that would be great. And some feedback please, Would be great to know
if its works on other computers
precise 5.3.93
# ./links
./links: error while loading shared libraries: libpng14.so.14: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
there is only libpng
in precise
A link to libpng12 did not work
# ./links
./links: /usr/lib/libpng14.so.14: version `PNG14_0' not found (required by ./links)
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I adopted Links in spite of its
defects: it is quite perfect for displaying help files
(Puppy Racy 5.3)
I noticed that words of pages are not properly displayed in the title bar if they contain grave, acute... characters. Italic is not taken into account and is displayed as bold. The size of font either...
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One is a nurse with three college degrees who says she was hit by a car and disabled. Another says he was born with brain damage and has bipolar disorder.
One was a bagger at a supermarket who says she was fired for absenteeism after taking care of her dying boyfriend. One says he's a homeless Navy veteran who needs a hernia operation, and another says he's a homeless Marine veteran of Iraq who wants nothing more than to find a job.
Still another claims to have once been a millionaire but is now penniless.
They all say the same thing: that they want nothing more than to get out of the flimsy tents in the woods where they have been living and find some stable, safe housing. On Friday, the stories of 16 residents of Lakewood's Tent City, written in their own words, will go before a judge who is being asked by the town to shut down the longtime encampment and evict its 80 or so residents.
"I would love to get out of Tent City," wrote Beth Paterson, 56, who worked as a nurse at Lakehurst Naval Base and a nursing home before being hit by a car and disabled. "I have a 16-year-old son who lived with me before the accident, but I cannot currently afford an apartment where we could live. I had to send him to live with my parents - age 82 and 93 - and I miss him terribly. Why would I want to try and survive the winter living in the woods if I could be indoors with my son?"
Superior Court Judge Joseph Foster will hold a hearing Friday, the latest in the yearslong effort by Lakewood and Ocean County to shut down the camp. Advocates for the residents say that there is no shelter anywhere in the region for homeless adults and that the governments have not done enough to provide safe housing for them.
The issue has vexed the judge, who is wrestling with the many legal, moral and intensely personal issues the case has raised. Last year, he ruled the government has some responsibility to care for the poor, but the extent of that care, and how it is provided, remains to be determined.
The camp, now in its seventh winter, encompasses township-owned land about 11 miles northwest of Seaside Heights, home of the reality show "Jersey Shore." They live in plastic or fabric tents, some atop wooden platforms, many more on the muddy ground. Chickens wander about, squawking, and smoke from campfires and stoves curls into the air.
Barbecue grills in the center of the camp are used to cook meals, heavy on donated macaroni and cheese, beans and pasta. Church services are held in a tent or outdoors each night.
Earlier this year, Lakewood threatened daily fines of $1,000 for each of the site's 100 tents and 80 wood burning stoves. They cited health and sanitary issues at the site, as well as complaints from nearby residents. Lakewood's mayor called conditions there "disgusting" and "horrendous."
But the camp cannot be closed without the judge's permission because of the ongoing litigation.
The stories of the homeless residents are part of legal filings by Jeffrey Wild, a lawyer representing the Tent City occupants for free. In addition to seeking to move the judge by showing how illness, an accident, the loss of a job or just plain bad luck can leave the most successful people without a home, the stories also seem designed to counter criticism from some officials and neighbors that the Tent City residents are lazy and want to stay in the woods indefinitely.
"Everyone agrees that there should not have to be tent cities, and that Tent City should cease to exist as soon as all of (its) residents have access to safe and adequate indoor shelter, so they no longer need to live outside in the woods," Wild wrote to the judge.
Lakewood wants the judge, among other things, to order a "census" of camp residents, force them to apply for county assistance, ban any new arrivals and order that the site be turned over to Lakewood at an unspecified future date.
The claims of the homeless residents could not be independently verified, but each one signed a legal document asserting their statements to the judge are true and acknowledging they can be punished if they prove false.
John Chertowsky, 42, wrote that he was born with brain damage and has suffered from bipolar disorder and severe depression and anxiety his whole life, leaving him unable to finish high school. He worked sporadically as a long-line fisherman, a landscaper and the manager of a Burger King restaurant.
"Right now I have absolutely nothing in terms of money," he wrote. "I came to Tent City with only the clothes on my back, and if it had not been for being able to survive winter in Tent City, I am sure that I would be dead."
Lorraine Schultz, 62, says she lost her job at a supermarket when she took too much time off to care for her dying boyfriend, who had been with her for 22 years. She says she lost her apartment in Seaside Heights and stayed with friends briefly before ending up in Tent City with her dog, Peanut.
"This is the hardest time I have ever had in my entire life, and I certainly don't want to be here," she wrote. "In addition to being a senior citizen, I also suffer from diabetes and high blood pressure. The conditions are very tough, including the cold and the hardship of just getting decent food to eat."
Others whose stories the judge will hear include:
- Enna Chin, 52, who said she owned a Chinese restaurant, sold real estate and was a successful investor, once worth $1 million. "This is my last resort," she wrote.
- Joe Giammona, who wrote that he joined the Marine Corps out of high school, serving three tours in Afghanistan and two in Iraq. He's been at Tent City for nearly a year after being unable to find a landscaping or construction job - or even one stocking shelves. The cheapest apartment he could find, for $800 a month, costs more than he makes in a month.
- Angelo Villanueva, 46, a construction worker who said he helped build Home Depot, Lowes and Staples stores, and laid the foundations and stairs for the homes of several celebrities in New Jersey. He once made $25 an hour; now he gets $8 an hour - before taxes - separating recyclables from garbage.
Wayne Parry can be reached at https://www.twitter.com/WayneParryAC


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On October 18, 1989, the Iron Curtain nations of East Germany and Hungary take significant steps toward ending the communist domination of their countries to replace it with more democratic politics and free market economies. In Hungary, the Communist Party had disbanded on October 7. This action was followed by the razing of the barbed wire fence that had for years separated Hungary from Austria. The destruction of the fence effectively marked the end of the Berlin Wall as an impediment to travel between East and West Germany, since East Germans could now simply travel to Hungary, enter Austria, and go on from there to West Germany. Not surprisingly, the Berlin Wall came down shortly thereafter.
On October 18, the Hungarian constitution was amended to allow a multiparty political system and free elections (which took place in 1990). Many of the state controls over the economy were removed and Hungary moved toward a limited free market system. Meetings of workers, students, and others across the nation issued statements denouncing past "crimes" committed by the communist regime.
The changes were perhaps even more dramatic in East Germany, where on October 18 the nearly 20-year rule of communist strongman Erich Honecker came to an end. Honecker had been the Communist Party General Secretary in East Germany since 1971, and had ruled as head of state since 1976. With vanishing support from the Soviet Union, the effective end of the Berlin Wall (through Hungary's action), and widespread criticism of his government from the East German population, Honecker fled to the USSR and was replaced by a more reform-minded regime. He later returned to East Germany, where he was tried and convicted of manslaughter in the deaths of East German refugees killed trying to go over the Berlin Wall since its erection in 1961. His sentence was commuted because of his poor health.
Honecker was replaced by Egon Krenz as the Communist Party leader. Krenz enjoyed a good deal of popular support due to his role as a peacemaker in the demonstrations earlier in October. On October 7, only four months after the Tienneman Square massacre in China, Honecker ordered troops to be prepared to open fire on demonstrators in Leipzig. Luckily, Krenz, then in charge of security, arrived in Leipzig two days later to rescind Honecker's order. Krenz's attempt to save the party's image by preventing violence merely allowed the revolution to proceed in a non-violent manner.
The actions in East Germany and Hungary reflected not only the growing dissatisfaction of their citizenry with over 40 years of communist rule, but also the steadily weakening hold of the Soviet Union over its East European satellites.


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There's a very complimentary article about KDE 2.1 on LinuxToday AU. From the article: "They certainly don't mess around on planet KDE. This week saw the release of the second beta of KDE 2.1 - a major upgrade which adds a huge number of improvements to this impressive, must-have software". You can read the full story
Re: On a Kollision Kourse
Well, it's not really a surprise that you KDE guys get such good reviews and write ups. You have thoroughly deserved it. I'm not a zealot for any window manager, but what you guys have done really sets you apart from the rest of the field.
Well done, and keep up the good work.
By Gareth Williams at Tue, 2001/02/06 - 6:00am
Re: On a Kollision Kourse
Perhaps articles from the press could get the "Press:" prefix? To differenciate it from real news.
By matt at Wed, 2001/02/07 - 6:00am
Re: On a Kollision Kourse
I'm sorry, will you *forgive* my ignorance. You are right KDE r0x0rz, and Gnome 5uck50r5. I am just a lame zealot and I smell of ham.
By Richard Stallman at Wed, 2001/02/07 - 6:00am
Re: On a Kollision Kourse
y'r forkiven
By k at Wed, 2001/02/07 - 6:00am
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Well. I must say that KDE is bloatware. (Don't wory there are many other bloatware WM's and so on). It takes a lot of system resources and is so slow, no structured way to only install what you want, and so on. Really bloatware. I liked the beta1, beta2, beta3, beta4 versions and of course the KDE 1.0. They rocked, but today? I'm happy with blackbox....
Good luck with kde 3.0. I have great expectations...
By anonymous covard at Wed, 2001/02/07 - 6:00am
Re: On a Kollision Kourse
KDE2 + the rest of the system takes about 35 MB after starting it. I wouldn't call that bloatware. If you build it properly it runs decently on a Pentium 166 with 166 MB.
By abc at Fri, 2001/02/09 - 6:00am
Re: On a Kollision Kourse
That was supposed to read "on a Pentium 166 with 48 MB".
By abc at Fri, 2001/02/09 - 6:00am
Re: On a Kollision Kourse
Really? I run KDE 2.1b2 on a 300 MHz Celeron w/128MB Ram. If I open a few konsoles and a couple of Konqueror windows, my swap partition gets a really harsh workout.
Don't get me wrong, I like KDE 2 a lot, your post that it should work well with only 166MHz/48MB makes me think I have something set up wrong.
Anyway, memory is so cheap now, I just ordered 128M more so I won't have to worry...
By LMCBoy at Fri, 2001/02/09 - 6:00am
Re: On a Kollision Kourse
However, you seem to completely forgot people that own notebook PCs -- that can't just upgrade their memory as easy as you, desktopers, can.
By cefek at Fri, 2001/02/09 - 6:00am
Re: On a Kollision Kourse
Sorry, I was just talking about my situation, and didn't mean to imply it was easy for everyone to upgrade. I meant no offense.
By LMCBoy at Sat, 2001/02/10 - 6:00am
of course
I also took this as non offensive :-) just wanted to drop in my 2c.
By cefek at Mon, 2001/02/12 - 6:00am
Re: On a Kollision Kourse
I'm running KDE 2.0 on a P366 laptop. It ran fine when I had 64 MB of RAM, and it runs even better now that I have 192MB.
The new Konqueror is significantly faster than the old file manager from KDE 1.0.
I don't know what people are talking about who say that Gnome is faster. Sure, the file manager is, but it's not as capable as Konqueror is, either. For everything else, I have found Gnome more sluggish, which is one reason I usually use KDE.
It's unreasonable to expect that KDE be as fast as minimalist window managers, because it does a lot more. We need a capable desktop to attract newbies, otherwise the only people who run Linux will be those who know already how to do everything from a terminal window.
I like IceWM when I don't need KDE's features...
By Jeff at Sat, 2001/02/10 - 6:00am
To answer my own question...
I read on another message board that aRts can be a big resource hog, so if you think KDE uses too much RAM, you might try disabling aRts. Of course, this doesn't help you if you use aRts a lot...
By LMCBoy at Sat, 2001/02/10 - 6:00am
Re: To answer my own question...
How can I marry with Soheil (my lover)?
By Arezou at Mon, 2002/11/18 - 6:00am
Re: To answer my own question...
Soheil ?
By Julien Olivier at Mon, 2002/11/18 - 6:00am
Re: On a Kollision Kourse
35 MB just after starting it may seem decent for you, but it's still way too much. A system running for example a full-fledged icewm takes typically 15MB less than when running a KDE session (at the beginning!). I mean, even Gnome takes less, and the gap is even more visible when you compare KDE and Gnome complex appls (Office, graphics, etc...). We've even reached a point where the guy which makes an heavy use of XEmacs and its extensios to get a full desktop environment needs less resources. (X)Emacs synonymous of economy, did you expect it to happen some day?
Did you know, BTW, that obsolete PCs are among the worst source of harmful pollution in developped countries: quite a good reason for trying to save 10 or 15 megs, don't you think? Bloatware kills the planet!
By JK at Fri, 2001/02/09 - 6:00am
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Yes, 15 MB is the difference between planetary destruction and survival.
You'e one of Darth Ballmer's stormtroopers aren't you?
By reihal at Sat, 2001/02/10 - 6:00am
Re: On a Kollision Kourse
I think it's just become the cool thing to say nowadays that anything that's just come out is bloatware. You do, but I've even seem some that don't even seem to know what the term is and use it (For ex. "Should I download TweakUI for Win2k or is it just bloatware?"). Next thing people are going to be saying is 'ls' is just bloatware. If they took out the code for printing in color they could save a whole 281 bytes?!?!?! (not accurate info, used to get a point across).
Lets get real people. This isn't the 60's and hard drive space isn't all that scarce. Of course there are some (not many) people who don't have the space to run KDE, or other "bloatware" but for them there's plenty of wonderful wm's out like WindowMaker and Afterstep (I've used both and they're both very good). Just don't expect EVERYBODY to cut all the new nifty features out because there are lots of us with machines that can do it and we want those features.
By MGMorden at Sun, 2001/02/11 - 6:00am
Re: On a Kollision Kourse
Being first and foremost an heavy XEmacs user, I don't recognize myself as someone who is reluctant to features (that is, useful ones) in the name of small footprint.
However, in the case of KDE, we have actual proofs that it is possible to implement functionally similar counterparts to KDE apps with better performances; The panel is huge (look at windowmaker's dock and applets), the editors are huge, while very poor in terms of functionnalities, the window manager is huge, the system monitor is huge -compare ktop with qps or gps, or even gtop-, even the office apps and graphic tools could be smaller -compare with gnumeric or gphoto, for example-. In general, a session is huge. Konqueror is the only exception -and an impressive one-, at least if you don't count these damn kdeinit processes (please, oh please someone, fix them so that they are killed when you close konqueror).
By JK at Mon, 2001/02/12 - 6:00am


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It's the final week of our free Inventing the 21st Century exhibition so if you want to see it you will have to get a move on.
We invited visitors to the exhibition to submit on slips of paper their ideas for what inventions were needed and had a big response. Mark Sheahan, our Inventor in Residence, has listed his favourites on the Invent it ! web page.
My colleague Steve van Dulken is the curator of the exhibition and has already covered several of the inventions on show in his excellent Patent Search blog.
Steve has also written a book Inventing the 21st Century to coincide with the exhibition. In the book he covers the inventions in the exhibition and many more. My favourite is the Magmole invented by Sharon Wright. I love the fact that it is such a simple solution to such an annoying problem (pushing cables through cavity walls).


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The 2011 Washington Auto Show played the fame card in booking Redskins tight end Chris Cooley and Seaside Heights low center of gravity Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi to appear. This CSNWashington video indicates that the encounter lasted mere seconds.
It also seems as if Snooki didn't give Cooley the time of day, but for the camera. This probably explains how a reporter got Cooley to reflect upon about how easy it would've been to throw her off the stage.
The prospect of controlled violence against some 4'9" gnomette ceases to matter one iota, however, when you realize the Saturday celebrity schedule includes a two-hour appearance by Gheorghe Muresan, who probably dreams of punishing Snooki in ways unimaginable to humans.
Chris Cooley meets Snooki from MTV's Jersey Shore [CSNWashington]
The 2011 Washington Auto Show [WashingtonAutoShow]
Gheorghe Muresan [IMDb]


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Hardwood Ski and Bike Is Open for 2020
We have over 100 km of beautiful, rolling trails through hardwood and pine forests for mountain biking. In addition to the 34 km of rolling double track trails, there is an additional 50 km of challenging single track trails that intertwine with the ski trail network creating endless possibilities of courses and obstacles.
With learning in mind, Hardwood Ski and Bike wants to make mountain biking accessible to anyone from 4 – 100 years of age. There are trails for every level and ability and lesson & programs in place for everyone from beginners to elite athletes. Kids can enjoy the Radical Riders program or Camp Hardwood while adults can enjoy a Ride Better Clinic, Women's Clinics, or Gear Up program.
With biking and non-biking activities at the resort, the whole family can have an awesome day outdoors at our facility. Included in the facility pass is the opportunity to play beach volleyball, disc golf, and utilize the trails for orienteering, hiking, walking and trail running. With a service shop for all your rental, tune-up and repair needs, as well as a retail shop equipped with riding gear galore, we promise you'll have an amazing, full-service experience at Hardwood Ski and Bike.
Monday9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Tuesday9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Wednesday9:00 AM – 8:00 PM
Thursday9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Friday9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Saturday 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM
Sunday 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM
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We so wanted this to be one of those stories about a wealthy athlete splurging on stupid stuff because he's a wealthy athlete who can splurge on stupid stuff. Alas, there's a real, practical reason why tennis star Novak Djokovic has bought up the annual supply of donkey cheese from a farm in his Serbian homeland: Djokovic is opening a chain of restaurants in Serbia, and he intends to supply them with as much of the super-expensive donkey cheese as he can.
A farm in the town of Zasavica is the only one in the world that milks donkeys for cheese. But you knew that. And at $500 per pound, the donkey cheese is said to be the world's most expensive cheese.
Here's more, from London's The Daily Telegraph:
Slobodan Simic, the manager at Zasavica, said the secret of the cheese's great taste was the fact that it was produced from milk taken from donkey's [sic] raised on one of Serbia's most famous wildlife and nature reserves.
The cheese, known as pule, is made only from donkeys and it takes 25 litres of fresh donkey milk to make a single kilogram.
The white, crumbly cheese has been described as similar to Spanish Manchego cheese, but with a deeper, richer taste.
Sounds like a real treat. I guess if you're ever in Serbia, be sure to try the ass cheese.


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Every week about 60 dedicated volunteers read to children in 40 preschools in Oakland. They have been trained, tested, and sent forth to share their joy in language and literature with some of Oakland's youngest children.
These wonderful folks have committed themselves to a pretty rigorous schedule. They spend more than 20 hours over a period of two weeks in training. Then, once they are ready, we ask them to read 30 minutes a week at a Head Start or other preschool. That may not sound like a lot of time, however most volunteers spend hours choosing books, songs and fingerplays the children will enjoy.
One of our volunteers has been with the program for almost twenty years, as long as Books for Wider Horizons has been in existence. Others take on multiple time slots, because they love it so much. Several manage to fit their storytime reading into their lunch break. Others are retired but have multiple volunteer positions.
All are dedicated, love literature, and enjoy young children. What a fabulous group of people to work with!
If you are interested in joining this committed and caring group of people, call us at (510) 238-7453. We conduct training sessions once a year, during the fall. If you can't wait to volunteer, there are other volunteer opportunities we can suggest.


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If all goes according to plan, a new 17,000-square-foot $4.5 million pain management surgical center will be accepting patients next fall.
If all goes according to plan, a new 17,000-square-foot $4.5 million pain management surgical center will be accepting patients next fall.
The OMNI Outpatient Surgery Center is tentatively set to break ground in March on Route 5 between the OMNI Plaza and the Kirkland Day Habilitation Center Arc, Oneida-Lewis Chapter, and would bring about 20 new jobs.
Dr. Nameer Haider, who will serve as the surgical center's lead doctor, said it will specialize in minimally invasive treatments for chronic pain particularly in the areas of the spine, skeletal muscles and migraine headaches.
"We anticipated the need and wanted to bring some new services to the area," said Haider, who has practiced medicine locally for the past 15 years but also maintains a clinic in Washington, D.C. "These will be new state-of-the-art procedures that aren't being done anywhere else in the country."
Including Haider, the surgery center will start out with a staff of four doctors who currently practice with Haider at Spinal and Skeletal Pain Medicine in the OMNI Plaza. He anticipates adding a couple of more physicians as things progress.
Town Planning Coordinator Melinda Albertine said a near-final site plan for the facility was presented by Syracuse-based Bennetts & Huysman Architects PC at the Dec. 16 planning board meeting, and that the firm now has to go through the state Department of Environmental Conservation's impact assessment, and meet the qualifications of other agencies such as the state Department of Transportation.
"I think this will be a great service to our residents and the community at large," said Kirkland Supervisor Robert J. Meelan. "Not to mention a nice tax boost for the town and the sewer district."
Follow @OD_Vanno on Twitter or call him at 792-5074.


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Door-to-door inspections reduce NYC rats
NEW YORK, Sept. 21 (UPI) — A new rat control program in New York City reduced the percentage of properties with active rat signs by 54 percent over a 21-month period, officials say.
A report published in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report said in 2007 the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene began its active surveillance program of about 36,000 privately owned properties with historically high rates of rat infestation.
Inspectors walked every block using handheld computers with maps to record fresh tracks, fresh droppings, active burrows, active runways and rub marks, fresh gnawing marks and live rats.
Inspectors recorded a severity score for each sign and also noted and recorded conditions conducive to rats including accessible garbage, poor containerization of food waste, or clutter and dense vegetation promoting the nesting of rats, the report said.
Owners with high scores were sent letters detailing the inspection and a rodent control educational guide with advice tailored to the problem. Property owners were given five to 10 business days to comply with the order and a compliance inspection was conducted.


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HTC might have unleashed a new Sense UI for its high-end handsets; but owners of incumbent phones might miss out on the functionality.
HTC's new Sense UI works in tandem with HTCSense.com, which means cloud syncing of contacts and messages, phone recovery tools and easy remote interaction with your phone.
The new Sense UI also offers improved mapping abilities, DLNA support and Facebook face tagging of photos before uploading.
Possible roll out
However, HTC Executive director Jon French has stated that it is 'looking at other handsets' when it comes to porting the new UI to older devices.
"[Sense UI] depends on a technical standard, where it has to support the new services offered by HTCSense.com.
"We're launching that on the Desire HD and Desire Z, and it could be that we roll it out to other devices later on."
He did also confirm that only Android 2.2 could support the online synchronisation HTC unveiled today, but given that the HTC Desire has already been given that upgrade, it's hard to see where that phone is lacking – so fingers crossed HTC works out how to keep older customers happy too.


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